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The Bethune-DuBois Fund
600 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
The Watergace Building
Suite 1125
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 625-7048
lease Hill
Chairman
Dr. C. DeLores Tucker
HISTORY AND MISSION OF THE
President
BETHUNE-DUBOIS FUND
Honorable George Brown
Treasurer
THE BETHUNE-DUBOIS FUND WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1984 AS
Mr. Darton Warkins
Assiscant Treasurer
A VEHICLE FOR EXPANDING THE PARTICIPATION AND
FACILITATING THE EMPOWERMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE
Mr. Chick Dukes
Secretary
POLITICAL PROCESS.
Mr. James Christian, Esq.
Counsel
This fund was named in the memory of two
distinguished African-Americans, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
who was a friend and advisor of President Franklin D.
Dr. Cloud Anderson
Mr. Lerone Bennest. Jr.
Roosevelt and founder of the National Council of Negro
Rev. Willie Barrow
Women, and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, a philosopher and
Hon. Shirley Chisholm
Hon. Mervyn Dymaily
sociologist, writer-orator, co-founder of the National
Hon. A. Michael Espy
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and an
Hon. William H. Gray. III
eloquent spokesperson for African-Americans for the first
Hon. Richard Hatcher
Hon. Augustus Hawkins
four decades of the 20th Century.
Dr. Dororhy Height
Ma. Alexis Herman
Since its founding by Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, the
Mr. Eugene D. Jackson
Hon. Martin Lusher King. III
Bethune-DuBois Fund has hosted a number of events ranging
Dr. Samuel Massic
from its annual fundraising dinner honoring such
Hon. Major R. Owens
Hon. Charles B. Rangel
distinguished leaders as Members of the Congressional
Hon. Louis Seokes
Black Caucus, Dr. Dorothy Height, Governor Douglas
Dr. Ronald Walters
Wilder, Mr. Ron Brown, now Secretary of Commerce, and a
Hon. L. Douglas Wilder
Rev. Addie Water
number of other distinguished African-Americans, to
political awareness seminare designed to unify African-
American leaders. Proceeds from the Bethune-DuBois
annual dinner serve as one of the funding sources for the
Bethune-DuBois programs, which are as follows:
Bethuns-Dubois National Leadership Forum
The Fund sponsors, hosts and conducts bi-monthly
leadership forums for the purpose of bringing together
national African-American leaders to discuss and develop
strategies that provide solutions to issues and problems
impacting urban America. In addition, the forum provides
an opportunity for young professionals to interact on a
one-on-one basis with leading authorities in various
professional fields. Forum speakers have included such
persons as Congressman William H. Gray III, Dr. Ramona
Edelin, Congressman Charles Rangel, Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Glegg Watson (Xerox
Corporation), The Honorable Richard Hatcher, Dorothy
Gilliam (Washington Post), The Honorable Julian Bond, and
Congressman Mike Espy.
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BETHUNE DuBOIS FUND DINNER 1993
CONFIRMED DAIS GUEST
(as of June 6, 1993)
OWEN BIEBER, PRES.
UNITED AUTO WORKERS OF AMERICA
HONORABLE CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN
US SENATOR, ILLINOIS
HONORABLE BARBARA ROSE COLLINS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE EVA CLAYTON
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE JOHN CONYERS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
MAUDINE R. COOPER, ESQ.
PRESIDENT, WASH. URBAN LEAGUE
OFIELD DUKES, PRESIDENT
OFIELD DUKES ASSOC.
SECRETARY, BETHUNE DUBOIS FUND
DR. RAMONA EDELIN, PRES.
NATIONAL URBAN COALITION
JACQUELINE ELLIS
CO-CHAIR, BETHUNE DUBOIS ASSOC. PGM.
FERGUSON EVANS
CO-CHAIR BETHUNE DUBOIS ASSOC. PGM.
REV. WALTER FAUNTROY, PASTOR
NEW BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
FORMER MEMBER OF CONGRESS
ELLIOTT S. HALL, VP
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS, FORD MOTOR CO.
