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NEW YORK - Charging
that a number of local banks
were using the city's fiscal -crisis
to intrude into the -areas!
of social policy, a group oft
civil rights and women's or
ganizations announced last v
week the filing of a federal suit;1
against the New York Clearing -
nouse Association to par its..:
members from interfering with ;
affirmative action plana for hir
ing minorities. ,
1 At a hews conference held
at the NAACP National Office,
Herbert Hill charged that "it i
evident" that the 11 -member.:
banks of the New York Clear
ing House are using the city's
fiscal crisis "as, a leverage to;
prevent any further gains by;
black and Spainish-surname
people and women."
Last month, Hill revealed
that the Clearing House, which
represents the .city's major
banks, had demanded as a
condition for doing business
with New York that the local
affirmative action requirements
be ended.
In a letter dated Decem
ber 30 to Osborn Elliott, De
puty Mayor for Economic De
velopment, an official of the
Clearing House said that the
city's affirmative action
program is "duplicative and
unnecessary." This program,
he said, "would place an in
tolerable burden upon the
firms doing business with the
city."
The letter was written
by John F. Lee, executive
vice president of the clear
ing hous. It also said that the
association's position repre
sented, "the thinking of a
broad segment of the New
Yprk City ? business and in
dustrial community.'
Hill,, at 1 the news . con
ference also said that the
coalition would be appealing
to the Federal Government to
bar the 11 banks as Federal
Depositories. :
- ' Mrs. Barbara Morris., nrn-
. ject director, said the suit
'- essentially is asking ' the
courts : to enjoin the banks
from telling the city to get out
of . the affirmative action busi
ness. .
V Hill explained that one
manner in which the banks are
attempting to coerce the city
can be seen in the position
they have taken regarding the
handling of welfare checks.
The banks, he said, have told,
the city that they are not going
to enter into an agreement to
receive those checks for dis
tribution to recipients "as
long as you make affirmative
action a part of the contract."'
Such a project would help
the city in cutting down losses
from mail boxes and other
forms of thefts. But it would
also help the banks by pro
viding them with more business.
Participating in the coali
tion that held the news con
ference were, in addition to the
NAACP, the National Organi
zation of Women, its New
York affiliate, and Harlem
Fight - Back.
Meanwhile, just hours
after the coalition filed their
suit in the U. S. District Court,
Mayor Beam approved a set of
new rules and regulations that
Paul And lifffc
Receive Awards
GREENSHORO (CCNS) -Attorney
Jerry Paul received
an award for outstanding ser
vice from the Brotherhood For
Christ following a presentation
of "Selma" at the Greensboro
Coliseum. "Selma", a musical
depicting black liberation
struggles in Montgomery, Ala.,
Birmingham, Ala., Selma, Ala.,
Memphis, Tenn. and other
cities during the 1950's and
1960's was a Tommy Butler
production.
Paul, an outstsanding civil
rights attorney, is best known
for his defense of Joan Little
in her murder trial of Beaufort
County jailer Clarence Alli
good. Ms. Little was acquitted,
when the jury determined that
she had killed jailer Alligood
during a sexual assault he mad
made on her. The celebrated
case received widespread
support from ciyil rights, hu
man rights, and women's
rights organizations.
Often in the defense of his
clients, Paul has laid his life
and right to practice law on the
line. While defending the right
of Joan Little to have a jury
selected by scientific means,
Paul .was. held .ty contempt of
court and how faces nine days
of a 15 day sentence imposed
on him by presiding Judge
Hamilton Hobgood. Recently,
Paul's appeal to the U. S.
Court of Appeals was denied;
After Ms. Little was
acquitted, Paul then drew fire
of the N. C. Bar when he told
reporters that the judicial sys
tem in North Carolina and the
U. S. was racist and that the
amount of money a defendant
has for his defense determines
the justice he gets.
For those words of
wisdom that laymen repeat
every day, Paul now faces a
disbarment proceeding which
the state of North Carolina
seeks to take his license to
practice aw. Paul's defense to
the charges of professional
misconduct and violation of
the cannon df ethics of lawyers
is that the statements were
true and the bar action in
fringes his first amendment
rights of freedom of
expression.
Also receiving awards were
Joan Little and Dr. John
Kilimanjaro, publisher and
editor of THE CAROLINA
PEACEMAKER, a black
weeklv published in Greens
boro. Dr. Kilimanjaro, a pro
fessor at A&T State Univer
sity, founded the PEACE
MAKER and has been very
active in Greensboro political
affairs, including an unsuccess
ful candicacy for the Greens
boro City Council.
Receiving the. award for
Joan Little was Anne Mitchell
Coordinator of the North
Carolina Alliance Against
Racist and Political Repression.
