The Grapevine Magazine · Grapevine, January-February 1976

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JUDGE HUGH GOODWIN

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THE

WOODSON
FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY
The Association for t h e
study of Afro·American Life
and History (ASALH) was
founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter
Godwin Woodson, and for the
past 60 years has been devot·
ed to a united research ef·
fort into the neglected past
life of the Black man.
Woodson, considered by
many to be the father of Black
history, was born in Bucking·
ham County, Virginia, Decem·
ber 19, 1875. Because of the
expense of education in those
days, Woodson's earlier edu·
cation was self·taught.
Undaunted by the many ob·
stacles placed in his way,
Woodson continued to seek a
more formal education. His
efforts earned him a high
school education at Douglas
High School in Huntington,
West Virginia, a BA degree
from Berea College in Ken·
tucky, bachelors and masters
degrees from Chicago Univer·
sity, and a doctrate from Har·
vard University.
In 1916, a year after Wood·
son founded ASALH, the as·
sociation printed the first is·
sue of the Journal of Negro
History. The monthly publica·
tion has been hailed by
newspapers across the coun·
try for its excellence in op·
pearance and presentation of
every phase of Black life and
history.
Woodson founded in 1921
the O rganization of Associa·
te Publishers whose purpose
was also a united effort to
insure publication of valu·
able books concerning Blacks

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January - February, 1976
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Table of Contents

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
CLEO JOHNSON
Carter Godwin Woodson

at a time when Black publi·
cations were not acceptable
to most publishers.
In 1926 Woodson estab·
lished the second week in
February as Negro History
Week. The week·long cele·
bration was his way of "in·
culcating in the mind of the
youth, an appreciation of the
civilization of the Negro."
Woodson died in April
1950 after devoting many
years of his life to uplifting
the human dignity of the
Black man through preserva·
tion of a history rich in ach·
ievement.
For information on the var·
ious publication facilities of
the association and on Black
History Month celebration
proposals, write to local AS·
ALH units or ASALH's head·
quarters,
1401
Fourteenth
Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20005.
(Excerpts Encore Magazine)

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January·February, 1976

Black History

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Remembering a Leader ........................

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African Mural Art ........ ......................

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New Black Judge · Goodwin ................

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Bicentennial

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Angela Davis .. ..................................... 18
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January-February, 1976
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Grapevine

REMEMBERING A LEADER
KARTARO LUCAS, 11 recites Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a
Dream" speech to students at the Burroughs School as part of a pro·

gram presented by students from Carver School. The program, in
memory of the slain civil rights leader's birthday, also was presented
at Norsemen and Viking Schools.

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AFRICAN MURAL ART Four Fresno City College students, from left,
~nthony Cox, Mary Black, Lillie Charles and Leroy Hister, stand be·
~•de a mural they helped design as part of a Black Studies art prot
1ect. The students, members of the college's Afro-American art class
this past semester, each designed one or more of the historical Afri·
can figures seen on the wall. Their designs were then arranged and
painted on the wall by another student, Tony Evans. The colors used
in . the mural, red, black and green, ar symbolic of Afro-American
unity. The mural was painted on the side of Pete Oliver's Mr. 'Fro
Barber Shop at the corner of Merced and C Streets in West Fresno.

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Judge Hugh Wesley Goodwin

Hugh Wesley Goodwin, has
been appointed the county's first
black judge.
Goodw in was appointed to the
Fresno Municipal Court bench
this month by Gov. Edmund
G. Brown Jr. ·to replace Munici·
pal Court Judge Ralph Moradian
January·February, 1976

