7 20 232 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/d76dabd87e960d42c269cd9d4e495b3a.jpg b4ed16d50e88316920eea07891410c49 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 476x613px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carolyn Bowman with Sheila Jackson Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn Jackson, Sheila Description An account of the resource Photograph of Carolyn Bowman (member of first pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) and Sheila Jackson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.069 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/360b5336213c66ef7f766bc36f9e0289.jpg 4692b07d79006a3a12dd2c31c75236c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 493x475px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carolyn Bowman with Mary DeChabert Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn DeChabert, Mary Description An account of the resource Photograph of Carolyn Bowman with Mary DeChabert (both part of first pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.068 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/c56c64f33f0111e895698a6c035b21a5.jpg c95c5bb82e6687af4bfc7ed1a1f7af6e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 364x640px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carolyn Bowman with Laverne D. Best King Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn Best King, Laverne D. Description An account of the resource Photograph of Carolyn Bowman (member of first pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) with Laverne D. Best King Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 406x602px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carolyn Bowman at 54th Anniversary of Chapter Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn Charles-Rawlins, Juliette Description An account of the resource Photograph of Carolyn Bowman (member of first pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) at 54th Anniversary of Eta Omega Omega Chapter in 2018 with Juliette Charles-Rawlins Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.066 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/ccdfb702ee508e6da6170a96b36d1a09.png 7bbd37cc122eb6d5f7cf2c3b1bb62fbd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 208x290px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carolyn Bowman at 54th Anniversary of Chapter Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn Description An account of the resource Photograph of Carolyn Bowman (member of first pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) at 54th Anniversary of Eta Omega Omega Chapter in 2018 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.065 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/09ffab2a4140329889c8d45c624c20b0.jpg 02f3f019c4a9fb8bc73a62409f3b3814 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1029x808px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carolyn Bowman and Pauline Monsanto at NARC 1995 Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn Monsanto, Pauline North Atlantic Region Conference Description An account of the resource Photograph of Carolyn Bowman (member of first pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) with Pauline Monsanto at North Atlantic Region Conference of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 1995 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Gladys Mapp Mary DeChabert Dorthy Sharpe Grace Wheeler Carolyn Bowman Barbara Vasquez Bessie Ware Isabella McLeod Clockwise from Center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, Isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman and Grace Wheeler Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data PPTX, converted to PDF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Pledge Line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn DeChabert, Mary Mapp, Gladys McLeod, Isabella Sharpe, Dorthy Vasquez, Barbara Ware, Bessie Wheeler, Grace Description An account of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1966), clockwise from center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman, and Grace Wheeler Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PPTX, converted to PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.063 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/db0c51c0c4b1c9c642306fe370c1e409.pdf 2f1a95e8471185755970e4e0ae5f6dbe PDF Text Text Mary DeChabert Gladys Mapp Dorthy Sharpe Barbara Vasquez Grace Wheeler Bessie Ware Carolyn Bowman Isabella McLeod Clockwise from Center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, Isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman and Grace Wheeler � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Gladys Mapp Mary DeChabert Dorthy Sharpe Grace Wheeler Carolyn Bowman Barbara Vasquez Bessie Ware Isabella McLeod Clockwise from Center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, Isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman and Grace Wheeler Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data PDF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Pledge Line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Subject The topic of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Bowman, Carolyn DeChabert, Mary Mapp, Gladys McLeod, Isabella Sharpe, Dorthy Vasquez, Barbara Ware, Bessie Wheeler, Grace Description An account of the resource First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1966), clockwise from center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman, and Grace Wheeler Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.062 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/81bea267162fd658278c7a5d2ff5a519.jpg 4a8e2f93442e22d3c3fe9bd39a37f5c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1344x898px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Irma Wilson on 103rd Birthday Subject The topic of the resource Wilson, Irma Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Grant, Margaret Myers, Anne Bowman, Carolyn Monsanto, Pauline Forde, Phyllis Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Irma Wilson (seated, middle) on her 103rd birthday with Margaret Grant, Anne Myers, Carolyn Bowman, Pauline Monsanto, Phyllis Forde, and others Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.061 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/80ccece870c8e1b08b807aeec08c838b.jpg d7c0c73e26eb6a5d69d19bbadd8b1913 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1244x678px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Irma Wilson on 103rd Birthday Subject The topic of the resource Wilson, Irma Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Myers, Anne Bowman, Carolyn Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Irma Wilson (seated, middle) on her 103rd birthday with Carolyn Bowman (left) and Anne Myers (right) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.060 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/ead2080630c0b7f92a25ca48e2a2fcdc.jpg fd18b19f3a8c8a9c99ef6ff96f5f6b6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1329x1035px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Irma Wilson on 104th Birthday Subject The topic of the resource Wilson, Irma Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Rowe, Mercedes Myers, Anne Dudley, Thora Dorthy Sharpe Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Irma Wilson (seated, left) on her 104th birthday with Mercedes Rowe, Anne Myers, charter member Thora Dudley (seated right), and Dorthy Sharpe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 590x535px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Irma Wilson with Grace Wheeler, Barbara Vasquez, and Bessie Ware Subject The topic of the resource Wilson, Irma Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Wheeler, Grace Vasquez, Barbara Ware, Bessie Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Irma Wilson with Grace Wheeler, Barbara Velasquez, Bessie Ware (all members of the first pledge line), and other members of the Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.058 https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/cf0b28e5b8f9ff2dfb49c99fac726307.jpg f7f0a7a3c3239f0e0a048cbcb8ffb386 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 454x355px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Irma Wilson with Chapter Members Subject The topic of the resource Wilson, Irma Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Irma Wilson with members of the Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 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The Institutes proposal was that the program for suspendedi students was a “bastardization' based on data gatHered by of, and deliberate attempt tq’ BRONCO as they worked with preclude establishment of the'Elmira State Penitentiary more meaningful program|parollees, dropoxts, and submitted last Fall be Brooklyn |Suspended and Bronx CORE. Supt. Donovan's “Qperation $224,839 Return’ and was designated Title I which Not mandates Board The of CORE over the was to disruptive child is usually a high become operational February 1, | Spirited, control. students past year. It is based on the theory that “the so-called non-conformist willing to who accept is the Education.mediocre education available in program;our schools.” They will offer was to be governed by aj walk-in” guidance, and Community Board inj)structure classes to relate to consultation with the Board of,students home Education, and was submitted | life.” and commumity under Title 11, which permits; Operation Return on the other programs to be subcontracted/hand is an outgrowth of to community groups. Principal Jack Landeman’s pilet Solomon Herbert and Mrs.|project at JHS 71 'M, where Bonnie Barrow of BRONCO SIA,:"two master teachers worked key figures in drafting ‘In-.with six students who could not stitutes’, have spurned offars adjust to normal school routines. to serve as consultants on:Classes which met at the Boys “Operation Return,” and in ajClub, emphasized building up Ieltcr to the Board dated Feb, |academic and social skills,” Mr. 12, stated that they “would not;Landeman said, “and returned lallow any such programs to children to school as quickly function anywhere in our as possible."’ community.” This proposal, which hopes for $3-million in next year’s budget, | Subterfuge Afoot? | “It is like saying to a mother, has the approval of Donovan's ‘we are going to let you help Committee on the Disruptive raise your child,” ’* Mrs. Barrow Child which included Louise said in a moving speech before Bolling of District 16 Brooklyn, the Board. “We worked with and Jeff Greenup of Harlem 'you, Dr. Donovan, because we NAACP, “The Committee welcomed believed that you would be Operation Returns ‘professional and ethical . . .the {proposal,” said Mrs, Leah bul the Board has reneged on attorney for Citizens their agreements to establish |Marks, 'an educational institution which \Committee for Children who would be partially administered altended several meetings, ‘by ihe Board of local resident “because we are concerned that all children get a full years’ ‘educators,"* Mrs. Barrow referred to a education,” serics of meetings held with Direct Line Mr. Donovan and Esther M. How important the disruptive Swanker of the State Education child is as a __ educational office where it was established] problem is disputable, Last year that monies for “Institutes’’ 13,284 children were suspended. would come from Title II] which for periods ranging from five; makes grants only to original, days upwards. Dr. Donovan experimental programs, not claims that less than 1 percent operational before, The fear is of the total population fs that, if the Operation Return disruptive, but Harvey Hertzman, UFT representative at Herman Ritter JHS meeting! recently claimed that 10 percent or at least 200 students in that school alone were disruptive. “IT am trying to find money to real efforts to teach children for Institutes for Learning,” Dr. in our schools. Donovan said, “but as 1 have Noting that there was not one said before, there js not instant black cpntractor among the 112 money for this,’’ to be approved by the Board Said Dennis Gardner, of to provide goods and services Morrisania CPC Board: “if you ranging from erasers to boiler Mr. Solomon could find instant money to installations, support a police force to keep Herbert said: “This Institute of these children quiet, why not Learning proposal! means more’ for this program?” And Cathy chan education to us — it means Goldman of United Bronx. sontracts for black merchants Parents charged that the move} and jobs for our unemployed. to allot $100,000 for direct lines Even if I were offered $500; in each school to local police yer day to work on Operation precincts (which was passed by Return I could not accept it.” the Board) was in direct conflict| A five percenter, designating limself as living testament of he inferior education meted out ‘o black children, offered to support with his life the ‘Institues for Learning’’ yroposal. “I have two choices, 1e said, either to die fighting ‘or nothing in Vict-nam or on he ~~ streets = fighting §=for something here,” Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 9, 1968: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News "In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER “We're racist, so there: knew it all along. so what!” That is how young black you 100 children coukd not attend heir graduaion exercises for reasons of poor men ill-defined like Nat Martin of Hunts Point, conduct. Of 509 ninth grade CPC community organizer, as- children, 25 are reiding below sesses white America's mood 6.9, and many al HA and oth following the report of the Presi- grade level Started Boscutt dent's Commission on Civil Disorders Jast week. It was, howev a case of This is one of the young men child asSault, where & parent, in their twenties whom James Mr. Clarence Dabney. stopped Baldwin says are speaking to a teacher fram attacking a us loud and clear: “Old man. child, that precipated the be still: we will not take what boycott. While Hernan you did, we will be men in Ferguson gets lil set al our own time.” $100,000 for escorting children Nat Martin is Rood in to a Maleslm XN Memorial. company, for Dr. Kenneth anotier teacher, alle pediy Clark, the eminent psychologist, suspended several vears ago for agrees with him: he has read a similar offense. is reinstated. previous riot reports and its and although involved in a all heen said before. Marcover, recent assaull case, is permitted Congress has failed to to canlinuc te teach children, implement the Report's basic Mr. Martin, vouthfully. recommendation — massive reflects on the dauble standard. funds to attack the root causes. and is) disenchanted) by While the Civil Rights bill, conferences and fact finding mangled by War hawks months Jans. ago, languishes, the Subversive Fortunately, some para. Activities Control Bill is being professionals began working al quietly rejuvenated. JustIn caS@ 175 136 last week, and reported threats to internal security start that they were starlled by whut cropping Up again. Youth ts Impatient The young oncs fecl, more dceply ‘than their elders, the constriction of society, One-fifth of all Bronx families live they saw. They were among 250 fram schools in Marrisania who met at Bethel Temple on Saturday. “You must sec yeursell as advocates for the in children abject poverty, and half of them Green, in the school,” CPC Jerome Educational are black, Morrisania is a poor, Coordinator who negotiated Iheir neglected neighborhood = disenfranchised of contracts said, “as well as aides transients with to the teaching program.” Can Raise Level all the ingredients to be the next Newark. Can you blame Most. of them considered youth, then, for spurning the;protection of children us, ndvice of elders whom they see-primary and while evaluation: bogged down in acquicscence:reports, when the program ends; and inaction in the face of these this June, may call them; conditions? “Intruders or “busybodies,"j For over a year, Nat Martin|with proper supervision they cz nl has worked with parents and help raise the level of Jesrning| staff at JHS 136 te improvejin ghetto schools, conditions. The 14-year olds who, Getting those 200) para-: roam the corridors communicate to him: therclorofessional johs paying to $2.50. ‘We're tourly for the people who necd, not Jearning nothing,” they say.; hens most (when much Es ! Impatient to help last your, he,’ noncy had been cestined to pay, impetuously . offered to buy torefessional salaries) was nol expensive trophies for kids, “if small feat. Giving them praper: they would only stay in school.” training for the job is the next i phase. in This year, Monday morning (acl, he was a marshall on, Youth should be angry lat, the picket line areund JUS i whale generation of chiklren: {o oust (he principal, Robert:bas been lost since the 1954! Greenberg. ‘Supreme Courl decision, But In the ten years he bas heen sith the paraprofessional lo there, Mr. Greenberg tad arestore the link between group of parents Friday community and school, adulls; conditions in the échoo} have!lmay vel take Une iniative in, worsened, And parents ofiplanning for youth again, children in the school, becoming|Perhaps wilh the help of youth, vocal at last agree is right. “It is chool they say, thal he|they may be a pusitive a punitivejin the prevention of Within the disorders. Or is it, as last week, ten youngsters been suspended, and last have; Marlin year!late?” says, fuetor civil. Nat’ “Already — loo : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 16, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 4 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA Sinee J. TANNER Concentrated department.” But that three of Employment Program (CEP) six classes are Spanish, and opencd its doors last October the English speaking classes to the unemployed of South contain many newlyly arrived Broax, £916 applicants havi. Puerto Ricans may appear to been 1-949 were Puerta show preference for our Puerto fican, 593 Negro cad 159 of Rican Citizens. Some trainces olher ethnic groups, according say that the sessions ‘‘do not to Frank Valdes. director at the deal with the real problems of Courtland: Avenuc Center. But finding a job. where employers the aceusatian that Negroes themselves may prefer the wre not getting a fair young,-caucasian loaking Puerto deul has came sources, from several who rep Riean ort girl ta an older black woman. discrimination at both intake The sessions do not discuss and placement. “Preferance is the underlying feelings of given to young Puerto Rican distrust between Negroes and girls,” said Mrs. Mary Puerto Ricans which U.S. Bridgewater a trainee. “Y would disassociate myself from any program — Lat racism has created, because, on the surface relationships are amiable and cordial. Underclass practiced discrimination,” suid The Forgotten “l no for New York City Dept. of Labor Albert Terranova, assistant The Negro represents director in charge of training. percent of the Jabor farce have heing here. olher reason bul to sce that CP fulfills provide its commitment 2,099 opportunities ait people the whe need recent lo hut by for welfare them according 16 in to statistics, giving preference to recipients — and unemployed adult male heads within the year of our grant.’ of ~~ houscholds, ihe Negro. Structure Seems Equitable ‘underemployed, whe have Operating with a $4.6 million cxisted on subsislance wages, grant from Une Departmentof Labor, under Manpower and js overlooked. As a maticr arcer Development Agency, CEP is charged to improve welfare department does not provide a stipend for on-the-job employment trainees, opportunities of the disadvantaged, with priorilies individually, . of unless policy, they the apply and = mect the given to heads of households criteria, for a supplementary’ and welfare recipients. _ allowance. Field workers canvassed the: ‘The procedural difficulties adiscourage neighborhood for reeruils, and involved would storefronts are used = aS man from taking a training: recruitment vehicles. A 1wo- opportunity with, say. the week orientation peried telephone company paying $64; introduces participants to weekly. He remains a car-! employment and training washer even though with! possibilities, and tests them to training he could make $150 with: determine their academic levels.’ the telephone company. in twa; They are then cither placed in years, Unwitlingly this intake, jobs, or in pre-employment procedure, diseriminales against: training provided by the Board these who have struggled over. of {ducation. . ithe years in marginal jobs, and’ Pre-employment. trainees who' on wham the stalislics providing secive $43 weekly plus $5 for fa» CEP euch dependent, must travel Lo Marhattan sinee “four years ef in ‘fort has not produced an Adult ys raining Center for the Bronx,” Cente fact thal aver Bronxiles The are scattered Manhattan Centers communication improve skills 500 based. the United Slates, ag well Nogroos arriving fram the coral ecording ta Dr. Moerman ressel. director af the Harlem was pyerta Riewns, newly arrived’ seth, catld . pack CEP and foave the hard underemnloved Negroes oe onside looking CED Dragrams, in 3 nit-and-miss compounds in’ at training pernetually tied tov jobs. - and efforts to, training,” Mr.’ core on the oy liunts Point Piebiscite Still unresolved, bul moving | nov itl. acrimoniously toward solution is, 1D slalf (42 pereent Snanish the problem of ethnic balance’ speaking, 20° percent Nogro) on the Ilunts Point Community instudes Carl Bristown, Negro, Corporation. AL a CAP meeting,who heads otienteion, botdine Thursday March 7, tempers, starefronts arp used Qared when 14 Afro-american, in English as well as Sames were submitted by the, and disclaims “any HPCC that “Interested Citizens” trace of diserimination an three cl Span in. his headed by Richard Weeks did — 1 names rool feel were representative, BACK FROM Marine Cnderdue Ife. James of {he Bronx HELL ‘' These were 9S. ‘handpicked by Ramon Beleza’ | gat ‘forees."” they claimed. The lwo, shot in the head in a remote . ficlions agreed in a subsequent. valley of Vietnam, saw six meeting to acecpt 14 Afroow his seven) buddies Americans chosen in a mass; massacred by the Vielcong | meeting, Tucsday night as the, and still) alive after 17 [final recommendation to CAP. | lortured hours. San of Mr! An open hearing lo review lames Underdue of :the whole question of ethnic 7h Me Ave., the Bronx, [balance in N.Y.C. community} his sister is a secretary. in ‘corporalions is scheduled for 7] the hind: Administration. ths brather David, 21, ‘p.m. and . Board Iie sister: Geraldine, 15, and all the Underdues count the minttes watit Fim eames back Thursday of March Estimate. 16 at the! CAP will propose that future commnnunity | capuration elections allow forjellinfe praup participation al in September, Ue fights near levery: shige. Phu Dai whieh is rugged “There will be a pracedare country ining miean’s hook. review of names on the ballot lv oa droadty representative and impartial election board in cach poverty area,’ Edwin Greenidge chairman suid. ‘Together with corresponding city-wide board they will hear appeals and assure that guidelines are adhered Lo. While CAP does net propose a quota syste, it does suggest a minimum number of slots to, reflect ethnic clemagraphy. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 23, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News g. 6 | In The . Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER June 18, Primary Day, could be a big day for Bronx Democratic voters. since they will decide who shall run for congress, and usually he who wins the primary is a shoo-in at the November election. Renortedly, politicos arc caucusing not to oppose any incumbent, so as not to split the Democratic volte. This means that men like Congressmen James Scheuer (21CD) and Jacah Gilbert (22CD) and state democratic segislators under them will ¢ ¥% 538% sggee @ be uncontested. No Cantest, No ay, Chaice Such a ‘no-cantest will not produce even a debate of the issues, mucn less alternatives for the black community. Sullen voters, who just stay home (like they did in the 1966 Primary when only 5860 Democrais out of a possible 15,000 voted in 429" . 44; the 78ta AD) will assure victory for whomever the party designates. It is interesting to noic, in that sixeway 1986 Primary’ TELIS OF RESULTS ~~ District tz superiniendem, Edythe Gaines, describes contest, Gvhen George Silcott,! Irma Sentiella, Nathan Straus: and two others ran) Jacob; just plurality was about the 2.143; board avmber! of Education who of people registered in the Forest! previewed personnel, the em A Gilberts votes, some of the results ef the ‘Taylor Method of reading instruction to parents and its inStallation with her before Hou: nok to mention the, in DistricL 12 schools unregistered, non-voting, eligi-| Septemh lugs = (See bles there. ! Community Conscious). Anyway, the Joint Legislative Committee in Albany has drawn sg ducational for the Developmental: new lines, designed, we are told,’ Laboratorics and Taylor Center) tn provide a “safe” district for “jfuntinglon, Long Island) to see| Gilbert, (a_ Regular), and the'‘echnological teaching aids in debonair Refermer, James Scheuer, considered a- formidable aetion. Demonstrated votegeltler.: Redistricting hardly serpentine altered rips, records, the-and= patlern of : wero other film: lachistascopes' aids designed lo sermit children to move at their, Hepublican-Conservalive Paulawn learning rate, rather than, and Crish Is, Finn's district (considered safeae bound to traditional block | until co-op cily opens) to thessystem of grade placement. Kast: while placing Highbridge vionrae ound) Morris High Washington Heights und conservatives) culing Pelham (iheral and Jewish) 2ord, making + in, ane Parkway: cut af the and 15) elementary) will ave several of hese wnils in September, Mrs. Gaines said. things pretly shaky: Abandonment | for Reformer Jonathan Biaghnl! Baraugh President Herman ta the West. , i Badilio accused the Beard of; The Pelham Parkway Jewish Hberals are now Gilbert's bonus ‘jie YMCA (whose xypressed concern members! over the = in the 22nd, but reformers Leo':ytight of the poor, while closing Isaacson Gvho hopes to make town facilities in the ghette) hay with them) and Ted Vel “running out oan the! of Kast Harlem Tenants Coun problem." Speaking at a vy" (who hanks on the Puerto’ Dinner, March {1, he said they, TUcans at the other end haverpravided service when the aveady thrown their hats the ring to oppose Gilbert. antossommunily | Shass, . a was white. middie, bat that they. ateny Mr. Velox is elasping 19 his with the Protestant “council,. hosom the clusive Reform; Catholic Charities and churehes| CDAD rort, a dove thal were “relocating elsewhere, and might tz Hight UW Senator! doing nothing to replace needed. Kennedy overpowers MeCarthy: facilities." : a peace ecndidate, and thei He urged them ‘not Io, lie-contest” boys hold sway. | abandon as, but te make the’ Petitions fer candidates to run cayestment necessary fo keep in the primery will he circulated from April 220 ta Mayo ‘hese, or build and fe rectnit a wholo shite of candidates, dul real service to the poor." Hepisercd voters may sim for“ ony vss ance for ony single gnd office,’ your signature be chsquilified. Black citizens must new and of staff that One facilities. i trains the’ and can render returning these abandoned fagilities, Broux Union azo bi iist SL, of efients residents lo in: socially, useful, praductive lives.” ef at | support — Aflereare personnel will) YMCA‘ supervise 700 clients, in various bas been stages af rehabilitation Reb into the act new, at pre-'nequired by the NY Stale employment or retraining, primary time, te propose Narealies Addiction Control Mr. Wepkins reports candidates wha stand on the Cammissien “lo provide s“numerous job opportunities” at issues that matter most. aftercare for persens with ‘the Center, Other job vacancies Decentralization Preview? history of nareoties*around town are the Program Fifty-one community people, - dependeney.” CRED) honored farmer; Morvisania members of the aud) Hopkins, parcul advisory! Police Deparlment council, af ‘Irictt worker, now were Sunorintendent and school puests | our Willard including paraprofessionals, Edythe J. Gaines! relations persanne! at the’ Couter, wanls Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. “the ($10,090 Youthotxecutive comarnnity, specialist Director for the cooperation per CPC, year) and Director (Chwemant Neighborhood Gsalary open, preferred, Master of Center of tut net required), Further reproduction prohibited without permission. at the SW �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 30, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 6 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER seems Jess than real with March 2), Wednesday, the | Last condemn . they is talking Black Negroes” whom Everyone Coalition, but such a necessity| as scllouts. and petty:a committee chaired by Lucille division, apathy grievances that are rendering| Murray of South Bronx Was to us impotent at ihe grassroots. |screen Ji Puecrio Rican The poor, whose participation: candidates, and recommend is mandated on OEO boards,seven to the SBCPC Beard, to with moncy to dispense, scems comply with the CDA ruling little more able to take care on ethnic balance. At the Board of business than the “‘bourgeous meeting the following evening, where the executive committee was lo be elected, and the seven members seated, nine dlack board members did not even show, and two left before the vote. UNITED GROUP An organized and united Puerto Rican contingent, led by Frank Lugovina, who was elected chairman, had the bylaws of the Board set aside. They were able to push through candidates who, black board members claim. “represented only ane health area. and mainly one organization, OUB (United Organizations of the Bronx.) ig, violation of the Conslitution, Lack of selection criteria and proper review of applications’ protests were overriden. With« over half the black, representatives absent, it was too much to expect black women to hold ihe line against: ambitious Pucrto Rican males... To compound the problem, a rift exists between the CPC: director, Mrs. Gladys. Harrington and Mrs. Lucille. Murray, a board member and communily leader, At the bottom of it seems to be a. tack ef communication centering around differenees of, interpretation of board's and staff's rale. . For the second time in as.‘ many months, Mrs, Harrington's; resignation is an issue. Rev. Elmere Brooks sought it in February, and Mrs, Murray! concurred: ‘For some reason. Mrs. Harrington did not wish! to deal with the Board's’: appointee, Rev. Brooks,” Mrs.: Murray sald. “and does not want (o give the Board, information we need for: planning. Furthermore she does-. not reach out community.”” to the black. . Mrs. Murray ciled a budget eut which eliminated 123 block workers as partieul arly-: distressing to her. “These were: the poorest people, making ihe ~ lowest salaries who nev must’ return to welfare.” she said. “while hiring of highly paid staf(,_ was going on in another| department, Manpower.” . These 2 Years Mrs. Harrington came wv. South Bronx in its infancy two! years ago, and given hours’’ beyond the call of duty to CPC..- Soulh Bronx has jis own. scholarship fund and eredit* union, a carpentry and print:” shop, and a parolee program|: “of which I am_ particularlyproud,” Mrs. Harrington said. But in communily organization, ste admits. “we.just don’t secm fo be able to. accomplish all we want to,” The deck is stacked against: her with a Jarge transient.“paper organizations,” and lack. cf grass roots leadership, “7 think there needs to be a better: interpretation of dhe uature and. scope, and potential power of. a CPC Board,” Mrs. Harrington. . said. “Do they understand allthat is involved? . “Can they plan ahead five. years, using OEO funds as seed money io build something * permanent, or will they continue -* to tic themselves down, delving into problems of day-by-day , operations. . Throughout the Bronx,’ wherever the bone has been:thrown, the enemy need not \divide and conquer. We manage” |(0 do il so cffectively ourselves, +” ‘ Model Cities Protest ‘The Morrisania Model Cities Policy Committee Jodaed a’ complitint against Housing ant Administration, the N.Y. City... Development- claiming that, been: has community “the excluded from performing any. meaninglul roll in planning anc. policymaking, They charged that the policy citywide committee’ black. adequate lacks and the,, representation: exclusion of community from interaction with City agencies. be will failure “Similar documented in other boroughs. . at a conference this weekend: at Salem Acthodist Church in: Harlem,” Mr, Sol Herbert, a, Morrisania the of member have “We said. Committee witnessed. during several visits” an, their offices. throughout inadequate number of blacks, . and those who are there are’ functioning in lesser positions:° than they were hired for,’ he, of Development said, ‘Dept. Commissioner Robert G. Hazen‘ was also named in the complaintfor questionable implementation, ef fair employment practices. when the City subcontracts for? + services.” Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Apr 6, 1 968: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 23 In_The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER Tremontis a neighborbood in the transition; urban renewal people so and organization,” he lacking in said, New other unsettling changes are in Housing selection criteria will the wind even before the shew avoid some of the moralistic peoples who judgments of the former rulings, arrived since 1960, but still the people, unless they can settle themselves.. ;can organize themselves, will 1 For the black people who fled! be only tenants again, with no part in the rebuilding of their from the bulldozer to ‘Tremont, community, Twin Parks. East which would build $59 dwelling units on seven Seattered sites, poses the old Ineligible Agencics Infant organizations like treat — black removal. (Better Organizations for Mid _ This fear is understandable, Bronx) and WANA (Washington in view of the “social criteria” Ave., Neighborhood Association) under which Housing decides that have sprung up to deal with who shall enter public housing. eritical problems are ineligible Despite (Relocation Board to apply for mortgages under Chairman) Frank Arricale's Federal Housing Authority 221Statement at a March 19 D-3 grants. To be eligible an meeting that residents now in organization ‘must have the the area would be given possibility of lasting for at least 40 years to support the life preference for a new housing. Under Review of the mortgage,” Father Mario Zicarelli of Mt, Carmel Catholic Church chairman of the Twin The 22-point “social criteria” Park Association said. in under review, and well it This private organization of need be, for it excluded people local churches is seeking who “present a clear and, sponsorship for all or part of present danger” past or Twin Parks. Many months of present illegal occupation,| hard work have gone into their confirmed drug addiction; and those with “conditions indicative project, and the plan is good of potential problems” like showing low-income unit disrecords of poor rent payment, pursed throughout middle inirregular work history, out of come housing. But the ‘deliberative’ vote wedlock children, and unusually frequent changes in residence belongs to the parishioners, ‘‘We are broadening our. base,” among other things. Father Zacarelli said, ‘‘in “These are the people who inviting all neighborhood groups have filled the substandard to participate with us.’ But apattments and clapboard those neighborhood groups who private houses turned multiple did get in function as dwellings,” said Mrs. Dorothy “consultative members” only. May a Fremont community April 12 js the deadline for worker. ‘‘Where will they go?” submitting applications and it The new residents of Tremont is doubtful that neighborhood groups can structure themselves) have many problems, and “few black hands to work, We don’t to take advantage of 221-D-3 know what is happening, or who mortagages. to turn to for Jeadership,” said Black Apathy Again Mrs, Mays from her office at Poor participation by black CAB (Community Action Board I), One of the persons and community exists too in the Community Corplaces where she has found help Tremont is the Tremont Neighborhood poration now in the planning stages, A board of 19 had one City Hall and its Community Organizer, Roger Witherspoon. elected black member, but with CDA ethnic balance stipulations, | “TY wags amazed by what I now has four black, 19 Puerto. saw here, not in Brooklyn, nor| Rican and three ‘others’. Mr. Harlem, nor anywhere else were! Cesar Rosado, program coordinator for the Planning Committee claims that the area is approximately 55 per cent Puerto Rican, 35 per cent black. “There is no spirit that we can do it, no precedent for building from scratch for our black people,” laments Mrs. May a black member of the Board. ‘‘Our people are pressed by their immediate sustenance problems, and all their energies are expended there.” With her meager salary, Mrs. May operates a day care program which permits 13 mothers to work. Her car is the neighborhood taxi by day, and patrol car by night. “We are without services,” she says, “how can I complain about conditions unless I dt least try to do something.” The Board meets April 10, 7:30 at 927 E, 180th Street. Some black residents should certainly come out to decide how best to spend the $685,700 allotted’ by CDA and make recommen.| dations regarding summer year round programs. and 4 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Apr 13, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News [In The Bronx Communit onscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER A black man whose work has How can we honor Dr. Martin)’ King? Should Harold|i Dicks feel that what he is loing to assist paraprofessionals to become teachers and take the responsibility for educating the black child is, ‘‘notbing compared to what King was: doing?” Are ali our efforts to oppese stalmate and| acquiesence on the political: scene now futile? If there is’ a master plan to exterminate us, must we march quietly to the gas chambers, or be the ‘gained him the respect of our Luther community was in deep mourning Thursday, April 4) for the murdered Martin Luther King. “You don't know what ‘Rev. King did,” he said to me, “You have never lived in the deep South and suffered the degradation black men felt there. “As farm boys in Georgia,” Harold Dicks, Education Chair-| taau, Bronx NAACP said, “We would have to ride on the back of boys in Georgia,” Harold Dicks, Education Chairman, Bronx NAACP said, “We would have to ride on the back of the pickup truck with the rain beating in our faces, while a white woman and her dog rode inside. Our only protection from frameups that Jed to jail or lynching was a white bossman who would call the jail and say to the crooked chief of} police, ‘Let my Niggers out! To have had the courage to say, ‘No, we will not ride in the back of the bus,’ was an victims of street massacres? Martin Luther King was an eloquent spokesman for non violence, but he never ran from a fight. In our town last week,|. Rev. Ralph Abernathy pleaded while gathering forces for the march, Symbolically, we could honor Dr, King by going to Washington June 18 But it is not the finest way to honor atijjaborers get decent jobs him. Io a letter from jail in 1963, Dr. King wrote: “The Negro's greatest stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not act of heroism beyond the White Citizens Council or; measure.” the Ku Klux Klan but the white The Price of Compromise moderate, who is more devoted) I was reminded as Harold| to order than justice; who wept of a German - Jewish prefers a negative peace, which concentration camp survivor is the absence of tension to: who became an importer in this a positive peace, which is the country, and for whom I worked presence of justice.” Our own as a secretary, he pleaded with community was to Dr. King me to always remember who that indispensible ‘‘little drop I was; that the Negro in this: of water,” but black people here country who thought he was take the attitude of the white becoming assimilated and could moderates. Law and order is forget his identity should look the call; train the militia if to the fate of the German Jew. necessary to ‘‘caol the long hot “We felt superior to the Slavic summer!” Are our black Jew because we thought we had! lawyers and teachers, our status, education and rights as| doctors and businessmen Germans,” he said. “Those committed to justice for all Jews with money who looked black men? How aclive are they Aryan, who had married: beyond going to the polls and Germans, compromised, and pulling the lever on election day sold out the rest of us. But for some candidate they had when they tried to buy their no part in putting there? How way out, they found that the responsive are black legislators Gestopo was indiscriminate in to the needs of our own people? their hatred of all of us.” Six Dr. King sat with the President million dead was the price they the day he signed the Voting paid. Rights Act to permit the Negro Dr. Martin Luther King fought to become a political force in for the Jowliest among us; he the South. But is a community died fighting for a decent wage wide disgrace to attend for garbage collectors, and was; political conventions in the 21st preparing for a massive “Poor; or 22nd Congressional Districts People’s March.” To our: 1 and see so few black men and oppressors he said on the eve; women active there, making of his death, ‘You can never| would honor Dr. King. Beyond be what you wish to be, unless ‘the tears that may be shed for' I become what I should be . the death of Dr. King is the .. our destinies are inextricably necessity to risk losing the sorbound.” His words apply did privilege some of us bave equally to stralas and economic gained by ‘“prostituting” a litlevels within the race. tle. It may mean giving up a As we recover from the. good-paying job that makes you stunned horror of Dr. King’s see our people short. assassination, we must all It would not take half the reassess the degree of our courage Dr. King had, nor a compromise. Mr. and Mrs. dream of what he gave for Dicks, my husband and 1 were" gy, architects and othe r| privileged to talk with Dr. King«edueated men to see that black just a few weeks ago in Freedom ways Magazine’simodel Cities, and that black Dubois Centennial Celebration. Citizens are irganized to gain He praised the work on th Cllsome contracts and own some local level, in the words of the property through Urban nurssery rhyme, “little drops Renewal. Drop by drop such of water, little grains of sand,” continuing effort woul truly declaring that it WaSlhonor Dr. King, and add to indispensible to his own work.|lthe quality of all our lives. He said, then, that he was not so concerned with the “quantity , of his life as the quality’? and. that his family understood that! “from any of my sojournes,: I might not return.” i Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Apr 20, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News 15 | In The By Bronx MARIETTA J. TANNER When the Board of Estimate and the City Council on March 15 amended the 1968-69 Capital ; Budget to restore vital Bronx’ projects vetoed by the Mayor,: “Elected officials still have! the basic responsibility to provide services: they cannot! toss the problems to the people! and walkaway. It is the’ Bronx Borough President, mayor's responsibility to see! on top. Twelve years of, Herman Badillo said the victory that they get additional’ frustrating delays preceded the! was “a dramatic case study: resources.” he said. Mr. Badillo| ceremonies, and Daniel Nelson, of the effectiveness of citizen was director of the firmly against the executive participation in the budgct-? establishment af Little City Educational Construction Fund, making process . . .”” praised Assemblyman: Seymour ‘Halls because “only the Mayor not other Especially cited were the 14 and clected city Posner for “the tremendous job Community Planning Boards. officials would have access to he did in Albany to eliminate hearings’ hem,” “which held public : ji the roadblocks that held up constructian.” Posner was in where neighborhood people! Borough President Elevated | Albany that Monday, but lots: testified on local necds. \ of other politicians posed for| At the present time, Mr,’ Mr. Badilio. prepared his Li indsay has appointed an groundbreaking pictures, Since: budget on the basis of this taped awnoaann te. sat . Highbridge became Posner's! testimony and submitted it to Me econ fox says, cannot Be district with reapportionment 15! PLANNING BETTER BRONX — Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo, left, sits with black planning Board II members from Hunts PointMorrisania: Mrs. Daisy Bradshaw, Mrs. .Esmay Robinson; standing Lawrence Burr, chairman, and Mrs. Vivian Harris, Standing behind the borough president is Annette F, Morton, one of two black staff assistants, who is in charge of Planning Board I. “The 14-Branx Planning Boards are being structured and strengthened, ‘‘Mr. understanding between ethnic groups and sections of the Borough with varying necds.” Mr. Badillo’s plans for them the subject of The Community Canscious, (Parkway Studios Phato) Badilo said, “to: foster City Planning Commission, Bur expeditor for construction, who months ago, he has been battling! budget deleted! atfoctive, since he is on the with Housing and Redevelopmany Bronx projects, reasoningi:seme level as the commission ment for construction of this that these items would HOt ois, He suggests adeputy mayor school, and is girding ‘fer a the . Mayor's beter the before the et construction staBe! who can bring the commission- battle to win the June 18 prim. end of the fiscal’ a. together to expedite the ary there, too. : yee say Ballo a Feud Iprojecis ye'lpartments through the and 167-300 12-20 de- opera- . at, Badillo charged that the’ tions between capital budget alcity administration was location and completion of a “penalizing the people of the! roject ™ Bronx for their own failure, |) PY —~ . ill Bronx projects were 100 per) fhe were mayor, Mr. Badillo cent behind schedule, he said,/'5aid. he “would give the borough and the Bronx js suffering 26]!Presidents (an elected official]? years of neglect and failure to| Wilh prestige under the charter) obtain its proper share of city; Siatus and full authority to serviees and facilities, | Supervise the commissioner to He abhorred the mayor's: Sc¢ that approved items in their proposal that the 1968-69 budget! boroughs were completed.” The be cul because of the backlog! borough president represents an ($1.2! entity, and wilh his planning. ibillion allocated for city-wide! boards (whose members are ‘construction, and 128 projects; how appointed by the BP) in the Bronx alone were not elected by district, they could yet begun), charging the city truly represent and speak for, administration with laxity, the needs of every community | providing superfluous fancy and plan ahead for the. next’ programs for the poor, when fifty years, Mr. Badillo said. construction would generate 56-| There are 297.562 Puerto billion in employment and Ricans and 248,013 blacks in’ goods.” ! the Bronx, hut there are also} There is strong feeling 460.000 Italins, Between groups, between Mayor Lindsay and Mr,! there is tremendous hostility Badillo, generated some political, concerning what one community observers say, by Mr. Badillo’s; gets over another. A case in desire to be the next mayor. point are the Minipools proposed: “Mr, Lindsay and I disagree by Parks Commissioner, on priorities,’ "Mr. Badillo says, Heckscher as “lop priority for “He is more given to public the ghetto” at $33,000 each, relations than executive “People in Throggs Neck and | management.” East Bronx have been waiting Morris High School is 180 per for years for swimming pool'' cent avercrowded, intermediate’ construction; such unilateral schools in the Bronx are 200; allocations foster racial and per cent overcrowded. “AN the sectional animosity.” . fanfare about decentralization is A beller idea, Mr, Badillo, meaningless without additional said, would be ‘‘to strengthen; facilities; yot the Mayor vetoed community planning boards who] P.S, 74 and additions to Morris presently have joint meetings) High School,” Mr. Badillo said, of the 14-chairmen and) People Participation Ineffective subcommittee heads and have testified at hearings for each Meaningful citizen. parneeds.- In this way we {ticipation has deteriorated other. tunder the poverty programs, as could develop a realistic master plan. for the boraugh. Whether! presently set up, Mr. Badillo ilthis would diminish the power: (of authorized projects isaid. Even with ethnic balance ‘provisions, one ethnic graup jot the Mayor, or free him to campaigns against another and concern himself with Cily-wide lean gain problems will be the subject $1 per cent control. The only purpose of poverty; of a later article. programs, as Mr. Badillo sees Posner at Highbridge | lit, is to develop new concepls Ground was broken April 1 and better means of|'for PS 126 in Highbridge, which communicating with the poor. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Apr 27, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 17 In_ The |Bronx “All this own bank staffs indicates a color tblack congressional candidate In line) as well as the obviously tthis district, which redistricting gave a slight edge, on the basis African-ancestored blacks, when id population alone, in favor “passing” is permitted to tof blacks. Unfortunately, black© become once more the ticket jineligibles outlandishly exceed to economic parity with whites. ithe number of registered voters. We sce it in the better housing And it should plague the in the West Bronx, made available with the Jewish tconscience of all the candidates ithat they did not fill the Board _ exodus, Where fair-skinned : . Puerto Ricans are admitted to of Elections last Spring and rsummer with the sweet sound Two men, one black (Kenneth jjAlmeida, chairman of the PR- the exclusion of blacks. of new registrants. Mr. Badillo admits Miller) and one Puerto Ricaniispanic Center and OUB Vit be among those regretting powerlessness to prevent this that we did not do more to (Pedro Morales) tried to occupy strategist “if the Negrocs had; insidious type of discrimination the director’s seat at Hunts register the poor and apathetic Point Community Progress used their organizations like we “since it is private housing, and voter, for I will be running, Center last Wednesday thus iaid to get out tie vote.’ discrimination has traditionally with Leo Isacson and Jules dramatizing a controversy that ‘Mr. Almeida and Mr. Weeks| been on the basis of color.” Feiffer, as a delegale to the has been snowballing for agree that an impartial body’ Third Avenue stores and National Democratic Convention months, vested downtown restaurants alike seem in the 2:CD. of people with no Deadline for “We have shown that if one interest, should be appointed to to prefer the foreign-sounding, registration at 1780 Grand director can be appointed by mediate the situation, As a caucasian-looking P.R.toblacks. Concourse is May 15, new and a body not duly constituted, then beginning, Herman Badillo and Whereas black and P.R, non-voters please vote! any group can appeint a Jackie Robinson were on the scholars may theorize at At a party packed with well director,” Richard Weeks, scene Jast Wednesday to lend Brotherhood-in-Action about wishers, and many spunky, chairman of Interested Citizens their influence to averting crisis. depressed people and common cager young supporters said. Nat Martin a black bonds, black people on Fox Saturday, April 20, Reformer organizer (who Street are beginning to know Dennig Gardner announced for They claimed that Morales community during the 1966 “where it's at.” Said Robert the Assembly 78th AD. At his waS appointed by an worked campaigned) LaForey: “As militant as I am side was CDV Bronx Acting ‘uneertificd, incomplete beard,” Registration and that their move to have eoneurred with Almeida that for black rights, even I have Chairman, Lais Fuentes, who hesitated to face the fact that ‘will oppose Ivan Warner (Reg. registration wis all acts of that board ratified black insufficient, “for multiple the conflict here in Hunts Point ‘Dem) for the State Senate in March 23 was illegal. the 3ist. Moreover, Adolph Roberts, reasons. For one thing,” he said, is racist, plain and simple.” Those New Yorkers who flew chairman of Kelly St. Block “the anger, so sharp jn black against white controtniatiou, is to Atlanta to communicate with Association said, “criteria, and| open announcement of the blunted in Hunts Point, because dreamers of Dr. Martin Luther must wake up vacancy has been insufficient; many blacks feel that Puerta King’s dream and help “black and whites (and jisallowing time and procedures Ricans are one with us.” It is becoming more obvious all shades ja between) sit down for due consideration of other to blacks, however, that most! together" at Hunts Point. qualified le.”” Puerto Ricans want to Ah Politics! Its swect sounds Dr. Helen Mitchell, contrary: to reports Jast week, ‘was not: disassociate themselves, and not of instant change fill the spring fired, but resigned as director be contaminated by the man, air, as Nathan Straus (Reform of Hunts Point CPC effectivellat the bollom — the Negro. designate}, moves to challenge April 12, and is on terminaljTheir strategy is to move as Jacob Gilbert (Incumbent, Reg.) leave until June 29. Dr. Mitchell, swiftly and as unencumbered for Congress (22D) in the who is now Director of Citygas possible into the American Democratic Primary June 18, wide Summer Projects CDA,|mainstream by becoming as Still in the race, loo, is Ted Velez with Coalition for bore the brunt of the canflict||Caucasian as possible, ’ Of course, this augers;Demecratic Alternatives’ (the between the minority groups. avoided,” could have been!miserably for the black Puerto} McCarthy Group) support. said SalvatorellRican (and one look at their AL Nall (Republican) is the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); May 4, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg.6 | In_ The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Angry and shake in principais attended tne School Board District #9 mecting Jast Wednesday, April 24. 4A principal, appointed according to UFT regulations had been removed by the community and parents of IS 148, “placing all our jobs in jeopardy.” the principals said. “In a manner! of speaking. they were absolutely correct, unless they‘ make first-rate education for the ghetto child a reality,’ said Ed Hopper. chairman of Neighbors for Education, Action & Reform (NEAR). Reversal at 1S. 18 With limited information at their disposal, and three days to make 2 decision, a committee of community, IS. 148 § - parents and Local School Board, had approved Milton Sticr as principal, effective April 12. After talking with parents of his former school ¢p.s. 80M+ who reported that Mr. Stier had REGINALD WALTON heen Jess than an able administrator there, lhe schos) Harold Dicks, Jerome Green, communily group withdrew and the Parent Association's M their approval of Stier’s Brown counseled with paren ,who wavered at tines, fearing! appointment. They felt that sirce 1S. 148 that the demonstration might! had : been without a principalibccome a power struggle at! it opened last September, ‘their children’s expense: and since it opened last resulling in faxity teacher September “Ed Hopper, chairmanuM of ean concerning. responsibility, student! as 2 prudent organizer. Now a black man, Reginald the academic! discipline und program, they needed a HU. Walton is acting principal. principal who could be relied.His appointment circumvented upon to set things right. The Board regulations, since he is body, among those unappointed on the communiity parent therefore, informed Dr, assistant principal's list. He was Maurice Ames, Superintendent. ‘he Advisory Council's choice,! on April iat (under threat of and luoks like a good one. Mr.