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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 77

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lei ZtstUi Zimti J.re 2 1972-Pirt IV 5 Woman Leaves Her Safe, White World Grace AMERICA'S N0.1 TONIC strike "achieved incredible racial unity almost overnight" As poor Southern workers "learn to put racism aside to solve their real and common problems," she said, "we think the whole South will be changed. "The political leaders want us to believe that the tremendous effort of the civil rights movement has failed but there is a growing movement for change in the South, a growing realization among both blacks and poor working whites of their problems in common. "I can see the trends of change. There's no doubt that Gov. Wallace still has great appeal, but the woodcutters voted for Charles Evers." 4 Honored at Founders9 Day Lunch Composer Quincy Jones, a student and two newspaperwomen received awards during the Founders' Day luncheon of the Committee of Women for Good Government.

Mrs. Ruth Washington, editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, and Mrs. Jessie Mae Beavers, a staff member, were honored along with Willis Edwards, first black student to be elected president of the student body at Cal State L.A. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D N.Y.) also was cited. rm ii.

-Ml South because there would continue to be racism and violence until the poor whites saw and faced common issues with the blacks. The black and poor whites are in a common struggle." Mrs. Greever believes the effort has brought "a fantastic success, especially in the Deep South, in the past few years." As an example of SCEF's work, she points to its organizational effort among 200,000 black and white woodcutters in the SoutK, a "stronghold of unorganized slave labor." Mrs. Greever said the woodcutters in Mississippi who went out. on One of the good things cuss common economic and political problems.

"But for 30 years, the basic restrictions on blacks made it impossible for blacks and whites to get together to work out a common Mrs. Greever said. Until the mid-1960s, SCEF concentrated on working on easing such basic restrictions as the poll tax, school segregation, hospital admission policies. "Then, when the civil rights movement reached a peak, SCEF began new kinds of efforts. "SCEF began trying to reach the poor and working white people in the GF.RIT0L A 3: for yourself! V.

.1 LIQUID TABLETS i i OPIN DAILY 10-10; SUN. 10-7 'S fiSpi? I I Hi OV THUSDATtFRIDAYf SATURDAY -g Ifr (f v. Here's Everything You Need For i EASY HOME SHELVING vfc5l Tf 1 BRACKET-GOIO, WAINUT. 1 Tt "T'-v' 10" tKACKITo-OOlD. 41 BRACKET-GOlD, 38 10" RACKET -GOLD, BY JEAN MURPHY Times Sft WrUer Less than 15 years ago, Helen Greever was a little girl on a North Carolina tenant farm who accepted hier parent's dictum that she could not play with the children on the tenant farm across the road because they were black.

Less than 10 years ago, is a high school girl in ayetteville, Helen Greever disapproved of the sit-ins at a dimestore lunch counter where her classmate worked. Less than eight years ago, as a student at St. An-drew's Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., Helen Greever was still attending all -white schools in an all-white world. And less than seven years ago, she was working in computer program-ming for International Business Machines in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. a nice, safe job for a nice, bright young woman.

Southern Leader Today, Helen Greever is a Southern leader in the fight against racism. She is executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an interra-cjal organization dedicated to ending racism and oppression through grassroots cooperation between poor blacks and whites. What brought about the metamorphosis of Helen Greever? 1 "I never can think of any single thing that got me ipto the movement," she said during a visit to Los Angeles from her office in Louisville, Ky. "But I believed the lessons I was taught about democracy." There were other factors contributing to the change. There was her religious training to "do iinto others." There is her memory of riding in a school bus to a new white elementary school, riding past an ugly, old and falling-down school for black children.

There were her college classmates and teachers who went to Selma. (She could have joined the civil rights movement during" her college years, she said, bat she couldn't reject her background or her hopes; HELEN GREEVER leads the fight. she hoped, as the first In her family to attend college, "to make the American dream work" for her.) And after she left IBM, there was a year working as a secretary at the Ford Foundation in New York City. "There was a lot of literature in my boss' office and through this I learned a lot about the problems of minority groups. I heard Marti nLuther.

King speak. I began to meet white people in the civil rights And I began to see that poverty, racism and the war were all tied together," she said. Office Force So, in 1968, she left New York City to return South and join SCEF. Beginning as a worker challenging voter registration lists, she later joined the central office force in Louisville. Six months ago she became SCEF's executive Now 27, Mrs.

Greever is considerably younger than SCEF. It was organized in Birmingham in 1938 when 1,500 black and white people, including Mrs. Roosevelt, met to dis- Auxiliary President to Attend Conference Mrs. Robert Johnson of Gardena, new president of the California Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will attend a national conference of state presidents June 30 to 2 in Kansas City, Mo. IW WMHBBBW '7 i 4k I WA.m.MM.

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