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CONGRESSMENGOVERNORS

Elks Announce fo r 1975-76 . . .

National Foundation ScholarshipsTin Board of Tnatees of tba

Dka NaUoanl gotmdntton baa annotmwd that the number of aeboianhlpe to ha awarded haa aat a new raeord. For the now- deotk; year U7S-7S, then win be P96 arhniafihipa ranttan from taoo to mm. a total of

John 1,. Walker of Roanoke, VUtfala, Pant Ormnd Kxalted Rulo- of the B JI.O. dka of the UAA. and Chalnaan of the Noundatloa’a Board of 'nrus-’ taea. also announoad that the Board votad to raatrtet aeholar- ihlp appUoanU to members at the dreauatinc daw of a hIMi aebool or Its e^valent. Poun- datlon aeholarahlps wU] no Milder be awarded to atudenta already tat ooUoOT.

Another major chanpe was voted by the Board. Beriming with this year’s awards, there will be itx four-year aeholar- ahlps to the top three boys and the top three glrM. Heretofore, awards were fbr one year each. The first place awards ctf 0,000 scbolarahips to a boy and to a gbl wUl now assure them at a full four years of study at 0JWO eacbysar.

Second place awards are mSOO for each of four yeara and third idaoe winners win reoatve 0,000 fCr each of four years.

Slnoe its tneepUoD In um. the Bks National Foundation has helpsd thousands of young AmarMans attain a hl0iar adu-catMit with no regard for race, raUglon Qt nattooal orlgia. Iha only eriterU aiw aupartor aeho-

Mattc acUrvement. »»«nhln OuaUtMa, good charactar and bMiavior pattams.

Nation adds competiuan la judged by a panel of dMtta- gutihed AmetMana, not niraa wrily members of the Order ofBks.

AddltlanaUy, there will be 45? “Ifoat ValuaMe StudeuT scboiaiMilpa awarded, rw^taw tat value from PTOO to dlAOd. and M3 slmUar scholarsfalpa worth 5000 each aUocatcd.

Official entry ferine for this year’s competition win be avaB- able at each of the natMoh 3491 Bks lodgw after Deeem. bar nrat, IPTA Deadline for fll- taag U February 10. tS?5.

AD apptteatlons must be filed with the Bmlted Ruler or Bee. retary of the B ks lodge tas whom juiitdlctlon the apph. cant resides.

The National Awodatlon of Secondary School PrincipMa has iriaced the Bks scholar- Miipa <m their advleory list of national contests and aettarttias for ]9?4-?6.

Scholarship winners will be announced about May 1, UTS.

None of the principal funds of the Bks National Foundn- tlcn are need . . . only the earn­ings derived from prudent In. vestments are distributed, hence the total grows eadt year.

Walker hag termed the coot- trlbutlons to the Bks National Foundation as **An investmeaS in humanity.” —

Editor’s MailBlack Candidates In The 1974

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tla i bat’s laak at atliar alaetlssi bardeet la ba a salat. twMille* CoImnmIo oIocimIBm bfaM t t tha gaal af ‘ot« •dttva faithUm Im m tirrefww In my « » An rionii wny elBinv He

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Thetlyth Of Black Contentment

By Dr. Nathaniel Wr^, Jr. .h u m a n RIGHTS ACTIVIST

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"Tha day M hrrams Hear taal Social S e c ^ y leglafallea fat e l aaedy aad halgleas ettfaeaa had berooM a panaaarni part af (he paHltral phBeeeghy af bath gardee, m that vary day, Iha Negro sheald have begM to shag belwaea the gardes aad sweag the caadtdalee far thaaa atfertag faha the aMel to dvg rights leglsfadM.''

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UdBsalfaa af Mfaletori Alrehel Ci M Sslafsi TreattoMi Aharaadvee te Bfacfc Caatanadiy, Dec. ISt

aad Gahfaace Kaaaas CUy.

Troataiaat af Bfack FaadSee aad Indtvldaala WMh Dtlahlag Priklsnii. Dac. 17i Aea CaaMirl, Willlaai McGrath, Uriel Oweas, Rebfa Biggs, Caralyti Swift, Clyde OfBoer md

the*Ceaats HiaBey, PeMsmlr Og- Dr. gerlaally Peaadaliea, lac..