° demonstration the following, Wallon has been in the school Stier's system since 1946, spending 5! Mr. that Monday)? appointment must be rescinded,‘years with the burcau__ of! two other teachers removed,-Educational and Vocational, 148's" (IS 55 PS at administrator:Guidanee and a lemporary appointed until’ the Advisory:parent school); he is deeply; a coneerned about the academic! seleet could Council salisfactory principal. Sitin and standing of 1S 148, and plans: sleep-in they did for three days, we work closely with the: ‘Advisory Council and the Parent: ‘Assaciat‘an, whose full support, ! in he has been assured, are Nis. and all the demands were met. Black Men Forward ‘Two clements stood out victory, and the least the process these is of achieving not that the Power in the 77 AD that: of Assembly District 77 Cower parent Bronx, Hunts Point) maybe a pivotal ore, as political jockeys community group developed Concerned boroughs of other ys a Regular to oppose Reform! parents supported — the, Democrat Jaunes Scheuer for; Galamison of Brooklyn, Daniels and starting gale, Irma OWA move to the their in confidence unity. Santaella has entered the race: ard determination Lorene President, from PS Alexandria 80 came 2st CD. ‘This should Millon Congress, Rev. objectives: Mrs. consalidate to say,/(29§D) Garcia, vs Regular the leaving P.A.'fteform — positions, Coloa'nobert Senator; Stale straddling previously “Miseducalion af minority-group' both horses, dangling, Or maybe; children anywhere affects us."|nol he, but Elected officials lent the weight dangling. of their office to altaining a! qt seems solution. Al Goadman the volers Garcia was are left to be: unopposed in the rather odd, of the imrd St. songlomeration ef neighborhoods, Improvement Council sent in that make up the 29th, which: breakfast; William I, Rrowa!siretches from the Puerto Rican!” 77th AD? Armandal of the Pit sent dinner, and Mrs, stronghold, Uses Bo'nt, down in the ab Montano is up_ for of El Barrio Georgia Lamar, whase child had ta the end Assemblyman, and Cesar, between, In Man. St. suffered injury at 1.5. 14, fried-agr@ Rosado for Male Jeader, a black! black of host a ere were;however, wamen The chicken. “ethers” who believe, male in opposition to Garcia: constant and reflective: Mrs. falks and | all clecled sflcials are less than woukl balance things well,” Bronco of Barrow Bonnie Only then could they consider; S. 1 A, Mrs. June Salters of perfect, and therefore, in need LABOR, Mrs. Lucy Vigay, Mrs. af exposure to opposition at cach: agreeing to the black, female: a host of others. Hach election, So be it, tea, with district Ieader which they were’ Fling and cantribulion wi & significant, But Robert Garcia, Far the thing. offered. In the 7ith, as at 1S’ the finest result of the whole to be achieved in New York 118, and everywhere, recognition process was thal the leadership City in 196i is a warkable power sof the black male is the key was clearly ins the hands of relationsh'n between Negrees to equality and slablitity for black family — and black men. Sal Elerbert of CORE aad Cuerbi Ricans. “Why not the volers: are communily. Why wait until next th Bros of begin and Robert 1. Jackson ng the slate lime; 300 yours is long enough. PLAN. were the spokes Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); May 11, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 |In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The James fact that Congressman ‘formed the National Commitice Scheuer’s (2ist CD) bill to support the Commission, to set up a National Conimission whose chairman was Jackie on Negro History and Cullure Robinson, and honorary was reported out of commiltec chairmen, Roy Wilkins, Whitney last Monday may come as a Young, and Charles Wesley. surprise to many of his black Only one Bronx person, “Mrs. constituents and fellow Theodore Khecl of Riverdale, Bronxites. I doubt that even was chosen, the event of its passage will Congressman Sehever be greeted with dancing in the ‘overlooked such distinguished streets, because it is a gift, black members of his own and not the result of our own ‘communily and constituency as struggle to better our condition. ‘Rev. Edler G. Hawkins of St. When Captain Robert Johnson Augustine Presbyterian Church. (42nd_ Precinct) speaks on ‘Well versed in Afro-American controlling juvenile delinquency, history and thought Rev. he talks about the responsibility ‘Hawkins, two years ago, sought to purehase an of black adults for instilling self- funds respect and respect for toutstanding collection of authority in the young through ‘volumes and manuscripts on generous amounts of love and \Negro history for the Bronx. * discipline, rather than by He felt strongly then that the increasing numbers of street lack of access to information, patrolmen, ‘about themselves contributed to us about ourselves.” “T don’t want white liberals (the miseducation of Black youth, $500,000 is the probable fo give me anything, but the iand the fact that the library appropriation for the year-long opportunity to earn what I need was not achieved camo back “study and investigation, which for myself,” he said, “A chick to haunt him last Thursday will recommend to the President won't learn to walk, if you crack might. At a “Unity mecting sleps that would resull in the the shell for him.” ” . al Morris High School, t7-year- integration of the Speaking to the bevy af ‘old Brother William Ketchum, uecomplishmentL of black magnificent, flowered heads, Ipresident of the Morris High Americans into American life.” and chie pastel colored dresses School Afro-American Club The t-man Commission of Negro business and ‘spurned the “leadership of black should be chosen by a professional ‘middiz-class” Ibourgeoise adults” as jacking conference of black leaders, women last Sunday, he said: “energy to unify the community, rather than appointed by the “My friends, black: childrea cut since they were puppets, merely President,” objected Roy Innis in the streets need your help. «delegated authority by whites,”’ of CORE a member of the These are your children. , .you With no tangible evidence of Committee. cannot remove yourself from {the goals and goods black men Said Congressman Scheuer: their squalor and deprivation.” Ihave sought for their young, “When a Negro child is given Permissiveness and the William Ketchums believe his primer on Dick, Jane and transmission of “the-world - iblack adults “‘have not learned Spot, he has only to thumb owes - you - a living culture tto fight, just to bleed.” through a few pages before he spells racial doom,” Unworthy These youngsters decry the Says, ‘That’s not me.’ He has of respect are parents who “burn baby burn” cult, and only to read of the contributions purchase stolen goods or send declare that among their of the many immigrant groups their children out to loot, he growing numbers there is a that make up America... .and said. “Teach them that “definite tightening up on dope.” walk through almost any ignorance is bad; guide them; ‘They protest the intellectual museum in the country and leak let them know they are stiflmg they suffer at Morris around ...” to feel total: aand the four other Bronx high alienation fram America, somehody.’* | In introducing the Bill (HR schools represented. i Nobody knows this better than: 12962,) April 1, Congressman Said Charles Olaves, a Morris James Pruitt, or Edler Hawkins Scheuer said: ‘the unfamiliarity senior: ‘‘What they don't teach or Captain Johnson or a host of Negro history and culture ws is even worse than what ‘of other adult, black Bronxites|: has deprived white Americans they do. The books on George whose harvest of frustration is|, because they remain ignorant ‘Washington Carver make you all their young can build upon. of a vital part of American {think he loved slavery,” he said, What a shot in the arm for history and are easy victims declaring that he was almost them, and for reconcilialion of of malicious myths; and black expelled from school because the generations, the Americans because they are Ihe thought “Cry, the Beloved achievement of a Commission robbed of the pride and self- ‘Country’ ‘was degrading to and the eventual integration of esteem that comes from iblack manhood. the Black man's history and knowing their noble past.” Fortunately, one back man, contributions into American life Bronxites like Captain James Pruitt, their history aight have been. Bul alas, poor Johnson might have deen able tteacher and = Afro-American ‘birds, black Bronxites . had to counsel wisely with the ‘History Club faculty advisory, nothing lo do with breaking that Congressman on the subject of is their hero, because “he taught shell. a Commission to Study Negra History sinca those already down-and-out youngsters whom he meets daily in Morrisania suffer the degradation of spirit and lack of self-resp ect born: of negative self-image. 138 distinguished Sree Lh b’ Jack" and white Americans nationwide Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): May 18, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amstet dam News p26 In_The Bronx Commun ity Conscious By When Health opened MARIETTA J. TANNER Neighborhood Mental Servieecenters were with a demonstration “the| They admitted that Debilitaling and! mental psychomatie effect of hard core sovial problems of patients makes the psychiatrist's treatment dependent upon the work of the CMHW. The new approach to psychiatric services Grant three years ago. poor peo-, ple were beguiled by its promise’ to realistically deal with the burgeoning problen of mental, health deterioration in the: Bhetto. lin the ghetto (under grant auspices the was that and patient Of'between the bridge this gap would An integral part of the $500,000; CyHW Yeshiva University, Linstein' professional. ee (allege, Heat was| Morcover, CMH workers feel the new career opportunities far| fat bn freatment dispensed ospitals and centers indigenous workers as mental! rom use —— “upon the teo heavily leaving Telics_ medication, health They services were toaides. be the link i Of problems socialwelfare community between — housing, health. real the! Patients and person’ needing theservices by the Phi with ealt professional workers. There was to pe R also the implication that the ° CMH tw ptogram’s objective was to train; + © S Pp on 8 | bility! the: D0tWithstanding to eventually run ‘administration the indigenous their own program. has so far “failed! 7 :to incorporate the concrete: ‘experience and contributions of, Upgrading Was The Bure Last year, Dr. Tom Levin, ‘CMHW into definable and viable’ status.” Theoretically, they _of:.job professor associale an psychiatry al Einstein, received'were to serve as role models: a‘ study grant to cereale a'lfor the rest of the community; structure whereby even anmltealistically their subintelligent, high school dropout Iprofessional jobs are deadend. . asi could enier medical services with advance, a trainee; an !o training service their contrac of Meal ‘ era Seo mene in-! aide;! receive a high school diploma: :45 yet lo be mcgotiated. They enter college courses, advaneing| Want & work study program through assistant, ass ociatelne i at a worker ond serve positions; and upon graduation!“0 which upon lures, These fours on the job, and have hours of training for which receive's> jhe receives credit toward a: specialization and professional status. to “legree. CMHW will speak before: some extent, OEO based their|,the Board of Estimate | May: theory,"2 when the “Community Mental: remained have study grants, Dr. Levin's grant expires! Health Board’, Yeshiva, Einstei Yeshiva, Hospital Board”, this August; at this veriting, | Health there is no structure, no grant Linstein and Lincoln for an their proposals to institution- [present its findings. implement to Last week, community mental; S8-million grant health workers al Lincoln alize Community slept-in and sat_ Hospital Mental Health tor services, demand clarity |; protest the Tack of definilive| They will the purpose of the and‘“thout practices personacl conditions — of ipropram. They question the equitable employment. Their nefotiatars Seriousness. of Yeshiva-Einstein to commitment its chairman); said that for three chout workers.|. (Ali. Malik. el Mohammed, |wpgrade indigenious Indicates): ‘Past performance touched upon: the upgrading the} |that role their Einstein, helieves years they have becn operating without proper evaluation! be the training of physicians, nol want to gtc the/#nd making procedures, i sUey ini do career ladder | 'iimvalved nal’ dependent ssio job araprofe | thon the subjective judgment programs.’ Mr. Weeks said. . There is implied racism in} of supervisor personnel. So thick has been the red,maintaining a “medical elite’) tape, that il was an achievement ‘composed of outsiders, since) just to. be [community people are black and| | for the negotiators authoritative Yeshiva-Einstein | Professionals white. , Furthermore representatives, On May 10, Dr. Lincoln's Warris Peck, Health Services Nealth Mental Mental Dean! ™isnomer, director; William Glazer of Yeshiva, ard :people and Rica a, Puerto with| down sil (0 able are since on the ; ‘Community i Board" no is a , communily it, yel it inne | President Perlstein of Einstein the authority lo make decisions| of Medigine College the CMHW they wan demands. But what ;Merlical service, The community | increly “redress | might better be served on every, was machinery [level if the Buard were clected the “grievances, of agreeed ta | eancerning funding allocation for| tather than appointed. and solution for which should have heen established loug age, snid Weeks, Richard : oa hegolinter, Jobs Remain 1 Deadenad not’ was issue the upgrading of basic The fonched upon, according, fo The rationale fur employing the aecording, to the indigenaus, Hipenous, Sinstein'’s original proposal, was that the professional staff Cor the most part white, middle. class and not community-based) was unfamiliar wilh the poverty world and the cullural patlerns af the ethnic groups, . Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): May 25, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 In_ The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The United Federation of ethnic barriers to college are Teachers has spent millions for ridiculous in the face of these advertising and to transport facts. teachers away from their The present Demonstration schools to Albany to prevent projects, like open enrollment, passage of (Mayor's Lindsay's) are designed to fail. They are School Decentralization Plan. given not local control or They are seeking, instead,!autonomy, but monics with all passage of (Staten Island State kinds of strings attached. Senator John) Marchi Plan'Autonomy mcans control over which offers for legislators non- staff — hiring and firing, commitment during this deciding whether you want election year; and the ghetto! merit increases for exceptional schools in crises, another year teachers who do in fact improve of study with present board of teading levels. Parents who education policies in tact, tead the UBP report will know How contemptuous to moralize that ‘“‘only they can save our about a “black power grab” schools,” and they won't need at Ocean Hill-Brwonsville, and another year of study under to continue to dally with UFT aegis to prove it. decentralization when education June 8 at Bethel-Temple, the in New York City is defacto Word Power League will hold segregated, and grossly unequal. its Oratorical Contest. This was Our children are dying, under ‘a project sponsored under ESEA the present system. We have in districts 9 and 8 to increase always known that ghetto vocabulary and improve schools were being language use. South Bronx shortchanged. now a_ timely NAACP will offer $100 and report by United Bronx Parents trophies to the winner. jon “Distribution of Educational \Resourecs” proves it. For two years, teams of parents and youth researchers examined the 12 highest ranking elementary schools. and the 12 lowest: (according to the Metropolitan Reading Achievement test scores of May 1966) to find the reasons for the wide disparity of pupil achievement. For example, whereas the 5th grade median should have been 5.8, the median score for fifth graders at PS 24 (Riverdale) was 9.7, and 4.2 for the fifth graders at PS 48 (Hunts Point). Eleven of the top 12 schools are located in the middleclass northeast, west Bronx, Riverdale sections, while all 12 bottom schools are in South Bronx black and Puerto Rican areas. All of the bottom schools were, overutilized, with 92 regular through sixth grade classes {8,938 pupils) on double session. None of the top 12 schools had classes on double session, and 7,489 seats in Bronx schools were empty. (Remember how Open Enrollment was designed to fail?) The More Effective Schools program, favored by UFT whereby schools with low achievement, high mobility and poverty were compensatory to iven features like lower class size, extra teaching’ personnel, etc, is theory, nat fact. Regular elementary schools were supposed to spend $750 per child; special service schools in the ghetto, were to Bet $150 to $200 more. The UBP study shows that the average for the top 12 schools was $670 per child, while! the average expenditure for the bottom 12 (all special service! schools) was $519.00. | Class size reduction too is! a fallacy: seven of the top: schools had class sizes below average; while only four of the bottom 12 enjoyed reduced class size. Statistic after statistic proves that more money is spent to provide the superior; education for the top twelve's’ schoolchildren. Said Evalinaj Antionetty, Executive Director of UBP: ! “Since these schools in the black and Puerto Rican arcas receive the bulk of inexperienced teachers at the: lowest. salaries, “unless money, is appropriated on a per capita basis, the current practice will continue ~~ of budgeting about, $9,000 for a teacher, then assigning a teacher at $6500, but returning the $2500 difference to headquarters, often to be spent in a white school, | where. most experienced teachers are getting $11,000." Parents, amazed at the facts uncovered packed the two discussion sessions held: Tuesday, May 21 by UBP. They! began to understand the extent’ of miseducation of clementary school children, and could, appreciate the plight of the; army of low achievers, so rebejlious and baffling to! educators at the junior high school level. Further data will soon be, publistied on the upper grades, | but it is known that: 66 per, cent of the youngsters from the | bottom 12 elementary schools go to Morris. | Benjamin| Franklin, Walton and Clinton High Schools, while 50 per cent; of the top 12 are at Bronx Science and Columbus. Only 25 of Morris’ 871 graduates received academic diplomas last year: whereas 92.8; per cent of Bronx Science's! Braduates did. Relaxing of, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): un 1, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 11 lIn The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J, TANNER Eighteen more days io serve the consumer well, if we Primary Day; and there do will begin to read the fine print, * black “Bronxites sland as But the dating of bread failed, the help of Bronx” electors of those who write the with bills and pass the Icgislation Assemblyman Harry Kraf; and that governs them? Estimates so. did = seethrough meat. in 1966, based on Health packaging provisions. s Department ethnic breakdowns Policeman and private citizens .~ (sinee the Bpard of Elections may now “use deadly force” does not record registrants by when they reasonably believe ~ . race) indicated that not one and intruder or fleeing criminal , in ten cligible black people were is carrying a firearm or deadly .weapon, But the provisions for registered. After working with two voter licensing of firearms was killed, . registration campaigns, and and so was the pork-barrel, City | checking with political club Marshal System, (whom your ., carried — de- district leaders nominate, by the who ‘members : signating petitons Jast month, way). A whopping payrise was voted T would conclude that the for the Governor, and other picture is not much brighter. “The Negro is not a political State officials, and increased force in the Bronx. His numbers pensions for legislators, Had far execed his influence on the conservative, pennypincher on Icgislation, John H elected offeial. Nalurally they welfare ignore his aspirations because Calandra (33SD) had his way, would also have he docs not vote,” political Iogisialors enjoyed a payrise to $20,000 observers say. oo Primaries Count | yearly. .Ask the incumbent candidates Why is it important. to vote they voled on the in the June [8lh Primary? how Enralled voters will elect establishment of a compulsory delegates and alternates to the pool for slum fire insurance, Nalional Conventions of their which passed; or on the Ramos dill for men who parties, These delegates will Amnesty nominate the party's committed misdemeanors presidential and vice presidental (allowing them to apply for candidates. Voters will also clect licenses and civil service jobs). delegates and alicrnates to the) Question all candidates on the judicial convention, who will implementation of the Urban Corporation $6court Development supreme nominate million slum rebuilding program, . justices, Along with selecting parly and on the legislation they plan candidates for the Assembly, for 1969. State, Senate, and Congress, All of this affects black thése:who vate in tho Primary people; your-vote does Indeed Will eect county committeemen count, Create the kinds of and district Jeaders. Black discussions around issues that people are one-third of the ‘will being black voters to the but polls, Pla to- transport some Bronx, population of the we have only one black State yourself so wa' will become a Senator, one Assemblyman, onc force to be reckoned with. Issues judge; no black man in the surrounding the candidates for no black Congress will be the subject and Cily’ Council, cven to next week's column. (or Congressman Health Careers Complex Conercssional candidate). ‘The. Nation's first para“ what da. these legislators do education whom: black people generally professional ihealth Jcomplex is scheduled to open have “no..patt in naming? Let temporary quarters with 750 me tell you that they deelde your fate, so it is just plain sludents in Fall, 1969, under sponsorship of City stupid not to share in thelr joint selection. 1,000 bills passed by University, Einstcin, N.Y. City Board of Education and the the Legislature await Governor Department of Hospitals. Rockefeller’s signiture. A permanent $136-million They include the walered-down \Marehi Dentralization Plan facility to be built near (discussed in last week's article) Concourse Village adjacent to which” enlarges the present the $74niillion Lincoln Hospital, Board of Education and |will include Community College /Vill, and an clementary, jempowcrs it to prepare detailed, permancn! intermediate and high school decentralization plan for next emphasizing health careers. How muny black youngsters year’s legislative consideration. No new experimental will be cntolled, the kind of and whether decentralized districts wilt be curriculum, crealed this year; but the Board staffing of these facilities is may delegate any of its powers integrated are questions being now. This bears to the 20 existing “advisory” decided focal school boards. One possible now before the Human Rights good. piece of legislation: for watching, especially since suits involve workers ‘ black teachers permits Commission charge Einstein-Lincolninterstale certification of who Yeshiva with discriminatory teachers and other educational hiring “and prometional ssonnel, which means that lack teachers and supeivisory practices. Presently at Lincoln (whieh serve personnel from outside the city hospital (or even dlack personnel within ipredomincatly blank and Puerto the City who never became Rican people) only one dluck holds a_head-ofeligible under present Board of woman Examiners. structure) now may department position (Social Service Supervisor, outpatient Lhe principals. one... black physician + Passed also was ‘Truth in clinic); Lending” providing -for (Head of Anesthiology); and one ~ Spanish physician (Assistant disclosure of credit charges, and licensing aud inspection of meat Administrator of Out patient processing plants which might Clinic). Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jun 8, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 11 In_The Bronx Community ~ Conscious ‘By MARIETTA J. TANNER’ Voters, on Primary Day, June Reactionaries have reason to; mass registration, as: 18, have an important part in ‘ear and .vielories in selecting presidential contests Mississippi, Gary, and candidates, although none of- Charleston, S.C. will altest. their names will appear on the In poor communitiesballot. Voters vote for local throughout. the ‘country, there delegates to the National Party isa crises in leadership, where, Conventions. Because of my ideally, those who are ‘‘the deep concern that the black people’s choice” should supply lit, ‘When Senator Robert position be represented by black Kennedy visited the South Bronx | people at the Democratic llast August, [ asked him what ‘ convention, | am a candidate his program was for assisting}, for delegate in the 21st CD. Geveloping leadership in the about the T want to urge the nomination ghetto. He replied: “That is of a man uncompromising in the responsibility of the local his opposition to the war in people.” Vietnam, This hypocritical war But, just as government abroad diverts our human and protects emerging industry, if economic resources, while our we are serious cities burn, and millions of reconciliation of peoples, so Americans are homeless and must government now assist hungry. emergirg ghetto political} Thus distracted, there is no leadership. This cannot be done: en to solve the crucial by indiscriminately endorsing | problem for America: to bring “old guard” local politicians, as the masses of Americans now Kennedy forecs did this Spring outside the political slructure when they reportedly promised contest” to Bronx into the democratic process, 50 “no that they may achieve justice incumbents who jumped on his without recourse to violence, or bandwagon, pathetic, prolonged marches. Without benefit of debaic on issues, ‘Vice President Agents of Alienation ¥ Humphrey has gathered unto Some sensitive’ people believe by the ack door, that so chronic is the alienation himself of the masses that “we must hundreds of delegate votes, He fashion a new political vehicle jis, according to the Gallup poll, “the cleay choice of 70 per cent (like the Peace and Freedom of the ‘nation’s Democratic Party) to meet the needs of Party County chairmen in every people ignored by the American region, and does best in the political machine.” We are like outh,”? taxed colonials, too often Commitment. by any without representation, but to attempt a 3rd party movement candidaté to such “old guard” preclude his is at best a longshot effort to factions _ would influence policy of the two supporting /realistically emerging legitimate ‘'new major parties, and at worse Politics’, on the local Jevel. an exercise in futility.: For example, on Chicago's While the machinery for side, August A. reconciliation is the law of the Southwest land, nevertheless obstacles Savage, a black publisher, is always spring up to block such challenging Mayor Daley’s that candidate for Congress (who ‘wse , of fundamental machinery as the right to vote. opposes school bussing and open Quo Daley are housing). . Status election of Boards themselves agents of alienation, eontrols the bulk of Chicago’s with intricate rules. and 118 delegates votes, which are safely in the regulations, indifferent ewonsidered registrars and formidable Humphrey camp. literacy tests. Toward Sclf-Determination In an outreach registration Fundamental io all change program last year thousands of poor New Yorkers registered jis that emerging people in the slums, on reservations, in the for anti-poverty corporations. Restrictions then limited the use rural areas. (as well as the of OEO -funds for voter suburbs) have the right to sclfThe candidate registration; bills introduced by determination. Rep. Williams of Delaware, last whom J support must be commilted to protect these emergOctober, now specifically prohibit use of both federal anti- jing people in their pursuit of poverty and migratory worker that right. funds for voter registration. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): un 15, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 11 In The Bronx Communit By MARIETTA J. TANNER Senator Robert Kennedy is I pray we will not dead, and the alleged killer of that all is lost with the despair untimely Martin Luther King is caught and tragic death of this one in one menentous week. Stunned man. Certainly, the young black Bronxites were saying on that men Mr. Kennedy had around morbid Thursday, a week ago: him must have learned “IVs all a plot to wipe gut something of the power of the anyone who helps black men will and the ballot, There was achieve their rights."’ 90 percent of the black voters But with the apprehension of in Watts, Rafer Johson risking James Earl Ray, perhaps black his lite to disarm the killer men will feel, as Kenneth Clark and the joyous Charles Evers out said: “that American justice drawing the vote of will work for us, too.” But black minorities in the cities made in victory men still have reason to be Mr. = Kennedy’s fearful: California a reality, The need Will Ray arrive safely back for black men to vote here in the United States? Will ha in the June 18 primaries is live throug a trial in Memphis, evan more urgent now. Tennessee? They want black As a candidate for delegate in the 2Ist CD who supports men to serve on the juries Senator Eguene MeCarthy, I an Kennedy's Robert iry Martin Luther King’s killers, for mourn the death of the senator. no one has a larger stake than Jt has taken the heart out of ut not the us in seeing to it that justice the campaign, is done. We which Mr. Kennedy so have been the causes nobly espoused. Polls indicate victims of innumerable delegates kangeroo courts; death and that the Kennedy violence has marked our history elected in California, Indiana, in the United States, just as South Dakota and elsewhere are it mow stalks the Kennedy rapidly swinging to Humphrey. They would do better to wait, family. and be a moral force at the A fair and thorough trial so Democratic Convention to sland that the full story of Sirhan’s fast for the minorities that were and Ray's deeds are known, indispensible to their election. bound to full citizenship for Negrocs United States. is inextricably in the Facing Your If I go to Chicago, I shall Join them in asserting that the cost of war has made a mockery Accusers Everyone has speculated as to the causes of violence: too many murders portrayed in the movies and on television; too muck reliance on “get rich quick” schemes, rather than the building of skills and character, making noteriety synonomous with fame, And then there is the lack of respect for human life itself, as expressed by the American Rifle Association which declares “no gun control of "great saclety” egislation, and in pressing for the money to implement the findings of the President’s commission on Civil Disorders. «Youth in Politics Young people everywhere are Tegarded as the vanguard of social change; and in the Bronx, Dennis Gardner, candidate for the 78th Assembly seat, has them, Born in Morrisania, Mr, Gardner has lived there all his =oe law that the mind of man could 23 years, ‘“‘Throvghout those caniceive, . . would have the years, lack of communily slightest effect in preventing involvement on the part of any of the assassinations of our elected politicians has been a cause of the dlatant neglect and ay.” Said Harold W. Glassen, misery of the people,” he said. Just recently, 59 cammunity president of the Association . + the availability of a weapon grotps requested $1,661,508 for Summer poverty programs, but has little to do with commission of a crime.” He recelved a meager $328,000 to indicated that a dietating fund only 20 groups. “Had our politicians been machine, telephone or picture frame could be used to kill truly committed,* Mr. Gardner! as easily as a gun, What a told ‘his 169th Street Subway marvellous chance to fight for stop audience, “‘they would have his life Martin Luther King, been duty bound to sce that’ Senator Robert or President this poverty ridden community John Kennedy might have had, without extensive programs like had dhey deen attacked by a Bedford-Stuyvesant or Harlem. got a larger share.” _ man wielding a picture frame. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Fun 29, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 12 In_ The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA I support Eugene the J. TANNER candidacy of because I McCarthy, helieve there is an opportunity in his candidacy for meaningful political involvement at the local level. He was the anly Senator man of integrity and legislative experience, who offers hope that I black people and other minorities determine and in their rise America can|' above thel! own destiny, who voted against both bills powerlessness and despair born!: limiting the use of poverty funds of dependency on handouts. Y for voter registration, In 1949 < voted to outlaw the poll tax; in 1959-60 he authored or coauthored ten major civil rights bills on lynching, voting registrars and discrimination in transportation. As a matter of principle, he tisked his 20-year career in government to actively oppose the war, causing President Johnson to withdraw, and to send envoys to peace talks with the Vietcong. The cost of war makes a mockery of “great society” legislation; there is no money to implement the findings of the President's Comnuission on Civil Disorders. Black adults generally do not ow MeCarthy’s record; but a growing number of black youths support him. Ending the war in Vietnam means life to hem; furthermore, McCarthy has spoken out for revision of the draft laws now weighted in favor of the college boy. and against the undereducated poor. If elected I will go to the convention as a McCarthy Delegate (with Leo Isacson and Jules Fiefer) ‘because he is a Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Tul 5, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 In_The Bronx Communit onscious By By MARIETTA MARIETTA J. TANNER TANNER There have been fires and » came. ‘riots’. at other high schools in * in second in the race for the Bronx. A 17-year old black Democratie Councilman at Clinton senior, Guy Oliver, with potential” was Large, losing about 3 to one “leadership to the incumbent Aileen Ryan. killed May 22.1 Goenwald. Two | 23,000 votes is not too bad for black students were severely: Andrew Curtiss Parks the first time out, with no funds! beatened at Roosevelt. Their+ or high-powered staff. assailants, identified only in Most regretable is that he one case as “local toughs,” have did not carry all neighborhoods neither been found nor tried. where black people ‘These murders were buried deep predominate. “I’m not voting’ in the papers that made the . for him just because he’s indictment front page news. ‘A: * black,” black women on Boston man is innocent until he is Road told me as they proven guilty,” said Dennis campaigned for his opposition, Gardner, chairman of the Board But blackness is a part of the of Morrisania Community reason why he should have com- Corporation, ‘‘and it's high time manded all the black votes, and we see to it that the law works ; the white ones, of good will, for us.” ‘il Boynes, whg.too. Black people need someone alledgedly committed all thesp7 to take their position un- acts (an uninvited quest at, thp,equivocably; to bargain for Honorarium) was the faculty5 them in the Council chambers. advisor of the Afro-American* What black Bronx voice will History Club at Morris; the© speak out (here against school founder of the Black Arts budget cuts that profoundly Library on Prospect Avenue, a affect us? Even the two, Puerto lifetime community resident; a > Ricans Robert Lebron (who was graduate of Music and Art, a beaten in a 3-way race in the scholarship student at a city.: tenth) and Herman Badillo (wha college; ‘‘The best math teacher .; had two votes as Borough 1 ever had,” his students saye3 President) won't be there next A tutor in his spare times: year, It’s high time black people married and bout to be a father < began to think in terms of their « . . He has lost his Board own enlightened self-interest. of Education substitute's license, his livelihood, Similar reprisals, Honor jn the form of exclusions and It was Teacher Honorarium threats sre suffered by his co- Day, June 21 at the Gramercy! idefendent, Ronald Dicks, and Boy’s Club. The Morrisania Ed- his father, Harold Dicks, the ucational Council, sponsored it Citywide Education Chairman of © to honor “community oriented the NAACP. educators . . . whose sacrifices “Seeing to it that these enbled us to continue education defendents receive the conof our children during the work Stitutionally guaranteed trial by stoppage of 1968 . . .” Omittedijury, and not by slander protects from the roster honored schools of some I4/the rights of all,” Mr. Gardner was Morris|said. He called fay contributions High School, which a 23-year/to a Legal Def@pse Fund for old math teacher, Cyril Boynes|them. “By helping Mr. Boynes, and a few of his colleaguesjwe honor our teachers by letting had endured considerable|them know we will stand behind hardships to open and run. Cyriljthem.” Mr. Gardner continued: Boynes was also one of thel*We don’t know what the people indicted on May 19 forjramifications are in this case; “conspiracy arson,{opposing a total of 12 counts to riot, including}they unlawful assembly, possession ofjMr. all were Dicks very active in appeared for the teacher's has strike; dangerous weapons.” His picture|children at suspense hearings and that of his co-defendents,|for years. It’s in our best Ronald Dicks and Jerry Wooleylinterest made the front NY. Dailies. page not to Jet those of thelhave exercised leadership summarily struck down.’”” who be Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Tul 19, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe.6 In The Bronx By MARIETTA “It's hello again to all J. TANNER thetelevision for “doing too much readers who welcomed back our! for blacks and Puerto Ricans.” initial reentry and to the fellow Bronxites whose activities are | Before K.0O. the stuf this column is made | But, unfortunately, we never of. punch until Renewing old acquaintances ‘seem to feel the all over the Bronx, we find the blood starts. Welfare clients the more things change, the ‘as of July 1 must eke out a day’s rations on 90 cents per more they stay the same Puerto Ricans and blacks in Person; elderly poor have to pay $11.00 a visit to outpatient the South Bronx are still battling Clinics because of Medicaid cuts. it out for ascendency. Mode] Cities has the Federal Some of us went personally to letter of credit for $21.5 million Albany to appeal, but legislaand could jJaunch its program tors didn’t give a hoot about non-voting black residents. tomorrow, if Ramon Velez and | his Multi-Service Center cohorts | Without bothering to be subtle: would not insist upon their they are socking it to us: Take: the case to Aileen B, Ryan, the| private brand of ‘community contze]” (meaning Puerto Rican i darling of the law and order Democrats, whom many blacks contrd].) ! recently helped return to office. | Councilwoman Lacky Fights Ryan and two But. why not have a good! allies in Albany are sponsoring fight in the ghetto for control?! a dill to license building Everyone else does, why not| wreckers and demolition the blacks and Puerto Ricans, ,companies in order to ‘drive: or even the blacks among the fly-by-night wreckers from themselves. Power has got to the business.”’ Guess who those be won; nobody is giving it “fly-by-night wreckers”’ are? : up without a fight, Let’s look! Why they are the infant black: at some of the recent battles, with fisticuffs and threats no and Puerto Rican companies less, among non-ghetto that have been supported by Manpower. Neighborhood residents: “movers” who have gotten The Fusco versus the apital from OEO to get Ribustelio forces really swung ‘surance and some equipment for control of the Bronx County - order to demolish some of Republican party at their the buildings coming down in convention, Black Bronx ‘he ghettos. Republicans watched the tables “With the vast new slum being turned over by law and and Model Cities order Republicans from the vlearance getting underway.”| North Bronx said: “for shame”! drograms Mrs, Ryan said, “ite and promptly got themselves that we move; together behind John Lindsay, is essential to bar these for whom they had delivered quickly a. 342 to 1 margin in the Prim- inexperienced, greedy firms from doing business in New ary, York.” Hot breath and bad blood were! Mrs. Ryan responded toi on the agenda as usual when the New Democratic Coalition appeals of the Demolition Industry Board and the House met Wednesday to resolve Reform (Keanedy wing versus Wreckers Union, Local 95, both McCarthy dissidents) and of which have inconsequential upstate versus urban slack memberships. O£ course, differences. Scattered black We are not against regulation -of the industry; we have taken were there, but were not representative of the troops to more than most. But the effect command respect and af the Ryan legislation would recogaition. Still by watching the be to let everyone now operating fights, blacks saw the men being in, and require all manner of proof and credentials of new separated from the boys. While NDC officially talked applicants, thereby excluding new alignment with minorities, minorities. So why squabble about some of its membership was ready to paint Mario Prococcino “community control” of Model! ‘“Hberal,” and to discredit Paul! Cities; those who your apathy! O’Dwyer’s -attempt . to work)or your vote have made: out -a fusion -tickel-with John legislators will still see to it Lindsay, Prococeino many sound that you have none of the gravy. folksy, beware and of look cherubic, the company but .Let’s Register he and Vote! keeps. “Welcome aboard,” said he to John J. Cassesse of the PBA, wkom you may remember| denounced the Mayor on/ Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 2, 1 969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa.4 In The |Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The poverty war is still with us, dut not expending all its energies to fight poverty as the thousands ef poor people in the Bronx might wish “Give my workers their money, now, so they can cash their checks,” the Neighborhood Youth Director at South Bronx Community Corporation yelled to the Chairman of the Board, Francisco Lugovina last Friday afternoon. The names of the signers of checks had the bank been switched to eliminate at Frank ‘appoint committees said Mr. the members that Lugovina. constituted Committee Wright’s was will The duly Personnel recommended dismissai. notified to work,” after the Mr. He Board met in executive session and accepted that report, since he did not appear before the Board to answer charges hand delivered to him that day.” “I answered in writing, requesting formal charges with specifications, and time.’ Mr. Wright said. Seven weeks before, the same Board had cited Frank Wright’s outstanding performance, and recommended that his salary be raised from $15,000 to $19,000 Wright, the Executive Director, deposed by order of the Personnel Committee. The fight between the Board and the Executive director over who should approve publications, annually. Majority Myth whether a dance should be “Puerto Ricans are in_ the given, or whether the here.” said Mr. Corporation automobile should majority be used for weddings, etc, had Lugovina, "and they are coming of age, ready to take more finally hit the fan. responsibility in the Corporation. Boards Flounder This is a public corporation, | Poverty corporations in each and our staff is interracial, but : of the four areas of South Bronx you must consider your, are readying themselves for ‘population in relation to those elections, This year Council ‘who serve them.” : Against Poverty has provided Mr. Lugovina piaces Puerto! for ethnic balance by selection PRican population at between 60! of some members to eliminate and 70 percent. “The figures’ the major cause of strife. South are inaccurate, but even if they Bronx has published a most at- were correct, the Puerto Ricans tractive booklet (FACTS) ex- cannot “have” this corporation; plaining duties of its 3¢-mem- on that basis any more than ber Board and eligibility re the blacks can ‘‘have’’ quirements for candidate and Mississippi,” said Mrs. Murray.; the electorate. She charged that groups from But despite the intention, and other communities, ‘‘the same| repeatedly’ come to the improved procedures veoole Bronx, disrupting hammered out over long months South meetings, and forcing) of wrangling, these boards may of those Puerto, continue to strangle themselves conformity and impede the functioning of/Ricans who would be: their Corporations by thejreasonable. j : In Hunts Point from manipulation constant Blacks have reported similar without, and the flouting of the rules and mandates of their jtacties at Hunts Point where. ‘Puerta Rican dominance is nat} charter. The struggle in the South supported by ethnic demography) Bronx is essentially an ethnic leither. Raleigh Davenport of the; one. Reasonable people on both {Council Against Poverty in a study cites population sides say: ‘We can get along, 1968 as follows: Hunts we do work together, but we: statistics are caught in a power play.” Point, 28% Black, 49%Puerto| For example. Lucille Murray, Rican, 23% other; Morrisania,’ the convenor of the Bylaws 64% black, 29% Puerto Rican,' Committee of the Board said 4% other: South Bronx, 22% “New bylaws were drawn up, black, 43% Puerto Rican, 35% ‘ . and I was not even present other. Clearly the Puerto Rican at the meeting. . .” She charged that the meeting majority in Bronx poverty areas avas convened by the Chairman, is a myth not a mandate for of all poverty and and on the basis of these bylaws, control ‘Mr, Wright was asked to vacate Federal funding based on thase his position. Further, Mrs. May indices. come “other” Compromise must (the J. Silvermann member on the Board) com- swiftly between blacks and plained that ‘she was appointed Puerto Ricans as resentment myth” to committees without her over the ‘dominance high. Recently Nasry knowledge, and was not called runs president to the meetings of those Michelin was named Community College 8, the of committees. Moreover, the blacks on the same peoples ‘names appear although again and again an committees, Committee favored any of the Puerte Ricans rendering many Board members four other named. inactive,” Mrs. Murray said. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 9, 1969: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 16 In_The_ By -A Bronx MARIETTA month has passed J. TANNER since revolves right out again when South Bronx received the $21.5 the spoils are dispensed. Mon allocated for Model articulate, One young spokesman for the Citywide Black Independent Voters, Bill (Strickland, says political Cities; but not a penny has been spent. A day care center for children of mothers without partners could have beenlarithmetic shows that black operating; 15 additionatipeople were critical in the 1965] sanitation trucks, sidewalk|Lindsay victory. “In 1965, 2% sweepers and a special vacant, Million people voted. Lindsay lot cleanup program might be|beat Beame by 100,000 votes. functioning now in the Model |Lindsay’s total consisted of, neighborhoods. 870,000 Republicans and 290,00) But control” policy the phony issue, board “communit perpetuated “Since there were only 620,000 by members who/registered Republicans in the. self-interest beforelCity, we know that at least place community need, keeps progress 230,000 Democrats crossed over at a stalemate. to support Lindsay ... When we examine who some of those The Defective Model Democrats were, we discover Last week members of the, that 40 per cent ot the Black supported Lindsay. Policy Committee met with community Mayor Lindsay who reiterated At that time, black registration was 584,000. If only 50 per cent that he must follow the Federal mandate: City agencies must of the black vote turned out run the programs. He noted! (297,000), 40 per cent of that that East St. Louis (which some! figure is 117,000, or almost the policy members had cited as exact margin of the Lindsay . having community control) was victory.” We contend that black people: in danger of losing its grant. can be decisive in the upcom“The Mayors of Cities must’ ing election. be responsible,” he said. But A new crop of registered Lindsay is reluctant to initiate voters is crucial to a Lindsay| programs without the consent victory in November. Only of the comm«munity. mit ‘blacks and Puerto Ricans (who may exercise control when ihe ‘have nowhere else to go) can program is erway 7 counted on to enlarge stopping any activity which they ibe ‘Lindsay’s voting base ‘without feel is ineffective. ! ing his competitors. The Whilec the South Bronx Policy rm ‘crucial question for Mr. Committee fitters away thel Strickland is: “What happens|: camp the summer.|'Lindsay?” Heretofore there hasi funds (all must be spent within|-to black people after November, | a 12month period), 1,000/ after they have voted 65 per! children could have been in'cent to 80 per cent for: for Concerned citizens should write'jbeen no relationship between: to George Rodriguez, Model black appointments and power‘; Cities Chairman, 3164 Third/jin the black community. “This!: Ave. demanding that programs|itime the reelection strategy for)! be implemented immediately. {iblacks must be tied to gaining: The Revolving Door August is emergency registration month when every black adult should make sare ithat power,” he said. : le For Chancellor é High on the list of possibilities t 1 sas Chancellor of Education for é ithe City of New York is Dr.l) Bernard Friedman, nowl} Assistant Superintendent of} ‘District No. 7. He kept his} he can vote in November. Mississippi and Eutaw, Alabama have pointed the way. Black people who virtually put their lives on the line, voted and won victories which changed the ‘schools open during the school}; complexion and the diction (they strike; he has maintained|: dialogue withl, can say Negro now instead of ‘meaningful Nigra) of Southern politics. community groups; under his| his district has Neighborhood registration leadership, stations are open Wednesday, welcom ¢ and initiated Thursday, Friday from 4 to 1¢/| innovative programs. P-m., Saturdays 10 to 6. Citizens|, Mrs. Blanche Dixon, now) willing to assist their neighbors'\chairman of the South Bronx; in_the registration house should or bBiock|Community contact St. tion Augustine Presbyterian Charch, |respected the Bronxwide Headquarters ofjeducation, the black drive. Corporation| Committee, fighter a for parent a quality whose association with Dr. Friedman We must register, we mast/extends over many years, is vote, we must make ourselves; staunclily in his corner. a political force. But we must; “In him we would have a not be again the “revolving| mian who knows the problems door’ Negro. This is the black|of urban education firsthand, who gets into politics during| and who has had some success the campaigns, when thelin dealing with them. That’s politicoes need him, and! what we need at the top. | Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Aug 16, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 In The By Ever Bronx MARIETTA. since Dr. J. TANNER Helen {2qually among the three poverty! ’ Mitchell’s car was bombed to’ ‘2orporations, hasten her ouster as Director; ' Each 5 would get 1/3 cf a fund } of the Hunts Point Community Progress Center, this columo ‘ho bolster their services, and I\would in turn distribute it), as sought an end to the Mafia. like gangmen who take control! ‘among their delegate agencies.i’ dispute centers around’ fatal The of the public meetings and, parpatation’s:, subsequently, the poverty funds! i 4 it i Service in thene. South Bronx, stifling |Gche!gatethat itagencyshouldto share be the equ:only : legitimate communityiin that pies receiving . e esualy| participation. { i Share as ¢ The hoods have grown fatter he corporations. | . In effect this would mean that!’ since 1967; they have made delegate agency would themselves look respectable the behind = fancy titles and! rot the parent corporation,| iC. ‘Joe {Which is practically the case! ghaulfearcrtenutomabls npvay.. Men and worms) with chains and Knives ¥ the employ of Multi-service siti vot those Tet ion the Board of Model Cities!’ down their“ir opposition with (8 of 23 members) on Mes: the! corporation, and domination of! automobiles Oppas they wndid the!poog Hunts and Point young social worker, their population. Edwin| . ‘another, must be enforced forj; . . yall agencies, nat just the 163rd]j One of their job duties seems Street Improvement Council. Not satisfied with a huge share. some elements in South to be to attend meetings, and! And further, citizens who want!! they come when ordinary’ Bronx feet they must contro} the poverty monies used to! and. better conditions in South Bronx it all. The Multi-Service i@itizens (housewives Vaborers are absent.: Corporation in Hunts Point, for must beware of the enemy example, has a budget of about Commanding a majority, and. within: who are the people! $8-million yearly, ane ‘Speaking with the conviction of whose mullifarious dealings: ‘authority. continuously gets other control every program where. Enemy Within contracts for pest control and large sums of money are: This is how it was fast sanitation through other funds. agarmarked for the public goad? i1 [Wednesday at Medel Cities, Black people, who campose Black Business i! when at 7:30; roughly 28 per cent of the ‘Headquarters, Concerning the question af%, population of Hunts Point, have ‘Bm., Multi-service and Hunts ‘money for black business, the!’ literally no aceess to these iPoint Corporation forces clashed Reverend Edler G. Hawkins of iprior fo a scheduled meeting. funds. Recently, a black woman It was to be the showdown St. Augustine Presbyterian|! deputy director of Multi-Service, an internationally! Session anyway. The Board was (Church, was called “the moving spirit” respected churchman, and behind the corporation. But a Gut in full, many to peacefully ehairman of the Presbyterian|' Some to a decision so that the Jook at the structure of that $21.5 million, wasting away in ‘Economic Deyelopment|' corporation reveals that she has)j, he bank, could begin to be Corporation, says that! no structure under her, no Spent. But, for the enforcers, organization has $10 million for!! services and funds to be deputy the usual slapping around in investment in ghetto projects. of. All authority stems from ithe early evening didn’t work CHE Davis on the Board of]: her counterpart in the’hierachy, ithis time; the mecting was ‘Freedom National Bank, is the George Rodriquez. sfancelied by George Rodriguez, man to sec for business loans Ethnic Character ‘Model Cities chairman; death and certificates of deposits from’, So the fight for a fair share: ¢ame to opposition at 9:45 p.m, $2000 to 2-million through the has had an ethnic characters Now we ask, will murder: Interracial: Council on Business ! — black against Puerto Rican. i bring the authorities to the aid,2pperiunity of PECDO. However, lately, Puerto Rican‘of inexperienced citizens trying: groups, too, have begun to speak to manage their own affairs? out against the monopoly which:If we are not careful, South excludes a large segment of|Bronx Corporation will be next. Rivera, last Wednesday. A Corporation, powerCouncil Against Poverty struggle is now in full swingi¢ontinues to shirk its between Salvator Almeida, a/responsibility in the Wright vs former assemblyman (and close|Lugovinia situation there: Bob friend of the victim) and the|Wright is the director, with forces of Ramon Velez, director |responsibility for funds; yet of the Multi-Service center. ‘Board action, characterized by] Multi-Service is a delegate’ many of the same tactics listed: agency of the Hunts Piint shove, ‘by Washington prevents Corporation. It is a pilot project, gigning checks, that will probably nol be funded| Who then will directly year, The committee next'accountable hasiand for improved be funds? from! held Rules| safeguards decreed that Model Cities money |regarding conflict in South Bronx will be divided ‘like employment Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. him of interest, with one Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious By MARIETTA J TANNER, New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 23, 1969. