Volume 54 No.2: January 27th 2020

Advocate The California

Volume 54 No. 2: January 27, 2020

Fresno’s African American Community Newspaper

VOTE

HOW & WHEN TO VOTE IN FRESNO February 2020

Ms. Brandi Orth, Fresno County Clerk visits with Advocate Newspaper & Publisher Mark Kimber

Fresno County Clerk Exclusive Interview With The Advocate to Inform African American Voters

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Vote-by-mail ballots sent to registered voters in the mail

Ballot drop boxes are open to receive your ballot

Last day to voter Conditional registration register to vote begins and ends in this election March 3rd

ADVOCATE CANDIDATES ENDORSEMENT ISSUE

Last day to request a vote-by-mail ballot

March 2020

Specific In person Vote centers open for 11 days

All Fresno County Vote centers are open

Last day for election office to receive your vote-by-mail ballot must be postmarked by March 3rd

ELECTION DAY 7 AM TO 8 PM

Last day to mail your Ballot or visit a voting center

TIME TO RING THE CENSUS ALARM BELL

As crucial count gets started, experts fear many will be missed task: “The Census Bureau has acknowledged that it’s way behind. It needs more applicants in all 50 states.”

This year, the Census Bureau is optimistic that computerizing the primary response mechanism for the first time will help minimize the expense of tabulating printed questionnaires and paying enumerators to knock on the doors of non-responders.

But it also is doing all its hiring online, which has depressed interest, and is having to compete in a relatively strong job market as compared to the run-up to the 2010 Census. Other reasons cited for the hiring lag include that, as the first census to prioritize online responses, enumerators have to be (Continued on page B1)

See more Census information on Page A5 (shown above) and visit the Census website to make sure your are “accounted for”...pun intended. Thank you to our Fresno County Advocate Newspaper readership for your continued community involvement which is now affecting our entire state of California.

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With the United States about to begin its monumental task of counting everybody in the country once every 10 years, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing on Thursday, Jan. 9, to see what the Census Bureau is doing to avoid overlooking so-called “hard to count” communities.

Arturo Vargas of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials objected to the “hardto-count” designation: “What makes people hard to count are the enumeration strategies.”

For instance, he said, all outreach efforts to Latinx residents are in Spanish. And despite the Supreme Court bar-

ring the proposed addition of a question about everyone’s citizenship, the Census Bureau, he said, is squandering its “trusted brand” status by forbidding staff from discussing what has become a very alarming concern, particularly in ethnic communities.

Vargas was joined at the committee hearing dais by Marc Morial of the Urban League, Vanita Gupta of the Leadership Conference, John Yang of Asian American Advancing Justice, Kevin Allis of the National Congress of American Indians and Darrell Moore of the Center for South Georgia Regional Impact.

In her initial remarks, Gupta cited the Census Bureau’s slow pace of hiring for the enormous

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Why We Vote

Grapevine Magazine: African-Americans in Central California, 1969–1982

Public reception

FEBRUARY 20th from 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Full exhibit featuring the landmark magazine at Henry Madden Library, Fresno State.

February 3 – February 28, 2020 in the Pete P. Peters Ellipse Balcony Gallery.

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1965: Congress passes the historic Voting Rights Act, removing discriminatory barriers that kept many people of color from voting.

Lyndon Johnson Voting Rights Act After decades of hard-fought civil rights activism, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing several racially discriminatory practices intended to keep people of color from voting.

While the 24th Amendment had already outlawed poll taxes in 1964, the VRA banned literacy tests, which election officials in the South used to keep African-Americans — who had disproportionately high rates of illiteracy from centuries of being denied education — from voting.

The VRA also directed the Department of Justice to oversee voter registration efforts in counties where less than half of the AfricanAmerican population was registered, and required that places with a history of discrimination obtain pre-clearance from the DOJ before implementing any new voting policies.

But the 2013 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder rolled back the preclearance provision of Section 5 the VRA, which no longer required counties with histories of racial discrimination to be “covered” under the act.

Sources: US Department of Justice, Brennan Center for Justice, Business Insider

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RING THE CENSUS ALARM BELL...

(Continued from page A1) comfortable with tech tools. And the hiring and onboarding process, including background checks, has been so drawn out that applicants have drifted off in pursuit of other opportunities.