HONORABLE RICHARD G. HATCHER, PRESIDENT
RICHARD GORDON HATCHER & ASSOC.
DR. DOROTHY I. HEIGHT, PRES.
NATIONAL COUNCIL of NEGRO WOMEN
June 8, 1993
BETHUNE-DuBOIS FUND 8th ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER
DATE:
June 9, 1993
LOCATION: Sheraton Washington Hotel
TIME:
8:30 pm
FROM:
Kim Tilley, Amy Nemko
I. PURPOSE
To present the Bethune-DuBois award to Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun.
II. BACKGROUND
The Bethune-DuBois Fund
The Bethune-DuBois Fund was established in 1984 as a vehicle for expanding the
participation and facilitating the empowerment of African-Americans in the political
process. The Fund was named in memory of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, an advisor to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founder of the National Council of Negro Women,
and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, philosopher, sociologist, writer, and co-founder of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Dr. Bethune observed that
"knowledge is the prime need of the hour;" Dr. DuBois stated that "a highly trained
cadre of blacks will be required to use their knowledge and skills in economics, in social
policy, in public administration, and in political theory and practice as instruments,
indeed weapons in the struggle for social justice for all."
Fund Programs and Events
The Fund has established programs in varying areas to fulfill its goals of educational
empowerment. These programs include an annual fundraising dinner honoring
distinguished leaders such as Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Dr. Dorothy
Height, Governor Douglas Wilder, Secretary Ron Brown, and other distinguished
African-Americans; political awareness seminars designed to unify African-American
leaders; and bi-monthly leadership forums to bring national African-American leaders to
discuss strategies to problems impacting urban America. The Fund also sponsors
minority college students to work on Capitol Hill in summer internships, sponsors
international programs for African-American students, and runs a camp for
disadvantaged youth, ages 8-14. Finally, the fund has production and publications units
which aim to preserve African-American history and culture through audio-visual and
print media.
Bethune-DuBois Award
The award is a type of lifetime achievement award to recognize a high level of
commitment to social justice. The award is selected by committee and is presented
annually.
III. PARTICIPANTS
Honorees (on the dais)
Owen Bieber, President, United Auto Workers of America
Benjamin Lawson Hooks, Former Executive Director, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Dais Guests
List follows, includes:
Jesse Hill, Chair, Bethune-DuBois Fund; Director, Martin Luther King Center for Non-
Violent Change in Atlanta
C. Dolores Tucker, President, Bethune-DuBois Fund
Also in attendance
Alexis Herman, Board of Directors
Mike Espy, Board of Directors
IV. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
[NOTE: Dinner and program will be in progress at the time HRC arrives.]
Jesse Hill intro's C. Dolores Tucker;
Sequence of speakers make remarks, beginning with C. Dolores Tucker;
[NOTE: If HRC is late, the following segment of the program will be moved down]
C. Dolores Tucker intro's HRC;
HRC presents award to Sen. Moseley Braun;
[NOTE: HRC departs after presenting award]
Dorothy Height presents award to Benjamin Hooks;
Rep. John Conyers presents award to Owen Bieber;
V. PRESS PLAN
Open press.
VI. REMARKS
To be provided by Maggie.
CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN
COMMITTEES:
ILLINOIS
BANKING, HOUSING. AND
URBAN AFFAIRS
JUDICIARY
United States Senate
SMALL BUEINESS
WASHINGTON. DC 20510-1303
BIOGRAPHY
for
United States Senator
CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN
Carol Moseley-Braun, the daughter of a Chicago law-enforcement
officer, made history in November, 1992 when she became the first
black woman ever to be elected to the United States Senate. It
was the latest in a string of firsts - first woman and first
African American ever to hold executive office in Cook County
government and 10 years voted best legislator in the Illinois
House.
Carol Moseley-Braun attended Chicago public schools and the
University of Illinois at Chicago. Moseley-Braun received her
law degree from the University of Chicago and worked for three
years as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office. Her success
as a prosecutor earned her the United States Attorney General's
Special Achievement award.