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 4 In The By Bronx MARIETTA J. TANNER enemas There are 91,000 unregistered, know eligible black voters in the inseparable even a fourth. i frome 7 Is Bronx; but unless we get down |(Albert Shanker has Pitlin athe: to business, not UFT’s intensive and te of them will he registered this! frankly political the (extensive year. Only registered votersiWhen we A have mew role,) may participate in the mayoral-! powertu! part of the elector te ity in-November and the schoo}, we can turn our energies toward beard elections in drive February. The registration Bronxwide Headquarters, developing “‘systems relevant to is on: the black experience” in the'as well as education politi as Urban Task Force, 1158" Wilcox suggests , Washington Ave., 669-1140. . Materials and information are College No, § available there weekdays and . To the author of a Saturdays. Registered their own apartment voters.t0 the editor last Mr. ‘ letter week, can help by simply calling to!implicating me (as an alternate say that they wish to canvass. Member of the Screening building: Committee for the president of [to assist these unregistered; Community Colleze No. 8) in jtenants in getting to the nearby ; complicity with the choice: the ‘registration sites. committee members reached | Getting In agreement that the president | There is apathy; but our job, Should be Puerto Rican (since! lis to dispel it. At the Kelly; one college in the Bronx has, Street Block Association street) meeting recently, Paul Butel,; black president), but that he Should be one acceptable to all. Socialist Workers candidate for} The dominating faction, which mayor, talked of the similarity;Claimed a majority and and do-nothing attitude af both! wanimily among all of its major political block parties. dwellers’ The members, soon genera), Spirit, of abandoned the! comnromise,|! sentiment was that the present} demanding in the letter writer’s|’ political structure was own words, “exclusively a irrelevant; they concurred with|-Puerto Rican choice.” . Mr, Butel that “black people/ Some excellent candidates): should form their own political; were interviewed, meeting the party.” veriteria of legitimate experience with political process. Once machinery people and|‘ways to open doors to higher are education and thereby job registered, let them decide what opportunity for black and Puerto to do with their vote. Ricans trapped at This week in Atlanta, a slay,of the economy. University Conference of Black| Educators will convene, I the participated with;sereeving, some important ideas on making: minority, as a part I was not bottom in_ this of the a_parly DeRESMEaSUAUWRERaeaannenoes Pec AD Re PM ne But black people in the Brony ‘in the community, emphathy are not sufficiently registered ‘with residents, scholastic, or active in any political party, €xcellence, committment to the: and have had little experience!Iprime objective of finding new institutions relevant to the black'{tto the disruption of the March life style. Preston Wilcox, the; ll meeting when the Screening chancellor and President, in his| (Committce was to report ‘le the Convention Call rejected {urther;community; where Puerto debate over whether integration) IRicans and blacks sat on or nationalism is the thing for Separate sides of the raom, and lack people. where many of the same men! “Forget the rhetoric about, who lurked outside the screening; other people’s goals for us.”;committee door, (inlerrupting! 1e said, “Our job is to develop /aften to confer with the auther| strong black families and of the letter) refused to allow | communities, using the tools we|the coramunity to hear the feel are necessary, applying|qwalifications of the candidates! them however we see fit.” jaind to make their choice on! Our Own Thing ‘that basis, There was concern at Kelly; Jt is one thing to finh Street for the black home and with bare hands, and quite sommunity too, Patrick Aga, {another Fordham University Student and;behind with you. Director of the School for Self-|“‘community a whole With a so agency called committee,’’ Defense, urged residents to|(whose-major effort seemed to protect black women andjbe to drum up support for the thildren, and cooperate with one|IMichelen. nomination), it was another. Robert LaForey, the/@asy to -solict 500 signatures. assistant director and “big| Perhaps this is why the College jaddy” to all the kids, sees/No. 8 has become a_virtna! yrogress toward their’ goal of|mork barrel for the Multi-Service mproving black home life! Corporation. x ‘through an awakening sense: Its Board Chairman = is)® f pride and self assurance ‘Community Affairs Director of|§ specially in the children.” ‘ {College No. 8; a high ranking | ¢ Both Mr. Wilcox and Mr.;sitalfer and Model Cities board vaForey seem to view education! member is admissions officer. is the prime instrument for/and the author of the letter ‘harge; yet anyone who hasjto the editor is slated to receive vorked for quality schools!tlhe public relations spot. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 30, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 2 In The Bronx 6 Community: 7- : Conscious By MARIETTA F 8 J. TANNER ,_ Im one of the hottest routines borhoods runs high in in AUantie City nightclubs this | Williamsbridge, but with some summer, a comedian describes; differences among residents as how black people can “teah up’ ||to method. This is one of the a neighborhood. His colloquy is:oldest black communities _in packing them in, and rolling in the folks are |New York; aisles about some @ families” declare of the “first that welfare golf course that was beautiful, !clicnts, the lower-class Harlem Just lyimg there, ripe for attack slumdwellers are ruining the by black encroachment. ypace. They want to enjoy : ‘undisturbed t heir beautiful i Just Dying homes and lovely patios; and Psychologist say you can ce tell ave worked haru for a clean, " in je et ete sem quiet neighborhood. This desire Pomselves. Remember when ian aura of conservatism to the ithe those cect [years ago; |Boston-Secor ye “ear ;tO Maintain gentility has given down soho “worn an prea ing |homeowners of Williamsbridge. to eas shout cursclves? Thee iThey fought the construction of has been 2. slight chan ein pEdenwald Projects some 15 : humor: ‘ to that and theTheyrecent: houses. fear| tickle the funnybone, most | the black youths that come out a eva a ng whiley Tae o with of Edenwald “tas destructive and; ye ie Beet aa - radical.” ‘Not so,” says George oni. id seemed a Sands, “These youngsters wee tr oe fas le ac . me. people ate jwithe at their they services, that resorted to gangs." is why ldeteriorating neighborhoods: but’ sands is adult chairman of they blame each other 5 usually the Youth Leadership! | ewcomers — for the Foundation. YLF brought the| itistbeldge ws peing ‘i year {ten yet done. YMCA-Mobile unit to territory was beautiful,” a controlled by a black resident said, “intereerime’? this amy poole. came, hen n jools, née Parks, everything went.” ni You still have “without a gang called: sn mert spec. of trouble,” according to Y-director, Mrs. Norma n Gearge. . YLF iss a hon: : Avenue but he garoee pal eeannace “Sag” ueaty litter, the pakept Buildings, the ‘Collins, the young president. Its, lanhattan thouth “trom Ie ough where Woodyerest ere comma ai fools appear aS |program helt iented ! is designed by youth: some plague has struckiwho used its services. Its a quiet, well-kept!members include youngsters| rug Samuelra ne UGE OP Ise‘ Ueda community was. elementary ; who y there schoo] made had formed isters” fords.” this point: “The landlords havelencouraged not really abandoned buildings,”’ she said. “But and the lenants don’t are that Jewish have each other the business advisor works with for| VLF's Frank Platt, and others. acts‘heading up a Laundromat, the Irish have fied, and: business venture. On August als their, YLF signed landlords still! despite control, decisions,| togerer e@ co. while and to make the but on every committee adults jadvise, For example, Mrs. Mary families politicians of! are so new,,D, Osborne, a real estate dealer, : trust enough to in their rights.” societies an e ‘*Priben Voungsters are a the lease, mysterious fire and, that: and are not/almost ruined the premises the| responsive to new constituency, the new |day before YLF took over. They lare determined to pad othe The Action mm million ro dollar Concourse business. not extend . ea m * i to Highbridge that y were the old jokes were saying was|AUgust we stilli YLF will hold “the does {Edenwald Cultural Renaissance| what Friday, August 29Saturday through and31 Sunday,' at the} on the clothe us. 29 Bronxwooe Ce throug Inneeiti to help pay; ! plantation: that Massa was‘Property acquisition expenses, supposed to do something for!2nd to show doubting Thomases us, like give us a decent placej What they can do. to live; feed and But when you declare you are) Slightly Revolutionary These kids are interested in| t: no longer a vassal, you must jeening up their neighborhoods, | it a better place! take the iniative yourself. is revolutionary: This) .nq making tenants mustit, jive,” Mr. Sands said. They take over the buildings that are! 44, and sist attractive still liveablestrong, and _with determina-i yay planning a benefit to asa local church to fund a care center, These young- tion, preserve them. :sters know first hand what it; means to be poor, without re Freedmen The spirit to preserve the|Sources, and without adult su-! beauty of their own neigh-!pervision. : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Sep 6, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 44 In The Bronx Community Conscious By Ralph MARIETTA Benjamin J. TANNER is young, leaving,’ Mrs. Beauford said. black and wears a bush. Three! But we invited them inside our things that made him stand out storefront. and our people from most of the Board of brought the residents Elections registrars working’ downstairs, out of the bars ,and during the August Voter off the stoops, encouraging them Regisiration Drive. Black every step of the way until Independent Voters Committee: they became registered voters.” workers with the Mobile Unit; Hor teadership trainees were on McKinley Square last: suests at the League of Women Thursday observed him moving ‘Voters Luncheo nin July “which among the people like he knew opened our eves to see that that voter registration is aM women who vote can be such; outreach job. Said citizen Lucyia force, , with such power,”, she’ : Vigay: “Registrars can't just|saig sit insidt the schoolhouse and’ “ expect people te come in.: Several Corporatio Someone has to go tell people. agencies n held of the similar, to come out and register: thenj®! the Morrisania Community; the registrars have fot to make {programs: LAB OR's was, tm fel wont ar reget area,by erty Manito 3s eine essterd they i Hennessey. Each group participated in voter registraticn {because “it was inseparable . The New Breed Maybe Ralph Benjamin is ajfrom community control.” Their prototype for the new registrars breed:|Workshop leaders paid to do a selling politicians included like Joseph Galibur job for the Board of Elections, and Sy not to do the citizens a favor, ;Lorraine Posner; educators, Hale and Marie planning to push legislation tolniict No. 12° Schoolboard! ‘ ; : :Thomas; as wellEloise as community Voter registration workers are fea ders’ like Krause,j chang,e roads in NES Chan and Geraldine sm go through all New York’s reat MUST. tape in California, for example. Not Registered You can register by mail, or: Unfortunately, he registered at their residence. This voters were not 4,000 black registered in is expecially urgent for the Bronx. But some very good black registration. since blacks things like the OURS enthusias: are shy about signing anything;|eommendation is in order for about getting themselveS:frma Moore, and Marietta involved with any legal forms. ifango in the rein; Bob York + Know and Ida Townsend in University ep Don’t Know _iArea; James. Roundtree and thie ve been soak : . Ralph barmiette : Benjamin o said, every were: Oe rane RnOW about. They q ‘18 Godley ‘Bronx; Chet ‘‘and gonie’ Jones oot Concourse, allitremont:; in South! Henderson and: in Cross Bronx-| Dorothy Margaret Mays in’ Hall and think they @re-atary Thomas in Morrisania; signing don’t up forreally some think candidate.| nq" ann Gaddy. in Brucknerthey coundview They have a choice, registration the jong will .une or that” help them Someone bia ut we oat voting eam Ne Beauford, * ao . have funds ot ‘ together i not,” Mrs. PACKS Beauford said. But we know that! ‘ihe long hard winter is upon “them, and the realities for Gut Re ch Grace , in’ on a hen on edn and the:earning a living for ihe black, parents of schoal children vio ivoman (makes olunteering fall: worked with her in the OURS’ tim Pe e ague of: Leadership Training for Local/Women Voters women do) even| Contrel program this summer, for so urgent a cause as this,’ learned what voter registration ‘an impossibility. means, “and they will never; Speaking | of elections: Each be the same ee, said. Ten of the Commuaity Corporations: trainees. Obadi ‘cod, Delia. South Bronx, Hunts Point,’ Martinez, Edith Hichs, Clarine;Morrisania, Tremont and now; jrcher, Rey, Steel,pasa and pom River ai are preparing : Marguerite Brown od ajfor their elections. Slates of: Lawrence and Genevalcandidates are due or past due.| Vanderpool — registered 33;The Federation of South Bronx: people in less than two hours!Community when the Mobile Unit came 833 E.- 167th Street. to'however, Organizations. is calling a special’ meeting September 4 at Sachs| “First the Mobile's staff Auditorium. Percellus Jones of: couldn’t stand the smell of our,the East Side Neighborhood: block, and said they were: House is chairman. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Sep 13, 1969: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 44 In_The By MARIETTA There was the Judicial at Bronx plenty J. TANNER at stake the candidates different enough Convention the Commodore at ‘to warrant the extra effort. last Saturday,’ ‘The other Mario's, Biaggi and and delegates gathered were the 'Proceacino, are backing Merola; “people's choice” to select eight ard the company one keeps is pupreme court justices to fill always revealing. Biaggi, who oOurteen - year terms for y Manhattan ard the Bronx. There ces i were the gavel, and the podium. made ang: pitchers there was of water, nothing to and Lejuene TeSsi i concrete headlines saan at recently amp about the + hite sergeants at arms, and pia, i ; pafliamentarians to enforce Mee cating up oe Roberts . Rules ‘of Order. sBut. e iproudest of his; voluntary decide.‘ contro} The eight candidates had already been selected, bill, whieh rent Tandlords were supposed to comply with jock month and most ‘didn’t somenshere. 4 and asa undetermined individuals, landlords’ interests: ever ‘s effect, anyway, serves three outside this august body. The Rubber Stamp .years without putting ina sinigle improvement, the landlord .The Reformers, led by Robert! gets a 15 percent increase, and Abrams, candidate for Borough! even if services are removed President of the Bronx. walked‘ nothing is done. out, declaring that “there had? Israel Rubin been no screening of any of the-thoughtful nominees by any and, therefore. were unprepared a panel make 2!] “Last yearsthe of citizens lawyers, quiet, a fine delegcterideferded attest. A young man to the Botein committee, consisting/an of the but committee "lawyer, the many blacks he has the determination, is kind; know was andl goodbye reviewed standing subway cigarette, to a friend. thelajlegedily outside turnstile, carrying unlighted accosted saying by He was two qualifications of judiciallpolicemen, beaten severely, nominees, (Men not considered| cursed about his African qualified by the Botein now sit/ ancestors, on the bench, anyway.) and arrested for But,!resisting arrest. Rubin defended at least, there was some wider/him, ard many others without participation in the selection charge. “The Councilman should process. “The convention h2s'be that Little City Hall, X now reverted to the old-Mfayor Lindsay politics,” said Bert Bauman, aljsrac] talks Rubin said. about,” The fellow dist AD Delegate, ‘with 'incumbent makes no effort to courty leaders dictating the!set around the district, or to choices based on factors.'atterd the Planning Board generally excluding judicial meetings, qualifications.” and therefore, is not the link to City Hall that the, When blacks complain about-community needs.” Mr, Rubin unequal justice, we might well believes the black communities begin to review how Little we of Williamsbridge and Edenwald’ have to do with the selection will be swamped by Co-op City,/ of justices. Only three Bronx which will be a 90 percent white: assambly distriets had any black woting block.” unless they elect| representation, and these were'a councilman sworn to serve! not united behind a position or‘all the people.” ! candidate. we lack Bronxite was put forward. One black.; Black oe Woman Power Andrew Tyler of Manhattan was ana i important to ey out, nominated. But we were ju cower Pe process, and that a oom Officials excluded from the real selection 517 POreT the ow are being | : black: never: selected or, appointments as well, and all issues decided. Bronx Wome: | the secretaryships and underling positions at §17.000 up. The! recisely that eptember 13 Political Chicago tn at Saturday,. Town Hall.! convention, National as thelyy Giien ere 1 Congresswoman Democratic “rill, keynote Shirley: the. debacle illustrated, is obsolete; [C 1s oti 1 mesin ot the acd further. a_ justice should Unved Black Women's Political not owe party. his allegiance Moore, the \ prltical The need to fer@ League. . Mrs. Erma eee rsform is evident and urgent./Bronx chairman, active in voter Why should not we spearhead registration, is a headstart a teacher at the St. Paul's iw ay . [episcopal Church PLAN center. _Speciat Election = i1509 women from four boroughs Running for Councilmarjand all walks of life will attend. at the top of the Brony|phe main thrusts is to organize (Williamsbridge to Israel Mario Rubin, Merola, who will facelfamilies.” which the group feels the incumbent,lare being threatened and Riverdale):tg “protect black homes and 16. is hard enough the..issues are in a Special Election September Ishattered by laws and policies. It to getinot profound, and‘ggss, designed in our best, people out to vote in the regular /interests. Tickets may be: primary (which Rubin wou by!secured by calling Ida! a contested narrow margin), but!*Townsend, coordinator, at 29+: : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Sep 20, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New Yo: tk Amsterdam News pg. LL hopelessness, In The lives on drugs.” Bronx MARIETTA ruin their Cut Robberies The By will Fourth Platoon, which Mayor Lindsay fought suceessfully for, has . cut robberies by 23.2 percent and felonious assult by 11.2 per cent in the four months of the: experiment. J. TANNER Mr. Lindsay cared enough “Racism is the issue in this writing up the policy of the about law and order to test election campaign,” said Ethelin organization, Civil Liberties this plan in a heavily black and Puerto Rican area — the Dubin of Brooklyn to a cheering Attorney Holmes {7th Eleanor Division which included crowd of 750 black women at Norton, the co-chairman said: Morrisania — where poor people Town Hall Saturday. Mrs. Dubin “Nothing better illustrates the \1J_ know are stripped constantly was enunciating the position on to ,of woman black for hard-earned clothing the Mayorality election of the need wnusua’ imecessities, their than and minor United Black Women’s Political organize League which has formed to Proximity {o the major domestic| [conveniences by drug addicts problems of our time Zhe opponents of John Lindsay. “develop black grassroots problems, indecent ‘are conspicuous by the silence womanpower as 2 pvlitical consumer housing, inadequate and in the Fourth Platoon fight; foree.” : Standing ovations greeted degrading welfare programs, . and their supporters, namely Congresswoman Shirley|} « « Black men and children John Cassesse of the PBA, Chisholm, the keynote speaker look to their wife and mother vehemently opposed it, to find for her family a way We think that now is the time and inspiration for the group’ whom, they said, “by her to make a home amidst the ifor dialogue between groups whe poverty and blight that engulfs care about this City, less racism independence and commitment ignite the powder keg, rekindling to her people, exemplifies what our communities.” So therefore, the United Black old hatreds between whites, ar black women could stand for Political League j well aS against blacks. in American politics today.” Women’s bi jGhisholm had Crossed turned its resources inward — to strengthen the black home party lines in support of Jo Lindsay, and was threatened by and family, pledging war on State Democratic Chairman|‘© islators and administrative policies that were not in our for Procaccino) with loss of her best interest, ‘“‘so that the NY State Democratic National quality of black family life wil ‘not. deteriorate beyond repair.” Committee woman seat. “Let them bring me up on: The stability of the black charges,” Shirley Chisholm said, home, they noted, is threatened “Franklin Delano Roosevelt had by the war, by poverty, by |done the same thing, in support) powerlessness, and by the lack of Fiorello LaGuardia, and of “law and order.”‘The Mafia nothing was done.” Thus she control led drug traffic assures proclaimed black women free that our communities will be and equal. Her audience wildly crime infested, and that many responded with support of her of our young men, in their position, and their determination John Burns (now campaignin; to work for the election of John indsay for Mayor. . ~ Now ¢o the question of racism, and. ‘What tH means for Mr, ay to have the support of black women activists in each borough. Black people, even if we got every living one out to vote, would only be 15 per cent of the electorate — but crucial! But then, the Mayor has indicated that he would be the Mayor of “all the minorities.” The Jews are the largest minority, and some of them are rabidly anti-Negro, but they are not too comfortable with conservatives and reactionaries either, Somewhere, somehow (and why not in New York City) white people have got to begin to see that there is no hiding place down here. Black people jare everywhere! Who can deny justice for such Americans as we: after all we have been in this country for 400 years; our ancestors were here before the Mayflower; our fathers anc sons fought in every war this country has had; we are a part of the very fiber of this Jand and most assuredly this City. Common Problems Now is the time to sit down as equals, and talk about the future. Whites who think about the future and have learned something from the . must recognize that keeping blacks back is a costly business. Welfare cuts hurt black families its true, hut the chieslers black and white are usually ablebodied, and are now finding new ways to chiesle. The blind, the sick, the aged, the dependent children of all: racial groups are suffering the: 66e a day. A NY Times reporter’ in Baychester noted that the white-taxi-driver homeowners and there waiter. see the Mayorality as a ‘test of strength between the black poor and the white lower middle class . and Procaccino as the champion of their interests.” Though they mouth law and order and label destructiveness black, they have to admit that property values have not gone down when blacks bought homes, because blacks as well as whites have the same ‘aspirations for thelr families. Our Homes First And this emerged so positively from the Saturday meeting. In Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohi ibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Sep 27, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 28 with a $9,400. a In_ The BA lack In d2gree starts Washington, of at there enthusiasm is for improving the lot of the poor. Rey Wilkins has noted it: the black elected officials scored it, and the New Careerist got the: cold treatment as further proof. : Imporiant Side Effects The purpose of Title I ESEA may have been to raise the Bronx Community Conscious. achievement level of disadvantaged school children, ; but improving the ability of their parents to earn a living was certainly a worthwhile The New Careerist met in/der program. And it will take 10; peripheral benefit. The SeptemWashington last week, andiyears before they get the BS: ber UFT newspaper reported learned a hard lesson: the funds degree, at the present rate of! “the job picture for black is are not available to develop New 'g credits per semester. These worsening and. . . the By MARIETTA J. TANNER Careers for the Poor. ‘were to Simeon satGolar and Albert: weapon down to a friendly, Shanker have been for “community| whites a secretiynemployment control.” getting the knowledge| television discussion Sunday and, and skill to man jobless ‘and gap black rate between in widening. poverty schools’ neighborhoods “increased from heaved a sigh of relief: no ugly | properly; the rest was merely'73 to8 percent over the year.” racial confrontations like last’ public relations, ! For black women (who are year because of the school: strike. But Albert Shanker, m) Jobs Dwindle ‘the While last year over heads of households in 3 10,000jout of 5 of the lowest income might do something now to, the rights of, paraprofessionals. They might, confrontation is good, and! decentralized and centralized! per cert for white women ‘for example, seek an increase necessary, and he is getting: programs. 9,000 of these were|according to the Department :in salary for them, through a’ increase ‘salar. ready for it. _He 18’ not eligible for Career Ladder,|of Labor. Now many of the , blanket decentralizing his union, just ;and most received no training,|career ladder jobs are held by ‘appeal’, even while the figh like the school system: he is other is in’ than through their! these women, and what will it for bargaining rights going political just in time for asscciation with a teacher. The/all have meant to the poor progress. ' the school board elections. ~ mer of paraprofessionals has communities to have had 10.000 | .No teachers who are parents Our communities are ed this year. even though jcbs in the school system once. of school children have yet come cemplacent—there is peace in N’xen has extended; ‘t m'zht have meant some real ‘hrcugh this much touted our schools. But it docs seem: Tile E fer two years at its job training for them, had a ‘“‘Career Ladder’’. a pity that they are “back to current rate ef funding. ,Meaningful career ladder been Paraprofessionals in health and| normal” like nothing ever Other programs, formerly established. ‘social services are faring happened last year. Community carried with central funds. are| The UFT promises of $8500 . somewhat better. Complacency people were saying as they slept: now in Title I, and Title I' would apply only to about 3,000 : the face of no jebs is an. in those schools, that they were teachers’ salaries have inereasESEA programs would be- > sem'nation, ard ras, these “never going to let them go!” ed but net those of paras. “No eubject of only tinker with. the heart of the Baard to Ah, well, it was only an: increase is possible,” the Board: Examiners, not the Community; the problem of the: illustration anyway, How do you says, ‘while unions are at the Corporations for screening, The| disadvantaged child: his; hold on to something when you point of bargaining.” Community Corporations,]| disadvantaged parent, who real.| have no control of the funds.) The election held last Spring through the Council Against ly wants and could do, a decent; or the contracts, or even the: (in which only the 3,000 Poverty, on which they sit, jab. jobs? Centralized paraprofessionals No Professionals were to have participated, is Jobs, In Pittsburgh and Cairo still in litigation. Only when the and Mississippi, black poor, results are certified can salaries Mexican. poor, Puerto Rican be negotiated. poor, beg for jobs. Morrisania UFT and District Council No. and Hunts Point poor want jobs 37 promise high salaries, UFT too, Professional. jobs in the has published a wage scale of school system, the communities from $6500 with no experience never had, and witk or high school diploma. to $5200 decentralization they are more: with 3 years of college. But firmly in the hands of the Board! the way things are going, few of Examiners than ever. : paras will ever enjoy such But, the ‘‘community)| salaries. It looks like the funding professionals” — teacher aides/ without a high school diploma; sources are drying up for sevwho were to rise to the rank eral reasons. Paraprofessionals cf teacher throvgh a career | came into public services where ladder program — what has: there was a shortage of skilled become of them? : orofessionals. In education. thai Actually only about 1,000) condition no longer exists. kindergarten educational: Shanker reported a surplus of; teachers awaiting: assistants in the entire city were! 1,000 ever involved in a Career Lad-; placement, now that a teacher: his low-keyed, off hard Way.' people worked with the Board| families) the jobless rate is 6.7 protect is tough: he says Som¢iof Education as paras Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. in/per cent against 38 Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Oct 4, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 15 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Although I am nat too much [ten, and impossible to ‘revive. for rituals, I participated in ‘Most black people, especially one on Sunday, designed to those young .arid sophisticated “bind together and strengthen ones who were in that audience, black people so they can survive are questioning religion in any| the long struggle which lay lform, and most certainly the ahead.” : ‘superstitious and supernatural. Clean Sweep | .Yet they moved to the rhythm I had participated in the com- of the drum, and the delightiul munity corporation elections the ymusic played with African inday before, and n6thing could ; struments. There did not seem bring home more forcibly that to be too much of a difference some kind of binding together between the Afro beat, and the And. when the of black people was indeed nec- bougaloo. essary. Puerto Ricans had swept audience was invited to get up every community in the South and do their thing, many sponBronx. Black people, customar- taneously and joyfully joined in ily unbound, unorganized and the dance, Even the fairest-skinapathetic, did not come out to ned engaged at least in pat-andvote, Now, of course, there will juba at the Ritual. It was, for be protests, anger, firings of @ moment, a revival at the the staffs that, unfortunately, Baptist church I used to attend. did not see the wisdom of get- There was the movement, the involvement of my ting out the vote to protect pulsing neighbor with me, that I missed their own jobs. So we went down to Harlem when I attend integrated to participate in the Ritual, de- churches... . signed to bind black people toNew Ties gether, at the New Lafayette So, we have discovered, music Theater. The attractive performers, including the Bronx’s binds us together. But how can! own: Estelle Evans, succeeded we transfer’ this to life? Of; itself, spirited revivals do not? in creating a relaxed atmos- make black people trust each: phere, and a camaraderie withother, or follow leaders, or rein the audience. There was comevaluate priorities. : munion and symbolic cleaning; Disparate priorities kept greeting. and hand-shaking Some of the people who had black people away from thej come only to be entertained polls Saturday. Household duties: were reluctant to join in the came first, or a game, or listen-! ing to sounds, took precedence. rites. | It was a beautiful audience, When you ask, remorsefully, the wore non-voters will say, ‘but I was! all handsome black men bush haircuts, ranging from too busy.” Hat in hand once again, black well-spoken curly to kinky; and people in the Bronx will be slim’ women, young graceful, wore theirs in bubble begging for poverty jobs: ‘They shaped afros or tied up in geles. wont give us any jobs.” I do Dashikies, bubas and lapas of believe that it takes a long exquisite fabric abounded. Jt fime to separate a man from was unlike the audiences seen his heritage. That’s why I still at Greenwich Village produc- become emotionally involved in tions in that there were no inter- spirituals; and why the Ritual racial couples, and few in West- was strangely moving. Is thal ern dress, The younger people why, too, as black people, we there, obviously, were not there must constantly fight against only to be entertained; most the inclination to be slaves — seemed to have come hoping to expect other people to take care of us? Even. now there to be bound together... are blacks who seem satisfied Old Forms Which brings us to the ques- to receive the crumbs of MultiCenter, and Model! tion, what kind of ceremonies Service might we evolve that would have Cities: and those (now with! this effect on black people? The Saturday’s vote) who will be! Ritual at the New Lafayette content with the leavings of each could only ‘suggest an’ answer. of the Community Corporations. Its: sparkling, bright audience Believe it or not black men was asked to participate of superior qualifications and in obsolescence — 0 worship ability will quietly take sublancestors and forms long forgot- ordinate positions and.erve. It’s great to have Rituals to | sway together, but it's about lime we found forms that bind us together far survival. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta 1 New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Oct 11, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News By ‘ The MARIETTA J. TANNER timetable for, majority the the South Bronx, the decentralization lists November| havejoritythe inj most vocal lected ag ‘schoolboard ‘tentaté date when p publish plan. es Ha ve officials, and most importantly the most cohesive community, To outsiders, the folks United Bronx quany black p the fie weer | Parents, seems to speak for tr worked dr {all the parents. Therefore, to December 1 On hearings eon a et new. one?! public having Bob downtown LeBron at and CUE Dr. Friedman on their ‘on December ieting plan; and Board to represent the Bronx tentative distric ‘and communi bel on 4 Bernard ae ete nea seems logical and equitable. After all, there are Rhody ‘on the ball, } ee must get MeCoy and Livingston Wingate! e 6 all they from Brooklyn and Harlem! an about changes, respectively. how thelr thechiFropose"3d education will be affected, and whether ‘or not this is the jan th want, B ®Y for Innocent Lambs This summer Th US i CUE proposal , before the 1 office of Education is in rough going, considering the anyway, present climate for funding domestic projects several in Washington. Nevertheless, the; community workshops on locali $2.7 million requested must! control were held in the black: include the thinking and be community, United Bronx tailored to meet the special Parents, funded for these needs of the Black Bronx classes for several years, has; community as well. Black recently received a grant of parents in the Bronx need $80,000 from the Urban Coalition! training in local control, and/ to extend their program. | are entitled to do it their way i The Center for Urb ar Education, in cooperation with] the Puerta Rican Forum| conducted leadership training) workshops for twenty-five! with personnel they relate to/ and want. Only innocent lambs! going to the slaughter would have it any other way. Youngsters in grades six te Spanish-speaking adulls in the! 9 can audition October Ly and South Bronx last Spring. They! ig for the Bronxwide Chorus. will repeat these workshops this! Ronald Smith, Director, says winter, fn Districts 7 im the that a pleasant voice, good Bronx and 13 in Brooklyn. musica! ear, and good “In both places we will work: attendance are the basic, with the community parents in} requirements. The chorus was both black and areas, as well Puerto Rican! established seven years ago asi as the locali an outgrowth boards.” Dr, Robert A. Dentler,| of wusic, of the Friends Inc., in cooperation Executive Director said. Dr.| with the Board of Education.| Dentler has a fine record of| Rehearsals and auditions are’ working for integrated held ' Saturday, education, and for being in thel JHS 115, 9 to 12:20 at 183rd Street and forefront of the open enro/iment. Valentine Avenue. battle. He and the men at CUE’ probably believe they were listening to the pulse of the Bronx — they and just about: every other source of funds have, it dunned into their ears: ‘The, major need in the Bronx is| for Spanish, or to put it anotherj way, bilingual programs. They can Tun down cogent, scentific statistically plausible reasons for placing all their program in District 7, for example: It’s a Model Cities area; it’s de facto segregated, ete. True, Spanish-! speaking parents are in the! Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta 1 New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Oct 18, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 16 In_The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER res, The Borough President of the (and certainly in . Bronx, Herman Badillo, will television debates, comes hat hold Budget Hearings October as the most knowledgeable) is 34 through =Decem ber 3. Robert Abrams. Planning District No. 3, for Black people have a stake example, will convene at Mortis in getting him elected. bot in High School, October 20, and/this’as in all other campaigns No, 4 the follownig evening atlthe “poor cannot PS 35. Other areas should call) readily volunteer. Every morning after CY 93000 for their date andj the children are off to ,school, time. 7 women with leisure, who believe Every black citizen of the/ in a candidate, go out and work Bronx should make the sacrifice| for him, Any candidate will tell to attend these bearings, They! are not just another meeting;| but one that can have concrete| results. Projects under! consideration include renovation’ of Lincoln Hospital. a new multi-: you he can’t do without them. These women are one ood reason swhv they (or their yusbands) have all the influence once the candidate wins. > * : service health facility replacing; Equal Volunteers St. Francis Hospital; the|/ But, alas, any black woman modernization and construction||Wo can type is working at of public schools borough wide, |/it, full time, and can’t afford as well as the negotiations for||to volunteer. Coming home after building Community College No.tia hard day's work, the wife g. ‘iand mother has shopping to do, These budget hearings are the Clothes to prepare for the Kids will Ivt ard Tndity an ent: jects hows involved testament of School next day, an apartment pe Ra-qen’s, (0 keep, a husband’s meals to the and their that he Jocal avmher of Prepare, lessons to assist with, pertinence, has not communities al! in the few hours between only Six and 11 o'clock, in _ The Lindsay campaign in the} \ planning their borough, but that Bronx suffers, too, froma dearth, their concerns transmitted are being of black volunteers. Reelection not unless by their elected]of Mayor Lindsay is not assured, officials to City Hall. Participate and’ will More blacks, who be are a crucial the 15 It would be marvellous if we| Per cent of the vote, get out, could gripe less and participate| to the consuming. Many his democracy through man, to vote for him, more. But participation is time-] All has not been perfection in people have| administration, been introduced to participatory| has the quality but of neither Badillo's; participation been nerfect. our evening vo cf the Planning! The Mayor doés, however,| Boards. They want to sea the|have character: his honesty, responsibilities and authority of}decency, and lack of prejudice the Borough President| comes through even when he expanded. The man who ‘has|is annoyed and tired. One of sworn to continue in this vein|his law-and - order opponent, OO “Mario Procaccino, who selfrighteously blasts welfare recipient chiseling, has recently been accused of ‘inflating scholastie achievements his in Verrazzano dis- campaign literature.’ The Procaceino campaign brochure erroneously claimed Mr. Procaceino had graduated from City College “with honors’ and that he was “president of College, later covered not to exist.” Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Oct 25, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 16 In _ The Bronx Communi onscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The 51 voice Featherbed Lane Community Freedom Chorus will sing an original Jazz Mass in Ossining, NY. on Sunday Why did this community chorus want to go to Sing Sing? Because, said Marvin (Bob) York, president of the group, in , N.Y: on lay “Tt was our way of expressing October 26. The Chorus of 7th cur concern for those inside; and 12th graders would: have sung for the prisoners at Sing Sing, also. But the warden, J.L. Casscles, said ‘Not possible,” because their auditorium ‘will not accommodate this large The “Mass of the People,” is a collection of original liturgical jazz compositions by Dennis Bell, a teacher at JHS 6&2, who directs the Freedom Chorus. ‘Proceeds from performances are divided among its members (who graduate from high school) as partial scholarships. our singing may have been in-, spirational, and rehabilitative.” Too bad the warden said, “No,” for Bob York echoes the sentiment heard more and more these days that we are not going to thraw away members of our group either. Black families are! plack children; adopting teachers are saying our children can learn, and black community fortunately (who people managed te escape a brush with the law themselves) are ‘giving a hand up to prisoners, Movement around the idea of shaping our own destiny was evident, too, at the IS 148 Advisory Council and Bronx NAACP Sponsored meeting October 22 to plan for Dist, 9 School Board Elections, January 2, 1970. The DecenTimetable tralization gives January 18 as the date for circulating nominating petitions. But the organizers of the meeting have learned from hard experience the value of advanced planning and organ- ization, The coalition of community groups decided to divide itself into five areas and to develop a olate of 15 candidates. It worked on criteria or selection and procedures for finding the most qualified and communityidentified candidates. Interim Board Districting plans are to be published November 17 and public hearing December 1. The IS 148 on them begins coalition seeks workshop leaders to discuss the Decentralization law with parents and to carry the message of registering and voting to all. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Nov 8, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 4 In_The Bronx. Communit onscious By MARIETTA Congresswoman holm was in the J. TANNER Chis- have been even easier for white Bronx last politicians to name our leaders, Sunday to campaign for John V. when the machine made the Lindsay. Rain washed out the pitch. But we will have some of bigh point of her day, which the benefits of victory, because was to have been a rally with of courageous black leaders like the Mayor and Senator Javits in Congresswoman Chisholm who the heart of the black communi- took a position at the beginning, ty, Me ia, But her indomi-|when all the chips were down, table spirit was the brightest and stuck by it until the end. spot in the campaign for the The Clear Choice black people who met her. For the issue in the election Shirley Chisholm spoke of was racism. We had to select’ revolution designed to bring us the best qualified men from| into the mainstream of Ameri- among the candidates — men: can life. She talked unity, COM-'who had shown by word and| mittment, organization, self-as- deed that they opposed racism, surance, hard work, integrity:and stood for a fair deal for and rewards for services TeB-: black men, too. John V. Lindsay dered. Those members of Trini-has that record; Robert ty Baptist Church at 224th abrams, the borough president,| Street who waited with their:appeared with Mrs. Chisholm: pastor, Reverend Lloyd, and jast week, reaffirming his stand! George Sands of the Indepen-' for fair play. | dent Voters Club of the Bronx,’ we couid not afford to “ignore to hear her, got her message. ‘the top of the ticket? as Roy Both major political parties in New York City will be in turmoil when John Lindsay, the candidate of neither of them, wins the election. A better place jn the new organization must be Innis of CORE suggested, to demonstrate our awareness that we “need not be forced to ac- cent the lesser of three evils.” How barren this philosophy; how capriciously reactionary to ours, foister this on black people! Fruits of Victory We have never had clear Mrs, Chisholm knows what ii choices, mainly because leader-' takes for victory, so ram ship people never took clear-cut doesn’t stop her. She worked 2s positions when it counted — at an underling for years in Brook- the time of the Primaries when lyn before she went to Albany. they could name candidates and She bolted the whole gang of bring out a vote in support of is“Jeaders” to try for Congress. sues. Our leaders have usually That's why she, too, abhorred taken a safe position until they the election boycott proposed by could ‘get their thing together” so-called “black leaders.’ ‘behind some lesser spokesman. Black people had to have a: The inadequacy of our leadershare in the making of the ship forced us to choose “‘the Mayor 1969, if they are to have lesser of three evils’’ with little a future in New York City. real imput in the shaping of any Those people who said other- of their platforms and organizawise remind me of the rooster sions. who thought his crowing every morning brought the sun up. Black people are apathetic about voting anyway; reactionaries were counting on our staying home. Only those who worked to bring out the vote in large numbers did something worth crowing about. And furthermore, where were those so-called leaders during: the Primary, when they could have put forward a candidate, or gotten blacks registered so they could have made their positions felt more positively through the elective process? In the Bronx, black are reaping the bitter harvest of withdrawal from the democratic process: they are the minority in every communit» corporation board, with clear dimunition of power. The election process, its wealmesses and inequities notwithstanding, can work for black people, too, once cocky little people stop selling it short. There were many flaws in the Mayoral campaign. Candidates gave primacy to television advertising, which had the danger of not oringirg the candidate into personal contact with people through his foot soldier-. In black communities where Betting out the vote was a stairclimbing, person-to-person, ar-' duous, unglamorous job, m‘gi:: Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Nov 15, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 44 Black people gave John Lind-(week, television made the pitch say Ore cmt of thelr vote, fa for votes and the large expendi- the eaciion. No « ture of money for media lett lit- ‘nteerkty 98 solkdiy We for strengthening neighborthe Mayor — the Puerto Ricans} hood political organization. Now werk 63 per cent for Lindsa tojwe y learn that the “Little City der cent for Procaorino; endjHalls” will be revitalized, tc take the place of indigenous organization. There is also planstakes initiative to deliver;jning to merge these with their 2 must mean that Meck peopla| Urban Task Force structure and are “We want tha right/the Planning Boards (which te by tre andjwere controlled by borough do not the great while) Presidents). It may be a legitifather todo forus."°* =‘ = ‘Imate effort to decentralize govThis Kind of vote should put:eroment. But we must be sure the blacks like Congresswoman that the leadership whom the Shirley Chishalm and Assembly- People select will be there, lead- man Charles Rangel in the inner ership that is dependent upon cirele, solidly on that bipartisan the people for their jobs. coalition that the Mayor has set! Often, in the previous admin- up to run things; but such anj istration, Mr. Lindsay went outimportant matter as self-deter-: side New York to find personnel mination cannot chance, In the California, black can caucus be left to'for high level positions, Even Mexican-Ameri- and lefficient black men who filled for example, commissionerships were re not a man who sented in the black community. are demanding 30 If there was per cent of the total budget of knew abou: recreation in Brookthe Democratic State Commit-jlyn, the Bronx, or Harlem, aptee to establish and maintain aj prentice apparatus in the agencontinuous political operation.} cies needs investigating. Without this committment,| The protesting stage is over. tied to finance, whites may con-| Black people living in poor comtinue to name our leaders and| munities need facts and skills so say, “Be low.” a good boy, and fol-ithey Controlled Machinery It requires vigilance can be involved in plan- ning before the fact. One good way to insure thisis through to see|Tespansive, that community people identify, Sentatives. responsible repre- their own leaders, and that: A college by any other name these are not displaced by the! May still be a college, butmany handmaidens of the power! South Bronx residents are balk-| structure. During the campaign,|'9& at the same (supposedly outsiders unfamiliar with the:“Nanimously endorsed by the black community, were in con-|Board after polling the commutrol of the campaign machinery. uty). for Community College #8, It would tive had have been more effec-'These kinds of decisions cannot neighborhood people’ be made by the entire commu- had the responsibility for get-'nity; nor can everyone be ex- ting out the vote, and the tools ected .to know enough about to do it with. ‘she college to act wisely on the ven the 80 per cent margin Matters of curriculum, enroll. does not represent the kind of: Ment, location, budget, and pers massive support we could give; Sounel that are being considere a candidate, and must muster;00w and must be befor the school board elections.|fore the school opensfinalized in tempoEach assembly district is com-|:'aty quarters next September. prised of approximately 60,000| The search to find competent voters: the 80th in the predo-|tepresentatives whom they trust minently white East Bronx de-|must be a real one for black livered 49,382 voters; the 78th Bronx residents. These peaple (including Morrisania) only} must live and vote with the peo16,955, and the 75th a mere:ple whose interests they Tepre- 14,450 voters in the Mayoralty,'sent. College #8 yet be The 77th vote reflected Procac.!saved to serve the may entire com- cino’s activity and the support! munity; but volunteer minute indigenous leaders gave him. |men cannot be expected to conMoreover, as mentioned last'tinue to put out every fire, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Nov 22, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 16 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Dr. Alvin Pouissant, the! Student’s-Rights of Board eminent black psychiatrist came; Education hearing at Fashion to the Ethical Culture Fieldston! Industries, Lane and Wingate School, November 10 to discuss, | High School Students appealed | “The Black Experience in the'to Isaiah Robinson, the lone|f Private School.” black man on the Board, tolf™ This was a little revolution. listen to their side. They said He came at the behest of black they would not expect their parents, (many children students) are who of whose-black brother's position to bel] scholarship determined by reports of the requested that:police department and UFT.| this humanist school (a pioncer;Perhaps it is a sense of fair in integrated education) alteriplay forged by our bitter 3m the curriculum, staffing, andimemories of injustice, that administration of the school to' prevents even our tested leaders reflect the black experience. from acting in our enlightened! Dr. Pouissant was the respected authority supporting tc the black students, need “meet together as ca act cf reaffirmation of their blackness, self-interest. Other groups just'approved a decentralization billtt impossible ror any black to don’t seem to get all tangled: acceptable to UFT/CSA: during: get a majority. We are always the victims up in seeing the other fellow’s the teacher's strike and during! Side like we do. negotiations on the Bill, black of integrating before we are Politics in educotion wi’: antisemitism was distorted to ready to move as a unit. Rhody | - BRONX EXHIBIT — Gil Edwards (left) of 164 W. 174th St., the Bronx, is one of many talented black artists exhibiting in the Third Annual Whites have always felt that move to the local level withifam the white backlash, tojMcCoy, the Ocean Hill Showcase of the Visual Arts there is something sinister about; Decentralization and some: mobilize whites against Lindsay|Administrator whose calm, sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts now under blacks meeting in groups,’’ he sharpening of our political wits (and especially against his!singlemindedness against the way at the Bronx County said. No other groups’ is urgent! Presently. leaders'liberal Board headed by John ‘exemics of black education! 161st Street and collectivism is thus regarded. who take a position in the black Doar, with black conscious, inspired us, now is being: Building. The black high school students interest that cannot be Milton Galamison in a position attacked in his own community.| Grand Concourse. Shown at are Mrs. Edward at Ficldston were the catalysts compromised are as scarce as.of power). So will black candidates for| Tight for this meeting. “Just because’ hen’s teeth. District No. 9School! The ‘compromise’ Marchi, School boards unless some prior Bramson, Showcase chairman; Gerald Klot, Counwe are receiving a privileged'Board, with black members,!bill has eliminated the Doarl agreement is reached. _ chairman and William eliminated: thei Alvin Pouissant said that ceil education," they said, “does not, shifted (through a “typographi|Board, B.- Hopkins, member of the ; set us apart from other blacks.” cai error” the nine schools with| Demonstration Districts, and #black youths must talk and meet Council executive board. The Their education must prepare'the lowest reading grades ou! kept the Board of Examiners,|together to reaflirm their exhibit of 200 paintings them for working with their:cf the district. -What victory was there for the|blackness, and work out their continues until November 23. brothers. They would not be The nine ghetto schools were black “leadership?” Mr. Dicks; own destinies. Some good skull! SC! homogenized. restored during a shouting, no-; asked. {sessions among black adults| Taking Stands confidence meeting; four of the; New coalitions are in the yseem indicated now, before our Black youngsters are taking: nine were eliminated anyway,| making, Will they make fo wl power to educate our children stands, and it is gratifying when by whatever powers designed|the selection of blacks who will cation is homogenized beyond identifitheir parents back them up. the Redistricting Plan. At the|identify on local boards, or will The Reverend Jesse Jackson said: “‘Whitey’s practice is to hearings on Hien neh lines oe ahs eceptable to. Wwhite give us a little bit, just enough | Hecemper 2, 7:30 p.m.) more|money to make some one of us believe! spouting and anger onthe swite;be to manipulate elected? it is enough to fight over; or! <n bo fistened to, but will hard.