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P. B. S. Pinchback and
Oscar James Dunn
| Editorial Of The Day |
KNOW YOUR BLACK HISTORY
A RESEARCH BY S. F. WILKINSON
Louisiana Negro Leaders
Louisiana, unlike the oth-
er southern states, before
the war, had had among its
citizens a large number of
free Negroes who were
both educated and pros-
perous. Some of them had
owned thriving plantations
and slaves. In 1864 Louis-
iana, by popular vote, was
the first state to free its
slaves. But a strong white
minority violently opposed this, and, as elsewhere in the
South, the Negroes’ potential political power was greatly
feared. Louisiana Negroes organized themselves political-
ly and voiced their opinions in the country's first Negro
daily newspaper, The Colored Tribune, which began pub-
lication in 1865.
From this background, Negro leaders in Louisiana
quickly rose to places of prominence. Oscar J. Dunn, a
former slave who had purchased his own freedom, became
one of three Negro lieutenant governors. He was well ed-
ucated and showed both courage and ability during^ his
tenure.
Dunn’s successor, P. 8. S. Pinchback, was born a slave
in Mississippi and educated in Cincinnati. His father, Ma-
jor William Pinchback, was a white planter; his mother
was a slave of mixed Indian and Negro parentage. After
working as a cabin boy and then as a deckhand on boats,
Pinchback made his way to New Orleans in 1862. After
the war, he was appointed a recruiter of infantry and cav-
alry units for the Louisiana Native Guards. He resigned
from his army appointment in 1867 to enter politics,
Pinchback served as a state senator, delegate to Republi-
can conventions and member of the city and state boards
of education. He was elected a United States senator
in 1873, but was never permitted to take his seat. He also
edited a weekly, newspaper, and was an internal revenue i but comely,
agent, surveyor of customs and practicing attorney. I 1:5.)
When Louisiana's Governor Warmoth was removed
from office in 1873, Lieutenant Governor Pinchback gov-
erned the state for thirty-five days — the first Negro to
act as governor of the state for an extended period. Dunn
had earlier acted as governor during Warmoth's absence
from the state.
Other high-ranking black officials in Louisiana includ-
ed Lieutenant Governer C. C. Antoine, Secretary of State
P. G. Deslonde, State Treasurer Antoine Dubuclet and Su-
perintendent of Public Education W. G. Brown. Negro
leadership was so powerful and federal control so com- ( ^ ^ ^ vcio ^ ^
plete in Louisiana that some state offices remained in Ne- ( ab jn t}ie land of iShimar.
gro hands for many years. | But did you know that the
The Tyler Leader
VOL. TEN NO. TWENTY THREE TYLER, TEXAS 75701 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1972 — SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1972 PRICE 15c
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As the Negro Progresses.
America Progresses With Him
A History Of The Block People
Excerpts from Negro History
(Spl. To The Tyler Leader) I
Did you know that the first <
man that lived in the city of !
Chicago was a Black Man.
His name was Frits Jones.
Did you know that Solomon
was a Black Man.
The Moffet Bible reads like
this; I dark, but I’m a Beau-
ty. (see Song of Solomon 1:5).
The Runner who carried the
news to David, of the death of (
his son Absolom, was a Black
Man.
And it reads like this in 2nd
Samuel in the Moffet' Bible,
You must not carry news to-
day for the Kings son is dead.
Then he said to ,a black, go tell
the King what you have seen.
(2sd Samuel 18, 20-21).
Did you know in the Septu-
guent about Solomon it reads
like this: I’m Black but come-
ly. (song of Solomon 1:5.)
(But in the good Speed Bible
it reads like this: I’m Biack
(Song of Solomon
citymolege of the word Ham l Did you know the first Doc-
means Black? Then did you to to perform a heart surgery
know that Ham’s son Cush ( was a Black American? Who
that was named Ethiopia was ( was he? His name is Jean
Black. The Moffet Bible in the / Babtiste Dusables.
10th Chapter of Genesis read j Did you know the man Who
thus: Ethiopia produced Nim- i developed thq Technique for
rod the man to be a Ruler j Extracting and Preserving
who was also Black. (10 ch. 8 j Plasma from the blood? His
name is Dr. Daniel Hale Wil-
liams a Black Man.
