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Hawthorne Press Tribune The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - February 23, 2017 $2,500 Grant to Support Inglewood Inside and Hawthorne Teen Centers This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals ......................7 Classifieds ...........................2 Community Alert ................2 Community Briefs ..............3 Seniors .................................7 Food ......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings ...3 Representatives of LAX Consolidated Solutions, a public/private partnership, presented a $2,500 grant to the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB) to support the Inglewood and Hawthorne Legals .............................. 2, 6 Teen Centers, during the February 7 Building for the Future seminar held in Hawthorne. Hosted by the SBWIB, the seminar provided an opportunity for small and disadvantaged subcontractors to learn how they could be part of the construction team that is implementing a multi-year expansion and improvement plan at LAX. Pictured from left are: John Kron, Vice President Construction, Tishman Construction Corp.; SBWIB Executive Director Jan Vogel; Bob Lavey, Regional Managing Principal, AECOM’ and Steven DeWitt, Senior Vice President, ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc. (Photo Courtesy of SBWIB) Pets .......................................8 Stirring Black History Month Presentation Sports ...................................4 Highlights City Council Meeting By Derrick Deane that we actually did gain the right to vote,” “Because these girls had died, it was imperative Black History Month took center stage to open Abernathy said. “And then Reconstruction came that they had to pass the second Civil Rights last week’s Hawthorne City Council meeting to an end and we lost those rights. It would Bill,” Abernathy said. “Right after that on as Donzaleigh Abernathy, the daughter of Civil take my dad and Martin Luther King to come November 22, they killed our president, John F. Rights leader Ralph David Abernathy, gave a again to make America live up to the principles Kennedy, because of his stand on Civil Rights. presentation. “When my dad died, I wanted to Martin Luther King would say, ‘You have got write about [him]…and I found that in writing to be willing to die for something in order for about my father, I had to write about Martin “We were not allowed to try other people to go free,’ and my dad used to Luther King who I knew as Uncle Martin on clothing in the department stores say, ‘If we die, our blood will cry out from the Weekend who blessed me as a baby and who was my because of antiquated rules and earth for freedom.’” Abernathy continued to godfather,” Abernathy said. “Then I realized as laws of segregation.” talk about voting rights and Civil Rights activist Forecast I was writing about my dad and Uncle Martin, Amelia Boynton who helped organize black that I was writing about the history of black voter registration in Selma. people in America and even more importantly for which this country was founded.” Councilwoman Olivia Valentine, who helped than that, it was the history of America.” After showing a picture of her dad and King in introduce Abernathy before the presentation, said Abernathy presented a stirring slideshow jail, Abernathy said they all went to Washington that it was “history taught so passionately that of images that included Dr. King as well as because “people were demonstrating in the any student would love history after hearing it.” Friday other images from the Civil Rights Movement. streets, much like how they are demonstrating Valentine added that what she took away from Sunny “We were not allowed to try on clothing in the in the streets today.” It was during that march the presentation was “how interdependent all the department stores because of antiquated rules when King gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” communities are and depend upon each other.” 58˚/44˚ and laws of segregation,” Abernathy said of speech. “In 1963, it was illegal for me to be Councilman Nilo Michelin, who teaches a picture showing her dad and King in the married to my husband,” Abernathy said of the history, said, “Their struggle is just as important process of being arrested. words in King’s speech. “And here we were today with everything that is going on as it Before the Civil Rights Movement was even fighting for something as basic as integrated was back then.” Mayor Pro Tem Hadir Awad Saturday a flicker of an idea, Abernathy talked about schools. Something that we take for granted echoed Valentine’s sentiments about inclusion. Abraham Lincoln passing the 13th Amendment today.” “Dr. King did quite a bit--not just for his own Sunny that abolished slavery. “It was a controversial Abernathy said that after that speech, the people--but for the rest of the nation. Without 60˚/49˚ thing,” Abernathy said of the amendment. “In KKK was so angered by it that “they placed a him and his movement, half of us wouldn’t be 1865, in Massachusetts, they passed the first bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church where in this room today,” Awad said. “I wouldn’t be Public Accommodations Act and the reason I five little girls had gone into the bathroom – sitting where I’m sitting today. I can’t begin to mention that is because the laws changed and Carole Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole speak for the number of things he’s done not Sunday they took away all of these things.” Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Sarah only for his generation, but mine--and if you In 1866, the Civil Rights Act was created and Collins.” Sarah was the only girl to survive think if this never happened, where would we Rain essentially guaranteed equal rights to all people the bombing, but was blinded in one eye and be? It’s scary, but it’s also beautiful because you 54˚/52˚ who were born in the United States, except for had 21 pieces of glass embedded into her face. can see that with a voice and with a leader, you those who were Native American. The following The explosion, which was set off by 15 sticks can do anything and you can change anything.” year, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of dynamite on a timer, blew a hole measuring Awad added that even though “things look a which allowed each state to decide if people seven feet in diameter in the rear wall of the little shaky, we’re looking for our next leader would have the right to vote. “It wouldn’t be church and a crater five feet wide and two feet to come out and unite everyone. Hopefully this until the 15th Amendment was passed in 1870 deep in the basement. will light a new fire into everyone…” • Page 2 February 23, 2017 Community Alert Classifieds SoCalGas to Install New Pipeline in El The deadline for Classified Ad submission and payment is Noon on Tuesday to appear in Thursday’s paper. Advertisements must be submitted in writing by mail, fax or email. You may pay by cash, check, or credit card (Visa or M/C over the phone). 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