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Editioneditionbulk Rate U.S MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY JOURNAL 40 YEARS OFOF40 FEELINGFEELINGYEARS YOURYOUR COMMUNITY’SCOMMUNITY’S VOL. XXXIV NO. 7 AUG. 5, 2016 50 CENTS EDITIONEDITIONBULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN PERMIT 4668 PULSEPULSE WEEKENDRememberingWEEKEND a Black Press Trailblazer: MATTIEBELLEThe proud WOODS Community Journal enhances The late Mattiebelle Woods, one of the pioneering greats of my long the Milwaukee Black Press journalistic career By Richard G. Carter “You stay alive as long as you’re remembered -- and die only by forgetfulness…” Richard Basehart, “Deci- sion Before Dawn” (1952) As the Community Journal on August 4 marks 40 glorious years of publication, this writer thanks this newspaper for helping prolong my career, which includes Milwau- kee Sentinel, Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Milwau- kee Journal, Gannett Westchester Newspapers, New York Daily News and New York Amsterdam News. Thus, in 2016, it is a joy to con- tribute to the ongoing success of such a noteworthy publication in my hometown. And Black Milwau- kee can thank its lucky stars for its significant influence and outreach. I clearly recall when viable Black weekly newspapers were rare in this city. In the post-war 1940s, the Milwaukee Globe -- published by my late father Sanford Carter, Vin- cent Bevenue, Lawrence Saun- ders and John Williams -- was one of the first. While short-lived, it was a labor of love and sparked my youthful interest in writing. Located on the south side of W. Walnut St. near N. Ninth, the Globe’s community leaders car- ried the ball. With the Chicago Bee -- hawked up and down Walnut by Dan Travis, known as ”The Bee Returning home from school asked. “I told her she’ll have to talk home of the Milwaukee Recorder. Meeting with Mattiebelle was a Man” -- they were the only Black one day, I found a phone message to you,” Mama said. “I can’t speak I got some money from some im- major event in my career. I didn’t papers readily available. from the energetic Ms. Woods -- for him. That boy has a mind of his portant people. Did you know I work on the all-White college One benefit to readers of Black an old friend of our family. Al- own. Then we just gossiped.” worked with your father on The paper -- The Marquette Tribune -- papers such as the Community though puzzled, I assumed it had Mattiebelle, then 55, was the Milwaukee Globe? Well, I want and spent more time with various Journal is emergence of notewor- something do with the fact that I “grande dame” of the Black press you to be my editor.” girl friends from my Lincoln High thy names. Perhaps most memo- was majoring in in journalism at in Milwaukee, and everyone read The first thing I recall saying to School years than with my college rable here was the iconic Marquette University. “Party Line by Mattiebelle.” I the tiny, bright-eyed, bundle of en- studies. Mattiebelle Woods. “She wants you to come to work wasted no time in calling her and ergy was the office was a block Mattiebelle lit a creative fire In the late ’50s, the Milwaukee for her,” said my mother, the late we agreed to meet at a vacant away from Zembo Temple No. 70, under me which continues to this Recorder and Milwaukee Gazette Juanita Carter. “She’s starting a storefront near N. 12th St. and W. where my father was Illustrious day. It was in her Milwaukee briefly appeared. And in 1957, weekly newspaper and wants you North Ave. Potentate of Milwaukee’s Prince Recorder that my first byline ap- Mattiebelle gave me my first with her. She thinks you can help.” “This is it,” she said, talking a Hall Shriners. The second was peared. And when my first free- newspaper job on her short-lived “What did you say?” I happily mile a minute. “This is the new “Yes, I’ll take the job. Thanks.” (continued on page 2) Recorder. The Weekend Edition//Special Focus August 5, 2016 Page 2 Mattiebelle Woods and (continuedthe from proud page 1) Blackretuned from NewPress York to arrange. lance piece -- on pioneering Black female alderman This is how Mattiebelle previewed the affair in Vel Phillips -- was published in the October 1958 “Party Line” in The Courier: “The show will be em- issue of Sepia Magazine, Mattiebelle was the first to ceed by Richard G. Carter, of Milwaukee, who is call and offer congratulations. working on an authorized biography of the Spaniels. In the turbulent 1960s, Mattiebelle’s thoughtful in- Among the special guests will be Mannie Mauldin Jr., fluence encouraged me, George Sanders, Jay An- and yours truly, who gave Carter his start in the news derson, Reuben Harpole -- and her grandson, Kenny business.” Bedford -- to make The Milwaukee Star one of Amer- The event also recognized the lifelong contribu- HEALTH AND HEALTH ica’s best Black weekly newspapers. tions of Mattiebelle and the late, great Maudlin. A Mattiebelle knew everyone in town and