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Julian Bond, charismatic civil rights leader, dies at 75 Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday, August 15, 2015 in Fort Walton Beach, FL. He was 75. The Southern Poverty Law Center announced Mr. Bond’s death on Sunday. His wife, Pamela Sue Horowitz, said the cause was complications of vascular disease. Mr. Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was the committee’s communications director for five years and deftly guided the national news media toward stories of violence and discrimination as the committee challenged legal segregation in the South’s public facilities. He gradually moved from the militancy of the student group to the leadership of
the establishmentarian N.A.A.C.P. Along the way, Mr. Bond was a writer, poet, television commentator, lecturer and college teacher, and persistent opponent of the stubborn remnants of white supremacy. He also served for 20 years in the Georgia General Assembly, mostly in conspicuous isolation from white colleagues who saw him as an interloper and a rabble-rouser. Mr. Bond’s wit, cool personality and youthful face — he was often called dashing, handsome and urbane — became familiar to millions of television viewers in the 1960s and 1970s. On the strength of his personality and quick intellect, he moved to the center of the civil rights action in Atlanta, the unofficial capital of the movement, at the height of the struggle for racial equal-
Julian Bond ity in the early 1960s. Moving beyond demonstrations, Mr. Bond became a founder, with Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy organization in Montgomery, AL. Mr. Bond was its president from 1971 to 1979 and remained on its board for the
rest of his life. He was nominated, only somewhat seriously, as a candidate for vice president at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where he was a co-chairman of a racially integrated challenge delegation from Georgia. He declined to pursue a serious candidacy because he was too young to meet the constitutional age requirement, but from that moment on he was a national figure. When he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, along with seven other black members, furious white members of the House refused to let him take his seat, accusing him of disloyalty. He was already well known because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s stand against the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War.
That touched off a national drama that ended in 1966 when the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ordered the State Assembly to seat him, saying it had denied him freedom of speech. As a lawmaker, he sponsored bills to establish a sickle cell anemia testing program and to provide low-interest home loans to low-income Georgians. He also helped create a majority-black congressional district in Atlanta. He left the State Senate in 1986 after six terms to run for a seat in the United States House. He lost a bitter contest to his old friend John Lewis, a fellow founder of the student committee and its longtime chairman. The two men, for all their earlier closeness in the civil rights movement, represented opposite poles of African American life in the South: Mr. Lewis was the son of a sharecropper; Mr. Bond was the son of a college president. (Continued on pg. 4)
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Longtime Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes dies at 90 Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes, a 15-term congressman from Ohio who took on tough assignments looking into assassinations and scandals, has died at the age of 90, his family said Wednesday. He died peacefully at home Tuesday, August 18, 2015 with his wife, Jay, at his side, a month after he announced he had brain and lung cancer. "During his illness, he confronted it as he did life — with bravery and strength," his family said in a statement. Stokes was elected to the House in 1968, becoming Ohio's first black member of Congress and one of its most respected and influential. Just a year earlier, his brother, Carl, had been elected mayor of Cleveland — the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city. The White House issued a statement from President Barack Obama that noted how Stokes overcame hardships while growing up in Cleveland and praised him for his belief that everyone
Louis Stokes should have a chance to succeed. "Lou leaves behind an indelible legacy in the countless generations of young leaders that he inspired, and he will be sorely missed," Obama said. U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, a Cleveland-area Democrat, called Stokes her "predecessor, mentor and friend." "He was a giant of a man — the person everyone measured themselves against," Fudge said in a statement. "It was easy to think of him as almost immortal." U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, said in a statement that Stokes "al-
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ways did the right thing." "He'll be remembered in the communities he strengthened, the veterans he served, and the many lives he touched," Brown said. Stokes headed the House's Select Committee on Assassinations that investigated the slayings of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the late 1970s and concluded there "probably" had been a conspiracy in both cases. Later, he served on the Iran-Contra investigative committee, where he drew attention for his unflinching interrogation of Lt. Col. Oliver North. He was just as unflinching with his probe of fellow Democrats when he led the ethics committee investigation of a corruption scandal known as ABSCAM, which led to convictions of one senator and six House members. The senator and five of the House members were Democrats.
for their country," Obama said in a statement released Monday. "I was humbled and grateful to welcome Emma to the White House last month, and Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to Emma's family, friends, and everyone she inspired over her long and quintessentially American life." Didlake's granddaughter, Marilyn Horne, told the San
Antonio Express-News that the World War II veteran fell ill Sunday morning and died after complaining she was feeling tired. "It was a month ago today that we went to the White House," Horne told the media outlet. "I think she felt she had accomplished everything and could take her rest.
