Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 51]

pa Ex epeaony 0 Be Oe pbegranlenabigy

~Biss editecial policy of the Beonse Shepotber ia~ te Allaet the

__ thought of the Negro, to; expese those persons apd: conditions |.
~whith. prove contrary. to. the. American. way. of. life, to protest |.

~Saets or policies which deny the Negro his full comaciiutipaa |: rights as true American.

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object is to tender % public service through good journalism, and;; a end the Bronze cabal is faithfully dedicated.

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= BRONZE HRPORTER, SATURMAY, JUNE: ic 1963

out long before: high, school, of;. if he- got: as: fan. as. high
school, he gene finished) It is: only. since a. high. school
education has: beem matie- so; freely accessible: to, everyone
that the importanee: off the- dropout has come to: the fore.

_ Even twenty, years: ago. the: dropout: was: not, such,- a; problem because: there. were: always unskilled; jobs: on construction gangs, or in. factories: and:a: host: of other. places. which could; be: filled: by those who terminated. their: aie |

cation from high.schooh =

But now we find ourselves. in. an. era cc nahang|

_ teenage population, increasing: high. school: dropouts, and.
decreasing available: jobs, Many: unskilled: jobs. ane- disappearing daily. heeause- of automation, and: one: cam: i. tondity
see the great? unemployment: problem; this. poses, especially ~
since amotig these: school: dropouts: are. many, who, are; not:
prepared to, cope with the problems, automation, has:
brought.: This problem of high. school: dropouts: is: come
pounded by these: whe: are: nek dropouts, bub who, have:
finished high; schaok, but do, nob wish: to, attend: college;. or:
are not qualified~to do so, and~ yet have learned~ absolutely
nothing which prepares them to-earn a livelihood.

What are the reasons for so many cas and so
many. unprepared. graduates? There. axe many - ~reasons,
but one. of. the important, ones is lack of motivation. by
parents and relatives, and lack of proper counseling and:
guidance, not only by, parents and; friends, but also. by
teachers, and: counselors, who really, should: know. better.
In many instances parents. and relatives are readily not;

fully aware of the. problems confronting their children: to-.|:

day because of the fagt-that many) of. them are:
dropouts. themselves, and: they/had no. particular
finding employment.

What. can, we.do.about this problem: of: lack of: motivation and lack, of, counseling? The most important place to
attempt to change attitudes is at home with, the. pafents. |
and relatives of young children. The leaders ~of the community including the ministers should accept the responsibility of holding classes in the churches and other available centers, and. explaining to: parents: the: necessity: of |~
motivating: and: inspiring: their children, not, when they. | 2~
get to high school, but: before-they leave elementary School:
The parents should: be sufficiently informed: so. they. would:
at least be interested enough to: see that their children are
properly counselled: by those persons: provided in the school.
system. The parents: should be-awakened to. the need of a.
vocational. school where. many: of" these youngsters could
be_provitled: with a trade. school. education. rather than.
academiq training, thus preparing them: for the. future.

Certainly: the counselors. of these youngsters should:
realize that their. responsibility now. is greatly increased and:
that by good guidance programs, not. only do they do a.
lasting service- for these. youngsters, but a great service
for the community also.

We as parents: should: realize that now our children

0 - there. were. very. few high:
out aaa either: the individual had: dnopped~|

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By, LEE IVORY:
ity. Editor, Detroit: Tribune.
Thank you, Detroit, for the
largest and: most orderly protest |.demonstration: in the history. of
the. United: States, Thank you,

of; - proudest moments: of. my

life: ag: P watched: waye upon wave:

of; dedicated. persons. march. in
CR A Nee nan Ye

wea you, Marilyn. Gee, membership secretary of, the Toledo,
Ohio, braneh. of the Congress |~
for Racial Equality, for telling
me: ~The day: of violence for
the. sake of violencé is past. for |~
the Negro.~ Miss. Gee, a past
president of the Toledo CORE
Chapter, further stated: ~Negroes won~t even fight.each other
today. ~ And they didn~t.
Thanks to the persons who

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youthful: militant Negro who. believes in: total freedom, now, for
~saying: ~I think the old guard
leaders are biting the~ dust. Look
at the ~Uncle ~Toms~. scramble
trying to join something. they
can~t fight.~

Thanks to the National Association for the Advancement of Col
~Never nek te their. militancy
on maaan ek: costal Hise AS
NCP. is. finally jum
~Freedom. Now~ ws
they - get. left at the station.
~Thanks to the. Urban: ~League,

the Negro. was: things
too. rapidly. Thanks(for coming
out of your archaie. act. and joining~ the fight. We don~t question
your motives any longer. You may.
a us je the ng wean
or prestige of being wn
as ~the Negro leaders.~ We don~t
care why you came;. ~we're glad.
you did. ~

Thanks Reverend Clarence. L.. and: Caucasians, for- one:

for a en

momghime oy being: the legal:
poh ees movement: | her

on. the
~- before.

