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Good Day Everyone:<br>
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Often when we think of contributions made to our lives/society - we
tend to think of famous people and their contributions. However, some
of the best contributions and inspirations comes from ordinary people
just being themselves. Today's profiles are of individuals who have
and should have an impact on our ways of life, but who were just being
themselves.<br>
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<b>Arthur Winston - </b>Was born March 22, 1906 in Oklahoma and died
April 13, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Arthur was a Los Angeles
Metro employee for 72 years. His hourly salary was 41 cents when he
began work for the Los Angeles Railway in 1924. He has set a record as
the most reliable worker that the United States Department of Labor has
ever chronicled. He worked for 72 years without ever being late and
having only taken off a single day (in 1988 for the funeral of his wife
Frances). In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded him with an
"Employee of the Century" citation for his work ethic and dedication.
On is remarkable record: "It's easy. You just get up and go to
work." and Winston on his 100th birthday, "It ain't no trouble.
You've got to like your job in the first place. I don't lay around and
play sick - work two days, sick five days. People are just using this
sick leave business." <b>The Arthur Winston Busyard</b> (Division 5
in South Bay) was named in his honor in Los Angeles. His 100th
birthday advice to kids growing up today? "My advice to them is to
just get up and go to work." Mr. Winston is a great example and role
model for all.<br>
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<b>James Cameron (1913-June 13, 2006)</b> - Mr. Cameron was a lynching
survivor/author, founder/director of America's Black Holocaust Museum,
Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On August 7, 1930 Mr. Cameron's life
changed forever. A day before, he and two other young Black men were
arrested for the robbery, rape and assault of a White couple in Marion,
Indiana. James is in a cell in the Grant County Jail. There is a
lynch mob outside numbering into the thousands. James is sixteen years
old. <br>
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The mob comes into the jail and grabs one of the men accused, with
James, of the crime. He is beaten unconscious, dragged outside and
lynched. The second man is then given the same treatment. The bodies
of these two men, Tom Shipp, 18 and Abraham Smith, 19, hanging from a
tree is depicted in a famous and disturbing photograph on the cover of
("A Time of Terror - A Survivor's Story" by James Cameron). The mob
than returns to the jail for James. He is beaten and dragged out to
the tree where his friends now hand and the rob is placed around his
neck. It is at this moment that James remembers hearing what he
describes an an angelic voice above the crowd say "Take this boy back,
he had nothing to do with any killing or rape." Suddenly the hands
that were beating him are now helping him. The rope is taken from
around his neck and crowd clears a path for him to walk back to the
jail. In interviews he later conducted with people who were in the
crowd, no one remembers hearing any voice. Their reason for why the
crowd did not lynch James: "You were lucky that night." Though James
never admitted any guilt in the assault (he admits that he was there),
he served 4 years in prison. The female victim later changed her story
and confirmed that James had no part in the assault.<br>
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Remember to visit the display in the library and keep reading.<br>
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Levenia, Marilynn, Brenton, NAACP/Psycho Club<br>
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