Vargas, like others, recalled the troubled rollout of the healthcare.gov website set up to enroll people in the Affordable Care Act and recommended that the Census Bureau be ready with plenty of paper questionnaires in case the online response rate falls short of expectations.

Even in its rosiest predictions, the Census Bureau still only expects about a 60% initial response rate via online questionnaires, Morial noted.

For African American men, 40% is probably more realistic, he added.

Yang criticized census hiring for being slow and “inconsistently inclusive” in its diversity. He cited the chilling effect of the failed citizenship question proposal, which makes it even more important that enumerators and partnership specialists be culturally competent.

He also noted that the written questionnaire, available only in Spanish or English, excludes Asian Americans, the fastest-growing minority group in the country. Yang did, however, single out for praise the recent announcement of media campaigns in Hindi and Urdu.

The Native American population, which the Census Bureau believes it undercounted by at least 4.9% in 2010, is plagued by mistrust, privacy

concerns, a sense of futility as to the usefulness of responding at all and the feeling that going online to fill out the census form, not always even possible, is a significant risk, Allis said.

Census-taking is about to begin in Alaska (Jan. 21), but no native partnership specialists are on board yet, he said. And as with hiring, the census’ work to establish partnerships with community organizations to help obtain a complete count is behind schedule.

New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, one of only two Native women ever elected to the House, noted the absence of Navajo-language census materials.

“Does the Census Bureau understand our needs?” Allis asked. “Hard to say.” The way things are going so far, he said, “is deeply concerning” and lacks “proper attention given to the purpose of the census, what it can do, what it can’t. The Census Bureau has identified this as an issue, but we have yet to see that this will be addressed properly.”

“The census is a big deal,” Morial said, echoing Allis’ call for increased advertising and media outreach and a hope that accurate census data will improve decision-making and equitable distribution of resources and political representation. That outreach, he emphasized, should extend all the way through the nonresponse follow-up process scheduled into August.

Morial also noted, with chagrin, that in the waning days of the Obama adminis-

tration, the census had been on the brink of reversing its policy of counting prisoners where they’re incarcerated and not in their home communities.

Moore attracted attention for his reports on organizing efforts in rural Georgia.

As committee members from both sides of the aisle pressed him for one-size-fits-all ideas on how to reach rural populations, he repeated that the answers lie with local organizers and activists.

“You’ve got to have trusted voices in your community,” he counseled Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar. “The communities know about their needs best — what works in one community will not work in

others.”

Responding to West Virginia GOP Rep. Carol Miller’s concerns about the mountain communities she represents, considered 60% hard to count, Moore advocated more creative outreach efforts, perhaps at sporting events and churches, in addition to the food pantries and mobile mammogram services she had suggested.

Vargas listed educators, health care providers, local officials and minority-led organizations including newspapers and radio as trusted sources for census outreach.

Many at the hearing advocated using librarians and, particularly as a way to meet the technology concerns, libraries

themselves to help maximize participation.

A benefit of the computerized effort is that easily sortable data will reveal where there’s more work to be done in getting people counted, and where the census is being embraced, Yang noted.

“The Census Bureau better step up its game and respond to the concerns we’ve raised today, or the risk is grave. It’s time to ring the alarm bell,” Morial warned.

Mark Hedin is a reporter for Ethnic Media Services. He has previously written for the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, the East Bay Times, Central City Extra, and SF State’s Golden Gater, as well as other papers.

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Congressman Costa and Councilman Baines at the 49th Anniversary of the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Congressman Costa bringing one of the icons of the civil rights movement to Fresno, Congressman John Lewis, also with our Councilmember Oliver Baines.

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Congressman Costa bringing President Obama to our valley to see the severe impacts of the drought.

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Protect Your Vote In this Year’s Election January 27, 2020 – “Your Black Local News Source”

Fresno County Clerk Reaches out to the Advocate Newspaper to inform Fresno’s Black Community

Advocate Exclusive interview with Fresno County Clerk, Brandi Orth Brandi Orth was elected as Fresno County Clerk in 2012. Brandi’s term will end in December, 2022 and will run for reelection.

Brandi shares the details of the Voter’s Choice Act that was approved by the board of supervisors in March of 2019. The new process will make voting more convenient for voters.

Advocate: Explain the new voting system for Fresno’s African American voters.

Brandi Orth: In March of 2019, the board of supervisors approved the county moving to the Voter’s Choice Act. The advantage of making that decision was that the county saved 1.5 million dollars. We had to buy new voting equipment and the vote center model will have 53 vote centers open for multiple days instead of the 268 polling places that we had for one day.

