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Show BLACK HISTORY WEEK February 1-14, 1971 While we are dedicating this issue of helping young black people become Wordpower to Black History Week, the purpose of the newspaper is to eliminate racism through education and to destroy discrimination through changing attitudes. So history makers. It won't be done in one week. It’s a year round, our’s is not an effort for one week but rather an on-going process. : year-after-year may job. Some _ whites help along the way remember those giants before those black when women the Association for the Study but it’s a sure thing, they will not do it all for the black man. Take a few minutes this week to Negro History Week has been celebrated nationally since 1926 who were who went men and CAP to the children. to Wordpower. will print excerpts from determined of Negro Life and History originated the event. That there isa forge ahead against all odds and be thankful that they lived and made national celebration of black people and the part they have played in the development of this’country is primarily due to Carter G, “I’m Woodson, known Born : in Canton, was 22 before with work as a coal miner. With his high school education, he could have become a school teacher and — settled down to a modest living. But he went on to little Berea College in Kentucky, traveled north to the University of Chicago and finally earned his doctor of Philosophy degree from Harved University in 1912. today «as African-American Association. after people publication the Inc. publish a series of black history books for all age levels — 4 volumes ranging from elementary age level to college age. They also publish an’ Encyclopedia of Black History, monthly bulletins, photograpsh and blake history teaching aids. Please write The Associated Publishers, Inc. at 1538 Ninth Street, N.W., Washington 1, D.C. for further information. Africa In History: Themes and by Basil Davidson. 1969. Paperback. $1.95. by Soul scholars all over the world and in 1937, he founded the Negro History Bulletin, a publication that is widely read by the layman interested in black history. Publishers, Am | A _ fRacist?, compiled and edited by Robert Heyer. Photographs by Fortune Monte, Paulist Press and Association Press, started the History, a still used BLACK Adoff. Macmillan, 1968. $5.95. ‘Historical ; Association, Woodson Journal of Negro monthly of black the Macmillan, 1969. $6.95. Black on Black: Commentaries by Negro Americans, edited by Arnold the founding Associated Outlines, In. 1915 Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, year statement proud” HISTORY READING: he The completed high school. His family has little money and he had to portion time for schooling along A I’m RECOMMENDED Virginia, in 1875, years old known rightful today. and the CAP yearbook to familarize everyone with the program. on Ice, by McGraw-Hill, | Eldridge 1968. Cleaver. $5.95. Also available in paperback. There are many other books related to black history, brotherhood and racism. The Salt Lake City and BOOK REVIEW “A LOOK AT TODAY'S SOCIETY~ By Wilbert M. Mason, Jr. In the midst area of famed Aspen Writer's Workshop for Harlan Smythe Grassfeld. The book is easy reading and is definitely written for the youth of today. encompassed the famed abolitionist, civil rights leader Douglass (Feb. 14) and Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12 — also the day of the founding in 1909 of the NAACP.) During any study of black history, the men whose names will come up most frequently are those men who extended themselves to the limits to them. They struggled through slavery and_ bondage, studying and working toward the day of their freedom. The black youth of today should take a page from the black men of yesterday. Fhey should realize that racist whites, regardless of what they say, are not going to make the way easy. Bad schools are better Utah Library, the College GLENS 3368 So. Redwood Road 298-1713 back on an L.P. By day, Harlan Grassfeld in an eccentric English teacher of a New York ghetto high school. By night, he is Harlan Smythe, the gallant darling of the jet set society. His escapades will tickle your funny bone and at the same time make. you weak at the ridiculous tragedy they present. Harlan is a composite figure of bedroom a “Soul darling Brother’, and a_ Weneed... ladies who want to be Medical Receptionists or |.B.M. Operators. High School Diploma not required and age is no factor. WE’LL TRAIN & QUALIFY YOU! JOB PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE UPON GRADUATION! LIFE-TIME REFRESHER Bee ee PRIVILEGES! the frantic teacher trying to help his ghetto pupils. 7 When he tries to unite his two CALL NOW Bookstore, COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM AT WORK plays. between Meanwhile, the teachers’ 328-1681 Community Administration with to is deeply the community solve some of union, GET INVOLVED Join In The Fight For Equality Action involved SUBSCRIBE problems beseiging the poor. The Executive Director, Bill Biggs, than no schools at all — vocational is a very pleasant man, deeply about the poor. He training for a skilled job is better concerned than no training at all. There is a hopes to be able to get the welfare big world ouside their grants back where they should be believes the welfare system neighborhoods and. they should and prepare to explore it. Black people should be changed. He feels that should use any black history the Nixon Family Assistance plan help solve some of the celebration as stepping off place to will INTERVIEW: the in attempting the FOR A PERSONAL a _ struggle By Shirley Shields The Tires To follow Harlan, the hero of this story, is like listening to life played Zion’s Bookstore are a worlds by directing his pupils in a of Congreue’s few excellent sources for scuh production seventeenth century comedy, “The books. Way of the World”, he stirs up a hornet’s nest of political power available the GOOD TREAD, WILL PASS INSPECT. $5.95) a book featuring a brilliant combination of comedy and tragedy, full of humor and spice, yet urgently relevant to modern society. February Frederick in § 500 of today’s current protests, new sexual freedom, drug addiction and just plain confusion, emerges Harlan Smythe Grassfeld, (Henry Edward, Prentice-Hall, County Libraries, the University of birthdays of Orator and publications contemporary art and music. He received the Rose scholarship to the Used He initiated Negro History Week in 1926 and selected the period in that performance of exactly what takes place in this house of ill repute, u using the names of people involved. Harlan feels he has accomplished his. life-long dream. But in doing this, he realizes that his dream is to go back to the time when people had a sense of beauty and as “‘the father of Negro history." he black Page 5 New York Public School system perfection .and were not busy a better welfare system. CAP is also and the community is well covered destroying everything they didn't involved with the housing problem by the press and national television. understand in the name of social and situations in the public school A particular funny episode occurs change and injustice. The story and system. when the police close down a dialogue may be ridiculous but the They are putting together a “whorehouse. located next door to real trouth is clear — a true portrait yearbook containing a description the high school. The pupils begin a of the ‘‘ways of the world.” of each department in CAP, mass protest to abolish all laws that including future goals. The book inhibit expression! The cold truth is After one reads this experience, one will be distributed the first week in Harlan has a black book revealing should question this ‘‘protest era’. March. Don Ray Sampson, Public the school principals and faculty Are we as a modern socity actually Relations Director for CAP helped members secret visits to the destroying the very values and formulate the book, assisted by forbidden house. freedoms that we so desperately Kermit Jefferson. 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