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GRAPEVINE
THE FAMILY MAGAZINE 35c February, 1973
SPECIAL BLACK HISTORY EDITION
BLACK
COLORED
NEGRO
NIGRA
NIGGER
AFRO AMERICAN
"sometimes there's nowhere to go"
Discovering a Black Past
In 1820, at the age
of 15, Maria Becraft
opened a school in
Washington, D.C. for girls
of her race. Then, in 1831,
she turned the school over
to a former student and
joined the Sisters of
Providence in Baltimore,
which was a teaching order
for Black nuns.
While at Tuskegee Institute,
George Washington Carver
extracted wonderous things from
the Alabama soil. His work
with the peanut and sweet potato
yielded unheard of products
such as ink, cooking oils, peanut
butter, rope and other commodities
beneficial to man.
Prince Hall, a free Negro, veteran
of the Revolutionary War and
founder of the Negro Masonic order,
spoke out for equal education
in Boston in 1788. When the
Government of Massachusetts
offered black children only
segregated classrooms, Prince Hall
established a school for black
children in his own home.
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Grapevine 4 February, 1973
THE
GRAPEVINE
MAGAZINE
VOL. 5 NO. 2
February, 1973
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BLACK
HISTORY
EDITION
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Earl Bradley
Copyright 1972
by Grapevine Corporation
Bus Driver Of The Year
Lonzell Williams, a resident of
Fresno, California for the past 30
years, has been selected by the
Grapevine Magazine as Bus Driv-
er of the Year." Williams has been
driving buses for the past 13 years
without a chargeable accident and
has received 12 Safe Driving A-
wards.
Williams and his wife La Vera
are the owners and operators of
the newly opened La Vera's Infant
Day Care Nursery located in West
Fresno. The "Infant Nursery" is the
first of its kind in the Fresno area.
The Williams' are also co-owners
of Bambi's Day Care Nursery
School.
In addition to being an active
member of Fellowship Baptist
Church Male Chorus, Williams is
affiliated with the King Soloman
Lodge No. 6 F&A.M.
In 1960, Williams joined the
Fresno Transit Bus Company and
was the second Black man to be
employed by the company. When
asked about how he managed to
Lonzell Williams
avoid accidents over the years
Williams stated, "By always driv-
ing defensively." During his days
off he enjoys fishing, hunting, trav-
eling, and collecting antiques.
Williams and his wife are the
proud parents of three children and
two grandsons.
Grapevine 6 February, 1973
Jackie Robinson's Brother Visits Fresno
Mack Robinson accepts a plaque award from Los Angeles Dodger
executive Al Campanis in behalf of the late Jackie Robinson, who drew
a memorable salute during Fresno's Hot Stove dinner.
In accepting the award Robinson stated, "I think Jackie was the only
black man capable of doing it because of his intestinal fortitude," Mack
offered. "He did it because he played at UCLA before big crowds and
he did it because he wasn't afraid of a white man.
"To me, Jackie being the baby of the family, it was very hard to see
him go. I was with him last summer in New York during a testimonial
from the Virgin Islands government.
"I hope you youngsters understand that the team of today is made
up of all colors. It's time to recognize the fact we need each other. I'd
like to thank Fresno for this honor. It's a great tribute for some other
city to take time to honor him."
Robinson's imprint on major league history included a .311 lifetime
batting average with the Brooklyn Dodgers, appearances in six World
Series' and becoming the first of his race to enter the Hall of Fame.
February, 1973 7 Grapevine
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Grapevine 8 February, 1973
Picked By The Pros
Linebacker Gary Weaver, left, and cornerback Dwayne Crump, center,
are congratulated by Fresno State University teammate Ray Sherman on
their selection by the Oakland Raiders and St. Louis Cardinals in the
pro football draft. Sherman is hopeful of being picked in a later round.
Crump played high school football in Madera. (Bee Photo)
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February, 1973 9 Grapevine
Erv Hunt, Ex-Edison High Star Athlete
Will Coach At University of California
Erv Hunt , a 25-year-old former
Fresno State football and track
star, is the new track and field
coach at the University of Calif-
ornia.
Hunt succeeds Dave Maggard,
32, who is retiring from the posi-
tion to devote his full time to the
directorship of athletics at UC.
A 1969 graduate of Fresno State,
Hunt was a Little All-American in
football and a hurdle and jump
star in track. He went to Cal as a
track assistant under Maggard last
year.
Hunt, who becomes the first
black head coach in Cal's history,
was surprised at the appointment.
"I know how much Dave enjoyed
coaching and I know he hated to
get out. I'm really excited with this
opportunity. We have a great
bunch of kids and I am looking
forward to working with them."
It was the team itself which
caused the change in Hunt's career
goals. "When I first came to Berk-
eley, I thought I still wanted to
coach football, not track. But, the
enthusiasm and coachability of the
Cal trackmen, the way Dave went
about his coaching and the respon-
sibility and freedom he gave me
as an assistant really got me ex-
cited about coaching track."
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Grapevine 10 February, 1973
Heard Lands Role In NY Movie
Nationally-known author Nathan
Heard, a former lecturer in the
Fresno State University English de-
partment, will debut soon as an
actor in "Gordon's War," a movie
now being filmed in New York.
Heard, who wrote his first book
"Howard Street" while serving a
six year sentence in New Jersey
penetentiaries for armed robbery,
came to FSU in the fall as a one-
year lecturer.
He was recommended for rehir-
ing by the English department but
the recommendation was turned
down by FSU administrators who
cited Heard's "lack of qualifica-
tions" (he never finished high
school) as one of the reasons.
Heard subsequently accepted a
position from Rutgers University,
where he is now teaching modern
black literature.
In the movie, 6 foot 4 Heard
will portray a Harlem drug pusher
who has a run-in with the film's
star, Paul Winfield. The film, a Pal-
omar Productions directed by Ossie
Davis, will be released by 20th
Century Fox.
Heard was working on his sec-
ond novel, "To Reach a Dream,"
while living in Fresno. It was pub-
lished last June by Dial Press. He
recently signed a contract with
Simon & Shuster publishing house
and is working on a new book.
A former pop singer, Heard re-
portedly plans to release his first
album some time this year. When
in Fresno, he was known to fre-
quent the 20th Centry Elks Club
and "jam" with other black mu-
sicians.
Just before leaving FSU, Heard
was selected by students for one
of the university's annual Distin-
guished Teaching Awards. Howev-
er, the administration later declar-
ed the vote invalid.
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Brother And Sister Double Winners
Sharon Boutte Glenn Boutte
Glenn Boutte and his sister,
Sharon, were double winners with-
in hours of each others. Sharon, a
ninth grader at Ahwahnee Junior
High School, by carefully listening
to KYNO daily, was the lucky win-
ner of $209.19 in prize money.
Each day she kept track of the
money as the announcer would
say to the caller the amount was
too high or too low. By listening
and mathematically narrowing the
amount down, she calculated with-
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won the jackpot.
Glenn, a senior at Hoover High
School, won First Place Original
Oratory in the Southern Valley
Forensics League Tournament held
in Hanford. Glenn, who plans to
major in pre-med at Fresno State
University next year, recently won
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and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
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Grapevine 14 February, 1973
Farewell Time For Coaches
Darryl Rogers, center, who is shifting from Fresno State University to
San Jose State as head football coach is taking two of his assistants with
him. They are Bob Padilla, left, and Jim Colbert, right.
Colbert was F.S.U. defensive backfield coach. While in college Colbert
was an all-conference end-cornerback at Adams State College, 1959-60,
and all-conference in baseball, 1959-61. He played pro-baseball in 1961
and '62 for the Kansas City Athletics organization.