In 1978. Moseley-Braun was elected to the Illinois House of
Representatives. She immediately earned a reputation as a
dynamic debater and an uncompromising advocate for more efficient
and accountable government. Her hallmark has been an ability to
build coalitions comprised of people of cil races who are
committed to the same principles of good government.
During her first election for State Representative, Moseley-Braun
pledged to make education her top priority. She was the chief
sponsor of the 1985 Urban School Improvement Act which created
and empowered parents' councils at every school in Chicago. She
was the chief sponsor and prime mover of every school funding
bill that affected education in the city of Chicago from 1980-87.
Other education legislation sponsored by Moseley-Braun included a
bill, introduced in 1980, that provided for higher salaries for
professors and a bill, passed in 1984, which allows public aid
recipients to attend college without losing their benefits.
After just two terms in the House, Carol Moseley-Braun was
selected to become the first woman and the first black in
Illinois history to serve as Assistant Majority Leader.
As the late Mayor Harold Washington's legislative floor leader,
Carol Moseley-Braun was the chief sponsor of bills to reform
education and to ban discrimination in housing and private clubs.
Carol Moseley-Braun introduced the bill that barred the State of
Illinois from investing funds in South Africa until the apartheid
system is abolished. Moseley-Braun also filed, and won, the
reapportionment case which affirmed the "one man - one vote"
principle in Illinois.
For each of her 10 years in the legislature, Carol Moseley-Braun
received the "Sest Legisiator" award given by the Independent
Voters of Illinois - Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO).
In 1987, Noseley-Braun was nominated for the office of Recorder
of Deeds as part of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial and gender-
balanced "Dream Ticket.' Carol Moseley-Braun made history when
she was elected Cook County recorder of Decds with more than one
million votes cast in her favor. She became the first woman and
first African American to hold executive office in Cook County
government.
During the campaign for Recorder of Deeds, Carol Moseley-Braun
promised to make the office more accessible and efficient. She
took over a moribund and inefficient operation that used 19th-
century style record keeping and spent more tax dollars than it
took in. Today, the Cook County Recorder of Deeds office
operates with computerized efficiency, greater accessibility, and
returns to county government more than two dollars for every tax
dollar budgeted for the office.
Moseley-Braun's 1992 Senate primary victory over two-term
incumbent Senator Alan Dixon was a come-from-behind success in
which her two opponents outspent her by more than 20-to-1.
Moseley-Braun defeated Dixon and personal injury lawyer Al Hofeld
in a positive campaign emphasizing issues over personalities and
substance over negative attacks.
On November 3, 1993, Carol Moseley-Sraun was elected to the
United States Senate, beating Republican Richard Williamson with
53% of the vote. She took office on January 5, 1993 to serve the
people of Illinois. Upon taking office, she was named to the
Judiciary Committee, the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Committee and the Small Business Committee.
She serves on the Juvenile Justice and the Courts and
Administrative Practice Subcommittees of the Judiciary Committee.
Her subcommittee assignments for the Banking, Housing and Urban
Affairs Committee are the Housing and Urban Affairs and the
Securities Subcommittees. She also serves on the Export
Expansion and Agriculture Development and the Urban and Minority-
Owned Business Development Subcommittees of the Small Business
Committee.
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BETHUNE DuBOIS FUND DINNER 1993
CONFIRMED DAIS GUEST
(as of June 6, 1993)
OWEN BIEBER, PRES.
UNITED AUTO WORKERS OF AMERICA
HONORABLE CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN
US SENATOR, ILLINOIS
HONORABLE BARBARA ROSE COLLINS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE EVA CLAYTON
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE JOHN CONYERS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
MAUDINE R. COOPER, ESQ.
PRESIDENT, WASH. URBAN LEAGUE
OFIELD DUKES, PRESIDENT
OFIELD DUKES ASSOC.
SECRETARY, BETHUNE DUBOIS FUND
DR. RAMONA EDELIN, PRES.
NATIONAL URBAN COALITION
JACQUELINE ELLIS
CO-CHAIR. BETHUNE DUBOIS ASSOC. PGM.
FERGUSON EVANS
CO-CHAIR BETHUNE DUBOIS ASSOC. PGM.
