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ELAYNE'S DEFENSE
BWOA members are still "drumming
up" support for ELAYNE JONES, the
San Francisco Symphony's talented
tympanist who is suing to obtain
tenure. Feet are "doing their
thing" as BWOA members "woman"
the picket lines for Elayne. To
date, the group has marched-in
,front of the Opera House and the
Musicians' Local. Next on the
agenda is a picket line at Lowell
High School on July 31 at 9:30 in
the morning where the symphony is
scheduled to perform. Two new
feet are always welcome, so get
into your walking shoes and join
Committee Coordinator Miranda
Slade and others in letting the
public know that Elayne needs
help. Contributions are being
accepted by BWOA for the Elayne
Jones Defense Fund (or if you
are in the tax bracket where a
deduction is helpful, make your
check out to: Afro-American Music
Opportunities Association, Inc.)
and send to BWOA, P.O. Box 15072,
San Francisco, Ca. 94115. BWOA
welcomes the support from Omega
Psi Phi's 12th District which
passed a resolution applauding
BWOA for its activities in be-
half of Elayne Jones, added the
District's support and sent the
message off to the Symphony,
Musicians' Local 6, the local
news media and BWOA.
SAPPHIRES SHINE
19 women and 18 Blacks made
Time Magazine's list of "200
Faces for the Future"---people
under 45 destined to leave
their unique mark on the soci-
ety. The "overlap" in the
women/Black selections were
four outstanding Black women--
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Marian
Wright Edelman, Barbara Jordan
and Eleanor Holmes Norton. All
four are lawyers, and they shone
in a group which too frequently
included very mediocre white
men.2
1. Yvonne Brathwaite
Burke:
First Black
woman ever
elected to
the California
Assembly and
to the U.S.
Congress. An
attorney,
Yvonne gained
national atten-
tion chairing
sessions of the 1972 Demo-
cratic Convention.
2. Marian Wright Edelman
A "legal
eagle", with
an impress-
ive record
of achieve-
ments. The
first Black
woman admitted
to the bar in
Mississippi.
3. Barbara C. Jordan
A "hard
worker" and
an articulate
voice in
Congress from
Texas. Started
in politics
stamping
envelopes for
Kennedy-
Johnson in 1960; elected
to the Texas Senate in 1966
and to Congress in 1972.
4. Eleanor Holmes NortonHead of the
New York
City Human
Rights
Commission
and long
time civil
libertarian.
A Yale trained
lawyer, she has0
fought sex and
race discrimination.Ov,
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