Before coming to F.S.U. Colbert was a high school football and baseball
coach in Colorado.
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BLACK HISTORY WEEK
Februarv, 1973 15 Grapevine
Former Fresnan
T. Sgt. Donald R. Alexander
T. Sgt. Donald R. Alexander, son
of Mr. & Mrs. Leo Alexander Sr.
of 2194 S. Poppy in Fresno, has
been awarded the Bronze Star
Medal for Meritorious Service as a
weather equipment technician
while in the 10th weather squad-
ron at the Royal Thai Air Force
Base in Udorn, Thailand.
The Medal was presented at
Wright Patterson Air, Force Base,
Ohio, where he was then serving
with a unit of the Air Weather
Service. He also won a cash award
for a safety device for his unit.
Sgt. Alexander is a 1951 Edison
High School graduate and enjoyed
singing and writing as his hob-
bies.
He joined the air force July 1951
and just finished 21 years of ser-
vice. He is presently in Vietnam.
He is married to the former Do-
lores Breckinbridge of Fresno.
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Grapevine 16 February, 1973
Howard University
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In an elaborate wedding held in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Michael
Meyers, son of Mrs. Mattie Meyers and Dr. Earl R. Meyers of Fresno, took
Miss Gloria Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard D, Lewis, as his
bride. The bride, a first year student at Howard University Medical School
in Washington, D. C., and the groom a sophomore in Howard's under-
graduate school, had two wedding receptions; one in Pottstown and
one in Fresno where the couple honeymooned.
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Williams has a 29.5 average in the
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Organization Man
Ken Brown
Outgoing student body presi-
dent Ken Brown feels student gov-
ernment at Fresno City College has
become a "very effective organiza-
tion" this fall. "That, not apathy,"
he said, "accounts for the smooth-
est semester FCC has had yet."
Brown, FCC's first black president,
will continue in student govern-
ment at Fresno State next semester
to ensure black involvement in all
campus decisions affecting black
students.
Twenty-six-year-old Brown plans
to use student government at FSU
to continue the job he undertook
at FCC, the job of ensuring blacks
a voice and involvement in all
campus decisions concerning their
welfare. In the past two years black
representation in FCC's Student
Senate has grown from one black
to nine blacks filling the 20 elector-
al posts, with seven black students
winning seats this spring semester.
In Our Time © 1973 Gretter Features
TODAY THERE ARE NINE BLACK GENERAL IN THE
ARMY, SERVING IN THE
UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN
NATIONS. THE LATEST BLACK
OFFICER ELEVATED TO
BRIGADIER GENERAL IS
ARTHUR F. GREGG, ARMY
STAFF OFFICER.
IN 1887, HENRY O. FLIPPER BECAME
THE FIRST BLACK OFFICER TO
GRADUATE FROM WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY.
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February, 1973 21 Grapevine
Ivy School Celebrates Black History Week
Students at the Ivy School, part of the Fresno Colony Elementary Dis-
trict, model contemporary fashions as part of a black history week ob-
servance at the school. From left are Richard Mitchell, Brenda Williams,
Moses Lujan, Iris Jones, Linda Green and Eric Medley. Irma Mitchell,
girls' counselor, was in charge of the programs.
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Grapevine 22 February, 1973
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GRAPEVINE
MAGAZINE
BLACK
HISTORY
EDITION
The GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE Staff is proud to join in the com-
memoration of Black History Week along with millions of people
across the country. For over five years we have been dedicated,
year round, in promoting the positive aspects of the life and his-
tory of Black people. We have been trying to enlighten people of
all races of the historical background and multiple contributions
made to America by Black people. So, it is only natural that we
again devote this edition to that cause.
Featured in this edition are pictures, sketches, puzzles, quizzes,
and quotes of famous Black people. Several pages of Black
American landmarks and milestones have also been included.
We hope that after reading our short sketch of Black History
readers will be stimulated enough to seek out more literature
concerning Black people's devotion to the course of freedom and
learn more about their heroism that has helped to develop this
country.
We extend our thank to Dr. Fritzalbert Marius of Fresno for
drawing this month's Grapevine Black History cover and for the
use of his sketches of famous Black people featured on this
page. We also want to thank Seagram's Distillers for the use of
their Black historical calendar drawings featured in this edition.
Special acknowledgment from the editor also goes to Theresa
Jackson, Cleo Johnson, Pete Chisom, and Bobby Smallwood for
their extra help with this month's edition.
Frank Johnson
Editor and Publisher
Grapevine Grapevine
America Looks To The President
To Renew The Civil Rights Fight
There is growing concern among American minorities that President
Richard Nixon's second term will bring a serious slowdown, if not outright
reversal, in the field of civil rights.
The fears are justified.
An administration never fully committed to the cause has begun to
ignore, tinker with or even dismantle programs offering hope for the
poor and disadvantaged. Sad to note, some civil rights leaders are dis-
couraged to the point of saying they may have to take to the streets
again to dramatize their demands.
Under President John F. Kennedy and especially President Lyndon B.
Johnson, the barriers in jobs, housing, education, voting and access to
public facilities began to fall. A strong momentum had built up by the
time Nixon took office in 1969.
Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst gives the Nixon administration credit
for eliminating the dual school system in the South — as though it were
something not mandated by the US Supreme Court. He says his depart-
ment has filed more suits in every other area of civil rights enforcement
than previous administrations in a comparable period—as though doing
its job deserved a gold star.
Washington dispatches report the administration intends to dismantle
the Community Relations Service, created in 1964 to mediate racial con-
flicts. The Philadelphia Plan to end job discrimination on federally financ-
eded projects — once Nixon's major civil rights effort — appears doom-
ed.
Earl Warren, chief justice when the Supreme Court struck down school
segregation, said recently "There is still much more of heart and mind
and of government action necessary if equality is to be a reality." He
says all laws are ineffective unless those in authority show a will to
carry them out.
It is up to President Nixon, then, as he begins four more years, to ex-
ercise his leadership and renew the nation's struggle against racial in-
justice. The country has reached a crossroads in this historic fight; which
way, Mr. President?
Editorial Fresno Bee
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at
last' Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Grapevine 26 February, 1973
The
People's
Holiday
It has been said that, sooner or later, the United States Government
usually catches up with the leadership of the people. We hope this will
be true in the case of the drive to make the birthday of the late Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King, Jr., an annual legal national holiday.
It is high time that Congress pass the pending legislation to create
this holiday each January 15th. Millions of people already celebrate it.
At least 14 states and 33 cities have already proclaimed January 15th
as "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day." The schools are closed in at least 21
cities. Thousands of other schools and communities observe the holiday.
Unions have a day off with pay in their contracts, businesses and stores
close or take time off to pay suitable tribute to Dr. King.
Most of the present national holidays glorify past wars and their generals
or have become too commercial and meaningless.
A national holiday honoring Dr. King would honor all Black people.
It would honor peace. It would honor justice and freedom. It would
honor brotherhood. It would honor the rights of all men.
These are the values Martin Luther King, Jr. stood for. These are the
ideals for which he gave his life. It is not too much to call upon Congress
to follow the leadership of the people, as once again on January 15th
the people honored one of history's truly great leaders.
Editorial Richmond Post
February, 1973 27 Grapevine
Jackie Robinson Roy Wilkins
LANDMARKS AND MILESTONES OF BLACK AMERICANS
1492—Black servants, slaves and explorers came to the New World with
the first Spanish and French explorers. Pedro Alonso Nino of
Columbus' crew is identified as a Black by some scholars.
1512-—Group of Blacks landed in Florida with Ponce de Leon in search
for "Fountain of Youth."
1513—Balboa's expedition to the Pacific included 30 Blacks who were
instrumental in clearing the way between the two oceans.
