Portland Observer Section II Thursday, February 23, 1978 Page 11
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK
CAUCUS
Southern legislators regarding
their overt intentions to deny the
vote to Blacks. It was Black
people who took the “law and
order" route by going to the
courts to overturn these uncon
stitutional acts.
This country has never admit
ted the existence and possible
utilization of a clear provision of
the Constitution: Paragraph two
of the 14th Amendment, ratified
July 9th, 1968. That section
reads:
Representatives shall be ap
portioned among the several
states according to their respec
tive number of persons in each
State, excluding Indians not tax
ed. But when the right to vote at
any election for the choice of
electors for President and Vice
President of the United States,
Representatives in Congress, the
Executive and Judicial officers of
a State, or the members of the
Legislature thereof, is denied to
any of the male inhabitants of
such State, being twenty-one
years of age, and citizens of the
United States, or in any way
abridged, except for participa
tion in rebellion, or other crime,
the basis of representation there
in shall be reduced in the propor
tion which the number of such
male citizens shall bear to the
whole number of male citizens
twenty-one years of age in such
State.
Notwithstanding the well do
cumented record of Black voter
denials for decades, there has
never been any effort to enforce
this provision of the U.S. Consti
tution. Where was the inclination
toward “law and order?” How
many congressional represents
tives and senators achieved
power and influence through sen
iority, that is, who were elected
to office years ago when vast
segments of Blacks were exclud
ed from the polling booths? How
legitimate were those elections
in the first place? How much
respect is due these persons now,
when they were launched on
their political careers in less than
a free, open and competitive
process?
Congressional Black Caucus -
Back Row:
Honorable Louis Stokes - Demo
crat, Ohio
Honorable William L. Clay -
Democrat, Missouri
Honorable John Conyers, Jr. -
Democrat, Michigan
Honorable Augustus F. Hawkins
- Democrat, California
Honorable Charles C. Diggs. Jr. -
Democrat, Michigan
Honorable Robert N. C. Nix, Jr. -
Democrat, Pennsylvania
Honorable Ralph H. Metcalfe -
Democrat, Illinois
Honorable Parren J. Mitchell -
Democrat, Maryland
Honorable Charles B. Rangel -
Democrat, New York
Front Row:
Honorable Ronald V. Dellums -
Democrat, California
Honorable Shirley Chisholm -
Democrat, New York
Honorable Walter E. Fauntroy -
Democrat, District of Colum
bia
Honorable Yvonne B. Burke -
Democrat, California
Honorable Barbara C. Jordan -
Democrat, Texas
Honorable Cardiss C o l l i n . . D e
mocrat, Illinois
Honorable Harold Ford Demo
crat, Tennessee
DR.PERCV L. JULIAN
he brilliant scientist who
T
ENTERED DEPAUW U N IV ., AS A
SUB-FRESHM AN" AND GRADUATED
IN 1920 W IT H THE HIGHEST HONORS,
THE P H I B E T A KAPPA KE Y A N D
DE LIV ER E D T H E V A L E D IC T O R IA N
ADDRESS. HE EARNED HIS MASTERS
DEGREE AT HARVARD IN 1925 AND
PH D. AT THE U N IV OF V IE N N A IN
1951. HE WAS BORN IN MONTGOMERY
A L A .,IN 1899. HE TAUGHT AT HOWARD*
AND W.VIRGINIA U DR JULIAN JOINED
THE GLIDDEN C O ,IN 1956, A PAINT COM
PANY IN CHICAGO.DURING WORLD WARE
HE PRODUCED A FIRE-FIGHTING FOAM
FROM SOYBEAN PROTEIN THAT SAVED
JOSEPH CINQUE
The Congolese Chief who led the revolt
against the slave ship Armistad as it
sailed the Atlantic.
Rep. Wally Priestley
THOUSANDS OF LIVES IN THE ARMY
AND NAVY. HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO
M ANKIND HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUS,
HE DEVELOPED CORTISONE AT LOW
COST FOR ARTHRITIS SUFFERERS,
DRUGS TO AID RHEUMATIC FEVER,
GLAUCOM A,BIRTH CONTROL PILLS
AND COUNTLESS OTHER USES. THE
RESEARCH OF TH E SOYBEAN SOON
ESTABLISHED THE JU LIA N LABORA
TORIES AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES. ALTHO
RETIRED AS PRESIDENT HE IS STILL
ACTIVE IN RESEARCH....
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