who retired a month ago.
The 54·year-old Goodwin is the
county's assistant public defen·
der. He has held that position
since the defender's office was
created in November, 1967.
Goodwin called an impromptu hallway meeting of the office
staff to announce he was about
to leave the defense table in the
courtroom and climbed the two
steps to the judge's bench.
"I spent most of my career on
the defense side," he said in his
usual easy going manner. "I ne·
ver really prosecuted anyone."
Goodwin said he was in the
midst of his Bible-study session
in his office during the noon
hour when Maddy called.
A religious man, Goodwin
holds the sessions each Thursday.
Goodwin said he really did not
seek this appointment, but he had
sought the one before that, which
Brown filled by naming Supervi·
sor Armando 0. Rodriguez to the
Municipal court bench.
That was in mid-1975. Goodwin says he filed an application
for that appointment and it was
still around on the governor's
desk when Moradian retired.
Courthouse observers applauded the appointment of Goodwin,
a respected and able attorney
who has practiced in Fresno since
1952.
Although, not a radical, Goodwin took up some unpopular
cases during those early days and
at times felt the sting of prejudice
in the community. But determin·
ation and ability won him a re·
spected position among his con·
temporaries and the community.
Goodwin and his wife, Fran·
ces, have three sons and a dau·
ghter.
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Grapevine

Another Viewpoint:

SHOULD BLACK PEOPLE
CELEBRATE
THE
BICENTENNIAL?

Lerone Bennett Jr. is senior editor of Ebony and one of America's most distinguished historia ns
and lecturers. He is the autho r
of eight books, including Before
the Mayflower and The Shaping
of Black America. He voices
strong opposition to black participation in Bicentennial celebra tions because "200 years have
passed and we're not free." He
says: "We have no time for fun
and games."

AN ADAMANT NO ! !
Excerpts by Lerone Bennett Jr. Ebony Magazine
Two hundred years of the Declaration of Indepe nde nce, and not
one day of freedom for blacks, an d mi llions of other Americans, and
we not only have no shame, we propose to cele brate it.
Two hundred years of betrayal of one of the g rea test dreams
mankind has ever known, and we are not only oblivious to the enormity of our default, we have declared a yea r-long ho liday to commemorate it.
Really, this behavior is astounding. And what ma kes it ominous,
frightening even, is that most Americans seem to consider it normal.
Two hundred years of evasion of the central mandate of our
revolutionary birth, two hundred years of slavery, segregation, inequality, unemployment, racism, and poverty, two hundred years of
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January-February, 1976

Little Rocks and Little Big Horns and Scottsboros and South Bostons
have brought us to the brink of national disaster. Our economy is in
shambles. Our political institutions are in disarray. Our spiritual tem perature is at an all-time low. And grown men are dressed up in ridiculous costumes, playing freedom games with rusty muskets on astro-

turf.
This spectacle is an affront to truth and freedom. It is a desecreation of the ideal. It is a mirage, an illusion, designed, at least in part,
to divert attention away from our failure to create a human environment not only for blacks but also for whites and reds.
Let there be no mistake about my meaning. The question I'm
raising here is an American question, not a black question. Or, better,
it is an American question precisely because it is a black question.
America is not right. America has never been right. The wrong we
suffer as black people is a reflection of a deeper sickness at the heart
of American society. What we suffer, to paraphrase Richard Wright, is
what America is.
For this reason, and for others as well, I say No to the Bicentennial.
No for all those who believed, and did not see.
No for all those who said it and did it, and died broken and
betrayed.
No for W. E. B. Du Bois whose body "lies a·moulderin' " in a
Ghana grave because we didn 't believe it.
No for Martin King and Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. No for
Ha rriet Tubman. No for Nat Turner. No for James Earl Chaney. No
for Morning Cloud and Osceola and Morning Dew.
No for the millions of slaves, and the millions of sharecroppe rs,
who lived through two hundred years of Hell and sleep now in moon·
less nights in unmarked graves.
No for all the b lack men who died for the freedom of white folk,
for all the black men who died for General Washington and General
Jackson and General Pershing and General Eisenhower.
No for the Ameri cans, for the real Americans. And yes, No for
the whites who believed it and tried to live it. No for Tom Paine and
old John Brown. No for Thad Stevens and Wendell Phillips. No for
the Schwerners and Goodmans, for all the men and women who were
crucified for believing what unbelievers are now celebrating.
No for the Dead.
And No for the Living.
No for the hung ry and hu mili ated and despised, for all those out
of work and out of hope .
For the Living, for the Dead, for the Unborn:
No. No. No .
The re are two reaso ns why we should not lend ourselves to this
chara de . The first is that tw o hundred yea rs have passed and we' re
not free, and that call s for mourning and struggle, not celebration.
The second reason is that we're neve r going to have any freedom to
celebrate if w e don 't seize every opportunity to remin d white Americans t hat we a re not free .

