Echo [Vol. 25, No. 38 (Fall 1980)]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Virginia W. Williams, 1980. Very good +. 11” x 8½”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. 36. Very good plus: the slightest toning and foxing to edges of wrappers; internally fresh.

This “Patriotic Issue” of Echo mainly concerned the Black vote and ran key information on local, state and national politicians up for election in 1980. It also held lyrics and sheet music of patriotic songs, a feature on “When Blacks Were Republicans” and one on the Wisconsin Black Republican Council. There was a spotlight with photographic montage of Milwaukee native Dorothy Fisher, “international opera singer,” who was honored with a “coveted Medallion Award” at an event in Milan, “where she has lived for the past 27 years.” Fisher both sang and provided a “moving history of Negro spirituals” at the event. A column on “Career Choices” aimed at local teens was authored by Gertrude Payton, a guidance counselor who went on to establish a scholarship fund to help African American students from Milwaukee attend HBCUs. There was also a feature and great shot of 21-year-old Barbara Joplin, a secretary with the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, who solved her “Energy Crisis Problem” by riding a motorcycle.

OCLC shows five entities with holdings of Echo over two entries, but only one has this issue, and it is in a bound volume.