Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, March 07, 2007, Page 8, Image 8

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Funeral services were held Feb.
27 for Pamela Harvey at Interna­
tional Fellowship Family Church in
northeast Portland, with Pastor
Stephen Holt officiating.
Pamela Fay W illiams was born
on March 7, 19 6 1 in Portland to
her parents Claude and Emma
Jean W illiams, the sixth of seven
children. She made the transition
to be with our Lord on Feb. 22,
2007,
She attended Sabin Elementary
School and Lincoln High School
and served in the Job Corps.
She met LG Harvey Jr. in 1977.
LG was raising his daughter Nakia
at the time and she immediately
adopted her as one o f her own.
the family to V ancouver in 1986.
She was employed at various
Fred Meyer stores, and in 1995,
began working at Christian Copy­
right Licensing, Inc. where she
worked until 2(X)3.
She enjoyed music and loved to
sing. With her beautiful voice, she
performed lead vocals in local bands
in the late 70s and 80s. In 1979. she
recorded an album with her band
"Shock" and went on a brief tour of
Canada.
She continuedto fill her life with
music by singing for the Lord at her
church as well as directing the
On Nov. 18, 1982 they were mar­ children's choir. She was a happy
ried. To this union, they were person who was always smiling
blessed with two children, LG and blessing everyone she came in
Harvey III and Alisha. They re­ contact with.
sided in Portland until they moved
She is preceded in death by her
parents. Survivors include her hus­
band and children. Nakia of Port­
land, LG and his wife Nicole of Las
Vegas, Nev. and Alishia Ashworth
and husband Jon o f Vancouver;
eight grandchildren, LaQ uisha
W akefield. Tyeisha W akefield,
Clairease Mitchell, MarioMitchell,
Mya Mitchell, Jaden Ashworth,
lelynn Harvey and Alex Perez; five
sisters, Barbara Dover of Atlanta,
Ga„ Lynda Lewis and husband Craig
of Portland, Claudia Williams of
Portland, Shirley Williams-Bills and
husband Robert of Atlanta, Cheryl
Williams of Atlanta; her beloved
brother Anthony Williams and wife
Angela of Puyallup, Wash.; best
friend Jackie Patterson, as well as a
host of nieces, nephews, aunts,
uncles, cousins and close friends.
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Journalist and civil rights
leader T. Thomas Fortune was
the most prominent black Ameri­
can journalist in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
Born a slave in Marianna,
Fla., Fortune discovered polities
and journalism as a youth. His
father, Emanuel, was a Recon­
struction politician in Florida; the
younger Fortune worked as a
page in the state senate and
learned the printer’s trade at a
Jacksonville newspaper. His
meager formal education in­
cluded F reedm en's Bureau
schools in Florida and one year
as a preparatory student at
Howard University.
Fortune moved to New' York
City in 1881, where over the
next two decades he achieved
fame as the militant and maver­
ick editor or owner of a news­
paper named first the Globe,
then the “Freeman,” and finally
the “New York Age.”
A largely self-taught writer
and orator of eloquence. For­
tune lived with the label “Negro
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the growing wave of indiffer­
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ern freed men, a position he
explored in his "Black and White:
Land, Labor, and Polities in the
South" (1884).
Fortune led the effort to cre­
ate the National Afro-Ameri­
can League in 1889. After four
years of faltering support, the
league collapsed but reemerged
in 1898, again with Fortune at
the center, as the National Afro-
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league and the coun­
cil should notdimin-
ish their role as pre­
c u rso rs o f the
Niagara Movement,
the N A A C P, and
other civil rights or­
ganizations in the
20th
cen tu ry .
Fortune’s modern
legacy also includes
his advocacy of the
term A fro-A m eri­
can for his people
rather than Negro or
colored. He believed
it was the most ac­
curate term, arguing that blacks
were “African in origin and
American in birth.”
Fortune's political allegiances
were more paradoxical. He in­
termittently supported and ex­
coriated the Republicans during
his career, abandoning them
over their betrayal of racial
equality in 1888 and endorsing
Grover Cleveland, the Demo­
crat, for president. Even more
complex was Fortune’s long
relationship with Booker T.
W ashington. The pow erful
Tuskegee president secretly fi­
nanced Fortune’s underfunded
newspaper. Fortune’s militance
seemed to be the antithesis of
W a sh in g to n 's
a c co m m o ­
d atio n ™ , but the two men had
in common theirorigins and their
belief in black economic self-
determination. Fortune assisted
Washington in creating the Na­
tional Negro Business League
and loyal ly served hi m as a ghost
writer. But alliances with the
Wizard of Tuskegee were risky
business; Fortune had serious
financial problems and hoped
that W ashington's influence
would bring him a political ap­
pointment. Instead, this slippery
political path led to his condem­
nation by followers of Du Bois,
severe bouts with alcoholism,
and abandonment by Washing­
ton. Fortune sold his interest in
the Age and experienced a ner­
vous breakdown in 1907.
After many years of appar­
ent destitution, he recovered in
the 1920s, inspired by though
never a complete convert of
M arcus G arv ey , to edit
Garvey's journal, the “Negro
W orld.” Fortune's tragic life
ended in 1928, but not before
the pioneer activist had joined
the ranks of W ashington's crit­
ics, apologized for his ideologi­
cal waywardness, and observed
that "all along the way I have
shaken the trees and others have
gathered the fruit."