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...Walter Fauntroy, a Congressional delegate from Washington, D.C., said that Chicago's election indicated that rank-and-file white Democrats "are not yet ready" to support national Black causes. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, and Fauntroy affirmed their interest in mounting a Black presidential candidacy to shake up complacent white leaders...
After organizing against the dumping, citizens of Warren County sought the help of national leaders like Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christine Leadership Conference, Rep. Walter Fauntroy (D-Washington, D.C.,) and the Re. Leon White, director of the North Caroline-virgins office of United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice...
...commend the efforts of both the national anti-handgun coalition and its new Harvard chapter, and we urge students to write their congressmen in support of pending legislation known as the Bingham-Fauntroy Handgun Control Bill, H.R. 40, which would ban the manufacture, sale, and ownership of handguns except for police, military, security guards, and licensed gun clubs...
...Fauntroy and the League also oppose initiative because they say it is poorly written and because people do not know what they are voting for. "There has been a lack of public education by the proponents of this measure," Dixon contends. "Many people think they are voting for statehood...
...League sets three conditions for supporting a statehood drive: an educational program to explain the process, guaranteed financial viability for the state, and the omission of residential areas from the federal enclave. Fauntroy would support statehood only after D.C. has obtained congressional representatives who could lobby for the measure...