| Randolph tanta the fhink We are iy change things. A scholarship to @ privatebeen. Ss ad once No Real Meat spe ys The A. blacks) Philip Institute, with its ‘director, Bayard Rustin, are in ftm° healthe breach. between i : eoough fo sedi the mouths of Nether redistricting, ‘nor QlaGts and the, UF. Their black black parents, students . and to cause fiscal “control” has been upp at Brotherhood in-Action to refuse to transferred to the community.’ pecember 2 will unwrap a UFT identify with their brothers. The “What we will fight over.” says ‘fully clothed in community Ricans demanded majority of the Fieldston youths Harold Dicks, Citywide NAACP; consciousness Locally UFT is will graduate from college; they, Chairman is disciptine, the) active in preparing candidates are potential leaders, and it is cafeteria and recreation; notthejrg; the School Board a matter of black survival that‘ceal meat of education.” White| rections (A meeting at JHS 22 they learn now to identify. ipoliticians, and white-controlled*j2ct week ended in chaos after Last Thursday, at the.black ones, drafted and:the Pyerto that the entire proceedings be translated into Spanish.) Like the poverty elections, Decentralization portends outbursts between blacks and Puerto Ricans, and splits among the blacks who might flood the field, with candidates, making Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Nov 29, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News 8. In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Decentralization of the big citywide agencies to make them more responsive to the community, may not, in the first analysis, make them more responsive. As a matter of fact, first rumblings point toward administration seems to be tightening the reins. Lincoln Hospital is searching for a new: administrator; Andre Walker, a! dlack man, who was Michelin's| Deputy is there, but may be: tighter control by an entrenched : oypassed. administration, _ placing | The hiring of a | new. whatever community boards that mcy be voted upon by administrator must be tied to! of the Affiliations a helpful citizenry in weak review jwontracts, whereby Lincoln advisory positions. School personnel, with the nas been a “teaching hospital’? strongest union of all, moved tor Hinstein-Yeshiva, rather swiftly last year to guarantee ‘ban a hospital whose main tenure rights to teachers; now ‘unction was to give service the Council of Supervisory Lo patients. Associations has successfully Under the Affiliations fought the qualifying list and deans of schools the acting principal position. Vontracts, of medicine are the heads of Under the new law, the department of the communities will not be able avery to name their principals by tospital. While the contracts selecting those who pass met a real need and hospitals qualifying examinations or who sould not survive without the and internes they have state certification (like residents oring, accountability for patient Rhody McCoy, for example.) ‘Mare was not a built-in priority, The legislature has mandated when they were negotiated. that the principal on Board of “A total disregard for the Examiners Hst will be aeeds of patients,” said Mrs. appointed, even if there are no Odessa Carrion in a hearing schools available for them. If defore the City Commission on they do not bave schools to go to, appointed men get the duman Rights last Thursday, “permits Lincola-Einstein to run fall principal’s salary anyway. six departments with case aides One Bronx District ‘who darry caseloads of as many} already as 80 patients.” is Superintendent i dickering for list but school-less Exclusion Turns Screws | principals to replace District Odessa Carrion, supervisor of. Coordinators on his personal :Medical Social Services: staff, The New York Times labelled ‘outpatient department, with 20; experience, claimed as “racist” the Central Board’s years the -liscrimination by Abraham plan which cancelled principal’s examination sched- Silverberg and Raymond Cagan, uled for Jast week, and Einstein Administrator and Soopened eligibility to take a cial Service Supervisor respec“because she was new exam to anyone who bad tively, bypassed for two promotions, taught five years. while caucasians with lesser This will, obviously, permit qualifications were placed ir, more blacks and Puerto Ricans the fobs.” | . to apply. ' Mrs. Carrion was fired. Actually, this is the way it ‘ea without due process, on: i is statewide, and the way it ‘charges of “insubordination” was before 1960: Only in New jOctober 31. (The AfricanYork City was service as an ‘American Coalition is’ spearassistant principal a require- heading a demonstration ment for taking the principal's Tuesday io demand her exam. Rather than lowering the immediate reinstatement, and qualifications, this qualify disciplinary action against examination may permit cap- \Messes. Silverberg and Cagan.) | able men with some knowledge of the community (which often’ Tightening up may take the seems lacking in those who form of “exclusion of those wha spend all their lives studying to work in the people’s interest. pass examinations) to serve @5 This kind of discrimination as administrators of schools. |practiced in the North is subtle, Hospitals Tightening, Too By July, are to be the hospitals decentralized; jand hard to prove. An agency too, receiving public funds could staff every department with white supervisors, certifying whites with foreign degrees or no degrees and devising all manner of exclusionary rationalizations, and still claim, Ne discrimination. Communities will be looking for well-qualified people to fill positions like the ad- ministrator Hospital. with They community of Lincoln want someone| saavy, but: enough knowledge about the field to build a decent medical: program for the people of South Bronx, and enough independence to get our money’s worth from! the medical school. Urban League’s Skills Bank is being revitalized to help qualified people t to meet these jeb | ties. partles opportumit -should send resumes to: Bronx Urban League, 204 West 136th Street, New York. Every morning between 30 end 60 schoo! children are fed breakfast et the Kelly Street Block Association (926 Intervale Ave.) through its School for Self Defense. Robert LaForey, assistant director, cooks great grits and eggs; and his pancakes! are so popular with the children, | that even those who are not actually hungry drop in (and are welcome) to get a -little supplement. Thanksgiving Day, the Mor- risania Pilgrims will fee’ Senior Citizens at 2:30 p.m.. Hobson Center (Webster Avenue ‘at 170th St.). Sponsors include Diana Paul and Nina Creque (secy) of the King Health Center; Lucy Vigay (chairman) and Dorothy Morrison, IS 143 Paraprefessionals; Phyllis Ludway, Dennis Gardner, and Ronald Lopez of Morrisania Community Corp; Dorothy Simmons and Philomena Allen of LABOR; and Christine Russel of Welfare Action for Progress. Community businessmen (especially Kennie Wilkens of Bronxwood Inn) will feed 40 teenagers at Edenwald Center, 149 E. 22th Street on Thanksgiving Day. Youngsters of Youth Leadership Foundation will serve as hosts; and the Independent Voters Political Club, under Walter Williams, will be coordinating chefs. Contributions of food or funds to each of these groups will be appreciated. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Dec 6, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 33 In_ The ‘Mr. Cagan, and that the Union (District Council @ ie ci el a petition thraa toi Bronx 'strike the hospital unless Mrs,! Communi onscious By MARIETTA 'Cartion was dismissed.” In ¢ross examination of defense witnesses, Mr. Taylor showed that none of the signers of the. petition worked under Mrs. Carrion, and were, in fact, ‘Mostly “white supervisors of " ,O:her departments, who had no ——__—_—_..| Contact with the Plaintiff ‘The J. TANNER Charging that '‘Abraham:Medical Social Service Petition was circulat Silverberg. liaisonof Medicine officer ofat!Lincoln OutpatientHospital,” Department a Mrs. Riccardo, Einstein College Timothy, "e>esentative Lincoln Hospital, willfully and)Taylor, deliberately practiced Plaintiff, discrimination in the dismissal, damages October 31, of Mrs. Odessalpefore the New Carrion, black supervisor, Commission ~ y a an elected! for Local 1199, attorney for the The D.C-37 representative asked’ $300,000 in Mr. Foster, testified that his in a suit brought:union had not threatened strike York on Human on November 20, City|action. Moreover, those wit. Rights nesses supposedly harassed [Mrs. Carrion, said that by they Mrs. Carrion declared under had never seen, before the day oath that the dismissal was 2'of the trial, a document signed “culmination cf steming 1957 was from denied harassmen' by when Stanley Shulman, Assistant shc}Ccmmissioner of Hospitals, two promotions Which purported to relate the because of her race by Raymon; iDroceedings of a meeting where Cagan, director of Socia’i*he clerical ‘workers attested to Services at Einstein College of Medicine and Mr. Silberberg.” Mrs. Carrion’s harassment of |them, and had requested her! Two caucasians with lesser :\lismissal. qualifications (to which Mr." Ope of the stapnamsakans j Cagan testified) were hired in tasted to several distortions. the Positions of Student Unit in the document, Another Supervisor for Group Work and ¢j-rica) worker, who was: 2'lee., Casework. ‘ed to have suffered a dis! Double Standard iny ‘collapse under Mrs. Carrion's;. the,Taylor to have been; Mrs. Carrion stated that sac pressuring, was shown by Mr./' had a critic of management and quality ofi “hospitalized before, and to; service of the social services, have a record of not following jepartment at Lincoln, Herjher medication and diet: department, andling WFclinies had no Spanish-speaking worker regimen.” r unlit the Fall of 1968, when sme to ‘baht wieiserimination ana Mrs. Frieda Vasquez, a caseaide. ny was hired. realistic service Medicine, Mathew, a Puerto Rican! She urged more sosnital administrator, sald that staffing of the social departments Pediatrics, Rehabilitation, in.'@ had been ha fi . M. m fired twice by Mr. Surgery,/Silverberg Emergency and conditions, under similar the personnel ie., Home care, which were eae department was used to ey serced by one graduate shat they would leave | clinics are “The if he actually "2S reinstated. manned by caseaides, who have The case, heard before Human caseloads of as many as 80 Rights Commissioners Rabbi! |patients,” she said. Claim Harassment ‘Halpern of Jewish Theological ‘Seminary Gilbert Colgate, and | ‘The charged that Mrs. aad sharp io defense Ghatessed wortain brought ‘clerical workers ene reaction 1gfrom’ | them: any South Bronx community: to sign spurious charges agzins‘. organize‘ions (led by Richard’ Weeks of the African American; Coalition), decrying the “rotten: double standard” practiced by| Einstein, and demanding Mrs.| Carrion’s immediate reinstatement. ! Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ; : �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Dec 20, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 12 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER P;araprofessi ionals were pretty|know better. But shocked when Jim _ Howard|paraprofessionals in showed Union many Brooklyn at their Forum ‘on| school districts with whom Jim Membership (held injhad met personally to District No. 12 last April) asS|breakdown their resistance to the UFT Field Representative. | UFT, are turning in their cards Jim did come on pretty strong] in his support. there, blasting black racism and} whitewashing UFT, tHe sincerely felt he could ! help us from the inside,” they Many parap rofessionals, !.said. “He thought he was getting turned off completely, called: in on the ground floor and would him a sellout. But Jim learned | have some real power.” They unionism quickly, so well in fact; will be at 27 Union Square, that he said his boss, Al) Thursday, December 18, 4 p.m., Shanker, -called him ‘'the| when UFT's Al Shanker meets architect of the paraprofessional | with paraprofessionals program”? just a few weeks ago’ celebrate the victory. in queens. . Borough President UFT has now been-designated bargaining agent for. most: paraprofessionals (Educational: to? Herman! i Badillo was said ‘'Goodbye™ tol at a swank dinner last Saturday, but conspicuous by their absence Associated. Assistants, anc; were the blacks who said teacher aides) and (even if; “Hello” to him with their votes District Council 37 doesn't know) four years ago. Of course, the it yet) they are busy collecting) bash was $25 a-plate, and not cards on the rest (parent) many of us can spare that for program assts, family assts and | a meal. But many worked har¢ family workers). On December! enough to have heen offered 3, James Howard, the only lack! the opportunity to decline. i UFT Field Representative, who| This writer doubts that any) “had delivered 90 per cent of’ black man in New York City! the para-professionals,” was: politics today could have, fired. . gathered that assemblage.! Vito Deleonardis, director of; Senator Eugene McCarthy,: slaff, who wrote the dismissal] Mayor Lindsay, and Reformers note, claimed that Jim had! and Regular Democrats from become ‘“‘too independent.’’ Jim,} everywhere came to wish Mr. »ABOR last month, was told iow unsatisfactory present nethods of distribution were;| how the crippled and aged could who had delivered those. Badillo, well. yt haul a month's supply of: paranrofessionals, who would] Course it's not really goodbye.' surplus foads, and how a mother xoq an estimated $489,000 to; Herman Badillo is slated to be iever got all the foods listed. the UFT coffers ($42 yearly the Congressional candidate And the indignity of it all:| the new district the per person) had dared to ask from to be placed on the Contract: legislature is carving out for hat a family should have to! Negotiating Team, So he went| East Bronx, extending down wait for hours in all weather to his boss, Al Shanker, who’ through Spanish Harlem. This for inferiorly prepared meats said graciously, according to| new district will slice the black and coarse cornmeal. No resulis Mr. Howard, “I don’t have to| stronghold into three parts, af the meeting are yet in sight. explain anything to you, or even! giving part of Morrisania to Hunger is a national emergency, talk to you people, if I don't: Mr. Gilbert’s 22nd, a third to and our hats are off te Margie want to.” | James Scheuer’s 2{st and the Mazel! and the others who help Met With Rustin lrest to Mr. Badillo’s new keep up the fighting spirit of: Jim Howard also went to see) district. the poor despite their empty Bayard Rustin, close associate] Funny, but this doesn’t seem stomachs. and banquet-giver for his boss,! to bring Al Shanker, who serve but he was legislators, a rise from who powerless reconsider. to have Shanker to be helping to The other blacks district. But this Secretary and President were even broach Shanker. — as are black supposed lay out the redistricting Assist ant ‘certainly seems to set back the Assistant careful the Vice jemergence not subject ; of a black to lcongressman from the Bronx. to' Congratulations to the Alliance for Adequate Living in its Traditionally, hand-picked -continuing fight for a decent: “black representatives" without , meal for poor citizens. The lines black identity are easily used lat ‘the Forest House Food and quickly discarded by whitey. | Distribution Depot grow longer once their purpose has been |every month, A representative served; and blacks should now of Senator Javits’ office at Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohi ibited without permission. �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Dec 27, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe.5 In The |Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER In the spirit of the season, the blacks who met the Yast Thuraday seemed re: to give j Sommissioner Ownes fired, and abolished because it is to them ‘a black clique, containing 26 slack members as compared to ie rly ple. 3 Puerto Ricans.” Actually there fair share , Tecording to the are 23 whites, 18 blacks and lastest figures, would wipe out: 3 Puerto Ricans. such programs as P .| Already Integrated (which assists Puerto Rican| Joseph Monsarate wrote youngsters with scholarship aid: several years ago that the and counselling) and the Puerto! Puerto Rican and blackj Rican Development Corporation, communities did not have the) (which aids Puerto Rican same aspirations; that Puerto business and economic’ Ricans considered themselves: :' already integrated, and interests). The newly formed Puerto therefore did not object to what Rican Council Against Poverty, blacks considered “segregated” of which Ramon Velez is schools. Blacks would not let it stay chairman, wants to become a separate poverty agency, so that that way. Never was a breath uttered by a black leader about poverty funds can be split right unless he down the middle between Puerto discrimination, Rican Rican-Hispanics and black included his Puerto others. They claim $900,000 brother. The concern has not mutual. Puerto Rican Hispanic-Puerto Ricans can be been their classified as poor; reliable elected officials flaunt statistics show that there are devotion to the advancement of approximately §50,000 Spanish- Puerto Rican children only when speaking persons (including they visit schoo! districts, or Mexicans, Cubans, Columbians’ speak at Parent Association and others) in New York City. mectings. compared to one and one-half Smoko Screen ‘ raillion blacks. The Black Organizations Moreover, Chairman David Against Poverty considers the Billings of the Council Against Mayors special panel set up Poverty (which the Puerto to investigate current blackRicans are seeking to abolish,) Puerto Rican tensions, as a pointed out that “of the twenty “classic example of official buck five community corporations, 10! passing, with no attempt to are controlled by Puerto Rican ferret out the real issues.” members, ..and of the $3 “Black members were ‘million allocated for programs racially attacked, and the Mayor with city-wide impact and, did not meet with Chairman prior to the special emphasis, over 81 per| Billings of the cent of the total goes to fund | establishment exclusively Puerto Rican Commission,’ Mrs. Lucille programs. | Murray, co-chairman of the City Council of Black Fomenting Nationalism \ wide Maybe it would be better to Organizations, said. eliminate these raciall | Maybe in all charity, the two isegregated corporations, funded groups should try to behave like ‘at the public expense, No other brothers. There are some who ‘group, certainly no black group, want to, but it is in the interest ‘has an exclusive publicly of the “povertycrats” to keep spreading hate between supported city-wide development on ‘agency. Members of the City- inferior brother and superior wide Black Organizations| brother based on color and ‘Against Poverty, pointed out at national origin. This plotting fhe press conference that they | may just backfire, The blacks still have a gripe. jconsidered such programs “an illegal use of public dollars to, After all when one brother has a 400-year history of struggle foster nationalism.” The group cited a recent in this country,and the other statement by Ramon Velez that less than 30 years. . .well the he hopes to return to Puerto blacks may rise up and claim ‘Rico in order to train Puerto their birthright, for they have Becca ey eT 'Ricans there to come to New ‘suffered the most unfair of all. Merry ‘York and organize the limbalance communities. . \Christmas, and Feliz Navidad. i “We cannot allow,” said ‘Jerome Green of the Morrisania Education Council, “another immigrant group to come to ithis country and rise on the ibacks of blacks, as the European has done. We will Inoct be the Puerto Ricans’ ‘footstool,’ he said. | While the Puerto Rican council members had access to ‘all the facts, it is incredible how distorted their figures were ‘in print. They want Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 3, 1970; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 5 In The \Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA Ring in the tions, ring out new the J. TANNER administra- old. auu uu. (we nope) oecause sne And protested discriminatory hiring what changes, what advan- policies. But as long as there is’ cement for 3 million poor 0 community board with teeth,people living in New York City buck passing between Commiswhen John V. Lindsay is inau- sioner Terrenzio of the Departgurated or December 31, or for ment of Hospitals and Dean the black veople of the Bronx Glazier of Einstein at Lincoln when Robert Abrams says “I Hospital will continue to be the solemnly swear” on January 7? rule, . One of the areas to look at No Administrator carefully as we make our New There is presently no adminYear’s resolutions is health:istrator at Lincoln, A Dr. ‘care: it is gelting worse not'Bauer is now acting, replacing better, and the caliber of care Dr. Lubell, who was also act- ‘will not automatically improve, ing. These lonce the new corporation board brought are established, July 1. Mospital Corporations The City Council pital Corporation jslated to have which in gentlemen when were Dr. .Nasry Michelin became President of Community College No. 8, alHos- though Andre’ Walker, the is'black deputy, might have been a major role in|the logical one to act. setting up these new boards,| No appointment has been has shown little interest. More-imade, although there have lover, the Bronx will have no!been trips to Puerto Rico and ‘black or Puerto Rican repre- elsewhere to find a suitable adlsentative on the 1970 City Coun-!ministrator. Dr, Antero Lacot |cil, so the poor will have to!has the Community Board's fight for every inch of consider-:support, and that of the Afri‘ation on the Hospital Corpora-‘can-American Coalition, as weil ition Board. as of the many citizens who Fifteen members must be have known his work as Direcchosen before the new boards ;tor of the Neighborhood Materbecome operational — five ap-jnity Center on Prospect Avepointed by the Mayor, five by nue. the City Council, and five from| But Einsteia drags its feet City government. on his appointment, Is this be- New Hospital cause Lacct has some definite A new $74-million Lincoln Hos-|ideas about health care super- pital is to be constructed in the |seding the teaching role of the Bronx. has not The ground-breaking |College of Medicine in the pubbegun; meanwhile, at:lic hospital which do not con- the old Lincoln site repairs are}form to Einstein’s mold? Dr. tabled, awaiting the new facili-jLacot has the administrative ty, but the patients keep crowd-|background, and the degree of ing in. Bronx State Children’s |medicine with 20 years of pracPsychiatric Hospital has been'tice in obstetrics and gynecocompleted over a year, and hasilogy. remained patientiess, because; Politics Moves In the State did not provide funds! to staff it. The need for 1970 is far com- | munity boards in health as well At Lincoln, some semblance ;as education, Although govern- of a community board is now in|ment is obstensibly moving to- operation. But it is without any|ward decentralization, it will power, having just something;mean nothing ta the poor citiof an advisory nature. For ex-{zens who call all night for a ample, on December 10, the/jurse on the wards at Lincoln, community board requested ajor the sick who lie on reversal of Dr. Schulman’s Oct-;stretchers for hours awaiting ober 23 decision to fire Odessa |care at Morrisania, Carrion, a black medical social, Politics and politicians are worker. | moving in on the Hospital CorHer reinstatement has, untiljporation boards, pressuring this day not been effected, and|(Councilmen with their choices, everyone Terrenzio from on Commissioner like any other pork barrel. down is busily] No professional staff has yet engaged in passing the buckj}een chosen, even at this late between the affiliation (Ein-jdale. If there is going to be stein College of Medicine) and!decentralization, if we want a the City. They claim they are}more humane, less demoralizawaiting the decision of the |ing, impersonal City, then the on Human |citizens must_act now to sce City Commission Rights, regarding Mrs. Carri-jthat John V. Lindsay and Robon’s two-year old charge of dis- jert Abrams make the governcrimination, because two cau-;ment relate to them. casians were appointed to posi-; For openers, how about a few tions for which she had superi-|letters on the subject of decenor qualifications. |tralization and health care? Actually, the CCHR decision | Your voice at this prupitious would have no bearing on Mrs.| moment may just seat someone Carrion’s reinstatement, as she who cares about you on the was fired without due process, j Hospital Corporation Board. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 17, 1970; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa.4 In The \Bronx Community Conscio us By MARIETTA J. TANNER As black people endure and oppose lobbyist whose agencies| have Life memberships; survive in America, the issues, like the complexions of their children, become, not so much black, and white, but shades between. There was a time when Labor was considered our champion. Now their role is grayed by but it is also ridiculous for unions to! believe blacks so gullible a:| to continue to regard them as: our champions while they| exclude us salvation. Those about from unions who the quota economic; cried system out didn’t the demands of craft unions shed a tear about the fact that to limit membership to fathers fewer than 4 per cent of the and sons, and by all manner 1,3 millon workers in the $24-|: space program were of shenanigans to restrict billion apprenticeships, and keep black black. men from making it in the We must organize.to move building trades. Of course, this against even our traditional exclusion was ever so... but friends, when necessary, to do then Labor was all the civil this, we must develop a liaison right advocate we had. between those members of the Last week, the Congress voted community with skills and the to give the Nixon administration: grass roots where the troops the authority to compel labor are, unions to hire more blacks . That Philadelphia Plan was through its Philadelphia Plan. The Plan requires bidders on passed not just because the Administration wanted it, and federally assisted projects costing more than $500,000 to abetted it, but because some! “work toward specific goals for smart men on the inside knew improving minority employment how to maneuver, and some in the craft unions.” The unions men of influence on the outside]: cried “foul"’. Their lobbyists got with troops applied the pressure}! the Controller General to rule to its enemies. Team effort was 1 nM Black people have marched the hero, in Pittsburgh for the right to work, and they cue up daily for the few unskilled openings construction projects in New York City. The unions are using available to them on this devious “quotas” ploy more that.the Plan was in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" because it established quotas. In Unskilled Jobs and more, as the pressure for the right to earn a living fori black men mounts. Only an estimated 8.4 percent of the 1.3 million union members are; black, and most of these are In unskilled jobs. i President Nixon said that his. administration is committed to: a civil rights policy of; “demonstrable deeds," and that: “one of the things that counts! is earning power.” He called! on civil rights agencies like the Urban Coalition, NAACP and Plan. It’s difficult. : make the! NAACP in South Bronx Williamsbridge and what and Roy Urban League, who supnorted| nis stand on the Philadelphia! connection to sometimes | between Wilkins does on the national level. In this case he influenced | the course of history. This was possible because local memberships provide the troops which make his word stand for something. Opposing Enemies . The Unions have high paid akilled lobbyists is to convince oppose fob *. congressmen whes? to. legislation not in the: union’s vested interest. Tr, influence legislation, since we do not contro] major industries, or corporations to provide! private funding, blacks must depend on agencies like Urban League and NAACP. : It's an egg-stepoing task t:: MOTHER BROWN church since. Mrs. Mary Green, church secretary said of Mother Brown, "I rejoice knowing she is at peace. She really lived a full life, we loved her so.”” Rev. pastor Herman H. of Friendship Watts, Baptist claimed her body and made final funeral arrangements. Mother Brown's bedy will be on view at the Lafayette Memortal Chapel Funeral Home, at 2455 8h Avenue beginning at 7 p.m, Friday night, Rev. Lafayete Rogers will greet visitors. Fina! funeral! rites will be held 9 a.m., Saturday morning at Friendship Baptist Church. Rev. Watts will offi- ciate. Burial will be in Mt. Holiness Cemetery New Jersey. in Butler, Reproduced with permission of the copyright o wer, Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 24, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa.4 In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER As black people endure and Administrator to reinstate Mrs. survive in America, the issues,: Odessa Carrion to her position like the complexions of their chit become not so much as Medical Social Worker. at black and white, but shades be- Lincoln Hospital. tween. The integration we suf-' Mrs. Carrion filed charges of fer in the North scatters our discrimination way back in Auforces, making it difficult for Bust 1967, when Einstein byus to keep our eyes on the ball passed her for three promotions of black survival. For example, in favor of white workers. The a few weeks back. Congress firing, which was proved to passed the Philadelphia Plan stem from unfounded charges requiring bidders on federally that Mrs. Carrion had harassisted projects costing more rassed workers, had no relation than $500,000 to employ more to the original discrimination minority people in the craft, suit. However, a smokescreen unions. Our traditional friends, | seems to be emerging, making the labor unions, labored Mrs. Carrion’s reinstatement mightily to defeat this mini- be construed as the restitution scule effort at giving black for damages in the case. At the men the right to earn a living. hearing, her attorney, Timothy The labor unions claimed that Taylor, requested $300,000 in the Philadelphia Plan set damages. Odessa Carrion is adquotas, which was a violation ament: "I cannot accept back af the Civil Rights Act of 1964. pay and the old job back in lieu of the settlement,” she said. NEW RITUALS The Afro American Coalition The “‘quolas" argument was and the Advisory Board of Lina devious ploy, a smokes- coln Hospital (which earlier deCxzrivn's reinscreen, a discoloration of the manded Mrs. issue to fool us. Those labor slalement) avais ts kom: unions did not shed a tear ruling of NYCHR before further about the fact that fewer than 4 action, per cent of the 1.3. million TESTIMONIAL workers in the $24 billion space program were black. NevertheRev. Kenneth Foulkes is less, Some of us were taken in chairman of the Madison Boys by the Union's argument; and Club Testimonial Dinner Comnone of us were really equipped intitee which will boot hace ta put the pressure on them at 12, superintendent Edythe J. the local level to make them Gaines at the Cancourse Piuza cease chipping away at con- Hotel April 30. Dalila ‘foro gressional support for the plan. Conrad, president of PS 4] We do not have the means to parent association, says the explain these things to our little people whom Dr. Geines people; and therefore, expose has helped so mueh should be the rank and file to slavisly fol- there. But the dinner ents £2 Towing the line of so-called tra- per. Mrs. Toro Conrad. as ditional friends and saviors. usual, has a plan, She win Jim Howard, until recently grass roots organizations w the only black UFT field repre- wish to express their feelings : sentative, who was fired, says for Dr. Gaines’ leadership in the habit of not asking “why” ‘such struggles as community and demanding explanations Control fand minority group ; from so-called friends and sav- principals) should contact her { jors is extant among parapro- @t 1550 Crotona Park Fast, « fessionals. They raise questions %42-7454. . . about Howard's dismissal, but’ The appointment of Henry Jet the UFT Chapter chairman Morgenthau to the third deputy. off the hook when he replies: jslot in the Lindsay administra- ] “We don’t care to discuss it.” |tion augers well for the black Howard’s claim of discrimi- people of the Bronx, who have nalion will he aired before the reason to- respect Mr. Mor- NYCCHR against UFT’s coun- genthau's sense of fair play in terclaim that he did not do the word as well as deed. We can- d job. (Those para-professionals not forget, however, the injuswho think Jim Howard worked tice in that none of the three pretty hard and cficctively deputy slots went to blacks. might write Lawrence Hood at] we went all out ta reelect the Civil Rights Commission, 80) John Lindsay. Maybe we need Lafayette Street, in Findirg our way throug: administration, He, knows what} Part.) his sup- 1& man like Morgenthau to prick |{the conscience of the Lindsay| Smokescreens, picking our wa: lhappens when alienated people through masses of rhetoric de- oannot be heard within the sy- signed to delay black progress, stem. Mr. Morgenthau undersearching out sell-outs is our. stands the travail of black leadjob for the 70's. In the North, rs who have said to their we waver and become compl vyoung, ‘Register, vote, bricks cent. But Mississippians set the {through windows don't open’ record straight. Black |doors, we can have justice in! members of a county election America.” { commission there said they ' Instead, we are getting the “stopped looking for saviors leftovers, as usual. The black when the civil rights workers ‘who have been elevated to aspulled out, and buckled down to ‘sistanships have been promoted do the job of organizing" (hem- mot because black constituselves. Constantly working for ‘encies have chosen them, but black cooneratioy ttre try" because white leaders said, not handshakes, or dashikis, or “*Put this black man there.”: Alro haircuts. We wanted more than that Black cooperation can bring ‘when we went all out for Lindus victories too. On January 7, ,Say. No black peuple fcel the Commissioner Golar of the -Dpinch of powerlessness more Human Rights Commissian than your fellow Bronxites, Mr. directed the Health Services Morgenthau. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 31, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 11 In The Bronx Community f Conscious - By The MARIETTA Congressional b J. TANNER redis- small part Harlem, and of Spanish Bast part of Hutts tricting lines are drawn; Albany bas approved them as expected, and whatever was said by local politicians, as the ax fell, signified nothing. Point (but not the peninsul¥ao Puerto Rican stronghold, sest-still belongs to Gilbert.) Gar-~ the lines rend the most den- Bronx Just as this writer predicted, sely populated black commu- nity, Morrisanla, into three parts, making the emergence of a black congressman tually impossible. The Silent Minority We are the minority vir- cia (who is the Assemblyman for most of the 2ist South* in Gilbert is snug in his coccoon Harlem Areg). ing in Astoria, who will vgeT in a block in the crucial pri- maries sional each of the districts, and probably will be silent. Jacob and writhed about the Italians liv— when be designated. the congfes-— candidates will He made no mention of the. heavy black population living-in South west. It was of the 22nd; there are enough as though Puerto Rican and Black peoples were ane; a and along Bruckner Bouleyard however, to insist on re- hardly expressed before, blacks east of Third Avenue form. Gilbert sits on seatiment Robert Garcia has the House Ways and Means Committee, and that’s where the Democrats on and Republicans the bipartisan committee that drew the lines want him to stay. His conservative confrer, Mario Biaggi's district. encompasses the whole of Williamsbridge, the second most black Bronx, area of the Drastically outnumbered by Throggs Neck and the southernmost western tip of Yonkers, our voice in the 24th can only be a whisper. On the West, James Scheuer's old 21st has been almost completely absorbed by Congressman Jonathan Bingham, whose = record am fecting blacks should even become stronger once bis now considerable black population makes its presence felt, Robert Garcia was miffed ou that last day about .the creation of a Puerto Rican district that wasn’t. What a travesty the new 2ist is! It was created at. the insistance of Puerto Ricans on the IsJand and the mainland that they have one of their own in Congress, However, none of the constituents of that hod- gepodge district can he pro; erly served by it. Prop: It seems spitefully drawn a tantalizer, impossible to govern. It takes in a miserably Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Feb 7, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 10 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Apologies to Robert Morgenthau, the third deputy mayor, called in this column jJast week by another name (a wholly typographical error). United Bronx Parents say they won't participate in the local school board elections; thus they join the Ocean Hilt and the IS 201 Complex in a boycott. None can dispute the logie behind the move: the school boards will be powerless, the election procedures are undemocratic, and the district lines are illegitimate. Parents at P.S. 132 will still have to picket ta protest Principal Frome's refusal to retain a white teacher who worked during the strike, and whom the parents feel has served their children well. Boycotting the election, however, may make them even Jess effective. Organizations like UFT are the only ones with money and know-how to systematically develop candidates. Must the few who do know let the masses go like sheep to elect these handpicked men, or shall we assure their victory by staying home? The overthrow of the Jaw is a baitle to be enjoined at another time; once we get out the vote for this election, we may have the forces to put some men in Albany to win that one too. The Vacancy Declared vacant is lhe directorship of South Bronx Model Cities, so said chair- man Ramon Velez, in the Spanish press last week. Black acting director, Augustus Davis, who wrote the programs (and who Puerto Ricans and blacks alike agree has been doing an exemplary job) could not get a vote of confidence from the Velez controled board. EuBenia Flatow, the adminisirator, named Davis deputy, replacing Velez's choice, Anibal Acensio, whom downtown considered inept. Davis is at the, merey of a personnel board whose dispassionate black minority (3 members) attends poorly, Velez rationaiizes that all the big deputy posts downtown are held by blacks; so the top local slots belong to Puerto Ricans. Only Bronx residents may apply; a high school diploma and five years administrative experience are all that the position require. $32,000 Where are the committed black men ianguishing in insurance and real estate with know-how enough about buildings and develop contracts to take on this job? Soon Model Cities wil spin off land development projects or education contracts (to agencies like UBP perhaps). With pensions intact, even black men can now leave the safety af civil service for an opportunity like this to deai with the polltics and power in the mainsiream. Even cocoons, SO warm and safe, are impregnable. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Tanner, Marietta Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Feb 14, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 23 | In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Judge Jacob Grumpet released, without probation, last week, Cyril Boynes, Ronald Dicks and Jerry Wooley. You remember the Morris High School teacher, the black student, and paraprofessional who were indicted by the Grand Jury last May on 10 criminal counts including arson, conspiracy to riot, unlawiul assembly and possession of a deadly weapon? Their pictures were flashed from every television screen; their faces downcast as they skulked in the custody of po Vice were front page news; the story of how they conspired to firebomb Morris gave substance to the fear teachers felt for black adolescents, It’s Sensational On December 9th, those 10 counts were reduced to a charge of Class-B misdemeanor — the young men were merely accused of ‘‘engaging in conduct that would ‘ cause public alarm.” Now is the time for headlines and accolades, but alas the media wants sensational news. This columnist thinks it is sensational that Cyril Boynes has picked himself up after that demoralizing public exposure and become a teacher at Queens College; that Ronald Dicks and Jerry Wooley are now college hound, doing excellent school work at HarJem Prep. Every black child, so vulneraple to brushes with the law ought to know about their achievement. Mrs. Odessa Carrion, the medical social worker who won reinstatement to her post at Lincoln Hospital through the City Commission on Human Rights ruling, January 6, is to be awarded $100 as compensation for ‘the humiliation, outrage, and men- tal anguish suffered as a direct result of the respondent’s unlawful discrimination.” How little the life of the black woman is worth! $100 bucks is “mitey” little compensation for the anguish Mrs, Carrion ssffered when discrimination Yoreatened to wreck her professional career, Also at Lincoln, Black and Puerto Rican leadership has united behind Dr. Antero LeCot for administrator. He Says No But, Commissioner Teren- zio says, ‘No,’ The community board sat in last week, taking over ‘he administralion of the hospital, until the police evacuated them. Hand in hand Richard Weeks and Bob LaForey, black leaders, left with Ramon Velez and Ralph Alvarado. Blacks are hoping for the same kind of unity behind Augustus Davis, for direetor of Bronx Model Cities, Without a doubt, attorney Davis is well qualified for the job. Moreover he sweated to get ihe South Bronx package together and funded. He was mentioned in the proposal, submitted to Washington, for his contribution, above and beyond the cail of duty. Then too, its about time Mayor Lindsay did something for the blacks of the Bronx, who worked for his reclection. Last October while blacks were campaigning for Lindsay, the Velez forces were holding a testimonial dinner at Alex and Henry's for Procaccino. Plenty of black poor live in those rotting tenements of Melrose and Mott Haven, who have confidence in Davis. The American way is to promote loyal, capable, hard working, loyal employees. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Feb 28, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 11 In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER i the county leader, will probably select Barry Solomon If the people shall get the government they deserve, who shall govern Concourse- (hardly a symbol of new era polities) to fill the vacancy until the election next November. East? The effects of the mass exodus of the Jewish middle- class 10 Co-Op City are now being felt in the institutions Politics was everybody's thereabouts. subject: The YMHA at 167th Street and Grand Concourse, for example, used to be the hub of Jewish culture and recreation. Even though a large percentage of the kids who dates Ivy Barnes and Ted Mendel were shaking hands with the club people who vote and who have, in the past gotten out the vote. But with- Puerte Rican, they still get a a constituency who takes the vote seriously. No Conquering [ero In the harsh light at the now attend are black Community initiative has not arisen to suggest innovation in staff or style. This venerable institution could wither on the vine and finally its doors against Abalon Caterers, as the Tremont YMHA did a few years ago. . schools Revival necded The Concourse-Jefferson Reform Democratic Club at 169th Slrect and Grand Concourse honored Paul O'Dwyer wilh Kosher smorgesbard at a local hall Sunday. Sensing that this institution, like the black and High School, and oldsters ab Mt. Eden the Park, But the “leadership” is still white; it lives in segregated buildings on the Concourse, and that “leadership” seems to be waiting for a chance. to move on to something better, black owned Next Step dress shop (1221 Sherman Ave.) to show some of their Afro designs and zippy little models like Betty Wiley. Their presentation was fresh and “now” but not enough to dispel the per- surer. The blacks and Puerto Ricaus who have sunk their savings into the vintage 1930 Morris Avenue 2-families vasive aura of decline. have For one thing, the congressman who nurtured the club will be moving across town to Tun against the incumbent in the 22nd. Instability was further evidenced by the fact not taken hold. The preachers who have turned abandoned synagogues into Baptist or Pentacostal churches shout every Sunday “Trying to make heaven my home.” But for now, “home” is the East Concourse. The evange- that the councilmatic seat va- cated by Lawrence Bernstein (now a judge of the Criminal Court), is allegedly sought by Seymour Posner, now the assemblyman for the 76th (who has always detested Albany nightlife anyway . Boss Patrick Cunningham, whose crowding out the Aristers at Taft Zimmering filled their tables with the new population. invited of Puerto Rican students cannot read;.of the unemployed, the welfare mothers, the addicts and pushers moving in fast on the side sircets leading to the Concourse. The new population is many others needs the winds of change, Leo and Irene They no man the people was shown forth, no conquering-hero type who could begin to attack the problems of the decaying apartment houses, now tenements; of overcrowded the influx of a new population candi- out the old P-ZAZ born of confidence that behind you is and steady diet of Jewish culture, shut school board lists must , exhort new resi- dents to take up the gavel to govern themselves. The Gospel The S. Bronx NAACP will repeat its successful Gospel Caravan March 8, with more at Morris School. Tickets 3225 Third Ave, are gospel, High $3.00 at For Victor Marrero, a June Yale graduate, the $32,000 Model Citles Director post will be his first real job. He is the Mayor’s appointee over Augustus Davis, now acting director, who could become deputy director again, or else , ‘Community College No, 8 is - moving lugubriously toward not opening in September. At this late date, space has not be contracted for at the Concourse Plaza Hotel. Its ‘“systems approach” to curricu- lum requires machines, and the time to ready the physical plant, as well as to progtam the subject matter. Anxious citizens art planning to enter, but the admissions office cannot speak. Someone must, however, as so much is being spent for technical personnel (computer programmers) and for on-the-job-training perienced for inex- administrators, that funds for the real busi- ness of the college ning low. are run- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 7, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 22 In The Bronz Community ~ Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER One of the things that Elsie Brown wants to know about is how you get to be a narcat- ics expert. Mrs. Elsie Brown is the president of the Community Council for Narcotics Programs, who has been working with the problem of drug addiction for 17 years before it moved to the suburbs, when just ghott “dispensibles” were wasting their lives on drugs. Mrs. Rose Shapiro is an ex. pert. The former head of the NYC-Board of Education ha: been named by Governor Rockefeller as his special as sistant for narcotics educa tion programs in the state’s $250-million program. In a burst of eruditior about the narcotics problem. Mrs. Shapiro said: “I’m told that some of the elementary schools have very real problems, One principal told me ol little children rubbing cocaine into their gums. . .” Elsie Brown wouldn’t have to be told about cocaine. There are plenty of pre-teen mainliners in her neighbor- hood. Where she lives, addcts rob apartments nightly to support their habits, suc climbs over them in hall ways, she has named names of big time pushers, who never got arrested. She has seen youngsters die of over- dose and infection. She has a record of rehabilitation without recidivism. But she is not an “expert.”for any of the tax-supported programs. Went To Agency Last October, she went to see Larry Bear, head of the City Addiction Services Agency, to ask if the Community Orientation Centers could be used by neighborhood narcotics workers after 5 o’clock. (These centers only service addicts from 9-5 p.m.) ‘Shey also wanted to have tne icp requirements changed for counsellors. It seems that only former addicts who have speni 3 years in a theraupeutic community like Synanon of Daytop are eligible. This requirement excludes a Muslim Pentacostal or just anout any black or Puerto Rican “cured” addict since few had the cash or inclination to submit to such treatment. “Burthermore,” said Mrs. Brown, “Encounter-type therapy is destructive of black and Puerto Rican identity. They have {orn cown our men with encounter more than with drugs. Well, anyway, it seems that Mr. Bear was not interested in seeing Mrs. Brown that day, and even after several months of pressure exerted by neighborhood groups through OEO in Washington, ASA still does not communicate with community-based programs, “They gave $4.7 million to Phoenix House to develop nar- cotics pragrams with a staff that doesn’t live here, and cannot relate,’ Mrs. Brown said. The same was true of the three other agencies that receive %4th of all the money. About Rockefeller’s “Total war on narcotics,” Mrs. Brown is even more pessimistie. $200 million of the $250 million will go for “construction. of new rehabilitation centers for teenage addicts, that will take .ages. City agencies are already saying MRS. ELSIE BROWN She’s An ‘Expert’ they cannot match on a 50-50 basis the $65 million allotted to operate local treatment centers. $550,000 will go to Byard of Regents for teacher training and other public relations programs, all managed by “white power structure’? groups and “experts” like Mrs. Shapiro. “The focus of addiction services these days is on the young, white, middle-class addict, and the way the pregrams are developed and staffed proves it,” said Mrs. Elsie Brown, expert without portfolio. Make Black Count “Make Black Count” will be the subject of a public meeting on the 1970 Census to be held at St. Augustine Presbyterian Church, Thursday evening March 12 at 7:30 p.m. the N.Y. Urban League and the United Black Women’s Political League are joint sponsors of a project to enlighten blacks and other minorities on the importance of an accurate count. Mrs. Veralyn Hamilton, chairman of the Bronx UBWPL, will be coordinating the program from the Urban Leagues 509 Willis Ave. office. Mrs. Ruth Beshong, who made. an impressive record as a Census Coordinator durng the 1960 Census will also ake part. . Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. �Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 14, 1970; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg.4 ‘In The Bronx Community Conscious — By MARIETTA J. TANNER - Dr, Antero LaCot is in as administrator for Lincoln Hospitat and Commissioner Joseph Terenzio, who opposed him, is out. That's Puerto Rican power, when your leadership can topple the Mayor's man: (especially when tos! opposed leadership Jargely that Mayor’s reelection). Black leadership in the Bronx supported ~~. Latnt also. They knew him aS a the competent director of Neighborhood Maternity Clin- je in Morrisania and of his record of study in public health administration, and mm medical practice in Puerto Rico. Moreover, his views un “upgrading the quality of pa- “tient care at Lincoln, places hospital. services above the feeds of its teaching affilia‘tion, were widely hailed in “the black community. . “Too bad that the black share of which was never mistakenly — beJeadership ‘Vieved their LaCot Support to be a part of a package, their honored, They wanted Augus- director, of South Bronx Model Cities, since virtually every other -tax-supported Peony pregvem has a Puerto Rican at the ' head. It’s unfortunate, too, black public officials that city wide played a significant part in in the giveaway game which Bronx blacks were the it until now, Up pawns, Jooked like the game was chess, but it may really be dominees. The blacks . : knows establishment the don't vote in Bronx, and thal's tha way they want to keep it. A massive registration dures to improve conditions under which black men vote in this county? Black power In the Bronx is, therefore, boxed into the 70th AD the 38th SD infighting and there for a pittance of patronage. All the big ones outside these few square miles get away. There is the 76t1 (Car. course East to Highbridge) where blacks are numerically dominant, but where, repertedly, an assemblyman and a Puerto Rican leader have already made a deal for the City Council seat and Assemblyman reelection. The Councilmatic seat, vacated when Bernstein became a judge, encompasses an area almost It's Dominoes dus Davis named black population could change things. But then, wha public c2ftl) nos erst to the streets or to the Legislature to foree new Board of Elections proce- cnd ve.'n totally black, but no black candidate was put forward. A Little Puzzle But this little deal is a nart of the total plan. Rumor has it that the 2Ist Congressional District (which straddles three boroughs, but was originally to have been carved out to provide a Puerto Rican majority for the assured election of a Puerto Rican congressman, but instead tas a large black ponulation wit: South Bronx and Harlem sec- tions, and a large Italian constituency which votes in Queens) is being abandoned by its favorite son, Herman Badillo ex - Bronx borough president in favor of ona Ramon Velez, frequent headline grabber in far-ranging Puerto Rican power-play events. If Mr. Badillo plans to challenge Velez, why all the negotiations with Arthur Goldberg to team up wilh him as Lieutenant Governor against Basil Patterson, the outstanding black legislator and the choice of the Black Elected Democrats? This statewide contest less blacks make should provincial. It would help all blacks if we come out strong and unified for Patterson, lining up all the other pieces.Would this mean we are engaged in a “hate Puerto Rican” campaign? You can bet it will be construed that way, When blacks try to obtain equal rights, or their fair share, it is always construed as a hate campaign. Take the example of the grow to trying Muslims, crops in Mississippi to feed and give jobs to the hungry blacks whom whites therea- pouts have alwayS spat upon. Just because they are militantly pursuing their own survival, they are accused of the most violent anti-svhite acts. Why are we alone asked to be patient, and why have we swallowed the “fair play'’ egalitarian ethos whole? , You remember that black leadership walked hand in hand to jail with Puerto Ricans in order to have LaCot named ° administrator of Lincoln Hospital; not one promise in the best interest of Bronx blacks has as yet been honored. The dlack community in the Bronx cries out for leadership, and unless our brothers citywide begin to deal more constructively with us, their little dominoes will topple also! _ Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 2, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 6 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Bronx and Brooklyn black. becomes operational under Title activists prevenied approval of’ I, ‘Institutes’ will be, therefore, “Operation Return’ at the’ ineligible for a Title JI grant Board of Education meeting on at a later date. : Wednesday, Feb, 12, charging; that the program for suspendedi The Institutes proposal was students was a “bastardization' based on data gatHered by of, and deliberate attempt tq’ BRONCO as they worked with preclude establishment of the'Elmira State Penitentiary more meaningful program|parollees, dropoxts, and submitted last Fall be Brooklyn |Suspended students over the and Bronx CORE. past year. It is based on the Supt. Donovan's $224,839 theory that “the so-called “Qperation Return’ was to disruptive child is usually a high become operational February 1, |Spirited, non-conformist who is andwasdesignatedTitIlwheichNotwillingtoacceptthe mandates Board of Education.mediocre education available in control. The CORE program;our schools.” They will offer was to be governed by aj walk-in” guidance, and Community Board inj)structure classes to relate to consultation with the Board of,students home and commumity Education, and was submitted | life.” under Title 11, which permits; Operation Return on the other programs to be subcontracted/hand is an outgrowth of to community groups. Principal Jack Landeman’s pilet Solomon Herbert and Mrs.