DICK GREGORY: His life and struggles “Richard Claxton Gregory was born on Columbus Day, 1932. A welfare case.” So begins Gregory’s autobio- graphy entitled “Nigger.” Today he is the Freedom and Peace Party’s presidential can- didate, who said recently that “America was so sick that it had no choice but to turn to ending racism and militarism at home in order to save itself from its own destruction.” Gregory has been described as the noted comedian, author, civil rights activist, but few peo- ple know this modest, talented man of the people. From Alaba- ma to the state of Washington —throughout the nation, he has worked for peace and for better conditions of black and white people. Gregory recently returned from Paris where he met with the North Vietnamese delega- tion. He was a child of the streets .of Chicago. a A partial chronological listing of his career follows: 1953 — Student at Southern Illinois University—‘‘I was real- ly in college. It was going to be beautiful.” 1953 — SIU’s Outstanding Athlete of the Year. 1958 — Job at Roberts Show Club, Chicago — “Only $10 a night for me .. . and I had to help the waiters.” May, 1963 — Greenwood, Miss. “I had promised to go to Greenwood. And I was scared to death. When I got there (to make two speeches) and saw these peautiful people { decided to stay and be the first person on line marching, leading the people to register to vote.” May, 1963 — Jailed and beat- en in Birmingham after arrest for parading without permit. 1964 — Sent 20,000 turkeys to CUBANS SUPPORT OLYMPIC BLACK POWER Politics has a habit of creep- ing in everywhere thesé€ days, _ including the Olympic Games, held in Mexico City. The track meet ended with the Cuban relay teams vowing to send their silver medals to Stokely Carmichael, a leader in the militant Black Power movement in the United States. The teams, both male and female, finished second to the U.S. in the 4.x 100 sprint re- lays. a2 2 ; C Enrique Figuerola sand Mique- 7 PACIFIC TRIBUNE: OCTOBER 25:,1968-~Page B victimized Mississippi Negroes for Christmas. June, 1965— Beaten by Chi- cago police after civil rights march. 1966 — Candidate for mayor of Chicago in September. 1966— Urged Alabama Ne- groes to -use the ballot, mass action against slums. June, 1966 — National ference for New Politics mem- ber of council. Aug., 1966 — Formative meet- ing National Welfare Rights Or- ganization. 1966 —- Miss. 1966—Fishing-in with Indians on the Lower Niqually River who were barred from fishing despite an 1854 agreement, jailed. Feb., 1967 — Illinois Alliance for New Politics in Chicago. June, 1967 — First person to publicly volunteer to assist the organizing drive of the Negro American Labor Council to or- ganize the lowest paid workers in urban centres — millions of service workers. Oct., 1967—Pentagon activist. Nov., 1967 — Faster for peace — Thanksgiving to Christmas. May, 1968 — Served 90 day March to Jackson, ‘jail term for fish-in Olympia, Washington. Sept., 1968 — Met with mem- bers of the North Vietnamese peace delegation in Paris. ’Feb., 1968— Julian Bond en- dorsed the ’68 Gregory ticket last February. He urged a black- white ticket headed by Gregory “to drive out the aggression against the poor in America ra- ther than the imaginary aggres- sion from Hanoi.” Gregory and his wife, Lillian, have four childfen, Michele, Lynne, Pamela and Paula. —Daily World. . ling Cobian, spokesmen for the teams, characterized their ac- tions aS a Symbol of Cuban sup- port for the national movement among Negroes in the U.S. It was also an indication of approval of the action of John Carfos and Tommie Smith, the two sprinters who stood with fists clenched and raised as they . received -their prizes for. their winS.-The two men. were-remoy- Con- HE SAID IT Quotes from Dick Greg- ory, New York's Freedom and Peace presidential can- didate, during tour of Nas- sau county. e “If you have real inte- gration, you have no talk of segregation or integration.” _ © “Black and white is not a color any more, it’s an at- titude.” ; e “Who committed more adultery in Chicago? The Hippies and Yippies or the Shriners? THAT’s what the youth are talking about.” @ “You would raise hell if they sent your pet dog to Vietnam. But just let them come and take your 18- year-old boy to Vietnam and you don’t’ raise any hell about it. And you wonder why they (the youth). don’t like you.” e “All the kids are telling us is that they don’t want to identify with this old cor- rupt morality. That's all they ‘are talking about, baby.” e “Youth are going to college to learn how to live.” ® “This is the last election when black folks will have to depend on the downtown establishment media.” ed from the U.S. team for bring- ing the politics of Black Power and equality into sports, where the U.S. Olympic Committee doesn’t feel it belongs. The U.S. Olympic Committee also said they would have to leave within 48 hours, (having done their work for home and country any- way), but Mexican authorities say. they. will be' able to stay as_ _ long as they wish. By JOHN MORIN Wednesday night Tommie Smith was awarded an Olym- pic gold medal for winning the 200 meter sprint in which he established a new world re- cord. John Carlos won a bronze third place medal in the same event. _Thursday they were censured and suspended by the JAC and USOC for “breaking tradition” in staging an “unty- pical exhibition” that violated “basic standards of sportsman- ship and good manners.” What were their crimes? When they appeared for the award ceremony Smith and Carlos wore black scarves to show that they represented black people. They were shoe- less and wore long black stock- ings to emphasize that poverty in which most black Americans live. Smith wore a black glove on his right hand and Carlos wore one on his left. When the U.S. national anthem was played they raised their hands in clenched fist salutes and bow- ed their heads. 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