Ms. Little was not able to
attend because she is serving
a 7-10 year sentence for
breaking and entering which
she was imprisoned in the
Beaufort County jail when
attacked by jailer Garence
Alligood.
Poverty Program Hay
Run Out of Funds
CHARLOTTE (CCNS) -The
Charlotte Area Fund, a
federally funded poverty pro
gram that services the Char
lotte - Mecklenburg Area, may
go out of business this year,
unless $57,000 in local con
tributions is raised by Septem
ber of this year.
Sam Kornegay, director of
the agency which has been in
operation since 1964, informed
the board of directors that the
budget for 1977 is nearly
$120,000 less than the' 1976
budget and that on top of that
the percentage of local money
that must be raised for match
ing federal money.is higher be
cause of changes in policy.
The agency's, problem has
been complicated by the fact
that it did not spend all of the
money allocated for it last
year. The budget was cut from,
$559,000 last year to $475,
000 this year however
$382300 of that money was
are aimed at broadening job" come effective within 30 days,
opportunities ; for minority Thetujations will require
groups and ' women in non- that concerns doing business
construction work areas. with the city make written
The rules were signed by commitments to provide an
Deputy Mayor Paul Gibson, equitable share of jobs for
Jr., who said they would be- minorities. .
MACHINE SHORTHAND The Secretarial Science
Department at Durham College is Court Reporting
and Machine Shorthand, prepares persons interested
in taking dictation of 150-300 words per minute in
Machine Shorthand, Instituted in September, 1976,
Mesdames Lizzie Cofer, Naomi Daniels and Margaret
Rollins are presently enrolled in the course, Durham
College hopes to give the students the opportunity to
pursue a challenging and rewarding career.
r-
carried over from last year's
budget. The surplus seems all
the more puzzling when one
considers that the area fund
was recently involved in a con
troversy involving money for
emergency allocation of funds
to poor people during the
arctic freeze of December and
January in North Carolina,
Kornegay had said that funds
were not available for the poor.
The operations of the
agency include a Headstart pro
gram for children, a feeding
program for elderly people in
Hoskins . (a poor black and
white , community) a free
income tax service and a con
sumer education program.
Kornegay could not ex
plain the surplus of funds,
stating that he would need to
consult the - records in his
office. Only $14,00 has been
raised in local contributions at
this writing.
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porting the Helm's bill
Buse, "Mr. Helms' bill
esents the only realistic
rnatrve to the death 1
Jty in this general
mbly." N. L'. Alliance co-
mator Anne Mitchell said
Alliance does not support T
Helms bill. "The death
lty is intrinsically racist .
biased by class in this; -iitry.
It is not incumbent -
opponents of capital1
.ishment to draw up other,'
Vdiwa InninlntlAn 1... . .
Uand our legislators not
r in re-enacting a death
pity "statute.
ITb Press
of Home
pneration of respectively.
Ibert Tibbs. George Mernti
Cail Madden, young black
munity activists who face
th or life imprisonment on
e murder charges.
The open letter calls the
sident's attention to the
;e numbers of men, women
children, who, because of
irivation, poverty, and
ism now compose "the.
est prison- population of
V country on earth" and call
pn the President "to speak
'their condition . . . the next
Liie you address the question
ii justice anu nunian ngius.
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NCCJ HONORS HOOKS - Dr. David Hyatt (left) presWtnt of the National Con
ference of Christians and Jews, presents the organization's National Human Rela
tions Award to Benjamin and Frances Hooks. Hooks, former Federal Communica
tions Commissioner and executive director-desiccate of the NAACP, and Mrs.
Hooks, were ho: -; red for their "exe mplary records in championing human rights
and in promoting good will and brotherhood in the community." The presentation
took place in Memphis. (RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO).
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' Further violations of
man rights spelled out for
ter include the refusal ot
lice agencies to protect
L' r .11. I L . .
ims oi racial oomDings oy
Ku Klux Klan and other
ist groups; the killing and
unding of thousands of
ung people by local police;
creation oi SWAT squads
Red Squads and their
iininc. suddIv and coordina-
r C" II -
n by a score of national
(lice agencies, thereby pro
viding "the foundation for a
garrison state."
Other human rights issues
urged are the rush by stale
legislatures to pass new death
penalty statutes, modeled
after Georgia's and signed into
law by Mr. Carter when he was
governor of that state; and
twisting of the grand jury sys
tem into "grand inquisitons":
wire-tap legislation; the con
tinued imprisonment and exile
of thousands of war resisters
inside the armed forces; the in
creased repression of labor's
rights to organize, strike and
bargain collectively at a time
when the economic crisis pro
mises long unemployment
and runaway inflation tor
millions of working people.
"Clearly." argues the letter to
the President, "you have your
work in the field of human
rights cut out for you."
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