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...stage, smiling her round, closed, Eleanor Roosevelt smile. A special affection was in the air, flowing between Angela and her cheering audience as she stood with Abernathy at the podium. Angela Yvonne Davis is many things to many people, but she is something special to the black Southerners of SCLC, and they are something special to her. There was a warm paternal glow in the pooly black eyes of Ralph Abernathy as he looked up at the long, lithe and gifted young women smiling beside him. As one delegate who watched then put it later, "Angela had come home...
...restless SCLC convention that Angela Davis addressed in August, one devoid of those softening luxuries that had made most previous conventions more noteworthy for their cuisine than for their resolutions. In fact, there was even some grumbling this year about the menu at the usually lavish annual banquet. Instead of feasting upon healthy portions of some exquisite gourmet's delight, delegates were served a spare repas of turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes, green peas and rice pudding. There wasn't even a salad, because SCLC supports the boycott on lettuce. The reason for both the thin menu and much...
...Ralph D. Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a lieutenant of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, is scheduled to address a rally at 1 p.m. today in front of Mass Hall. The rally will follow a march that is to begin at noon at the MIT Plaza and then proceed down Massachusetts Avenue to Harvard Yard...
JESSE JACKSON, the charismatic "country preacher" who built SCLC's Operation Breadbasket and was until recently its Director, understands the importance of Brooke's position on Appropriations...
...before I met with Brooke, Jackson was in the Old Senate Office Building suite talking with Brooke, Jackson, whose break with Abernathy and the rest of SCLC's Atlanta contingent specifically revolved around Jackson's independent production of the highly successful "Black Expo" in Chicago, understands the economic roots of the problems of blacks in America and throughout the Third World. Although his famous Saturday morning meetings at Breadbasket ran on his personal electricity and drew much of their appeal from his "I am Somebody" exhortations, their real goal was to sensitize blacks to economic issues and enlist foot-soldiers...