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Vol. 8, No. 18
Beauty of
the Week
Joan Renee Harrell wants to
become an anchor-person for
network television, and, to
produce and direct films. Then,
she says, “if the timing is
right” she may branch off into
the political scene.
Joan is a junior at Stephens
College in Columbia, Mo.
where she is majoring in
communication arts and
political science.
A member of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church in Augusta, she
is the daughter of retired SFC
and Mrs. Floyd Harrell.
Dick Gregory tells
radio broadcasters
hise your power’
CHICAGO - Comedian and
human rights activist, Dick
Gregory, in a keynote address
recently at the National
Association of Broadcaster’s
Radio Programming
Conference, challenged radio
broadcasters to “go back to
your stations and know the
power you have” and use that
power for good.
“You can’t do your job well
without recognizing your
power,” Gregory told over 800
attendees at the conference
being held at the Hyatt
Regency.
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than the President of the
United States... You have to be
informed in areas you wouldn't
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went on to note that America
is not one general public but
“many communities strung
together and these
communities are the salvation
of America.” He encouraged
each broadcaster to use the
power of radio in his or her
communityy to solve some of
the nation's problems.
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cautioned that “you have a
different ear listening now -
more educated and affluent.”
Broadcasters, he said, must
continually resensitize
themselves to their audiences.
The conference, held
through August 23 at Chicago’s
downtown Hyatt Regency
Hotel, was designed primarily
to offer radio program
directors the most up-to-date
information on programming.
NAB serves a membership of
over 4,500 radio and 555
television stations, including all
the major networks.
August 29,1978
ACLU charges
FBI provoked KKK
to attack freedom riders
DETROIT - The American
Civil Liberties Union says the
FBI “provoked” the Ku Klux
Klan to attack Freedom Riders
and other civil rights activists
in the South during the 19605.
The allegation is based on
3,000 pages of FBI letters,
memos and teletype messages
released to ACLU attorneys
involved in a lawsuit against
the FBI for allegedly failing to
prevent Klan terrorism.
Howard Simon, executive
director of the Michigan,
ACLU, said Sunday that the
FBI papers show that the
bureau in 1961 provided
detailed information on tire
movements of two busloads of
Freedom Riders to a
Dr. Lowery
is re-elected
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The
21st annual Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, which
emphasized economic progress
for Blacks and the poor, ended
with the re-election of Joseph
Lowery as president.
“There is a new kind of
polarization,” Lowery said
Friday before the convention
adjourned. “It’s not only of
Blacks and whites, but of the
haves and the have-nots.
“Racism is still at the core
of much of our problems and
we shall witness this much
more as the movement
intensifies,” he said.
The convention started
Tuesday with a near
confrontation with Ku Klux
Klansmen at Decatur.
Lowery led a group of SCLC
delegates to the north of
Alabama city after klansmen
pitched tents on the City Hall
lawn. A group of Blacks
marched from the Newcomb
Street Church of Christ to City
Hall in protest.
Deadline
Wednesday.
SCLC will fight against
merger of Black colleges
By Carole Ashkinaze
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference will use
“any and all means, whatever is
necessary within the context of
nonviolence” to block the
“meaningless and unnecessary
mergers” of traditionally Black
state colleges with
predominantly white schools,
SCLC President Joseph E.
Lowery has vowed.
Referring to a proposal
under consideration by the
State Board of Regents
involving such traditionally
Black colleges as Savannah
State, Albany State and Fort
Valley, Lowery said here
recently that boycotts, mass
SCLC to fight
against merger
of Black colleges
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Birmingham, Ala., police
sergeant who was a known
Klan agent.
“What we found in the
documents was rather
startling,” Simon said. “The
ACLU is charging that the FBI
provoked the Klan to carry out
terrorist acts against civil rights
workers.
“We found that the FBI
knew that the Brimingham
police department was
infiltrated by the Klan, that
many members of the police
department were Klan
members, that they knew a
person in intelligence was
passing information directly to
leaders of the Klan, and they
also knew that their
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PRESIDENT CARTER AND baseball great Henry
“Hank” Aaron met recently to talk over old times and
future challenges in a session at the White House.
Aaron visited the President to discuss a coming visit
to the Dominican Republic. President Carter appointed
protests and lawsuits would be
used to fight their
“diminution” if necessary.
The proposal is given little
likelihood of approval. But
Lowery said the SCLC, which
voted at its 21st annual
convention in Birmingham last
week to oppose any such
mergers, feels “that the future
of higher education for Black
students is imperiled by the
diminution of institutions”
under Black leadership.
“In the name of
integration,” he charged,
“hundreds and thousands of
Black principals, administrators
and institutions” have been
“lost” at the elementary and
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undercover agent had worked
out an agreement with the
police department to stay away
from the terminals (where the
buses were arriving),” Simon
said.
“They knew 11 that and yet
they continued their
relationship with the police
department.”
According to the
documents, Thomas Jenkins,
chief of the Birmingham FBI
office, provided detailed
information on the progress of
two busloads of Freedom
Riders to Sgt. Thomas Cook of
the Birmingham police
department’s intelligence
branch.
secondary levels “and we don’t
intend to see that on the higher
education level...
“Where (would) Black
youngsters get to look at a
Black college president?” he
asked.
Lowery said that
participation in the four-day
convention in Birmingham last
week was an emotional and
nostalgic experience for many
of the delegates, who received
a key to the city and a warm
welcome from city officials “in
stark contrast to the
Birmingham of 1968.”
Among the resolutions
approved the delegates were:
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Simon said the documents
showed that the FBI knew
Cook was a Klan agent and
that Cook and Birmingham
Public Safety Director Eugene
“Bull” Connor conspired with
Klan leaders to permit
Klansmen to attack Freedom
Riders when their buses arrived
at terminals in Birmingham.
Cook, now a private
investigator in Birmingham,
denied the allegations and said
he was neither a member of the
Klan nor had he acted as a
Klan agent.
“The FBI didn't furnish me
the information,” Cook said.
“Everybody in the South knew
where the buses were.”
A former FBI informant
Aaron as part of a delegation to represent the United
States at the inauguration ceremonies for Silvestre
Antonio Guzman Fernandez as President of that nation.
(White House Photograph)
♦Unqualified support for the
Humphrey-Hawkins “full
employment” bill, including a
call upon President Carter to
place the “full effort, prestige
and weigh.” of his
administration on securing
passage.
♦To seek meetings with
Carter, civil rights leaders,
labor representatives and
“selected congresspersons” in
search of an alternative what
was described as the inadquate
phase in the national health
care program proposed by
Carter.
♦To compile a list of
“political prisoners” in support
who was a proven “liar”
provided the information
contained in the FBI
documents, Cook said.
The FBI released the
documents to ACLU attorneys
representing Walter Bergmah,
80, a former Wayne State
University professor and
Detroit school official who has
filed a $1 million suite against
the FBI.
Bergman, who lives in a
Grand Rapids nursing home
and is confined to a
wheelchair, said he was
partially paralyzed from the
beating he suffered at the
hands of Klansmen in an attack
on a Freedom Riders’ bus at
Anniston, Ala.
of U.N. Ambassador Andrew
Young, whom the delegates
voted to “salute and support.”
Young, the resolution stated,
“spoke from a clear perception
achieved through the civil
rights movement and with the
courageious honesty of a
worthy representative of the
government of the United
Stages of America.
♦To support the efforts of
native American Indians in the
preservation and protection of
their oil and mineral rights, and
to “form new alliances (with
American Indian organizations)
for achieving social justice in
the United States.”
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