1539—Blacks accompanied De Soto on his journey to the Mississippi.
Estevanico, Black companion of Spanish explorers, reached Arizona
and New Mexico.
1619—Twenty Blacks brought as the first slaves to America, Jamestown.
1624—William Tucker was the first Black child born and baptized in
English America at Jamestown, Virginia. Tucker is said to have
lived 108 years.
1638—First Black slaves were brought into New England.
1688—First formal protest against slavery in Western Hemisphere made
by Germantown Quakers at monthly meeting.
1731—Benjamin Banneker was born near Baltimore, Maryland
1758—Frances Williams, first Black college graduate in Western Hemis-
phere, published Latin poems.
1762—James Derham, who was born a slave in Philadelphia in 1762
is generally recognized as the first Black physician in America.
1770—Crispus Attucks was first of five persons killed in Boston Massacre,
March 5. He is generally regarded as first martyr of the Revolu-
tion.
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1775—Black soldiers fought with distinction in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Peter Salem, a Black man, was one of the heroes of the day.
1777—Vermont become the first American state to abolish slavery.
1794-Eli Whitney, patented Cotton Gin Machine, based on ideas and
sketches of a Black slave.
1808—Federal law barring the African slave trade went into effect.
1820—Harriet Tubman born a slave on a plantation in Dorchester County,
Maryland.
1831—William Lloyd Garrison printed first issue of the Liberator, his
abolitionist newspaper.
1834—Henry Blair was the first Black to receive a patent for an inven-
tion—a corn harvester.
1845—Macon B. Allen was the first Black formally admitted to the Bar
in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1853—Lincoln University was chartered an Ashmond Institute in Chester,
Pennsylvania, on January 1st. First Black College in U.S.
1863—President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation, freeing
slaves.
1866—First Civil Rights Bill passed by Congress.
1867—Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement, first Black to be named "Mother
of the Year".
1868—Blacks legally became United States Citizens.
1869—Jefferson P. Long from Georgia was seated as the first Black in
the House of Representatives.
1875—Blanche K. Bruce became member of the U.S. Senate representing
Mississippi.
1886—First electric trolley on the American continent was run by a
Black, L. Clark Brooks.
1889—Elijah Muhammed, born in Sandersville, Georgia, Oct. 10, 1889.
Worked as a field hand, railroad laborer, before moving to De-
troit. In 1930, met the founder of the Nation of Islam (Black
Muslims). Took over leadership of Biack Muslims in 1934.
1906—Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter society organized as a
fraternity.
1909—NAACP founded on Lincoln's Birthday.
1913—F. M. Jackson Coppin. First Black woman college graduate (Ober-
lin College) died in Philadelphia, Penn.
1915—Association for the Study of Black Life and History organized by
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Chicago, III.
February, 1973 29 Grapevine
Asa Philip Randolph Gwendolyn Brook
1931-The first two soldiers in the American Army to be decorated for
bravery in France were Black named Henry Johnson and Need-
ham Roberts.
1933—NAACP made its first attack on segregation and discrimination
in education when it filed a suit against the University of North
Carolina.
1935—Founders Day of the National Council of Negro Women, Dr. Mary
McLeod Bethune, first president.
1936—Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
1937—William H. Hastie was confirmed as Judge of Federal District
Court in the Virgin Islands. He became the first Black Federal
Judge.
1940—Marcus Garvey, died, London, England.
1944—Adam Clayton Powell was the first Black elected to Congress
from the East.
1947—Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers as the First Black
in organized baseball to play in the major leagues.
Grapevine 30 February, 1973
1949-Congressman William L. Dawson approved as chairman of House
Expenditures Committee. He was the first Black to head a standing
committee of Congress.
1950-Ralph J. Bunche, former U.N. Mediator in the Palestine dispute,
awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1950-Gwendolyn Brooks, a young Chicago school teacher, won the
Pulitzer Prize for her volume of poetry, Annie Allen.
1952-Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year in 71
years of tabulations that no lynchings were reported.
1954—U.S. Supreme Court, in an epochal decision, ruled that racial dis-
crimination in public schools was unconstitutional.
1956-U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in public parks, play-
grounds, beaches, and golf courses. The court rejected the "sepa-
rate but equal" doctrine which had been previously passed.
1963-March on Washington for jobs and freedom led by Martin Luther
King, Jr. and A. Phillip Randolph.
1963-President Kennedy calls for action to end segregation in a historic
declaration affirming that segregation is a moral issue.
1963-W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of NAACP, died in Accra, Ghana.
1964-Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize and thereby
became the second American Black in history to be so honored.
Dr. Bunche was an earlier recipient.
1965-President Johnson signed a voting rights act allowing for federal
registrars in Southern polling places, the action following a dra-
matic four day, 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala-
bama, led by Dr. Martin King.
1965-Malcolm X, died February 28, 1965, in New York City at age 39.
Black Nationalist leader, former top aide of Elijah Muhammed.
1966-Edward Brooke was elected Senator from Massachusetts by pop-
ular vote.
1967—Thurgood Marshall became the first Black appointed to a Su-
preme Court Judgeship.
1968—Martin Luther King, Jr., martyred by an assassin's bullet on April
4, 1968, at approximately 6:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time in
Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King died immediately.
1972-Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), continues to spear-
head many successful drives for Black Equality.
1973-Yvonne Brathwaite, California's first Black Assemblywoman, was
elected to Congress.
February, 1973 31 Grapevine
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915)
LEADER, EDUCATOR. Born in slavery at Hale's Ford, Virginia. Graduated
from Hampton Institute, 1875. Appointed Principal of Tuskegee Institute
(2 small wood frame buildings, 39 students) in 1881. Institute achieved
worldwide recognition by 1915, with over 60 buildings wiih endowments
of nearly 3 million dollars. Adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and
Howard A. Taft from 1901 to 1913. Organized National Negro Business
League in Boston, Mass. in 1900.
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Grapevine 32 February, 1973
CARTER GOODWIN WOODSON (1875 1950)
FATHER OF NEGRO HISTORY. Born in Canton, Virginia. Educated at
Berea College, Kentucky. Received Ph.D. degree at Harvard University
in 1912. College professor and Dean of College of Liberal Arts at Howard
University, 1921. Organized Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History, 1910. Initiated the Annual February observance of Black His-
tory Week in 1926. Wrote and published 16 outstanding books on Black
History. Received the Spingarn Medal in 1926.
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BLANCHE KELSO BRUCE (1841-1898)
U.S. SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI. Born in slavery in Framville, Virginia.
Escaped to freedom during the Civil War. Became a Mississippi planter
after the Civil War. Sergeant-at-Arms to the Mississippi State Senate,
1870. Served as assessor, sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar County,
Miss., 1870-1872. U.S. Senator from 1875 until 1881. First Black to be
appointed Register of the Treasury, 1881. Trustee of Howard University
for many years.
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Grapevine 34 February, 1973
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, A.B., Ph.D., LHD, DD, LLD (1929-1968)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEADER. Born in Atlanta, Georgia. Selected
one of the 10 outstanding personalities of 1956. Named "Man of the
Year" in 1963 by Time Magazine. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Member: NAACP,
Alpha Phi Alpha, Sigma Pi Phil, Elk. Author: Stride Toward Freedom,
1958. Why We Can't Wait, 1964. His non-violent dramatic marches and
speeches led to passage of Civil Rights Act in 1964. Outstanding spokes-
man for the Black people. Assassinated April 4, 1968.
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BENJAMIN BANNEKER (1731-1806)
INVENTOR AND ENGINEER. Born a free man, in Ellicott, Maryland. Con-
structed the first clock made entirely in America in 1753. First Black to
publish scientific and astronomical materials. Published a treatise on
bees and accurately computed the cycle of the seventeen-year locust.
