Student shares I' he Miss Black Florida Players pain of losing a times the USA helps others keep friend "k charm for follow their dream their eyes Singleton Ion MEAC Upiin I raiint 9ieI t' kprizees ph1 JA\LAR 19,193 The Voice of Florida A&M Lniversity - Talahassee, Fla. \oL 81 - \O. 2 March honors two civil fights 'iants MIalcolmX's Rights movement, is memorial- and passed on to the younger Street to the capitol wJiere a rally iiaugi uev BY" J (.QEIH IN1.[%F Sr1FI 'AiiiR ized through a national holiday generation .. the true facts and for King began with the audience which was observed Monday. knowledge of what took place in singing "Lift Every Voice and charged in Nealy 2(X) Tallahassee r'esi- The march began with a the past," said Patricia Sing." dents braved 40-degiee weather. rally at the C.K. Steele Plaza. Thompson, coordinator for per- Speakers stressed the imp~r murder plot singing songs of the civil rights where speakers asked the crowd sonnel relations at FAML'. tance of voting to the civil rights moxement as they rallied and to pick up where civil rights lead Student Government process. Qubilah Shabazz marched Mlondax in honor of the ers of yesteiday' left off and teach Association President Larry Tait "Voting is the only individ- indicted in alleged plot Rev. Matin Luther King Jr. and today's generation the impor- said it matters little if march par- ual way you have of contiolling the Rev. C.K. Steele Sr. to kill Louis Farrakhan tance of lessons from the past. ticipants got their "emotions the ... government that controls The day's activ ities, "It's amazing to me ... how' stirred up. marched, sang and you." said Ted Lang, second vice B~ IIF:'lH .. S'I designed to commemorate the STAFFV.RIThR civil rights leaders brought us to then just went home." president of the Tallahassee lives of two civ il rights giants. this point," said the Rev. Craig P. "We need to redefine the branch of the National As Betty Shabazz spoke also gaxve local civil rights lead- Riley. pastor of Mount Pleasant movement," Tait said. "What are Association for the Advancement to a capacity crowd at eis an oppoitunity to pass the Missionary Baptist Church. "It's we really willing to sacrifice? So of Colored People. FAMU's Martin Luther King legacy' left by King and Steele. disappointing to me that we haxe many of us stand here today and FAMU was represented by Jr. Convocation Jan. 12. her Steele. toiiner pastor of not held up our end of the bar- say we are willing to sacrifice the student chapter of the daughter. Qubilah Bahiyab Bethel Baptist Church. led the gain. Someone has to sacrifice some- NAACP, various fraternities and Shabazz, surrendered to feder- Tallahassee bus boycott ot 1956 March participants noted the thing. It's time for us to start sororities, the National Society al authorities in Minneapolis and helped King start the importance of having the looking to otirselves and stop of Black Engineers. SGA and for allegedly' conspiring to Southern Chiistian Leadeiship younger gene ration present. looking to other people. students. murder Nation of Hsam leader Conference in 1957. "It's solely up to us to make After the Steele rally. the Louis Farrakhan. King. iecognized as the sure oui history is iemembered crowd marched down Adams leader of the American Cixil ( OWO(ATION sTOBI P(.. 8 Shabazz. the second of six children by Betty and slain SCLC President Lowery civil rights leader Malcolm X, watched as her father was gunned down as he spoke to emphasizes King's message followers in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City w'orked the crowd, and the audience Feb. 21, 1965. Civ'il Rights leader urges FSU responded like a standing-room congrega- Although a motive for the crowd to remember King and his tion with plenty of amens and applause. alleged assassination attempt message Lowerv. chairman of the National has not been revealed, Black Leadership Forum, helped King Shabazz's attorney', Scott found the SCLC in 1957. He served as vice BYl El'oIlN lI)1IA' Tilsen, said the prosecution 5101~RITli president until 1967 and then served as will probably argue that she Rev. Joseph Lowery brouight his chairman of the national board of directors believed Farrakhan. 