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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
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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
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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.”
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the “ M elting Pot” . There s till is no
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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. A Soviet news agency called
Mahlangu's trial and consequent hang
ing a "m ockery o f justice" because he
was innocent, and had not fired at two
whites, as accused. The agency went
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