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■M» h » A p r il 4, 1990 P o rtla n d O bserver Page This Week in History Led by both the pow erful and the meek, the week o f A p ril 4-10 played a strong role in the repression o f-a n d exaltation of--the A frica n Am erican population. A p r il 4, 1928-This is the birthdate o f Maya Marguerita Angelou. Angelou tried her wings a t-a n d flew w ith suc cess in -m a n y careers, including w rit ing, producing, directing, singing, danc ing, lecturing, and editing. She was idso active in pushing for c iv il rights. A p r il 9, 1940-A ten-cent stamp is is sued in commemoration o f Booker T. Washington's furtherance o f Black rights. A p r il 4, 1967-A year short o f what shall be his death, Dr. M artin Luther King, Jr. announces at a press confer ence his plans to conscientiously object the Vietnam W ar through a nationwide educational campaign, teaching students in an e ffo rt to "awaken the conscience o f the nation." A p r il 9 , 1967-In what seems almost to preview the tragic Kent U niversity incident o f three years later, police shoot at Black students demonstrating at Fisk University. Several demonstrators were injured; no one died. A p r il 4 , 1968-Dr. M artin Luther K ing, Jr. is assassinated at the age o f 39. A Baptist m inister, he w a s-a t the age o f 35-th e youngest person ever to earn the Nobel Peace Prize, due to his great achievements toward peace, equality, and c iv il rights. The successful ending o f the Black bus boycott was a result o f the leadership o f Dr. King. His life accomplishments number many, but what is immeasurable is the difference King made in setting an example fo r generations to come. M inorities o f all kinds w ill remember this pioneer o f human rights, and live w ith his im m or tal words "W e shall overcome" etched in m ind and soul. A p r il 5 , 1968-Lyndon Johnson cancels talks w ith North Vietnamese officials in order to meet w ith c iv il rights lead ers, because he felt the need was greater there. Johnson feared riots, looting, and c iv il disorder in reaction to King's assassination. The then-president also declared A p ril 7 a day o f national mourning. "The life o f a man who symbolized the freedom and faith o f America has been taken," said LBJ. "B u t it is the fiber and fabric o f the Republic that is tested...my heart went out to his peoplc-espct tally to the young Americans w ho-I know-m ust wonder i f they are to be denied a fullness o f life because o f their skin. "The dream o f M artin Luther King has not died w ith him ." A p r il 8 , 1970-Members o f the National Urban League, the N A A C P , and the Southern Christian Leadership Confer- ence, enters a New Y ork C ity Church w ith tw elve follow ers. "W e come to you as C hrist came on Palm Sunday," W illiam s told the pastor. "H ow can the church continue to preach the gtospel o f Jesus and continue to have holding in big companies that oppress people in South Africa? How can the church continue to live a lie?" Police entered The New Immigration, Part IV: Angelique Sanders on to say the hanging was a result o f South Africa's white supremacist ru l ing party's desire to "intim idate the African population." West Germany's Social Democratic Party calls the slaugh ter one o f "merciless cruelty" and pre dicted it would "unleash shock and b it terness throughout the w orld." Everyone is or has been a m inority: though you m ight not be Black, or a B uddhist, or a female, or Hispanic, you once w e re -o r are n o w -h e ld back due to age. H opefully, every man, woman, and child reading this w ill think o f M artin Luther K ing, Jr. today, on this 22nd anniversary o f his death, and remember what he has done for you. King spent his life fighting racism, and even suffered death at the hands o f a racist. One day the bigotry w ill end, and men everywhere w ill unite. Thank you, M artin Luther. Dakota Negroes are less illiterate than Mississippi W hiles. The Negroes o f these seven states are less illiterate by 100 to 400 per cent than the foreign-bom whites o f all the Slates, save one.” And also: “ Negro illiteracy in C alifornia is 3.1 per cent; Minnesota: 2.0; New York: 2.5; Nevada: 1.5; South Dakota: 2.2; Oregon: 