|project at JHS 71 'M, where Bonnie Barrow of BRONCO SIA,:"two master teachers worked key figures in drafting ‘In-.with six students who could not stitutes’, have spurned offars adjust to normal school routines. to serve as consultants on:Classes which met at the Boys “Operation Return,” and in ajClub, emphasized building up Ieltcr to the Board dated Feb, |academic and social skills,” Mr. 12, stated that they “would not;Landeman said, “and returned lallow any such programs to children to school as quickly function anywhere in our as possible."’ community.” | Subterfuge Afoot? This proposal, which hopes for $3-million in next year’s budget, | “It is like saying to a mother, has the approval of Donovan's ‘we are going to let you help Committee on the Disruptive raise your child,” ’* Mrs. Barrow Child which included Louise said in a moving speech before Bolling of District 16 Brooklyn, the Board. “We worked with and Jeff Greenup of Harlem 'you, Dr. Donovan, because we NAACP, “The Committee welcomed ‘professional and ethical . . .the Operation Returns believed that you would be bul the Board has reneged on {proposal,” said Mrs, Leah their agreements to establish |Marks, attorney for Citizens 'an educational institution which \Committee for Children who would be partially administered altended several meetings, ‘by ihe Board of local resident “because we are concerned that all children get a full years’ Mrs. Barrow referred to a education,” ‘educators,"* serics of meetings held with Direct Line Mr. Donovan and Esther M. How important the disruptive Swanker of the State Education child is as a_ educational office where it was established] that monies for “Institutes’’ would come from Title II] which makes grants only to original, experimental programs, not operational before, The fear is that, if the Operation Return disruptive, but Harvey problem is disputable, Last year 13,284 children were suspended. for periods ranging from five; days upwards. Dr. Donovan claims that less than 1 percent of the total population fs Hertzman, UFT representative at Herman Ritter JHS meeting! recently claimed that 10 percent or at least 200 students in that school alone were disruptive. “IT am trying to find money for Institutes for Learning,” Dr. Donovan said, “but as 1 have said before, there js not instant money for this,’’ to real efforts to teach children in our schools. Noting that there was not one black cpntractor among the 112 to be approved by the Board to provide goods and services ranging from erasers to boiler installations, Mr. Solomon Herbert said: “This Institute of Learning proposal! means more’ chan education to us — it means sontracts for black merchants and jobs for our unemployed. Even if I were offered $500; yer day to work on Operation Return Icould not accept it.” Said Dennis Gardner, of Morrisania CPC Board: “if you could find instant money to support a police force to keep these children quiet, why not for this program?” And Cathy Goldman of United Bronx. Parents charged that the move} to allot $100,000 for direct lines in each school to local police precincts (which was passed by the Board) was in direct conflict| A five percenter, designating Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. limself as living testament of he inferior education meted out ‘o black children, offered to support with his life the ‘Institues for Learning’’ yroposal. “I have two choices, 1e said, either to die fighting ‘or nothing in Vict-nam or on he ~~ streets = fighting §=for something here,” Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 9, 1968: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News "In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER “We're racist, so there: you 100 children coukd not attend knew it all along. so what!” heir graduaion exercises for That is how young black men ill-defined reasons of poor like Nat Martin of Hunts Point, conduct. Of 509 ninth grade CPC community organizer, as- children, 25 are reiding below sesses white America's mood 6.9, and many al HA and oth following the report of the Presi- grade level dent's Commission on Civil Dis- Started Boscutt orders Jast week. It was, howev a case of This is one of the young men child asSault, where & parent, in their twenties whom James Mr. Clarence Dabney. stopped Baldwin says are speaking to a teacher fram attacking a us loud and clear: “Old man. child, that precipated the be still: we will not take what boycott. While Hernan you did, we will be men in Ferguson gets lil set al $100,000 for escorting children agrees with him: he has read a similar offense. is reinstated. previous riot reports and its and although involved in a our own time.” Nat Martin is in Rood to a Maleslm XN Memorial. company, for Dr. Kenneth anotier teacher, alle pediy Clark, the eminent psychologist, suspended several vears ago for all heen said before. Marcover, recent assaull case, is permitted Congress has failed to to canlinuc te teach children, implement the Report's basic Mr. Martin, vouthfully. recommendation — massive reflects on the dauble standard. funds to attack the root causes. and is) disenchanted) by While the Civil Rights bill, conferences and fact finding mangled by War hawks months Jans. ago, languishes, the Subversive Fortunately, some para. Activities Control Bill is being professionals began working al quietly rejuvenated. JustIn caS@ 175 136 last week, and reported threats to internal security start that they were starlled by whut cropping Up again. they saw. They were among Youth ts Impatient 250 fram schools in Marrisania The young oncs fecl, more who met at Bethel Temple on dceply ‘than their elders, the Saturday. “You must sec constriction of society, One-fifth yeursell as advocates for the of all Bronx families live in children in the school,” Jerome abject poverty, and half of them Green, CPC Educational are black, Morrisania is a poor, Coordinator who negotiated Iheir neglected neighborhood = of contracts said, “as well as aides disenfranchised transients with to the teaching program.” all the ingredients to be the Can Raise Level next Newark. Can you blame Most. of them considered youth, then, for spurning the;protection of children us, ndvice of elders whom they see-primary and while evaluation: bogged down in acquicscence:reports, when the program ends; and inaction in the face of these this June, may call them; conditions? “Intruders or “busybodies,"j For over a year, Nat Martin|with proper supervision they cznl has worked with parents and help raise the level of Jesrning| staff at JHS 136 te improvejin ghetto schools, conditions. The 14-year olds who, Getting those 20) para-: roam the corridors therclorofessional johs paying to $2.50. communicate to him: ‘We're tourly for the people who necd, not Jearning nothing,” they say.; hens most (when much Es ! Impatient to help last your, he,’ noncy had been cestined to pay, impetuously . offered to buy torefessional salaries) was nol expensive trophies for kids, “if small feat. Giving them praper: they would only stay in school.” training for the job is the next This year, Monday morning in phase. i (acl, he was a marshall on, Youth should be angry lat, the picket line areund JUS i whale generation of chiklren: {o oust (he principal, Robert:bas been lost since the 1954! Greenberg. ‘Supreme Courl decision, But In the ten years he bas heen sith the paraprofessional lo there, Mr. Greenberg tad arestore the link between group of parents Friday community and school, adulls; conditions in the échoo} have!lmay vel take Une iniative in, worsened, And parents ofiplanning for youth again, children in the school, becoming|Perhaps wilh the help of youth, vocal at last agree thal he|they may be a pusitive fuetor is right. “It is a punitivejin the prevention of civil. chool they say, Within the disorders. Or is it, as Nat’ last week, ten youngsters have; Marlin says, “Already — loo been suspended, and last year!late?” : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 16, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 4 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Sinee Concentrated department.” But that three of Employment Program (CEP) opencd its doors last October to the unemployed of South Broax, £916 applicants havi. been 1-949 were Puerta six classes are Spanish, and the English speaking classes contain many newlyly arrived Puerto Ricans may appear to show preference for our Puerto Rican Citizens. Some trainces say that the sessions ‘‘do not deal with the real problems of finding a job. where employers themselves may prefer the young,-caucasian loaking Puerto fican, 593 Negro cad 159 of olher ethnic groups, according to Frank Valdes. director at the Courtland: Avenuc Center. But the aceusatian that Negroes wre not getting a fair deul has came from several Riean girl ta an older black sources, who rep ort woman. discrimination at both intake The sessions do not discuss and placement. “Preferance is the underlying feelings of given to young Puerto Rican distrust between Negroes and girls,” said Mrs. Mary Puerto Ricans which U.S. Bridgewater a trainee. racism has created, because, “Y would disassociate myself on the surface relationships are from any program — Lat amiable and cordial. practiced discrimination,” suid The Forgotten Underclass Albert Terranova, assistant The Negro represents 16 director in charge of training. percent of the Jabor farce in “l have no olher reason for New York City according to heing here. bul to sce that CP recent Dept. of Labor statistics, fulfills its commitment lo hut by giving preference to provide 2,099 opportunities for welfare recipients — and ait the people whe need them unemployed adult male heads within the year of our grant.’ of ~ houscholds, ihe Negro. Structure Seems Equitable ‘underemployed, whe have Operating with a $4.6 million cxisted on subsislance wages, grant from Une Departmentof js overlooked. . Labor, under Manpower and As a maticr of policy, the arcer Development Agency, welfare department does not CEP is charged to improve provide a stipend for on-the-job employment opportunities of the trainees, unless they apply disadvantaged, with priorilies individually, and = mect the given to heads of households criteria, for a supplementary’ and welfare recipients. _allowance. Field workers canvassed the: ‘The procedural difficulties neighborhood for reeruils, and involved would discourage a- storefronts are used = aS man from taking a training: recruitment vehicles. A 1wo- opportunity with, say. the week orientation peried telephone company paying $64; introduces participants to weekly. He remains a car-! employment and training washer even though with! possibilities, and tests them to training he could make $150 with: determine their academic levels.’ the telephone company. in twa; They are then cither placed in years, Unwitlingly this intake, jobs, or in pre-employment procedure, diseriminales against: training provided by the Board these who have struggled over. of {ducation. . ithe years in marginal jobs, and’ Pre-employment. trainees who' on wham the stalislics providing secive $43 weekly plus $5 for fa» CEP was based. euch dependent, must travel Lo pyerta Riewns, newly arrived’ Marhattan sinee “four years ef in the United Slates, ag well ‘fort has not produced an Adult ys Nogroos arriving fram the raining Center for the Bronx,” coral seth, catld .pack CEP ecording ta Dr. Moerman and foave the hard core ressel. director af the Harlem underemnloved Negroes on the Cente oe onside looking in’ at training The fact thal aver 500 CED Dragrams, pernetually tied tov Bronxiles are scattered in 3 nit-and-miss jobs. Manhattan Centers compounds - oy communication and efforts to, liunts Point Piebiscite improve skills training,” Mr.’ Stil unresolved, bul moving| nov itl. acrimoniously toward solution is, 1D slalf (42 pereent Snanish the problem of ethnic balance’ speaking, 20° percent Nogro) on the Ilunts Point Community instudes Carl Bristown, Negro, Corporation. AL a CAP meeting,- who heads otienteion, botdine Thursday March 7, tempers, three starefronts arp used Qared when 14 Afro-american, cl in English as well as Sames were submitted by the, Span and disclaims “any HPCC that “Interested Citizens” trace of diserimination in. his headed by Richard Weeks did BACK FROM HELL — 1 ‘' These names were Marine Ife. James 9S. ‘handpicked by Ramon Beleza’ | Cnderdue of {he Bronx gat ‘forees."” they claimed. The lwo, shot in the head in a remote . ficlions agreed in a subsequent. valley of Vietnam, saw six meeting to acecpt 14 Afro- ow his seven) buddies Americans chosen in a mass; massacred by the Vielcong | meeting, Tucsday night as the, and stil) alive after 17 [final recommendation to CAP. | lortured hours. San of Mr! An open hearing lo review lames Underdue of :the whole question of ethnic 7h Me Ave., the Bronx, [balance in N.Y.C. community} his sister is a secretary. in ‘corporalions is scheduled for 7] the hind: Administration. ‘p.m. Thursday March 16 at the! ths brather David, 21, and . Board of Estimate. CAP will Iie sister: Geraldine, 15, and propose that future commnnunity | all the Underdues count the capuration elections allow for- minttes watit Fim eames back jellinfe praup participation al in September, Ue fights near levery: shige. Phu Dai whieh is rugged “There will be a pracedare country ining miean’s hook. review of names on the ballot lv oa droadty representative and impartial election board in cach poverty area,’ Edwin Greenidge chairman suid. ‘Together with corresponding city-wide board they will hear appeals and assure that guidelines are adhered Lo. While CAP does net propose a quota syste, it does suggest a minimum number of slots to, reflect ethnic clemagraphy. rool feel were representative, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission an Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 23, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News g. 6 |In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER June 18, Primary Day, could be a big day for Bronx Democratic voters. since they will decide who shall run for congress, and usually he who wins the primary is a shoo-in at the November election. Re- nortedly, politicos arc caucusing not to oppose any incumbent, so ¢ as not to split the Democratic volte. This means that men ¥% like Congressmen James Scheu- 538% er (21CD) and Jacah Gilbert sggee (22CD) and state democratic @ segislators under them will be uncontested. No Cantest, No Chaice ay, Such a ‘no-cantest will not 429" produce even a debate of the issues, mucn less alternatives . for the black community. Sullen 44; voters, who just stay home (like they did in the 1966 Primary when only 5860 Democrais out of a possible 15,000 voted in the 78ta AD) will assure victory for whomever the party . designates. TELIS OF RESULTS ~ It is interesting to noic, in District tz superiniendem, that sixeway 1986 Primary’ Edythe Gaines, describes contest, Gvhen George Silcott,! some of the results ef the Irma Sentiella, Nathan Straus: ‘Taylor Method of reading and two others ran) Jacob; instruction to parents and Gilberts plurality was 2.143; board of Education personnel, votes, just about the avmber! who previewed the em of people registered in the Forest! with her before its inStallation Hou: nok to mention the, in DistricL 12 schools for unregistered, non-voting, eligi-| Septemh lugs = (See the bles there. ! Community Conscious). Anyway, the Joint Legislative Committee in Albany has drawn sg ducational Developmental: new lines, designed, we are told,’ Laboratorics and Taylor Center) tn provide a “safe” district for “jfuntinglon, Long Island) to see| Gilbert, (a_ Regular), and the'‘echnological teaching aids in debonair Refermer, James aetion. : Scheuer, considered a- Demonstrated wero film: formidable votegeltler.: rips, records, lachistascopes' Redistricting hardly altered the-and= other aids designed lo serpentine patlern of sermit children to move at their, Hepublican-Conservalive Paulawn learning rate, rather than, Finn's district (considered safeae bound to traditional block | until co-op cily opens) to thessystem of grade placement. Kast: while placing Highbridge vionrae ound) Morris High and Washington Heights Crish + Is, and 15) elementary) und conservatives) in, ane will ave several of culingPelhamParkway:hesewnilsinSeptember,Mrs. (iheral and Jewish) cut af the Gaines said. 2ord, making things pretly shaky: Abandonment | for Reformer Jonathan Biaghnl! Baraugh President Herman ta the West. , iBadilio accused the Beard of; The Pelham Parkway Jewish ‘jie YMCA (whose members! Hberals are now Gilbert's bonus xypressed concern over the in the 2nd, but reformers Leo':ytight of the poor, while closing Isaacson Gvho hopes to make town facilities in the ghette) hay with them) and Ted Vel “running out oan the! of KastHarlem Tenants Coun problem." Speaking at a vy" (who hanks on the Puerto’ Dinner, March {1, he said they, TUcans at the other end haverpravided service when the aveady thrown their hats antossommunily was white. middie, the ring to oppose Gilbert. |Shass, . a bat that they. ateny Mr. Velox is elasping 19 his with the Protestant “council,. hosom the clusive Reform; Catholic Charities and churehes| CDAD rort, a dove thal were “relocating elsewhere, and might tz Hight UW Senator! doing nothing to replace needed. Kennedy overpowers MeCarthy: facilities." : a peace ecndidate, and thei He urged them ‘not Io, lie-contest” boys hold sway. |abandon as, but te make the’ Petitions fer candidates to run cayestment necessary fo keep in the primery will he circulated ‘hese, or build new facilities.i | from April 20 ta Mayo and fe rectnit and trains the’ and support of residents in: Hepisercd voters may sim for“ gnd of staff that can render returning efients lo socially, a wholo shite of candidates, dul real service to the poor." useful, praductive lives.” ony ance for ony single office,’ One ef these abandoned — Aflereare personnel will) vss your signature be fagilities, Broux Union YMCA‘ supervise 700 clients, in various chsquilified. Black citizens must at azo bi iist SL, bas been stages af rehabilitation Reb into the act new, at pre-'nequired by the NY Stale employment or retraining, primary time, te propose Narealies Addiction Control Mr. Wepkins reports candidates wha stand on the Cammissien “lo provide s“numerous job opportunities” at issues that matter most. aftercare for persens with ‘the Center, Other job vacancies Decentralization Preview? history of nareoties*around town are the Program Fifty-one community people, -dependeney.” Willard CRED) Director ($10,090 per year) at including paraprofessionals, aud) Hopkins, our honored farmer; Morvisania CPC, and the members of the parcul advisory! Police Deparlment Youthotxecutive Director of council,werepuestsaf|‘Iricttworker, now comarnnity, (ChwemantNeighborhoodCenter Sunorintendent Edythe J. Gaines! relations specialist for the Gsalary open, Master of SW and school persanne! at the’ Couter, wanls “the cooperation preferred, tut net required), Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. = A Tanner, Marietta Community Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 30, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 6 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Everyone is talking Black Negroes” whom they condemn Coalition, but such a necessity| as scllouts. . seems Jess than real with the | Last Wednesday, March 2), division, apathy and petty:a committee chaired by Lucille grievances that are rendering| Murray of South Bronx Was to us impotent at ihe grassroots. |screen Ji Puecrio Rican The poor, whose participation: candidates, and recommend is mandated on OEO boards,seven to the SBCPC Beard, to with moncy to dispense, scems comply with the CDA ruling little more able to take care on ethnic balance. At the Board of business than the “‘bourgeous meeting the following evening, where the executive committee was lo be elected, and the seven members seated, nine dlack board members did not even show, and two left before the vote. UNITED GROUP An organized and united Puerto Rican contingent, led by Frank Lugovina, who was elected chairman, had the by- laws of the Board set aside. They were able to push through candidates who, black board members claim. “represented only ane health area. and mainly one organization, OUB (United Organizations of the Bronx.) ig, violation of the Conslitution, Lack of selection criteria and proper review of applications’ protests were overriden. With« over half the black, representatives absent, it was too much to expect black women to hold ihe line against: ambitious Pucrto Rican males... To compound the problem, a rift exists between the CPC: director, Mrs. Gladys. Harrington and Mrs. Lucille. Murray, a board member and communily leader, At the bottom of it seems to be a. tack ef communication centering around differenees of, interpretation of board's and staff's rale. . For the second time in as.‘ many months, Mrs, Harrington's; resignation is an issue. Rev. Elmere Brooks sought it in February, and Mrs, Murray! concurred: ‘For some reason. Mrs. Harrington did not wish! to deal with the Board's’: appointee, Rev. Brooks,” Mrs.: Murray sald. “and does not want (o give the Board, information we need for: planning. Furthermore she does-. not reach out to the black. community.”” . Mrs. Murray ciled a budget eut which eliminated 123 block - workers as partieul arly-: distressing to her. “These were: the poorest people, making ihe ~ lowest salaries who nev must’ return to welfare.” she said. “while hiring of highly paid staf(,_ was going on in another| department, Manpower.” . These 2 Years Mrs. Harrington came wv. South Bronx in its infancy two! years ago, and given hours’’ beyond the call of duty to CPC..- Soulh Bronx has jis own. scholarship fund and eredit* union, a carpentry and print:” shop, and a parolee program|: “of which I am_ particularly- proud,” Mrs. Harrington said. But in communily organization, ste admits. “we.- just don’t secm fo be able to. accomplish all we want to,” The deck is stacked against: her with a Jarge transient.- “paper organizations,” and lack. cf grass roots leadership, “7 think there needs to be a better: interpretation of dhe uature and. - scope, and potential power of. a CPC Board,” Mrs. Harrington. . said. “Do they understand all- that is involved? . “Can they plan ahead five. years, using OEO funds as seed money io build something * permanent, or will they continue -* to tic themselves down, delving into problems of day-by-day , operations. . Throughout the Bronx,’ wherever the bone has been:- thrown, the enemy need not \divide and conquer. We manage” |(0 do il so cffectively ourselves, +” ‘ Model Cities Protest ‘The Morrisania Model Cities Policy Committee Jodaed a’ complitint against the N.Y. City... Housing ant Development- Administration, claiming that, “the community has been: excluded from performing any. meaninglul roll in planning anc. policymaking, They charged that the policy citywide committee’ lacks adequate black. representation: and the,, exclusion of community from interaction with City agencies. “Similar failure will be documented in other boroughs. . at a conference this weekend: at Salem Acthodist Church in: Harlem,” Mr, Sol Herbert, a, member of the Morrisania Committee said. “We have witnessed. during several visits” throughout their offices. an, inadequate number of blacks, . and those who are there are’ functioning in lesser positions:° than they were hired for,’ he, said, ‘Dept. of Development Commissioner Robert G. Hazen‘ was also named in the complaint- for questionable implementation, ef fair employment practices. when the City subcontracts for? services.” + Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Apr 6, 1968: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 23 In_The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER Tremontis a neighborbood in the people so lacking in transition; urban renewal and organization,” he said, New other unsettling changes are in Housing selection criteria will the wind even before the shew avoid some of the moralistic peoples who arrived since 1960, judgments of the former rulings, can settle themselves. but still the people, unless they . ;1can organize themselves, will For the black people who fled! be only tenants again, with no from the bulldozer to ‘Tremont, part in the rebuilding of their community, Twin Parks. East which would build $59 dwelling units on seven Ineligible Agencics Seattered sites, poses the old Infant organizations like treat — black removal. (Better Organizations for Mid _ This fear is understandable, Bronx) and WANA (Washington in view of the “social criteria” Ave., Neighborhood Association) under which Housing decides that have sprung up to deal with who shall enter public housing. eritical problems are ineligible Despite (Relocation Board to apply for mortgages under Chairman) Frank Arricale's Federal Housing Authority 221- Statement at a March 19 D-3 grants. To be eligible an meeting that residents now in organization ‘must have the the area would be given possibility of lasting for at least preference for a new housing. 40 years to support the life of the mortgage,” Father Mario Under Review Zicarelli of Mt, Carmel Catholic Church chairman of the Twin The 22-point “social criteria” Park Association said. in under review, and well it This private organization of need be, for it excluded people who “present a clear and, local churches is seeking present danger” past or sponsorship for all or part of present illegal occupation,| Twin Parks. Many months of confirmed drug addiction; and project, and the plan is good hard work have gone into their those with “conditions indicative showing low-income unit dis- records of poor rent payment, come housing. of potential problems” like pursed throughout middle in- irregular work history, out of But the ‘deliberative’ vote wedlock children, and unusually frequent changes in residence belongs to the parishioners, ‘‘We among other things. are broadening our. base,” Father Zacarelli said, ‘‘in “These are the people who inviting all neighborhood groups have filled the substandard to participate with us.’ But apattments and clapboard those neighborhood groups who private houses turned multiple did get in function as dwellings,” said Mrs. Dorothy “consultative members” only. May a Fremont community April 12 js the deadline for worker. ‘‘Where will they go?” submitting applications and it The new residents of Tremont is doubtful that neighborhood have many problems, and “few groups can structure themselves) black hands to work, We don’t to take advantage of 221-D-3 know what is happening, or who mortagages. to turn to for Jeadership,” said Black Apathy Again Mrs, Mays from her office at Poor participation by black CAB (Community Action Board community exists too in the I), One of the persons and Tremont Community Cor- places where she has found help poration now in the planning is the Tremont Neighborhood stages, A board of 19 had one City Hall and its Community elected black member, but with Organizer, Roger Witherspoon. CDA ethnic balance stipulations,| “TY wags amazed by what I now has four black, 19 Puerto. saw here, not in Brooklyn, nor| Rican and three ‘others’. Mr. Harlem, nor anywhere else were! Cesar Rosado, program coordinator for the Planning Committee claims that the area is approximately 55 per cent Puerto Rican, 35 per cent black. “There is no spirit that we can do it, no precedent for building from scratch for our black people,” laments Mrs. May a black member of the Board. ‘‘Our people are pressed by their immediate sustenance problems, and all their energies are expended there.” With her meager salary, Mrs. May operates a day care program which permits 13 mothers to work. Her car is the neighborhood taxi by day, and patrol car by night. “We are without services,” she says, “how can I complain about conditions unless I dt least try to do something.” The Board meets April 10, 7:30 at 927 E, 180th Street. Some black residents should certainly come out to decide how best to spend the $685,700 allotted’ by CDA and make recommen.| dations regarding summer and year round programs. 4 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Apr 13, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News [In The Bronx Communit onscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER A black man whose work has How can we honor Dr. Martin)’ ‘gained him the respect of our Luther King? Should Harold|i community was in deep Dicks feel that what he is loing mourning Thursday, April 4)for to assist paraprofessionals to the murdered Martin Luther become teachers and take the King. “You don't know what responsibility for educating the ‘Rev. King did,” he said to me, black child is, ‘‘notbing “You have never lived in the compared to what King was: deep South and suffered the de- doing?” Are ali our efforts to gradation black men felt there. oppese stalmate and| “As farm boys in Georgia,” acquiesence on the political: Harold Dicks, Education Chair-| scene now futile? If there is’ taau, Bronx NAACP said, “We a master plan to exterminate would have to ride on the back of us, must we march quietly to boys in Georgia,” Harold the gas chambers, or be the Dicks, Education Chairman, victimsofstreetmassacres? Bronx NAACP said, “We would Martin Luther King was an have to ride on the back of eloquent spokesman for non the pickup truck with the rain violence, but he never ran from beating in our faces, while a a fight. In our town last week,|. white woman and her dog rode Rev. Ralph Abernathy pleaded inside. Our only protection from march, Symbolically, we could frameups that Jed to jail or honor Dr, King by going to lynching was a white bossman Washington June 18 But it is who would call the jail and not the finest way to honor say to the crooked chief of} him. police, ‘Let my Niggers out! To have had the courage to Dr. King wrote: “The Negro's say, ‘No, we will not ride in the back of the bus,’ was an act of heroism beyond measure.” The Price of Compromise I was reminded as Harold| wept of a German - Jewish greatest stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Council or; the Ku Klux Klan but the white moderate, who is more devoted) to order than justice; who prefers a negative peace, which concentration camp survivor is the absence of tension to: who became an importer in this a positive peace, which is the country, and for whom Iworked presence of justice.” Our own as a secretary, he pleaded with community was to Dr. King me to always remember who that indispensible ‘‘little drop I was; that the Negro in this: of water,” but black people here country who thought he was take the attitude of the white becoming assimilated and could moderates. Law and order is forget his identity should look the call; train the militia if to the fate of the German Jew. necessary to ‘‘caol the long hot “We felt superior to the Slavic summer!” Are our black Jew because we thought we had! status, education and rights as| Germans,” he said. “Those lawyers and teachers, our doctors and businessmen committed to justice for all Jews with money who looked black men? How aclive are they Aryan, who had married: beyond going to the polls and Germans, compromised, and pulling the lever on election day sold out the rest of us. But when they tried to buy their way out, they found that the Gestopo was indiscriminate in to the needs of our own people? their hatred of al of us.” Six million dead was the price they paid. the South. But is a community wide disgrace to attend political conventions in the 21st preparing for a massive “Poor; or 22nd Congressional Districts People’s March.” To our:1and see so few black men and oppressors he said on the eve; women active there, making of his death, ‘You can never| would honor Dr. King. Beyond be what you wish to be, unless ‘the tears that may be shed for' I become what I should be . the death of Dr. King is the .. our destinies are inextricably necessity to risk losing the sor- bound.” His words apply did privilege some of us bave equally to stralas and economic gained by ‘“prostituting” a lit- while gathering forces for the Io a letter from jail in 1963, for some candidate they had no part in putting there? How responsive are black legislators Dr. King sat with the President the day he signed the Voting Rights Act to permit the Negro Dr. Martin Luther King fought to become a political force in for the Jowliest among us; he died fighting for a decent wage for garbage collectors, and was; levels within the race. tle. It may mean giving up a As we recover from the. good-paying job that makes you stunned horror of Dr. King’s see our people short. assassination, we must all reassess the degree of our courage Dr. King had, nor a compromise. Mr. and Mrs. dream of what he gave for Dicks, my husband and 1 were" gy, architects and othe r| privileged to talk with Dr. King«edueated men to see that black just a few weeks ago atijjaborers get decent jobs in Freedom ways Dubois Centennial Celebration. Citizens are irganized to gain Magazine’simodel Cities, and that black He praised the work on th Cllsome contracts and own some local level, in the words of the property through nurssery rhyme, “little drops Renewal. Drop by drop such of water, little grains of sand,” continuing effort woul truly declaring that it WaSlhonor Dr. King, and add to indispensible to his own work.|lthe quality of all our lives. He said, then, that he was not so concerned with the “quantity , of his life as the quality’? and. that his family understood that! “from any of my sojournes,: I might not return.” i Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission It would not take half the Urban Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Apr 20, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News 15 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. |In The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER When the Board of Estimate “Elected officials still have! and the City Council on March the basic responsibility to 15 amended the 1968-69 Capital provide services: they cannot! ; Budget to restore vital Bronx’ toss the problems to the people! projects vetoed by the Mayor,: and walkaway. It is the’ Bronx Borough President, mayor's responsibility to see! on top. Twelve years of, Herman Badillo said the victory that they get additional’ frustrating delays preceded the! was “a dramatic case study: resources.” he said. Mr. Badillo| ceremonies, and Daniel Nelson, of the effectiveness of citizen was firmly against the executive director of the participation in the budgct-? establishment af Little City Educational Construction Fund, making process . . .” ‘Halls because “only the Mayor praised Assemblyman: Seymour Especially cited were the 14 and not other clected city Posner for “the tremendous job Community Planning Boards. officials would have access to he did in Albany to eliminate “which held public hearings’ hem,” : jthe roadblocks that held up i where neighborhood people! constructian.” Posner was in testified on local necds. \ Borough President Elevated | Albany that Monday, but lots: Mr. Badilio. prepared his LiAt the present time, Mr,’ of other politicians posed for| indsay has appointed an groundbreaking pictures, Since: budgonethebasisofthistapedawnoaannte. sat .HighbridgebecamePosner's! testimony and submitted it to Me econ fox says, cannot Be district with reapportionment 15! City Planning Commission, Bur expeditor for construction, who months ago, he has been battling! PLANNING BETTER BRONX Vivian Harris, Standing behind understanding between ethnic the .Mayor's budget deleted! atfoctive, since he is on the with Housing and Redevelop- — Bronx Borough President the borough president is groups and sections of the many Bronx projects, reasoningi:seme level as the commission ment for construction of this Herman Badillo, left, sits with Annette F, Morton, one of Borough with varying necds.” that these items would HOt ois, He suggests adeputy mayor school, and is girding ‘fer a black planning Board I two black staff assistants, who Mr. Badillo’s plans for them beter the construction staBe! who can bring the commission- battle to win the June 18 prim. members from Hunts Point- is in charge of Planning Board the subject of The Community before the end of the fiscala.’ together to expedite the ary there, too. Morrisania: Mrs. Daisy I. “The 14-Branx Planning Canscious, (Parkway Studios et : a Iprojecis through the 12-20 de- Bradshaw, Mrs. .Esmay Boards are being structured Phato) ye sayBallo Feud ye'lpartments and 167-300 opera- Robinson; standing Lawrence and strengthened, ‘‘Mr. .at, Badillo charged that the’ tions between capital budget al- Burr, chairman, and Mrs. city administration was location and completion of a Badilosaid, “to: foster “penalizing the people of the! roject TM Bronx for their own failure, |)PY —~ . il Bronx projects were 10 per) fhe were mayor, Mr. Badillo cent behind schedule, he said,/'5aid. he “would give the borough and the Bronx js suffering 26]!Presidents (an elected official]? years of neglect and failure to| Wilh prestige under the charter) obtain its proper share of city; Siatus and full authority to serviees and facilities, |Supervise the commissioner to He abhorred the mayor's: Sc¢ that approved items in their proposal that the 1968-69 budget! boroughs were completed.” The be cul because of the backlog! borough president represents an (of authorized projects ($1.2! entity, and wilh his planning. ibilion allocated for city-wide! boards (whose members are ‘construction, and 128 projects; how appointed by the BP) in the Bronx alone were not elected by district, they could yet begun), charging the city truly represent and speak for, administration with laxity, the needs of every community| providing superfluous fancy and plan ahead for the. next’ programs for the poor, when fifty years, Mr. Badillo said. construction would generate 56-| There are 297.562 Puerto billion in employment and Ricans and 248,013 blacks in’ goods.” ! the Bronx, hut there are also} There is strong feeling 460.000 Italins, Between groups, between Mayor Lindsay and Mr,! there is tremendous hostility Badillo, generated some political, concerning what one community observers say, by Mr. Badillo’s; gets over another. A case in desire to be the next mayor. point are the Minipools proposed: - “Mr, Lindsay and I disagree by Parks Commissioner, on priorities,’ "Mr. Badillo says, Heckscher as “lop priority for “He is more given to public the ghetto” at $33,000 each, relations than executive “People in Throggs Neck and | management.” East Bronx have been waiting Morris High School is 180 per for years for swimming pool'' cent avercrowded, intermediate’ construction; such unilateral schools in the Bronx are 200; allocations foster racial and per cent overcrowded. “AN the sectional animosity.” . fanfare about decentralization is A beller idea, Mr, Badillo, meaningless without additional said, would be ‘‘to strengthen; facilities; yot the Mayor vetoed community planning boards who] P.S, 74 and additions to Morris presently have joint meetings) High School,” Mr. Badillo said, of the 14-chairmen and) People Participation Ineffective subcommittee heads and have Meaningful citizen. par- testified at hearings for each {ticipation has deteriorated other. needs.- In this way we tunder the poverty programs, as could develop a realistic master presently set up, Mr. Badillo plan. for the boraugh. Whether! isaid. Even with ethnic balance ilthis would diminish the power: campaigns against another and concern himself with Cily-wide ‘provisions, one ethnic graup jot the Mayor, or free him to lean gain $1 per cent control. problems will be the subject The only purpose of poverty; of a later article. programs, as Mr. Badillo sees Posner at Highbridge | lit, is to develop new concepls Ground was broken April 1 and better means of|'for PS 126 in Highbridge, which communicating with the poor. Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Apr 27, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 17 In_ The |Bronx own bank staffs indicates a color tblack congressional candidate In line) as well as the obviously tthis district, which redistricting gave a slight edge, on the basis African-ancestored blacks, when id population alone, in favor “passing” is permitted to tof blacks. Unfortunately, black© become once more the ticket jineligibles outlandishly exceed to economic parity with whites. ithe number of registered voters. We sce it in the better housing And it should plague the in the West Bronx, made tconscience of all the candidates _ available with the Jewish ithat they did not fill the Board exodus, Where fair-skinned of Elections last Spring and : . Puerto Ricans are admitted to rsummer with the sweet sound Two men, one black (Kenneth jjAlmeida, chairman of the PR- the exclusion of blacks. of new registrants. Miller) and one Puerto Ricaniispanic Center and OUB Mr. Badillo admits Vit be among those regretting (Pedro Morales) tried to occupy strategist “if the Negrocs had; powerlessness to prevent this that we did not do more to the director’s seat at Hunts used their organizations like we insidious type of discrimination register the poor and apathetic Point Community Progress “since it is private housing, and voter, for I will be running, Center last Wednesday thus iaid to get out tie vote.’ discrimination has traditionally with Leo Isacson and Jules dramatizing a controversy that ‘Mr. Almeida and Mr. Weeks| been on the basis of color.” Feiffer, as a delegale to the has been snowballing for agree that an impartial body’ Third Avenue stores and National Democratic Convention months, of people with no vested downtown restaurants alike seem in the 2:CD. Deadline for “We have shown that if one interest, should be appointed to to prefer the foreign-sounding, registration at 1780 Grand director can be appointed by mediate the situation, As a caucasian-looking P.R.toblacks. Concourse is May 15, new and a body not duly constituted, then beginning, Herman Badillo and Whereas black and P.R, non-voters please vote! any group can appeint a Jackie Robinson were on the scholars may theorize at At a party packed with well director,” Richard Weeks, scene Jast Wednesday to lend Brotherhood-in-Action about wishers, and many spunky, chairmanofInterestedCitizenstheirinfluencetoavertingcrisis.depressedpeopleandcommoncager young supporters said. Nat Martin a black bonds, black people on Fox Saturday, April 20, Reformer They claimed that Morales community organizer (who Street are beginning to know Dennig Gardner announced for waS appointed by an worked during the 1966 “where it's at.” Said Robert the Assembly 78th AD. At his ‘uneertificd, incomplete beard,” Registration campaigned) LaForey: “As militant as I am side was CDV Bronx Acting and that their move to have eoneurred with Almeida that for black rights, even I have Chairman, Lais Fuentes, who all acts of that board ratified black registration wis hesitated to face the fact that ‘will oppose Ivan Warner (Reg. March 23 was illegal. insufficient, “for multiple the conflict here in Hunts Point ‘Dem) for the State Senate in Moreover, Adolph Roberts, reasons. For one thing,” he said, is racist, plain and simple.” the 3ist. chairman of Kelly St. Block “the anger, so sharp jn black Those New Yorkers who flew Association said, “criteria, and| against white controtniatiou, is to Atlanta to communicate with open announcement of the blunted in Hunts Point, because dreamers of Dr. Martin Luther vacancy has been insufficient; many blacks feel that Puerta King’s dream must wake up jisallowing time and procedures Ricans are one with us.” and help “black and whites (and for due consideration of other It is becoming more obvious al shades ja between) sit down qualified le.”” to blacks, however, that most! together" at Hunts Point. Dr. Helen Mitchell, contrary: Puerto Ricans want to Ah Politics! Its swect sounds to reports Jast week, ‘was not: disassociate themselves, and not of instant change fil the spring fired, but resigned as director be contaminated by the man, air, as Nathan Straus (Reform of Hunts Point CPC effectivellat the bollom — the Negro. designate}, moves to challenge April 12, and is on terminaljTheir strategy is to move as Jacob Gilbert (Incumbent, Reg.) leave until June 29. Dr. Mitchell, swiftly and as unencumbered for Congress (22D) in the who is now Director of Citygas possible into the American Democratic Primary June 18, wide Summer Projects CDA,|mainstream by becoming as Still in the race, loo, is Ted bore the brunt of the canflict||Caucasian as possible, Velez wi’th Coalition for between the minority groups. Of course, this augers;Demecratic Alternatives’ (the “All this could have been!miserably for the black Puerto} McCarthy Group) support. avoided,” said SalvatorellRican (and one look at their AL Nall (Republican) is the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); May 4, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg.6 |In_ The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Angry and shake in principais attended tne School Board District #9 mecting Jast Wednesday, April 24. 4A principal, appointed according to UFT regulations had been removed by the community and parents of IS 148, “placing al our jobs in jeopardy.” the principals said. “In a manner! § of speaking. they were absolutely correct, unless they‘ make first-rate education for the ghetto child a reality,’ said Ed Hopper. chairman of Neighbors for Education, Action & Reform (NEAR). Reversal at 1S. 18 With limited information at - their disposal, and three days to make 2 decision, a committee of community, IS. 148 parents and Local School Board, had approved Milton Sticr as principal, effective April 12. After talking with parents of his former school ¢p.s. 80M+ who reported that Mr. Stier had REGINALD WALTON heen Jess than an able administrator there, lhe schos) Harold Dicks, Jerome Green, communily group withdrew and the Parent Association's M their approval of Stier’s Brown counseled with paren appointment. ,who wavered at tines, fearing! They felt that sirce 1S. 148 that the demonstration might! had been without a principalibccome a power struggle at! : it opened last September, ‘their children’s expense: and resulling in faxity concerning.“ uM since it opened last September Ed Hopper, chairman of ean teacherresponsibility,stuasd2perudennttorga!nizer. discipline und the academic! Now a black man, Reginald program, they needed a HU. Walton is acting principal. principal who could be relied.His appointment circumvented upon to set things right. The Board regulations, since he is parent communiity body, among those unappointed on the therefore, informed Dr, assistant principal's list. He was Maurice Ames, Superintendent‘.he Advisory Council's choice,! on April iat (under threat of and luoks like a good one. Mr.° demonstration the following, Wallon has been in the school Monday)? that Mr. Stier's system since 1946, spending 5! appointment must be rescinded,‘years with the burcau__ of! two other teachers removed,-Educational and Vocational, and a lemporary administrator:Guidanee at PS 55 (IS 148's" appointed until’ the Advisory:parent school); he is deeply; Council could seleet a coneerned about the academic! salisfactory principal. Sitin and standing of 1S 148, and plans: sleep-in they did for three days, we work closely with the: and al the demands were met. ‘Advisory Council and the Parent: ‘Assaciat‘an, whose full support,! Black Men Forward in he has been assured, are Nis. ‘Two clements stood out the process of achieving that: Power in the 7 AD victory, and not the least of Assembly District 77 Cower these is that the parent Bronx, Hunts Point) maybe a community group developed pivotal ore, as political jockeys confidence in their OWA move to the starting gale, Irma determination ard unity. Santaella has entered the race: Concerned parents of other ys a Regular to oppose Reform! boroughs supported — the,Democrat Jaunes Scheuer for; objectives: Rev. Millon Congres, 2st CD. ‘This should Galamison of Brooklyn, Mrs. consalidate the Regular vs Lorene Daniels and P.A.'fteform — positions, leaving President, Alexandria Coloa'nobert Garcia, Stale Senator; from PS 80 came to say,/(29§D) previously straddling “Miseducalion af minority-groubpo'th horses, dangling, Or maybe; children anywhere affects us."|nol he, but the volers are left Elected officials lent the weight dangling. of their office to altaining a! qt seems Garcia was to be: solution. unopposed in the rather odd, Al Goadman of the imrd St. songlomeration ef neighborhoods, Improvement Council sent in that make up the 29th, which: breakfast; William I, Rrowa!siretches from the Puerto Rican!” of the Pit sent dinner, and Mrs, stronghold, Uses Bo'nt, down in the 77th AD? Armandal Georgia Lamar, whase child had ta the end of El Barrio ab Montano is up_ for suffered injury at 1.5. 14, fried-agr@ St. Man. In between, Assemblyman, and Cesar, chicken. The wamen were;however, ere a host of black Rosado for Male Jeader, a black! constant and reflective: Mrs. falks and “ethers” who believe, male in opposition to Garcia: Bonnie Barrow of Bronco all clecled sflcials are less than woukl balance things well,” | S. 1 A, Mrs. June Salters of perfect, and therefore, in need Only then could they consider; LABOR, Mrs. Lucy Vigay, Mrs. af exposure to opposition at cach: agreeing to the black, female: Flinganadhostofothers.Hachelection,Sobeit,tea,withdistrictIeaderwhichtheywere’ cantribulion wi & significant, But Robert Garcia, Far the thing. offered. In the 7ith, as at 1S’ the finest result of the whole to be achieved in New York 118, and everywhere, recognition process was thal the leadership City in 196i is a warkable power sof the black male is the key was clearly ins the hands of relationsh'n between Negrees to equality and slablitity for black men. Sal Elerbert of CORE aad Cuerbi Ricans. “Why not the black family — and and Robert 1. Jackson of begin th Bros volers: are communily. Why wait until next PLAN. werethespokes ngtheslatelime;300yoursislongenough. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); May 11, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 |In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The fact that Congressman ‘formed the National Commitice James Scheuer’s (2ist CD) bill to support the Commission, to set up a National Conimission whose chairman was Jackie on Negro History and Cullure Robinson, and honorary was reported out of commiltec chairmen, Roy Wilkins, Whitney last Monday may come as a Young, and Charles Wesley. surprise to many of his black Only one Bronx person, “Mrs. constituents and fellow Theodore Khecl of Riverdale, Bronxites. I doubt that even was chosen, the event of its passage will Congressman Sehever be greeted with dancing in the ‘overlooked such distinguished streets, because it is a gift, black members of his own and not the result of our own ‘communily and constituency as struggle to better our condition. ‘Rev. Edler G. Hawkins of St. When Captain Robert Johnson Augustine Presbyterian Church. (42nd_ Precinct) speaks on ‘Well versed in Afro-American controlling juvenile delinquency, history and thought Rev. he talks about the responsibility ‘Hawkins, two years ago, sought of black adults for instilling self- respect and respect for authority in the young through generous amounts of love and discipline, rather than by increasing numbers of street patrolmen, “T don’t want white liberals fo give me anything, but the opportunity to earn what I need for myself,” he said, “A chick won't learn to walk, if you crack the shell for him.”” . funds to purehase an toutstanding collection of ‘volumes and manuscripts on \Negro history for the Bronx. * He felt strongly then that the lack of access to information, ‘about themselves contributed to us about ourselves.” (the miseducation of Black youth, $500,000 is the probable iand the fact that the library appropriation for the year-long was not achieved camo back “study and investigation, which to haunt him last Thursday will recommend to the President might. At a “Unity mecting sleps that would resull in the al Morris High School, t7-year- integration of the Speaking to the bevy af ‘old Brother William Ketchum, uecomplishmentL of black magnificent, flowered heads, Ipresident of the Morris High Americans into American life.” and chie pastel colored dresses School Afro-American Club of Negro business and ‘spurned the “leadership of black should be chosen by a professional ‘middiz-class” Ibourgeoise adults” as jacking conference of black leaders, women last Sunday, he said: “energy to unify the community, rather than appointed by the “My friends, black: childrea cut since they were puppets, merely President,” objected Roy Innis in the streets need your help. «delegated authority by whites,”’ of CORE a member of the These are your children. , .you With no tangible evidence of Committee. cannot remove yourself from {the goals and goods black men their squalor and deprivation.” Ihave sought for their young, “When a Negro child is given Permissiveness and the William Ketchums believe his primer on Dick, Jane and transmission of “the-world - iblack adults “‘have not learned Spot, he has only to thumb owes - you - a living culture to fight, just to bleed.” spells racial doom,” Unworthy These youngsters decry the through a few pages before he Says, ‘That’s not me.’ He has only to read of the contributions of the many immigrant groups that make up America... .and walk through almost any museum in the country and leak around ...” to feel total: alienation fram America, | of respect are parents who purchase stolen goods or send their children out to loot, he said. “Teach them that ignorance is bad; guide them; let them know they are somehody.’