When we bought voting equipment that downsizing saved the county 1.5 million dollars, so that was a good start. The Voter’s Choice Act was passed in 2016, and it originally allowed 14 counties to move to this method of voting in 2018. As it turns out only 5 actually did, they were not part of that group. Now the law says any county can do it. In 2020, there are 15 counties going to vote under this method and that represent over half of the electric of the entire State of California. We do expect more counties to sign on in the future.

We have been creating different materials that we have been sharing with folks to succinctly tell people about it.

Automatically every voter will receive a ballot in the mail. They are being mailed February 4, 2020, is the legal deadline, 29 days before the election and it will automatically arrive in

your mail box. You can vote the ballet and return it in different ways. They can mail it; no postage is required.

Or, they can drop it in a secure dropbox. We will have 43 drop-boxes located throughout the county. Secure outdoors drop-boxes will be available 24-7 and voters can drop their ballet off anytime they want. If they need the services of the County Clerk office, all of the vote centers will be able to do everything for them. The vote centers, all 53 are open 4 days before the election, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. And 10 of those will also be opened for a total of 11 days, 2 weekends and the weekend in between. So, we’ve gone from voting one day to 93 hours of voting and you can go anywhere you want in the county and we can help you. The reason for the passing of the Voter’s Choice Act was that people have very busy lives and families and its really tuff to only go on one day. The West Fresno Regional Center will be open for 11 days for voting and two dropbox location; one at the Mary Eller Brown center and in the FoodMax parking lot.

On the Fresno County Clerk website and on your ballet will have a listing of all the voting locations and hours and your ballet will list the drop-box locations that are open 24-7 and will be open the day the ballets go in the mail in early February.

My message to the voter is, “Voter, you are in charge! You are in charge of voting your ballet. The secret is; putting it in the envelope, sealing it and signing it.”

You can check to see if the election office received your ballet by going on or website, votefresnocounty.com and click on your voter registration, plug in your name and it will tell you when your ballet was mailed to you, when it was received by our office and if your ballet was not received. If you

forgot to sing your ballet or if your ballet is not able to be processed it will tell you to call us.

Advocate: When does your office do their voter purge? When should people call to make sure they are registered?

Brandi Orth: People are on the active voters file. If you were mailed something and the post office sends it back, that person goes back into inactive roll. They don’t get purged, but they become inactive. They won’t receive a ballet; they won’t receive their voter information guides.

The big thing is that this is a party election; which means that there will be party ballets because of the presidential race. If you are registered with a political party go to our website at votefresnocounty.com to check to see if you are registered with the correct party before your ballet is mailed.

25% of our electric is registered under no party preference which means, I don’t like any of the parties, which is fine, but what it means is that in this election you will not have a presidential candidate on your ballet. If you are listed as a no party preference contact the election office and let us know that you want to cross over to one of the other political parties, then you will receive a new ballet with the political party you requested. In December no preference voters were sent a post card as a heads-up. Another post card heads-up will be mailed in the next week to every voter.

For the first time ever, there will be free bus rides for voters 3 days in election day before the election for all the bus companies in Fresno County; Fresno FAX, Clovis Ruel, Handi Ride and Ruel Transit.

When you get on the bus tell the bus driver you are going to vote and where you are voting and you get a free ride.

Advocate: How has voter turnout

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Fresno County Clerk, Ms. Brandi Orth been in the last few elections? Was your decision to change how we vote to increase voter turnout?

Brandi Orth: It’s one of the pieces of the puzzle. The voter’s choice act model was based on the State of Colorado and they have been doing it for a while and they have seen increased turnouts. In the five counties that went in 2018 they also saw an increased in voter turnout.

It is a change of habit for people. It will probably take a little while. But if we educate people, there ballet is on their kitchen table, you would hope that they would vote, put it in their mail box and be a participating voter.

That’s our hope.

We hope that it will increase voter turnout. Even though we are all voting on a president in some Federal races, things that affect our life more directly I think are the local races.

The city races, school board races and all the special district races; those issues are on the ballet. You don’t have to vote on every issue on the ballet.

Vote on the ones that are important to you.

Advocate: What I would tell my readers is, “Give your ballet to the mailman or drop it in the box. Do not trust the campaign.” Is that fare to tell our readers?