TULA, and all the other initialed:
organizations who agreed~ that.

Franklin, pastor, of the. New. Bethel Baptist Church~ and chairman

of~ the Detroit: Council; for: yak ~I

March to. Freedom.
remaining cool in. thé~ face of
open hostility.toward: you. Thanks
for showing your true colors. |

when, the little mem started: tak- of. violenceing. pot shots at you. and trying | wi i
to, wrest the. } ip. ~of: the-| r

Detroit. Council: for. Human Rights: ing,

from, your: hands.. el
Thanks to Marc Crawford, local; public relations ~man,, young,
angry, highly intelligent, and
imaginative. Thanks for being
Fight in the middle of this project: from its conception. Thanks
for your big eyes; your undying
belief that something of this
sort could take place: at did.
Thanks. to, Tony Brown; CoOrdinator and. Directon, of the
Walk To Freedom, "
nist with the De

fodder We Bias ba
His Name. Is. Uncle. Thanks to. Fletcher: A
press photographer, for: his almost unbelievably beautiful shots
whieh. appear on our front page.

Thanks to Marjorie. McGowan,
Negro. attorncy on the staff of
Michigan~s Republican Governor
George: Romney, for stidting 10
guns; for being consistently
~white~ in. thought and ~deed.
Thank you, Miss McGowan, for
~ once again ~ g your
massive foot in- your eqtlally dimensioned. mouth with your untimely, thoughtless, subservient -
declarations for the. benefit of
either your. career cha: ha) or.
your friends (ha ha).

Thank you, Miss. MeGowan, for
saying: ~It, would: be better: for,
responsible leaders.on both sides.
to discuss their. problems and~
to seek mutual~ agreements all
the way down to the grass: roots
level. This. would: be. er- than
the Negro. wants, bus. its* more~
} effective than ythjng else.; Baste

| Mississippi:. Thanks: to. Harold M

~rest of Michigan,

ews

being a..female member of the
nouveau white society.~ This; prevents me from /labelling! you an
Uncle Tom, However,,.if anyone.
ever invents an Aunt Thomasinia:
list, a lot-of~ people. are consider:
ing you fer a much-deserved,|
first place vote.

Thanks to the Detroit: Federption of ae eae the most: liber
thorodktithis

heads up the fight to ~
conditions within ~ this. local~
thanks: to thoge: who; have: the in
testinal, fortitude it takes, to haly |

Mr. McKinney.
Thanks: to Dr, Martin: Luther:
King, Jr., who ~said the Negro
is ~standing. on. t-h-e. threshold.
of a, great breakthrough in civil |;
rights.~ Thanks to: the militant
president of the Southern: Chris
~tian Leadership Conference for,

telling President Kennedy just
how things really ~stand in. this
country today. JFK. told Dr. King.
a march on Washin:
roes to force. passage: of | ~the Pres
ident~s - civil rights bill might
~prove more harmful. than help-.

ful. Dr. King said southern

bottle up legislation anyway.
What could be more harmful?
Thank you, Negroes of Detroit;. Flint, Jackson; Saginaw,
Niles, Dowagiac, Albion; Lansing,
Pontiac, Mt. Clemens, and the
or the ~wondhe:
ful. showing you ~made last~ Sufi~
day, June 23rd. *-.*

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have more and better opportunities than. ever before in
history, hut in order to take advantage of them, they. must
be prepared whenever the chance arises,

It is, up-to: us as leaders. in. the ommunity. to enourage
and help, these youngsters. in. every way so. that. instead
of beoming: high; shool dropouts. and potential welfare recipients, they can take their place in. society as~ useful, -

ee ahi Seite: Sih % haem: oft-enaning & decent
ving. ~

Thank you, Miss: McGowan

| and ee ~CORE.
| Ohio, fui 19, Ds aig: fe
~ | Woodward: Avenue~ like: moiten:|'. the
| side of a, voltano. ~Shoulder. to.|
+| shoulder; they marched in good | istie

~| humor. often. calling: to. spectaaij tors to join them, Many spectar.

rest tee:

~| to, organize a uneiee like this in

/ like water bursting: from: a rot
by, Neg- |,

con- | troit Council; for Human Rights;

gressmen have threatened to

~their ally that. the.. _ world,
might see that the eg -in Detroit and the: rest of | ~ United
States is; tinal of; clini in: see-.
ond: in the, two-man. human Tracey: as< it were.

Bp: - Peter Canteni, manager-ditector:
>| of The Retort, the Motor City~s

| finest coffee. ponte Was. a. mart~4 shal in- the

any effort.