* “burn baby burn” cult, and declare that among their growing numbers there is a “definite tightening up on dope.” ‘They protest the intellectual stiflmg they suffer at Morris aand the four other Bronx high schools represented. In introducing the Bill (HR 12962,) April 1, Congressman Said Charles Olaves, a Morris i Nobody knows this better than: James Pruitt, or Edler Hawkins or Captain Johnson or a host ‘of other adult, black Bronxites|: Scheuer said: ‘the unfamiliarity of Negro history and culture has deprived white Americans because they remain ignorant ‘Washington Carver make you of a vital part of American {think he loved slavery,” he said, history and are easy victims declaring that he was almost of malicious myths; and black expelled from school because Americans because they are Ihe thought “Cry, the Beloved robbed of the pride and self- ‘Country’ ‘was degrading to and the eventual integration of esteem that comes from iblack manhood. the Black man's history and knowing their noble past.” Fortunately, one back man, contributions into American life Bronxites like Captain James Pruitt, their history aight have been. Bul alas, poor Johnson might have deen able tteacher and = Afro-American ‘birds, black Bronxites .had to counsel wisely with the ‘History Club faculty advisory, nothing lo do with breaking that Congressman on the subject of is their hero, because “he taught shell. a Commission to Study Negra History sinca those already down-and-out youngsters whom he meets daily in Morrisania suffer the degradation of spirit and lack of self-resp ect born: of negative self-image. Sre Lh 138 distinguished b’Jack" and white Americans nationwide senior: ‘‘What they don't teach ws is even worse than what they do. The books on George whose harvest of frustration is|, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. The t-man Commission Said Congressman Scheuer: all their young can build upon. What a shot in the arm for them, and for reconcilialion of the generations, the achievement of a Commission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): May 18, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amstetdam News p26 In_The Bronx Commun ity Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER When Neighborhood Mental They admitted that “the| Health Servieecenters were Debilitaling mental and! opened with a demonstration psychomatie effect of hard core Grant three years ago. poor peo-, sovial problems of patients ple were beguiled by its promise’ makes the psychiatrist's to realistically deal with the treatment dependent upon the burgeoning problen of mental, work of the CMHW. The new health deterioration in the: approach to psychiatric services Bhetto. lin the ghetto was that the Anintegral part of the $500,000; CyHW would bridge this gap grant (under the auspices Of'between patient and Yeshiva University, Linstein' professional. ee(allege,Heatwas|Morcover,CMHworkersfeel the new career opportunities far| fat bn freatment dispensed indigenous workers as mental! rom ospitals and centers health services aides. iTelics teo heavily — “upon use They were to be the link Of _medication, leaving the needing services and the! health. housing, welfare between the community person’ Patients real social problem—s professional workers. There was to pe ealt with by the CMH also the implication that the R ° Phi tw ptogram’s objective was to train; + © S Pp on 8 | bility! the: their own program. ‘administration has so far “failed! the indigenous to eventually run D0tWithstanding 7 :to incorporate the concrete: Upgrading Was The Bure ‘experience and contributions of, Last year, Dr. Tom Levin, ‘CMHW into definable and viable’ an associale professor _of:.job status.” Theoretically, they psychiatry al Einstein, received'were to serve as role models: a‘ study grant to cereale a'lfor the rest of the community; structure whereby even anmltealistically their sub- intelligent, high school dropout Iprofessional jobs are deadend. could enier medical services asi . a trainee; advance, with in-! mene Seo era ‘ service training !o an aide;! Meal of their contrac receive a high schol diploma: :45 yet lobe mcgotiated. They enter college courses, advaneing| Want & work study program through assistant, ass ociatelne i at a worker ond serve positions; and upon graduation!“0 fours on the job, and have professional status. jhe receives credit toward a: and specialization receive's> hours of training for which These lures, upon which to “legree. CMHW will speak before: some extent, OEO based their|,the Board of Estimate |May: Dr. Levin's study grant expires! Health Board’, Yeshiva, Einstei grants, have remained theory,"2 when the “Community Mental: this August; at this veriting, | Health Board”, Yeshiva, there is no structure, no grant Linstein and Lincoln Hospital to implement its findings. [present their proposals for an Last week, community mental; S8-million grant to institution- health workers al Lincoln alize Community Mental Health Hospital sat_ and slept-in torservices, demand clarity |; protest the Tack of definilive| They will personacl practices and‘“thout the purpose of the equitable conditions — of ipropram. They question the employment. Their nefotiatars Seriousness. of Yeshiva-Einstein chairman); said that for three chout its commitment to (Ali. Malik. el Mohammed, |wpgrade indigenious workers.|. touched upon: the upgrading the} ‘Past performance Indicates): years they have becn operating |that Einstein, helieves their role without proper evaluation! be the training of physicians, procedures, making the/#nd Uey do nol want to gtc araprofejosbsdepienodenta'liim’vaslved in career ladder ii| thon the subjective judgment programs.’ Mr. Weeks said. | of supervisor personnel. . There is implied racism in} So thick has been the red,maintaining a “medical elite’) tape, that il was anachievement ‘composed of outsiders, since) for the negotiators just to. be [community people are black and| able (0 sil down with| Puerto Rica a, and the | authoritative Yeshiva-Einstein|Professionals white. ; representatives, On May 10, Dr. Furthermore, ‘Communiity Warris Peck, Lincoln's Mental Mental Nealth Board" is a Health Services director; Dean! TMisnomer, since no communily , William Glazer of Yeshiva, ard :people are on it, yel it ine| President Perlstein of Einstein the authority lo make decisions| College of Medigine agreeed ta |eancerning funding allocation for| the CMHW demands. But what ;Merlical service, The community| they wan was increly “redress |might better be served on every, of “grievances, the machinery [level if the Buard were clected and solution for which should tather than appointed. : have heen established loug age, snid Richard Weeks, oa hegolinter, Jobs Remain Deadenad The basic issue was not’ fonched upon, the upgrading of the indigenaus, according, fo The rationale fur employing the Hipenous, aecording, to Sinstein'’s original proposal, was that the professional staff Cor the most part white, middle. class and not community-based) was unfamiliar wilh the poverty world and the cullural patlerns 1 af the ethnic groups, . Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Tanner, Marietta Community Conscious New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): May 25, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 In_ The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The United Federation of ethnic barriers to college are Teachers has spent millions for ridiculous in the face of these advertising and to transport facts. teachers away from their The present Demonstration schools to Albany to prevent projects, like open enrollment, passage of (Mayor's Lindsay's) are designed to fail. They are School Decentralization Plan. given not local control or They are seeking, instead,!autonomy, but monics with all passage of (Staten Island State kinds of strings attached. Senator John) Marchi Plan'Autonomy mcans control over which offers for legislators non- staff — hiring and firing, commitment during this deciding whether you want election year; and the ghetto! merit increases for exceptional schools in crises, another year teachers who do in fact improve of study with present board of teading levels. Parents who education policies in tact, tead the UBP report will know How contemptuous to moralize that ‘“‘only they can save our about a “black power grab” schools,” and they won't need at Ocean Hill-Brwonsville, and another year of study under to continue to dally with UFT aegis to prove it. decentralization when education June 8 at Bethel-Temple, the segregated, and grossly unequal. its Oratorical Contest. This was in New York City is defacto Word Power League will hold Our children are dying, under ‘aproject sponsored under ESEA always known that ghetto vocabulary and improve the present system. We have in districts 9 and 8 to increase schools were being language use. South Bronx shortchanged. now a_ timely NAACP will offer $100 and report by United Bronx Parents trophies to the winner. jon “Distribution of Educational \Resourecs” proves it. For two years, teams of parents and youth researchers examined the 12 highest ranking elementary schools. and the 12 lowest: (according to the Metropolitan Reading Achievement test scores of May 1966) to find the reasons for the wide disparity of pupil achievement. For example, whereas the 5th grade median should have been 5.8, the median score for fifth graders at PS 24 (Riverdale) was 9.7, and 4.2 for the fifth graders at PS 48 (Hunts Point). Eleven of the top 12 schools are located in the middleclass northeast, west Bronx, Riverdale sections, while all 12 bottom schools are in South Bronx black and Puerto Rican areas. All of the bottom schools were, overutilized, with 92 regular through sixth grade classes {8,938 pupils) on double session. None of the top 12 schools had classes on double session, and 7,489 seats in Bronx schools were empty. (Remember how Open Enrollment was designed to fail?) The More Effective Schools program, favored by UFT whereby schools with low achievement, high mobility and poverty were to iven compensatory features like lower class size, extra teaching’ personnel, etc, is theory, nat fact. Regular elementary schools were supposed to spend $750 per child; special service schools in the ghetto, were to Bet $150 to $200 more. The UBP study shows that the average for the top 12 schools was $670 per child, while! the average expenditure for the bottom 12 (all special service! schools) was $519.00. | Class size reduction too is! a fallacy: seven of the top: schools had class sizes below average; while only four of the bottom 12 enjoyed reduced class size. Statistic after statistic proves that more money is spent to provide the superior; education for the top twelve's’ schoolchildren. Said Evalinaj Antionetty, Executive Director of UBP: ! “Since these schools in the black and Puerto Rican arcas receive the bulk of inexperienced teachers at the: lowest. salaries, “unless money, is appropriated on a per capita basis, the current practice will continue ~~ of budgeting about, $9,000 for a teacher, then assigning a teacher at $6500, but returning the $2500 difference to headquarters, often to be spent in a white school, | where. most experienced teachers are getting $11,000." | Parents, amazed at the facts uncovered packed the two discussion sessions held: Tuesday, May 21 by UBP. They! began to understand the extent’ of miseducation of clementary school children, and could, appreciate the plight of the; army of low achievers, so rebejlious and baffling to! educators at the junior high school level. Further data will soon be, publistied on the upper grades,| but it is known that: 66 per, cent of the youngsters from the | bottom 12 elementary schools go to Morris. Benjamin| Franklin, Walton and Clinton High Schools, while 50 per cent; of the top 12 are at Bronx Science and Columbus. Only 25 of Morris’ 871 graduates received academic diplomas last year: whereas 92.8; per cent of Bronx Science's! Braduates did. Relaxing of, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New YorkAmsterdam News (1962-1993): un 1,1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 1 lIn The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J, TANNER Eighteen more days io serve the consumer well, if we Primary Day; and there do wil begin to read the fine print, * black “Bronxites sland as But the dating of bread failed, electors of those who write the with the help of Bronx” bills and pass the Icgislation Assemblyman Harry Kraf; and that governs them? Estimates so. did = seethrough meat. in 1966, based on Health packaging provisions. s Department ethnic breakdowns Policeman and private citizens .~ (sinee the Bpard of Elections may now “use deadly force” does not record registrants by when they reasonably believe ~ . race) indicated that not one and intruder or fleeing criminal , in ten cligible black people were is carrying a firearm or deadly .- registered. weapon, But the provisions for After working with two voter licensing of firearms was killed, . registration campaigns, and and so was the pork-barrel, City | checking with political club Marshal System, (whom your ., ‘members who carried — de- district leaders nominate, by the - signating petitons Jast month, way). : T would conclude that the A whopping payrise was voted picture is not much brighter. for the Governor, and other “The Negro is not a political State officials, and increased force in the Bronx. His numbers pensions for legislators, Had far execed his influence on the conservative, pennypincher on elected offeial. Nalurally they welfare Icgislation, John H ignore his aspirations because Calandra (33SD) had his way, he docs not vote,” political Iogisialors would also have observers say. oo enjoyed a payrise to $20,000 Primaries Count | yearly. Why is it important. to vote .Ask the incumbent candidates in the June [8lh Primary? how they voled on the Enralled voters will elect establishment of a compulsory delegates and alternates to the pool for slum fire insurance, Nalional Conventions of their which passed; or on the Ramos parties, These delegates will Amnesty dill for men who nominate the party's committed misdemeanors presidential and vice presidental (allowing them to apply for candidates. Voters will also clect licenses and civil service jobs). delegates and alicrnates to the) Question al candidates on the judicial convention, who will implementation of the Urban nominate supreme court Development Corporation $6- justices, . million slum rebuilding program, Along with selecting parly and on the legislation they plan candidates for the Assembly, for 1969. State, Senate, and Congress, All of this affects black thése:who vate in tho Primary people; your-vote does Indeed Will eect county committeemen count, Create the kinds of and district Jeaders. Black discussions around issues that people are one-third of the ‘will being black voters to the population of the Bronx, but polls, Pla to- transport some we have only one black State yourself so wa' will become a Senator, one Assemblyman, onc force to be reckoned with. Issues judge; no black man in the surrounding the candidates for Cily’ Council, and no black Congress will be the subject Congressman (or cven to next week's column. Conercssional candidate). Health Careers Complex “ what da. these legislators do ‘The. Nation's first para- whom: black people generally professional ihealth education have “no..patt in naming? Let Jcomplex is scheduled to open me tell you that they deelde temporary quarters with 750 your fate, so it is just plain sludents in Fall, 1969, under stupid not to share in thelr joint sponsorship of City selection. 1,000 bills passed by University, Einstcin, N.Y. City the Legislature await Governor Board of Education and the Rockefeller’s signiture. Department of Hospitals. They include the walered-down A permanent $136-million \Marehi Dentralization Plan facility to be built near (discussed in last week's article) Concourse Village adjacent to which” enlarges the present the $74niillion Lincoln Hospital, Board of Education and |will include Community College jempowcrs it to prepare /Vill, and an clementary, detailed, permancn! intermediate and high school decentralization plan for next emphasizing health careers. year’s legislative consideration. How muny black youngsters No new experimental will be cntolled, the kind of decentralized districts wilt be curriculum, and whether crealed this year; but the Board staffing of these facilities is may delegate any of its powers integrated are questions being to the 20 existing “advisory” decided now. This bears focal school boards. One possible now before the Human Rights good. piece of legislation: for watching, especially since suits black teachers permits Commission involve workers ‘ interstale certification of who charge Einstein-Lincoln- teachers and other educational Yeshiva with discriminatory ssonnel, which means that hiring “and prometional lack teachers and supeivisory practices. Presently at Lincoln personnel from outside the city hospital (whieh serve (or even dlack personnel within ipredomincatly blank and Puerto the City who never became Rican people) only one dluck eligible under present Board of woman holds a_head-of- Examiners. structure) now may department position (Social Lhe principals. Service Supervisor, outpatient Passed also was ‘Truth in clinic); one... black physician + Lending” providing -for (Head of Anesthiology); and one ~ disclosure of credit charges, and Spanish physician (Assistant licensing aud inspection of meat Administrator of Out patient processing plants which might Clinic). Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jun 8, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 1 In_The Bronx Community ~ Conscious ‘By MARIETTA J. TANNER’ Voters, on Primary Day, June Reactionaries have reason to; 18, have an important part in ‘ear mass registration, as: selecting presidential contests and .vielories in and In poor communities- ballot. Voters vote for local throughout. the ‘country, there delegates to the National Party isa crises in leadership, where, Conventions. Because of my ideally, those who are ‘‘the people’s choice” should supply Mississippi, Gary, candidates, although none of- Charleston,S.C. wil altest. their names will appear on the deep concern that the black position be represented by black lit, ‘When Senator Robert Kennedy visited the South Bronx | llast August, [ asked him what ‘ his program was for assisting}, Geveloping leadership in the ghetto. He replied: “That is the responsibility of the local people.” But, just as government protects emerging industry, if we are serious about the reconciliation of peoples, so must government now assist emergirg ghetto political} leadership. This cannot be done: by indiscriminately endorsing | “old guard” local politicians, as Kennedy forecs did this Spring when they reportedly promised “no contest” to Bronx incumbents who jumped on his bandwagon, Without benefit of debaic on issues, ‘Vice President Humphrey has gathered unto himself by the ack door, hundreds of delegate votes, He jis, according to the Gallup poll, people at the Democratic convention, | am a candidate for delegate in the 21st CD. T want to urge the nomination of a man uncompromising in his opposition to the war in Vietnam, This hypocritical war abroad diverts our human and economic resources, while our cities burn, and millions of Americans are homeless and hungry. Thus distracted, there is no en to solve the crucial problem for America: to bring the masses of Americans now outside the political slructure into the democratic process, 50 that they may achieve justice without recourse to violence, or pathetic, prolonged marches. ¥ Agents of Alienation Some sensitive’ people believe that so chronic is the alienation of the masses that “we must fashion a new political vehicle (like the Peace and Freedom “the cleay choice of 70 per cent Party) to meet the needs of people ignored by the American political machine.” We are like colonials, too often taxed without representation, but to attempt a 3rd party movement is at best a longshot effort to influence policy of the two supporting /realistically major parties, and at worse emerging legitimate ‘'new an exercise in futility.: While the machinery for reconciliation is the law of the land, nevertheless obstacles always spring up to block such fundamental ‘wse , of that machinery as the right to vote. Boards of election are themselves agents of alienation, with intricate rules. and regulations, indifferent registrars and formidable literacy tests. Politics’o,n the local Jevel. For example, on Chicago's Southwest side, August A. Savage, a black publisher, is challenging Mayor Daley’s candidate for Congress (who opposes school bussing and open housing). .Status Quo Daley eontrols the bulk of Chicago’s 118 delegates votes, which are ewonsidered safely in the Humphrey camp. of the ‘nation’s Democratic Party County chairmen in every region, and does best in the Toward Sclf-Determination In an outreach registration Fundamental io all change program last year thousands of jis that emerging people in the poor New Yorkers registered slums, on reservations, in the for anti-poverty corporations. rural areas. (as well as the Restrictions then limited the use suburbs) have the right to sclf- of OEO -funds for voter determination. The candidate registration; bills introduced by whom J support must be com- Rep. Williams of Delaware, last milted to protect these emerg- October, now specifically jing people in their pursuit of prohibit use of both federal anti- that right. poverty and migratory worker funds for voter registration. outh,”? Commitment. by any candidaté to such “old guard” factions _would preclude his Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission =oe Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): un 15, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 1 In The Bronx Communit By MARIETTA J. TANNER Senator Robert Kennedy is I pray we will not despair dead, and the alleged killer of that all is lost with the untimely Martin Luther King is caught and tragic death of this one in one menentous week. Stunned man. Certainly, the young black Bronxites were saying on that men Mr. Kennedy had around morbid Thursday, a week ago: him must have learned “IVs all a plot to wipe gut something of the power of the anyone who helps black men will and the ballot, There was achieve their rights."’ 90 percent of the black voters But with the apprehension of in Watts, Rafer Johson risking James Earl Ray, perhaps black his lite to disarm the killer men will feel, as Kenneth Clark and the joyous Charles Evers said: “that American justice drawing out the vote of will work for us, too.” But black minorities in the cities made men still have reason to be Mr. =Kennedy’s victory in fearful: California a reality, The need Will Ray arrive safely back for black men to vote here in the United States? Will ha in the June 18 primaries is live throug a trial in Memphis, evan more urgent now. Tennessee? They want black As a candidate for delegate men to serve on the juries in the 2Ist CD who supports iry Robert Kennedy's an Senator Eguene MeCarthy, I Martin Luther King’s killers, for mourn the death of the senator. no one has a larger stake than Jt has taken the heart out of us in seeing to it that justice the campaign, ut not the is done. We have been the causes which Mr. Kennedy so victims of innumerable nobly espoused. Polls indicate kangeroo courts; death and that the Kennedy delegates violence has marked our history elected in California, Indiana, in the United States, just as South Dakota and elsewhere are it mow stalks the Kennedy rapidly swinging to Humphrey. family. They would do better to wait, and be a moral force at the A fair and thorough trial so Democratic Convention to sland and Ray's deeds are known, fast for the minorities that were that the full story of Sirhan’s is inextricably bound to ful indispensible to their election. citizenship for Negrocs in the If I go to Chicago, I shall United States. Join them in asserting that the cost of war has made a mockery Facing Your Accusers of "great saclety” egislation, and in pressing for the money Everyone has speculated as to implement the findings of to the causes of violence: too many murders portrayed in the the President’s commission on movies and on television; too Civil Disorders. muck reliance on “get rich «Youth in Politics quick” schemes, rather than the Young people everywhere are building of skills and character, Tegarded as the vanguard of making noteriety synonomous social change; and in the Bronx, with fame, And then there is Dennis Gardner, candidate for the lack of respect for human the 78th Assembly seat, has life itself, as expressed by the them, Born in Morrisania, Mr, American Rifle Association Gardner has lived there al his which declares “no gun control 23 years, ‘“‘Throvghout those law that the mind of man could years, lack of communily caniceive, . . would have the involvement on the part of slightest effect in preventing any of the assassinations of our elected politicians has been a ay.” cause of the dlatant neglect and misery of the people,” he said. Said Harold W. Glassen, Just recently, 59 cammunity president of the Association grotps requested $1,661,508 for . + the availabilitoyf a weapon Summer poverty programs, but has litle to do with recelved a meager $328,000 to commission of a crime.” He fund only 20 groups. indicated that a dietating machine, telephone or picture “Had our politicians been frame could be used to kill truly committed,* Mr. Gardner! as easily as a gun, What a told ‘his 169th Street Subway marvellous chance to fight for stop audience, “‘they would have his life Martin Luther King, been duty bound to sce that’ Senator Robert or President this poverty ridden community John Kennedy might have had, without extensive programs like had dhey deen attacked by a Bedford-Stuyvesant or Harlem. man wielding a picture frame. got a larger share.” _ Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Fun 29, 1968, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 12 In_ The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER I support the candidacy of man of integrity and legislative Eugene McCarthy, because I experience, who offers hope that I helieve there is an opportunity black people and other in his candidacy for meaningful minorities in America can|' political involvement at the local determine their own destiny, level. He was the anly Senator and rise above thel! who voted against both bills powerlessness and despair born!: limiting the use of poverty funds of dependency on handouts. Y for voter registration, In 1949 < voted to outlaw the poll tax; in 1959-60 he authored or co- authored ten major civil rights bills on lynching, voting registrars and discrimination in transportation. As a matter of principle, he tisked his 20-year career in government to actively oppose the war, causing President Johnson to withdraw, and to send envoys to peace talks with the Vietcong. The cost of war makes a mockery of “great society” legislation; there is no money to implement the findings of the President's Comnuission on Civil Disorders. Black adults generally do not ow MeCarthy’s record; but a growing number of black youths support him. Ending the war in Vietnam means life to hem; furthermore, McCarthy has spoken out for revision of the draft laws now weighted in favor of the college boy. and against the undereducated poor. If elected I will go to the convention as a McCarthy Delegate (with Leo Isacson and Jules Fiefer) ‘because he is a Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Tul 5, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 In_The Bronx Communit onscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER By MARIETTA TANNER Andrew Curtiss Parks came. ‘riots’. at other high schools in * in second in the race for the Bronx. A 17-year old black Democratie Councilman at Clinton senior, Guy Oliver, with Large, losing about 3 to one “leadership potential” was to the incumbent Aileen Ryan. killed May 22.1 Goenwald. Two | 23,000 votes is not too bad for black students were severely: the first time out, with no funds! beatened at Roosevelt. Their+ or high-powered staff. assailants, identified only in Most regretable is that he one case as “local toughs,” have did not carry all neighborhoods neither been found nor tried. where black people ‘These murders were buried deep predominate. “I’m not voting’ in the papers that made the . for him just because he’s indictment front page news. ‘A: * black,” black women on Boston man is innocent until he is Road told me as they proven guilty,” said Dennis campaigned for his opposition, Gardner, chairman of the Board But blackness is a part of the of Morrisania Community reason why he should have com- Corporation, ‘‘and it's high time manded all the black votes, and we see to it that the law works ; the white ones, of good will, for us.” ‘il Boynes, whg.- too. Black people need someone to take their position un- equivocably; to bargain for them in the Council chambers. What black Bronx voice will speak out (here against school budget cuts that profoundly affect us? Even the two, Puerto Ricans Robert Lebron (who was beaten in a 3-way race in the tenth) and Herman Badillo (wha had two votes as Borough President) won't be there next year, It’s high time black people began to think in terms of their own enlightened self-interest. Honor educators . . . whose sacrifices “Seeing to it that these enbled us to continue education defendents receive the con- of our children during the work Stitutionally guaranteed trial by stoppage of 1968 . . .” Omittedijury, and not by slander protects from the roster of some I4/the rights of all,” Mr. Gardner honored schools was Morris|said. He called fay contributions High School, which a 23-year/to a Legal Def@pse Fund for old math teacher, Cyril Boynes|them. “By helping Mr. Boynes, and a few of his colleaguesjwe honor our teachers by letting had endured considerable|them know we will stand behind hardships to open and run. Cyriljthem.” Mr. Gardner continued: Boynes was also one of thel*We don’t know what the people indicted on May 19 forjramifications are in this case; a total of 12 counts including}they all were very active in “conspiracy to riot, arson,{opposing the teacher's strike; unlawful assembly, possession ofjMr. Dicks has appeared for dangerous weapons.” His picture|children at suspense hearings and that of his co-defendents,|for years. It’s in our best Ronald Dicks and Jerry Wooleylinterest not to Jet those who made the front page of thelhave exercised leadership be NY. Dailies. summarily struck down.’”” There have been fires and » alledgedly committed all thesp7 acts (an uninvited quest at, thp,- Honorarium) was the faculty5 advisor of the Afro-American* History Club at Morris; the© founder of the Black Arts Library on Prospect Avenue, a lifetime community resident; a > graduate of Music and Art, a scholarship student at a city.: college; ‘‘The best math teacher .; 1 ever had,” his students saye3 A tutor in his spare times: married and bout to be a father < « . . He has lost his Board of Education substitute's license, his livelihood, Similar reprisals, jn the form of exclusions and threats sre suffered by his co- - idefendent, Ronald Dicks, and It was Teacher Honorarium Day, June 21 at the Gramercy! Boy’s Club. The Morrisania Ed- ucational Council, sponsored it Citywide Education Chairman of © to honor “community oriented the NAACP. his father, Harold Dicks, the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Tul 19, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe.6 In The Bronx By MARIETTA J.TANNER “It's hello again to all thetelevision for “doing too much readers who welcomed back our! for blacks and Puerto Ricans.” initial reentry and to the fellow Bronxites whose activities are | Before K.0O. the stuf this column is made | But, unfortunately, we never of.Renewing old acquaintances ‘seem to feel the punch until all over the Bronx, we find the blood starts. Welfare clients the more things change, the‘as of July 1 must eke out a more they stay the same day’s rations on 90 cents per Puerto Ricans and blacks in Person; elderly poor have to the South Bronx are still battling pay $11.00 a visit to outpatient it out for ascendency. Clinics because of Medicaid cuts. Mode] Cities has the Federal |Some of us went personally to letter of credit for $21.5 million Albany to appeal, but legisla- |tors didn’t give a hoot about and could jJaunch its program non-voting black residents. his Multi-Service Center cohorts they are socking it to us: Take: tomorrow, if Ramon Velez and Without bothering to be subtle: would not insist upon their the case to Aileen B, Ryan, the| private brand of ‘community darling of the law and order contze]” (meaning Puerto Rican iDemocrats, whom many blacks contrd].) ! recently helped return to office. But. why not have a good! Councilwoman Ryan and two Lacky Fights | fight in the ghetto for control?! allies in Albany are sponsoring Everyone else does, why not| a dill to license building the blacks and Puerto Ricans, wreckers and demolition or even the blacks among ,companies in order to ‘drive: themselves. Power has got to the fly-by-night wreckers from the business.”’ Guess who those be won; nobody is giving it “fly-by-night wreckers”’ are? : up without a fight, Let’s look! Why they are the infant black: at some of the recent battles, and Puerto Rican companies with fisticuffs and threats no that have been supported by less, among non-ghetto Manpower. Neighborhood residents: “movers” who have gotten The Fusco versus the apital from OEO to get Ribustelio forces really swung ‘surance and some equipment for control of the Bronx County - order to demolish some of Republican party at their the buildings coming down in convention, Black Bronx ‘he ghettos. Republicans watched the tables “With the vast new slum being turned over by law and vlearance and Model Cities order Republicans from the drograms getting underway.”| North Bronx said: “for shame”! and promptly got themselves Mrs, Ryan said, “ite together behind John Lindsay, is essential that we move; for whom they had delivered quickly to bar these a. 342 to 1 margin in the Prim- inexperienced, greedy firms ary, from doing business in New Hot breath and bad blood were! York.” on the agenda as usual when Mrs. Ryan responded toi the New Democratic Coalition appeals of the Demolition met Wednesday to resolve Industry Board and the House Reform (Keanedy wing versus Wreckers Union, Local 95, both McCarthy dissidents) and of which have inconsequential upstate versus urban slack memberships. O£ course, differences. Scattered black We are not against regulation were there, but were not -of the industry; we have taken representative of the troops to more than most. But the effect command respect and af the Ryan legislation would recogaition. Still by watching the be to let everyone now operating fights, blacks saw the men being in, and require all manner of separated from the boys. proof and credentials of new While NDC officially talked applicants, thereby excluding new alignment with minorities, minorities. some of its membership was So why squabble about ready to paint Mario Prococcino “community control” of Model! ‘“Hberal,” and to discredit Paul! Cities; those who your apathy! O’Dwyer’s -attempt . to work)or your vote have made: out -a fusion -tickel-with John legislators will still see to it Lindsay, Prococeino many sound that you have none of the gravy. folksy, and look cherubic, but .Let’s Register and Vote! beware of the company he keeps. “Welcome aboard,” said he to John J. Cassesse of the PBA, wkom you may remember| denounced the Mayor on/ Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 2, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa.4 In The |Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The poverty war is still with ‘appoint the members to us, dut not expending all its committees that will work,” energies to fight poverty as the said Mr. Lugovina. The duly thousands ef poor people in the constituted Personnel Bronx might wish “Give my Committee recommended Mr. workers their money, now, so Wright’s dismissai. He they can cash their checks,” was notified after the Board the Neighborhood Youth met in executive session and Director at South Bronx accepted that report, since he Community Corporation yelled did not appear before the Board to the Chairman of the Board, to answer charges hand Francisco Lugovina last Friday delivered to him that day.” “I answered in writing, The names of the signers of requesting formal charges with checks had been switched at specifications, and time.’ Mr. afternoon. the bank to eliminate Frank Wright said. Seven weeks Wright, the Executive Director, before, the same Board had deposed by order of the cited Frank Wright’s Personnel Committee. The fight outstanding performance, and between the Board and the recommended that his salary Executive director over who be raised from $15,000 to $19,000 should approve publications, annually. Majority Myth whether a dance should be “Puerto Ricans are in_ the given, or whether the majority here.” said Mr. Corporation automobile should be used for weddings, etc, had Lugovina, "and they are coming finaly hit the fan. Boards Flounder of age, ready to take more responsibility in the Corporation. This is a public corporation, | Poverty corporations in each and our staff is interracial, but : of the four areas of South Bronx you must consider your, are readying themselves for ‘population in relation to those elections, This year Council ‘who serve them.” : Against Poverty has provided Mr. Lugovina piaces Puerto! for ethnic balance by selection PRican population at between 60! of some members to eliminate and 70 percent. “The figures’ the major cause of strife. South are inaccurate, but even if they Bronx has published a most at- were correct, the Puerto Ricans tractive booklet (FACTS) ex- cannot “have” this corporation; plaining duties of its 3¢-mem- on that basis any more than ber Board and eligibility re the blacks can ‘‘have’’ quirements for candidate and Mississippi,” said Mrs. Murray.; the electorate. She charged that groups from But despite the intention, and other communities, ‘‘the same| the improved procedures veoole repeatedly’ come to hammered out over long months South Bronx, disrupting of wrangling, these boards may meetings, and forcing) continue to strangle themselves conformity of those Puerto, and impede the functioning of/Ricans who would their Corporations by thejreasonable. constant manipulation from In Hunts Point without, and the flouting of the Blacks have reported similar rules and mandates of their jtacties at Hunts Point where. ‘Puerta Rican dominance is nat} The struggle in the South supported by ethnic demography) Bronx is essentially an ethnic leither. Raleigh Davenport ofthe; charter. one. Reasonable people on both {Council Against Poverty in a sides say: ‘We can get along, 1968 study cites population we do work together, but we: statistics as follows: Hunts are caught in a power play.” Point, 28% Black, 49%Puerto| For example. Lucille Murray, Rican, 23% other; Morrisania,’ the convenor of the Bylaws 64% black, 29% Puerto Rican,' Committee of the Board said 4% other: South Bronx, 22% “New bylaws were drawn up, black, 43% Puerto Rican, 35% and I was not even present other. ‘ . at the meeting. . .” Clearly the Puerto Rican She charged that the meeting majority in Bronx poverty areas avas convened by the Chairman, is a myth not a mandate for and on the basis of these bylaws, ‘Mr, Wright was asked to vacate his position. Further, Mrs. May J. Silvermann (the “other” member on the Board) com- plained that ‘she was appointed to committees without her knowledge, and was not called to the meetings of those committees. Moreover, the same peoples ‘names appear again and again an committees, rendering many Board members inactive,” Mrs. Murray said. control of all poverty and Federal funding based on thase indices. Compromise must come swiftly between blacks and Puerto Ricans as resentment over the ‘dominance myth” runs high. Recently Nasry Michelin was named president of Community College 8, although the blacks on the Committee favored any of the four other Puerte Ricans named. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission be: j : Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 9, 1969: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 16 In_The_ Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER -A month has passed since revolves right out again when South Bronx received the $21.5 the spoils are dispensed. Mon allocated for Model One articulate, young Cities; but not a penny has spokesman for the Citywide been spent. A day care center for children of mothers withou Black Independent Voters, Bill partnerscouldhavet(Strickland,sayspolitical operating; 15 beenlarithmetic shows that black additionatipeople were critical in the 1965] sanitation trucks, sidewalk|Lindsay victory. “In 1965, 2% sweepers and a special vacant, Million people voted. Lindsay lot cleanup program might be|beat Beame by 100,000 votes. functioning now in the Model |Lindsay’s total consisted of, neighborhoods. 870,000 Republicans and 290,00) But the phony “communit control” issue, perpetuated by “Since there were only 620,000 policy board members who/registered Republicans in the. place self-interest beforelCity, we know that at least community need, keeps progress 230,000 Democrats crossed over at a stalemate. to support Lindsay ... When we examine who some of those The Defective Model Democrats were, we discover Last week members of the, that 40 per cent ot the Black Policy Committee met with community supported Lindsay. Mayor Lindsay who reiterated At that time, black registration that he must follow the Federal was 584,000. If only 50 per cent mandate: City agencies must of the black vote turned out run the programs. He noted! (297,000), 40 per cent of that that East St. Louis (which some! figure is 117,000, or almost the policy members had cited as exact margin of the Lindsay having community control) was victory.” . in danger of losing its grant. We contend that black people: “The Mayors of Cities must’ can be decisive in the upcom- be responsible,” he said. But ing election. programs without the consent voters is crucial to a Lindsay| Lindsay is reluctant to initiate A new crop of registered of the comm«munity. mit victory in November. Only may exercise control when ihe ‘blacks and Puerto Ricans (who program is erway 7 ‘have nowhere else to go) can stopping any activity which they ibe counted on to enlarge feel is ineffective. ‘Lindsay’s voting base ‘without While the South Bronx Policy ! ing his competitors. The c rm ‘crucial question for Mr. Committee fitters away thel Strickland is: “What happens|: funds (all must be spent within|-to black people after November, | a 12month period), 1,000/ after they have voted 65 per! children could have been in'cent to 80 per cent for: camp for the summer.|'Lindsay?” Heretofore there hasi Concerned citizens should write'jbeen no relationship between: to George Rodriguez, Model black appointments and power‘; Cities Chairman, 3164 Third/jin the black community. “This!: Ave. demanding that programs|itime the reelection strategyfor)! be implemented immediately. {iblacks must be tied to gaining: The Revolving Door ithat power,” he said. : August is emergency le registration month when every For Chancellor é black adult should make sare High on the list of possibilities t 1 he can vote in November. sas Chancellor of Education for é Mississippi and Eutaw, Alabama ithe City of New York is Dr.l) have pointed the way. Black Bernard Friedman, nowl} people who virtually put their Assistant Superintendent of} lives on the line, voted and ‘District No. 7. He kept his} won victories which changed the ‘schools open during the school}; complexion and the diction (they strike; he has maintained|: can say Negro now instead of ‘meaningful dialogue withl, Nigra) of Southern politics. community groups; under his| Neighborhood registration leadership, his district has stations are open Wednesday, welcom ¢ and initiated Thursday, Friday from 4 to 1¢/| innovative programs. P-m., Saturdays 10 to 6. Citizens|, Mrs. Blanche Dixon, now) willing toassist their neighbors'\chairman of the South Bronx; in_the house or bBiock|Community Corporation| registration should contact St. tion Committee, a Augustine Presbyterian Charch, |respected fighter for quality the Bronxwide Headquarters ofjeducation, a parent whose the black drive. association with Dr. Friedman We must register, we mast/extends over many years, is vote, we must make ourselves; stauncliliyn his corner. a political force. But we must; “In him we would have a not be again the “revolving| mian who knows the problems door’ Negro. This is the black|of urban education firsthand, who gets into politics during| and who has had some success the campaigns, when thelin dealing with them. That’s politicoes need him, and! what we need at the top. | Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Aug 16, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 13 In The Bronx By MARIETTA. J. TANNER Ever since Dr. Helen {2qually among the three poverty!’ Mitchell’s car was bombed to’ ‘2orporations, 5 hasten her ouster as Director; of the Hunts Point Community ' Each would get 1/3 cf a fund } Progress Center, this columo ‘ho bolster their services, and as sought an end to the Mafia. I\would in turn distribute it), like gangmen who take control! ‘among their delegate agencies.i’ of the public meetings and, The fatal dispute centers around’ subsequently, the poverty funds! i 4 it i Service parpatation’s:, in the South Bronx, stifling |Gche! ne. gate agency to share equ: : thatitshould betheonly legitimate communityiin that piesreceiving eesualy| participation. {. Share as ¢ i The hoods have grown fatter he corporations. since 1967; they have made |. In effect this would mean that!’ themselves look respectable the delegate agency would behind=fancy titles and!rot theparentcorporation,| iC. ‘Joe {Which is practically the case! ghaulfearcrtenutomanbpvlasy.Men and worms) i with chains and Knives ¥the employ of Multi-service sit vot Tetion the Board of Model Cities!’ down their opposition with those Mes: automobiles as they did the!poog “ir Op wn (8 of 23 members) and on the! Hunts Point corporation, and domination of! young social worker, Edwin| . ‘another, must be enforced forj; Rivera, last Wednesday. Corporation, . . yall agencies, nat just the 163rd]j Not satisfied with a huge One of their job duties seems Street Improvement Council. share. some elements in South to be to attend meetings, and! And further, citizens who want!! Bronx feet they must contro} they come when ordinary’ the poverty monies used to! it all. The Multi-Service i@itizens (housewives and. better conditions in South Bronx Corporation in Hunts Point, for Vaborers are absent.: must beware of the enemy example, has a budget of about Commanding a majority, and. within: who are the people! $8-million yearly, ane ‘Speaking with the conviction of whose mullifarious dealings: continuously gets other ‘authority. control every program where. contracts for pest control and Enemy Within large sums of money are: sanitation through other funds. This is how it was fast agarmarked for the public goad? i1 Black people, who campose [Wednesday at Medel Cities, Black Business i! roughly 28 per cent of the ‘Headquarters, when at 7:30; Concerning the question af%, population of Hunts Point, have ‘Bm., Multi-service and Hunts ‘money for black business, the!’ literally no aceess to these iPoint Corporation forces clashed Reverend Edler G. Hawkins of funds. Recently, a black woman iprior fo a scheduled meeting. St. Augustine Presbyterian|! deputy director of Multi-Service, It was to be the showdown (Church, an internationally! was called “the moving spirit” Session anyway. The Board was respected churchman, and behind the corporation. But a Gut in full, many to peacefully ehairman of the Presbyterian|' Jook at the structure of that Some to a decision so that the ‘Economic Deyelopment|' $21.5 million, wasting away in corporation reveals that she has)j, he bank, could begin to be Corporation, says that! no structure under her, no Spent. But, for the enforcers, organization has $10 million for!! services and funds to be deputy the usual slapping around in investment in ghetto projects. of. All authority stems from ithe early evening didn’t work CHE Davis on the Board of]: her counterpart in the’hierachy, ithis time; the mecting was ‘Freedom National Bank, is the George Rodriquez. sfancelied by George Rodriguez, man to sec for business loans Ethnic Character ‘Model Cities chairman; death and certificates of deposits from’, So the fight for a fair share: ¢ame to opposition at 9:45 p.m, $2000 to 2-million through the has had an ethnic characters Now we ask, will murder: : Interracial Council on Business ! — black against Puerto Rican. ibring the authorities to the aid,2pperiunity of PECDO. However, lately, Puerto Rican‘of inexperienced citizens trying: groups, too, have begun to speak to manage their own affairs? out against the monopoly which:If we are not careful, South excludes a large segment of|Bronx Corporation will be next. their population. A powerCouncil Against Poverty struggle is now in full swingi¢ontinues to shirk its between Salvator Almeida, a/responsibility in the Wright vs former assemblyman (and close|Lugovinia situation there: Bob friend of the victim) and the|Wright is the director, with forces of Ramon Velez, director |responsibility for funds; yet of the Multi-Service center. ‘Board action, characterized by] Multi-Service is a delegate’ many of the same tactics listed: agency of the Hunts Piint shove, prevents him from! Corporation. It is a pilot project, gigning checks, that will probably nol be funded| Who then will be held directly ‘by Washington next'accountable for funds? Rules| year, The committee hasiand improved safeguards decreed that Model Cities money |regarding conflict of interest, in South Bronx will be divided ‘like employment with one Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. DeRESMEaSUAUWRERaeaannenoes Pec AD Re PM ne Community Conscious By MARIETTA JTANNER, New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 23, 1969. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 4 In The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER enemas There are 91,000 unregistered, know i 7 eligible black voters in the inseparable frome Is Bronx; but unless we get down |(Albert Shanker has Pitlin athe: to business, not even a fourth. UFT’s intensive and te the of them wil he registered this! frankly political (extensive year. Only registered votersiWhen we A have mew role,) may participate in the mayoral-! powertu! part of the elector te ity in-November and the schoo}, we can turn our energies toward beard elections in February. developing “‘systems relevant to The registration drive is on: the black experience” in politi Bronxwide Headquarters, the'as well as education as Mr. Urban Task Force, 1158" Wilcox suggests , ‘ Washington Ave., 669-1140. . Materials and information are College No, § available there weekdays and . To the author of a letter Saturdays. Registered voters.t0 the editor last week, can help by simply calling to!implicating me (as an alternate say that they wish to canvass. Member of the Screening their own apartment building: Committee for the president of [to assist these unregistered; Community Colleze No. 8) in jtenants in getting to the nearby ; complicity with the choice: the ‘registration sites. committee members reached | Getting In agreement that the president | There is apathy; but our job, Should be Puerto Rican (since! lis to dispel it. At the Kelly; one college in the Bronx has, Street Block Association street) black president), but that he meeting recently, Paul Butel,; Should be one acceptable to all. Socialist Workers candidate for} The dominating faction, which mayor, talked of the similarity;Claimed a majority and and do-nothing attitude af both! wanimily among al of its major political parties. The members, soon abandoned the! block dwellers’ genera), Spirit, of comnromise,|! sentiment was that the present} demanding in the letter writer’s|’ political structure was own words, “exclusively a irrelevant; they concurred with|-Puerto Rican choice.” . Mr, Butel that “black people/ Some excellent candidates): should form their ownpolitical;were interviewed, meeting the party.” veriteria of legitimate experience But black people in the Brony ‘in the community, emphathy are not sufficiently registered ‘with residents, scholastic, or active in any political party, €xcellence, committment to the: and have had little experience!Iprime objective of finding new with political machinery and|‘ways to open doors to higher process. Once people are education and thereby job registered, let them decide what opportunity for black and Puerto to do with their vote. Ricans trapped at the bottom This week in Atlanta, a slay,of the economy. University Conference of Black| I participated in_ this Educators wil convene, with;sereeving, as a part of the some important ideas on making: minority, I was not a_parly institutions relevant to the black'{tto the disruption of the March life style. Preston Wilcox, the; l meeting when the Screening chancellor and President, inhis| (Committce was to report ‘le the Convention Call rejected {urther;community; where Puerto debate over whether integration) IRicans and blacks sat on or nationalism is the thing for Separate sides of the raom, and lack people. where many of the same men! “Forgettherhetoricabowhuotlur,kedoutsidethescreening; other people’s goals for us.”;committee door, (inlerrupting! 1e said, “Our job is to develop /aften to confer with the auther| strong black families and of the letter) refused toallow | communities, using the tools we|the coramunity to hear the feel are necessary, applying|qwalifications of the candidates! them however we see fit.” jaind to make their choice on! Our Own Thing ‘that basis, There was concern at Kelly; Jt is one thing to finh Street for the black home and with bare hands, and quite sommunity too, Patrick Aga, {another with a whole agency Fordham University Student and;behind you. With a so called Director of the School for Self-|“‘community committee,’’ Defense, urged residents to|(whose-major effort seemed to protect black women andjbe to drum up support for the thildren, and cooperate with one|IMichelen. nomination), it was another. Robert LaForey, the/@asy to -solict 500 signatures. assistant director and “big| Perhaps this is why the College jaddy” to all the kids, sees/No. 8 has become a_virtna! yrogress toward their’ goal of|mork barrel for the Multi-Service mproving black home life! Corporation. x ‘through an awakening sense: Its Board Chairman = is)® f pride and self assurance ‘Community Affairs Director of|§ specially in the children.” ‘ {College No. 8; a high ranking | ¢ Both Mr. Wilcox and Mr.;sitalfer and Model Cities board vaForey seem to view education! member is admissions officer. is the prime instrument for/and the author of the letter ‘harge; yet anyone who hasjto the editor is slated to receive vorked for quality schools!tlhe public relations spot. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Aug 30, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 2 In The Bronx 6 Community: 7-: Conscious F 8 By MARIETTA J. TANNER ,_ Im one of the hottest routines borhoods runs high in in AUantie City nightclubs this |Williamsbridge, but with some summer, a comedian describes; differences among residents as how black people can “teah up’ ||to method. This is one of the a neighborhood. His colloquy is:oldest black communities _in packing themin, and folks are |New York; some of the “first rolling in the aisles about @ families” declare that welfare golf course that was beautiful, !clicnts, the lower-class Harlem Just lyimg there, ripe for attack slumdwellers are ruining the by black encroachment. ypace. They want to enjoy : i Just Dying ‘undisturbed t heir beautiful homes and lovely patios; and Psychologist say you can tell " ce ave worked haru for a clean, in je et ete sem quiet neighborhood. This desire ye “ear ;tO Maintain gentility has given Pomselves. Remember when ian aura of conservatism to the down soho “worn an prea ing |homeowners of Williamsbridge. to eas shout cursclves? Thee iThey fought the construction of has been 2. slight chan ein pEdenwald Projects some 15 ithe humor: those that cect [years ago; and the recent: : ‘ |Boston-Secor houses. They fear| to tickle the funnybone, most |the black youths that come out a eva a ng whiley Tae owith of Edenwald “tas destructive and; ye Beet -radical.”