Portland Advocate_1981-06

They Will Be Missed --- Hoyt W. Fuller is dead resulting from a heart attack. ·Residing in Atlanta, GA, Mr. Fuller was a Literary Critic, Editor of First World, Managing Editor of the once published Negro Digest, Faculty Member at Northwestern, Cornell, and Indiana Universities, and had recently established a joint working venture with the Black Collegian magazine. At best, Mr. Fuller was known for encouraging -young writers to develop their skills which would reflect on the Black experience. Page11 A KKK Khronology * Advocate Note: Information shared is a courtesy of Afram Associates, Inc. Harlan, New York Spring, 1866: Cbnfederate veterans formed Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee. 1867: Under the leadership of Grand Wizard Nathan B. Forrest, the inva– sions of Black homes and flogging of Blacks and whites became comron– place throught the South. July 4, 1867: Klansnen openly marched in major Southern cities in full regalia. 1871: In one rronth, 297 Blacks were lynched in New Orleans, Louisiana. :1871-1872: Cbngressional investig~- . tion brought Klansnen to trial for violence, resulting in the Ku Klux Klan Act. The Act made it a crime for anyone to deprive citizens of their constitutional rights. Irving B. Davis ~irman of the Patrice Lumumba ~lition and executive director of the Pan-African Skills Project, died April 22, 1981. He was 44. Inspired by the Algerian Resistance rrovement while he was sta– tioned in France in 1958-59, he re– turned to the U.S. and dedicated him– self to the Pan-Africanist struggle here and abroad. - a-----------------, 1874: In one week, 200 Blacks kill– "If there is a persistently active and politically conscious leadership, the deep root of resistence can be tapped." ed in Vicksburg, .Mississippi before elections. ' 1866-1875: 3,500 Blacks killed in the South by the Klan. Beginning with his leadership of Black computer operators against Olase Manhattan in New York in 1966, Davis soon rroved into the international lib– eration struggle. In 1969 he was in– strumental in formulating the Black Manifesto, which challenged the major Christian churches to support social justice ~d national liberation. They 1----K~a;:,.l~a:,:,m~u~y~a:,_';S;;;,a:.:la~a:,:m~------.a 1896-1900: KKK and Red Shirts did. . ' f' t 1" lnne t His rrost s1.grn 1.can accomp 1.s n was founding the Pan-African Skills project which recruits and sends Black skilled workers to assist developing African countries. He is survived by his wife and three sons, his rrother and brothers. ATTEND BUF MEETINGS EVERY THURSDAY 7:30P.M. KING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY 4815 N.E. 7TH. AVE. "None of us has the right to deny the struggles of the South African nationalists full sup– port. Certainly not Nigeria." President Shehu Shagari "The future belongs to today' s oppressed." Robert F. Williams engaged in terror to destroy Black and white political conditions. 1900-1914: KKK lynched 1100 Blacks. 1915: The Birth of a Nation, Holly– wood's epic adventure, depicted the KKK as saving the South fran "carpet– baggers and niggers. '' U.S. President Woodrow Wilson thought the rrovie was, "like writing history with lightning." 1915: William J. Sinrnons invited 15 friends atop Stone Mountain in C-.eorgia, built an altar and burned a wooden cross which led to the Invisible ~ pire of the KKK, the largest organi– zation in the history of the U.S. 1918-1921: 28 Blacks burned alive, some of whcrn were World War I Veter– ans, in their uniforms. 1920: The Invisible Knights of a KKK grew to an estimated 35 million manbers, and attacked Blacks, inmi.- grants, Catholics, Jews, and "nigger lovers." 1921: 6,000 people attended a public rally of the KKK in PORTLAND, ORFXlON. 1920-1930: Klan supported candida– tes who won top political offices throughout the U.S . . July 4, 1923: 0. C. Stephenson was sworn in as Indiana's Grand Dragon before a crowd of 100,000 KKK's. 1925: 40, 000 Klansnen marched through streets of Washington, D-.C.. 1930: Due to internal pressure, -cne KKK bordered on falling apart, and also due to the rise of anti-Klan groups. 1944: The I.R.S. filed suit against the Invisible Empire for $685,000 in back taxes. 194 7: S. Kennedy exposed Klan in his book I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan. 1954-1965: U.S. Justice Department revealed the Klan was responsible for 70 bombings in Georgia and Mississippi, 30 Black church bomb– ings in Mississippi, castration of a Black man in Alabama, and 50 bombings in Birmingham, Alabama. (Cbntinued on next page)