Published a yearly almanac from 1791 until 1802. Member of the sur-
veying team which laid out the city plan of Washington, D.C.
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Grapevine 36 February, 1973
DR. CHARLES DREW (1904-1950)
PIONEER PHYSICIAN. Born in Washington, D.C. Graduated from Amherst
College with Howard Hill Mossman Athletic Achievement Award, 1926.
Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha fraternity. Awarded Williams Prize for
scholastic record and received M.D. degree from McGill Medical College,
1933. Discovered means of preserving blood plasma and developed the
revolutionary idea of a "blood bank," 1940. First director of American
Red Cross Blood Bank, 1941. Chief surgeon and Chief of staff at Freed-
man's Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1950.
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MAGGIE LENA WALKER (1867-1934)
BANKER, ORGANIZER, CIVIC LEADER. Born in Richmond, Virginia in a
poverty-stricken family. Became Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Inde-
pendent Order of St. Luke in 1889. Founded and became President of the
St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1902. Served as Virginia state president
of the National Association of Colored Women. Established a newspaper,
the St. Luke Herald. Spurred inter-racial group of women to develop ac-
tive community center in Richmond, Virginia, 1924.
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WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHART DUBOIS (1868-1963)
SCHOLAR, SPOKESMAN, WRITER. Born in Great Barrington, Massachu-
setts. Won scholarships to Fisk and Howard Universities and the Univer-
sity of Berlin. Headed department of history and economics at Atlanta
University for 13 years. Wrote for Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
One of the founders of the NAACP in 1908 and editor of its Crisis Mag-
azine. Published many outstanding books. Regarded as one of the most
profound scholars of his time and generation and the 'dean' of Black
Intellectuals.
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JAN ERNST MATZELIGER (1852-1889)
INVENTOR, BUSINESSMAN. Born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guinea. Earned
passage to the United States as a sailor and arrived in Lynn, Massachu-
setts in 1876. After laboring ten years, Matzeliger finally invented and
patented an automatic Shoe-Lasting Machine on March 20th, 1883. Patent
#274,207 was purchased by the United Shoe Machinery Company of
Boston which revolutionized shoe industry, created thousands of jobs,
cut shoe prices in half. Statue erected in his honor in Lynn, Massachusetts,
the shoe capital of the world.
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ROBERT SINGSTACKE ABBOTT (1870-1940)
PIONEER PUBLISHER. Born on St. Simons Island, off Georgia coast. Attend-
ed Hampton Institute, Virginia. Earned law degree from Kent Law School,
Chicago, 1899. Founder and editor of The Chicago Defender, an articu-
late voice of Chicago's Black population with a circulation of 250,000
copies by 1929. For 15 years his strong editorials stalwartly contended
for social, political and economic justice, encouraged southern Blacks
•o seek better lives away from the Deep South.
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WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY (1873-1958)
"FATHER OF THE BLUES." Born in Florence, Alabama, the son of a min-
ister. At 18 went to Chicago and St. Louis playing the cornet and trump-
et with small bands and minstrel groups. Composed famous "Memphis
Blues," "St. Louis Blues," "Beale Street Blues" and 150 other popular
musical compositions, both sacred and secular. Director of music at
Alabama A & M College. Founded the Handy Foundation for the Blind.
In 1931 the City of Memphis named a park after Handy and opened
the $200,000 W. C. Handy Theatre, 1947. In Florence, Alabama, stands
the W. C. Handy School.
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SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797-1883)
ABOLITIONIST AND CIVIL WAR HEROINE. Born in slavery in Hurley, Ul-
ster County, New York. First notable woman orator to speak out against
slavery. In June, 1843, began pilgrimage, setting out on foot, she travel-
ed through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kan-
sas wearing a satin banner across her chest, bearing the words, "Proclaim
liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Attended
National Women's Suffrage Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1852. Cared
for wounded soldiers and emancipated slaves during Civil War. Received
White House audience with President Lincoln.
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GRAPEVINE QUIZ
GREAT BLACK PEOPLE PAST AND PRESENT
S. B. Fuller, Alexander Dumas, A. G. Gaston, John H. Johnson, Granville T.
Woods, Thurgood Marshall, James Bland, James Baldwin, Charles Drew,
Garrett A. Morgan.
— FILL IN THE CORRECT NAME —
1. ------------ Founder, president, publisher, and editor of Ebony, Jet,
Negro Digest and Tan magazines.
2. ------------ First Black justice to serve on the United States Supreme
Court.
3. ------------ Established the first Blood Bank.
4. ------------ Composer of "Carry Me Back To Old Virginia" and
"Oh, Dem Golden Slippers".
5. ------------ Inventer of gas mask and first Traffic Light Signal.
6. ------------ Inventer of the automatic air brake and "Induction
Telegraph", a system for communicating to and from
moving trains.
7. ------------ Millionare founder of Booker T. Washington Insurance
Co. and Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association.
8. ------------ Black author who wrote "The Three Musketeers" and
"The Count of Monte Cristo".
9. ------------ Famous U.S. black writer who wrote "Notes of a Native
Son," "Go Tell It On The Mountain," and "The Fire
Next Time".
10. ----------- Founder and president of world-wide brush and pro-
ducts company.
Answers—
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GRAPEVINE PUZZLE
FAMOUS BLACK PEOPLE'S LAST NAMES
No. 1 (across)—The first Black woman millionaire who was the founder
of the world's oldest and biggest Black cosmetics company.
No. 2 (down)—Organizer of the first black masonic lodge.
No. 3 (down)—First Black to play in major league baseball, 1947.
No. 4 (down)—Civil Rights leader and presently Executive Secretary of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
No. 5 (across)—Sociologist, scholar, author, and one of the founders of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
No. 6 (down)—Former Executive Director of the National Urban League
and former dean of Atlanta University's School of Social Work.
No. 7 (across)—One of the greatest baseball players of all time.
No. 8 (across)—Orator, statesman, and recognized as Father of the Pro-
test Movement.
No. 9 (across)—Slain leader who was the foremost advocate of the non-
violent passive resistance philosophy of the civil rights movement.
Answers-
February, 1973 45 Grapevine
QUOTES
"All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers.
To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me,
to that extent I am harming myself. Why is this? Because men are brothers.
If you harm me, you harm yourself."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
* * * *
"The real hero of this struggle is the American Negro. His actions and
protest, his courage to risk safety and even to risk his life, have awakened
the conscience of this nation. His demonstrations have been designed
to call attention to injustice, designed to provoke change, designed to
stir reform. He has called upon us to make good the promise of America.
And who among us can say that we would have the same progress
were it not for his persistent bravery, and his faith in American democ-
racy."
Lyndon B. Johnson
* * * *
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in
tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must
begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to over-
shadow our opportunities."
Booker T. Washington
* * * *
"From my prison cell, I have watched America slowly coming awake.
It is not fully awake yet, but there is soul in the air and everywhere
see beauty."
Eldridge Cleaver
* * * *
"Had it not been for the Negro school and college, the Negro would,
to all intents and purposes, have been driven back to slavery."
William E. Burghardt DuBois
Black Reconstruction
* * * *
"Our most serious crisis (is) the deep division within our society and
particularly within our cities — the divisions between those of our
citizens who have never had the opportunity to share in the American
dream and those of us who take for granted our jobs, the homes we live
in, the education of our children, the family doctor, and the food we
eat."
Robert F. Kennedy
* * * *
"This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds.
It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that
the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are
threatened."