January-February, 1976

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Grapevine

PEOPLE

Salute to Heritage Through Black Art

Cecil C. Hinton

BLACK ARTISTS (L to R) Louis Bratcher ,Callie Miller and Anthony Garvin

The Central Valley Kuumba
Arts committee celebrated Na·
tional Black History Week by giv·
ing two art exhibitions in Fres·
no.
One exhibit located in the
downtown
Bank of America
building was to give the gener·
al public a glimpse of Black
creativity.
The other display, a much lar·
ger one, was located at the Ivy
Community Center in West Fres·
no. The West Fresno site was se·
lected to better demonstrate the
vitality of Black Art to the Black
community.
"We see the shows as a me·
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chanism for teaching black tra·
ditions and reinforcing black val·
ues," explained Vivianne Moul·
trie·Hawkins, a spokesman for
the Kuumba society. ''The goal
of the organization is to help art·
ists strengthen the message by
drawing from their heritage."
Among the members of the
loose-knit organization are Wil·
bert Bernard, Louis Bratcher, Ju·
lia Brown, Kehinde and Kemisole
Davis, Charles Gaines, Anthony
Ga rvin, Rudolph Grant, Paul He·
bron Art Jenkins, James Kemp,
Calli~ Miller, Juanita Poe, Ron
Revis Buz Wa rd, Archie Weaver
and Ms. Moultrie-Hawkins.
January-February, 1976

Earl Meyer Sr.

Cecil C. Hinton has been hon·
ored by the California Senate
through a resolution in apprecia·
tion for his community service
efforts.
The resolution was drawn up
by the Senate Rules Committee
and signed by State Sen. Geo rge
N. Zenovich of Fresno.
Hinton came to Fresno in 1944
as a USO Club director and serv·
ed as directo r of the old B Street
Community Center, which be·
came the Hinton Community Cen·
ter. He is a charter member and
a past president of the West
Fresno Optimist Club.
He served on the 1951 Fresno
County Grand Jury and has been
active in numerous community
service groups. He worked for a
while on the Fresno Redevelop·
ment Agency relocation staff.
The resolutions covers his com·
munity service efforts from 1945
through 1965.
Earl R. Meyers Jr., opera sin·
ger and kindergarten teacher at
Franklin Elementary School won
the Central California Merola Dis·
trict Award of $100.00 at the
1976 San Francisco Opera Audi·
lions, held at the Fresno City
College Theater.
Meyers sung arias from the
January-February, 1976

James He'ndricks

opera Merry Mount by Howard
Hanson; Marriage of Figaro by
Mozart; and Simon Boccanegra
by Verdi. He is recognized by
many as one of Fresno's most
outstanding singers. Having his
masters degree in vocal performance, Meyers still studies pri·
vately under Dr. Rol land W. Hurst,
Professor of Music at California
State University at Fresno.
Mr. Meyers is planning to
compete in the Metropolitan Op·
era Auditions and hopes to go
on a concert tour of the east this
summer.
James Hendricks, director of
the Fresno Redevelopment Agen·
cy, is the newly appointed chair·
man of the National Association
of Housing and Redevelopment
Officia ls (NAHRO) standing com·
mittee on development and rede·
velopment.
Last year, Hendricks was pres·
ident of the southwest region of
HAHRO.
Among key items of committee
concern, said Hendricks, will be
full funding of the community
development program and legis·
lotion to provide a practical ap·
proach to housing for low and
middle income families.
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Grapevine

Commentary of the Month

REP. HAWKINS
ON
BLACK
ACTIVISM
Rep. Augustus Hawkins

RELIGION
Mrs. Ernest Schexnayder, center, assists Sister Mary Clair, Sister Miriam
Therese and Sister Victorine, from left, teach a catechism class to
children at the St. Alphonsus Convent in West Fresno. Mrs. Schex·
nayder and her husband have over the years been very active in
the Catholic Church activities.