Brandi Orth: I agree. Another thing that sometimes people don’t know is that on the return envelope is that you have to sign your name. The reason that, that is important is that every single signature on every envelope is compared to the signature we have on file on the voter registration file.

The reason being is that we want to make sure that you actually voted the ballet. A large majority of the signatures are really good comparisons and everything is fine. There are a few instances that the signature does not compare. And it could be for normal reasons; the person had a stroke, they broke their hand, the husband signed for the wife, or viceversa. You may have registered when you were young and now your hand writing is different. The law requires that we send the voter a letter that we received your ballet, but your signature doesn’t match what is on file. We want to compare your handwriting sample to confirm this is your ballet.

We send those out as soon as we get ballets back. The voter has to return them 2 days before we certify which is 28 days after the election. If you think your handwriting has changed over time, reregister.

Advocate: How has voter turnout fluctuated over time?

Brandi Orth: Presidential elections always generates more interest and participation. The primary is usually less than the general election.

The general presidential election is always the biggest turnout. With the comments, interest and noise of the country, I think we will see record turnouts.

Advocate: To be clear. No one from the election office will be collecting ballets.

Brandi Orth: Correct. No one from the election office will be going door to door colleting ballet.

Advocate: If someone says, “I’m from the election office.” That is not true.

Brandi Orth: When in doubt, call us at (559) 600-VOTE. If that happens, they should contact us or contact the district attorney’s office, they will investigate it.

Key Points of the Voter’s Choice Act: 1. You can vote anywhere in the county.

2. Every voter will receive a ballet in the mail.

3. Ballets will be mailed out on February 4, 2020.

4. Vote the ballet and mail it in.

No postage required.

5. Or, Drop your ballet in a secure drop-box location outdoors 24-7.

6. Or, if you need assistance completing your ballet, all County Clerk’s Office Vote Centers will be available 4 days before election; Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.’

7. Fresno County Clerk’s office will not pick up ballets’ door to door.

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Why We Vote: 56 Years Ago: Murdered for helping Black people to Reregister to vote in Mississippi

(Above) Freedom voter registration workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers’ murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.

The victims were James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City.

All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African-Americans in Mississippi to vote. This registra-

tion effort was a part of contesting over 70 years of laws and practices that supported a systematic policy, begun by several states in 1890, of disenfranchisement of potential black voters.

The three men had traveled from Meridian to the community of Longdale to talk with congregation members at a black church that had been burned. The trio was thereafter arrested following a traffic stop outside Philadelphia, Mississippi for speeding, escorted to the local jail, and held for a number of hours.

As the three left town in their car, they were followed by law enforcement and others. Before leaving Neshoba County, the car was pulled over and all three were abducted, driven to another location, and shot at close range.

United States Department of Agriculture

In partnership with West Fresno Family Resource Center (WFFRC)

BLACK FARMER CONFERENCE WITH URBAN FARMERS

Saturday

February 29, 2020 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Maxie Parks Community Center 1802 E. California Fresno, CA 93706

This one-day statewide conference will be a great opportunity for farmers and ranchers to network and learn about resources available to them. Workshops will cover four topics: 1) Access to capital and business resources; 2) Youth in agriculture; 3) Resources from USDA agencies; and 4) An urban leadership roundtable.

Seasoned farmers will share with us their tips for success.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. John W. Boyd Jr. Founder and President, National Black Farmers Association OPENING CEREMONY Carlos Suarez CA State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service Connie Conway CA State Director, Farm Service Agency FEATURED SPEAKER David DeLuz Director, Strategic Initiatives and Development, California School Boards Association (CSBA)

Conference Registration Website: WWW.WFRESNOFRC.ORG or call 559.621.2961 For more information please contact Yolanda Randels, Executive Director West Fresno Family Resource Center yrandles@wfresnofrc.org

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Saints Community Church

SERVICE TIMES Sunday School

9:15 am

Sunday Morning Worship

10:45 am

Wednesday Prayer Meeting Wednesday Bible Study

11:00 am & 7:00 pm.

12:00 pm & 7:00pm

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Pastor D.J. Criner

Sunday

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday: Bible Study 6:15 p.m.

3740 Ashlan Ave. Fresno. • p:(559) 222-9819 f: (559) 2227-2954 • e: admin@saintscommunity.org

Dr. B.E. McAlister, Pastor Tina McAliarwe

Rising Star Missionary

St. Matthew BAPTIST CHURCH Reaching the lost and the Upchurch with the preaching of the Word of God.