John F. Kennedy
Grapevine 46 February, 1973
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SPECIAL BLACK HISTORY EDITION
BLACK
COLORED
NEGRO
NIGRA
NIGGER
AFRO AMERICAN
"sometimes there's nowhere to go"
Discovering a Black Past
In 1820, at the age
of 15, Maria Becraft
opened a school in
Washington, D.C. for girls
of her race. Then, in 1831,
she turned the school over
to a former student and
joined the Sisters of
Providence in Baltimore,
which was a teaching order
for Black nuns.
While at Tuskegee Institute,
George Washington Carver
extracted wonderous things from
the Alabama soil. His work
with the peanut and sweet potato
yielded unheard of products
such as ink, cooking oils, peanut
butter, rope and other commodities
beneficial to man.
Prince Hall, a free Negro, veteran
of the Revolutionary War and
founder of the Negro Masonic order,
spoke out for equal education
in Boston in 1788. When the
Government of Massachusetts
offered black children only
segregated classrooms, Prince Hall
established a school for black
children in his own home.
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February, 1973
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Bus Driver Of The Year
Lonzell Williams, a resident of
Fresno, California for the past 30
years, has been selected by the
Grapevine Magazine as Bus Driv-
er of the Year." Williams has been
driving buses for the past 13 years
without a chargeable accident and
has received 12 Safe Driving A-
wards.
Williams and his wife La Vera
are the owners and operators of
the newly opened La Vera's Infant
Day Care Nursery located in West
Fresno. The "Infant Nursery" is the
first of its kind in the Fresno area.
The Williams' are also co-owners
of Bambi's Day Care Nursery
School.
In addition to being an active
member of Fellowship Baptist
Church Male Chorus, Williams is
affiliated with the King Soloman
Lodge No. 6 F&A.M.
In 1960, Williams joined the
Fresno Transit Bus Company and
was the second Black man to be
employed by the company. When
asked about how he managed to
Lonzell Williams
avoid accidents over the years
Williams stated, "By always driv-
ing defensively." During his days
off he enjoys fishing, hunting, trav-
eling, and collecting antiques.
Williams and his wife are the
proud parents of three children and
two grandsons.
Grapevine 6 February, 1973
Jackie Robinson's Brother Visits Fresno
Mack Robinson accepts a plaque award from Los Angeles Dodger
executive Al Campanis in behalf of the late Jackie Robinson, who drew
a memorable salute during Fresno's Hot Stove dinner.
In accepting the award Robinson stated, "I think Jackie was the only
black man capable of doing it because of his intestinal fortitude," Mack
offered. "He did it because he played at UCLA before big crowds and
he did it because he wasn't afraid of a white man.
"To me, Jackie being the baby of the family, it was very hard to see
him go. I was with him last summer in New York during a testimonial
from the Virgin Islands government.
"I hope you youngsters understand that the team of today is made
up of all colors. It's time to recognize the fact we need each other. I'd
like to thank Fresno for this honor. It's a great tribute for some other
city to take time to honor him."
Robinson's imprint on major league history included a .311 lifetime
batting average with the Brooklyn Dodgers, appearances in six World
Series' and becoming the first of his race to enter the Hall of Fame.
February, 1973 7 Grapevine
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Picked By The Pros
Linebacker Gary Weaver, left, and cornerback Dwayne Crump, center,
are congratulated by Fresno State University teammate Ray Sherman on
their selection by the Oakland Raiders and St. Louis Cardinals in the
pro football draft. Sherman is hopeful of being picked in a later round.
Crump played high school football in Madera. (Bee Photo)
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Erv Hunt, Ex-Edison High Star Athlete
Will Coach At University of California
Erv Hunt , a 25-year-old former
Fresno State football and track
star, is the new track and field
coach at the University of Calif-
ornia.
Hunt succeeds Dave Maggard,
32, who is retiring from the posi-
tion to devote his full time to the
directorship of athletics at UC.
A 1969 graduate of Fresno State,
Hunt was a Little All-American in
football and a hurdle and jump
star in track. He went to Cal as a
track assistant under Maggard last
year.
Hunt, who becomes the first
black head coach in Cal's history,
was surprised at the appointment.
"I know how much Dave enjoyed
coaching and I know he hated to
get out. I'm really excited with this
opportunity. We have a great
bunch of kids and I am looking
forward to working with them."
It was the team itself which
caused the change in Hunt's career
goals. "When I first came to Berk-
eley, I thought I still wanted to
coach football, not track. But, the
enthusiasm and coachability of the
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Grapevine 10 February, 1973
Heard Lands Role In NY Movie
Nationally-known author Nathan
Heard, a former lecturer in the
Fresno State University English de-
partment, will debut soon as an
actor in "Gordon's War," a movie
now being filmed in New York.
Heard, who wrote his first book
"Howard Street" while serving a
six year sentence in New Jersey
penetentiaries for armed robbery,
came to FSU in the fall as a one-
year lecturer.
He was recommended for rehir-
ing by the English department but
the recommendation was turned
down by FSU administrators who
cited Heard's "lack of qualifica-
tions" (he never finished high
school) as one of the reasons.
Heard subsequently accepted a
position from Rutgers University,
where he is now teaching modern
black literature.
In the movie, 6 foot 4 Heard
will portray a Harlem drug pusher
who has a run-in with the film's
star, Paul Winfield. The film, a Pal-
omar Productions directed by Ossie
Davis, will be released by 20th
Century Fox.
Heard was working on his sec-
ond novel, "To Reach a Dream,"
while living in Fresno. It was pub-
lished last June by Dial Press. He
recently signed a contract with
Simon & Shuster publishing house
and is working on a new book.
A former pop singer, Heard re-
portedly plans to release his first
album some time this year. When
in Fresno, he was known to fre-
quent the 20th Centry Elks Club
and "jam" with other black mu-
sicians.
Just before leaving FSU, Heard
was selected by students for one
of the university's annual Distin-
guished Teaching Awards. Howev-
er, the administration later declar-
ed the vote invalid.
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Sharon Boutte Glenn Boutte
Glenn Boutte and his sister,
Sharon, were double winners with-
in hours of each others. Sharon, a
ninth grader at Ahwahnee Junior
High School, by carefully listening
to KYNO daily, was the lucky win-
ner of $209.19 in prize money.
Each day she kept track of the
money as the announcer would
say to the caller the amount was
too high or too low. By listening
and mathematically narrowing the
amount down, she calculated with-
in pennnies the correct amound and
won the jackpot.
Glenn, a senior at Hoover High
School, won First Place Original
Oratory in the Southern Valley
Forensics League Tournament held
in Hanford. Glenn, who plans to
major in pre-med at Fresno State
University next year, recently won
First Place in Programmed Reard-
ing. Glenn and Sharon are the son
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
fred Boutte of Fresno.
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Grapevine 14 February, 1973
Farewell Time For Coaches
Darryl Rogers, center, who is shifting from Fresno State University to
San Jose State as head football coach is taking two of his assistants with
him. They are Bob Padilla, left, and Jim Colbert, right.
Colbert was F.S.U. defensive backfield coach. While in college Colbert
was an all-conference end-cornerback at Adams State College, 1959-60,
and all-conference in baseball, 1959-61. He played pro-baseball in 1961
and '62 for the Kansas City Athletics organization.
Before coming to F.S.U. Colbert was a high school football and baseball
coach in Colorado.
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Former Fresnan
T. Sgt. Donald R. Alexander
T. Sgt. Donald R. Alexander, son
of Mr. & Mrs. Leo Alexander Sr.
of 2194 S. Poppy in Fresno, has
been awarded the Bronze Star
Medal for Meritorious Service as a
weather equipment technician
while in the 10th weather squad-
ron at the Royal Thai Air Force
Base in Udorn, Thailand.