We must use every resource in the black community as an
organizing base. We must decisively reject the false and accom·
modating dogma of the past - the one which tells us that poli·
tics has no place in our churches, lodges, fraternities, and social
organizations. Nothing could be more perilous to our survival.
Our churches must conduct leadership training classes in Civics
along with Bible Studies. Our lodges can augment their rituals
with substantive programs in voter education. Our thousands of
social clubs must become bastions of precinct workers for worthy
c?uses. Our barber and beauty shops must be places of registra·
t1on. Our morticians must be mobilized to convey voters to the
polls. Political apathy is a folly that no black man and woman
c_a n afford. The stakes are too high - economic and social jus·
t1ce and power versus continued oppression and inequity. Far
too few are actively involved in the struggle to maintain and sur·
pass gains for poor and minorities made during the 1960s. What
we now need is an aggressive unity and an outpouring of thou·
sands of political, social, religious, fraternal, labor and civic
organizations. (Reprint Congressional Black Caucus).

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I I I I I I I I I I I I

Grapevine

Since 1909 the NAACP has been the most influential and important organization in the black community. The NAACP is currently in
a financial crisis as a result of the ccmbined effort of recession and
inflation. This is then a good time to reflect on what the NAACP means
to black Americans. Precisely be:ause it has been around for so long
and has achieved so much, we sometimes forget just what it has ac·
complished in its 76 years.
The NAACP has had a profound impact on the very fabric of the
life of every American-black or white. It is almost impossible to im·
agine how much more oppressive the lives of black Americans would
be if it were not for the tireless and courageous efforts by the NAACP.
Recalling a few of the major triumphs of the NAACP is the best way
to appreciate its importance.
1. ANTI-LYNCHING LAWS. Beginning in 1916 the NAACP cam·
paigned vigorously for the enactment of federal anti·lyn~~ing la~s.
Although these measures were continually defeated by filibusters in
the Senate, the NAACP was able to focus national and world otten·
tion on this tragedy. After more than 40 years anti-lynching laws were
finally passed.
.
2. VOTING RIGHTS. The struggle of the NAACP to enfranchise
black Americans is as old as the Association itself. It fought undaun·
ted by the murder of many of its leaders across the South. The NAACP
fought for many years in the courts to outlaw white primaries in the
South against the poll tax, and general registration barriers. The cul·
minafion was the enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which en·
franchised millions of blacks throughout the South and permanently
altered the American political landscape.
3. BLACK POLITICAL POWER. The NAACP understood better, p~acticed earlier, and achieved more black political power, than the fire·
brands who created the slogan in the 1960s. As early as 1930 Walter
White the national secretary, was able to engineer the defeat of the
nomi;ation of segregationist Judge John J . Parker to the Supreme
C urt. In 1948, the NAACP called a conference of black organizations
too issue a "Declaration of Negro _ Voters." T~e efforts of the NAA~P
e successful from the re·elect1on of President Truman to the in·
we r
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creasing black caucus m ongress.

