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Godfrey Cambridge, 43, Comedian And Actor Who Twitted Racism

By DAVID F. WHITE

Godfrey Cambridge, who mixed comedy and serious roles during his stage and screen career, died Monday of a heart attack on a Warner Bros. movie set in Burbank, Calif.  He was 43 years old and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.

Mr. Cambridge was stricken during the filming of "Victory at Entebbe," a television film about the Israeli rescue of hostages from hijackers in Uganda.  The actor's role was that of President Idi Amin [[of U]]ganda.

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It was not until his junior year at Hofstra, when a fraternity began harassing him and the whites who had befriended him, that he ran into prejudice.

"I was brought up to believe I was different," he was quoted as saying once.  "Being West Indian, my mother is enormously pproud.  She feels if you're not West Indian, you're nothing."

He dropped out of Hofstra, attended City College, and then held a number of jobs including airplane-wing cleaner, hot-rod racer and judo instructor until he won his first professional acting role in 1956 as a bartender in the play "Take a Giant Step."

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South's Change Seen at Funeral
The Washington Post

Ruleville, Miss.—This small Delta town of [[text cut off]] seen a funeral quite like it

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President Carter's closest a[[text cut off]]ers, came back home to deli[[text cut off]] the eulogy is a measure of h[[text cut off]] far the nation has come since Mrs. Hamer was fired from the plantation where she had worked 18 years for trying t[[text cut off]] register to vote in 196[[text cut off]]

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Young, a close friend and coworker of the la[[text cut off]] Luther King Jr., was very much at home back [[text cut off]]
churches he spent so much time in during the 1960s. [[text cut off]]gy, he recounted the early 1960s when, he said, "eve[[text cut off]] was afraid to even come to a voter-registration meet[[text cut off]]

In a 15-minute talk that had the standing-room-only [[text cut off]]gation in the 300-seat Williams Chapel shouting, "That's [[text cut off]] and "Tell the story, Andy!" Young said the "seeds" of a [[text cut off]] rights movement that led directly to the election of Pre[[text cut off]] Carter were "sown here in the sweat and blood of you and [[text cut off]] Hamer."

At the end of his eulogy, which described Mrs. Hamer a[[text cut off]] "woman who literally helped turn this nation around" Y[[text cut off]] began clapping his hands and burst [[text cut off]]
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Roland Hayes Is Dead at 89; First Famous BLack Singer

Boston (AP) Roland Hayes, 89, a [[text cut off]]tionally known conc[[text cut off]]
tenor, died yesterday at Massachusetts [[text cut off]]

Hayes, the son of a former Georgia slave, was born in Curryville, Ga., on June 3, 1887. He was recognized for his interpretation of classics and traditional black melodies. He as a pioneer in introducing Afro-American spirituals as concert music.

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[[caption]] Roland Hayes [[/caption]]

Hayes, who lived in Brookline, Mass., was an expert in German lieder. He was the recipient of the Spingarn medal for outstanding achievement by a black.

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David F. Henderson, 57, Sergeant with U.N.'s Security Service

Sgt. David F. Henderson of the United Nations Security and Safety Service, a familiar figure at the delegates' entrance to the United Nations General Assembly building, died Saturday in his home. [[text cut off]] was 57 years old and lived at 22[[text cut offrr]] Madison Avenue.

A native New Yorker, Sergeant H[[text cut off]]derson joined the United Nations' Security Service in 1952 after serving w[[text cut off]] the Army and as a Federal patrolm[[text cut off]]
for the New York Port of Embarkati[[text cut off]]

His survivors include three sons, Da[[text cut off]] F. Jr., Gary and Frederick, and a broth[[text cut off]] John Henderson of Baltimore.  Fune[[text cut off]]
mass will be celebrated tomorrow at [[text cut off]] A.M. at the Holy Family Roman Cath[[text cut off]] Church, 315 East 47th Street.
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Fannie Lou Hamer Is Buried

Thousands of mourners, including Andrew Young, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations flocked to Louisville, Mississippi on Sunday, March 20 to pay tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer.

Mrs. Hamer, a sharecropper who became a civil rights leader, died of cancer on March 14 at the age of 58.

Mr. Young, who delivered the eulogy for Mss. Hamer in crowded Williams Chapel, a Baptist sanctuary in Louisville, declared that the nation owed a large debt [[text cut off]] Hamer.

Said Mr. Young, "No one in America has not been influenced or inspired by Mrs. Hamer."

Among the other prominent veterans of the civil rights movement who attended the funeral were: Stokely Carmichael, former director of the SNCC; Julian Bond
the Georgia legislator; Dorothy Heigh[[text cut off]] president of the National Council of Neg[[text cut off]]
Women; Verdon Jordan, director of [[text cut off]] Urban League; John Lewis, former h[[text cut off]] of the Voter Education Project and [[text cut off]] Baker.
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