BAPTIST CHURCH, FRESNO

‘Join us in Embracing God’s Presence, Experiencing God’s Power, and Equipping to fulfill God’s Purpose’

SERVICE, MEETING AND TIMES Saturday Sunday

Choir, usher and mission meeting Call for times and events

SERVICE TIMES

9:00 am Sunday School 10:00 am Church service Tuesday 6:00 pm Men meeting Wednesday 5:30pm Night bible study

Contact: Reverend Lawrence Chisom (559) 250-3116

Deacon Winroe

(559) 284-9828

1808 S. Crystal Ave. Fresno

Deacon Brewer

(559) 377-3252

Mrs. Gerry Chisom (559) 430-9539

West Fresno Christian Center

Sunday Morning Prayer Sunday Morning Bible Study Sunday Morning Worship Tuesday Prayer & Bible Study

Pastor B. T. Lewis II & Lady Latisha Lewis

Bethel Church of Christ (Holiness) USA

“An old church, with a new beginning”

Sunday School 9:30AM Sunday Worship 11:00AM Tuesday Bible Study 7:00PM Friday Night Prayer 6:00PM

SERVICE TIMES

Sunday Sunday School Sunday Morning Worship Thursday Bible Study

Email: jeparkssr@gmail.com

Phone: (559) 233-3273 Fax: (559) 455-0746 2120 S. Thorne Avenue, Fresno, CA 93706

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Westside Church of God

“All age groups are encouraged to attend. Youth and children’s classes are available

“Gather. Grow. Go.” Fresno Pacific University

1717 S. Chestnut Ave. Fresno • www.nbcbc.org • (559) 369-3538

SERVICE TIMES

Sunday SundayWorship 9:00 am Tuesday F.A.T. Bible Studies Dinner 5:45 pm 1424 W. California Ave., Fresno

Dr. Paul Lawrence Binion II

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Bethesda Churches

Everlasting Love Ministries

LOCATIONS, ADDRESSES AND SERVICE TIMES

“We love you where you are to where God wants to take you”

SOUTHEAST

SUNDAY 10:00am Children’s Activities Available 407 S Clovis Ave., Fresno (Clovis & Huntington)

CENTRAL

SUNDAY 8:15am, 11:00am, 6:00pm Children’s Activities each service 11:00am Youth Activities 3723 E Dakota Ave., Fresno (Dakota & Millbrook)

RIVERPARK

SUNDAY 10:00am Children’s Activities Available 81 E Pinedale., Fresno (Pinedale & Blackstone)

SERVICE TIMES

Sunday Morning 10:30am Wednesday 6:30pm Bible Study Rev. Dr. Angulus Wilson D. Pastor Wilson, Malcolm Sr. Pastor C.

and Lady Audrey Scott

2503 W. Shaw Ave #103., Fresno • (559) 283-8992 everlastinglove.ministries7@yahoo.com

ANEW Pearly Grove

Pastor Tobias Brookins

p: (559) 225-1672 e:frontdesk@thebethesdachurches.com

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BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday Morning 9:00 am Sunday Morning Service at 10:00 am Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study at 6:00 pm Pastor Charles

Rev. Dr. Dickersen Name goes here Sr. Pastor

1927 S Van Ness Ave Fresno, California, CA 93721 (559) 266-1420

Fellowship Missionary

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“Reaching the Unsaved uncharted for Christ”

Pastor Richard L. Daniels

SERVICE TIMES Sunday

Breakfast 8:00 am Sunday School 9:30am Worship 10:45 am Children’s Church 10:45 am Nursery 10:30 am Saturday Bread of Life Panty 2nd & 4th Saturday FREE Clothes Closet 2nd & 4th Wednesday 12:00 pm and 6:30 pm

2529 E. Belmont Ave. • Fresno • (559) 441-1661 elloshipmbc@sbcglobal.net • Office hours 9:00am-2:00pm

9:30 am 11:00 am 6:30 pm

2119 S. Eunice. Fresno • p: (559) 266-3483

Pastor Darell Jones and Lady Schyienell Jones

Sunday Morning Life Groups at 9:00 am Sunday Morning Service at 10:00 am Wednesday Corporate Prayer & Bible Study at 6:00 pm Super Saturday (1rst Saturday)at 10:00 am Rev. Dr. Angulus Wilson D. Wilson, Sr. Pastor

8:30am 9:00am 10:30am 6:30pm

1104 Collins Ave. - (559) 442-190 e:risingstarfresno@hotmail.com web:risingstarfresno.org

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which Psalm 121:1-2 mad heaven and earth.”

