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22 e N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, Feb. 9, 1993
New Negro Is Not New
Says John Killens
Th« New Negro 11 aot new,
not in the lenie that he is Just
starting to tight for Ms rights,
for he has been doing that since
344 years back.
te come together, he said. They
should pool their art, talent and
economics and "produce in med
ia and theatre same of the things
we want to say.’*
That, In essence, was how
twice published author John
Oliver Killens commented on the
issue of how new is the New
Negro. He could hardly have
put it otherwise.
His first book, the bestseller
Youngblood, was woven around
a Georgia Negro family which
stood up and fought back. The
book cams out the same week
as the Supreme Court decision
of May 1954 • not, Killens said,
by design.
His second book came out Jan.
21. And Then We Heard the
Thunder, Killens called it. Like
Youngblood it is a fighting book,
but the fight is on another scale.
This is a World War n novel
It speaks of Negro soldiers draft
ed to fight for democracy and
against racism, but they find
themselves In s racist and un
democratic Army.
Law Student
The main character, a law
student before he Joined, "made
himself believe that he believ
ed the war slogans he heard
Killens said. He did so because
it fitted his education, personal
ity and ambition.
He couldn’t get along with an
other soldier who didn’t want to
fight, except in Mississippi; who
wasted nothing from the army
except to get out
But in the end the one-time
law student realized that all his
escape hatches were Illusions
The real way to fight was to
stick with all those other Negro
G.r.s who didn’t get to college,
and to fight for human dignity
Echoes of the message of And
Then We Heard The Thunder,
rang through circles of Negro
writers. "Our black manhood
. . .*’ wrote actor-playwright Os
sie Davis, “. . .we have no
choice but to have it back from
the. white folks . . . even If we
died for it.”
Said Sidney Poitier, " . . . a
big, powerful angry novel . . .**
"A profound contribution to Am
erican literature”, wrote Har
ry Hdafonte.” The powerful cli
max of this novel warns us that
men had better come together.*
Killen’s Believes
Coming together is something
Killens believes In and practices.
Negro writers and artists have
"This is the only way I feel
we can speak first, to our own
people; then to America and to
the world, with our own voice.”
This working together has been
manifest in another sphere: The
Harlem Writers’ Guild. The
group organised a reception in
honor of Killens, Sunday Jan. 20,
at the Carnegie Endowment In
ternational Center.
Killens said that for 12 years
the group, mostly Negro writers,
has been meeting each Monday
night to discuss a writer’s cur
rent effort. His first book, Young-
Mood. steamed ahead after the
group criticized and approved
the first chapter.
Killens spoke of the members
of this workshop team. Writers
like Mildred Jordan, Sarah
Wright, Bill Tatum, Irving Bur
gle, John Clarke, Sylvester Leak,
Waiter Christmas.
He spoke also of his third book,
to be built around his 12,000-mile
tour of Africa in the summer
and fall of 1961. He went to
many places, travelling by land
rover . . . across from Accra to
Old Calabar, to Timbucktoo.
Tea Countries
His experiences throughout the
ten countries, Killens said, led
him to a conclusion differentfrom
that of those who say Africa is
not hospitable.
Barbara, Just 16. came up from
where her brother John Charles
was packing to return to How
ard University. She met the re
porter; told her father, rgain,
that she would leave for Nigeria
as soon as she got out of Win
gate high . . . the rest cf them
could come later . .
Killens’ historical nove’ is like
ly to speak of a coming together,
on a much grander xiale.
Billy Graham
Recovering
DALLAS, Texas — Evangelist
Billy Graham is recovering from
i attack of pneumonia at a hosp
ital here. He was to take part
Wednesday In groundbreattng
ceremonies at the 1964-1965
World’s Fair in New York City,
but his illness has caused an
indefinite postponement of the
ceremonies.
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busting with its exploitation of
Negro and Puerto Rican home
buyers and its encouragement of
ghettos, has been introduced in
the N.Y. state Assembly by
Brooklyn Democrat Thomas R.
Jones, 17th A.D.
Termed "an act to amend the
real property law, in relation to
the telling of real estate by dis
criminatory practices,” the mea
sure carries penalties of $500 fine
and 60 days imprisonment.
Section 442-1
The amendment to section 442-
1 would make it unlawful for any
person, firm, partnership, assoc
iation or corporation to commit
any of the defined discriminatory
practices.
Heading the list Is, to attempt
to, or to induce "directly or in
directly the sale or listing for
sale of real property by repre
senting that a change occurred
or will occur la the racial relig
ious or ethnic composition of the
Mock, neighborhood, or area in
which the property is located”;
Or to represent "that the pres
ence or anticipated presence of
persons of any particular race,
religion or national origin in the
area will bring certain unfavor
able results.
These are listed as: lowering
of property values: change in
the racial, religious or ethnic
composition of the location; in
crease in criminal or antisocial
behavior or declne in the quali
ty of schools serving the area.
It would be unlawful to make
a misrepresentation In order to
induce a listing or sale of a
house; or to seek to discourage
the purchase of property by tell
ing the prospective purchaser
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For Revue
A petite, Brooklyn girl, with
large, lustrous eyes and a smoky,
Julie London type voice, is wait-
tag to leave for Sweden any min
ute now. She is Marie Toussaint,
23-year old daughter of Haitian
parents, who has only recently
broken into the singing business.
Marie is getting set to go to
Stockholm and seven other cities
in 6candlnavia with the “Scan-
show,’* an all Negro revue which
is billed as “The Harlem Revue,”
with stagers, dancers and comed
ians. The show, managed by Vic
Manfred and Jack Jordan, Is
specially requested because, ac
cording to them, the Scandinav
Ians are really wild about Negro
revues.
