The Black Leadership Family Plan

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The Black Leadership Family Plan

for the Unity, Survival, and Progress of Black People

Congressional Black Caucus

h2-344 House Annex #2

Washington DC 20515

February 5, 1982

PAGE 7 BLACK INK FEBRUARY 23, 1982

Black family

Leaders unveil rules for unity, progress

From The Winston-Sarem Chronicle

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An array of

black leaders from the church, civil rights,

political, entertainment and athletic worlds

gathered here on Capitol Hill recently to

release to Black America long-awaited

"Black Leadership Family Plan for the Unity,

Survival and Progress of Black People."

The plan is the product of the cooperation of more than 150 heads of national black organizations who worked together over much of 1981 to draft it.

The plan has three objectives, said Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy, D-Washington, D.C., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and coordinator of the plan's development.

Those three objectives are:

* To set forth 12 rules for black unity,

survival and progress, which this broad

cross-section of black leaders urge black

people to follow

* To establish a Black Development Fund

by which black citizens are to contribute

directly to existing black organizations

which are working for the progress of black

people

* To provide a set of instructions to

numerous categories of black organizations

for implementing its strategies

: Fauntroy says that the plan is really a

response to the appeal of actor-producer

Ossie Davis to black leadership 10 years

ago.

At the first Congressional Black Caucus

Dinner in 1971, Davis said: "Give us a plan

of action . . . a 10 Black Commandments;

simple, strong, that we can carry in our

hearts and in our memories no matter where

we are, and can reach out and touch and feel

the reassurance that there is behind everything we do,

a simple moral, intelligent plan

that must be fulfilled in the course of time.

"If all of our leaders, one by one, fall in

battle, somebody will rise and say

'Brother!!

Our leader died while we were on page

three of the Plan. Now that the funeral is

over, let us proceed to Page Four."

Quoting Davis further, Fauntroy said,

'It's not the man, it's the plan; it's not the

rap, it's the map.' "

The 12 rules for black unity survival and

progress are:

1. Support the black church.

2. Protect the elderly and support the

youth.

3. Excell in education.

4. Oppose crime.

5. Contribute to the Black Development

Fund.

6. Buy and bank black.

7. Register and vote.

8. Hold your elected officials accountable.

9. Support black family and community

life.

10. Challenge and boycott negative

media and support positive media.

11. Secure and defend the black community.

12. Support Mother Africa and Caribbean nations.

THE BLACK DEVELOPMENT FUND

The Black Development fund is not a formal organization

controlled by any one individual or group. It is, rather,

a national movement to keep more of black income

and wealth in the black community. It is a

concept of giving for black self-support. The

only requirement is that every able black

understand the need to give and then give to

a black organization or institution of his or

her choice on a regular basis.

Under the plan, each month one of the

following 12 categories will be identified

and publicized at the local level:

January,

black civil rights organizations;

February,

black candidates, black political and voter

participation organizations.

Also the following will be identified and

publicized:

March, black religious institutions;

April, black senior citizens organizations.

May, black Africa and Carribbean relief.

June, historically black colleges;

July, black legal defense funds;

August, black hospitals and health care organizations;

September, Congressional Black Caucus

(Political Action Committee);

October, black arts and cultural organizations;

November, black family support organizations,

December, black youth and childcare organizations.

A MISSION FOR EVERYONE

In addition to the 12 rules and the Black

Development Fund, the plan contains a mission

for blacks in every walk of life.

"There is now a plan of action in which all

black people can play a meaningful part,"

Fauntroy said. "Whether one is a black in

business, labor, civic, fraternal or professional activity;

whether one is involved in civil rights, comm unity action, religion,

politics, education, youth and elderly services, or in prison,

there is now a plan by which blacks may coordinate in our struggle

for the common good."

THE ACTION ALERT NETWORK

Finally, the plan urges blacks in all walks

of life to join Action Alert Communications Network

so that blacks may be able to communicate directly with one another when

there is a need for concerted action.

The network is established in about 11 congressional districts where blacks are 15 percent or more of the population.

National organizations are urged to designate a coordinator for their members in each

congressional distria and to break down their membership lists by congressional district. Participating organizations are also invited to make their lists available to the Congressional Black Caucus, which will coordinate the network.

Included in the plan is a card for individual black citizens to volunteer to work for

the network.

The National Congress of Black Churches,

a voluntary association of representatives

from seven historically black denominations

played a significant role in the development

of the plan

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