Pastor James E. Parks and Lady Gwendolyn Parks

SERVICES

Morning Worship 8:00 a.m.. & 10:30 a.m.

SCHEDULE

Sunday School 9:00AM Reg. Service 10:30 AM Wednesday Choir Rehersal 5:30 PM Bible Study 6:30 PM Pastor Duane McAlister & 1st Lady Beverly McAlister

1615 :N” Street P.O. Box 11398 Fresno , CA 93773

First Union Missionary David J. Keener, Sr. Pastor First Lady

Nichole Keener Princess

Payton Keener

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Discipleship ClassesSunday 9:30 AM Morning Worship Service -Sunday 11:00 AM

Mid Week Manna-Wednesday 6:00 PM

2304 E Street Fresno, CA 93706

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YOUNG BLACK VOTERS The Misunderstood factor

At its height in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement drew children, teenagers, and young adults into a maelstrom of meetings, marches, violence, and in some cases, imprisonment. Why did so many young people decide to become activists for social justice? Joyce Ladner answers this question in her interview with the Civil Rights History Project, pointing to the strong support of her elders in shaping her future path: “The Movement was the most exciting thing that one could engage in. I often say that, in fact, I coined the term, the ‘Emmett Till generation.’ I said that there was no more exciting time to have been born at the time and the place and to the parents that movement, young movement, people were born to…

I remember so clearly Uncle Archie who was in World War I, went to France, and he always told us, ‘Your generation is going to change things.’”

Several activists interviewed for the Civil Rights History Project were in elementary school when they joined the movement. Freeman Hrabowski was 12 years old when he was inspired to march in the Birmingham Children’s Crusade of 1963.

While sitting in the back of church one Sunday, his ears perked up when he heard a man speak about a march

for integrated schools. A math geek, Hrabowski was excited about the possibility of competing academically with white children. While spending many days in prison after he was arrested at the march, photographs of police and dogs attacking the children drew nationwide attention. Hrabowski remembers that at the prison, Dr. King told him and the other children, “What you do this day will have an impact on children yet unborn.” He continues, “I’ll never forget that. I didn’t even understand it, but I knew it was powerful, powerful, very powerful.” Hrabowski went on to become president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he has made extraordinary strides to support African American students who pursue math and science degrees.

As a child, Clara Luper attended many meetings of the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City because her mother, Marilyn, was the leader of this group. She remembers, “We were having an NAACP Youth Council meeting, and I was eight years old at that time. That’s how I can remember that I was not ten years old. And I – we were talking about our experiences and our negotiation – and I suggested, made a motion that we would go down to Katz Drug Store and

Young Black children and college students were treated like criminals and arrested by local police for marching for voting and civil rights in Birmingham Alabama in 1968 just sit, just sit and sit until they served us.” This protest led to the desegregation of the drug store’s lunch counter in Oklahoma City. Luper relates more stores about what it was like to grow up in a family that was constantly involved in the movement.

While some young people came into the movement by way of their parents’ activism and their explicit encouragement, others had to make an abrupt and hard break in order to do so, with some even severing familial ties. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a young white girl from Arlington, Virginia, when she came to realize the hypocrisy of her segregated church in

which she learned songs such as “Jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white.” When she left Duke University to join the movement, her mother, who had been raised in Georgia, “thought I had been sort of sucked up into a cult… it went against everything she had grown up and believed in. I can say that a little more generously now than I could have then.” Phil Hutchings’ father was a lifetime member of the NAACP, but couldn’t support his son when he moved toward radicalism and Black Power in the late 1960s.

Hutchings reflects on the way their different approaches to the struggle divided the two

men, a common generational divide for many families who lived through those times: “He just couldn’t go beyond a certain point. And we had gone beyond that… and the fact that his son was doing it… the first person in the family who had a chance to complete a college education.

I dropped out of school for eleven years… He thought I was wasting my life. He said, ‘Are you … happy working for Mr. Castro?’”

Many college student activists sacrificed or postponed their formal education, but they were also picking up practical skills that would shape their later careers.

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