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January-February, 1976

4. HOUSING. In 1924 the NAACP began a court battle against
racially restricted housing covenants. These covenants which bound
homeowners not to sell to blacks were declared unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court in 1948. The NAACP was crucial to the passage
of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
5. INTERGRATING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. The Association
started its effort to end segregation in the federal government in 1914.
In 1941 Walter White and A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters persuaded Franklin Roosevelt to issue Executive
Order 8802 which barred discrimination in government and defense
plant hiring.
6. EDUCATION. The 1954 Supreme Court decision overturning
the separate but equal doctrine was undoubtedly the greatest achievement af the NAACP and one of the turning points in American his·
tory. It ended the legitimacy of segregation and signaled the opening
of a new, intensified battle for full equality in every sphere of Ameri·
can life.
7. CIVIL RIGHTS. The civil rights legislation of the 1960s which
firmly established the constitutional and legal rights of black Ameri·
cans was in large part the result of the lobbying and political capo,
bilities of the NAACP over a period of sixty or more long years.
The NAACP has never been content to rest on its record. Its con·
tinuous advocacy of the interests of black Americans has been its de·
fining characteristic. With every victory, the NAACP has endeavored
to make it permanent and has moved on to the next battle.
. In large part this is because the NAACP has been guided by Roy
~ilkins, who has led the NAACP through the most turbulent and divi·
51 ~e period in the history of black Americans. Through his wise leadership a major portion of the agenda for racial equality has been won.
The NAACP has many urgent tasks before it in the coming years.
It remains the strength and pillar of the black community. It is my
hope that thousands of Americans will respond to the needs of the
NAACP by sending whatever they can to their local branch or to the
~ational NAACP (1790 Broadway, New York, New York 10019) Some
lack people may not know it but never more urgently have we
needed the NAACP.
by BAYARD RUSTIN
January-February, 1976

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Grapevine

Angela Davis Speaks At
Black History Celebration
Political activist Angela Davis
spoke on "The ?rganized S:~ug·
gle Against Racist and Political
Repression" during Black History
Week at Fresno State University.
Ms. Davis, an avowed Com·
munist, received her doctorate
from the University of California
at San Diego and was appointed
a philosophy professor in 1969
at the University of California at
Los Angeles.
Ms. Davis was fired in 1970
by the Board of Regents for mak·
ing speeches some branded as
inflammatory. She later was or·
rested for all e ged involvement in
the Marin County Courthouse
shootout, but was acquitted of
the charges against her after a
le ng th y trio I.
She has writte n numerous es·
says on black liberation, political
prisoners, the penal-judicial sys·
tern, w omen·s eq uality and U.S.
history.
Her lecture was sponsored by
the College Union Program Com·
mittee in coope ration with the
Department of Psychology and
Continuing Education and the
Fresno Chapter of the Black So·
cia l Wo rkers .

Angela Davis

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LaTeshia Paggent. Middle row: Jo Anna Parks, Joseph Logan, Soila
Reyna, Anna Pichardo, Alicia Foster. Front row: Ahmed Quiller, Pat
Bess, Daren Johnson. Not shown are sponsors Bev Hardison, Randy
Hein and JoAnn Low.

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talent in the performance of "The
Party" by Paul Lawrence Dun·
bar.
Sharon has performed on num·
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She first began performing as
a kindergarten student in the Be·
thune Elementary School Faren·
sics Club. Last year, she won a
superior award at the Annual
Peach Blossom Festival at Fresno
State University as a representa·
tive of the Bethune School For·
ensics Club when she performed
Paul Lawrence Dunbar's "Little
Brown Baby. " At the Pan African
Union Black History Week Pro·
gram opening at Fresno State
University, little Sharon received
a thunderous applause and stand·
ing ovation for her dramatization
of Dunbar's works.
Sharon is an avoid reader and
second grade student at Bethune.
Her mother, Ms. Gayle Meyers,
teaches Sharon her poems. Her
father, Mr. Joseph Revis, a for·
mer Fresno serviceman with the
United States Marine Corps, is
also very proud of Sharon.

