European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday a stars and stripes Magazine rebruarv6, 1994 history month remembering americans through words Tva Dart Vernon Johns by Nathan Jackson new Day the Rev. Vernon Johns before taking the pulpit As guest speaker at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Churchin Montgomery ala., in the Early 1950s, whispered a joke to a Deacon of the Black conservative Church. What does a White Man Call a coloured Man with a doctorate when no reply came he answered 4"a Nigger Johns intended to Shock the Young Man and he did. Here was a complicated educated older Man who held a doctorate in theology from the esteemed University of Chicago who spoke eight languages fluently and who was More of a prototypical civil rights militant than men and women half his age. After becoming the Dexter Avenue Church s Pas cont limed on Page 4 Martin Luther King or. In an airbrush rendition by . Desroches whose exhibit on Black americans is on display in Frankfurt Germany. See Pace 6. Martin Luther King or. By Clarence Page will the real Martin Luther King please standup with Black history month Here again the tug of War Over one of the giants in american Black history continues. A year ago when Caps and to shirts honouring Malcolm x were All the rage i found myself defending King s memory to Young people who had gotten the wrong idea. Too Young to remember the real Man Many have come to believe a disturbingly wimpy caricature less Macho or heroic than the Malcolm glorified in Spike Lee s famous movie. Wrong. There s no better time than the ultraviolet present for America s children to learn the True message continued on Page 4