2.5; Washington: 2.9. The i l l i t eracy o f the Native Am erican W hites o f W hite parentage is, V irginia: 5.0; West V irginia: 3.8; North Carolina: 5.7; South Carolina: 5.2; Georgia: 3.4; Kentucky: 5.9; Tennessee: 5.4; Alabama: 4.9; L o u isiana: 7.8; and New M exico: 8.2 (U.S. Census, V o l. II, pg. 1229)” And for that Eastern and Southern European Region B -th at the Anglo Saxon m ajority so despised in their literature and im m igration quotas (and so loves in today’ s era o f peristroika and glasnost), Continued from front page we have this revelation from the Key 1929 “ B ulletin No. 4 o f the U.S. Depart ment o f the Interior, Illiteracy in the Several Countries o f the W o rld .” “ Servia, 48 per cent, Bulgaria 55; Portugal, 50-70 per cent; Hungary, 10- 20; Finland, Lithuania, Poland, 30-40; Italy, 20-30; Russia, 50-60. ‘Greece,’ says the report, is considerably in excess o f 50 per cent.” “ Spain, Italy and Bulgaria show comparatively high rates.” Now, given that critica l in fo rm a tio n - much available to the army its e lf-a n d given the highly vaunted skills o f re search and careful documentation claimed by the U niversity o f Chicago and the consultants listed b e lo w -it is almost unbelievable (almost) that, together, they could come up w ith the fo llo w in g flawed and misleading report used by the media and racists to support their preconceived notions. The unsupported conclusions are crim inal in impact. From the Washington Bureau, L .A . Times/Washington Post News Service: W A S H IN G T O N - The Defense Department released Monday an inde pendent analysis o f its nationwide youth achievement test that cited possible ge netic factors as one reason for the rela tive ly poor performance o f blacks and Latinos in the test. The results o f the department's test, inwhich whites scored three times higher than blacks and twice as high as Latinos, have "substantial implications for voca tional opportunities and attainment, the report said, because they show that blacks and Latinos continue to be isolated trom the American mainstream “ both repro ductively and cu ltu ra lly.” The test, the results o f which were o ffic a lly released Monday, was an as sessment o f nearly 12,000 blacks, whites and Latinos 18 to 23, measured in a bat tery o f tests adminstered during the sum mer o f 1980. The test results showed a median score, out o f a possible 100 points, o f 59 for whiles, 23 fo r Latinos and 17 for blacks. The Pentagon’ s test and the sample o f youths it tested were certified as statisti cally valid and unbiased by the National • O pinion Research Center. Two researchers associated w ith the center and the U niversity o f Chicago, who analyzed the test data, said the rela tively poor performance o f blacks and Latinos indicated that neither group has been fu lly integrated into white society. A t the same tim e, the researchers said "■j,. i > s V a ? .* in a report distributed by the Pentagon, ‘ ‘ the fact that these socio-cultural groups are also in large degree reproductively isolated. . . raises the possibility that the differences in test performance arise from differences in the respective gene pools.” Someone turned o ff the heat under the “ M elting Pot” . There s till is no . J E N — ' $ L r f.* ■ •IN I •’« • .» room at the inn fo r some. Concluded next week. S a fe w a y,., P roud to be P a rt o f Your Life! , 'X. ' -fX. • - . • • J -V - y ; - : - '« T R ¿¿Plump Fryer Hindquarters i w e *7 :*• •• ■ u r. J u ic y and te n d e r... G reat fo r b a kin g or fry in g ! A p p ro x. 5-Lb. Pack 49 & & c Lb. Golden Lucerne Gallon Ripe Milk Bananas and arrested W illiam s. A p r il 5, 1971-City o fficia ls in Lacka- wanny, N .Y . attempt to prevent A f r i can Am erican housing being b u ilt in a predominantly white neighborhood. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the officials, and construction was underway. A p r il 6 , 1979-Approxim atcIy 200 A f rican students protesting a hanging are chased by police brutally swinging heavy clubs. The demonstration, which took place in Pretoria, was a conscictious objection to the white m inority govern ment hanging Black student Solomon Mahlangu. 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