Are you familiar with the
famous painting of George
Washington crossing the Del-
eware? Two of his oarsmen
were Black Men. Their names
were Prince Whipple, and Ol-
iver Cromwell.
Did you know that Ham was
the father of Cush, and Cush
was the father of Nimrod,
who was a Black Man.
The Moffet Bible reads that
STimrod was the first person
on earth to be a ruler. He was
a mighty Hunter in the sight
of God. Which come the say-
ing a mighty Hunter in the
sight of God, and the son
his Kingdom was Bablon and
Who is the man every man- +his picture about 1917. There
aging Editor knows as Soul
Dad?
He is a Black Man by the
name of George Jadkson.
Who was the first man who
built the first city? His name
is Nimrod. He was a Black
M'an according to the Moffet
Bible.
Side view of Old West End School Constructed in 1888,
under the administration of Supt. Percy Pennybacker.
j Prof. T. J. Austin and his five women teachers posed for
are six rooms in this build-
ing, grades I - 10. Prof. A. D. Bridges was the school’s
first principal and served until 1894 when he was succeed-
ed by Prof. Peete, who served until 1913. Prof. Peete wac
then succeeded by an acting Principal until Prof. T. J.
Austin assumed the Principalship in 1915. Prof. Austin’
served from 1915 - 1934. Teachers in the picture are:
Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Clarence McDaniel, Mrs. Georgia Mar-
tin, Mrs. Mattie Mosley, and Mrs. Walton.
RAYMOND MARTIN
Prairie View Making History In New
xttymad Martin Methods 01 Performance Teaching
Retires After 25
«\ Yews With City
Mr. Raymond Martin retir-
ed from City Hall after being
employed1' for approximately
25 yeajs,
Mr. Martin is serving the
following capacities: Board
'' member at College Hill Bapt-
ist Church since 1941 and a
deacon since 1947. For 25
years ha has been the church
treasurer. He is a well known
citizen of Tyler.
He united with the College
Hill Baptist Church in 1933
when the church was pastor-
ed by the late J. M. Mc-
Christian who was suceeded
by Rev. C, L. Brooks who is
doing a fine job in Christian
leadership.
DINNER HONORS T. J. AUSTIN—Pic-
tured left to right are W. E. Winters,
Principal Pete Elementary; A. G. Hill-
ard, Scott Principal; Mrs. Myrtle Spen-
cer, Scott Homemaking Teacher; Mrs.
Mamie Griffin, Principal T. J. Austin
Elementary; R. S. Austin, rear; T. J.
Austin; Mrs. Ann Warren, English tea-
cher at Scott, and also daughter of T.J.
Austin; T. Glover, Principal of Dogan
Jr. High; and Weldon Anderson, Prin-
cipal Dunbar Elementary, at a dinner
honoring T. J. Austin on his 84th birth-
day at Emmett Scon High School. He
v/as a former Principal.
(Re-run by request)
In Memory Of
Jonas L
Missing Tanker Found On Bottom
GALVESTON, Tex. — A
harbor -pilot told a Coast
Guard investigating team
Monday he smelled volatile
benzene as he guided the
tanker V. A. Fogg out of
Freeport, Tex. Feb. 1.
Alvin. Miller was the first
witness in a Coast Guard in-
quiry into the fate of the ship
whose wreckage was found
Saturday on the bottom of the
Guff of Mexico about 40 miles
southeast of Freeport.
The ship and its crew of 39
became the object of a two-
week massive sea and air
search when it failed to dock
at Galveston as scheduled on
Feb. 2.
Arlie “Pete” Miskell of
Troup was a member of the
crew aboard the ill - fated
tanker.
Wreckage of the missing
tanker was found Saturday
and divers reported Sunday
seeing bodies and recovering
name - plates from the sunken
ship.
Sources said the tanker ap-
parently was ripped by a ter-
rific explosion.
A Coast Guard cutter mark-
ed the spot of the sunken
tanker and then stood, by
Monday to guide
around the area. A, spokes
man said the Fogg’s radar
antenna was sticking several
feet out of the water.