REV. WALTER FAUNTROY, PASTOR
NEW BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
FORMER MEMBER OF CONGRESS
ELLIOTT S. HALL. VP
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS, FORD MOTOR CO.
HONORABLE RICHARD G. HATCHER, PRESIDENT
RICHARD GORDON HATCHER & ASSOC.
DR. DOROTHY I. HEIGHT, PRES.
NATIONAL COUNCIL of NEGRO WOMEN
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JESSE HILL. PRES. & CEO
ATLANTA LIFE INSURANCE CO.
CHAIR. BETHUNE DUBOIS FUND
DR. BENJAMIN HOOKS, FORMER EXEC. DIR.
NATIONAL ASSOC. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
COLORED PEOPLE
MRS. FRANCES HOOKS
REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON
DC SHADOW SENATOR
HONORABLE EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
LAURA MURPHY LEE, DIR.
WASHINGTON OFFICE. AMERICAN CIVIL
LIBERTIES UNION
FRANCES MURPHY, PUBLISHER
AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
EUGENE McCULLERS, COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MANAGER
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
DR. SAMUEL P MASSIE, PROFESSOR
US NAVAL ACADEMY
BD. DIR. OF BETHUNE DUBOIS FUND
MARILYN MONOHAN, SECTY.-TRES.
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
HONORABLE KWEISI MFUME
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE DONALD PAYNE
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE MELVIN REYNOLDS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE BOBBY SCOTT
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
HONORABLE BARBARA BOHANNAN-SHEPPARD
MAYOR, CHESTER, PA.
LeBARON TAYLOR, VP CORP. AFFAIRS
SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC.
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Dr. C. DELORES TUCKER, PRESIDENT
BETHUNE-DUBOIS FUND
DR. RONALD WALTERS, CHAIR
POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
HWOARD UNIVERSITY
DAYTON WATKINS, ASST. TREASURER
BETHUNE-DUBOIS FUND
EDDIE N. WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL
AND ECONOMIC STUDIES
ELYNOR WILLIAMS, VICE PRESIDENT
SARA LEE CORPORATION
THE HONORABLE ALBERT WYNN
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
THE HONORABLE MAXINE WATERS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
JACKIE B. PARKER,
SENIOR LEG.ASST.TO SENATOR CARL LEVIN
MARGIE UTLEY, DIRECTOR
OFFICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS/MINORITY BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
THE HONORABLE CHARLES DIGGS
FORMER MEMBER OF CONGRESS
MOLLY YORK
FEMINIST MAJORITY
Copyright 1993 Chicago Tribune Company
Chicago Tribune
May 7, 1993, Friday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 3; ZONE: N
LENGTH: 569 words
HEADLINE: A symbolic victory for Moseley-Braun
BYLINE: By Elaine S. Povich, Chicago Tribune.
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Sometimes a clash of symbols illustrates the changes in
American institutions. One occurred Thursday, when the United
Daughters of the Confederacy ran into the first black female U.S.
senator.
The senator won.
Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.), in her first notable
legislative act, persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee not to
renew the federal patent on the organization's logo, which
includes the first national flag of the Confederate States of
America.
A year ago, when Moseley-Braun was still Cook County recorder
of deeds, the all-white, all-male Judiciary Committee - including
many of the members who sat around the square table Thursday -
had approved the patent extension for the logo without
controversy or complaint from any senator.
While some Americans may have been offended by the group and
its symbols, no one at the Senate table said so directly. Until
Thursday, the insignia patent had been renewed periodically since
1898.
"This is called progress," said Judiciary Committee Chairman
Joseph Biden (D-Del.). "This is awakening to the sensitivities of
some people that others don't have."
Moseley-Braun also clashed with another symbol: Sen. Strom
Thurmond (R-S.C.), 90, a 39-year Senate veteran, former Dixiecrat
and as staunch a defender of the Confederacy as there is.
Thurmond gave an impassioned plea for the United Daughters but
failed to win over his colleagues - many of whom had earlier
pledged their support. The panel backed Moseley-Braun on a 12-3
vote.