The Medal was presented at
Wright Patterson Air, Force Base,
Ohio, where he was then serving
with a unit of the Air Weather
Service. He also won a cash award
for a safety device for his unit.
Sgt. Alexander is a 1951 Edison
High School graduate and enjoyed
singing and writing as his hob-
bies.
He joined the air force July 1951
and just finished 21 years of ser-
vice. He is presently in Vietnam.
He is married to the former Do-
lores Breckinbridge of Fresno.
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Grapevine 16 February, 1973
Howard University
Newlyweds
Honeymoon
In California
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meyers
In an elaborate wedding held in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Michael
Meyers, son of Mrs. Mattie Meyers and Dr. Earl R. Meyers of Fresno, took
Miss Gloria Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard D, Lewis, as his
bride. The bride, a first year student at Howard University Medical School
in Washington, D. C., and the groom a sophomore in Howard's under-
graduate school, had two wedding receptions; one in Pottstown and
one in Fresno where the couple honeymooned.
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SPORTS
Frank Williams, Fresno City Col-
ege basketball star, has a 26.4
point season mark for 25 games,
which is the best in California.
Williams has a 29.5 average in the
Valley Conference which is well
above any other player.
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Grapevine 20 February, 1973
Organization Man
Ken Brown
Outgoing student body presi-
dent Ken Brown feels student gov-
ernment at Fresno City College has
become a "very effective organiza-
tion" this fall. "That, not apathy,"
he said, "accounts for the smooth-
est semester FCC has had yet."
Brown, FCC's first black president,
will continue in student govern-
ment at Fresno State next semester
to ensure black involvement in all
campus decisions affecting black
students.
Twenty-six-year-old Brown plans
to use student government at FSU
to continue the job he undertook
at FCC, the job of ensuring blacks
a voice and involvement in all
campus decisions concerning their
welfare. In the past two years black
representation in FCC's Student
Senate has grown from one black
to nine blacks filling the 20 elector-
al posts, with seven black students
winning seats this spring semester.
In Our Time © 1973 Gretter Features
TODAY THERE ARE NINE BLACK GENERAL IN THE
ARMY, SERVING IN THE
UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN
NATIONS. THE LATEST BLACK
OFFICER ELEVATED TO
BRIGADIER GENERAL IS
ARTHUR F. GREGG, ARMY
STAFF OFFICER.
IN 1887, HENRY O. FLIPPER BECAME
THE FIRST BLACK OFFICER TO
GRADUATE FROM WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY.
Compliments of: COFFEE'S
February, 1973 21 Grapevine
Ivy School Celebrates Black History Week
Students at the Ivy School, part of the Fresno Colony Elementary Dis-
trict, model contemporary fashions as part of a black history week ob-
servance at the school. From left are Richard Mitchell, Brenda Williams,
Moses Lujan, Iris Jones, Linda Green and Eric Medley. Irma Mitchell,
girls' counselor, was in charge of the programs.
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Grapevine 22 February, 1973
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GRAPEVINE
MAGAZINE
BLACK
HISTORY
EDITION
The GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE Staff is proud to join in the com-
memoration of Black History Week along with millions of people
across the country. For over five years we have been dedicated,
year round, in promoting the positive aspects of the life and his-
tory of Black people. We have been trying to enlighten people of
all races of the historical background and multiple contributions
made to America by Black people. So, it is only natural that we
again devote this edition to that cause.
Featured in this edition are pictures, sketches, puzzles, quizzes,
and quotes of famous Black people. Several pages of Black
American landmarks and milestones have also been included.
We hope that after reading our short sketch of Black History
readers will be stimulated enough to seek out more literature
concerning Black people's devotion to the course of freedom and
learn more about their heroism that has helped to develop this
country.
We extend our thank to Dr. Fritzalbert Marius of Fresno for
drawing this month's Grapevine Black History cover and for the
use of his sketches of famous Black people featured on this
page. We also want to thank Seagram's Distillers for the use of
their Black historical calendar drawings featured in this edition.
Special acknowledgment from the editor also goes to Theresa
Jackson, Cleo Johnson, Pete Chisom, and Bobby Smallwood for
their extra help with this month's edition.
Frank Johnson
Editor and Publisher
Grapevine Grapevine
America Looks To The President
To Renew The Civil Rights Fight
There is growing concern among American minorities that President
Richard Nixon's second term will bring a serious slowdown, if not outright
reversal, in the field of civil rights.
The fears are justified.
An administration never fully committed to the cause has begun to
ignore, tinker with or even dismantle programs offering hope for the
poor and disadvantaged. Sad to note, some civil rights leaders are dis-
couraged to the point of saying they may have to take to the streets
again to dramatize their demands.
Under President John F. Kennedy and especially President Lyndon B.
Johnson, the barriers in jobs, housing, education, voting and access to
public facilities began to fall. A strong momentum had built up by the
time Nixon took office in 1969.
Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst gives the Nixon administration credit
for eliminating the dual school system in the South — as though it were
something not mandated by the US Supreme Court. He says his depart-
ment has filed more suits in every other area of civil rights enforcement
than previous administrations in a comparable period—as though doing
its job deserved a gold star.
Washington dispatches report the administration intends to dismantle
the Community Relations Service, created in 1964 to mediate racial con-
flicts. The Philadelphia Plan to end job discrimination on federally financ-
eded projects — once Nixon's major civil rights effort — appears doom-
ed.
Earl Warren, chief justice when the Supreme Court struck down school
segregation, said recently "There is still much more of heart and mind
and of government action necessary if equality is to be a reality." He
says all laws are ineffective unless those in authority show a will to
carry them out.
It is up to President Nixon, then, as he begins four more years, to ex-
ercise his leadership and renew the nation's struggle against racial in-
justice. The country has reached a crossroads in this historic fight; which
way, Mr. President?
Editorial Fresno Bee
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at
last' Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Grapevine 26 February, 1973
The
People's
Holiday
It has been said that, sooner or later, the United States Government
usually catches up with the leadership of the people. We hope this will
be true in the case of the drive to make the birthday of the late Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King, Jr., an annual legal national holiday.
It is high time that Congress pass the pending legislation to create
this holiday each January 15th. Millions of people already celebrate it.
At least 14 states and 33 cities have already proclaimed January 15th
as "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day." The schools are closed in at least 21
cities. Thousands of other schools and communities observe the holiday.
Unions have a day off with pay in their contracts, businesses and stores
close or take time off to pay suitable tribute to Dr. King.
Most of the present national holidays glorify past wars and their generals
or have become too commercial and meaningless.
A national holiday honoring Dr. King would honor all Black people.
It would honor peace. It would honor justice and freedom. It would
honor brotherhood. It would honor the rights of all men.
These are the values Martin Luther King, Jr. stood for. These are the
ideals for which he gave his life. It is not too much to call upon Congress
to follow the leadership of the people, as once again on January 15th
the people honored one of history's truly great leaders.
Editorial Richmond Post
February, 1973 27 Grapevine
Jackie Robinson Roy Wilkins
LANDMARKS AND MILESTONES OF BLACK AMERICANS
1492—Black servants, slaves and explorers came to the New World with
the first Spanish and French explorers. Pedro Alonso Nino of
Columbus' crew is identified as a Black by some scholars.
1512-—Group of Blacks landed in Florida with Ponce de Leon in search
for "Fountain of Youth."
1513—Balboa's expedition to the Pacific included 30 Blacks who were
instrumental in clearing the way between the two oceans.
1539—Blacks accompanied De Soto on his journey to the Mississippi.
Estevanico, Black companion of Spanish explorers, reached Arizona
and New Mexico.
1619—Twenty Blacks brought as the first slaves to America, Jamestown.