Miller told the four-officer
Coast Guard board of inquiry
he detected the benzene odor
Mr. Johnas Levias Jewett
who departed this life Febru-
ary 6, 1968 for half a century
made Iworthwliile .contribut-)
ions to America.
He was a teacher of indust-
rial education, also a contract-
or and builder. Many of the
„„ e . i magnificant structures are in-
, °?S T*! visioned at this point, not on-
PRAIRIE VIEW — When
the second semester began
January 17, students at Prair-
ie Vieiw A&M College heard a
lot about behavioral object-
ives, instructional: modules,
auto-tutoriail falcilities. .They
may find the college faculty
trying new instructional ap-
proaches, new educational
techniques, new attitudes.
They know that their teachers
are more than 200 memoers \ curiosity; some came because
of the instructional staff who j they were willing to learn
This is the first time in the
history of American higher
education that “Performance-
Based Teaching” is being con-
sidered college-jwide. So far,
this program has been limited
elsewhere to one department
of one school, generally in the
field of-Education.
At Prairie View, -a large
number of the teachers at-
tended the seminar out of
participated, earlier in the
week - long seminar — Janu-
ary 4 - 12 — on Performance-
Based Teaching, and Individ-
ualized Instruction: Ways to
Effective Learning.”
boarding her in j
deck after
Freeport.
Miller said he had no idea
what caused the ship to sink.
Miller said he boarded the
Fogg shortly after noon Feb. 1
and left her about an hour la-
ter as she steamed out into
the gulf.
The Fogg was scheduled to
go about 50 miles out to sea
to clean • tanks of explosive
benzene residue after eimpty-
trafficking several tanks of benzene
at Freeport. The tanker also
Presidential aide Robert J. Brown is shown with Secretarv
Oi Labor and Mrs. James D. Hodgson during cocktail
party before the sickle cell anemia benefit in Brown's hon-
or at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Jan. 30. Black and
White Scotch provided the liquid refreshments for the VI?
reception.
ly by use of mortor and brick
did he mould, but was instru-
mental in moulding character
for the youth, by precepts and
example.
Mr. Jewett was a feature
writer fer a number of news-
papers throughout Texas. Ti-
tles as follows: “I Saw In
Passing,” “A Monument To
The iBad Negro”, and “The
Covered Wagon” which was
featured in the Tyler Leader.
In memory of our friend
and employee — The Tyler
carried about 19,000 gallons of j Leader Staff and Publishers,
exylene, another flammable
liquid chemical.
Questioned intensively about
FFA members are high
school boys and girls tudving
the odor, Miiller told the vocational agriculture. They
board there could have been
some benzene in a drip pan
beneath the disconnected hose
used to unload the chemical j
but he did not see any residue j
Miller said Fogg Gapt. John
E. Christy had hoped to sail
at 8 a.m. Feb. 1 but was held !
up because of cargo pump
trouble. He said the captain
did not explain the nature of
th trouble nor whether it had
been repaired before the Fogg
sailed.
“This vessel always has
been kept up good,” Miller
testified. “She handle very
well and everything went
smoothly.”
A source said divers, who
brought up some of the wreck-
age induing nameplates, saw
one fully clothed body floating
in the tanker’s chart room
are Youth With A Purpose.
JOSEPHINE WARREN
VERIA JONES
Two Tyler Ladies
Join UJ.
The Navy Recruiting Station
in Tyler, is proud to announce
the enlistment of Josephine
Warren and Veria Jones, in
the U.S. Navy, in the Buddy
Program.
The two Tyler women will
report to Bainbridge, Mary-
land for Naval endoctrination
in First Aid, Naval history,
physical bearing and military
bearing.
Warren and Jones are the
first Tyler women to enlist
since the maximum starting
pay went into effect on 1 Jan-
uary of this year.
For further details coritact
the Navy Recruiting Office at
113 E. Erwin or phone 592-
2271, Tyler, Texas.
something new; a few wanted
to compare their own exper- (
iemces — attempted- in one or j
two classes—with tihe presen- J
tations of such educators as
Dr. James Cooper, associate
dean, School of Education.
