Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1968 — Page 2

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 pastor of Liberty Baptist Church, chairman of the protesting committee and Ira T. Neal, director of the Community Action Program were parties to the registration of grievances before the city council. Also the Rev.Dr.W.R. Brown, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, told city council members,“...We have a stake in the community...not as big as the white people, possibly, but just as precious.” Among others the list of grievances presented to the city cooncil for Black Community Action included : prostitution, gambling, after - hours nirht spots; illegal sale of alcoholic beverages; strict enforcement of curfew laws for persons under age 18; end to police brutality and a program of training in human relations for all law enforcement officers. The president of the city council, William L. BrookSf, stated that many of the requests already are being taken care of because “the word has been given to the proper agencies.” Otherwise, the city council would study other requests in depth to come up with a good program for the community, Mr. Brooks promised. Recipient of CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 which are racially motivated. Mrs. Ward studied at the University of California this summer and learned of the $14.50^ a year Job. The well-respectednorthsid-er earned her bachelor of arts and master of science degrees from Indiana University, Her new Job compels her to resign as a teacher at School 17 where she served with the Teacher Corps. Through her guidance as president ofthe Metropolitan Council and the Walter F. White Branch of the NAACP, memberships increased in numbers. Mrs. Ward leaves with the hope that Indianapolis will become more aggressive in carrying out the fight for equality. She said that more people are involved in the civil rights struggle in California. There are 17 districts in the county in which she wil’ serve including 1/PQ or more

schools.

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the street.

After entering the smokefilled building, Evans stated he kept yelling for the children to come to the light “but they were either too frightened or were blinded by the smoke. “I stumbled over something in the darkness. It was two children. I grabbed one under each arm and started backdown the stairs. The smoke was so thick I had to feel with my foot. “We pitched forward down the first flight and then rolled the rest of the way.” Evans collapsed once outside as did one of the children. The child was revived by a fireman who administered mouth - to - mouth revise Ration. Evans came to laWT. Late this week Deputy Fire Marshall Willard Clark said nothing had been found in the debris to confirm arson, but that the investigation in an attempt to find the alleged woman would continue. Gary Fire Chief Alfonso Holliday said the blaze was “the worst in the history of Gary.” The three-story building was totally destroyed. Presidential CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ly of delegates for the Rev. Phillips said, “...We don't fee'

bad at all.”

The Rev. Mr. PhiPips, affiliated with the United Church ov Christ, put together a slate of delegates for U.S, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy ranging from mothers on welfare to millionaires. It swamped the Old Guard group in the District of Co'umbia supporting President Johnson. It is charged that he revo’utionized po’itics in the first U.S. city to have a Negro majority. To launch CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Series address by Sen. Edward W. Brooke, of Massachusettsconcert by Lou Rawls and The Temptations, appearing on the Pop Concert series; presentation by the University Theatre of the play, "The Blacks,” by Jean Genet; productions of the Black Theatre Workshop, which this part summer staged "The

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RUCKELSHAUS ADDRESSES OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP: William D. Ruckelshaus (second from left), Republican candidate for United States Senator, addressed the Oxford Neighborhood Association last Saturaay. During the meeting, Herman King, 3724 N. Oxford, was elected president of the group whose purpose is to pre-

serve the quality of the community which is undergoing racial change. Pictured left to right are Mrs Warren Huddleston, 3424 N. Oxford; Ruckelshaus, King, and Choice Edwards, GOP candidate for State Representative The meeting was held in the home of William Hardy, Republican member of the Board of Public Works.

Dutchman” by Leroi Jones. The year’s proposed"Focus: Black America’ calendar will concentrate in September on "The Setting’ - race, history legal problems of black Ameri-

cans.

To fb”ow in succeeding months will be "The Literary Tradition,” " Psychologica’ Implications of Discrimination,” "Problems of Education,” "Religion," "The Negro and the Military,” "Economic Social and Po’itical Pro blems,’ "Negroes in Science,” "The Black Athlete,” and "Festival of Black Ar-

tists.”

Long-term benefits of the year include introduction of new courses; new names for possible faculty recruitment; graduate student dissertations on the subject; undergraduate term papers on black America , and added library resources. Over-all coordinator is John Johnson, who, before coming to I.U. was assistant professor of fine art at Linco'n Uni-

versity.