1624—William Tucker was the first Black child born and baptized in
English America at Jamestown, Virginia. Tucker is said to have
lived 108 years.
1638—First Black slaves were brought into New England.
1688—First formal protest against slavery in Western Hemisphere made
by Germantown Quakers at monthly meeting.
1731—Benjamin Banneker was born near Baltimore, Maryland
1758—Frances Williams, first Black college graduate in Western Hemis-
phere, published Latin poems.
1762—James Derham, who was born a slave in Philadelphia in 1762
is generally recognized as the first Black physician in America.
1770—Crispus Attucks was first of five persons killed in Boston Massacre,
March 5. He is generally regarded as first martyr of the Revolu-
tion.
Grapevine 28 February, 1973
1775—Black soldiers fought with distinction in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Peter Salem, a Black man, was one of the heroes of the day.
1777—Vermont become the first American state to abolish slavery.
1794-Eli Whitney, patented Cotton Gin Machine, based on ideas and
sketches of a Black slave.
1808—Federal law barring the African slave trade went into effect.
1820—Harriet Tubman born a slave on a plantation in Dorchester County,
Maryland.
1831—William Lloyd Garrison printed first issue of the Liberator, his
abolitionist newspaper.
1834—Henry Blair was the first Black to receive a patent for an inven-
tion—a corn harvester.
1845—Macon B. Allen was the first Black formally admitted to the Bar
in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1853—Lincoln University was chartered an Ashmond Institute in Chester,
Pennsylvania, on January 1st. First Black College in U.S.
1863—President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation, freeing
slaves.
1866—First Civil Rights Bill passed by Congress.
1867—Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement, first Black to be named "Mother
of the Year".
1868—Blacks legally became United States Citizens.
1869—Jefferson P. Long from Georgia was seated as the first Black in
the House of Representatives.
1875—Blanche K. Bruce became member of the U.S. Senate representing
Mississippi.
1886—First electric trolley on the American continent was run by a
Black, L. Clark Brooks.
1889—Elijah Muhammed, born in Sandersville, Georgia, Oct. 10, 1889.
Worked as a field hand, railroad laborer, before moving to De-
troit. In 1930, met the founder of the Nation of Islam (Black
Muslims). Took over leadership of Biack Muslims in 1934.
1906—Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter society organized as a
fraternity.
1909—NAACP founded on Lincoln's Birthday.
1913—F. M. Jackson Coppin. First Black woman college graduate (Ober-
lin College) died in Philadelphia, Penn.
1915—Association for the Study of Black Life and History organized by
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Chicago, III.
February, 1973 29 Grapevine
Asa Philip Randolph Gwendolyn Brook
1931-The first two soldiers in the American Army to be decorated for
bravery in France were Black named Henry Johnson and Need-
ham Roberts.
1933—NAACP made its first attack on segregation and discrimination
in education when it filed a suit against the University of North
Carolina.
1935—Founders Day of the National Council of Negro Women, Dr. Mary
McLeod Bethune, first president.
1936—Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
1937—William H. Hastie was confirmed as Judge of Federal District
Court in the Virgin Islands. He became the first Black Federal
Judge.
1940—Marcus Garvey, died, London, England.
1944—Adam Clayton Powell was the first Black elected to Congress
from the East.
1947—Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers as the First Black
in organized baseball to play in the major leagues.
Grapevine 30 February, 1973
1949-Congressman William L. Dawson approved as chairman of House
Expenditures Committee. He was the first Black to head a standing
committee of Congress.
1950-Ralph J. Bunche, former U.N. Mediator in the Palestine dispute,
awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1950-Gwendolyn Brooks, a young Chicago school teacher, won the
Pulitzer Prize for her volume of poetry, Annie Allen.
1952-Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year in 71
years of tabulations that no lynchings were reported.
1954—U.S. Supreme Court, in an epochal decision, ruled that racial dis-
crimination in public schools was unconstitutional.
1956-U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in public parks, play-
grounds, beaches, and golf courses. The court rejected the "sepa-
rate but equal" doctrine which had been previously passed.
1963-March on Washington for jobs and freedom led by Martin Luther
King, Jr. and A. Phillip Randolph.
1963-President Kennedy calls for action to end segregation in a historic
declaration affirming that segregation is a moral issue.
1963-W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of NAACP, died in Accra, Ghana.
1964-Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize and thereby
became the second American Black in history to be so honored.
Dr. Bunche was an earlier recipient.
1965-President Johnson signed a voting rights act allowing for federal
registrars in Southern polling places, the action following a dra-
matic four day, 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala-
bama, led by Dr. Martin King.
1965-Malcolm X, died February 28, 1965, in New York City at age 39.
Black Nationalist leader, former top aide of Elijah Muhammed.
1966-Edward Brooke was elected Senator from Massachusetts by pop-
ular vote.
1967—Thurgood Marshall became the first Black appointed to a Su-
preme Court Judgeship.
1968—Martin Luther King, Jr., martyred by an assassin's bullet on April
4, 1968, at approximately 6:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time in
Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King died immediately.
1972-Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), continues to spear-
head many successful drives for Black Equality.
1973-Yvonne Brathwaite, California's first Black Assemblywoman, was
elected to Congress.
February, 1973 31 Grapevine
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915)
LEADER, EDUCATOR. Born in slavery at Hale's Ford, Virginia. Graduated
from Hampton Institute, 1875. Appointed Principal of Tuskegee Institute
(2 small wood frame buildings, 39 students) in 1881. Institute achieved
worldwide recognition by 1915, with over 60 buildings wiih endowments
of nearly 3 million dollars. Adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and
Howard A. Taft from 1901 to 1913. Organized National Negro Business
League in Boston, Mass. in 1900.
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Grapevine 32 February, 1973
CARTER GOODWIN WOODSON (1875 1950)
FATHER OF NEGRO HISTORY. Born in Canton, Virginia. Educated at
Berea College, Kentucky. Received Ph.D. degree at Harvard University
in 1912. College professor and Dean of College of Liberal Arts at Howard
University, 1921. Organized Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History, 1910. Initiated the Annual February observance of Black His-
tory Week in 1926. Wrote and published 16 outstanding books on Black
History. Received the Spingarn Medal in 1926.
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February, 1973 33 Grapevine
BLANCHE KELSO BRUCE (1841-1898)
U.S. SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI. Born in slavery in Framville, Virginia.
Escaped to freedom during the Civil War. Became a Mississippi planter
after the Civil War. Sergeant-at-Arms to the Mississippi State Senate,
1870. Served as assessor, sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar County,
Miss., 1870-1872. U.S. Senator from 1875 until 1881. First Black to be
appointed Register of the Treasury, 1881. Trustee of Howard University
for many years.
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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, A.B., Ph.D., LHD, DD, LLD (1929-1968)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEADER. Born in Atlanta, Georgia. Selected
one of the 10 outstanding personalities of 1956. Named "Man of the
Year" in 1963 by Time Magazine. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Member: NAACP,
Alpha Phi Alpha, Sigma Pi Phil, Elk. Author: Stride Toward Freedom,
1958. Why We Can't Wait, 1964. His non-violent dramatic marches and
speeches led to passage of Civil Rights Act in 1964. Outstanding spokes-
man for the Black people. Assassinated April 4, 1968.
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February, 1973 35 Grapevine
BENJAMIN BANNEKER (1731-1806)
INVENTOR AND ENGINEER. Born a free man, in Ellicott, Maryland. Con-
structed the first clock made entirely in America in 1753. First Black to
publish scientific and astronomical materials. Published a treatise on
bees and accurately computed the cycle of the seventeen-year locust.