University of Houston; Dr.
Robert Houston, director of
Teaching Center, University
of Houston; Dr. Jamies L.
Gant, professor of Education
Florida A&M University; Dr.
Harry Robinson, director of
the Learning Resource Cent-
er, Prairie View A&M Col-
lege.
These specialists took turns
to define Performance-Based
Teaching,, Instructional Mod-
ules, Behavioral Objectives,
Individualized Instruction, all ;
new concepts accepted with j
enthusiasm by a large numb- |
er of educators throughout the i
nation, but resented by some 1
others, particularly those who j
do not want to change.
This is, however, the point _
Dr. A. I. Thomas, President j
of Prairie View A&M College. ,
stressed in his remarks at i |
the opening of the seminar, i
when he proposed a challenge j
of instructional change to his ■
faculty, and declared: “The1
classroom can no longer ne
considered as the teacher’s
center, but should become
more like the student’s cen-
ter. Individuals must be free I
to learn as individuals. In-
struction must be more flex-
ible and allow students to
i complete their requirements
j for graduation in two years,
I if they are very fast learners,
| or in six years, if they are
j slow learners. As long as they
i are eager to learn, the ulti-
semester time where all work
must be completed within this
semester, something must be
done so that different people
can achieve at different rates.
We will keep achievement
constant, but will sort of vary
the time it takes a person to
- get a performance at what-
ever level we decide that per-
formance should be.”
The last three days of the
seminar were devoted to
workshops on multi-media in-
dividualized instruction and
feedback clinics. For many
•ing as I found this staff today,
teachers, the preparation of
instructional media was the
discovery of a new world.
Several, 'among those who
were timid at the beginning
of the seminar followed with
interest the demonstrations of
somd of their colleagues who
shared their experiences in
the fields of Agriculture, Bi-
ology, Elementary .Science,
Industrial Education, Nurs-
ing. They became quite enthu-
dastic about the idea of pre-
paring transparencies, video-
tapes and other materials,
and they are now willing to
give Performance-Based Tea-
ching and Individualized In-
struction a good try as Ways
to Effective Learning.
Talking about his experien-
ce with the Prairie View fac-
ulty, Dr. Gant stated: ”1 have
not fund a staff that was
more enthusiastic about mov-
Presidential aide Robert J. Brown is shown with former
Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Maurice Stans and Am-
bassador Ebinezer Debrah of Ghana at the cocktail party
preceding the sickle cell anemia benefit in Brown's honor.
and the arm of another pro- j Black and White Scotch provided the liquid refreshments 1
truding amid debris. 1 for the VIP reception.
| mate goal is wihat counts, no
™ | matter the route or the time
taken to reach it. We must
face reality of change if we
want to keep up with the new
demands.”
During an interview he
gave after one of the last ses-
sions of the seminar, Dr. Jam-
es L. Gant, who conducts
many performance - based
teaching seminars in the
schools or departments of
several colleges
ties across the
“We can’t just start out a
performance - based teacher
education program without
making the necessary chang-
es. The performance - based
program is more \ achieve-
ment reference than time ref-
erence. For example, if we
have time constraint such as
“THIS IS LINDA COTTON,
JARVIS COLLEGE AUDIO
News." — Wherever radio
news about Jarvis Christian
College, Hawkins, Texas, is
heard, the voice of Linda Cot-
| ton signing off has become dis-
■ tinct and effective. Linda got
j her start at Jarvis P. I., pre-
| paring informative radio
i tapes for t'he Boy Scouts. Af-
; fecticnately referred to as
' "Cotfonpatch," she recently
| did a stint on TV news,
and universi- j A sophomore from Birming-
nation, said: j ham, Alabama, Linda won't
accept all the praise. She is
ably assisted in the broad-
casts by scholarly Helen Gro-
ves, also a member of the
Jarvis P. I. Staff. In addition
to her radio work, "Cotton-
patch" is an assistant photog-
rapher.
Photo by Woodrow Coleman.
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Wilkinson, S. F. The Tyler Leader (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1972, newspaper, February 19, 1972; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth885841/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Smith County Historical Society.