(w) BERNICE COSEY PULLEY Representative World YWCA to United Nations (ECOSOC) American Baptist Assembly - Advocate & Board of Directors CEO Arthur L. Pulley Jr. Memorial Center For Creativity P O. BOX 247 331 FIFTH AVENUE GREENFIELD PARK, N.Y. 12435 NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. 10801 Tel. (914) 647-8486 or Tel. (914) 632-7112 (H) FAX: (914) 632-2262 • E mail: [email protected] PAST SERVICE: UNITED NATIONS. Vice President, UNIFEM Metro UN Development Fund For Woman. Representative (CWU-USA 96-97). Alternate Neo, 76-62 -JJNICEF advocate VALE UNIVERSITY, National Capital Campaign 92-97, Associate Divinity School 1980-88. Alumni Council 1972-1980 NATIONAL BOARD YWCA - USA 1884-76, Executive Committee Chair Grace Dodge Scholarship & Loan, Chair College & University Division 1964-1972. 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MEMORIAL CENTER FOR CREATIVITY, INC. 30 + acres in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of upstate New York VOLUME 2000- ISSUE 3 JULY LET FREEDOM RING CONCERT XI- JULY 29 AMISTAD SCRIMSHAW "Scrimshaw is the activity of carving or engraving on the ivory, bone, and other by-products of certain marine mammals, Amistad left Havana in 1839 with 53 and the use of these same materials in illegally enslaved Africans on board. the fashioning of home-made items." Three days into their passage the Malley, "Graven by the fishermen themselves," 9.15. Africans mutinied, took control of the ship, and fought for their freedom all the This largely American folk art, practiced way to the United States Supreme Court. since the late eighteenth century, reached The legacy of Amistad resonates in many its zenith in the mid-nineteenth century forms: movies, poetry, plays, murals, when whaling was of prime economic books, and on the face of this exclusive importance to northeastern mariners. The Mystic Seaport scrimshaw pin. Amistad decorative and utilitarian objects were made in leisure time aboard vessels such is now taking a new shape - an awe- as our CHARLES W. MORGAN, on voyages inspiring configuration crafted from that could last as long as eleven years. wood, metal and fabric - as Mystic Seaport builds a $2.8 million, 77-foot, hand-hewn recreation of the historic MYSTIC SEAPORT,, vessel in our Henry B. duPont | THE MUSEUM OF AMERICA AND THE SEA"| Preservation Shipyard. Handcrafted in the U.S.A. FRIENDS OF A CENTURY- HOPE FOR THE MILLENNIUM PAGE TURNER & IRVING BURGIE, THE MARRS, GARVEY CLARKE, THE ALFRED BAKER LEWISES, ROSA PARKS, CATHERINE MOTON and FREDERICK D. PATTERSON, STUDENT NON VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC) ALL MEN AND WOMEN AFRO-AMERICAN CLERGY, TRANS AFRICA- REPARATIONS PROGRAM, ALL TEACHERS EVERYWHERE OF DEPRIVED AND DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHOSE ONLY REWARD WAS/IS THAT THE TRUTH OF THEIR EFFORTS/RESULTS WOULD LAST FOREVER, GLICKENHAUS FOUNDATION, THE LATE MARY FRENCH ROCKEFELLER, HANNAH WASSERMANN & MAYER FAMILY FUND, FRIENDS AND ALL friends EVERYWHERE OF THE CENTER WHO HAVE SHARED A VISION AND HELPED MAKE IT A REALITY, ALL TRAILBLAZERS & REVOLUTIONARIES EVERYWHERE WHO HAVE BEEN ELL CONTENT WITH THE STATUS QUO AND STRUGGLE TO CHANGE IT TOO OFTEN AT SUPREME COST. FOR ARTISTS AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEIR EFFORT TO DRAMATIZE AND HUMANIZE CONFLICT CIVILLY AND \ TRAVEL INFORMATION ON PAGE #4-WHAT TO BRING, "Enter to ask the hard questions leave to live more creatively. ~ P.O. BOX 247 GREENFIELD PARK/NEW YORK 12435 Tel. (914) 647-8486 or 632-9509, Fax (914) 632-2262 Email: [email protected] Remarks of William.^inkney Master of the freedom schooner Amistad AMISTAD America. Inc. and Again mankind has lost its course, Tlic Schomburg Center (or Been driven of its way, Rciearch in Black Culture Down paths of death and darkness Cone astray - But there are those who still hold out preaent A chart and compass For a better way - And there are those who fight To guard the harbor entrance To a brighter day. There are those, too, who for so long Flankad by Rav. Dino Woodward, right, of Hartam'a Could not call their house, their house. Fra« and Acccptad Uaaona, Amlstnd Captain BUI Nor their land, their land —• Plnknay, cantar, puts on a gilt ot "apacial glovaa" ha ra- calved Irom me group during coramonlaa honoring Iha Formerly the beaten and the poor vlalt ot tna