September 03,2003
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Community Leaders Tackle Social Issues
Common
concerns shared
at Washington,
D.C. summit
by
J a y h e e R. C v t i
T he P o rtland O bserver
H undreds o f A frican-A m erican
leaders m et in W ashington, D.C.
this sum m er to discuss to d ay ’s hot
topics: jo b s and the econom y, ed u ­
cation, health care and civil rights.
U.S. Sen. Ron W yden, D-Ore.,
invited tw o com m unity representa­
tives, Roy Jay, president o f the
African A m ericanC ham berofCom -
m erce and Rev. W. G . Hardy Jr.,
pastor o f H ighland U nited Church
o f C hrist, to the A frican A m erican
Leadership Summit.
T h e s u m m it b e g a n w ith
roundtable discussions w ith C on­
gressional D em ocrats and A frican-
A m erican leaders, follow ed by a
panel discussion on the econom y
m oderated by form er Secretary o f
L abor A lexis H erm an. T he sum m it
concluded with a tow n hall meeting
with young, African-American lead­
ers, discussing priorities for new
policy.
S en ate D em o crats, C o n g re s­
sional Black C aucus m em bers and
o v er2 5 0 A frican A m erican leaders as) B oston, C hicago and Rhode
from around the country attended Island, because th e y 'v e already
the sum m it.
faced issu es that w e ’re facing,
H ard y said he learn ed that it's affectively addressed issues that
o ften n ec e ssa ry to seek ad v ice w e're currently struggling w ith,”
from o u tsid e th e N o rth w est w hen (lardy said.
a d d re ssin g p ro b le m s facin g O r­
He also distinguished betw een
e g o n ia n s su ch as c u ltu ra lly re ­ culturally responsive program s and
sp o n s iv e p ro g ra m s, g an g v io ­ diversity training.
len ce , p a re n tin g , ed u c a tio n and
“ By letting the dom inant culture
civ ic le a d e rsh ip re c ru itm en t and define o ur issues, w e spend lots o f
gro o m in g .
m oney on diversity training rather
“ W e face certain challenges in putting those resources into solv­
the Pacific N orthw est because the ing our problem s,” he said. "I d o n 't
A frican-A m erican com m unity is think w e should fool ourselves into
lim ited in its resources that it's n ec­ thinkingdiversity training isacu re-
essary to go out o f o u r region to all because w e can learn about dif­
seek expertise from ( locations such ferent cu ltu res but we still d o n ’t
Roy Jay
know how to respond.”
H ardy said he w ould like to see
O regon host a future A frican Ameri­
can L eadership Sum m it to show ­
case Portland and also connect area
residents to A frican-A m erican pro­
fessionals m aking a difference in
theircom m unities.
King's Papers Appraised at $30 Million
gunned dow n at a M em phis, Tenn.,
m otel nearly five years later.
I f there is a centerpiece, it w ould
be the draft o f K in g ’s m ost fam ous
p u b lic a d d ress, the “ I H ave a
D ream ” speech on A ug. 28, 1963.
But that key passage is not in the
text, w ritten the night before at
W ashington’s W illard Hotel; it was
added extem poraneously as King
spoke to a huge throng at the Lin­
coln M em orial.
Som e o f the m aterial w as previ­
ously housed at T he K ing C enter in
A tlanta and is fam iliar to scholars.
O ther item s have been in boxes at
the hom e o f his w idow , C oretta
Scott King.
(A P)
N ot only did he break
The archive is replete with events
dow n barriers o f race, lead by e x ­
and crises o f the ci vil rights revolu­
am ple and inspire m illions to be­
tion led by K ing — sit-ins at the
lieve in his dream , the Rev. M artin
M agnolia tea room , the M ontgom ­
Luther K ing Jr. apparently also
ery bus boycott, the firebom bing o f
never threw aw ay any scrap o f pa­
a B irm ingham church, the Selm a
per.
m arch, the m urder o f civil rights
Instead, he saved every book,
w orkers in M ississippi.
notebook, serm on, letter, telegram ,
In all o f K in g 's w ritings, “you
invitation, index card and church
can see how im passioned he w as,
financial statem ent, filling theblank
im passioned by the cause," said
spaces and m argins w ith his ow n
Elizabeth M uller, a S otheby’s vice
thoughts
serious, com m itted,
president w ho led a six-year inven­
single-m inded and utterly devoid
tory o f the papers.
-Elizabeth Muller,
o f frivolity.
The handw rittendraftofthe 1964
Sotheby Vice President
These im pressions are readily
Nobel Prize lecture, with its nota­
draw n front a collection o f K ing’s
A ppraised by S otheby’s at $30 tions and inked-out revised pas­
papers that goes on public display m illion, the collection will be o f­ sages, “is as if the hand just cam e o ff
last w eek at S o th eb y ’s auction fered for pri vate sa le after the show ­ the paper; it is as close to the author
house in M anhattan ahead o f a ing ends Sept. 8. S otheby’s vice as you can get,” M uller said. “These
private sale later this month.
president D avid Redden said “a w ords actually speak to us.”
The 7,000 item s include early num ber” o f institutions, w hich he
In one telegram from 1962, King
collegeexam books,adraftofK ing’s deci ined to identify, have expressed u rg e s K e n n e d y to n o m in a te
Nobel Prize lecture, the hand-cor­ interest.
Ih u rg o o d M arshall and another
rected p ro o f o f a Playboy magazine
He said the papers w ould be kept black judge to the U.S. Suprem e
interview , scribbled notes on the intact rather than sold o ff to indi­ Court. In another, boxer Muhammad
1963 assassination o f President vidual buyers. “ It m ust be kept to­ Ali expresses his hope that K ing in
K ennedy, and papers found in gether to be useful to scholars,” he jail is “com fortable” and “not suf­
K in g ’s b rie fc a se a fte r he w as said.
fering any physical pain.”
Civil rights hero
saved every scrap
of his writings
You can see how
impassioned he
was, impassioned
by the cause.
Democratic presidential hopeful the Rev. Al Sharpton (from left), marches in Atlanta Thursday with
Evelyn Lowery, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. to a ceremony marking the
40th anniversary o f M artin Luther King Jr. 's “ / Have a D ream " speech. (AP photo)
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