"The United Daughters are an organization devoted to
commemorating and celebrating the Confederate effort in the Civil
War, a war started and pursued by the Confederacy to preserve the
institution of slavery and to tear apart the Union our Founding
Fathers had achieved," Moseley-Braun said.
Eliminating patent protection does not materially harm the
United Daughters, even they admit, since they can still get
copyright or trademark protection for their symbol. Only the
American Legion and a handful of other organizations have
congressional patent protection.
Tommie Phillips LaCavera, president of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, said the organization will survive. "We will
continue as we always have,' LaCavera, 55, said from Athens, Ga.
"We will work with our veterans and give scholarships to young
people.'
After the committee meeting, Moseley-Braun told reporters: "I
looked at the bill and I said, 'I can't vote for that.' It was
not necessary to put the federal imprimatur on a logo that they
could continue to use."
Thurmond spoke of the 23, 000-member organization's good works
and insisted, "This should be a non-controversial bill. Their
charitable work for the good of all citizens far outweighs
sensitivities that some may have, concerning their origin."
The logo includes the first national flag of the Confederacy:
red and white stripes, with seven stars inside a blue field in a
corner.
Sen. Paul Simon, Moseley-Braun's fellow Illinois Democrat,
called it a "divisive symbol" and compared it to the more
familiar Stars and Bars, the Confederate battle flag.
"In Illinois, when somebody comes up to me wearing that symbol
on a shirt, I know I'm going to get some kind of anti-black
statement - either crude or subtle - from that person," Simon
said.
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.)
joined Thurmond in voting for the patent extension.
TERMS: CONGRESS; DECISION; SOUTH; HISTORY; GROUP; IMAGE
Copyright 1993 Gannett Company, Inc.
USA TODAY
May 4, 1993, Tuesday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 5A
LENGTH: 346 words
HEADLINE: SENATE'S NEW WOMEN // Moseley-Braun: We've already made
difference
BYLINE: Jessica Lee
KEYWORD: 103RD CONGRESS: PROFILE CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN: AGE: FEMALE
CONGRESS MEMBER
BODY:
As the first woman to win her party's nomination to
the U.S. Senate in 1992, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill.,
became the icon of what was dubbed the Year of the Woman.
"The idea that half our population felt disconnected from a
major institution like this should have been troublesome to a
whole lot of people. Apparently, it was: They tripled the number
of women," she says.
As one of six women in the Senate, and the only
African-American, she says a staggering number of people outside
Illinois look to her:
"The best thing I can do for women and African-Americans is to
be the great senator from Illinois."
She had ridiculed the Senate as "garden-variety politicians
making bad speeches," but now finds male colleagues receptive to
change.
"It's so traditional
a familial kind of body,' she says.
Legislatively, her top priority is to redirect the nation's
economy to a "fiscally prudent" path.
She says women already have made a difference on the Judiciary
and Banking committees.
"Sen. (Joseph) Biden talked to us first
on the Zoe Baird
nomination," she says. Moseley-Braun and Dianne Feinstein were
the first on Judiciary to signal that Baird's employment of
illegal immigrants was a disqualifier for an attorney general. On
Banking, women pushed to strengthen oversight of the Resolution
Trust Corp.
Moseley-Braun laments that she hasn't had time to assess the
power centers and admits the senatorial hideaways - those ornate
parlors honeycombed into Capitol corridors and claimed by
seniority - fascinate her: "Women don't have hideaways. We
haven't gotten there yet."
Being a first can be a plus, she says, but also can be a
problem.
Moseley-Braun, 45, doubts she'll ever be comfortable with the
scrutiny that goes with her job.
Details of her personal life have spilled into the headlines.
She was criticized for mishandling an inheritance from her
mother, for paying her campaign manager - now her fiance - $
30,000 after the election and for stonewalling on charges of
sexual harassment against him.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO, b/w, Tim Dillon, USA TODAY
SUBJECT: SENATE; WOMEN; PROFILE; ILLINOIS
NOTES: WOMEN ON CAPITOL HILL; Four of six women in the Senate
were elected last year. Here's a closer look at them