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URBAN LEAGUE O-J-T REFUNDED WT. « T m H Wei SOUTH PO«-« BENO V Vol 2, No. 15 South Bend, Indiana 46625 15£ PH *• February 2,1969 Churches Pledge Commitment Urban League Executive Director Cassell A. Lawson following his announcement of a $120,000 On-The-Job Training contract with the National Urban League of- fice. Photo by Milton Herring. Over the years, Afro-A- mericans have come to ex- pect a certain amount of hypocrisy on racial matters from public officials. Be- cause the majority of Afro- Americans have taken the teachings of Jesus Christ at their face value, they are less forgiving of inaction in these matters by Chris- tian church leaders or other religious leaders. In a recent memorial march for the Rev. Dr. Mar- tin Luther King, Jf. in Mem- phis, Tennessee, a group of World CouncilofChurchlea- ders were told by a black militant organization to "get off their tails." In Chicago, Cardinal Cody of the Roman Catholic Church is being challenged by 170 black priests from around the country to apppoint black pastors and to make the po- sition of the Church more clear on racial issues af- fecting Chicago. Rabbis in New York City are telling their synagogue members to examine their consciences The Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Inc. would like to announce the signing of a $120,000 ON - THE - JOB - Training contract (OJT) with the Na- tional Urban League office. The new contract, effec- tive Febraury 1, 1969, pro- vides for 100 training slots. The Urban League will seek to place 10 persons a month for a 12 month per- iod. The new contract wiU in- Project Director, Representative, Advisor, and Sec- clude a Field Trainee retary. In our new contract, we will stay in tune with the New Thrust Movement in the Urban League. We will sit down with the black com- munity and the relevant em- ployment organizations to determine needs, the exist- ing criteria for selection, training, and upgrading, and (Continued on Page 3) PUBLIC HEARING Model Neighborhood Program Feb. 3rd, 7:00 P.M. Hansel Center Legal Aid Society Organizes Education Program 9 » Vs. The Legal Services — Legal Education program in conjunction with Notre Dame Law School and Action, Inc. is planning a program to ac- quaint residents with various service agencies in the com- munity. The programs will be of- fered in Southeast, Clay, Northeast, and LaSalle Neighborhood centers. The meetings will be held weekly beginning the week of Jan- uary 27. The topics included are welfare rights, tenant rights, township poor relief, and consumer education, as well as general information on law. Anyone interested should contact the neighborhood centers for the dates and time of these meetings. Meeting schedules will also be posted in the neighborhood centers. The Administrators of the Legal Education program explained it in the following way: "Many of the cases com- ing to our offices center around problems with pub- lic welfare agencies. In- stead of dealing with indi- vidual cases as they arise, we feel we can be most effective in educating in- dividuals so the problems do not arise. "We are proposing a pro- gram of meetings on Wel- fare Rights at the neighbor- hood centers to implement our ideas. The following is an outline of what we pro- pose to cover: 1. General meeting - Open to any recipient or anyone interested in any welfare program. In this, we would explain our purpose and out- line to those in attendance what we plan. Open to any suggestions of audience. 2. Discussion of eligibility requirements for programs. 3. Discussion of the appli- cation process and the rights of individuals in this. 4. Discussion of agency budgets. 5. Discussion Jf a per- son's rights as a recipient: a. Wardship b. Fair hearings c. Appeals d. Caseworker's respon- sibility e. Recipient's respon- sibility f. How to change the laws g. How to get assistance in dealing with agencies h. Right's Groups Tenant's rights Consumer rights "From this initial pro- gram, we hope to cultivate ideas which might instigate formation of other interest and right's groups. We would also hope to stimulate inter- classes to be taughtbyNotre est in preventative law (Continued on Page 5) Step//? fetchit Tells His Story By Milton Herring (A product of the Apprentice Writer's Workshop) Human Relations Institute Feb. 11th Mr. Stepin Fetchit as he appeared following a recent performance at a South Bend night club. Photo by Milton Herring. Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, 76, alias Step in Fetchit—, the incred- ible man who got his name from a race horse. Stepin Fetchit's portrayal of a shuffling, black, slothful, eye-ball roUing, crap shoot- er made him the first Negro millionaire. He was the first Negro to stay in a hotel in the south, and the first to fly coast- to-coast in an airplane. At the peak of his career, he reportedly had 12 cars plus a passionate pink Cad- illac with his name in flash- ing neon lights, and 16 Chin- ese servants. He said, "I lived the life of long distance phone caUs and $1,000 suits." In five years during his Jreat career, he had allowed 7,000,000 to get through his hands. In 1944, his high spend- ing caused him to go bank- rupt. During the summer of 1968, CBS News was so eager to set times straight with their "Black America" ser- ies that they ignored one of the first lessons in journa- lism—and that is to go to the source first. CBS brought out Stepin Fetchit's image of the lazy, crap shooting, eye-ball roU- ing, foot shuffler as the av- erage Negro. Step Fetchit disagreed. He said "It was not Martin Luther King who emancipated the ModernNe- gro but me. CBS portrayed me as if I were a villain. Stepin prefers to think of himself as a 'Representa- tive of Christianity" and as an American. On separatism he says "It doesn't make sense for those who want to be equal to be separate." It leaves the Negro in the technical slavery." "I don't know anything a- bout Africa, I am an Ameri- can. I was born an Ameri- can and I am an American." Mrs. Rosemary Mitchell (Center) of the Legal Aid Society of St. Joseph County discusses the legal educa- tion program with staff members of the Southeast Side Neighborhood Center. Another meeting is scheduled for February 5th, 4:00 p.m. at the LaSalle Neighbor- hood Centej. Photo by Milton Herring. When Step was at the peak of his career, he said: "The Negro had no civil rights." "I accepted inferior parts on the condition that there were small redeeming fea- tures to show all men we're created equal. * "I often stole the picture and was acclaimed a star". So now the only thing Step- in asks CBS for, is equal time to clear his name. " He created his own flim image," said his lawyer. "He's not stupid or lazy or foot shuf- fling, but a very fine, clean, outspoken comedian from the yester-years who broke the unwritten law of a period when American movies al- lowed the Negro only unim- portant and inferior parts." Today Fetchit still re- sides in the Lake Meadow neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. "I talked to Step, a man that looks only half his age, two weeks ago at a night club In South Bend, where he was performing his com- edy routine. How is he now? « My financial status,'' he said, "is that I'm indepen- on practices which may cause racial tensions. So as to leave no doubt about the positions of Chris- tians and Jews on racial is- sues facing St. Joseph Coun- ty and the Northern Indiana area, 250 representatives from worshipping communi- ties in the five northern counties met g.t Notre Dame's Continuing Educa- tion Center on Thursday night, January 30th, to com- mit themselves and hope- fully, their communities, to brotherhood of all men through "Project Commit- ment." Project Commitment is a program for organizing churchmen for interracial justice founded three years ago in Detroit by Joseph Hansknecht, chairman of die Roman Catholic Detroit Archdiocesan Human Rela- tions Committee. Both the Detroit Project and another started in Cincinnati are ec- umenical among Christians. The St. Joseph County Proj- ect is the only one of its kind, so far, in the United States, to include represen- tatives of the Jewish relig- ion^ •The meeting held Thurs- day-evening was the result of discussions and planning by concerned area citizens over the last year and one- half. The present leadership of Projcct Ccnnr.itecut in-' eludes: Mr. James P. Dane- hy, General Chairman. Mr. Danehy is a co-founder and past president of the Catholic Interracial Council, and presently chairman of the Human Relations Commis- sion of the local Catholic iiocese. Mr. Robert