European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday february 8,1987 smithsonian retraces Blacks exodus Washington a Marjorie Stewart Joyner at 91, remembers How in fell to be Black in the South the Humilia Tion of being barred from while Only its Auranis the terror of travelling Alt nigh through Texas in a Railroad baggage car she shared with a coffin. There s Noi an ounce of hatred or animosity in my heart says Joyner who was a special guest at Hie preview last week of a poignant new exhibition at the National museum of american his tory that mirrors her own life. The show representing a break through of sorts for the smithsonian institution documents the mass exodus of Blacks from the Cotton Fields of the South before world War ii in search of a better life in the Industrial cities of the North Joyner left Rural Virginia when she was a Young girl lived in Dayton Ohio for a while and settled in Chicago where she became a business executive enter Tainer educator and civic religious and political Leader. Among the exhibition s nearly 400 artefacts photographs and displays is a re construction of Joyner s state Street Beauty Saton. Other displays Trace Jour Neys similar to hers from the Rural snare Cropper s Shack to the Grimy North bound train coach to the front Sloop of an Urban tenement House. The show titled Field to factory afro american migration 1915-1940," opened feb. 5 for a yearlong engagement Here. It is the creation of Spencer Crew 38, a smithsonian historian whose own Blac history month february Grandfather Rufus Crew took Bis family on a tortuous Odyssey that began in South Carolina and ended in Cleveland in 1927. It was t until the show s curator interviewed his aunt while gathering male rial for the exhibition that he saw a photograph of his Grandfather for the first Lime along with a snapshot of his father As a child. Thai experience helped give me a sense of continuity a better sense of my self and the other people in my family Story Crew said. The exhibition he said indicates a new direction on the part of the smithsonian a broadening of interest in the peo ple who Are part of America s history not just the famous and powerful figures but the diversity of Ordinary people Blacks women hispanics native Ameri cans who make up this country audits  the smithsonian says the show Mark the first time that an in depth smithsonian exhibition has focused on such an important part of America s Overall so Cial and demographic history from an afro american  parked outside the Entrance is a sym Bol of the Field to factory Saga a shiny Black 1935 Chevrolet Sedan wit Georgia License plates battered Luggage strapped to the roof and Road maps for new Jersey and new York stuck in the dashboard. Langston Hughes defiant poem one Way ticket is displayed nearby i am fed up with Jim Crow Laws people who Are cruel and afraid who Lynch and run who Are scared of me and me of them. I pick up my life and take it away on a one Way ticket gone up North gone out West gone inside Are graphic reminders of the hard labor and grinding poverty of Blacks in the Rural South made worse by Boll Weevils and flooding that destroyed Cotton crops cheating landlords Lynch ing by hooded kans Man inferior schools and omnipresent color Donly signs. The printed recollections of old timer seem to Tell it Best. We went barefooted says Moses Burse of Georgia. My feet been Frostbitten a lot of times. My dad could t afford to buy no  or James flunk to of Virginia Recal Ling the words of a local while official we Don l Stop coloured from voting if he want to Vole but a Bullet would follow him out the  lured by the Promise of High paying jobs in Northern factories their horizons expanded by military service abroad in world War i More than i million Blacks trekked to the North and Midwest by 1940 to find a strange raucous new life. In factory jobs ruled by the demands of machinery William Attaway said the Black labourer s Muscles did not Ting. They grew weak and cried for Long Clow  Blue Jenkins of Wisconsin said his face would be Black except for the goggles he wore and your lungs you d just spit up big clots of  the exhibition ends with the question was it Worth it but does not attempt to provide an answer. There is no absolute answer Crew said. Whether or not the move North was beneficial de Pended on individual  Starling in january 1988, an abbreviated version of the Field to factory exhibition will tour museums and universities across the country until late 1990. Reagan says millions wards of the state9 Washington a president Reagan kicking off a we Klong drive for welfare Reform said saturday that the nation s assistance programs have turned Mil Lions of americans into wards of the state. Reagan in his weekly radio address delivered from the Oval office said he has invited the nation s Gover nors to the White House to discuss the welfare Reform he suggested in his state of the Union address on Jan. The president said he intends to release an administration study of his proposals later in the week. Welfare Reform is not just important but vital vital to our economic Well being indeed vital to our self respect As a nation Reagan said. The sad truth is that our welfare system represents one Long and sorry Laic of  As the Federal government began to spend billions on welfare programs Reagan said poverty stopped shrinking and actually began to grow worse. For the first time in our nation s history millions of Ameri cans became virtual wards of the state trapped in a Cycle of welfare dependency that robs them of dignity and  although he gave no details of his proposals Reagan said he intends to make dramatic changes in the sys tem that would bolster family Virtues and the work ethic. In his address to Congress Reagan proposed to let states Experiment with individualized Community based welfare programs. Democrats have attacked Reagan s proposal laying in is Lime for action in welfare Reform and not More experimentation. A fact Sheet issued along with Reagan s address said the administration plans legislation to put the experimental program in place and ensure that successful results arc gradually incorporated into the National system. A Federal office would be designated to evaluate and Monitor state proposals with the demonstrations last ing about five years the administration said. Stales and localities could receive waivers if the wanted to depart from current rules or procedures the fact Sheet said. Expressway one Man s Road to employment Chicago a an unemployed construction worker hit the Road to get a Job standing nearly three hours in the safely strip of one of America s busiest expressways holding a sign family Man needs  it worked. I m just a regular Guy trying to live the american dream and have a Job a newly employed an Fosie said Friday night in a Telephone interview from his South suburban Sauk Village Home. Fosle 25, said Bis Road Campaign Gen Best Sellers crated about a dozen Job offers. He plans to Start work monday fora Chicago area construction company. I be got a great family. We enjoy life and now i la be Able to buy a few  Fosle said be had initially decided Totake a bricklaying Job but he said the offer from the construction company was better. He was doing construction work when he was Laid Oti Zvi months ago. Fosle and his wife Barbara have a 17 month old daughter Nicole. Barbara works As a waitress but her husband unemployment Check and her income Haven t been enough to cover the Bills including a mortgage Fosle said. I was staying Home baby sitting an looking for a Job he said. I was bored and we needed More  so Bis wife made him a placard saying family Man needs Job. Constr. Labor  the sign also listed the couple phone number. Early thursday Rooming Fosle bundled up in a Winter jacket and a Chicago bears blocking Cap. The temperature was about freezing. At 7 30 a.m., he parked his car near downtown walked Down a Dan Ryan expressway ramp to the safety strip and stood with his sign As Rush hour traffic drove past studies have listed the expressway As one of the 10 busiest in the country. 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