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Aug. 29, 1971 JC 3 New Chief Spurs tt Poverty Program tional volunteer programs. He rides the convention circuit, speaking to black civic action and civil rights groups, and faces a hectic schedule of television and radio talk shows to spread the Message. The Message simply Is this: blacks, browns and other minority groups rJhe profes-s 1 a I stalled and semiskilled should not let the minority contribution to national volunteer action go by the board. They can offer their own Insights, distilled from their special experiences, dreams and despairs, to the Peace Corps, VISTA By BOB niSTEFAVO Tribune Staff Writer Fred DeWitt of Berkeley Is running a national lampatgn "that, amazingly, hjd never before been ordered In all the years of the Peace Corps and domestic poverty programs.

lie is national director of minority recruitment for ACTION, a new federal agency and. amalgam of the Peace Corps, VISTA and six other volunteer agencies. DeWitt, 32, joined the Federal Government a Jew months ago. He reluctantly took a leava of absence from his post as director of Shell Companys minority, re- programs aimed at no radio spots on black radio stations, no ads in black It couldn't be considered out and out racism," DeWitt said They assumed they didn't need to make a special effort to reach minority groups; they believed volunteers could be enlisted in the same way as in the middle-class white community." In his appearances across the country, DeWitt ran Into the most fantastic misconceptions about the Peace Corps in the black communities. Some people thought they'd have to subsist on only 924 a month, whereas the Peace Corps pays 575 a month and subsistence allowance overseas.

VISTA pays an average of 5200 a month. Others considered the Peace Corps a CL agency. Young blacks heard that the Peace Corps was so unpopular it bad been kicked but of all but two African countries. The Peace Corps actually serves in 30. Some understood the Peace Corps was hmited to rural work; it actually includes many posts in the teeming urban areas of the world.

Some activists pegged Peace Corps work as a betrayal of their principles. Yet, DeWitt notes, these very same FRED DeWITT WITH AFRICAN GIFT FROM PEAtE CORPS VOLUNTEER A special appeal for black skills and insights to boost volunteer agencies people sawr nothing wrong with working as a civilian at a naval air station or the U.S. Post Office. Most important of all, a plumber, a road builder, a teacher can bring about social change that the host countnes do not oppose and have actually welcomed. Its not ramming the American Way of Life down anyones throat but just doing a needed job, DeWitt says.

DeWitt will be aided in his circuit all the red tape If prospective volunteers will write him direct at ACTION In Washington, D.C. He and his staff of 24 persons will do their best to back up their Uncle Sam Wants You appeal to the minority community. A California State track champion in the 440 as a Berkeley High School student, DeWitt is determined to win this one too. attempt to set the record straight about the Peace Corps, Teacher Corps, VISTA and the other volunteer agencies by a black advertising agency. Zebra Advertising Agency New York has been asked to come up with what DeWitt labels an advertising package "which will reflect the total community" including appeals aimed at blacks, Chicanos, Orientals and other minority groups.

DeWitt pledges hell short- solving priority problems In health, economic development, education and manpower, housing, community planning or social services." DeWitts goal is the recruitment of some 1,000 minority group members this year among the 14.900 full-time volunteers in the Peace Corps, VISTA and the Teacher Corps. It's an ambitious undertaking when you consider that in the 10-year history of the Peace Corps, only sane 1,500 blacks have served Joseph Blatchford's concern with the lack of minority representation in the Peace Corps led to the creation of DeWitts post. Blatchford headed the Peace Corps and then became director of ACTION. He gave me a budget, and left me alone. He gave me free hand to see what can be done, said DeWitt of Blatchford.

DeWitt looked at the advertising and media campaign of the Peace Corps and could instantly pfek out one reason for the agencys poor record in the minority community. There were no brochures aimed at blacks and browns, Vruitment program in 13 western stales when he learned that of some 7,400 Peace volunteers, there were at any one time only about 125 blacks, 70 Orientals, 50 Chicago and 10 American Indians. -He originally was hired by the Peace Corps and then be-came director of the new urn-fa 1 1 a agency. ACTION. Speaking from Washington, D.C., a few days ago, DeWitt viewed his task as in a sense struggle against history and the myths and images that have developed around volunteering in general and the Peace Corps and similar federal programs in particular.

In the military sense, American blacks have been volun-jeering at little or no pay with a lot of sweat and tears since 1619 and are understandably wary of the very phrase, DeWitt said. Himself a prod- uct of a poor but striving and eventually successful black family, DeWitt can relate to young professionals and their to build a career right away after years of study and apprenticeship. -But DeWitt wants some of" these same professionals to take a few years out and join -the Peace Corps or VISTA or jjartidpate in the other na- Do you know he spent ovei $91 million last year on such tilings as lumber, paint, and builders Thats an increase of 2.2. since 1960! Crowd of 1200 At Jackson Rites This quality machine at this low price! Do you also know this is more than $170 per family? In Alameda and Contra Costa Counties there are 426 building material stores competing for this more than $91 million in annual sales. FREE INSTRUCTfONS on use of your new machine.

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Newton, the Panthers cofounder, delivered a similarly denunciatory talk, as did Seale. Six Panthers, with black berets, blue shirts and white gloves acted as pallbearers. In the long wait before the service, a tape of an interview with Jackson, in which he ex-pressed his revolutionary views, was played over the laudspeakers. The body was removed to the Thompson Funeral Home where additional mourners filed by late Saturday after-1 noon. Jackson will be buried in the same plot in Mt.

Vernon, 111., as his brother. George Jackson, the Sole-Wad Brother who died in a bloody escape attempt at San Prison a week ago, eulogized as a hero of the black revolutionary movement at a funeral service Saturday. 7 About 1,200 persons listened I to the rites over loudspeakers Tin front of St. Augustines I Episcopal Church at 27th and JWest sts The crowd, which spilled over onto the street two intersections, was orderly and there were no ind- -7 dents. Some spectators, including members of the news media barred from the church, found 7 vantage points on nearby roof-7 tops 7 A cordon of young Black Panthers kept the crowd far I enough from the church so the funeral motorcade could arrive and leave.

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