n. Blaell Stll.eat Voice of Nonll... t .... UDivaaity 0 • December 1, 1976

IIIIIAIGII Black vote lfiiCIIIY elects ·Carter Ill tbousalds of votes cast for acll candidate

~IU(I[ CARTER • by 2,071,506 and also defeated · the most powerful weapons by Anthony Jenkins against Republicans. Republicans PENNSYLVANIA President Ford in the electoral Onyx Staff Z.IZ3WN college; by a very slim margin. can no longer. afford to overlook -2t President-elect Carter r~eived blacks in any areas. It is also reasonable to say that President-elect Jimmy Caner Ford won 55 Ofo of the white OHIO many congratulations from well 1.111Mfi had President Ford payed more .lost the white' popular vote 47 .60Jo vote in the South, yet Carter's wishers while President Ford, who attention to blacks he might have to 51.3% IN THE 'Nov. 2 massive black support in that area maintained his proud image after MISSOURI picked up more votes from the Presidedtial Eiection, but he won made th.e South solid for him. I MW-1• losing to Caner, works diligently minorities that could have cut the roughly 920To of the ~.6 million The 52-year-old former Gover­ 12 to help make a smooth transition to the office of the presidency for 2,000,000 vote deficit to win the black votes·.cast and will become nor from Plains, Ga. defeated the TEXAS popular vote. the 39th President of the United incumbent President after . he I 1.74SMIM President-elect Carter. Black politicians wanted hope, States because of his black served his country for two years in The election was won for LOUISIANA promises and verbal commit­ support. the White House. Both President Jimmy Caner by blacks and other I d7Mii ments; they got that from Carter, The figures compiled by Wash­ Ford and President-elect Caner minoriti'es who supplied outstand­ -11 they didn't get them from ington's Joint Center for Political ended tl{eir campaign trails weary, ing support for President-elect MISSISSIPPI President Ford and that was the Studies show that Carter would but both pledged to serve their [:mll-141 Caner. It is estimated that 92% of deciding factor. Next time Repub­ have lost the states of Pennsyl­ country to their highest capacity. -11 all blacks that voted, gave their lican politicians and campaign vania, Ohio, Missouri, Texas, President-elect Carter defeated MARYLAND vote to the Carter-Mondale ticket. strategists will be forced to think Louisiana, Mississippi and Mary­ President Ford's bid for re-elec­ I 17BJ It also reminded the Republican 15 quite differently. land without the overwhelming tion to the presidency by winning party that the black vote in this Source: Jotnt Ctntt• fOr PolltJCtl StYdlt1 support of blacks. the majority of the popular vote country, when unified, ~s one of Carter, p. 4

B.U. HOST TO NSCAR CON~ENTION

lri~b ind~dence. 8ctivist Berna­ trial for her son. by J. Monroe Harris dette Devlin McAliskey, Juanita "Jack Peebles," Gary's lawyer, Onyx Staff Tyler, mother of Gary Tyler and "argued for a new trial or else a Clyde Bellacoun of the American release and the statre (Louisiana) Students from aJI walks of life Indian movement, was temporari­ on the Nov. 19 to 21 weekend argued that Gary should remain m ly held up because of a bomb prison. I am still waiting for the gathered at Boston University to scare. No bomb was found. discuss and take stands on issues decision," she said. Other speakers included Tho­ Tsietsi Mashinini, 19 year-old involving racism, sexism and mas Atkins, Robert Allen, editor South Africa. central leader of the Soweto of Black Scholar, Tom Turner, Student Representative Council in The occasion was the third Joe Madison, executive director National Conference of the South Africa also spoke Friday of the Detroit branch of the night and participated on a panel National Student Coalition NAACP, Luis Fuentes, Imam discussion on opposition to Against Racism (NSCAR) m Kazana and Herbert Vilakazi. B.U.'s Hayden Auditorium. apartheid Saturday morning. When she arrived in Boston a The Saturday workshops, The _initial night of the day before the conference began, conference, in which internation­ Juanita Tyler indicated that she is NSCAR, p. 2 ally known civil rights leaders like waiting for a decision on a new NSCAR Supporters Juanita Tyler: 'A star is born By Connie Haith 'Free my son Gary.' Onyx Staff Juanita Tyler has spent two "I feel like I'm a messenger of some kind and what talent I have, by Terri Caldwell long years trying to free her son I have to share it .with people around me," said the man who Onyx Staff Gary, 18, from jail in Louisiana organized and conducts the fifty-piece orchestra and chorus better where he has been in prison since known as the 'Post-Pop Space-Rock