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STATE1S UNIVERSITY1 S FOOTBALL STAFF

Bill
Stewart,
Edison
High
School football coach, was nam·
ed assistant football coach at
Fresno State University by Dr.
H. 0. Schorling, FSU executive
vice-president.
Stewart, 31, brings to Fresno
State, a winning background at
the high school level. This past
season his Edison Tigers cap·
tured the North Yosemite League
title and the Valley Champion·
ship. The team posted a perfect
13·0 record.
The new FSU assistant started
his coaching career at Dos Palos
High School in 1968 and spent
six seasons with head coach Bill
Sparks as the offensive and de·
fensive line coach.
In 1973, Stewart moved to Edi·
son as the head coach. During
his three year tenure he posted
records of 4·6, 6·4 and 13·0. In
1974, his Tigers placed second
in the NYL.
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The new assistant graduated
from Allen University in Colum·
bia, South Carolina, in 1967 with
a B.S. degree in physical educa·
tion. While attending Allen Uni·
versity, he was twice named to
the Southern Intercollegiate Ath·
letic Conference all-league team
as a defensive and offensive
tackle (1966·67). He has done
graduate work at Chico State,
University of San Francisco and
Santa Clara.
" First of all, it's a pleasure
and privilege to work with Jim
Sweeney," said Stewart. "I think
he will go a long way at Fresno
State and I am proud that he
selected me to join his staff. It
isn't everyday that a guy like
myself will have the opportunity
to join a program that is going
forward like Fresno State's," ad·
ded Stewart.
Stewart started his athletic
career at Dos Palos High School.
During the 1961 and 1962 foot·
ball seasons, he was named to
the North Sequoia League foot·
ball team both as an offensive
and defensive tackle. He also let·
tered in basketball and track. In
track, he set NSL records in both
the discus and shot put in l 961 ·
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"Bill has done a real good job
with us," said Edison athletic di·
rector Mickey Masini. "He has
helped this school - we're going
to miss him. The kids will miss
him most. There is a great feel·
ing between Bill and the kids.
" I kinda figured he would be
moving on because he is a ter·
rific coach and a heck of a man.
It is hard to hold onto a real good
man. But, believe me, he will do
a good job for Fresno State. Our
loss is their gain.··
January-February, 1976

Shkley Chisholm Speaks at CSUF

Ms. Shirley Chisholm

Congresswoman Shirley Chis·
holm of New York spoke on wo·
men in politics and her experi·
ences as a, black woman po liti·
cian during Black History Week
at Fresno State University.
Ms. Chisholm emerged as one
of the foremost black political
leaders in America when she be·
came the first black woman to
run for President four years ago.
She serves on the Select Edu·
cation, General Education and
Agricultural
Labor Subcommit·
tees. She also chairs the Military
Affairs Committee of the Congres·
sional Black Caucus.
Ms. Chisholm was the first in
a series of speakers featured by
FSU's Women's Forum during the
spring semester. Her appearance
was cosponsored by the Black
Students Union.

While at Tuskegee Institute,
George Washington Carver
extracted wanderaus 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.

Compliments of:

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Grapevine

OUTSTANDING BLACK HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Player Of The Year

Coach of the Year
Bill Steward

Howard Lett

Edison
Record 13-0

Edison • Sr.
Quarterback

Orville Ward

Memorial · Sr.
Defensive Corner Back
Grapevine

Luis Jackson
Edison • Sr.

Safety
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Billy Kem p
Fresno · Sr.
Receiver
January-February, 1976

PLAYERS IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 1975-76

Thyrell Burnett
Edison · Sr.
Defensive Guard

Bernard Wade
Edison • Sr.
Defensive End

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Andre Hardamon

Hoover · Sr.
Running Back
January-February, 1976

Harvey Ashley
Edison · Jr.
Defensive Tackle

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Edwin Conway
Edison · Jr.
Running Back

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Michael McCreary
Edison · Sr.
Defensive Corner Back
Grapevine

OUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS

--.___.

Steven Wood
Edison · Jr.
Running Back

Jeff Haynes
Edison • Sr.

Safety

Anthony Washington
Fresno - Sr.
Defensive Corner Back

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