Show 10— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday February 10 1988 Rosa Parks says blacks still face problems Carol Burne Minneapolis Star Trihunw By TUSKEGEE Ala — Rosa Parks came home a hero last week with all the honors due a venerable historical figure on her 75th birthday They held a chicken dinner in City Hall gave her a key to the city and named a street after her Students read their winn- - Cop ing essays in the “Rosa Parks: A Living Legacy" contest and the Rappers from Tuskegee High had a chant about her But she made it clear in her gentle but determined way that the upheaval she precipitated 30 years ago when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man is far from over today “The struggle goes on and on passing from one person to another" she said “We have different obstacles today from back then but they are still down to a white rate of 72 percent and a black rate of 199 director for The same disparity occurs in the number of people living below the poverty level The most recent overall state rate was 189 percent with 121 percent of the whites and 385 percent of the blacks It’s not just a matter of economics Alabama has the worst infant mortality rate in the nation with 133 deaths per 1000 babies The white figure is 111 the black 199 Slightly more than half of all black children live in single-parefamilies while 177 percent of Emmett Burns “Things have changed on the surface in the last 30 years but white children do Burns said a few blacks have been able to work their way up into the middle class But “even those who advance find themselves the victims of subtle racism" he said “A black makes it to middle management and then is told he's going no further It used to be they hit him on the head and told him now they shake his hand and tell him But the end result is still the same: He doesn’t advance" The end of segregation actually hurt black businesses said Jerry McFarland first vice president of the Alabama national percent the NAACP “Whites in the South are always genteel but only as long as blacks don’t infringe on their money and power Do that and you see that the New South smues with false teeth” These are tough times economically for all Alabama but its black citizens 25 percent of the population of 4 million remain the poorest In 1986 the state's unemployment rate of 98 percent was the in the nation But that broke obstacles” Continued from page 9 nation’s leading Klan cities Even today a mud flat along the Trinity River Bottoms is known as “flogging meadows" It was there in the early 1920s that hundreds of Klan beatings took place 86 in 1922 alone During the period many top at the heart and the intestinal level they're the same” said fifth-wor- st nt and the owner of a NAACP serviceto in cleaning “It be used Birmingham to trade with but not anymore" he blacks had blacks said blacks free to trade anywhere give some of their business to white store owners and black businesses which have not picked up a corresponding amount of white trade are going under One of the theories of the civil rights movement was that economic equality would follow political equality In fact it hasn’t been that simple Now raassBW city jobs were held by Klansmen and the Klan sponsored a number of civic events and charities including an orphanage still in operation For more than a decade the organization held a special "Klan Day" at the Stated airwhere attendance usually numbered in excess of 70000 Influence of the Klan - SWINGS FOR OUR HOME diminished through the 1950s as the city grew more cosmopolitan although a string of church and school bombings made for an uneasy peace between the races Oddly Martin Luther King’s movement and the social storms it engendered did not shake the city’s power base as in other major Southern cities Historian and columnist Jim Schulze credits city fathers with reaching an accommodation with blacks “The (governing) oligarchy knew exactly where to watch for the trouble to start” Schutze says “Black demands civil rights the Kennedys It had all been of one string" The accommodation suggests Ragsdale is only now coming unraveled “The public outrage over (Chase’s) death and the sudden talk about what’s been going on between blacks and whites is just the culmination of the civil rights movement" she says "And it’s long overdue" The police death cast light on another dark corner Dallas has a homeless population of ULTIMA services if any Reg -- FRENCH WHITE OPEN STOCK public soup shelters only private charities in a smattering of neighborhoods When a crippling New Year's freeze swept the city impromptu shelters had to be created In addition many of Dallas's homeless are mentally disturbed They live in the open because there is no other place for them The killer was one of family members signed a mental illness warrant for his arrest after outbursts of violence at home Last August he was picked up on the street where he had been released by the treatment centers for trying to assault a Hand 800 Washcloth 400 400 200 Hospital’sroompsychiatric “He was just emergency striking out in anger and police were a convenient 2000-3300- polyester Lifetime II 0 pads reg SALE 599 299 ENTIRE STOCK TEACUPS TEAPOTS DEMI-SET- S SAVE 50 10-cu- p Small Electrics Cotton and from Perfect Fit by Chatham and more! 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