BeBop Gospel Tabernacle age 16 for allegedly shooting a Orchestra and Chorus.' white youth. This group produces one of the finest musical sounds around "I'm in Boston to tell the today and undoubtedly this successful sound reflects a talented student· at the N.S.C.A.R. musician, whose years of hard work have developed into convention what is happening something special to hear. The man responsible is Webster Lewis. with Gary's fight to get a new trial The sound Webster Lewis crea~d is all the music that he's ever and be set free. heard and played: jazz, blues, rock n' roll complied into one. He "I am asking you to help fight first learned to have an ear for music in a church in Baltimore, for Gary's release, because the where his mother was an organist. frame-up of Gary Ty~r could be At a very early age he started taking piano lessons: "I knew I one of you," saia .Juamta Tyler at was interested in playing," said Lewis, "but I didn't know at that a rally sponsored by N.S.C.A.R. point what options were open to me. As far as I knew at that time it was just playing the piano. Juanita Tyler Tyler, p. 2 Webster at Jordon Hall Lewis, p. 19 Rhonda Cato: a 'beautiful by Michael K. Frisby person' Onyx Staff Springfield - This is the type of aiming at her male friend. For 17 But for Rhonda the struggle for person inside and out, her friends . small, almost rural city, in which days she lay motionless in Beth life was against unsurpassable say. "She was fun. Someone you news travels quickly from one Israel Hospital, fighting for her odds. The bullet had passed could become friends with and she black family to another. For the life. through her aorta and her brain would always stick by you," said past four weeks, the news spread Her friends . from Boston and had been deprived of blood. Fay Thomas, a Northeastern in barbershops and hairdressers Spdngfield, came to the hospital Doctors treating her gave little student, who has been close to brought tears to many a patrons' to be with her family to pray and ·chance of recovery. On Tuesday, Rhonda and her family, since she eyes. hope that she could pull through. Nov. 16th, she died and people in was in the 7th grade. · On Oct. 31, Rhonda Cato, a "We haven't left this waiting Boston and Springfield, mourned "If she disagreed with you, she Springfield resident, was shot in room all week,'~ said her brother the loss of a 21-year-old woman, would let you know, and if 'you the chest by a gunman in Boston. Robert, "she is still hanging in who never harmed anyone. asked her opinion, she would let there.'' It matters little that the man was Rhonda Cato was a beautiful Cato, p. 2 Juanita Tyler

Weber's murder, if they didn't. testify against Gary. Natalie Blank's lawyer, Sylvia Taylor, at :' which were divided into two In a related matter, NSCAR · Detroit NAACP. consciousness is higher, he added. that same hearing testified that drafted a resolution towards According to Vince Eagan, Judge Marino and Prosecuters series dealt with a wide range of "If we don't see more massive subiects such as racist deoorta­ abolishing the death penalty. staff manager of· t~e Boston movements in the future, we're Hymel and Pitre had granted "The death penalty has no chapter of NSCAR, the seven Natalie immunity in exchange for tions, pollee brutality, community going to get smashed," Eagan control, the Wilmington 10 case, place in a humane society. The national coordinators, (previously said. her testimony, and that they had U.S. Supreme Court's decision to five) are the leadership body and refused to put it into writing in gays and racism and affirmative The existing black leadership action. legalize capital punishment is make policies. The general staff generally responds slower as order to hide it from the jury. · overly racist. Historically, the does most of the work though, he The problem at the hearing John Taylor, president of the compared with black leadership National Campaign to Aid death penalty has been primarily said. several years ago, Eagan said. was that in spite of the new used against blacks and other The highest decision-making evidence, the judge was ·Ruche· Friends and Families of Prisoners, discussed racism and prisoners oppressed nation~ minorities. It body of NSCAR between national Students Play a Part Marino, the same judge that had is used to terrorize the most conferences is the National pul Gary on Death Row. He· and his personal experiences. On the eve of the organization's Taylor was incarcerated at the· oppressed and exploit those who Steering Committee. The Steering initial conference at Boston denied the motion for a new trial. are pushed into crime by hunger Committee is responsible for the