Published a yearly almanac from 1791 until 1802. Member of the sur-
veying team which laid out the city plan of Washington, D.C.
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Grapevine 36 February, 1973
DR. CHARLES DREW (1904-1950)
PIONEER PHYSICIAN. Born in Washington, D.C. Graduated from Amherst
College with Howard Hill Mossman Athletic Achievement Award, 1926.
Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha fraternity. Awarded Williams Prize for
scholastic record and received M.D. degree from McGill Medical College,
1933. Discovered means of preserving blood plasma and developed the
revolutionary idea of a "blood bank," 1940. First director of American
Red Cross Blood Bank, 1941. Chief surgeon and Chief of staff at Freed-
man's Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1950.
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MAGGIE LENA WALKER (1867-1934)
BANKER, ORGANIZER, CIVIC LEADER. Born in Richmond, Virginia in a
poverty-stricken family. Became Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Inde-
pendent Order of St. Luke in 1889. Founded and became President of the
St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1902. Served as Virginia state president
of the National Association of Colored Women. Established a newspaper,
the St. Luke Herald. Spurred inter-racial group of women to develop ac-
tive community center in Richmond, Virginia, 1924.
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WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHART DUBOIS (1868-1963)
SCHOLAR, SPOKESMAN, WRITER. Born in Great Barrington, Massachu-
setts. Won scholarships to Fisk and Howard Universities and the Univer-
sity of Berlin. Headed department of history and economics at Atlanta
University for 13 years. Wrote for Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
One of the founders of the NAACP in 1908 and editor of its Crisis Mag-
azine. Published many outstanding books. Regarded as one of the most
profound scholars of his time and generation and the 'dean' of Black
Intellectuals.
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JAN ERNST MATZELIGER (1852-1889)
INVENTOR, BUSINESSMAN. Born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guinea. Earned
passage to the United States as a sailor and arrived in Lynn, Massachu-
setts in 1876. After laboring ten years, Matzeliger finally invented and
patented an automatic Shoe-Lasting Machine on March 20th, 1883. Patent
#274,207 was purchased by the United Shoe Machinery Company of
Boston which revolutionized shoe industry, created thousands of jobs,
cut shoe prices in half. Statue erected in his honor in Lynn, Massachusetts,
the shoe capital of the world.
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ROBERT SINGSTACKE ABBOTT (1870-1940)
PIONEER PUBLISHER. Born on St. Simons Island, off Georgia coast. Attend-
ed Hampton Institute, Virginia. Earned law degree from Kent Law School,
Chicago, 1899. Founder and editor of The Chicago Defender, an articu-
late voice of Chicago's Black population with a circulation of 250,000
copies by 1929. For 15 years his strong editorials stalwartly contended
for social, political and economic justice, encouraged southern Blacks
•o seek better lives away from the Deep South.
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WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY (1873-1958)
"FATHER OF THE BLUES." Born in Florence, Alabama, the son of a min-
ister. At 18 went to Chicago and St. Louis playing the cornet and trump-
et with small bands and minstrel groups. Composed famous "Memphis
Blues," "St. Louis Blues," "Beale Street Blues" and 150 other popular
musical compositions, both sacred and secular. Director of music at
Alabama A & M College. Founded the Handy Foundation for the Blind.
In 1931 the City of Memphis named a park after Handy and opened
the $200,000 W. C. Handy Theatre, 1947. In Florence, Alabama, stands
the W. C. Handy School.
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SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797-1883)
ABOLITIONIST AND CIVIL WAR HEROINE. Born in slavery in Hurley, Ul-
ster County, New York. First notable woman orator to speak out against
slavery. In June, 1843, began pilgrimage, setting out on foot, she travel-
ed through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kan-
sas wearing a satin banner across her chest, bearing the words, "Proclaim
liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Attended
National Women's Suffrage Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1852. Cared
for wounded soldiers and emancipated slaves during Civil War. Received
White House audience with President Lincoln.
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GRAPEVINE QUIZ
GREAT BLACK PEOPLE PAST AND PRESENT
S. B. Fuller, Alexander Dumas, A. G. Gaston, John H. Johnson, Granville T.
Woods, Thurgood Marshall, James Bland, James Baldwin, Charles Drew,
Garrett A. Morgan.
— FILL IN THE CORRECT NAME —
1. ------------ Founder, president, publisher, and editor of Ebony, Jet,
Negro Digest and Tan magazines.
2. ------------ First Black justice to serve on the United States Supreme
Court.
3. ------------ Established the first Blood Bank.
4. ------------ Composer of "Carry Me Back To Old Virginia" and
"Oh, Dem Golden Slippers".
5. ------------ Inventer of gas mask and first Traffic Light Signal.
6. ------------ Inventer of the automatic air brake and "Induction
Telegraph", a system for communicating to and from
moving trains.
7. ------------ Millionare founder of Booker T. Washington Insurance
Co. and Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association.
8. ------------ Black author who wrote "The Three Musketeers" and
"The Count of Monte Cristo".
9. ------------ Famous U.S. black writer who wrote "Notes of a Native
Son," "Go Tell It On The Mountain," and "The Fire
Next Time".
10. ----------- Founder and president of world-wide brush and pro-
ducts company.
Answers—
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GRAPEVINE PUZZLE
FAMOUS BLACK PEOPLE'S LAST NAMES
No. 1 (across)—The first Black woman millionaire who was the founder
of the world's oldest and biggest Black cosmetics company.
No. 2 (down)—Organizer of the first black masonic lodge.
No. 3 (down)—First Black to play in major league baseball, 1947.
No. 4 (down)—Civil Rights leader and presently Executive Secretary of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
No. 5 (across)—Sociologist, scholar, author, and one of the founders of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
No. 6 (down)—Former Executive Director of the National Urban League
and former dean of Atlanta University's School of Social Work.
No. 7 (across)—One of the greatest baseball players of all time.
No. 8 (across)—Orator, statesman, and recognized as Father of the Pro-
test Movement.
No. 9 (across)—Slain leader who was the foremost advocate of the non-
violent passive resistance philosophy of the civil rights movement.
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QUOTES
"All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers.
To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me,
to that extent I am harming myself. Why is this? Because men are brothers.
If you harm me, you harm yourself."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
* * * *
"The real hero of this struggle is the American Negro. His actions and
protest, his courage to risk safety and even to risk his life, have awakened
the conscience of this nation. His demonstrations have been designed
to call attention to injustice, designed to provoke change, designed to
stir reform. He has called upon us to make good the promise of America.
And who among us can say that we would have the same progress
were it not for his persistent bravery, and his faith in American democ-
racy."
Lyndon B. Johnson
* * * *
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in
tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must
begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to over-
shadow our opportunities."
Booker T. Washington
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"From my prison cell, I have watched America slowly coming awake.
It is not fully awake yet, but there is soul in the air and everywhere
see beauty."
Eldridge Cleaver
* * * *
"Had it not been for the Negro school and college, the Negro would,
to all intents and purposes, have been driven back to slavery."
William E. Burghardt DuBois
Black Reconstruction
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"Our most serious crisis (is) the deep division within our society and
particularly within our cities — the divisions between those of our
citizens who have never had the opportunity to share in the American
dream and those of us who take for granted our jobs, the homes we live
in, the education of our children, the family doctor, and the food we
eat."
Robert F. Kennedy
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"This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds.
It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that
the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are
threatened."
John F. Kennedy
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IT ALL STARTED WITH A BUS RIDE
FROM DOWNTOWN MONTGOMERY
ALABAMA, BY MRS. ROSA PARKS. FROM
THIS "BUS RIDE WITH HONOR," CAME
A NEW LEADER, WHO WAS TO CHANGE
THE THINKING OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.
Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
1929-1968
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