O. La- ven, Vice-Chairman. Mr. Laven is a City Councilman representing the third dis- trict. Mr. Bowen Kerrihard, Executive Officer. Mr. Ker- rihard is presently Program Director for the South Bend office of the National Con- continued on Page 7) A 20-minute skit "Let's Get Basic" will be presented at the 20th Annual Insltute sponsored by the Women's Council for Human Relations Tues., Feb. U, from 9:30 to 3 p.m., at Temple Beth- El, 305 W. Madison Street, • South Bend. Young people appearing in | the skit and understudies will dent and I don't need any- I thing. I'm a poor man but | a happy man." Not too poor though. He wore a leopard skin "tux" and a gold ring with a diamond the size of a silver dollar. But, nevertheless, Stepin Fetchit is from another era. Teenagers, Mack or white, don't know of him. While I was watching his show, a white patron, about 40, told me, "You can't really be- gin to understand what a great man this is or enjoy him like I can. He's some- thing out of the past." be Tom Weissert, Willia Weymon, Tina Woods, Bruce DeBoskey, Sue and Dave Dickerson, Judy Driver, and Gregory Lauer. Short talks wiU be given by four young people during the morning session on the gen- eral theme "Youth Tells It As It Is." Mrs. Guy Cur- tis, program director, has announced that four speakers have been chosen— Mark Rapalski, Val MaxweU, Joe Rubin and David Hill. Rabbi Elliott D. Ro- senstock of Temple Beth-El will give the invocation and welcome. Next, a ten-min- ute program of music- will be given by the Washington High School Glee Club di- rected by Marilyn Green. A special guest at the In- stitute will be Congressman John Brademas. Reservations for the noon luncheon to be served be- tween the morning and after- noon sessions should be (Continued on Page 3) n9 *4
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Title | The Reformer, February 02, 1969 |
Volume, Issue Number | Vol. 2, No. 15 |
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South Bend (Ind.)--Newspapers African Americans--Indiana--South Bend |
Original Date | 1969-02-02 |
Time Period | 1960s (1960-1969) |
Digital Date | 2015-03-26 |
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Genre | Newspapers |
Language | en |
Identifier | NEWS-REF-19690202 |
Repository Collection | Local & Family History Services Archival Collection |
Physical Repository | St. Joseph County Public Library |
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Transcription | URBAN LEAGUE O-J-T REFUNDED WT. « T m H Wei SOUTH PO«-« BENO V Vol 2, No. 15 South Bend, Indiana 46625 15£ PH *• February 2,1969 Churches Pledge Commitment Urban League Executive Director Cassell A. Lawson following his announcement of a $120,000 On-The-Job Training contract with the National Urban League of- fice. Photo by Milton Herring. Over the years, Afro-A- mericans have come to ex- pect a certain amount of hypocrisy on racial matters from public officials. Be- cause the majority of Afro- Americans have taken the teachings of Jesus Christ at their face value, they are less forgiving of inaction in these matters by Chris- tian church leaders or other religious leaders. In a recent memorial march for the Rev. Dr. Mar- tin Luther King, Jf. in Mem- phis, Tennessee, a group of World CouncilofChurchlea- ders were told by a black militant organization to "get off their tails." In Chicago, Cardinal Cody of the Roman Catholic Church is being challenged by 170 black priests from around the country to apppoint black pastors and to make the po- sition of the Church more clear on racial issues af- fecting Chicago. Rabbis in New York City are telling their synagogue members to examine their consciences The Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Inc. would like to announce the signing of a $120,000 ON - THE - JOB - Training contract (OJT) with the Na- tional Urban League office. The new contract, effec- tive Febraury 1, 1969, pro- vides for 100 training slots. The Urban League will seek to place 10 persons a month for a 12 month per- iod. The new contract wiU in- Project Director, Representative, Advisor, and Sec- clude a Field Trainee retary. In our new contract, we will stay in tune with the New Thrust Movement in the Urban League. We will sit down with the black com- munity and the relevant em- ployment organizations to