61, was The until 1977, when he was unanimously fiery preaching style to Florida State involved in her father's assas- elected SCLC's third president. Lni xersity' as the keynote speaker sination. Lowery' was one of four Alabama min- for ihe Martin Luther King Jr. A federal grand jury isters vindicated in the 1964 Supreme Convocation on Friday. indicted 34-year-old Shabazz Commemoration Court landmark ruling "New York Times v. Christian Jan. 11, charging her with The president of the Southern Sullivan," which established the require- Leadership Conference warned the capacity making eight telephone calls ment of proof of "actual malice" in libel in a murder-for- crowd at Ruby Diamond Auditorium not to to a hitman cases involving public officials. He has hire plot in August 1994. separate King from his message. also led campaigns for voting rights and "in ancient times. the ruler would kill She was also charged against U.S. business in South Africa. and with traveling from New York the messenger who brought bad news he was the first recipient of Boston to hire a hit- that's what to Minneapolis University's man to kill Farrakhan at a they did to Martn,"aid "We must not let them paint Miartin into a cozy corner NI L K future date in Chicago. where who and bury the message in sentimental irrele,'anc'. We Awad for he resides. Lowery, Freedom. led the civ il mus~t resurrect the message and stand it beside the niies-H Tilsen told reporters that ne H e e -. a'n KEVIN CLEMONS Shabazz is innocent and will rights struggle ' senger." ne h plead not guilty to the in Mobile,.peh b SCLC President Joseph Lowery b Al,,:.JosePh Loucry. SC'LC PrcidcnItspeh speaks to a capacity crowd at charges. ia. in me asking the If convicted, Shabazz I950s. Ruby Diamond Auditorium Friday. audience to a maximum sen- "Now' they' ye decided to resurre..i the could face underscore the oneness of the human fami- tence often years in prison for messenger and bury' the message." Loxvery ly. "Don't celebrate King and look down on each of the nine counts and a said. "We must not let them paint Martin "We have to work towards the day someone because of their race and sexuali- 5250.000 fine. into a cozy corner and bury the message in when black won't be asked to get back, ty," Lowery said. can stick around, when yellow resided sentimental irrelexvancy. We must resurrect when brown Shabazz formerly "See, God baked us in his oven of in New York, but moved to the message and stand it beside the messen- can be mellow, when the red man can get loxve," he said. "Some of us were up front right." he Minneapolis in September ge r. ahead. man, and white will be all and we're creamy-colored: some of us were while under a seven-month In his stirring speech. Lowery showed said. towards the middle so we're tanned: some investigation by the why he was named one of the 15 greatest As Low'ery left the podium amid a of us were towards the back, so we're a'lit- office of the FBI. preachers by Ebony magazine. Alternately thunderous standing ovation. FSU President Minneapolis tIe darker ... and He left some of us in Sandy D'Alemberte took the microphone. It is not known whether introspective, funny and deadly serious, overnight, so w'e're ebony. But we're all years, "Damn, that was nice." he said. Low er). a MIethodist pastor for 45 done." Lowerx said. 2 THE FAMUAN /JANUARY 19, 1995 CAMPUS SUBSCRIPTIONS TO S THE NEW YORK TIMES ARE AVAILABLE THIS TERM AT A SPECIAL LOW RATE OF 40O PER DAY, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 75 ANDERSONNE S AT 904-5 -8070 - o11ege Student 1 . 71 t. _____ -I' ii w~~~ __ I qiiip.wT:$ THE FAMUAN/JANUARY 19, 1995 3 ~L- }1 I K JX KLA' / a.) KKK Florida Realm Dwindling Klan Grand Titan John Pipes and KKK Florida Realm Unit Coordinator Charlotte protests King Pipes salute the Confederate flag held by KKK Florida Realm Deputy holiday Unit Coordinator Michael Townsend on the steps of the old capitol Saturday; b.) Turnout is low compared to John Pipes explains why last year's rally his group is ridiculed by BY JACQUELINE LOVE other Klan members; c.) An STnFF \RITER angry motorist slows to our members of the New Port Richey-based chapter of the Knights make a vulgar gesture, . of the Ku Klux Klan protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on showing his disdain for the the steps of the old capitol Saturday afternoon. KKK; d.) Michael Townsend The rally consisted of about 20 people - most of whom were passers- pledges allegiance to the by - and 17 police officers. The turnout was dismal compared to last year flag at the start of the rally. when more than 100 people attended. b. Klan members spoke about "lies" surrounding King's legacy, societal Photos by Lisa Harris problems resulting from integration, and their visions for the future as motorists drove by screaming obscenities. KKK Grand Titan of the Florida realm and Regional Coordinator John Pipes said King doesn't deserve his own national holiday.