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The Power of the Black Fatherby Hazel Trice EdneyLAS VEGAS – Some Black fathers come home wearing a suit and tie every day. Some may arrive wearing coveralls, speckled with paint. Others come wearing a blue-collar uniform after riding the garbage truck. Still others come home after a long day of just looking for work.No matter the circumstances, if they arrive in the spirit of love, they bring a power to the home that cannot be substituted.That is the sentiment of men interviewed by the NNPA News Service during the 100 Black Men of America's 21st Annual Conference in Las Vegas, last week. With the theme, ''Taking Control of Our Future'' as a backdrop, they all concluded one thing: The experiences of a Black man in America can be transformed into a mobilizing force that every child can look up to and admire. ''You look at the way that this country was built on the backs of Black men,'' says record producer Kashif, a former orphan who is now raising two foster children as a single father. ''You look at the fact that millions of us survived the journey from Africa to here. And we survived the journey of America. So, we have the power to instill in our young people how to build a nation of resources,'' he says.''The knowledge, the energy, the development, when we're there, the whole world is an unlimited universe,'' says the now millionaire, who, as Michael Jones grew up in at least eight foster homes in Brooklyn, N.Y. ''But, when we're absent, obviously that takes away from the power of the Black family. Black men bring power into a family, even if it's not our family, just creating a family like I did by adopting two boys.''According to the National Urban League's State of Black America 2007 report, the future of the Black man is critical to the ''American family.'' Statistics on the Black man run the gambit from being six times more likely than White men to be incarcerated to nine times more likely to be killed by firearms , to nearly eight times more likely to suffer from AIDS. Of single parent Black households, only 12 percent were led by men. More than two-thirds of Black children live in one-parent households in 2005, the majority headed by women.Notwithstanding the statistics, there are millions of Black fathers who are living at home or at least doing right by their children and families. Here in Las Vegas, where more than 2,000 Black men registered for this conference to discuss answers to the problems, the crisis somehow appeared dwarfed.''You can look into every community – the White community, the Asian community – and find fathers who aren't doing what they ought to do,'' says Thomas W. Dortch Jr. of Atlanta, president emeritus of the national organization. He and his wife have five children, including one adopted. ''The power of having a Black father or having a Black man in that home is tremendous because it gives symbolism…My father was a hero, a strong male figure who did not allow us to be tainted by what was out there or by the struggles that he went through. All we know is that we had a father who loved us and cared. We had a mother who loved us. We had parents who worked hard and sacrificed for us.''The 100 Black Men of America, Inc., with 110 chapters around the country, is a mentoring organization that seeks to give a strong presence of the Black male to the lives of children – male and female – from all walks of life. It encourages Black men to share their lives; thereby impacting the negative statistics.''The Black man should set an example and be a role model for his children and all children in his community,'' says Dr. William Hayling, founding president of the organization. ''I'm an obstetrician. I helped to give birth to this organization. And I'm proud to see that after 21 years, the 100 Black Men is a grown man … and we're getting bigger and bigger and bigger and doing good things with these children.'' Every man is able to bring something to the table, says Vaughn Evans of Sacramento, honored as this year's ''mentor of the year.''Evans, who has three children of his own, but has mentored thousands, says regardless of a father's occupation, ''if you're in the home, that's leadership. That's the role of a man.So, he is providing, he is loving, he is nurturing, he is teaching. Without that, then it falls to a woman. A woman cannot understand how to be a man. And when that man is absent, it falls to the uncles, the church, to the community and to the village.''Often the village means the drug dealers, the gang leaders, domineering friends or what ever figures of authority comes into the life of a child. More often than not, that translates into a life of crime leading to prison or death that could have been prevented.''The power of the Black father could be a revolutionizing force. Provided that more Black fathers would adhere to the tradition of what fatherhood is all about instead of being one who plants the seed and does not fulfill his obligation in terms of what family really means,'' says John Smith, chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the official press for the conference.Some men view manhood as a learned behavior. Whether a child grows up to become a street thug or a decent, hard-working man, can depend upon the examples in his life. ''The father brings the kind of modeling that a young man needs to see. Sometimes they will watch and learn more from watching than from hearing what you're saying,'' says Earl Wheatfall, a member of the 100's executive committee. ''I always watched my father. Even though I did respect his words, I learned more by seeing him.''Albert E. Dotson, Jr., chairman of the board of the 100, says he's experienced that right now. ''I have really come to understand the influence a man can have over his home,'' says Dotson, the father of Ashley, 11, and Albert, 9. ''I watch my son watch me, how I stand, how I hold my legs, how I hold my head, how I walk, the little things. He learns so many things by just watching,'' says Dotson.He concludes, ''A real father has to always understand that children are always watching. He always has to be able to teach. He always has to be able to show what nurturing love is all about, how to be a strong man and how to respect women.''