determine needs, the exist- ing criteria for selection, training, and upgrading, and (Continued on Page 3) PUBLIC HEARING Model Neighborhood Program Feb. 3rd, 7:00 P.M. Hansel Center Legal Aid Society Organizes Education Program 9 » Vs. The Legal Services — Legal Education program in conjunction with Notre Dame Law School and Action, Inc. is planning a program to ac- quaint residents with various service agencies in the com- munity. The programs will be of- fered in Southeast, Clay, Northeast, and LaSalle Neighborhood centers. The meetings will be held weekly beginning the week of Jan- uary 27. The topics included are welfare rights, tenant rights, township poor relief, and consumer education, as well as general information on law. Anyone interested should contact the neighborhood centers for the dates and time of these meetings. Meeting schedules will also be posted in the neighborhood centers. The Administrators of the Legal Education program explained it in the following way: "Many of the cases com- ing to our offices center around problems with pub- lic welfare agencies. In- stead of dealing with indi- vidual cases as they arise, we feel we can be most effective in educating in- dividuals so the problems do not arise. "We are proposing a pro- gram of meetings on Wel- fare Rights at the neighbor- hood centers to implement our ideas. The following is an outline of what we pro- pose to cover: 1. General meeting - Open to any recipient or anyone interested in any welfare program. In this, we would explain our purpose and out- line to those in attendance what we plan. Open to any suggestions of audience. 2. Discussion of eligibility requirements for programs. 3. Discussion of the appli- cation process and the rights of individuals in this. 4. Discussion of agency budgets. 5. Discussion Jf a per- son's rights as a recipient: a. Wardship b. Fair hearings c. Appeals d. Caseworker's respon- sibility e. Recipient's respon- sibility f. How to change the laws g. How to get assistance in dealing with agencies h. Right's Groups Tenant's rights Consumer rights "From this initial pro- gram, we hope to cultivate ideas which might instigate formation of other interest and right's groups. We would also hope to stimulate inter- classes to be taughtbyNotre est in preventative law (Continued on Page 5) Step//? fetchit Tells His Story By Milton Herring (A product of the Apprentice Writer's Workshop) Human Relations Institute Feb. 11th Mr. Stepin Fetchit as he appeared following a recent performance at a South Bend night club. Photo by Milton Herring. Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, 76, alias Step in Fetchit—, the incred- ible man who got his name from a race horse. Stepin Fetchit's portrayal of a shuffling, black, slothful, eye-ball roUing, crap shoot- er made him the first Negro millionaire. He was the first Negro to stay in a hotel in the south, and the first to fly coast- to-coast in an airplane. At the peak of his career, he reportedly had 12 cars plus a passionate pink Cad- illac with his name in flash- ing neon lights, and 16 Chin- ese servants. He said, "I lived the life of long distance phone caUs and $1,000 suits." In five years during his Jreat career, he had allowed 7,000,000 to get through his hands. In 1944, his high spend- ing caused him to go bank- rupt. During the summer of 1968, CBS News was so eager to set times straight with their "Black America" ser- ies that they ignored one of the first lessons in journa- lism—and that is to go to the source first. CBS brought out Stepin Fetchit's image of the lazy, crap shooting, eye-ball roU- ing, foot shuffler as the av- erage Negro. Step Fetchit disagreed. He said "It was not Martin Luther King who emancipated the ModernNe- gro but me. CBS portrayed me as if I were a villain. Stepin prefers to think of himself as a 'Representa- tive of Christianity" and as an American. On separatism he says "It doesn't make sense for those who want to be equal to be separate." It leaves the Negro in the technical slavery." "I don't know anything a- bout Africa, I am an Ameri- can. I was born an Ameri- can and I am an American." Mrs. Rosemary Mitchell (Center) of the Legal Aid Society of St. Joseph County discusses the legal educa- tion program with staff members of the Southeast Side Neighborhood Center. Another