‘Notso,”saysGeorge ie aa oni. id seemed a Sands, “These youngsters wee tr oe fas le . me. jwitheat services, that is why ac people ate their they resorted to gangs." ldeteriorating neighborhoods: but’ sands is adult chairman of theyblame each other 5 usually the Youth Leadership! | ewcomers — for the Foundation. YLF brought the| itistbeldge ws peing done. YMCA-Mobile unit to territory ‘i was beautiful,” a controlled by a gang called: {ten year black resident said, “intereerime’? this sn mert yet amy poole. came, hen “without a spec.of trouble,” n jools, née Parks, according to Y-director, Mrs. everything went.” You still have Norma Gearge. YLF is a hon: ni n.s: lanhattan “trom Woodyerest ere comma helt iented ! Avenue buthegaroe paleanace “Sag”ueaty litter, thepakept Buildings, the ‘Collins, the young president. Its, thouth Ie ai fools appear aS |program is designed by youth: ough some plague has struckiwho used its services. Its where a quiet, well-kept!members include youngsters| community was. ; who had formed societies of! rugSamuelraneUGEOPIse‘ Ueda y is ters ” an e ‘* Pr ib en elementary schoo] there made fords.” Voungsters are this point: “The landlords havelencouraged to make decisions,| not really abandoned the but on every committee adults buildings,”’ she said. jadvise, For example, Mrs. Mary “But the lenants are so new,,D, Osborne, a real estate dealer,: and don’t trust each other the business advisor works with enough to in togerer for|VLF's Frank Platt,and others. their rights.” e@ co. acts‘heading up a Laundromat, are that while the Irish and: business venture. On August als Jewish families have fied, their, YLF signed the lease, and, politicians and landlords still! despite a mysterious fire that: have control, and are not/almost ruined the premises the| responsive to the new |day before YLF took over. They new constituency, lare determined to pad othe The milion dolar Concourse business. YLF will hold “the Action mm ro . ea m does {Edenwald Cultural Renaissance| not extend to Highbridge what August 29 through 31 at the} * i Friday, Saturday and Sunday,' the old jokes were saying was|AUgust 29 throug ! that we were still on the Ce eeiti y i Bronxwooe Inn to help pay; plantation: that Massa was‘Property acquisition expenses, supposed to do something for!2nd to show doubting Thomases us, like give us a decent placej What they can do. to live; feed and clothe us. Slightly Revolutionary t : But when you declare you are) These kids are interested in| no longer a vassal, you must jeening up their neighborhoods, | take the iniative yourself. This) .nq making it a better place! is revolutionary: tenants mustit, jive,” Mr. Sands said. They take over the buildings that are! 44, planning a benefit to as- still strong, _ attractive and sist a local church to fund a liveable and with determina-i yay care center, These young- tion, preserve them. :sters know first hand what it; Freedmen means to be poor, without re The spirit to preserve the|Sources, and without adult su-! beauty of their own neigh-!pervision. : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Sep 6, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 44 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Ralph Benjamin is young, leaving,’ Mrs. Beauford said. black and wears a bush. Three! But we invited them inside our things that made him stand out storefront. and our people from most of the Board of brought the residents Elections registrars working’ downstairs, out of the bars ,and during the August Voter off the stoops, encouraging them Regisiration Drive. Black every step of the way until Independent Voters Committee: they became registered voters.” workers with the Mobile Unit; Hor teadership trainees were on McKinley Square last: suests at the League of Women Thursday observed him moving ‘Voters Luncheo nin July “which among the people like he knew opened our eves to see that that voter registration is aMwomen who vote can be such; outreach job. Said citizen Lucyia force, with such power,” she’ Vigay: “Registrars can't just|saig , , : sit insidt the schoolhouse and’ “ expect people te come in.: Several agencies of Someone has to go tell people.Corporatio n held similar, to come out and register: thenj®! the Morrisania Community; the registrars have fot to make {programs: LAB OR's was, tm fel wont ar reget area,by erty Manito 3s eine essterd . they iHennessey. Each group partici- pated in voter registraticn {because “it was inseparable The New Breed Maybe Ralph Benjamin is ajfrom community control.” Their prototype for the new breed:|Workshop leaders included registrars paid to do aselling politicians like Joseph Galibur job for the Board of Elections, and Sy Posner; educators, nottodothecitizaefanvosr, ;Lorraine Hale and Marie ‘ ; : :Thomas; as well as community Voter registration workers are fea ders’ like Eloise Krause,j planning to push legislation tolniict No. 12° Schoolboard! chang,eroadsinNESChan andGeraldinesm go through al New York’sreat MUST. tape in California, for example. Not Registered You can register by mail, or: Unfortunately, 4,000 black he registered at theirresidence. voters were not registered in This is expecially urgent for the Bronx. But some very good black registration. since blacks things like the OURS enthusias: are shy about signing anything;|eommendation is in order for about getting themselveS:frma Moore, and Marietta involved with any legal forms. ifango in the rein; Bob York + Know and Ida Townsend in University ep Don’t Know _iArea; James. Roundtree and thie ve been soak Ralph barmiette Godley in South! : . : o ‘Bronx; Chet Henderson and: Benjamin said, ‘and gonie’ Jones in Cross Bronx-| every were: Oe rane oot Concourse, Dorothy Mays in’ RnOW q ‘18 allitremont:; Margaret Hall and about. They think they @re-atary Thomas in Morrisania; signing up for some candidate.n|q" ann Gaddy in Bruckner- They don’t really think they coundview . have a choice, or that” , * ao . ‘ registration will help them in’onahen on edn togetheri the jong .une Someone bia ut we have funds ot not,” Mrs. oatvotingeam Ne PACKSBeaufordsaid.Butweknowthat! ‘ihe long hard winter is upon Gut Re ch “them, and the realities for Grace Beauford, and the:earning a living for ihe black, parents of schoal children vio ivoman (makes olunteering fal: worked with her in the OURS’ tim Pe e ague of: Leadership Training for Local/Women Voters women do) even| Contrel program this summer, for so urgent a cause as this,’ learned what voter registration ‘an impossibility. | means, “and they wil never; Speaking of elections: Each be the same ee, said. Ten of the Commuaity Corporations: trainees. Obadi ‘cod, Delia. South Bronx, Hunts Point,’ Martinez, Edith Hichs, Clarine;Morrisania, Tremont and now; jrcher, Rey, Steel,pasa and pom River ai are preparing : Marguerite Brown od ajfor their elections. Slates of: Lawrence and Genevalcandidates are due or past due.| Vanderpool — registered 33;The Federation of South Bronx: people in less than two hours!Community Organizations. when the Mobile Unit came to'however, is calling a special’ 833 E.- 167th Street. meeting September 4 atSachs| “First the Mobile's staff Auditorium. Percellus Jones of: couldn’t stand the smell of our,the East Side Neighborhood: block, and said they were: House is chairman. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission the Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Sep 13, 1969: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 44 In_The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER There was plenty atstake the candidates different enough at the Judicial Convention at ‘to warrant the extra effort. the Commodore last Saturday,’ ‘The other Mario's, Biaggi and and delegates gathered were the 'Proceacino, are backing Merola; “people's choice” to select eight ard the company one keeps is pupreme court justices to fil always revealing. Biaggi, who oOurteen - year terms for y i TeSsi i ManhattanardtheBronx.Thereces concrete saan were the gavel, and the podium. made headlines at amp ang: pitchers of water, and Lejuene recently about the sergeants at arms, and pia, i ; + pafliamentarianstoenforceMeecatingupoe hite Roberts Rules of Order. But. ; . ‘ se iproudest of his voluntary rent there was nothing to decide.‘ contro} bil, whieh Tandlords The eight candidates had were supposed to comply with already been selected, jock month and most ‘didn’t somenshere. 4 and asa ‘s effect, anyway, serves undetermined individuals, landlords’ interests: ever three outside this august body. .years without puttingina sin- The Rubber Stamp igle improvement, the landlord .The Reformers, led by Robert! gets a 15 percent increase, and Abrams, candidate forBorough! even if services are removed President of the Bronx. walked‘ nothing is done. out, declaring that “there had? Israel Rubin is the quiet, been no screening of any of the-thoughtful kind; but a fine nominees by any committee "lawyer, the many blacks he has and, therefore. the delegcterideferded attest. A young man were unprepared to make 2!] know was standing outside determination, “Last yearsthe subway turnstile, carrying the Botein committee, consisting/an unlighted cigarette, saying of a panel of citizens andl goodbye to a friend. He was lawyers, reviewed thelajlegedily accosted by two qualifications of judiciallpolicemen, beaten severely, nominees, (Men not considered| cursed about his African qualified by the Botein nowsit/ ancestors, and arrested for on the bench, anyway.) But,!resisting arrest. Rubin defended at least, there was some wider/him, ard many others without participation in the selection charge. “The Councilman should process. “The convention h2s'be that Litle City Hal, X now reverted to the old-Mfayor Lindsay talks about,” politics,” said Bert Bauman, aljsrac] Rubin said. The fellow dist AD Delegate, ‘with 'incumbent makes no effort to courty leaders dictating the!set around the district, or to choices based on factors.'atterd the Planning Board generally excluding judicial meetings, and therefore, is not qualifications.” the link to City Hall that the, When blacks complain about-community needs.” Mr, Rubin unequal justice, we might well believes the black communities begin to review how Little we of Williamsbridge and Edenwald’ have to do with the selection will be swamped by Co-op City,/ of justices. Only three Bronx which will be a 90 percent white: assambly distriets had any black woting block.” unless they elect| representation, and these were'a councilman sworn to serve! not united behind a position or‘all the people.” ! candidate. we lack Bronxite Black Woman Power | was put forward. One black.; oe : Andrew Tyler ofManhattan was ana i important toey out, nominated. But we were ju cower Pe the black: excluded from the real selection 517 POreT ow never: rocess, and that a oom Officials are being selected or, appointments as well, and al issues decided. Bronx Wome: | the secretaryships and underling recisely that tn Saturday,. positions at §17.000 up. The! eptember 13 at Town Hall.! Political convention, as thely ere Congresswoman Shirley: Chicago Democratic National Giien 1 “ril, keynote the. debacle illustrated, isobsolete; [C 1s oti 1 mesin ot the acd further. a_ justice should Unved Black Women's Political not owe his allegiance to @ League. Mrs. Erma Moore, the prltical party. The need fer . eee \ rsform is evident and urgent./Bronx chairman, active in voter Why should not we spearhead registration, is a headstart a teacher at the St. Paul's iw ay . [episcopal Church PLAN center. _Speciat Election = i1509 women from four boroughs Running for Councilmarjand al walks of life wil attend. at the top of the Brony|phe main thrusts is to organize (Williamsbridge to Riverdale):tg “protect black homes and Israel Rubin, who will facelfamilies.” which the group feels Mario Merola, the incumbent,lare being threatened and in a Special Election September Ishattered by laws and policies. 16. It is hard enough to getinot designed in our best, peopleouttovotinetheregular/interests. Tickets may be: primary (which Rubin wou by!secured by calling Ida! a contested narrow margin), but!*Townsend, coordinator, at 29+: the..issues are profound, and‘ggss, : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission p Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Sep 20, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New Yo: tk Amsterdam News pg. LL In The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER hopelessness, will ruin their lives on drugs.” Cut Robberies The Fourth Platoon, which Mayor Lindsay fought suceessfully for, has . cut robberies by 23.2 percent and felonious assult by 11.2 per cent in the four months of the: experiment. Mr. Lindsay cared enough “Racism is the issue in this writing up the policy of the about law and order to test election campaign,” said Ethelin this plan in a heavily black Dubin of Brooklyn to a cheering organization, Civil Liberties and Puerto Rican area — the crowd of 750 black women at Attorney Eleanor Holmes Town Hall Saturday. Mrs. Dubin Norton, the co-chairman said: {7th Division which included Morrisania — where poor people was enunciating the position on “Nothin better illustrate the gs \1J_ know are stripped constantly the Mayorality election of the need for black woman to ,of hard-earned clothing United Black Women’s Political organize than their wnusua’ imecessities, and minor League which has formed to Proximity {o the major domestic| [conveniences by drug addicts “develop black grassroots problems of our time Zhe opponents of John Lindsay. womanpower as 2 pvlitical consumer problems, indecent ‘are conspicuous by the silence foree.” : housing, inadequate and in the Fourth Platoon fight; Standing ovations greeted degrading welfare programs, .and their supporters, namely Congresswoman Shirley|} « « Black men and children John Cassesse of the PBA, Chisholm, the keynote speaker look to their wife and mother vehemently opposed it, and inspiration for the group’ to find for her family a way We think that now is the time whom, they said, “by her to make a home amidst the ifor dialogue between groups whe independence and commitment poverty and blight that engulfs care about this City, less racism to her people, exemplifies what our communities.” ignite the powder keg, rekindling black women could stand for So therefore, the United Black old hatreds between whites, ar in American politics today.” Women’s Political League jwell aS against blacks. bijGhisholmhadCrossedturneditsresourcesinward— party lines in support of Jo to strengthen the black home Lindsay, and was threatened by and family, pledging war on State Democratic Chairman|‘© islators and administrative John Burns (now campaignin; policies that were not in our for Procaccino) with loss of her best interest, ‘“‘so that the NY State Democratic National quality of black family life wil Committee woman seat. ‘not. deteriorate beyond repair.” “Let them bring me up on: The stability of the black charges,” Shirley Chisholm said, home, they noted, is threatened “Franklin Delano Roosevelt had by the war, by poverty, by |done the same thing, in support) powerlessness, and by the lack of Fiorello LaGuardia, and of “law and order.”‘The Mafia nothing was done.” Thus she control led drug traffic assures proclaimed black women free that our communities will be and equal. Her audience wildly crime infested, and that many responded with support of her of our young men, in their positaindonth,eir determination to work for the election of John indsay for Mayor. . ~No¢owthequesotfiraocinsm, and. ‘What tH means for Mr, ay to have the support of black women activists in each borough. Black people, even if we got every living one out to vote, would only be 15 per cent of the electorate — but crucial! But then, the Mayor has indicated that he would be the Mayor of “all the minorities.” The Jews are the largest minority, and some of them are rabidly anti-Negro, but they are not too comfortable with conservatives and reactionaries either, Somewhere, somehow (and why not in New York City) white people have got to begin to see that there is no hiding place down here. Black people jare everywhere! Who can deny justice for such Americans as we: after all we have been in this country for 400 years; our ancestors were here before the Mayflower; our fathers anc sons fought in every war this country has had; we are a part of the very fiber of this Jand and most assuredly this City. Common Problems Now is the time to sit down as equals, and talk about the future. Whites who think about the future and have learned something from the . must recognize that keeping blacks back is a costly business. Welfare cuts hurt black families its true, hut the chieslers black and white are usually able- bodied, and are now finding new ways to chiesle. The blind, the sick, the aged, the dependent children of all: racial groups are suffering the: 66e a day. A NY Times reporter’ in Baychester noted that the white-taxi-driver and waiter. homeowners there see the Mayorality as a ‘test of strength between the black poor and the white lower middle class . and Procaccino as the champion of their interests.” Though they mouth law and order and label destructiveness black, they have to admit that property values have not gone down when blacks bought homes, because blacks as well as whites have the same ‘aspirations for thelr families. Our Homes First And this emerged so positively from the Saturday meeting. In Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohi ibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Sep 27, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 28 with a BA d2gree starts at $9,400. In Washington, there is a lack of enthusiasm for improving the lot of the poor. Rey Wilkins has noted it: the In_ The Bronx black elected officials scored it, and the New Careerist got the: cold treatment as further proof. : Community Imporiant Side Effects The purpose of Title I ESEA may have been to raise the Conscious. achievement level of disadvantaged school children, ; By MARIETTA J. TANNER but improving the ability of their parents to earn a living was certainly a worthwhile The New Careerist met in/der program. And it will take 10; peripheral benefit. The Septem- Washington last week, andiyears before they get the BS: ber UFT newspaper reported learned a hard lesson: the funds degree, at the present rate of! “the job picture for black is are not available to develop New 'g credits per semester. These worsening and. . . the Careers for the Poor. ‘were to have been a secretiynemployment gap between Simeon Golar and Albert: weapon for “community| whites ‘and black widening. Shanker sat down to a friendly, control.” getting the knowledge| jobless rate in poverty television discussion Sunday and, and skil to man schools’ neighborhoods “increased from heaved a sigh of relief: no ugly | properly; the rest was merely'73 to8 percent over the year.” racial confrontations like last’ public relations, ! For black women (who are year because of the school: Jobs Dwindle ‘the heads of households in 3 strike. But Albert Shanker, m) While last year over 10,000jout of 5 of the lowest income might do something now to, his low-keyed, of hard Way.' people worked with the Board| families) the jobless rate is6.7 protect the rights of, is tough: he says Som¢iof Education as paras in/per cent against 38 paraprofessionals. They might, confrontation is good, and! decentralized and centralizedp!er cert for white women ‘for example, seek an increase necessary, and he is getting: programs. 9,000 of these were|according to the Department :in salary for them, through a’ ready for it. _He 18’not eligible for Career Ladder,|of Labor. Now many of the ,blanket increase ‘salar. decentralizing his union, just ;and most received no training,|career ladder jobs are held by ‘appeal’, even while the figh like the school system: he is other than through their! these women, and what will it for bargaining rights is in’ going political just in time for asscciation with a teacher. The/all have meant to the poor progress. ' the school board elections. ~ mer of paraprofessionals has communities to have had 10.000 | .No teachers who are parents Our communities are - ed this year. even though jcbs in the school system once. of school children have yet come cemplacent—there is peace in N’xen has extended; ‘t m'zht have meant some real ‘hrcugh this much touted our schools. But it docs seem: Tile E fer two years at its job training for them, had a ‘“‘Career Ladder’’. a pity that they are “back to current rate ef funding. ,Meaningful career ladder been Paraprofessionals in health and| normal” like nothing ever Other programs, formerly established. ‘social services are faring happened last year. Community carried with central funds. are| The UFT promises of $8500 .somewhat better. Complacency people were saying as they slept: now in Title I, and Title I' would apply only to about 3,000 : the face of no jebs is an. in those schools, that they were teachers’ salaries have inereas- ras, ard these would be- >sem'nation, ESEA programs “never going to let them go!” ed but net those of paras. “No eubject to the Baard of only tinker with. the heart of Ah, well, it was only an: increase is possible,” the Board: Examiners, not the Community; the problem of the: illustration anyway, How do you says, ‘while unions are at the Corporations for screening, The| disadvantaged child: his; hold on to something when you point of bargaining.” Community Corporations,]| disadvantaged parent, who real.| have no control of the funds.) The election held last Spring through the Council Against ly wants and could do, a decent; or the contracts, or even the: (in which only the 3,000 Poverty, on which they sit, jab. jobs? Centralized paraprofessionals No Professionals were to have participated, is Jobs, In Pittsburgh and Cairo still in litigation. Only when the and Mississippi, black poor, results are certified can salaries Mexican. poor, Puerto Rican be negotiated. poor, beg for jobs. Morrisania UFT and District Council No. and Hunts Point poor want jobs 37 promise high salaries, UFT too, Professional. jobs in the has published a wage scale of school system, the communities from $6500 with no experience never had, and witk or high school diploma. to $5200 decentralization they are more: with 3 years of college. But firmly in the hands of the Board! the way things are going, few of Examiners than ever. :paras will ever enjoy such But, the ‘‘community)| salaries. professionals” — teacher aides/ It looks like the funding without a high school diploma; sources are drying up for sev- who were to rise to the rank eral reasons. Paraprofessionals cf teacher throvgh a career | came into public services where ladder program — what has: there was a shortage of skilled become of them? :orofessionals. In education. thai Actually only about 1,000) condition no longer exists. kindergarten educational: Shanker reported a surplus of; assistants in the entire city were! 1,000 teachers awaiting: ever involved in a Career Lad-; placement, now that a teacher: Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Oct 4, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 15 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Although I am nat too much [ten, and impossible to ‘revive. for rituals, I participated in ‘Most black people, especially one on Sunday, designed to those young .arid sophisticated “bind together and strengthen ones who were in that audience, black people so they can survive are questioning religion inany| the long struggle which lay lform, and most certainly the ahead.” : Clean Sweep | .Yet they moved to the rhythm were reluctant to join in the rites. | It was a beautiful audience, handsome black men all wore bush haircuts, ranging from curly to kinky; well-spoken Hat in hand once again, black there, obviously, were not there must constantly fight against only to be entertained; most the inclination to be slaves — seemed to have come hoping to expect other people to take ‘superstitious and supernatural. I had participated in the com- of the drum, and the delightiul munity corporation elections the ymusic played with African in- day before, and n6thing could ;struments. There did not seem bring home more forcibly that to be too much ofa difference some kind of binding together between the Afro beat, and the of black people was indeed nec- bougaloo. And. when the essary. Puerto Ricans had swept audience was invited to get up every community in the South and do their thing, many spon- Bronx. Black people, customar- taneously and joyfully joined in ily unbound, unorganized and the dance, Even the fairest-skin- apathetic, did not come out to ned engaged at least in pat-and- vote, Now, of course, there will juba at the Ritual. It was, for be protests, anger, firings of @ moment, a revival at the the staffs that, unfortunately, Baptist church I used to attend. did not see the wisdom of get- There was the movement, the ting out the vote to protect pulsing involvement of my their own jobs. neighbor with me, that I missed So we went down to Harlem when I attend integrated to participate in the Ritual, de- churches... . signed to bind black people to- gether, at the New Lafayette Theater. The attractive per- So, we have discovered, music formers, including the Bronx’s binds us together. But how can! own: Estelle Evans, succeeded we transfer’ this to life? Of; in creating a relaxed atmos- itself, spirited revivals do not? phere, and a camaraderie with- in the audience. There was com- munion and symbolic cleaning; ing to sounds, took precedence. When you ask, remorsefully, the non-voters will say, ‘but I was! too busy.” young women, slim’ and graceful, wore theirs in bubble shaped afros or tied up ingeles. Dashikies, bubas and lapas of exquisite fabric abounded. Jt fime to separate a man from was unlike the audiences seen his heritage. That’s why I still at Greenwich Village produc- become emotionally involved in tions in that there were no inter- spirituals; and why the Ritual racial couples, and few in West- was strangely moving. Is thal ern dress, The younger people why, too, as black people, we Disparate priorities kept Some of the people who had black people away from thej come only to be entertained polls Saturday. Household duties: came first, or a game, or listen-! hand-shaking and greeting. might we evolve that would have Cities: and those (now with! this effect on black people? The Saturday’s vote) who will be! Ritual at the New Lafayette content with the leavings of each could only ‘suggest an’ answer. of the Community Corporations. Its: sparkling, bright audience Believe it or not black men was asked to participate of superior qualifications and in obsolescence — 0 worship ability will quietly take sub- lancestors and forms longforgot- ordinate positions and.erve. It’s great to have Rituals to |sway together, but it's about lime we found forms that bind us together far survival. New Ties make black people trust each: other, or follow leaders, or re- evaluate priorities. : people in the Bronx will be begging for poverty jobs: ‘They wont give us any jobs.” I do believe that it takes a long care of us? Even. now there Old Forms are blacks who seem satisfied Which brings us to the ques- to receive the crumbs of Multi- to be bound together... tion, what kind of ceremonies Service Center, and Model! Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta 1 New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Oct 1, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News By MARIETTA J. TANNER ‘ The timetable for, majori jotryity ijn South Bronx, the decentralization lists November| have the most vocal lected ag the date when the officials, and most importantly ‘schoolboard publishes ‘tentaté p plan. Have the most cohesive community, To outsiders, United Bronx quany black p the fie weer |Parents, seems to speak for tr worked dr {all the parents. Therefore, to December 1 On a new. one?! the folks downtown at CUE hearings eon et public having Bob LeBron and Dr. tentative distric bel on 4 Bernard Friedman on their ‘on December ieting plan; and Board to represent the Bronx ae seems logical and equitable. ‘andcommuni nea ete After al, there are Rhody ‘on the ball, } ee must get MeCoy and Livingston Wingate! e 6 al they from Brooklyn and Harlem! an about theFroposed changes, respectively. how thelr chi "3 education Th , 1 will be affected, and whether i CUE proposal before the ‘or not this is the jan th US office of Education is in want, B ®Y for rough going, anyway, considering the present climate Innocent Lambs for funding domestic projects This summer several inWashington. Nevertheless, the; community workshops onlocali $2.7 million requested must! control were held in the black: include the thinking and be community, United Bronx tailored to meet the special Parents, funded for these needs of the Black Bronx classes for several years, has; community as well. Black recently received a grant of parents in the Bronx need $80,000 from the Urban Coalition! training in local control, and/ to extend their program. |are entitled to do it their way i The Center for Urb ar with personnel they relate to/ Education, in cooperation with] and want. Only innocent lambs! the Puerta Rican Forum| going to the slaughter would conducted leadership training) have itany other way. workshops for twenty-five! Youngsters in grades six te Spanish-speaking adulls in the! 9 can audition October Ly and South Bronx last Spring. They! ig for the Bronxwide Chorus. will repeat these workshops this! Ronald Smith, Director, says winter, fn Districts 7 im the that a pleasant voice, good Bronx and 13in Brooklyn. musica! ear, and good “In both places we wil work: attendance are the basic, with the community parentsin} requirements. The chorus was both black and Puerto Rican! established seven years ago asi areas, as well as thelocali an outgrowth of the Friends boards.” Dr, Robert A. Dentler,| of wusic, Inc., in cooperation Executive Director said. Dr.| with the Board of Education.| Dentler has a fine record of| Rehearsals and auditions are’ working for integratedhe'ld Saturday, 9 to 12:20 at education, and for being in thel JHS 15, 183rd Stret and forefront of the open enro/iment. Valentine Avenue. battle. He and the men at CUE’ probably believe they were listening to the pulse of the Bronx — they and just about: every other source of funds have, it dunned into their ears: ‘The, major need in the Bronx is| for Spanish, or to put it anotherj way, bilingual programs. They can Tun down cogent, scentific statistically plausible reasons for placing all their program in District 7, for example: It’s a Model Cities area; it’s de facto segregated, ete. True, Spanish-! speaking parents are in the! Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta 1 New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Oct 18, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 16 In_The Bronx By MARIETTA J. TANNER res, The Borough President of the (and certainly in . Bronx, Herman Badillo, wil television debates, comes hat hold Budget Hearings October as the most knowledgeable) is 34 through =December 3. Robert Abrams. Planning District No. 3, for Black people have a stake example, will convene at Mortis in getting him elected. bot in High Schol, October 20, and/this’as in al other campaigns No, 4 the folownig evening atlthe “por cannot readily PS 35. Other areas should call) volunteer. Every morning, after CY 93000 for their date andj the children are of to school, time. 7 women with leisure, who believe Every black citizen of the/ in a candidate, go out and work Bronx should make the sacrifice| for him, Any candidate will tell to attend these bearings, They! you he can’t do without them. are not just another meeting;| These women are one ood but one that can have concrete| reason swhv they (or their under! yusbands) have all theinfluence results. Projects consideration include renovation’ once the candidate wins. > *: of Lincoln Hospital. a new multi-: service health facility replacing; Equal Volunteers St. Francis Hospital; the|/ But, alas, any black woman modernization and construction||Wo can type is working at of public schools borough wide, |/it, ful time, and can’t afford as well as the negotiations for||to volunteer. Coming home after building Community College No.tia hard day's work, the wife g. ‘iand mother has shopping to do, These budget hearings are the Clothes to prepare for the Kids Ivt will ard testament of School next day, an apartment an Tndity pe Ra-qen’s, (0 keep, a husband’s meals to ent: the avmher of Prepare, lessons to assist with, jects and their pertinence, al! in the few hours between hows that he has not only Six and 11 o'clock, th \ involvedJocalcommunitiesin_TheLindsaycampaignine} planning their borough, but that Bronx suffers, too, froma dearth, their concerns are being of black volunteers. Reelection transmitted by their elected]of Mayor Lindsay is not assured, officials to City Hall. and’ will not be unless the Participate More blacks, who are a crucial 15 It would be marvellous if we| Per cent of the vote, get out, could gripe less and participate| to the man, to vote for him, more. But participation is time-] Al has not been perfection in consuming. Many people have| his administration, but neither been introduced to participatory| has the quality of our democracy through Badillo's; participation been nerfect. evening vo cf the Planning! The Mayor doés, however,| Boards. They want to sea the|have character: his honesty, responsibilities and authority of}decency, and lack of prejudice theBoroughPresident|comesthroughevenwhenhe expanded. The man who ‘has|is annoyed and tired. One of sworn to continue in this vein|his law-and - order opponent, OO “Mario Procaccino, who self- righteously blasts welfare recip- ient chiseling, has recently been accused of ‘inflating his scholastie achievements in campaign literature.’ The Procaceino campaign brochure erroneously claimed Mr. Procaceino had graduated from City College “with honors’ and that he was “president of Verrazzano College, later dis- covered not to exist.” Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Oct 25, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 16 In _The Bronx Communi onscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER The 51 voice Featherbed Lane Why did this community Community Freedom Chorus chorus want to go to Sing Sing? will sing an original Jazz Mass Because, said Marvin (Bob) York, president of the group, ininOsining, NYN.Y:onon Sundalyay “Tt was our way of expressing October 26. The Chorus of 7th cur concern for those inside; and 12th graders would: have our singing may have been in-, sung for the prisoners at Sing spirational, and rehabilitative.” Sing, also. But the warden, J.L. Too bad the warden said, Casscles, said ‘Not possible,” “No,” for Bob York echoes the because their auditorium ‘will sentiment heard more and more not accommodate this large these days that we are not going to thraw away members of our The “Mass of the People,” is group either. Black families are! a collection of original liturgical adopting children; plack jazz compositions by Dennis teachers are saying our children Bell, a teacher at JHS 6&2, can learn, and black community who directs the Freedom Chorus. people (who fortunately ‘Proceeds from performances managed te escape a brush with are divided among its members the law themselves) are ‘giving (who graduate from high school) a hand up to prisoners, as partial scholarships. Movement around the idea of shaping our own destiny was evident, too, at the IS 148 Advisory Council and Bronx NAACP Sponsored meeting October 22 to plan for Dist, 9 School Board Elections, January 2, 1970. The Decen- tralization Timetable gives January 18 as the date for circulating nominating petitions. But the organizers of the meeting have learned from hard experience the value of advanced planning and organ- ization, The coalition of community groups decided to divide itself into five areas and to develop a olate of 15 candidates. It worked on criteria or selection and procedures for finding the most qualified and community- identified candidates. Interim Board Districting plans are to be published November 17 and public hearing on them begins December 1. The IS 148 coalition seeks workshop leaders to discuss the Decentralization law with parents and to carry the message of registering and voting to all. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Nov 8, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 4 In_The Bronx. Communit onscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Congresswoman Chis- have been even easier for white holm was in the Bronx last politicians to name our leaders, Sunday to campaign for John V. when the machine made the Lindsay. Rain washed out the pitch. But we will have some of bigh point of her day, which the benefits of victory, because was to have been arally with of courageous black leaders like the Mayor and Senator Javits in Congresswoman Chisholm who the heart of the black communi- took a position at the beginning, ty, Me ia, But her indomi-|when al the chips were down, table spirit was the brightest and stuck by it until the end. spot in the campaign for the The Clear Choice black people who met her. For the issue in the election Shirley Chisholm spoke of was racism. We had to select’ revolution designed to bring us the best qualified men from| into the mainstream of Ameri- among the candidates — men: can life. She talked unity, COM-'who had shown by word and| mittment, organization, self-as- deed that they opposed racism, surance, hard work, integrity:and stood for a fair deal for and rewards for services TeB-: black men, too. John V. Lindsay dered. Those members of Trini-has that record; Robert ty Baptist Church at 224th abrams, the borough president,| Street who waited with their:appeared with Mrs. Chisholm: pastor, Reverend Lloyd, and jast week, reaffirming his stand! George Sands of the Indepen-fo'r fair play. | dent Voters Club of the Bronx,’ we couid not afford to “ignore to hear her, got her message. ‘the top of the ticket? as Roy Both major political parties in Innis of CORE suggested, to New York City will be in tur- demonstrate our awareness that moil when John Lindsay, the we “need not be forced to ac- candidate of neither of them, cent the lesser of three evils.” wins the election. A better place How barren this philosophy; jn the new organization must be how capriciously reactionary to ours, foister this on black people! Fruits of Victory We have never had clear Mrs, Chisholm knows what i choices, mainly because leader-' takes for victory, so ram ship people never took clear-cut doesn’t stop her. She worked 2s positions when it counted — at an underling for years in Brook- the time of the Primaries when lyn before she went to Albany. they could name candidates and She bolted the whole gang of bring out a vote in support of is- “Jeaders” to try for Congress. sues. Our leaders have usually That's why she, too, abhorred taken a safe position until they the election boycott proposed by could ‘get their thing together” so-called “black leaders.’ ‘behind some lesser spokesman. B lack people had to have a: The inadequacy of our leader- share in the making of the ship forced us to choose “‘the Mayor 1969, if they are to have lesser of three evils’’ with little a future in New York City. real imput in the shaping of any Those people who said other- of their platforms and organiza- wise remind me of the rooster sions. who thought his crowing every morning brought the sun up. Black people are apathetic about voting anyway; reaction- aries were counting on our stay- ing home. Only those who worked to bring out the vote in large numbers did something worth crowing about. And furthermore, where were those so-called leaders during: the Primary, when they could have put forward a candidate, or gotten blacks registered so they could have made their po- sitions felt more positively through the elective process? In the Bronx, black are reap- ing the bitter harvest of with- drawal from the democratic process: they are the minority in every communit» corporation board, with clear dimunition of power. The election process, its wealmesses and inequities not- withstanding, can work for black people, too, once cocky little people stop selling it short. There were many flaws in the Mayoral campaign. Candidates gave primacy to television ad- vertising, which had the danger of not oringirg the candidate into personal contact with peo- ple through his foot soldier-. In black communities where Betting out the vote was a stair- climbing, person-to-person, ar-' duous, unglamorous job, m‘gi:: Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Nov 15, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa. 44 Black people gave John Lind-(week, television made the pitch sayOrecmtofthelrvote,faforvotesandthelargeexpendi- the eaciion. No « ture of money for media lett lit- ‘nteerkty 98 solkdiy We for strengthening neighbor- theMayor — the Puerto Ricans} hood political organization. Now werk63percentforLindstaojywe learn that the “Little City der cent for Procaorino; endjHalls” will be revitalized, tc take the place of indigenous or- ganization. There is also plan- stakes initiative to deliver;jning to merge these with their 2 must mean that Meck peopla| Urban Task Force structure and are “We want tha right/the Planning Boards (which te by tre andjwere controlled by borough do not the great while) Presidents). It may be a legiti- father todo forus."°* =‘ = ‘Imate effort to decentralize gov- This Kind of vote should put:eroment. But we must be sure the blacks like Congresswoman that the leadership whom the Shirley Chishalm and Assembly- People select will be there, lead- man Charles Ranginetlhe innerership that is dependent upon cirele, solidly on that bipartisan the people for their jobs. coalition that the Mayor has set! Often, in the previous admin- up to run things; but such anj istration, Mr. Lindsay went out- important matter as self-deter-: side New York to find personnel mination cannot be left to'for high level positions, Even chance, lefficient black men who filled In California, for example, commissionerships were re the black and Mexican-Ameri- sented in the black community. can caucus are demanding 30 If there was not a man who per cent of the total budget of knew abou: recreation in Brook- the Democratic State Commit-jlyn, the Bronx, or Harlem, ap- tee to establish and maintain aj prentice apparatus in the agen- continuous political operation.} cies needs investigating. Without this committment,| The protesting stage is over. tied to finance, whites may con-| Black people living in poor com- tinue to name our leaders and| munities need facts and skills so say, “Be a good boy, and fol-ithey can be involved in plan- low.” ning before the fact. One good Controlled Machinery way to insure thiiss through It requires vigilance to see|Tespansive, responsible repre- that community peopleidentify, Sentatives. their own leaders, and that: A college by any other name these are not displaced bythe! May stil be a college, butmany handmaidens of the power! South Bronx residents are balk-| structure. During the campaign,|'9& at the same (supposedly outsiders unfamiliar with the:“Nanimously endorsed by the black community, were in con-|Board after polling the commu- trol of the campaign machinery. uty). for Community College #8, It would have been more effec-'These kinds of decisions cannot tive had neighborhood people’ be made by the entire commu- had the responsibility for get-'nity; nor can everyone be ex- ting out the vote, and thetools ected .to know enough about to do it with. ‘she college to act wisely on the ven the 80 per cent margin Matters of curriculum, enroll. does not represent the kind of: Ment, location, budget, and pers massive support we could give; Sounel that are being considere a candidate, and must muster;00w and must be finalized be- for the school board elections.|fore the school opens in tempo- Each assembly district is com-|:'aty quarters next September. prised of approximately 60,000| The search to find competent voters: the 80th in the predo-|tepresentatives whom they trust minently white East Bronx de-|must be a real one for black livered 49,382 voters; the 78th Bronx residents. These peaple (including Morrisania) only} must live and vote with the peo- 16,955, and the 75th a mere:ple whose interests they Tepre- 14,450 voters in the Mayoralty,'sent. College #8 may yet be The 77th vote reflected Procac.!saved to serve the entire com- cino’s activity and the support! munity; but volunteer minute indigenous leaders gave him. |men cannot be expected to con- Moreover, as mentioned last'tinue to put out every fire, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Nov 22, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 16 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Dr. Alvin Pouissant, the! Student’s-Rights Board of eminent black psychiatrist came; Education hearing at Fashion to the Ethical Culture Fieldston! Industries, Lane and Wingate School, November 10 todiscuss, |High School Students appealed | “The Black Experience in the'to Isaiah Robinson, the lone|f Private School.” black man on the Board, tolfTM This was a little revolution. listen to their side. They said He came at the behest of black they would not expect their parents, (many of whose-black brother's position to bel] children are scholarship determined by reports of the students) who requested that:police department and UFT.| 3m this humanist school (a pioncer;Perhaps it is a sense of fair in integrated education) alteriplay forged by our bitter the curriculum, staffing, andimemories of injustice, that administration of the school to' prevents even our tested leaders reflect the black experience. from acting in our enlightened! - BRONX EXHIBIT — Gil Dr. Pouissant was the self-interest. Other groups just'approved a decentralization billtt impossible ror any black to Edwards (left) of 164 W. 174th respected authority supporting don’t seem to get all tangled: acceptable to UFT/CSA: during: get a majority. St., the Bronx, is one of many the black students, need tc up in seeing the other fellow’s the teacher's strike and during! We are always the victims talented black artists “meet together as ca act cf Side like we do. negotiations on the Bill, black of integrating before we are exhibiting in the Third Annual reaffirmation of their blackness, Politics in educotion wi’: antisemitism was distorted to ready to move as a unit. Rhody | Showcase of the Visual Arts Whites have always felt that move to the local level withifam the white backlash, tojMcCoy, the Ocean Hill sponsored by the Bronx there is something sinister about; Decentralization and some: mobilize whites against Lindsay|Administrator whose calm, Council on the Arts now under blacks meeting in groups,’’ he sharpening of our political wits (and especially against his!singlemindedness against the way at the Bronx County said. No other groups’ is urgent! Presently. leaders'liberal Board headed by John ‘exemics of black education! Building. 161st Street and collectivism is thus regarded. who take a position in the black Doar, with black conscious, inspired us, now is being: Grand Concourse. Shown at The black high school students interest that cannot be Milton Galamison in a position attacked in his own community.| at Ficldston were the catalysts compromised are as scarce as.of power). So will black candidates for| Tight are Mrs. Edward for this meeting. “Just because’ hen’s teeth. District No. 9School! The ‘compromise’ Marchi, School boards unless some prior Bramson, Showcase chair- wearereceivingaprivileged'Board,withblackmembers,!billhaseliminatedtheDoarlagreeimsreeanchted._ man;GeraldKlot,Coun- education," they said, “does not, shifted (through a “typographi|Board, eliminated: thei Alvin Pouissant said that ceil chairman and William set us apart from other blacks.” cai error” the nine schools with| Demonstration Districts, and #black youths must talk and meet B.- Hopkins, member of the ; Their education must prepare'the lowest reading grades ou! kept the Board of Examiners,|together to reaflirm their Council executive board. The them for working with their:cf the district. -What victory was there for the|blackness, and work out their exhibit of 200 paintings continues until November 23. The nine ghetto schools were black “leadership?” Mr. Dicks; own destinies. Some good skull! SC! stands, and it is gratifying when is homogenized beyond identifi- their parents back them up. by whatever powers designed|the selection of blacks who will cation The Reverend Jesse Jackson the Redistricting Plan. At the|identify on local boards, or will said:“‘Whitey’spracticeistohearings onHien nehlinesoe ahseceptableto.Wwhite give usalittle bit, just enough |Hecemper 2, 7:30 p.m.) more|money to manipulate blacks) to make some one of usbelieve! spouting and anger onthe swite;be elected? The A. Philip brothers. They would not be homogenized. restored during a shouting, no-; asked. {sessions among black adults| confidence meeting; four of the; New coalitions are in the yseem indicated now, before our Taking Stands Blackyoungstersaretaking:ninewereeliminatedanyway,|making,Willtheymakefowlpowertoeducateourchildren it is enough to fight over; or! <n bo fistened to, but wil hard.| Randolph Institute, with its tanta the fhink We are iy change things. ‘director, Bayard Rustin, are in A scholarship to @ private Ss ad once been. . spe ys : i No Real Meat ftm°healthe breach.betwen eoughfosedithemouthsof Nether redistricting,‘norQlaGtansdthe,UF. Their black parents, and to cause fiscal “control” has been upp at Brotherhood in-Action black students to refuse to transferred to the community.’ pecember 2will unwrap a UFT identify with their brothers. The “What we wil fight over.” says ‘fuly clothed in community majority of the Fieldston youths Harold Dicks, Citywide NAACP; consciousness Locally UFT is will graduate from college; they, Chairman is disciptine, the) active in preparing candidates are potential leaders, and it iscafeteria and recreation; notthejrg; the School Board a matter of black survival that‘ceal meat of education.” White| rections (A meeting at JHS 22 they learn now to identify. ipoliticians, and white-controlled*j2ct week ended in chaos after Last Thursday, at the.black ones, drafted and:the Pyerto Ricans demanded that the entire proceedings be translated into Spanish.) Like the poverty elections, Decentralization portends outbursts between blacks and Puerto Ricans, and splits among the blacks who might flood the field, with candidates, making Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Tanner, Marietta Community Conscious ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Nov 29, 1969; 8. In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Decentralization of the big administration seems to be citywide agencies to make them tightening the reins. Lincoln more responsive to the Hospital is searching for a new: first analysis, make them more community, may not, in the administrator; Andre Walker, a! responsive. As a matter of fact, dlack man, who was Michelin's| first rumblings point toward Deputy is there, but may be: tighter control by an entrenched :oypassed. | administration, _ placing | The hiring of a new. that mcy be voted upon by whatever community boards administrator must be tied to! a helpful citizenry in weak review of the Affiliations advisory positions. jwontracts, whereby Lincoln School personnel, with the nas been a “teaching hospital’? strongest union of all, moved tor Hinstein-Yeshiva, rather swiftly last year to guarantee ‘bana hospital whose main tenure rights to teachers; now ‘unction was to give service the Council of Supervisory Lo patients. Associations has successfully Under the Affiliations fought the qualifying list and Vontracts, deans of schools the acting principal position. Under the new law, the of medicine are the heads of communities will not be able avery department of the to name their principals by tospital. While the contracts met a real need and hospitals qualifying examinations or who selecting those who pass sould not survive without the have state certification (like residents and internes they Rhody McCoy, for example.) oring, accountability for patient The legislature has mandated ‘Mare was not a built-in priority, that the principal on Board of “A total disregard for the when they were negotiated. Examiners Hst will be aeeds of patients,” said Mrs. appointed, even if there are no Odessa Carrion in a hearing schools available for them. If defore the City Commission on they do not bave schools to go to, appointed men get the duman Rights last Thursday, fall principal’s salary anyway. “permits Lincola-Einstein to run One Bronx District six departments with case aides ‘who darry caseloads of asmany} Superintendent is already dickering for list but school-less as 80 patients.” i principals to replace District Exclusion Turns Screws | Coordinators on his personal Odessa Carrion, supervisor of. staff, :Medical Social Services: The New York Times labelled ‘outpatient department, with 20; plan which cancelled the -liscrimination by Abraham as “racist” the Central Board’s years experience, claimed principal’s examination sched- Silverberg and Raymond Cagan, uled for Jast week, and Einstein Administrator and So- opened eligibility to take a cial Service Supervisor respec- new exam to anyone who bad tively, “because she was taught five years. bypassed for two promotions, more blacks and Puerto Ricans qualifications were placed ir, This will, obviously, permit while caucasians with lesser to apply. | . the fobs.” Actually, this is the way it‘ea without due process, on: ' Mrs. Carrion was fired. is statewide, and the way it i was before 1960: Only in New ‘charges of “insubordination” York City was service as an jOctober 31. (The African- assistant principal a require- ‘American Coalition is’ spear- ment for taking the principal's heading a demonstration exam. Rather than lowering the Tuesday io demand her examination may permit cap- disciplinary action against qualifications, this qualify immediate reinstatement, and able men with some knowledge \Messes. Silverberg and Cagan.)| of the community (which often’ Tightening up may take the seems lacking in those who form of “exclusion of those wha spend altheir lives studying to work in the people’s interest. pass examinations) to serve @5 This kind of discrimination as administrators of schools. |practiced in the North is subtle, Hospitals Tightening, Too jand hard to prove. An agency By July, the hospitals too, receiving public funds could are to be decentralized; staff every department with white supervisors, certifying whites with foreign degrees or no degrees and devising all manner of exclusionary ration- alizations, and still claim, Ne discrimination. Communities will be looking for well-qualified people to fil positions like the ad- ministrator of Lincoln Hospital. They want someone| with community saavy, but: enough knowledge about the field to build a decent medical: program for the people of South Bronx, and enough independence to get our money’s worth from! the medical school. Urban League’s Skills Bank is being revitalized to help qualified people tto meet these j|eb opportumitties. partles -should send resumes to: Bronx Urban League, 204 West 136th Street, New York. Every morning between 30 end 60 schoo! children are fed breakfast et the Kelly Street Block Association (926 Intervale Ave.) through its School for Self Defense. Robert LaForey, assistant director, cooks great grits and eggs; and his pancakes! are so popular with the children, | that even those who are not actually hungry drop in (and are welcome) to get a -little supplement. Thanksgiving Day, the Mor- risania Pilgrims will fee’ Senior Citizens at 2:30 p.m.. Hobson Center (Webster Avenue ‘at 170th St.). Sponsors include Diana Paul and Nina Creque (secy) of the King Health Center; Lucy Vigay (chairman) and Dorothy Morrison, IS 143 Paraprefessionals; Phyllis Ludway, Dennis Gardner, and Ronald Lopez of Morrisania Community Corp; Dorothy Simmons and Philomena Allen of LABOR; and Christine Russel of Welfare Action for Progress. Community businessmen (especially Kennie Wilkens of Bronxwood Inn) will feed 40 teenagers at Edenwald Center, 149 E. 22th Street on Thanksgiving Day. Youngsters of Youth Leadership Foundation will serve as hosts; and the Independent Voters Political Club, under Walter Williams, will be coordinating chefs. Contributions of food or funds to each of these groups will be appreciated. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Dec 6, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 33 ‘Mr. Cagan, and that the Union (DistrictCouncil@ie ci In_ The Bronx el a petition thra toi 'strike the hospital unless Mrs,! 'Cartion was dismissed.” : Communi In ¢ross examination of defense witnesses, Mr. Taylor showed that none of the signers of the. petition worked under onscious Mrs. Carrion, and were, in fact, By MARIETTA J. TANNER ‘Mostly “white supervisors of " ,O:her departments, who had no ——__—_—_..| Contact with the Plaintiff ‘The Charging that '‘Abraham:Medical Social Service Petition was circulat y a Silverberg. liaison officer of Outpatient Department a Mrs. Riccardo, an elected! Einstein College of Medicine at!Lincoln Hospital,” Timothy, "e>esentative for Local 1199, Lincoln Hospital, willfully and)Taylor, attorney for the The D.C-37 representative deliberately practiced Plaintiff, asked’ $300,000 in Mr. Foster, testified that his discrimination in the dismissal, damages in a suit brought:union had not threatened strike October 31, of Mrs. Odessalpefore the New York City|action. Moreover, those wit. Carrion, black supervisor, Commission on Human Rights nesses supposedly harassed by ~ on November 20, [Mrs. Carrion, said that they Mrs. Carrion declared under had never seen, before the day oath that the dismissal was 2'of the trial, a document signed “culmination cf harassmen' by Stanley Shulman, Assistant steming from 1957 when shc}Ccmmissioner of Hospitals, was denied two promotions Which purported to relate the because of her race by Raymon; iDroceedings of a meeting where Cagan, director of Socia’i*heclerical ‘workers attested to Services at Einstein College of Mrs. Carrion’s harassment of Medicine and Mr. Silberberg.” |them, and had requested her! Two caucasians with lesser :\lismissal. j qualifications (to which Mr." Ope of the stapnamsakans Cagan testified) were hired in tasted to several distortions. the Positions of Student Unit in the document, Another Supervisor for Group Work and ¢j-rica) worker, who was: 2'lee., Casework. ‘ed to have suffered a dis! iny Double Standard ‘collapse under Mrs. Carrion's;. Mrs. Carrion stated that sac pressuring, was shown by Mr./' had a critic of the,Taylor to have been; management and quality ofi “hospitalized before, and to; service of the social services, have a record of not following jepartment at Lincoln, Herjher medication and diet: department, andling WFclinies regimen.” ; had no Spanish-speaking worker r iserimination unlit the Fal of 1968, when sme to‘bahtwie ana Mrs. Frieda Vasquez, acaseaide. ny Mathew, a Puerto Rican! was hired. She urged more sosnital administrator, sald that realistic staffing of the social had been fi . M. service departments in.'@ ha m fired twice by Mr. Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery,/Silverberg under similar Rehabilitation, Emergency and conditions, ie., the personnel Home care, which were eae department was used to ey serced by one graduate shat they would leave if he | “The clinics are actually "2S reinstated. manned by caseaides, who have The case, heard before Human caseloads of as many as 80 Rights Commissioners Rabbi! |patients,” she said. ‘Halpern of Jewish Theological Claim Harassment ‘Seminary and Gilbert Colgate, | ‘The defense charged that io Ghatessed wortain brought sharp reaction Mrs. aad 1g from’ | ‘clericalworkers ene them: any South Bronx community: to sign spurious charges agzins‘. organize‘ions (led by Richard’ Weeks of the African American; Coalition), decrying the “rotten: double standard” practiced by| Einstein, and demanding Mrs.| Carrion’s immediate reinstatement. ! Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Dec 20, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 12 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER P;araprofessi ionals were pretty|know shocked when Jim _ Howard|paraprofessionals in Brooklyn showed at their Forum ‘on| school districts with whom Jim Union Membership (held injhad met personally to District No. 12 last April) asS|breakdown their resistance to the UFT Field Representative. |UFT, are turning in their cards Jim did come on pretty strong] in his support. there, blasting black racism and} tHe sincerely felt he could whitewashing UFT, !help us from the inside,” they Many parap rofessionals, !.said. “He thought he was getting turned off completely, called: in on the ground floor and would him a sellout. But Jim learned |have some real power.” They unionism quickly, so well in fact; will be at 27 Union Square, that he said his boss, Al) Thursday, December 18, 4 p.m., Shanker, -called him ‘'the| when UFT's Al Shanker meets architect of the paraprofessional |with paraprofessionals to? program”? just a few weeks ago’ celebrate the victory. in queens. . Borough President Herman! i UFT has now been-designated Badillo was said ‘'GoodbyeTM tol bargaining agent for. most: at a swank dinner last Saturday, paraprofessionals (Educational: but conspicuous by their absence Associated. Assistants, anc; were the blacks who said teacher aides) and (even if; “Hello” to him with their votes District Council37 doesn't know) four years ago. Of course, the it yet) they are busy collecting) bash was $25 a-plate, and not cards on the rest (parent) many of us can spare that for program assts, family assts and | a meal. But many worked har¢ family workers). On December! enough to have heen offered 3, James Howard, the only lack! the opportunity to decline. i UFT Field Representative, who| This writer doubts that any) “had delivered 90 per cent of’ black man in New York City! the para-professionals,” was: fired. . Vito Deleonardis, director of; slaff, who wrote the dismissal] Mayor Lindsay, and Reformers note, claimed that Jim had! and Regular Democrats from become ‘“‘too independent.J’im’,} everywhere came to wish Mr. who had delivered those. Badillo, well. paranrofessionals, who would] Course it's not really goodbye.' xoq an estimated $489,000 to; Herman Badillo is slated to be the UFT coffers ($42 yearly the Congressional candidate per person) had dared to ask from the new district the to be placed on the Contract: legislature is carving out for Negotiating Team, So he went| East Bronx, extending down to his boss, Al Shanker, who’ through Spanish Harlem. This said graciously, according to| new district will slice the black Mr. Howard, “I don’t have to| stronghold into three parts, explain anything to you, or even! giving part of Morrisania to talk to you people, if I don't: Mr. Gilbert’s 22nd, a third to want to.” |James Scheuer’s 2{st and the Met With Rustin lrest to Mr. Badillo’s new Jim Howard also went to see) district. Bayard Rustin, close associate] Funny, but this doesn’t seem and banquet-giver for his boss,! to bring a rise from black Al Shanker, but he was legislators, who are supposed powerless to have Shanker to be helping to lay out the reconsider. The other blacks district. But this redistricting who serve as Assist ant ‘certainly seems to set back the Secretary and Assistant Vice jemergence of a black President were careful not to lcongressman from the Bronx. even broach the subject to' Congratulations to the Alliance Shanker. — ; for Adequate Living in its Traditionally, hand-picked -continuing fight for a decent: “black representatives" without ,meal for poor citizens. The lines black identity are easily used lat ‘the Forest House Food and quickly discarded by whitey. |Distribution Depot grow longer once their purpose has been |every month, A representative served; and blacks should now of Senator Javits’ office at better. But many politics today could have, gathered that assemblage.! Senator Eugene McCarthy,: »ABOR last month, was told iow unsatisfactory present nethods of distribution were;| how the crippled and aged could yt haul a month's supply of: surplus foads, and how a mother iever got all the foods listed. And the indignity of it all:| hat a family should have to! wait for hours in all weather for inferiorly prepared meats and coarse cornmeal. No resulis af the meeting are yet in sight. Hunger is a national emergency, and our hats are off te Margie Mazel! and the others who help keep up the fighting spirit of: the poor despite their empty stomachs. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohi ibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Dec 27, 1969, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe.5 In The |Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER In the spirit of the season, the Sommissioner Ownes fired, and blacks who met the Thuraday seemed re: Yast abolished because it is to them to give ‘a black clique, containing 26 slack members as compared to 3 Puerto Ricans.” Actually there Beca ey eT ie fair share ,Tecording to the rly ple. lastest figures, would wipe out: such programs as P .| (which assists Puerto Rican| Joseph Monsarate wrote youngsters with scholarship aid: and counselling) and the Puerto! Rican Development Corporation, (which aids Puerto Rican business and economic’ Ricans considered themselves: interests). :'already integrated, and The newly formed Puerto therefore did not object to what Rican Council Against Poverty, blacks considered “segregated” of which Ramon Velez is schools. chairman, wants to become a separate poverty agency, so that that way. Never was a breath poverty funds can be split right uttered by a black leader about down the middle between Puerto discrimination, unless he Rican-Hispanics and black included his Puerto Rican others. They claim $900,000 brother. The concern has not Hispanic-Puerto Ricans can be been mutual. Puerto Rican classified as poor; reliable elected officials flaunt their statistics show that there are devotion to the advancement of approximately §50,000 Spanish- Puerto Rican children only when they visit schoo! districts, or Mexicans, Cubans, Columbians’ speak at Parent Association speaking persons (including and others) in New York City. mectings. compared to one and one-half raillion blacks. Moreover, Chairman David Against Poverty considers the Billings of the Council Against Poverty (which the Puerto Ricans are seeking to abolish,) pointed out that “of the twenty Mayors special panel set up to investigate current black- Puerto Rican tensions, as a “classic example of official buck five community corporations, 10! passing, with no attempt to are controlled by Puerto Rican ferret out the real issues.” members, ..and of the $3 “Black members were ‘million allocated for programs racially attacked, and the Mayor with city-wide impact and, did not meet with Chairman special emphasis, over 81 per| Billings prior to the cent of the total goes to fund |establishment of the exclusively Puerto Rican Commission,’ Mrs. Lucille programs. |Murray, co-chairman of the City Fomenting Nationalism \wide Council of Black Maybe it would be better to Organizations, said. eliminate these raciall | Maybe in all charity, the two isegregated corporations, funded groups should try to behave like ‘at the public expense, No other brothers. There are some who ‘group, certainly no black group, want to, but it is in the interest ‘has an exclusive publicly of the “povertycrats” to keep supported city-wide development on spreading hate between ‘agency. Members of the City- inferior brother and superior wide Black Organizations| brother based on color and ‘Against Poverty, pointed out at national origin. This plotting fhe press conference that they | may just backfire, The blacks still have a gripe. illegal use of public dollars to, After all when one brother has jconsidered such programs “an a 400-year history of struggle The group cited a recent in this country,and the other statement by Ramon Velez that less than 30 years. ..well the he hopes to return to Puerto blacks may rise up and claim ‘Rico in order to train Puerto their birthright, for they have foster nationalism.” 'Ricans there to come to New ‘suffered the most unfair ‘York and communities. i “We cannot organize the limbalance of al. Merry . \Christmas, and Feliz Navidad. allow,” said ‘Jerome Green of the Morrisania Education Council, “another immigrant group to come to ithis country and rise on the ibacks of blacks, as the European has done. We will Inoct be the Puerto Ricans’ ‘footstool,’ he said. | While the Puerto Rican council members had access to ‘all the facts, it is incredible how distorted their figures were ‘in print. They want Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission are 23 whites, 18 blacks and 3Puerto Ricans. Already Integrated several years ago that the Puerto Rican and blackj communities did not have the) same aspirations; that Puerto Blacks would not let it stay Smoko Screen ‘ The Black Organizations j Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 3, 1970; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 5 In The \Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Ring in the new administra- auu uu. (we nope) oecause sne tions, ring out the old. And protested discriminatory hiring what changes, what advan- policies. But as long as there is’ cement for 3 million poor 0 community board with teeth,- people living in New York City buck passing between Commis- when John V. Lindsay is inau- sioner Terrenzio of the Depart- gurated or December 31, or for ment of Hospitals and Dean the black veople of the Bronx Glazier of Einstein at Lincoln when Robert Abrams says “I Hospital will continue to be the solemnly swear” on January 7? rule, . One of the areas to look at No Administrator carefully as we make our New There is presently no admin- Year’s resolutions is health:istrator at Lincoln, A Dr. ‘care: it is gelting worse not'Bauer is now acting, replacing better, and the caliber of care Dr. Lubell, who was also act- ‘will not automatically improve, ing. These gentlemen were lonce the new corporation board brought in when Dr. .Nasry are established, July 1. Michelin became President of Mospital Corporations Community College No. 8, al- The City Council Hos- though Andre’ Walker, the pital Corporation which is'black deputy, might have been jslated to have a major role in|the logical one to act. setting up these new boards,| No appointment has been has shown little interest. More-imade, although there have lover, the Bronx will have no!been trips to Puerto Rico and ‘black or Puerto Rican repre- elsewhere to find a suitable ad- lsentative on the 1970 City Coun-!ministrator. Dr, Antero Lacot |cil, so the poor will have to!has the Community Board's fight for every inch of consider-:support, and that of the Afri- ‘ation on the Hospital Corpora-‘can-American Coalition, as weil ition Board. as of the many citizens who Fifteen members must be have known his work as Direc- chosen before the new boards ;tor of the Neighborhood Mater- become operational — five ap-jnity Center on Prospect Ave- pointed by the Mayor, five by nue. the City Council, and five from| But Einsteia drags its feet City government. on his appointment, Is this be- New Hospital cause Lacct has some definite A new $74-million Lincoln Hos-|ideas about health care super- pital is to be constructed in the |seding the teaching role of the Bronx. The ground-breaking |College of Medicine in the pub- has not begun; meanwhile, at:lic hospital which do not con- the old Lincoln site repairs are}form to Einstein’s mold? Dr. tabled, awaiting the new facili-jLacot has the administrative ty, but the patients keep crowd-|background, and the degree of ing in. Bronx State Children’s |medicine with 20 years of prac- Psychiatric Hospital has been'tice in obstetrics and gyneco- completed over a year, and hasilogy. remained patientiess, because; Politics Moves In the State did not provide funds! The need for 1970 is far com- to staff it. |munity boards in health as well At Lincoln, some semblance ;as education, Although govern- of a community board is now in|ment is obstensibly moving to- operation. But it is without any|ward decentralization, it will power, having just something;mean nothing ta the poor citi- of an advisory nature. For ex-{zens who call al night for a ample, on December 10, the/jurse on the wards at Lincoln, community board requested ajor the sick who lie on reversal of Dr. Schulman’s Oct-;stretchers for hours awaiting ober 23 decision to fire Odessa |care at Morrisania, Carrion, a black medical social, Politics and politicians are worker. |moving in on the Hospital Cor- Her reinstatement has, untiljporation boards, pressuring this day not been effected, and|(Councilmen with their choices, everyone from Commissioner like any other pork barrel. Terrenzio on down is busily] No professional staff has yet engaged in passing the buckj}een chosen, even at this late between the affiliation (Ein-jdale. If there is going to be stein College of Medicine) and!decentralization, if we want a the City. They claim they are}more humane, less demoraliz- awaiting the decision of the |ing, impersonal City, then the City Commission on Human |citizens must_act now to sce Rights, regarding Mrs. Carri-jthat John V. Lindsay and Rob- on’s two-year old charge of dis- jert Abrams make the govern- crimination, because two cau-;ment relate to them. casians were appointed to posi-; For openers, how about a few tions for which she had superi-|letters on the subject of decen- or qualifications. |tralization and health care? Actually, the CCHR decision |Your voice at this prupitious would have no bearing on Mrs.| moment may just seat someone Carrion’s reinstatement, as she who cares about you on the was fired without due process, jHospital Corporation Board. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 17, 1970; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa.4 In The \Bronx Community Conscio us By MARIETTA J. TANNER As black people endure and oppose lobbyist whose agencies| survive in America, the issues, have Life memberships; but it like the complexions of their is also ridiculous for unions to! children, become, not so much believe blacks so gulible a:| to continue to regard them as: black, and white, but shades our champions while they| between. There was a time when exclude us from economic; Labor was considered our salvation. champion. Those unions who cried out Now their role is grayed by about the quota system didn’t the demands of craft unions shed a tear about the fact that to limit membership to fathers fewer than 4 per cent of the and sons, and by all manner 1,3 millon workers in the $24-|: of shenanigans to restrict billion space program were apprenticeships, and keep black black. men from making it in the We must organize.to move building trades. Of course, this exclusion was ever so... but then Labor was all the civil right advocate we had. against even our traditional friends, when necessary, to do this, we must develop a liaison between those members of the community with skills and the grass roots where the troops Last week, the Congress voted to give the Nixon administration: the authority to compel labor are, unions to hire more blacks . That Philadelphia Plan was through its Philadelphia Plan. The Plan requires bidders on passed not just because the federally assisted projects Administration wanted it, and costing more than $500,000 to abetted it, but because some! “work toward specific goals for smart men on the inside knew improving minority employment how to maneuver, and some in the craft unions.” The unions men of influence on the outside]: cried “foul"’. Their lobbyists got with troops applied the pressure}! the Controller General to rule to its enemies. Team effort was 1 construction projects in New York City. The unions are using available to them on this devious “quotas” ploy more that.the Plan was in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" because it established quotas. In Unskilled Jobs and more, as the pressure for the right to earn a living fori black men mounts. Only an estimated 8.4 percent of the 1.3 million union members are; black, and most of these are In unskilled jobs. i President Nixon said that his. administration is committed to: a civil rights policy of; “demonstrable deeds," and that: “one of the things that counts! is earning power.” He called! on civil rights agencies like the Urban Coalition, NAACP and Urban League, who supnorted| nis stand on the Philadelphia! Plan. : | It’s difficult. to make the! connection sometimes between NAACP in South Bronx and Williamsbridge and what Roy Wilkins does on the national level. In this case he influenced | the course of history. This was possible because local memberships provide the troops which make his word stand for something. Opposing Enemies . The Unions have high paid akilled lobbyists whes? fob *. is to convince congressmen to. oppose legislation not in the: union’s vested interest. Tr, influence legislation, since we do not contro] major industries, or corporations to provide! private funding, blacks must depend on agencies like Urban League and NAACP. : It's an egg-stepoing task t:: Black people have marched the hero, nM in Pittsburgh for the right to work, and they cue up daily for the few unskilled openings MOTHER BROWN church since. Mrs. Mary Green, church secretary said of Mother Brown, "I rejoice knowing she is at peace. She really lived a full life, we loved her so.”” Rev. Herman H. Watts, pastor of Friendship Baptist claimed her body and made final funeral arrangements. Mother Brown's bedy will be on view at the Lafayette Mem- ortal Chapel Funeral Home, at 2455 8h Avenue beginning at 7 p.m, Friday night, Rev. Lafayete Rogers will greet visitors. Fina! funeral! rites will be held 9 a.m., Saturday morn- ing at Friendship Baptist Church. Rev. Watts will offi- ciate. Burial will be in Mt. Holiness Cemetery in Butler, New Jersey. Reproduced with permission of the copyright ower, Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 24, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pa.4 In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER As black people endure and Administrator to reinstate Mrs. survive in America, the issues,: Odessa Carrion to her position like the complexions of their as Medical Social Worker. at chit become not so much black and white, but shades be- Lincoln Hospital. tween. The integration we suf-' Mrs. Carrion filed charges of fer in the North scatters our discrimination way back in Au- forces, making it difficult for Bust 1967, when Einstein by- us to keep our eyes on the ball passed her for three promotions of black survival. For example, in favor of white workers. The a few weeks back. Congress firing, which was proved to passed the Philadelphia Plan stem from unfounded charges requiring bidders on federally that Mrs. Carrion had har- assisted projects costing more rassed workers, had no relation than $500,000 to employ more to the original discrimination minority people in the craft, suit. However, a smokescreen unions. Our traditional friends,|seems to be emerging, making the labor unions, labored Mrs. Carrion’s reinstatement mightily to defeat this mini- be construed as the restitution scule effort at giving black for damages in the case. At the men the right to earn a living. hearing, her attorney, Timothy The labor unions claimed that Taylor, requested $300,000 in the Philadelphia Plan set damages. Odessa Carrion is ad- quotas, which was a violation ament: "I cannot accept back af the Civil Rights Act of 1964. pay and the old job back in lieu NEW RITUALS of the settlement,” she said. The Afro American Coalition The “‘quolas" argument was and the Advisory Board of Lin- a devious ploy, a smokes- coln Hospital (which earlier de- screen, a discoloration of the manded Mrs. Cxzrivn's rein- issue to fool us. Those labor slalement) avais ts kom: unions did not shed a tear ruling of NYCHR before further about the fact that fewer than 4 action, per cent of the 1.3. million workers in the $24 billion space TESTIMONIAL program were black. Neverthe- Rev. Kenneth Foulkes is less, Some of us were taken in chairman of the Madison Boys by the Union's argument; and Club Testimonial Dinner Com- none of us were really equipped intitee which will boot hace ta put the pressure on them at 12, superintendent Edythe J. the local level to make them Gaines at the Cancourse Piuza cease chipping away at con- Hotel April 30. Dalila ‘foro gressional support for the plan. Conrad, president of PS 4] We do not have the means to parent association, says the explain these things to our little people whom Dr. Geines people; and therefore, expose has helped so mueh should be the rank and file to slavisly fol- there. But the dinner ents £2 Towing the line of so-called tra- per. Mrs. Toro Conrad. as ditional friends and saviors. usual, has a plan, She win Jim Howard, until recently grass roots organizations w the only black UFT field repre- wish to express their feelings : sentative, who was fired, says for Dr. Gaines’ leadership in the habit of not asking “why” ‘such struggles as community and demanding explanations Control fand minority group ; from so-called friends and sav- principals) should contact her { jors is extant among parapro- @t 1550 Crotona Park Fast, « fessionals. They raise questions %42-7454. . . about Howard's dismissal, but’ The appointment of Henry Jet the UFT Chapter chairman Morgenthau to the third deputy. of the hook when he replies: jslot in the Lindsay administra- ] “We don’t care to discuss it.” |tion augers well for the black Howard’s claim of discrimi- people of the Bronx, who have nalion will he aired before the reason to- respect Mr. Mor- NYCCHR against UFT’s coun- genthau's sense of fair play in terclaim that he did not do the word as well as deed. We can- d job. (Those para-professionals not forget, however, the injus- who think Jim Howard worked tice in that none of the three pretty hard and cficctively deputy slots went to blacks. might write Lawrence Hood at] we went all out ta reelect the Civil Rights Commission, 80) John Lindsay. Maybe we need Lafayette Street, in his sup- 1& man like Morgenthau to prick Part.) |{the conscience of the Lindsay| Findirg our way throug: administration, He, knows what} Smokescreens, picking our wa: lhappens when alienated people through masses of rhetoric de- oannot be heard within the sy- signed to delay black progress, stem. Mr. Morgenthau under- searching out sell-outs is our. stands the travail of black lead- job for the 70's. In the North, rs who have said to their we waver and become compl vyoung, ‘Register, vote, bricks cent. But Mississippians set the {through windows don't open’ record straight. Black |doors, we can have justice in! members of a county election America.” { commission there said they ' Instead, we are getting the “stopped looking for saviors leftovers, as usual. The black when the civil rights workers ‘who have been elevated to as- pulled out, and buckled down to ‘sistanships have been promoted do the job of organizing" (hem- mot because black constitu- selves. Constantly working for ‘encies have chosen them, but black cooneratioy ttre try" because white leaders said, not handshakes, or dashikis, or “*Put this black man there.”: Alro haircuts. We wanted more than that Black cooperation can bring ‘when we went all out for Lind- us victories too. On January 7,,Say. No black peuple fcel the Commissioner Golar of the -Dpinch of powerlessness more Human Rights Commissian than your fellow Bronxites, Mr. directed the Health Services Morgenthau. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Jan 31, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 1 In The Bronx Community f Conscious -b By MARIETTA J. TANNER The Congressional redis- small part of Spanish Bast tricting lines are drawn; Al- Harlem, and part of Hutts bany bas approved them as expected, and whatever was Point (but not the peninsul¥ao Puerto Rican stronghold, sest-- said by local politicians, as still belongs to Gilbert.) Gar-~ the ax fell, signified nothing. Just as this writer predicted, the lines rend the most den- sely populated black commu- cia (who is the Assemblyman for most of the 2ist South* Bronx and Harlem Areg). writhed about the Italians liv— nity, Morrisanla, into three ing in Astoria, who will vgeT parts, making the emergence in a block in the crucial pri- of a black congressman vir- maries when the congfes-— tually impossible. The Silent Minority We are the minority in each of the districts, and probably will be silent. Jacob Gilbert is snug in his coccoon of the 22nd; there are enough blacks east of Third Avenue and along Bruckner Boule- hardly expressed before, yard however, to insist on re- form. Gilbert sits on the House Ways and Means Com- mittee, and that’s where the Democrats and Republicans on the bipartisan committee that drew the lines want him to stay. His conservative confrer, Mario Biaggi's dis- trict. encompasses the whole of Williamsbridge, the second most black area of the Bronx, Drastically outnumbered by Throggs Neck and the south- ernmost western tip of Yonkers, our voice in the 24th can only be a whisper. On the West, James Scheuer'sold21st has been almost completely absorbed by Congressman Jonathan Bingham, whose record am = fecting blacks should even be- come stronger once bis now considerable black population makes its presence felt, Robert Garcia was miffed ou that last day about .the creation of a Puerto Rican district that wasn’t. What a travesty the new 2ist is! It was created at. the insistance of Puerto Ricans on the Is- Jand and the mainland that they have one of their own in Congress, However, none of the constituents of that hod- gepodge district can he pro; erly served by it. Prop: It seems spitefully drawn a tantalizer, impossible to gov- ern. It takes in a miserably Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission sional candidates will be designated. He made no mention of the. heavy black population living-- in South west. It was as though Puerto Rican and Black peoples were ane; a seatiment Robert Garcia has Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Feb 7, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 10 In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Apologies to Robert Mor- man Ramon Velez, in the genthau, the third deputy Spanish press last week. mayor, called in this column Black acting director, Augus- jJast week by another name tus Davis, who wrote the pro- (a wholly typographical grams (and who Puerto error). Ricans and blacks alike United Bronx Parents say agree has been doing an ex- they won't participate in the emplary job) could not get a local school board elections; vote of confidence from the thus they join the Ocean Hilt Velez controled board. Eu- and the IS 201 Complex in a Benia Flatow, the adminisira- boycott. None can dispute the tor, named Davis deputy, logie behind the move: the replacing Velez's choice, Ani- school boards will be power- bal Acensio, whom downtown less, the election procedures considered inept. Davis is at are undemocratic, and the the, merey of a personnel district lines are illegitimate. board whose dispassionate black minority (3 members) Parents at P.S. 132 will still have to picket ta protest attends poorly, Principal Frome's refusal to Velez rationaiizes that all retain a white teacher who the big deputy posts down- worked during the strike, and town are held by blacks; so whom the parents feel has the top local slots belong to served their children well. Puerto Ricans. Boycotting the election, how- Only Bronx residents may ever, may make them even apply; a high school diploma Jess effective. Organizations and five years administrative like UFT are the only ones experience are all that the with money and know-how to $32,000 position require. systematically develop candi- Where are the committed dates. Must the few who do black men ianguishing in in- know let the masses go like surance and real estate with sheep to elect these hand- know-how enough about build- picked men, or shall we as- ings and develop contracts to sure their victory by staying take on this job? Soon Model home? The overthrow of the Cities wil spin off land devel- Jaw is a baitle to be enjoined opment projects or education at another time; once we get contracts (to agencies like out the vote for this election, UBP perhaps). With pensions we may have the forces to intact, even black men can put some men in Albany to now leave the safety af civil win that one too. service for an opportunity like this to deai with the poll- The Vacancy tics and power in the main- Declared vacant is lhe siream. Even cocoons, SO directorship of South Bronx warm and safe, are impreg- Model Cities, so said chair- nable. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Feb 14, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 23 | In The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER Judge Jacob Grumpet re- tal anguish suffered as a leased, without probation, direct result of the respon- last week, Cyril Boynes, Ron- dent’s unlawful discrimi- ald Dicks and Jerry Wooley. nation.” How little the life of You remember the Morris the black woman is worth! High School teacher, the $100 bucks is “mitey” little black student, and parapro- compensation for the anguish fessional who were indicted by the Grand Jury last May discrimination Yoreatened to on 10 criminal counts includ- wreck her professional ca- ing arson, conspiracy to riot, unlawiul assembly and pos- session of a deadly weapon? Their pictures were flashed from every television screen; their faces downcast as they skulked in the custody of po - Vice were front page news; the story of how they con- spired to firebomb Morris gave substance to the fear teachers felt for black adoles- cents, It’s Sensational reer, Also at Lincoln, Black and Puerto Rican leadership has united behind Dr. Antero LeCot for administrator. He Says No But, Commissioner Teren- zio says, ‘No,’ The commu- nity board sat in last week, taking over ‘he administra- lion of the hospital, until the police evacuated them. Hand in hand Richard Weeks and Bob LaForey, black leaders, On December 9th, those 10 left with Ramon Velez and counts were reduced to a Ralph Alvarado. charge of Class-B misde- meanor — the young men were merely accused of ‘‘en- gaging in conduct that would ‘ cause public alarm.” Now is the time for headlines and accolades, but alas the media wants sensational news. This columnist thinks it is sensa- tional that Cyril Boynes has picked himself up after that demoralizing public exposure and become a teacher at Queens College; that Ronald Dicks and Jerry Wooley are now college hound, doing ex- cellent school work at Har- Jem Prep. Every black child, tion. Last October while so vulneraple to brushes with the law ought to know about their achievement. blacks were campaigning for Lindsay, the Velez forces were holding a testimonial dinner at Alex and Henry's for Procaccino. Mrs. Odessa Carrion, the medical social worker who won reinstatement to her post at Lincoln Hospital through those rotting tenements of the City Commission on Human Rights ruling, Jan- uary 6, is to be awarded $100 as compensation for ‘the hu- miliation, outrage, and men- working, loyal employees. Mrs, Carrion ssffered when Blacks are hoping for the same kind of unity behind Augustus Davis, for direetor of Bronx Model Cities, With- out a doubt, attorney Davis is well qualified for the job. Moreover he sweated to get ihe South Bronx package to- gether and funded. He was mentioned in the proposal, submitted to Washington, for his contribution, above and beyond the cail of duty. Then too, its about time Mayor Lindsay did something for the blacks of the Bronx, who worked for his reclec- Plenty of black poor live in Melrose and Mott Haven, who have confidence in Davis. The American way is to pro- mote loyal, capable, hard Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, Marietta J New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993): Feb 28, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pe. 1 In_The Bronx Community Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER i If the people shall get the government they deserve, who shall govern Concourse- East? The effects of the mass the county leader, will proba- bly select Barry Solomon (hardly a symbol of new era polities) to fil the vacancy until the election next No- vember. vote seriously. No Conquering [ero In the harsh light at the Abalon Caterers, no man of the people was shown forth, no conquering-hero type who could begin to attack the problems of the decaying apartment houses, now tene- ments; of overcrowded schools whose black and Puerto Rican students cannot read;.of the unemployed, the exodus of the Jewish middle- class 10 Co-Op City are now being felt in the institutions thereabouts. Politics was everybody's subject: school board candi- dates Ivy Barnes and Ted Mendel were shaking hands The YMHA at 167th Street and Grand Concourse, for ex- ample, used to be the hub of with the club people who vote Jewish culture and recrea- and who have, in the past tion. Even though a large gotten out the vote. But with- percentage of the kids who out the old P-ZAZ born of now attend are black and confidence that behind you is Puerte Rican, they still get a a constituency who takes the steady diet of Jewish culture, Community initiative has not arisen to suggest innova- tion in staff or style. This venerable institution could wither on the vine and finally shut its doors against the influx of a new population as the Tremont YMHA did a few years ago. . Revival necded The Concourse-Jefferson Reform Democratic Club at welfare mothers, the addicts 169th Slrect and Grand Con- and pushers moving in fast on the side sircets leading to wilh Kosher smorgesbard at the Concourse. course honored Paul O'Dwyer The new population is that this institution, like crowding out the Aristers at many others needs the winds Taft High School, and the a local hall Sunday. Sensing of change, Leo and Irene oldsters ab Mt. Eden Park, Zimmering filled their tables But the “leadership” is still white; it lives in segregated They invited the black buildings on the Concourse, with the new population. owned Next Step dress shop (1221 Sherman Ave.) to show some of their Afro designs and zippy little models like Betty Wiley. Their presenta- tion was fresh and “now” but not enough to dispel the per- vasive aura of decline. For one thing, the congress- man who nurtured the club and that “leadership” seems to be waiting for a chance. to move on to something better, surer. The blacks and Puerto Ricaus who have sunk their savings into the vintage 1930 Morris Avenue 2-families have not taken hold. The preachers who have turned will be moving across town to abandoned synagogues into Tun against the incumbent in Baptist or Pentacostal the 22nd. Instability was fur- churches shout every Sunday ther evidenced by the fact “Trying to make heaven my that the councilmatic seat va- cated by Lawrence Bernstein (now a judge of the Criminal Court), is allegedly sought by Seymour Posner, now the as- dents to take up the gavel to semblyman for the 76th (who has always detested Albany nightlife anyway . govern themselves. The Gospel Boss Patrick Cunningham, , repeat its successful Gospel Caravan with more gospel, March 8, at Morris High home.” But for now, “home” is the East Concourse. The evange- lists must exhort new resi- The S. Bronx NAACP will School. Tickets are $3.00 at 3225 Third Ave, For Victor Marrero, a June Yale graduate, the $32,000 Model Citles Director post will be his first real job. He is the Mayor’s appointee over Augustus Davis, now acting director, who could become deputy director again, or else , ‘Community College No, 8 is - moving lugubriously toward not opening in September. At this late date, space has not be contracted for at the Con- course Plaza Hotel. Its ‘“sy- stems approach” to curricu- lum requires machines, and the time to ready the physi- cal plant, as well as to pro- gtam the subject matter. Anxious citizens art planning to enter, but the admissions office cannot speak. Someone must, however, as so much is being spent for technical personnel (com- puter programmers) and for on-the-job-training for inex- perienced administrators, that funds for the real busi- ness of the college are run- ning low. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 7, 1970, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 22 In The Bronz Community ~ Conscious By MARIETTA J. TANNER One ofthe things that Elsie Brown wants to know about is how you get to be a narcat- ics expert. Mrs. Elsie Brown is the president of the Com- munity Council for Narcotics cotics pragrams with a staff that doesn’t live here, and cannot relate,’ Mrs. Brown said. The same was true of the three other agencies that re- ceive %4th of all the money. Programs, who has been working with the problem of war on narcotics,” Mrs. drug addiction for 17 years before it moved to the suburbs, when just ghott “dispensibles” were wasting tion. of new rehabilitation centers for teenage addicts, that will take .ages. City agencies are already saying they cannot match on a 50-50 basis the $65 million allotted to operate local treatment centers. $550,000 will go to Byard of Regents for teacher training and other public re- lations programs, all man- aged by “white power struc- ture’? groups and “experts” like Mrs. Shapiro. “The focus of addiction ser- vices these days is on the young, white, middle-class Elsie Brown wouldn’t have addict, and the way the pre- to be told about cocaine. grams are developed and There are plenty of pre-teen staffed proves it,” said Mrs. mainliners in her neighbor- Elsie Brown, expert without their lives on drugs. MRS. ELSIE BROWN She’s An ‘Expert’ Mrs. Rose Shapiro is an ex. pert. The former head of the NYC-Board of Education ha: been named by Governor Rockefeller as his special as sistant for narcotics educa tion programs in the state’s $250-million program. In a burst of eruditior about the narcotics problem. Mrs. Shapiro said: “I’m told that some of the elementary schools have very real prob- lems, One principal told me ol little children rubbing cocaine into their gums. . .” hood. Where she lives, addcts rob apartments nightly to support their habits, suc climbs over them in hall ways, she has named names of big time pushers, who never got arrested. She has seen youngsters die of over- Presbyterian Church, Thurs- dose and infection. She has a record of rehabilitation with- out recidivism. But she is not an “ex- pert.”for any of the tax-sup- ported programs. Went To Agency Last October, she went to see Larry Bear, head of the City Addiction Services Agency, to askif the Commu- nity Orientation Centers could be used by neighborhood nar- cotics workers after 5 o’clock. (These centers only service addicts from 9-5 p.m.) ‘Shey also wanted to have tne icp requirements changed for counsellors. It seems that only former addicts who have speni 3 years in a theraupeutic com- munity like Synanon of Day- top are eligible. This require- ment excludes a Muslim Pentacostal or just anout any black or Puerto Rican “cured” addict since few had the cash or inclination to sub- mit to such treatment. “Burthermore,” said Mrs. Brown, “Encounter-type ther- apy is destructive of black and Puerto Rican identity. They have {orn cown our men with encounter more than with drugs. Well, anyway, it seems that Mr. Bear was not interested in seeing Mrs. Brown that day, and even after several months of pressure exerted by neighborhood groups through OEO in Washington, ASA still does not communi- cate with community-based programs, “They gave $4.7 million to Phoenix House to develop nar- day evening March 12 at 7:30 p.m. the N.Y. Urban League and the United Black Wo- men’s Political League are joint sponsors of a project to enlighten blacks and other minorities on the importance of an accurate count. Mrs. Veralyn Hamilton, chairman of the Bronx UBWPL, will be coordinating the program from the Urban Leagues 509 Willis Ave. of- fice. Mrs. Ruth Beshong, who made. an impressive record as a Census Coordinator dur- ng the 1960 Census will also ake part. . About Rockefeller’s “Total Brown is even more pessimis- tie. $200 million of the $250 million will go for “construc- portfolio. Make Black Count “Make Black Count” will be the subject of a public meeting on the 1970 Census to be held at St. Augustine Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Community Conscious Tanner, MariettaJ New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993); Mar 14, 1970; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg.4 ‘In The Bronx Community Conscious — By MARIETTA J. TANNER -Dr, Antero LaCot is in as black population could administrator for Lincoln change things. But then, Hospitat and Commissioner wha public c2ftl) nos erst Joseph Terenzio, who opposed to the streets or to the him, is out. That's Puerto Legislature to foree new Rican power, when your lead- Board of Elections proce- ership can topple the Mayor's dures to improve conditions man: (especially when tos! under which black men vote leadership Jargely opposed in this county? Black power that Mayor’s reelection). In the Bronx is, therefore, Black leadership in the boxed into the 70th AD and Bronx supported ~~. Latnt the 38th SD infighting there also. They knew him aS a for a pittance of patronage. competent director of the All the big ones outside these Neighborhood Maternity Clin- few square miles get away. je in Morrisania and of his There is the 76t1 (Car. record of study in public course East to Highbridge) health administration, and mm where black s are numerically medical practice in Puerto dominant, but where, reper- Rico. Moreover, his views un tedly, an assemblyman and a “upgrading the quality of pa- Puerto Rican leader have al- “tient care at Lincoln, places ready made a deal for the hospital. services above the City Council seat and Assem- feeds of its teaching affilia- blyman reelection. The Coun- ‘tion, were widely hailed in cilmatic seat, vacated when “the black community. Bernstein became a judge, . It's Dominoes encompasses an area almost totally black, but no black “Too bad that the black candidate was put forward. Jeadership mistakenly — be- A Little Puzzle ‘Vieved their LaCot Support to But this little deal is a nart be a part of a package, their of the total plan. Rumor has share of which was never it that the 2Ist Congressional negotiations with Arthur honored, They wanted Augus- District (which straddles Goldberg to team up wilh dus Davis named director, of three boroughs, but was him as Lieutenant Governor South Bronx Model Cities, originally to have been carved against Basil Patterson, the since virtually every other out to provide a Puerto Rican outstanding black legislator -tax-supported Peony pregvem majority for the assured elec- and the choice of the Black has a Puerto Rican at the tion of a Puerto Rican Elected Democrats? 'head. congressman, but instead tas This statewide contest It’s unfortunate, too, that a large black ponulation wit: should make blacks less black public officials city South Bronx and Harlem sec- provincial. It would help all wide played a significant part tions, and a large Italian blacks if we come out strong in the giveaway game in constituency which votes in and unified for Patterson, lin- which Bronx blacks were the Queens) is being abandoned ing up all the other pieces.- pawns, Up until now, it by its favorite son, Herman Would this mean we are en- Jooked like the game was Badillo ex - Bronx borough gaged in a “hate Puerto chess, but it may really be president in favor of ona dominees. : . Rican” campaign? You can Ramon Velez, frequent head- bet it will be construed that The establishment knows line grabber in far-ranging way, When blacks try to ob- blacks don't vote in the Puerto Rican power-play tain equal rights, or their fair Bronx, and thal's tha way events. share, it is always construed they want to keep it. A mas- If Mr. Badillo plans to as a hate campaign. sive registration cnd ve.'n challenge Velez, why all the Take the example of the Muslims, trying to grow crops in Mississippi to feed Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. and give jobs to the hungry blacks whom whites therea- pouts have alwayS spat upon. Just because they are mili- tantly pursuing their own sur- vival, they are accused of the most violent anti-svhite acts. Why are we alone asked to be patient, and why have we swallowed the “fair play'’ egalitarian ethos whole? , You remember that black leadership walked hand in hand to jail with Puerto Ricans in order to have LaCot named °administrator of Lincoln Hospital; not one promise in the best interest of Bronx blacks has as yet been honored. 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Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. 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P.S. 214 (Lorraine Hansberry Academy) Hansberry, Lorraine Bronx River Restoration Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Marietta Tanner with educators from P.S. 214, The Lorraine Hansberry Academy, in The Bronx, as part of the Bronx River Bank restoration Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 100x146px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Gladys Simms Subject The topic of the resource Simms, Gladys Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Ivy Beyond the Wall Ivy Leaf Publications of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Gladys Simms in November 1967 issue of Ivy Beyond the Wall Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ivy Beyond the Wall Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1112x834px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Joan Drane Silvey Subject The topic of the resource Silvey, Joan Drane Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Joan Drane Silvey in Alpha Kappa Alpha sweatshirt Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1112x834px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Joan Drane Silvey Subject The topic of the resource Silvey, Joan Drane Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Joan Drane Silvey Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter Records Subject The topic of the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Bronx African American History Project Eta Omega Omega Bronx Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Wheeler, Wilson & Johnson Community Projects, Inc. Description An account of the resource Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was chartered on May 23, 1964, by twelve members. The chapter celebrates a rich history of service, philanthropy, and scholarship for the Bronx community. From its inception, programs of service were launched to enhance the quality of life for residents of The Bronx. Specific emphasis was placed on engaging youth, working with developmentally disabled children, and providing services to the elderly. Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® provides volunteer services to vulnerable and underserved communities. One of the first programs started by the chapter was a garden project at the Southeast Neighborhood Center for developmentally disabled adults. Since then, the chapter has initiated several other service projects, including Impact Days, Earth Day and Akarosa Adopt A Highway beautification initiatives, financial literacy workshops, Alzheimer's awareness projects, mental health support projects, and healthy heart initiatives. The chapter also spearheads the MLK Day of Service project, various toy drives, collaborative Global Impact Day with South Africa and St, Croix members as well as a host of other programs that demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the Bronx community. In addition to serving the community, members also participate in weekly prayer calls, leadership enrichment opportunities, membership and sisterly relations activities that are intergenerational, like book, movie, exercise, and travel clubs. Eta Omega Omega chartered Xi Xi chapter, an undergraduate chapter at Lehman College on June 25, 1983, and members of that chapter have participated in many of the projects. Eta Omega Omega chapter's signature program is the Rites of Passage Mentoring Program. This program provides high school girls with year-long intensive workshops on personal development, ancestral history, interpersonal relations, etiquette, and goal setting. Since 1991 this program has guided young girls towards their transition into womanhood by fostering a sense of responsibility, sisterhood, and self-pride. The chapter will continue the Rites of Passage Program in collaboration with ((#CAP℠), the current administration’s College Admissions Process program ((#CAP℠), designed to assist students in their efforts to enter college. As a result of the work that Eta Omega Omega has done, the chapter has earned many national and international accolades and awards. Some awards earned were Small and Medium Chapter of the Year, the Spirit Award, Membership, Connection, and Star Award for Outstanding Programs. On a regional level, several chapter members have been recognized for their outstanding service in leadership. Members were honored as Basileus of the year, Silver Star of the year, Graduate Advisor of the year, and the Idell Pugh Angel Award. In 1994, the Chapter established a not-for-profit corporation and later changed the name of this corporation to Wheeler, Wilson and Johnson Community Projects, Inc. The corporation was organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within Bronx County. Through the foundation the chapter hosts an annual holiday toy drive, leads peace walks, and donates dorm baskets to students leaving for college. In addition, the Chapter annually gives over $10,000 in scholarships to support youth attending two-year, four year, and HBCU colleges. As a large-sized chapter, with 129 members, Eta Omega Omega is one of seventeen exceptional graduate chapters in Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region. Many members have moved up in leadership. Eta Omega Omega members have served as Cluster and Regional Committee Chairman and Cluster Co-Coordinators. Chapter member Soror Joy Elaine Daley has served previously as the North Atlantic Regional Director and currently serves as the International Regional Director. Eta Omega Omega Members continue to exemplify the ideals that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® was founded on well over 110 years ago.  Through the direction of our 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Glover, the Chapter has implemented the 2018–2022 International Program under the theme, "Exemplifying Excellence Through Sustainable Service." The International Program includes five program targets designed to advance the mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha with excellence and underscore a commitment to sustainable service. The five program targets for 2018–2022 are: <ol> <li><a>HBCU for Life: A Call to Action</a></li> <li><a>Women's Healthcare and Wellness</a></li> <li><a>Building Your Economic Legacy</a></li> <li><a>The Arts!</a></li> <li><a>Global Impact</a></li> </ol> In addition, Eta Omega Omega members implement International Community Service Days annually to highlight the organization's collective impact in program target areas: <ul> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January)</li> <li>Pink Goes Red for Heart Health Day (February)</li> <li>AKA Global Impact Day (April)</li> <li>AKA International Day of Prayer (August)</li> <li>AKA HBCU Day (September)</li> <li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October)</li> <li>AKA Caregivers' Day (November)</li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Eta Omega Omega Chapter, Donna Joseph, President, Saudah Muhammad, Chapter Historian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964–present Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mixed media collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data JPG Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1280x768px Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charter Member Joan Drane Silvey with children Subject The topic of the resource Silvey, Joan Drane Charter members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Description An account of the resource Photograph of charter member Joan Drane Silvey with children Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS-AKAHOO.BD.050