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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1995)
J anuary 11, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver P age C4 Lives Lost For The Freedom Struggle Killed For Leading Voter Registration Drive, Belzoni, Miss. Murdered For Organizing Black Voters, Brookhaven, Miss. Youth Murdered For Speaking To White Woman, Money, Miss. Voter Registration Worker Killed By White Legislator, Liberty, Miss. Killed By Kian, Montgomery, Ala. Willie Edwards Jr. / I 1932-1957 Lamar Smith 1941-1955 Taken From Jail Rev. George Lee 1892-1955 "The fact that Emmett Till, a And Lynched, 1903-1955 young black man, could be found At a time when Mississippi law floating down the river in Mississippi and white threats kept most blacks “Rev. Lee did not ju st tell the Poplarville, Miss. just set in concrete the determination from voting. Lamar Smith was deter people what they ought to do. He »- Herbert Lee Emmett Louis Till gave them an example... He fought for equality and first class citizen ship and he asked them to follow him," - Roy Wilkins, NAACPexecu- tive director. Slain By Nightriders Opposed to Black School Improvements, Mayflower, Texas John Eart Reese (photo unavailable) 1939-1955 mined that his people would have a say in local governmq/t. of the people to move forward,” Fred Shuttlesworth. ‘ 6 Morals cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The law cannot make an employer love me, but it can keep him from refusing to hire me because of the color of my skin. ’ ’ - Martin Luther King Jr. 1912-1961 “Jump,” they said. Edwards saw his only chance of survival in the dark Alabama River below him and he jumped. Witness To Murder Of Civil Rights Worker Assassinated, Liberty, Miss. 66 T here is little hope for us until we becom e to u g h -m in d ed enough to b reak loose from the shackles o f p reju d ice, h a lf-tru th s, and d o w n rig h t ig n o ran ce. ” - Martin Luther King Jr. Mack Charles Parker 1936-1959 “If we set back and waited tor the government to prosecute and punsh Mack Parker, it would never happen. So we did it ourselves,” - Mississippi state official. Killed Protesting Construction Of Segregated School, Cleveland, Ohio Rev. Bruce Klunder 1 9 3 7 -1 9 6 4 “I pray that by the time the chil dren grow up, their father’s death will have been redeemed, and they will be able to see the effect of what his dying did for the consciences of at least a few," - Joanne Klunder “ F reed o m is never volun tarily given by the oppressor; it m ust be d e manded by the oppressed. ’ ’ - Martin Luther King Jr. 1919 -1964 T he P ort of P ortlard horors D r . ItlflR T in L uther K m u , J r . by c e le b r a tin g o u r c u lt u r a l h is to r y in r e c o g n i t i o n o f K in g s s t r u g g l e f o r c i u i l r i y h t s f o r a l l p e o p le . T h e P o rt is a n e q u a l o p p o r t u n i t y e m p l o y e r , c o m m it t e d to a f f i r m a t i u e a c t i o n . F o r m o re in fo r m a tio n on e m p lo y m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s u r ith th e P o r t , c a l l th e 2Q h o u r Job H o t lin e a t I5 0 3 1 ?31 7 Q 8 0 . PORT OF PORTLAND L E T H IS D R E A M E V O L V E A N D F L O U R IS H AS T O D A Y 'S REALITY. MEIER & FRANK f
