Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, February 07, 1990, Page 17, Image 17

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    February 7, 1990 • Portland Observer
President Bush Signed Proclamation
Commemorating the Birthday of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Black History Month • Page 17
B. C hadwick G roup /
THE
STRUGGLE
CONTINUES...
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(503) 249-0711
A s we move to the n ew
mittenium we support seif-suf­
EYES ON THE PRIZE II
ficiency, a n d our motto is we
Black Pride, Unity,
and Muhammed Ali
can create paradise where we
AIN'T GONNA SHUFFLE
NO MORE
Monday, February 12* 10 PM
are. I t is our responsibility to
m afe this vision a reality . . .
w ith the grace o f f o d we can
achieve these goals.
On January 9, President Bush signed the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal
Holiday, 1990 Proclam ation. By Public Law 98-144, the third M onday in
January o f each year is designated as a legal public holiday. The President was
joined by students (from left to right) Darrell W ebster, graduate student at
Catholic University, Shavonna Brown, W oodson Junior High and Linda
Am en
Sincerely,
Chad, Michael, Jacqueline, Darlene and George
Lawson, a junior at American University.
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6-7 p.m. - Social Hour (No Host Bar) 7-12p.iu. Banquet and Dance
Tho koynolo speaker will bo Mr. Charles Jordan, Suporintondont of tho Bureau
of Parks and Recreation in Portland. Oregon.
Other guest speakers include: Mr. Lacy Steele, national board member of tho
N.A.A.C.P.
Mr. Michael Grlco - oducalor in tho Portland School District.
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Following the banquet, music (or the dance will be provided by * New Attitude
featuring Tho Staples Brothers.
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Ida B. Wells Stamp
Unveiled At NAACP
Image Awards
Ceremony
lack History Month
A Dedication
Civil Rights Leader
Honored in Black
DELAUNAf
"When evil men plot, good men
must plan. When evil men burn
and bomb, good men must
build and bind. When evil men
shout ugly words or hatred, good
men must commit themselves
to the glories of love.
Where evil men would seek to
perpetuate an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring
into being a real order of justice."
Paid for by members of the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission:
Adriana Cardenas
Janet Chandler
Sho Doz.ono
Sid Galton
John Heflin
Carolyn Leonard
Jaime Lim
"Actually, no one can understand the action
of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually
the cup of endurance runs over, and the human
personality cries out, ‘ I can take it no longer.’
Mrs. Parks’ refusal to move back was her
intrepid affirmation that she had had enough
. . . . She was anchored to that seat by the
accumulated indignities of days gone by and
the boundless aspirations o f generations yet
unknown.’ ’
—Martin Luther King
Assistant Postmaster General Elwood
A. Mosley unveiled December 19,1989 the
design of a commemorative stamp honor­
ing civil rights activist Ida B. W ells during
the NAACP Image Awards Ceremony in
Los Angeles.
The Ida B. Wells commemorative stamp,
the 13th in the black Heritage Series, w ill
be issued February 1 in Chicago in conjunc­
tion with Black History Month. Additional
information concerning the ceremony w ill
be announced in the near future.
The stamp design, by Thomas B lack­
shear of Novato, California, features a stun­
ning portrait o f W ells based on several
photographs of her taken during the mid-
1890s. A line of pickets forms a dramatic
backdrop, symbolizing her fierce denun­
ciation o f racial discrimination and her
anti-lynching crusade. Blackshear also
designed philatelic tributes to Jean Baptiste
Pointe Du Sable, James Weldon Johnson
and A. Philip Randolph, the three moat
recent honorees in the series.
Bom a slave in 1862, W ells devoted
fier entire life to educating people about the
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horrors of discrimination and lynching. She
was the secretary o f the National Afro-
American Council and the first president o f
the Negro Fellowship League in C hicago.
In 1909, she helped found the National
Association for the Advancement o f
Colored People.
MESTAI HEALTH
I ’ • E • \ • T • E • K
in honor o f Black men and women who committed themselves
to achieving social justice.
Luis Machorro
Paulette Peynet
Donald Schwehn
Heritage Series