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Show BLACK upon a society that lives by a philosophy of unity, patience, tolerance and_ understanding. Abraham Lincoln expressed our obligation in Chicago in 1863. HISTORY Commenting on the service of black troops in “Negroes, the Civil War, he said, like other people, act fe Upon motives. Why should they do meee anything for us if we will do os S nothing for them? Why should they M stake their lives for us unless they are prompted by the _ strongest motive, even the promise. of freedom, and the promise being made must be kept.”’ (Excerpts for this portion of the series on Black History were taken from “A Guide to Negro History in America’ by Phillip T. Drothing.) Page 3 JOB OPENINGS: Minority Awarness Six Utah employers will hire and train 14 disadvantaged jobless workers under the JOBS (Job Opportunities in the Business Series Planned Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church will hold a 6 week series on Minority Awareness, beginning September 13th. The meetings will be held each Sunday evening, featuring literature, speakers Additional obtained by 278-1412. information calling the and _ films. program, the Department of Labor announced. The Manpower Administration will allocate the $24,422 to defray expense of hiring the untrained and inexperienced personnel. | can be church, 4 Office Clerks Walker Bank and Trust Co. will hire four as general office clerks. Wages at the end of 18 weeks of training ELECT CARL Sector) will be $1.85 an hour. J. NEMELKA First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. will hire three trainees as general clerks with wages of $1.80 an hour Most white, Americans, if asked 1 both black and about Negro contributions to American life and history, would answer with a blank stare. And the reason is simple. This 1848, noted that the Negro families always laid in supplies. for the winter. It infuriated him that a few improvident white families then “sponged off them’’ when the cold weather arrived. Bankhead lectured the Negroes for giving up part of their meager stores, ‘‘but they were kind and generous-hearted people who shared anything they had with anyone who asked for it.”’ Ultimately. many. blacks after 18 weeks of training. Schocker Construction Co. will hire a clerk, an asphalt raker and (DEMOCRAT) The records also reveal countless deeds of herosim and examples of devotion on the part of. blacks. When several children fell into a stream along the Mormon trail in 1850, Charlotte, the black servant of the Williams Camp _ family, rescued all of them and then “‘held them by their heels and rolled them over an old barrel.”’ She said later that if one had drowned she would have jumped into the river again and gone down with him. Similar tales of black courage, stamina and generosity were recorded by is one of the most neglected of all topics in:-our history books; particularly in Utah. Blacks played a very important part in settling and shaping major parts of Utah, as they did in other states. Local history groups would do well to publicize this information and bring this segment of our society back into the main stream where they pioneers on all of the old western belong. | Because there is such a serious wagon trails. Salt Lake City Cemetery lack of black history in our schools, WORDPOWERNewspaper is contains the grave of Elijah Abel, beginning a new series on_ this the only black known to have been subject with emphasis on the role ordained in the priesthood of the Chuteh. -of— Jesus: Christ “of of the black in our own state. Latter-Day Saints. Abel was an undertaker in Nauvoo, Illinois, Utah History before his conversion. to Hundreds of blacks emigrated to Mormonism. He came to Salt Lake the Valley of the Great Salt Lake City with the pioneers and operated with the pioneer Mormon parties the Farnham Hotel here. He was and were known for _ their active in the church, and died in undramatic virtues of providence 1884 of an illness arising from and generosity. John Bankhead, exposure during a missionary trip who settled in Wellsville, Utah in to Canada and Ohio. ATTORNEY pipelayer If you live or work in a poverty area, you have a greater than average interest in the administration of criminal justice and the handling of county legal matters. Protect that interest by electing a county $1.80 an hour after eight weeks of Let your voice be heard! wages of $1.73 an weeks of training. Register and vote hour after 18 Primary election Sept. 8th Paid Political Adv. By JOHN D. O°CONNELL OO CONGRATULATIONS , Mr. Kelvin V. Neilson, Editor, has undertaken his task with just the right combination of compassion, humor and a dedication to communication. In his preface to the first issure, he acknowledges a standard stumbling block of all penal publications--censorship by tactfully presenting both sides of a problem. In the first issue, poetry, cartoons, a picture-story of the Felon Follies and a well written article on the two Federal vocational training programs keep the reader interested. Mr. Neilson, Ronald Peachee, Pressman, Ernie issues. Utah and no money to retain an attorney. Donations can, be mailed to the Fund, c/o First Unitarian gig A. iy } =6For details cal! 487-7557. QQ dorky Dear Le ~wweweoeorolwrwhnereh Bo pera rw eww ( teeyet oveco Music Furnished for All —— x CLUB ENGAGEMENTS « WEDDING % CONVENTIONS %& PRIVATEPARTIES. Gaytime Musicions Avellable Other Musk Group: Avelloble 75 Ww. seuth Temple PREJUDICED TEXTBOOKS (The Fund organized by a group of concerned citizens, .is not concerned with guilt or innocence of the accused, only in assuring him a fair and just trail. The Fund will hopefully counsel continue to provide legal and financial assistance for accused disadvantaged and minority persons in Utah.) The NAACP writes that it is collecting samples of prejudiced textbooks. Here’s our contribution from the fourth grade history, Know Alabama: ‘‘The Klan did not ride often, only when it had to. But whenever some bad thing was done by a person who thought the Carpetbagger law would protect him, the white-robed Klan would appear on the streets. They would go to the person who had done the wrong and leave a warning. Sometimes this warning was enough but if the person kept on doing the bad, lawless things, the Klan came back again. They held their courts in the Lake City, Utah 84102. as 0-0] Villa We Also Cater Mexican Feed Church, 569 South 13th East, Salt Gro OOOO for men and women 474 Westminster 355-0827 You can Help! has no friend or relatives in O- Triplett, Pressman, Gary -Brimhall, Photographer and Boyd L. Bowler, Art Director have published an issue tO be proud of--we congratulate you and look forward to future <8 St. Joseph's > » ’ Congratulations to the Editor and Stari of the Pointer News, a quarterly publication designed to serve as a medium of inmate expression from the Utah State Prison. English, BLVD. IN OGDEN Driver training. Tracy-Collins Bank & Trust Co. will hire two general office clerks with STOP 23rd and WASHINGTON up to $4.18 Pembroke Co., will hire a laborer and truck driver with wages of of poor people. The Pedro Luis Crispin Legal Fund is soliciting Defense donations to obtain legal counsel for Mr. Crispin, accused of killing a fellow Job Corpman a few weeks ago. Mr. Crispin speaks little 250 SOUTH STATE SALT LAKE CITY wages Truck attorney who knows and understands the problems accompanied the Mormon parties on their westward journeys. For the administration. Mr. Neilson will example, the Mississippi company attempt to avoid this situation by in 1848 included fifty-seven white . members and thirty-four blacks. These are only a few highlights in Utah history which show that blacks have deliberately been written out of our nation’s history. We must now learn history based WHEN YOU WANT with an hour after 13 weeks of training. aw Part COUNTY BR ad EIN TEE aes? She Sito ey eae CR eae) SEE Ra AONE ee TIRE ee Ca OS ee neo or as Abe, fear Sue EY >, $3 >, Gia ities Quy Bare ae orm take dark forest at night, they passed sentence on the criminals, and they carried out the sentence.” ~ Lucky it only rode when it had to. (Copyright, The New Republic) |