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Escaping Jim Crow By Ronald L. F. Davis, Ph. D.Two pioneers of the famous town settled by African Americans in 1870s. On a day-to-day level, many southern blacks resisted Jim Crow by hoping for the day when they could escape the Jim Crow South--much as their ancestors had used the Underground Railroad to escape slavery by going to the North. Thousands of blacks had indeed left for Kansas and Oklahoma in the 1880s and the 1890s. The movement to Kansas became known as the "Kansas Exodus," and even today there exist several nearly all-black towns in the state. Thousands of other black sharecroppers moved to southern towns and cities in the 1880s and 1890s. Some African Americans even tried to establish all-black towns within the South, like Mound Bayou in the Mississippi delta, in hopes of completely isolating themselves from whites altogether while staying in the region of their births. But the vast majority of black migrants from the South traveled to eastern and mid-western cities and towns, beginning in the 1890s. In a three-year span from 1916 to 1919, in what has been called the "Great Migration," over half a million blacks fled the South. Another million left in the 1920s. During the Great Depression, when black sharecroppers were turned off the land, thousands of them joined relatives and friends in Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York, and Los Angeles.Many of these black migrants were pushed out of the South by a series of natural disasters, such as floods and the boll weevil scourge which devastated cotton crops from Texas to Georgia. Other were pulled to the North by the opportunity for jobs created by the labor shortage during World War One and the cut-off of European immigration to the U. S. in the 1920s. But it was also the years of pent up anger and smoldering rage that propelled southern blacks to leave the land of Jim Crown laws and lynchings at their first opportunity. Although escaping to northern and midwestern cities did bring an end to the most overt forms of Jim Crow for southern blacks, the North was not a "promised land," one completely free of racial strife. Many white city dwellers bitterly resented the influx of blacks, and violent race riots erupted all over the nation from 1890 to 1945. Major ones occurred in East St. Louis, Houston, Chicago, and Tulsa in the years 1917 through 1921. In nearly every case black people defended themselves and their families against roving mobs of white racists.In the cities of the North, the NAACP and the National Urban League, both interracial groups, worked to integrate blacks into the economic mainstream of American life. A third organization, the largest mass movement among blacks prior to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, was less concerned with integration than with economic development. An admirer of Booker T. Washington, the UNIA founder, Marcus Garvey, advocated self-help and black autonomy over integration. He also launched a movement to send blacks to Africa that attracted the interest of thousands of African Americans, including many who had moved to Oklahoma and Kansas in the 1880s and 1890s.Much of the desire to flee the South and to resist segregation legally and politically had resulted from the experience of African-American soldiers in World War I. Young black soldiers home from Europe found Jim Crow especially grueling, and many of them joined their neighbors and relatives who had moved to northern cities during and before the war, enticed by jobs in the war industries. A similar pattern occurred after World War II, when over a million and a half African Americans left the South for eastern and midwestern cities and the west coast.Most importantly, black Americans in the 1940s refused to accept a segregated military or lack of access by blacks to employment in the war industries. The African-American leader A. Philip Randolph threatened in 1941 to lead 50,000 blacks in a non-violent "March on Washington D.C." to secure fair employment in the war industries. President Franklin Roosevelt responded by opening the defense industries to equal employment, monitored by the Fair Employment Practices Agency. Northern blacks were attracted to the Democratic Party in the 1930s and 1940s because of FDR's support for labor, the various welfare benefit programs that aided impoverished blacks, and Eleanor Roosevelt's advocacy for civil rights. This switch in political parties represented a monumental shift from the party of Lincoln to the party of FDR, and it laid the political ground for challenging Jim Crow in the 1950s.Next: Transition from Segregation to Civil Rights p267/ORBITZ358/1163091372.pbw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="360" width="480"

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