loved to highlight was presentation by the distinguished John RELATED SERVICES print their names. She’d attend a gathering and list Givens to lead singer James “Pookie” Hudson, of a Editor’s Note: In last week’s anniversary special edition of the everyone there in her legendary “Party Line” column County Executive plaque proclaiming June 20 as Milwaukee Community Journal, we ran the profile of one of the for weeklies such as The Milwaukee Courier, Star “Spaniels Day” in Milwaukee. As all of us stood side- honorees, Dr. LaRoyce F. Chambers, under the Health and Health and Defender, among others. She rarely missed a by-side, Mattiebelle reached up, gave me a hug and Related Services category. We inadvertently ran his profile with- party. She also contributed to Ebony and Jet. -- keep- gleefully proclaimed to the audience that “Dickie is out his photo. We are rerunning in the Weekend Edition the pro- ing them up to date on Black Milwaukee. still my guy.” file with his photo. Over the years, whenever Mattiebelle and I talked, I was truly saddened when Sanders e-mailed me she’d call me “my guy.” And she loved to do so in in New York about Mattiebelle’s death -- on Feb. 17, public, including from the stage of the Varsity Theatre 2005 -- at 102. Among our memories, I recalled her on June 20, 1992. The occasion was a nostalgic “Fa- as my invited guest on WNOV radio’s “Carter-McGee ther’s Day Eve” concert by the legendary Spaniels, Report” in 1994. Neighbors at Northridge Lakes, I Dr. LaRoyce of “Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight” fame, which I drove her to the station and she bent my ear with the A glimpse into Dr. LaRoyce Chambers’ chF.ildhood provides Chambers a foreshadowing of his career. By the age of five, he had already earned the nickname of “Doc”. Whenever his childhood friends suffered scrapes and bruises or were in accidents, they came to him for first aid. “Throughout the neighborhood, everyone knew that I wanted to become a doctor, so they supported and affirmed my vision” he said. Dr. Chambers was raised in Detroit’s inner city. His mother was also raised in De- troit and graduated from the prestigious Dr. LaRoyce Chambers Cass Technical High School at the age of 16 where he also graduated. At the age of 19 she met Dr. Chambers’ dad—who grew up on a farm in Fulton Kentucky and migrated to Detroit for work—and they later married. “My parents were entrepreneurs who purchased a small grocery store in the neighbor- hood. During the day, my mother ran the store. After getting off work from the Ford Motor Company, my father would work in the store in the evening until closing. I learned my strong work ethic from observing them,” he said. After high school, Dr. Chambers worked his way through college at Wayne State Univer- sity. He earned his medical degree at the University of Michigan where he met his lovely wife, Minnie, who was an exchange student from Tuskegee University. He completed his medical training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University and is board cer- tified. “My arrival in Milwaukee was kind of a ‘journey around the lake’,” he said. “I completed my undergraduate work in Detroit, attended the University of Michigan, did my residency at Northwestern University and, during that time got mar ried. We frequently came to Wis- consin during the summer—visiting places like Lake Geneva. We thought Milwaukee was a very safe, clean city. During this time, many doctors went into solo practice after residency. However, Dr. Chambers looked at that option and made the unusual decision to join a medical group with two other doctors—both of whom were Caucasian. (continued on page 5) MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY JOURNAL Phone: 414-265-5300 (Advertising and Administration) • EDITIONWEEKEND414-265-6647 (Editorial) • Website: communityjournal.net • Email: Edito- [email protected]/[email protected] MCJ STAFF: Colleen Newsom, Patricia O’Flynn -Pattillo Classified Advertising Publisher, CEO Jimmy V. Johnson, Sales Robert J. Thomas Rep. Assoc. Publisher CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Todd Thomas, Vice Pres. Fr. Carl Diederichs, Mikel Holt, Assoc. Publisher Rev. Joe McLin, Thomas E. Mitchell, Jr., Editor PHOTOGRAPHER: Teretha Martin, Billing Dept./ Yvonne Kemp Publisher’s Admin. Assist. Opinion and comments expressed on the Perspectives page do not nec- essarily reflect the views of the publisher or management of the MCJ. Let- ters and “other perspectives” are accepted but may be edited for content and length. The Weekend Edition//Special Focus August 5, 2016 Page 3 (continued on page 4) The Weekend Edition//Special Focus August 5, 2016 Page 4 (continured from page 3) The Weekend Edition//Special Focus August 5, 2016 Page 5 40 YEARS and 40 Beacons of LIGHT! (continued from page 2) to Milwaukee, I did not see many people with psychiatric problems; over sons.
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