Singing For Year
Marie herself, staging only for
the past year, has made a big
leap in the business. She was a
secretary at the Commercial
Bask of North America, on 18th
Street, for three years, when she
thought this was too dull and
decided to find some means of
artistic expression.
This was not too difficult be
cause her mother had always
wanted her to be in show busi
ness. Her brothers George and
Johnny are musicians, Johnny
Just having returned from Paris
where he had a combo. She had
been taking lessons as a violinist
before and was already taking
voice. Immediately Marie was
lucky enough to get Jobs at the
Galaxy, the Fantasy in Brooklyn,
Bowman’s and the Twist Lounge.
Agenta who heard her said she
had a strange quality. When she
heard about the Scanshow she
auditioned and was hired. She
will be in Sweden for 24 weeks,
maybe more.
Europe
“I want to see Europe and I
may take this opportunity to do
it,’’ she said, “which means I
may not be back for a long time.”
Marie who used to live at Presi
dent St. and New York Avepue,
has one problem. She gave up the
apartment before she was due
to leave. Now she must get out
■and go live with mother.
Brooklyn Frat
To Make Awards
Muldrow In
Brevoort Post
Kappa Beta Sigma Fraternity,
Brooklyn, will present awards to
three outstanding community
men at the second annual Foun
ders Day dinner at McDonald's
Dining Room, Macon St. and
Stuyvesant Ave,, Monday Feb.
11 at 8 p.m.
The awards, in keeping with
the fraternity motto “Culture for
Service and Service for Human
ity”, will be made for contribu
tions in the areas of bigger and
better business, social action and
education.
First Category
In the first category la A1
Thompson, an interior decorator
with many firsts. A member of
the exclusive Martinse Society,
he has successfully maintained
a business with a 99 percent
clientele in Flatbush.
Attorney Thomas R. Jones, re
cently elected Assemblyman, will
receive the social action award
for his “beneficial actions whose
results have all already been felt
by the community.’’
In the field of education, the
plaque will be presented to Ro
bert Couch, Assistant Dean, New
town High School, Queens, and
chairman of the guidance coun
cil of the school.
Speaker for the evening will
be Oliver Eastman, national
chairman of Social Action.
Present Tubman Film
The premiere Brooklyn show
ing of the full length Negro
history motion picture "The Life
of Harriet Tubman”, takes place
Friday Feb. 15, at 8:30 pjn.,
at the First A.M.E. Zion Church,
Tompkins Ave and McDonough
St.
The restlessness of the free
dom fighter, her escape from
slavery, adventures in the “Un
derground Railroad" and her
career in the Union Army are
portrayed in the picture.
An added attraction will be
the CBS TV film, "You Are
There — The Emancipation,
Proclamation”. The film on Har
riet Tubman as produced by
Baker Enterprises, Vincent S.
Baker, president.
Victor F. Muldrow has been
appointed assistant manager of
•the Fulton Street office of the
Brevoort Savings Bank at Noe-
trand Avenue, Richard A. Bren
nan, chairman of the board of
the Brevoort Savings Bank of
Brooklyn, announced today. The
Fulton Street office is the second
•largest office of the four
•branches.
In his high school days, Mr.
tMuldrow won a four-year schol
arship in Florida A & M where
•he was graduated with a BS
•degree in 1957. Since then he
■haa been studying for a master’s
degree in business administra
tion in Seton Hall U. while tak
ing part in the bank's exec
utive training program.
Mr. Muldrow spent two years
in the Army where he was a
specialist 4, and his wife, the
former Delores Elliott, is a reg
istered X-ray technician.
He holds several track records
and his running in the Alabama
State relays, Xavier relays aud
Southern Intercollegiate Champ
ionship 880 yard placed him in
line for the U.S. Olympic team
in 1956. He is a member of
Omega Psi Phi.
Concord's Income
Was $230,000
The annual report at Concord
Baptist Church of Christ, Brook
lyn, reveals that 1962 was the
nuwt prosperous year in the 115-
year history of the church.
Trustee Board chairman, Rich
ard Minott, gave total income
as $230,263.67; while church clerk
James A. Farrar’s tabulation of
membership figures showed an
increase to a new 12,260 total.
The Newly Decorated
Hopkinson Manor
I at 426 Hopkinson Ave., Brook
lyn, N. Y. bet. East New York'
I and Pitkin Ave.
Twe Beautiful Ballrooms
Open tar Booking
Donets and Other Occasions
Municipal Parking Two Doors
Away for 150 Cars.
Booking Hours Daily
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Tel. DI 2-9724 DI 6-4072
EXPONENTS OF THE NEW
NEGRO—These three prominent
Negro writers were guests, Feb.
1, of Hugh Downs and NBC-TV's
"Today” show, in a discussion
of the Negro in America. All
exponents of the New Negro,
the authors are, left to right.
Louis Lomax, James Baldwin
and, right, John Killens, inter
viewed in this week's Amster
dam News.
Bill To End Block
Busting Sponsored
A bill that could end block- that the location is changing or
about to change its racial, relig
ious or ethnic composition.
I by putting up “for sale” signs
when the property Is not meant
Ito be'sold.
Race, Color, or Creed
The penalties would likewise be
incurred by placing a sign in a
residential area to Indicate that
a house has been sold; or by re
ferring “to race, color, or creed
in any advertisement offering
property for sale or rental.”
The law would also put a check
on attempts to induce panic sell
ing by strewing the property with
"for sale” or "open” signs; or
The Jones bill is regarded as
the most definitive measure thus
far presented to the Assembly
in Albany.
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