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Minister Farrakhan comes to Milwaukee with message of peace Many African Americans live in a state of ‘ignorance,’ must learn to forgive, seek healing and reconciliation
By Steve Waring Special to the Milwaukee Times This the first installment of a continuing series of articles that will appear periodically in the Milwaukee Times on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s two day visit to Milwaukee last week. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, said he came with a message of peace on Aug. 12 at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, 2505 W Cornell Street. He spoke the following night at Mercy Memorial Baptist Church, 2474 N. 37th Street as part of a two-day speaking engagement in Milwaukee in support of a march in Washington, D.C., on October 10, 2015 the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. “Peace is what I offer,” he said after completing his introductory remarks, “Peace that only comes when man and woman are willing to submit their will to the will of God.” Minister Farrakhan, who turned 82 years old in May, is a gifted orator and public speaker who has many years’ experience. Last Wednes-
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day in Milwaukee, he used his voice like a finely-tuned musical instrument, raising and lowering the pitch of his voice and the cadence of his pronunciation with the vigor of a much younger man. He said that most African Americans lived in a state of ignorance and that lack of knowledge was the greatest obstacle to understanding the true nature of the world. “And that is why Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free,” he said. “He spoke that in the past, but the truth that would set you free would be coming in the future… You’re not free right now, so don’t claim that you know the truth and you’re not free.” Minister Farrakhan said that anyone who remained “the same old Negro that the white man made you” could not be free and therefore did not know Jesus. “They (white people) relegated us to subhuman status and today they rule us as though we are property,” he said. “When you know Jesus… the world can’t make me bow.” Minister Farrakhan said he would pull no punches
posed a nationwide boycott if the march on Washington, D.C. that he is organizing for October does not achieve its goals “Today our purchasing power is about $1 trillion a year and it doesn’t circulate in our community, not one time,” he said. He mocked those who claimed a job would make things right. “Shut up!” he said to applause. “If you didn’t throw your money away you could create jobs. The government can’t do it anymore.” Minister Farrakhan proposed beginning the African American boycott with the Christmas shopping season. He said that Dr. King wanted to boycott Christmas in 1963 after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls, but he was unable to get others in leadership in the black community to agree. Minister Farrakhan was especially critical of African Americans who taught their children about “the big fat white man that lives at the North Pole. He kicked Jesus to the curb… and the worst thing is you facilitate this. ‘Mommy and Daddy didn’t have the money. But thank God for Santa’,” he said. Minister Farrakhan said that African Americans must learn to forgive the white race that enslaved them, but only after they ask for forgiveness. He also said that there must be healing and reconciliation among African Americans. “Can you forgive one another in the family for mistakes, hurtful things we have done?” he asked. “If we can forgive the white man who put you on a slave ship, then made you work from can’t see morning to can’t see night for 300 years to make him the richest man in the world… and you can forgive him? Why can’t you say to those you’ve offended, can you forgive me?”
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Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke at Mercy Memorial Baptist Church on Thursday, August 13, 2015 regarding the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March to be held on October 10, 2015 in Washington DC. The community came out to listen to the speech. during his sermon and then called out a friendly greeting to the few white members in the congregation. “I am glad you are here, so you can hear me for yourselves,” he said to sustained applause and shouts of “amen.” His entire two-hour speech was frequently paused while various statements he made were greeted with vocal approval and occasional applause.
Peace can only come, Minister Farrakhan said, “when we make peace with God. We can’t make peace with God on our terms. Peace with God demands that we submit our will to do his.” Once a person has made peace with God, Minister Farrakhan said, “It will be easier to make peace with your fellow man. We are the children of slaves, who were taught to call somebody else ‘master’. In addition to quoting from the Bible, Minister Farrakhan also quoted from the Koran. “Those days of our calling anybody master but he who is master are over,” he said. “We’ve come to set our people free, from fear. It’s not the white man; it’s our fear of him that makes you less than a woman and less than the man that you could be. Fear chokes you, so that when you want to tell, the truth you muzzle your mouth, because you’re afraid of the consequences.” Minister Farrakhan said that on the night before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., recommended an economic boycott by the black community in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. Minister Farrakhan pro-
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The country's oldest known living veteran, Emma Didlake, died Sunday, August 16, 2015 just one month after being honored by President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. Didlake was 110 years old. "Emma Didlake served her country with distinction and honor, a true trailblazer for generations of Americans who have sacrificed so much Emma Didlake was honored to meet President Barack Obama just over a month ago.
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