By this time, Mrs. Taylor had Walpole and Norfolk Correction­ University, ·Maceo Dixon, a - al Institutions for a four year - and poverty," according to implementatiol) of national con­ national coordinator of NSCAR gotten a new lawyer, Jack Michael Ponaman, an NSCAR ference decisions and arriving at Peebles, to defend her son, and eight month period. He has been said then about desegregation, out the p3;5t five years. national coordinator. positions on important issues and "Students played an indispens­ Peebles kept trying for an struggles that arise between appeal. "Prinsoers are the cornerstones­ Formed to United Everyone able role in supporting and ·of the criminal justic system. national conferences. participating in the big marches, Jack Peebles was interviewed Eagan expressed regrets that Without prisoners the_ system Many groups were formed in boycotts and demonstrations earlier this month about Gary's would fall," Taylor said. this year's conference was not as which produced laws making appeal which was heard Nov. 10 the 1960's for many different well publicized as they would have When he entered prison at reasons. Some formed to oppose segregation illegal.'' in New Orleans before the Walpole, Taylor said, interesting­ liked to: He indicated though that "Today in Boston, the right of Lousiana State Suoreme Court. the war in Vietnam, others he doesn't expect less than 1,000 ly enough, most of the other formed to firght against domestic black students to ride that bus Peebles was asked about the inmates were white~ When he left, persons to attend the conference. into areas and schools in the city · legal grounds for freeing Gary. problems like pollution and The conference was pushing for almost five years later, half the inflation. Many of these groups marked 'for whites only' is' "No court now has jurisdiction population was black and Spa­ "a National"' Day of Student 'threatened by courtroom ploys, over him," he said. Peebles remain, many more fizzled and Protests Against U.S. Complicity nish-speaking, he said. others still assimilated themselves rock throwers, the demonstrated explained that under Louisiana Taylor indicated that the males with Racist Regimes in South potential for mob violence and the law "a juvenile can only be tried into other organizations. Africa" on March 21, 1977. of .communities are taken away NSCAR was formed to "unite crudest form of racist harass- in the district court ... in a case in from where they are needed most. Eagan also said that NSCAR ' ment," Dixon said. which death was the appropriate everyone - blacks, Chicanos, works closely with the women's The prison system affects the Puerto Ricans, Asian Americans, A rally had been planned for penalty. If he didn't receive a growth of their communities, he movement and has participated April24, 1975 supporting desegre­ capital penalty .the case had to be Native Americans, whites - who with them in the Joanne Little and added. are willing to join in the fight gation, but it was forced to cancel remanded to juvenile court ... "It (criminal justice system), Dr. Kenneth Edelin cases. because of increased tensions in because the Louisiana death against racism. Eagan compared NSCAR with works against itself. The society After a three-day conference at the "cradle of the American penalty was declared unconstitu­ that it is ' supposed to be working the "earlier verson" of the former Revolution," according to Mo­ tional, this case should be Boston University in February, Student Non-Violent Coordinat­ for, works against it," Taylor 1975, NSCAR was made into a hammed Karimi, an assistant remanded to juvenile court." said. ing Committee (SNCC). When formal organization. Over 2,000 coordinator. Karimi said this Peebles was asked what would Prison, as defined by the system some people think of SNCC, they during a debate between himself be done if the appeal for a new persons from around the country think of it as more militant, "is supposed to be rehabilita­ attended the convention. Busing, and Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, a trial was turned down. He tive, but, "to me, it's very clear Eagan said. "We are not opposed Boston city counselor and anti­ answered: "Then our next particularly in the Boston area to them, but we see the need for that it is punishment," Taylor was the major issue. The group's busing proponent. procedural sU~ p is to a k the U.S. multi-racial organizations." Ea, said. "Prison does nothing," he scope later expanded to other Gayatri Singh, a NSCAR Supreme Court to review the added. gan indicated that the group will areas including equal education spokesperson has indicated th.at case. If they refuse to