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Foster, Wendell
No full textBRONX AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT
INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison
INTERVIEWEE: Wendell Foster
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Keywords: Segregation in the Deep South, racism in the South and North, Alabama, New Jersey, New York, Bermuda, AME church, blacks in World War II, civil rights movement, Malcolm X, Mt. Zion Church, race relations in Harlem
The Rev. Wendell Foster (b. 1924) is the pastor of Christ Church, and was the first African-American from the Bronx to be elected to the City Council. He was born in extreme poverty in Elba, Alabama. He never knew his father, who died shortly after he was born. At the time, Alabama was extremely segregated and was a very racist place. Foster recalls a number of indignities he suffered in his childhood, as well as a number of traumatic episodes in which he witnessed blacks being mistreated at the hands of whites. When he was still a young boy, he went to live with his older brother and his wife in Birmingham. He held a number of jobs in the black community in Birmingham, but the mistreatment of blacks was just as entrenched as it had been in Elba. After a brief stint in a reform school, Foster decided that he wanted to get out of Birmingham. With no plans or contacts up north, he took a bus to New York. A kind stranger invited the young Foster to stay at the YMCA in Harlem. In New York, Foster lied about his age and began taking classes at Miles College while simultaneously trying to complete a high school degree at Industrial High. After this, Foster realized that his mother’s brother was living in Jersey City. He decided to contact them, and they immediately took him in as one of their own.
When Foster was about 14 (although if the dates are to remain consistent, he must have been 17 or 18), he was required to enlist in the navy, as he had signed up for the draft at the age of 13, when he had no other plans. Since he had lied about his age, the government officials thought that he was almost 20 years old—because of the fact that doctors in the south usually refused to deliver black infants, Foster has no official birth certificate. He thus spent the next few years at various naval training facilities throughout the US, including Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, and Hawaii.
He left the navy when the war ended in 1945. He then returned to Jersey City, where he worked nights at Western Electric and attended classes at Columbia University and Union College. In the early 50’s he started a career as an American Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister. He began doing missionary work overseas, and got involved politically in several interest groups (including Poles, Indians, and Israelis) lobbying for everything from independence to equal treatment in the workplace. He became president of the New Jersey NAACP, and met many of the major civil rights luminaries of the day, including Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Malcolm X. Eventually the bishop which he answered to sent him to preach in Bermuda, which at the time had 11 AME churches. Foster ended up marrying the bishop’s daughter in 1956, and at the time of interview, the couple had recently celebrated their 48th anniversary. After the wedding, the bishop dispatched Foster back to New Jersey, and then to Springfield, MA. After two years in Springfield, Foster went to Harlem, where he formed a relationship with Malcolm X, who frequently spoke at the Mt. Zion AME.
After a few other moves to locations such as Niagara Falls, Foster settled in the Bronx in about 1967, where he remains today. While Foster does not mention anything about his political career in the transcript, the interview provides rich and fascinating background information that displays Foster’s tremendous commitments to religion, family, learning, and civil rights for all people seeking liberation
Caribbean Report 13-03-1997
No full textIn this report, Bahamian’s vent their feeling on the eve of general elections and talk show host, Wendell Jones discusses a recently held polls and some of the election issues on the island. Next, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada are talking about a trade pack which could link their countries. In the following, a proposed six hundred million EC dollars tourism project, the Asian Village in Antigua, is running into opposition from the island’s environmental awareness group and other organisations. Its proposed location is the last bastion of Antigua and Barbuda’s environmental legacy and is worth preserving. Next, Walmart, an American chainstore, operating in Canada found itself in violation of American embargo legislation by selling Cuban manufactured pyjamas in its store in Canada. In the final segment, following a month long spate of violence where scores of people have been killed in Haiti, questions are being asked about President Renee Preval’s grip on the country.1. Headlines (00:00-00:29)2. On the eve of general elections the Bahamian public vent their concerns. Prime Minister, Hubert Ingraham and Talk Show Host, Wendell Jones are interviewed. (00:30-06:59)3. A trade pack maybe made between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada. Prime Minister of Grenada, Keith Mitchell is interviewed. Tony Fraser reports. (06:59-08:29)4. A multimillion dollar tourism project in Antigua stirs opposition from environmentalist. Foster Derrick, Environmental Awareness Group Spokesman is interviewed (08:30-12:19)5. International conflict inflamed by Canada sale of Cuban pyjamas. Leslie Goffe reports from New York (12:20-13:53)6. After a month long spate of violence in Haiti, one has to ask the question is Rene Preval really in control? Michael Norton reports (13:54-15:29
Caribbean Report 22-10-1998
No full text1. Headlines with Keith Greaves (00:00-00:25)2. After tremors in Dominica causes panic in the island. The Regional Disaster Emergency Agencies are using the Montserrat's volcano experience to help the islands with volcanoes in their planning and preparation. CDERA's Jeremy Collymore in Barbados says that Dominica is ripe for such an exercise. Senior Scientist at the Seismic Research Unit, Dr John Shepherd and CDERA's Jeremy Collymore are interviewed. Ken Richards reports (00:26-06:49)3. New York City Council votes unanimously in favour of the extradition of a former Haitian military leader. Council Woman Juanita Watkins, Rudy Orozco of the New York City Council and Wendell Foster, Chairman of the Council Committee which presented the Constant resolution are interviewed. Leslie Goffe reports (06:50-10:32)4. CARICOM leaders step up the lobbying in the United States to head off the growing trade impasse with Europe over banana imports from the Caribbean. CARICOM Chairman Prime Minister Kenny Anthony is interviewed (10:33-11:56)5. In Suriname, the streets of the Capital Paramaribo were quiet following Wednesday's march by thousands of people over the President's choice of the Supreme Court Chief Justice and the Prosecutor General. Journalist Dennis Sampson reports (11:57-13:21)6. Suriname and Guyana to decide on an agreement for a ferry service between them and Guyanese authorities land their greatest drug burst for the year. Lambert Marks, Head of the Guyana Anti-Narcotic Unit is interviewed (13:22-14:44)7. Joey Ramiah, another Trinidad and Tobago death row prisoner, has submitted new grants for appeals seeking to escape the hangman's noose (14:45-15:19
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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