Amlaud In rtarlam, N.Y. July 5. Who did not own • •: The things they made, nor their own lives - ood afternoon! When 1 was told "But stood, individual and alone, that my assignment was to give Without power - The §ing remarks, a chill came over me. They have found their hour. As many of you know I love to speak, but The clock is moving forward here - Freedom this is the most important group of words .But backward in the lands where fascist fear. i. - Schooner 1 that I have ever had to put together. Has taken hold. It is at Him*; like these I rqil on my And tyranny again is bold. heroes to allow me to give to you the Yes, dangerous are the wide world's wafers lessons I have learned from them. On this still, '" mistad occasion there are two: My favorite writer ' Menaced by the will . ["' A AND THE TRIUMPH OVER SLAVERY Langston Hughes and my role model Of tlu>se who would keep, or once more make.^ sailor, Captain Hugh Mulzac. I'm sure that Slaves of men. ' . • ' • many of you are familiar with the work of We Negroes have been slaves before. - WEDNESDAY. JULY 5. 2000 Langston Hughes, but I suspect that tew of We will not oe again. RIVERBANK STATE PARK. MSTH STREET V RIVERSIDE DRIVE you know about Captain Hugh Mulzac. Alone, I know no one is fftt. Captain Mulzac was - a Merchant But we have joined hands - ' •?*' —with reporting by Kalhy Gihvit Marine captain who got his papers in the ' Black workers with white -workers • '-._ early part of the 20th century around 1914 I, with Your! You, with me! . '"' or so. But he could not get a command be- Together we have launched a ship. Frederick Douglas cause he was Black. That sails these dangerous seas During the early part of the Second But more than ship, Institute receives $1,000 World War, transports called Victory Ships Our symbol of new liberties: were quickly built and set to deliver mate- We've put a captain on that ship's bridge there, rials to the war- efforts, in ..Europe. They A man spare, swarthy, strong, foursquare traveled across the No.rth Atlantic without But more than these, escort through the infamous submarine He, too, a symbol of new liberties. "Wolf Packs." The highest death toll of the There is a crew of many races, too, war was in the Merchant Marine. Many bloods - yet all of one blood still: President Franklin Roosevelt decreed The blood of brotherhood, that Hugh Mulzac should have a com- Of courage, of good will, 'mand and the Booker T. Washington was And deep determination geared to kill launched. The crew of the Booker T. was The evil forces that would destroy integrated and that in his time was a great Our charts, our compass and bell-buoy stride. He made more than 20 Atlantic That guide us toward the harbor of the crossings and never lost a man or a ship. New World Langston Hughes, writer and poet'had We will to make - spent time as a merchant seaman sailing to The world where every ugly past mistake West Africa and Europe on several occa- Of hate and greed and race sions. 1 feel his tribute to Captain Mulzac is Will have no place. fitting for this occasion. In union, you White Man I count it a blessing to sail Amistad And I, Black Man, . "" and an honor to follow in the steps of this Can be free. great sailor. In the poem to Mulzac, More than ship then. Langston Hughes expressed the messages Captain Mulzac, of the struggle for human rights in the Is the Booker T, context of the war, the theme of coopera- And more than captain tion and hope for the future in the charge You who guide it on its way, to the crew. Your ship is mankind's deepest dream The message of Amistad flows through Daring the sea Rev. Saint Clalr Morre and Calvin L.Walton his well-chosen words. I cannot put myself Your ship is flagship in the league with Captain Mulzac but Of a newer day. By Jacob Wunsch Operating in the spirit of the peal pledge myself to uphold the principles and Let the wind rise then! The Frederick Douglass Institute of African-American abolitionist deliver the message of Amistad as he de- Let the great waves beat! '" Westchestcr was recently presented with Frederick Douglass, the Institute seeks livered his needed cargo. Your ship is Victory, a thousand dollar check from members to revitalize New Rochelle'a poor neigh- And not defeat. of Saint Luke's Methodist Church in borhoods. "What we facie," says Presi- Langston Hughes wrote: Let the.