During the past several years a num ber of books and articles have been written with the tuggcMton that the period of black disconicnt has passed and that a vast proportion of blacks bave now enietwd tbc "black middle cUss."

jT bere k no doubt ibai those who look at the pain­fu l OS em barruaing realities around them with rmj- cniored gla«et will conm up writh a rosy slant, ao aaaiter bow bleak the picture au y be in actuality.

So far aa ibe saaarivc ateveawai of Mack Aaicri- caus into a kind of middle claw tu tu s , the facts cry out hsudly otherwise. VertuMi Jordon, Eaensttve Di­rector of the National U rban League, reminded the League’s national crnivention this rear not be dr-

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growing wealth and comfort of black Americans.Jordan noted that one out of three blacks k poor

and that only twenty percent of (or only one out of five) black Americans are existing on middle class living standards. In addition, tbe League's Execu­tive Director pointed out that cbe long-utanding and unclosing gap between average white and black in ­come in America increased by S600. T b u latter fact represents the most clear indication that blacks, on the Anunwan economic scene, face a worsening po­sition in relation to their white American counterparts.

Jordan stated: "T h e grim , brutal reality for black people in 1974 k not middle class status but deprivation and m arginal existence.*’ These somber words, based upon the must certain evidence at­tainable. should lay to rest the false prognostications of the surry-cyed optimtsu who would mislead black Ic white Americans in regard to one of the most grave Ic potentially perilous inequities which face us.

Perhaps the greatest tragedy k not that blacks, in ­creasingly are left out of the higher benefit levcb (and even have less on the lower benefit levels). Rather it is the irony that substantial numbers of both the black and white leadership communities cannot bring themselves to accept, either intellcctn- ally oc emotionally, the awesome realities of the dif- ficu* precarious place in which black America finds itself. Driving through the middle class (aad even tome upper middle clast) sections trf our central cities with lush green lawns and finely built houaes vacated hurriedly by fleeing whites, and now occu­pied by a few comfortably situated blacks, nuy easi­ly give support to our predkposition to feci that all k vreli (or even better) for black Americans.

T be easiest racki mectaankm (by which all of us arc touched in some measure) k to exclaim inwardly

or to proclaim otherwise the message; "W hy tbcac Macks are Itving much better than many white folks that I know l" T bc inferent and embarrassingly ob­vious implication here k tbe inherited cultural as­sumption chat blacks are gnesta or outsiden in Aaaerica that somehow it k incongruous or inappro­priate for some Macks to have more than whiles postoss. regardless oi hard work, good htek or inher­ited gifts or fortune.

Black Aaaericans foremost need to be lulled out of their fake dreams or illusions. So long as Mack peo­ple delude themselves the task remains exceedingly difficult, if not well nigh impossible, e f bringing tbc nation as a whole to tbe stark rca liu tio n that all k nnr well In <vur dotnestie affairs aad that there may be nothing short of an urban-ractai nme bomb in our midst.

W hat k taid here underscores the fact that, no matter how sincere our intentions, our past ap­proaches have not improved the economic status of black Americana but, at best, have kept things from getting worse.

All Aiaericani m utt face the bitter fact that black Americans are not "just like all other Americans.” In spile of the herme efforts of tbe television and ad­vertising industries in showing to the puMic the faces of black Americans, it should not be impossible for us to realize that centuries at inherited belief and practice regarding the inferimrity and "effec­tive non-existence" of blacks cannot be overcome overnight.

T h u points to two immediate needs. One is for all Americans to come to grips with the residual nature of the inherited racist beliefs and practices which touch every American, in some measure, whether while or Mack. Since tbe shoe pinches Macks the hardest, it is almost inexcusable for any blacks to continue to play the self-deluding and nation-im ­perilling game which might be called, "All-is-well- with-black America-” White Americans cannot be expected to sec and accept the d tffk u lt circum ­stances of black Americans which blacks continue to mark or deny.

Blacks must also become far more group-reliant. W hile individual blacks may find it hard to make it “on their own," blacks can spend collectively, vote collectively, organize collectively, plan collectively and speak collectively. There k . even today, no major black collective voice speaking for black America. Thanks only to the interracial (and highly necettary) National Urban League does even a Vernon Jordan have a podium from which to sound a needed note of warning!

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