Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.Fi The state of Mississippi supplied the speaker cancellation. The after-dinner speaker supplied an address written during the meal. And S. C. Electric and Gas sup plied the power failure. The scheduled speaker for the S. C. Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) annual banquet was to be Dr. Fannie Lou Hamer, the honky-baiting black woman from Mississippi. Her state forced her cancellation by informing her at the last minute that a hearing was planned protesting the last general election on the banquet date, Dec. 4. The out-going president of the SCCHR, Attorney Mordedai Johnson, was the substitute. He had such short notice, the speech was literally written during the to get er r C C nali meal. Johnson was preceded by Dorchester's Victoria De Lee, the "official introducer." She said, "He was really handy when they kept locking me up down there-if anyone can get you out of Dor chester County jails, he can. I guess that lets you know he is available, if you need him." Writing up to the minute he was introduced, Johnson presented a series of "reflections" on the past, present and future of human relations. He sketched the black man in North America from the first 20 to be "exchanged for vit tles" in the 16th century. He mentioned the Declaration of Independence's "all men' were created equal" clause. "Everybne knows that men were not equal in "I worked han iough bread for -ew bug So I'm 'ou worked hard for that ne pot to do is take care of it. F pasoline. Amoco,. The type nanuals recommend. moco is specially formulate .ollution engine. Made to h ~moco can double the life o ompared to fully leaded gas >nger, too. ~moco Super -Premium give: etter mileage than other pre ollution premium gasoline's hat's one reason why more moco and other gasolines ther brand. o now that you've got that ou can count on. e got a new car We'V You expect more from A on tells SCCI is. ati: those days, and everyone knows that men have not been equalized up to these days," he said. Johnson cited numerous court cases, in cluding the 1896 Supreme Court decision which allowed the separate but equal provision for blacks. "And then came the end of the 1st World War and lynchings, and the roaring 20's and lynchings, and the Chicago riot and lynchings and the destruction of black people." Even though F. D. Roosevelt ordered equal employment in the government, the federal govern ment built segregated white housing "encircling the cities with the white noose we're now con cerned with," he stated. Johnson said that from 1960 to 1964 Rep. Adam Clayton Powell J all summer i down paymen going to baby it. w car of yours. Now all yo art of it's using the right most new car owner d for your new car's anti ~lp it run better, longer. An( f your tail pipe and muffler ~olines; spark plugs last s you all these benefits pluw ~miums. It's the only anti 'ou can buy. new car buyers switch to It American than any new car, use the gasoline e got a new car gaso mnerican and u get it7 -IR me to f "kept on keeping on", until his frequent equal rights proposal became Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act. While with several federal agencies, Johnson was in strumental in implementing some of the Act's programs. "We in tegrated some 3 million black children without once singing We Shall Overcome," he commented. For the future, the Florence attorney said he saw the possibility of a completely revised Con stitution. He said only one more state's approval would be necessary to call a convention to overturn the "one man one vote" ruling of the Supreme Court. If this happens, "it is entirely possible that the entire Constitution will be revised," Johnson stated. ton my line tct He said that the 1st amendment might be overturned and "the press might very well end up less free." He added that he saw a legal basis for setting up concentration camps in this country as were set up for the Japanese during World War II. "On the bright side", Johnson said he was encouraged to see blacks grow politically and to see the developments of the youth vote, the female and the anti-war movements. He quoted Charles Dickens in reference to the state of human relations- "It was the best of all worlds, it was the worst of all worlds." And in conclusion, he quoted another black man, King Solomon in his verse concerning there being a time for everything. "To that I could only add it is a time to listen and finally it is a time to act," Johnson said. Professor interviews in Portugese A USC engineering professor has traveled 20,000 miles to interview -- in Por tuguese -- 60 scholarship candidates. Prof. Richard B. Pool of USC, a member of a three-man team representing LASPAU, the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, in terviewed 60 scholarship candidates at 14 universities in Brazil during November. The students who have ap plied for grants for graduate study at U. S. colleges and universitirs participate in the cooperative LASPAU project. USC currently has five students from Latin American nations studying under LASPAU in its college of Engineering, more students than any other engineering school in the nation, according to Pool. Students from Latin America selected for L ASPAU grants are guaranteed teaching positions at their home universities in Latin America upon completion of the master's degree program in the Unites States. The home universities pay travel and English language training expenses for their students. The U. S. institutions where they study provide tuition scholarships. LASPAU, funded under the Agency for International Development, provides subsistance and books allowances. USC's Dr. Pool learned Portuguese, the national language in Brazil, while stationed there as a naval officer during World War ii. He also married a native Brazilian. "I was greatly impressed' with the growth of Brazil upon this return visit," he said. "Brazil is booming on all fronts."