meeting is scheduled for February 5th, 4:00 p.m. at the LaSalle Neighbor- hood Centej. Photo by Milton Herring. When Step was at the peak of his career, he said: "The Negro had no civil rights." "I accepted inferior parts on the condition that there were small redeeming fea- tures to show all men we're created equal. * "I often stole the picture and was acclaimed a star". So now the only thing Step- in asks CBS for, is equal time to clear his name. " He created his own flim image," said his lawyer. "He's not stupid or lazy or foot shuf- fling, but a very fine, clean, outspoken comedian from the yester-years who broke the unwritten law of a period when American movies al- lowed the Negro only unim- portant and inferior parts." Today Fetchit still re- sides in the Lake Meadow neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. "I talked to Step, a man that looks only half his age, two weeks ago at a night club In South Bend, where he was performing his com- edy routine. How is he now? « My financial status,'' he said, "is that I'm indepen- on practices which may cause racial tensions. So as to leave no doubt about the positions of Chris- tians and Jews on racial is- sues facing St. Joseph Coun- ty and the Northern Indiana area, 250 representatives from worshipping communi- ties in the five northern counties met g.t Notre Dame's Continuing Educa- tion Center on Thursday night, January 30th, to com- mit themselves and hope- fully, their communities, to brotherhood of all men through "Project Commit- ment." Project Commitment is a program for organizing churchmen for interracial justice founded three years ago in Detroit by Joseph Hansknecht, chairman of die Roman Catholic Detroit Archdiocesan Human Rela- tions Committee. Both the Detroit Project and another started in Cincinnati are ec- umenical among Christians. The St. Joseph County Proj- ect is the only one of its kind, so far, in the United States, to include represen- tatives of the Jewish relig- ion^ •The meeting held Thurs- day-evening was the result of discussions and planning by concerned area citizens over the last year and one- half. The present leadership of Projcct Ccnnr.itecut in-' eludes: Mr. James P. Dane- hy, General Chairman. Mr. Danehy is a co-founder and past president of the Catholic Interracial Council, and presently chairman of the Human Relations Commis- sion of the local Catholic iiocese. Mr. Robert O. La- ven, Vice-Chairman. Mr. Laven is a City Councilman representing the third dis- trict. Mr. Bowen Kerrihard, Executive Officer. Mr. Ker- rihard is presently Program Director for the South Bend office of the National Con- continued on Page 7) A 20-minute skit "Let's Get Basic" will be presented at the 20th Annual Insltute sponsored by the Women's Council for Human Relations Tues., Feb. U, from 9:30 to 3 p.m., at Temple Beth- El, 305 W. Madison Street, • South Bend. Young people appearing in | the skit and understudies will dent and I don't need any- I thing. I'm a poor man but | a happy man." Not too poor though. He wore a leopard skin "tux" and a gold ring with a diamond the size of a silver dollar. But, nevertheless, Stepin Fetchit is from another era. Teenagers, Mack or white, don't know of him. While I was watching his show, a white patron, about 40, told me, "You can't really be- gin to understand what a great man this is or enjoy him like I can. He's some- thing out of the past." be Tom Weissert, Willia Weymon, Tina Woods, Bruce DeBoskey, Sue and Dave Dickerson, Judy Driver, and Gregory Lauer. Short talks wiU be given by four young people during the morning session on the gen- eral theme "Youth Tells It As It Is." Mrs. Guy Cur- tis, program director, has announced that four speakers have been chosen— Mark Rapalski, Val MaxweU, Joe Rubin and David Hill. Rabbi Elliott D. Ro- senstock of Temple Beth-El will give the invocation and welcome. Next, a ten-min- ute program of music- will be given by the Washington High School Glee Club di- rected by Marilyn Green. A special guest at the In- stitute will be Congressman John Brademas. Reservations for the noon luncheon to be served be- tween the morning and after- noon sessions should be (Continued on Page 3) n9 *4 |
Provenance | St. Joseph County Public Library (South Bend, IN) |
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