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SOUL Love People of sensitivity, humanity and deep passions struggle with life—and the sweet perils of

NO.1

AUGUST 1971

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Her problem wasn’t as glamorous as her work!

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TEACHER When school was out... she went to the wrong man!

Dedicated

NURSE

The patient would die, but not before he saved her!

GO-GO Girl

Is the man she loves the one she hates?

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Gripping man-woman relationships!

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ROBERTA FLACK Pull-out Poster!

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SOUL Love Editor, Writer, and Artist: Jack Kirby Inkers: Vince Colletta and Tony DeZuniga Letterer: John Costanza Colorists: Tom Ziuko and Glenn Whitmore Cover Painter: Alex Ross Art Director: John Morrow Editorial Director: Carmine Infantino Production Manager: Sol Harrison Assistant Editors: Mark Evanier and Steve Sherman Circulation Director: Ed Lolacher Staff Illustrators: Wayne Howard and Billy Graham Interns: Jerry Boyd, David “Hambone” Hamilton, Carl Taylor, Larry Houston, Kevin Andre Shaw, Darrell “Big D” McNeil

CONTENTS Fears of a GO-GO GIRL can come true...............................1 Is the man she loves, the one she hates?

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Diary of the DISAPPOINTED DOLL.................................12 Can a computer pick your perfect match?

EQUAL RIGHTS Aren’t Wrong.........................................18 A look at the Equal Rights Amendment’s past and future.

Dedicated NURSE.............................................................20 The patient might die—but not before he saved her.

Old FIRES........................................................................29 For one couple, old and new emotions flare white hot.

The MODEL.....................................................................33 Her problem wasn’t as glamorous as her work...

The TEACHER.................................................................44 When school was out, she went to the wrong man!

NEXT ISSUE:

More gripping man/woman relationships, and coverage of the latest in black culture, from fashion and food to music and arts—plus next issue’s double pull-out poster of TV’s Julia Diahann Carroll, and Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier.

Diahann Carroll

Sidney Poitier

Don Cornelius

Coming soon to a TV station near you is Soul Train, the brainchild of Chicago radio announcer Don Cornelius. This televised “dance club” first aired last year on Chicago television station WCIU-TV, and became an immediate hit with black viewers. Now, he is taking his concept into national syndication, with a new hour-long segment every weekday afternoon.

Soul Train will feature a variety of top R&B, soul, and funk musical acts, and the best dancers anywhere.

Cornelius says it’s more than a “black American Bandstand,” as his goal is for the show to reflect positively on Afro-American culture. You can bet that Cornelius will soon feature an appearance

by Roberta Flack, the rising star who is featured on this issue’s free “Collector’s Item” pull-out poster.

Roberta Flack

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The first episode of Soul Train airs October 2. Check your local listings for channel and time in your area.

(If the poster is missing from this issue, please contact the Publisher for a free replacement.)

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Equal Rights Aren’t Wrong The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution is designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens, regardless of their sex. First introduced in Congress in 1923, it would end the differences between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. That early spirit of female independence was exemplified by jazz legend Bessie Smith’s song that year, “Sam Jones Blues”, which tells the story of an unfaithful husband who leaves his wife for a year, then returns to find she’s taken her maiden name, changed the locks on their former home, and is asserting her freedom: “You ain’t talkin’ to Bessie Jones Missus Jones/You speaking to Miss Wilson now.”

The ERA was originally written by Suffragist leader Alice Paul. The “Suffragettes” were a radical women’s organization in the early 1900s who fought for “women’s suffrage”—the right of women to vote in elections. Suffragettes confronted politicians, and in return were attacked and sexually assaulted during battles with authorities. They resorted to chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows, and setting fire to empty buildings, in an attempt to bring awareness to their cause. When they were arrested, many went on hunger strikes, and the government responded by force-feeding them. But their sacrifices eventually bore fruit.

The Representation of the People Act of 1918 guaranteed the right to vote to women over the age of 30 who met specific conditions. A decade later, all women at least 21 years old were given the same voting rights as men when the Representation of the People Act of 1928 was passed.

Alice Paul’s first version of the Equal Rights Amendment stated: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” It was revised in 1943 to proclaim, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” By the early 1940s, both the Republican and Democratic parties “The movement is a sort of mosaic.

Each of us puts in one little stone, and included support for it then you get a great mosaic at the end.” in their platforms. But the labor movement — Alice Paul (second from right) fought against it in its own battle for workplace protection laws, and social conservatives felt equal rights for women would threaten their hold on power, so the ERA today remains unratified.

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress. Since then, she has been a strong supporter of both women’s and civil rights. On August 10, 1970, she delivered a rousing speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, where she urged Congress to support the ERA: “Mr. Speaker, House Joint Resolution 264, before us today, which provides for equality under the law for both men and women, represents one of the most clear-cut opportunities we are likely to have to declare our faith in the principles that shaped our Constitution. It provides a legal basis for attack on the most subtle, most pervasive, and most institutionalized form of prejudice that exists. Discrimination against women, solely on the basis of their sex, is so widespread that is seems to many persons normal, natural and right.

“Legal expression of prejudice on the grounds of religious or political Shirley Chisholm belief has become a minor problem in our society. Prejudice on the basis of race is, at least, under systematic attack. There is reason for optimism that it will start to die with the present, older generation. It is time we act to assure full equality of opportunity to those citizens who, although in a majority, suffer the restrictions that are commonly imposed on minorities—to women.

“The amendment is necessary to clarify countless ambiguities and inconsistencies in our legal system…Women are excluded from some State colleges and universities. In some States, restrictions are placed on a married woman who engages in an independent business. Women may not be chosen for some juries. Women even receive heavier criminal penalties than men who commit the same crime.

“Sex prejudice cuts both ways. Men are oppressed by the requirements of the Selective Service Act, by enforced legal guardianship of minors, and by alimony laws. Each sex, I believe, should be liable when necessary to serve and defend this country. Each has a responsibility for the support of children… Working conditions and hours that are harmful to women are harmful to men; wages that are unfair for women are unfair for men.

“This is what it comes down to: artificial distinctions between persons must be wiped out of the law. Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.”

Representative Chisholm is rumored to be considering her own run for President, which would be the ultimate test of just how equal women and men can be in this country.

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