On the planning committee are J. Gus Liebenow, director of the African Studies Program and professor of government; John B. Joyner, assistant professor of speech and theatre, and Michael J. Wo' ff, director of Victorian Studies and professor of English and history. Professor Walff was coordinator of the "Focus: The City” Urban Semester. TOOTHACHE Don’t suffer agony. Get ORA-JEL, in seconds you get relief from throbbing toothache pain. Put on-pain's gone. Until you can see your dentist, do as millions do-use ORA-JEL Rec-

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Reactions to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ty candidate, Protessor .viarchiarola said, “The thought oi a serious presidential candidate promising to meet force with force is a verv real measure of what escalations of violence on both sides we ran expect at the time of crisis itself.” St. Clair Drake, a sociologyprofessor at Roosevelt University, expressed concern that the liberal tradition of American society that “allows a wide measure of acceptance of pressure, including some violence,” could be reversed. “There is no guarantee,” he said, “against slrft in the direction of severe repression, if militantly violent Negro groups expand and extend their activities with the focus of the backlash being in the white working-class strata, and finding political expression at the national level through the votes of the white lower-middle, urban and rural.” Bruce L. R. Smith of the department of public law and government at Columbia said the radical tendency to sidestep established p>olitical channels could set off “a rising tide of white resentment against

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the Negro movement.” “A .■Innate of opinibn could be created,” lie asserted, "that might shake severly the ethics of American society, or, at the extreme sweep ti e more moderate white elite along the path toward Ui American stvle of lacisiii.” Discus sin* methods used by the police and national guard troops in riots during the last few summers, Prof. Herbert J. Cans said that though Negro violence was consideraHv less than had been anticipated, the troops acted "on their own stereotyped conceptions rather than reality,”

Jim Brown

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 22 years, founded outside Brown’s motel apartment. He also was confronted with charges of assulting a deputy sheriff. She refused to prosecute him. Otherwise Miss Brenda Ayres, Cleveland, in 196a, was the plaintiff in a case involing charges of paternity, assult and battery. However, he was found not guilty or innocent in connection with both charges.

dependent of the surrounding white culture. Black people would control and regulate their own school systems, factories, hospitals, police and fire departments. The conferees, 4,000 strong, formed a rainbow of the National black community. It ranged from the unlettered to the intellectual; From the no "D” to the Ph. D. The urbane Dr.‘ Nathan Wright , who served as chairman of the provocative conclave, said cooperation and unity must become household words in the black community. The articulate college professor said "Spare us needless loss of critical working time by engaging in your I’m blacker than thou speech. All of us are in the same Psychological black bag regardless of color.” The participants, clad in col - - orful and gala attire, wearing Afros and tikies, listened attentively and gave their “soul” to the conference proceedings. Of all the national figures, the most eloquent wasRonKarenga, who served as vice-chair-man of the conference. Sporting a black buba and sunglasses, the brilliant Karenga who speaks five languages including fluent Swahili drove home the conference theme that there can be “unity in diversity. !• verybody might not belong to the same Interest group, but everybody has the same interest: self-determination, selfrespect, self-respect, self-se-curity, and self-defense.” Appearing before the community organization workshop, Karenga who is working on a doctorate in political science charmed his audience with wit and poetical wisdom. He said, "Our main job is an effective cultural revolution. We must win the minds of black people. If we lose that, we cannot win at all.” Speaking of violence, Karenga who is called Mauluna, which means master teacher, said "The object is to win not to commit suicide,” Speaking of die communityorganization workshops, this writer found this one to be "where it was.” This workshop was led by two colorful professional community organizers who had their "thing together.” This community will hear more about Lucius Walker, Jr., the suave executive director of IFCO (Interreligious Foundation for Commun-

ity Organization) and the able and articulate Walter Bremond, who is the executive vicechairman of the Black Congress in Los Angeles. They both indicated a willingness to come up-south to Indianapolis. Some of the resolutions accepted by the conference included calling for the immediate release of political prisoners like Huey Newton in Cal- • ifornia, H. Rap Brown in Virginia, and Omar Shabbaz in Indianapolis. Another called for the creation of black historyinstitutes to produce an accurate history of black people and to eliminate distortions. The black church workshops recommended that all black religious institutions replace all statues representing the nonAfrican racial images, all symbols and music representative of white saviors with symbols and images reflecting the African heritage. The Continuations Committee received a mandate to begin preparations • to hold the fourth Black Power Conference in Mississippi. In addition to the writer, others from the"local island” attending the conference included Miss Maureen Provost, Mrs. Barbara Martin, Mrs. Jo Marva Bell, Rev. Gerald Cunningham, Rev. Luther Hicks, Sylvester Rowe, Leslie Martin, Charles "Snooky" Hendricks, and Richard Jackson.

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18 assaults CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 $22. Hardy, who reportedly had attended Indiana University and UCLA for two and one-half years, confessed to 17 other assaults, according to police reports. Authorities said the attacks occurred on the North and North west side between February, 1967. and Tuesday. The youth entered the Air Force in April and was home on leave from Minot (N.D.) Air Force Base. The Recorder learned Tuesday that both the boy’s parents have taken ill since his arrest. Hardy appeared in Municipal Court 5 Wednesday morning at which time his case was continued until Monday morning at 9 a.m. The victim of Tuesday morning’s assault was at home alone and lived near the suspect. Her husband was out of the city on business. Off-duty cops CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Lindsay and the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, have demanded that the guilty policemen be "immediately suspended”. "We’ll only be pushed so far and the city can take it from there.” one spokesman was quoted as saying. The mayor promised that a grand jury would be summoned to conduct and immediate investigation of the charges.

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