States.~
~ Miss Gee, wht invited au De-.| troiters to come to Toledo for)

their: protest march slated for
early next month, is the m
ship secretary of Toledo ~CORE.

National,

We watched: them | art down

lava slowly, flowing down

tors did just that.

After the procession reached
the front of Hudson~s Depart~
ment Store, there, seemed;to. be,
no spectators left; every. one was
on the march. ~~

~Official. estimates: ke vel. off

persons in and around Cobo Half}
where the~ nated;

And stilt they came.
tioners from Florida, est, Vir~ginia, California, Nevada, Missié
sippi, Texas); and Louisiana; twa
families,from the south-a
~the funeral ofa recently de:
ed: loved~ one; marched- for. vaca
because, as one of
~Our: leaders are too

pee i

still t

ing the si bey
Woodward Avenue; creeping. in.
from sid@. streets; like tribu.
taries rush, and, babble on;.to the main body of water; then,: quecfigee

ten storage tank, they flooded~
across Jefferson Avenue in: mas
~sive waves singing, waving signs
and flags, and chanting, ~Free~dom Now,~

It wag..a of a
icolades 80 te, spelt, ~Frank.
~lin, -pastor of New Bethel Baptist
~Church and: chairman. of the De
~Marc Crawford, the young, angry.
public. relations- counselor who~:

handled: the. world-wide: pulbicity.
of the t;. Bony Brown, the
hustling e co-ordinator who

could cell hot water heaters to
the. devil;- the motorcades from~

Flint, Pee, a dehvanc and, oa Hee
er. outstate areas; an undreds of ~small~ the um oy

~and churches: wha; contributed:

* * *

m March. He.

aes ga won ge Ab pen they. stil swing.

least fifty per cent of thé Neg:| fle: =
fh | ro-population. ~in Detroit along ne cal

+ with persons ~of-color feotevenetp |;
~| conceivable part, of. the. United +.

somewhere. between: 120, and: 135: |
thousand, while leaders of the |
march stated: there were 250,000 |

~alt }:
then ware, worth, tain el ai typist

oO. came to ~earch ~in Detroit |

fiphacent | poate.

ae eight laned:

iy

shave added, two. things, to
~~~ sho, $33 and both
p: there 1 to see

it, up: to,
sumenl, and.

~cooks.
The saci thing wtieth pile:

tor, see: is: ~s psychometry.
~a -tune, bre: plays it without you

oven: | ng. it.
Dolores Bowen, who. never. mis
~town, tho
day: hight and the group played
lof them; in: the: order Delores
thought of them. This mediumnt: could haye
cneaulteds from. the fact that: the
o has
ike collards, corn bread and
other soul products at Delores
~Savery. Street pad.-Oh, well, without soul food, there is very. little
~soul~ musie. If Lawrence Welk.
ate. chitterlings; em het he~d

swing.

* * *

Mary. Jean. Tomlin doesn~t eat
sou} food, and she. swings. Mary
Jean is ah actress. with
~Realy ben in. ~The: ~Diger: and,
rand:
vas one.

wee

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= ee?

posite ~Her~
non-jazz name that 1 oa. not fis
at e/ riotous. ~ especially the
~Birchtree~ bit.

Phyl Bagley, who recently
rete from: Muskogee, Okla.,
where she vacationed. and gather-,ed, new. material, will, be closing
~at the Unstabled, 16 Temple, in
~a couple of. weeks. to: prepare. her
new repertoire and fest up a bit.

who; has. built up a.large
Following, is contemplating a
record Ste. in~ the. near:future,
~We. say: ~It, couldn't have hapnened, t a a. hetter singer.~ *

Laura. Johnson, wh hae. been

tal auto~ secident, has been. bitten by, the circuit, bug: os po
~parted. Thursday, night for
Diamond ~Horseshoe in Louis~ville. She leaves: ogy wetba
Ki Pleasure~

i ~gin~ a ot at the

aver ~Detroit. ee me gone. for
two. weeks and. v ll miss her.
s: cae * s

eo and Jackie Jenkins, brother: and: sister in-law of: Cliff and
~vonne. Jenkins of Fernwood
Street, caught me at an extremely had time ~Wednesday ight, 1 I

dee, t
picture for them, I told the trio
~to say: something to: ~Ira and

The couple, who~ hail from -Ed

~Mo., will: be. in. town. until Sunand I know-I can. get anoth
day.
i. ler picture. I'M be plenty. ready
sensiti this time, folks.

Ramsey~
~He~s clairvoyant. You think of ~

Sé8, the, group ~when they are in ~
of seven tunes Sun
spent considerable time ~:

recuperating from~a near fa

Love~s hometown of Kansas City,.