review it, . Also prison has the largest take anybody who will support her organization has no official then we are back starting all for minorities, budget Cutbacks, them. " labor force and there are no real freedom for political prisoners connection with the Committee over again with a writ of habeus . wages involved, Taylor stated. He NSCAR, Eagan said, has 70 to Against Racism (CAR) whose corpus (this requires that a and fighting against apartheid in 80 chapters nationally and sup­ used making license plates as an South Africa. members had been involved with prisoner be I:?rought before a porters nomber in the thousands. example. After a person has NSCAR raises money through confrontations with authorities court to decide the legality of his Reacting to the relative decline worked five years making license contributions and through its since desegregation began. detention) in the state court, plates in prison, he can't find a in the surge of black awareness "We agree with CAR in that a king that Gary be given a new . speakers bureau. Speakers on the that was evident in the 60's and job outside, he said. bureau include Robert Allen, they are against racism, but we trial. We hope that it won't have Some serious thin king and 70's, Eagan said not as many disagree with the tactics they use. to go that far-." editor of Black Scholar M~gazine, peop1e mme out for demonstra­ working has to be done to change author Christine Rossell, Hattie CAR doesn't participate in mass . Gary's mother, Juanita Tyler, tions as they did before. Since this - that's what conferences are McCutcheon, a member of mobilizations like we do," she has been touring the country 1969 it has been up and down, he all about, added Taylor. NSCAR's national staff and Joe said. trying to get support for Gary. said. But, the general political Madison. execut~~e ~irector of the She ha told audiences around the country about the Ku Klux Klan's threats, harassment, and intimidation of her family and Gary's supporters. NSC 4 R school desegregation panel She' told of the slaying of one , Mike McCraw Photo supporter, Richard Dunn, after a benefit held in New Orleans this past March. She tells of how she could gl't support nowhere. "A lot of people don't under­ stand today, but the Klansmen are really part of officials and policemen," she said. Mrs. Tyler has explained her own misunder­ standin_g by saying: "I thought grown people felt as me. I wouldn't have done their little white kids like that. I just had a feeling that grown people, all black and white, wouldn't tell a lie on a child ... But I found out." At an interview during N.S.C.A.R., Mrs. Tyler said: ''I'm not gonna stop until I get one end from the other to know what's happ~ning, because I feel with my son, I feel that he didn't have justice." She feels that people can help by "talkin' to their neighbors, or in their schools, or ­ write to Gary or writing .to the government ... " Mrs. Tyler best described her feelings and those of her son's supporters at a July 24th rally when she said: "What me and my family has been through for the last two years have not been too added the federal government 21 ~eekend. th·at' leaders -~ .the cause white easy for us. Please continue to by Diane Reid Referring to most of the schools has not felt that pressure from fligitt. . stand by me and fight for Gary ... Onyx Staff desegregation leaders since. in the South, Mrs. Carter said that ~·The political leaders try to Just like it was my own ·son, it those schools that are desegregat­ "The whites are leaving the take a4vantage of the black could be any of your sons." "School desegregation is neces­ public schools and putting their sary to solve the problem of ed, very few of them are people. They just want the bl~k The Louisiana Supreme Court integrated. children in private schools.'' She vote at election time,., she wd. will not rule on Gary's cas~ until racism." · , added .. Nothing has been done since that most white families Referring to the Boston ~ at least December 13. If not then, Those words were uttered by can't afford to keep their children Ilene Carter during a panel 1964vben the Civil Rights Act wa gregation plan, Mrs. Carter said it will be any time after in private schools so they will that the plan is not a busing plan. Christmas. In the meantime, discussion on 'white flight' held at passed in respori~ to Martin eventually return to the public The parents are less opposed to Gary Tyler will sit in jail. Hayden Auditorium at Boston schools. University durinj the Nov. 19 to Luther King, Jr.'s march on integration if their .:hildren go to Washington," she said. She Mrs. Caner pointed to political schools closer to home.