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VOLUME 55 NUM3ER Ig. " -' "READ BY OVER 3350, PURHAMITES" ! ,. DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1977 ,- TELEPHONE (919) 638-6587 . rm.
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MARCHERS Delegation
in Atlanta, Saturday, April
uurnam. -
More than three thousand
marched through downtown
Atlanta as a part of "a witness
against executions" to the
Georgia Capitol to hear several
speakers and entertainers.
One by one the expert
witnesses, all civil rights
veterans, spoke out. Each with
a message that electrified those
Who listened just a few feet
from a statute of lth century
populist Thomaj Watson.
more oeoole than anv other
state irf the nation" said Dr:
Rjdph Abernathy, President
Emeritus of the . Southern
Christian Leadership Confer-
ence. He continued to attacka
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correct crime of homicide and
killings through capitol punish-
ment. we come cioscr , w noi aeicr cnmuiius. iv-uici, nc
correcting crime and horrd- said, executions increase law-
cide . . .by providing jobs and kssness.
income." He further criticized The cause of rising crime,
the arms race and the race to according to Wicker, is "we
explore and settle outer space have so much economic injus-
saying "(We need to) stop tice in Anierica. Because we
wasting our money on the have so many poor people liv-
arms race and sending indi- ing side by side with so much
viduals to the moon and Mars affluence and that affluence is
.... We haven't learned as visible by the eye and televi-
yet how to live down on this gfon. ... The poor people
earth." know that there are a lot of
Ramsey Clark, the first people who have got what they
U. S. Attorney General to haven't got. ItYs not fair,
oppose capital punishment and that's economic injustice."
while in office', spoke. Armed Civil rights attorney Jerry
with statistics and historical Paul, best known for his de
accounts of Georgia executions fense of Joan Little, called for
since 1938, he said that 366 direct action against govem
persons were executed in ments that impose capital
Georgia. punishment. Paul said that
. Clark told of James speeches are fine "but
Foster, convicted of a capital nothing , replaces action. He
crime in 1956 who was later suggested that opponents to
found to have been innocent, the death penalty intervene in
There was also Leo Franks who capital trials by confessing that
in 191 5 was sentenced to die in they committed the alleged
Georgia. Clark said that crime.
Franks' sentenced was com- Paul said that executions
muted . when, his accuser are a denial of due process,
was found to have committed "When you kill a person you
the murder. Released from take away that protective
prison, Franks, a Jew, was mechanism, you go against due
lynched. ( process and you destroy the
Clark urged the listeners concept of protection median-
Carl Rouan To Do BU
Fooodor's Day Spoahor
FAYETTEVILLE -r Carl
Rowan, nationally renowned
journalist who was the first
lack American to sit with the
President's Cabinet and the U.
S. National Security ' Council,
will be the featured speaker at
Fayetteville State University's
100th Anniversary Founder's
Day ceremonies April 17 at
CARL ROWAN
from North Carolini to 'Witness Against Executions"
10th. Holding the banner In center Is John Stroman of
oaDS&iTGSo Ira
istt iuoeo8Dns
to renounce the death penalty
and advocate jobs for all able
towork.
New York times Associate
-Editor Tom Wicker, also was
laden with statistics to show
that more blacks and males had
been executed in the U. S: The
majority of those executed
Were poor and illiterate. Wicker
said the criminal justice and
economic systems are designed
to maintain the status quo as
he attacked the use or prisons
as human warehouses and the
erosion of "fundamental li-
berties" by the U: S. Supreme
Court.
" Increasing crime, Wicker
said is the motivating factor of
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ment. But he said studies have
proved ! that ,, executions do
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Seabrook Auditorium.-
i While f a freshman at
Tennessee $tate College in,
Nashville, he took a nationally '
competitive examination that
led to his becoming one of
the first 15 blacks in U. S.
history to attain commissioned '
officer rank in the wavy.
From 1964-65, when he
was director of the United
States Information Agency in
the administration of Lyndon
B. Johnson, Rowan became the
first black American to sit
with the President's Cabinet
. and with the U. S. National
: Security Council.
Earlier, Rowan served as
, John F.. Kennedy's ambassador
to, Finland at that time the
youngest U. S. -envoy in the
world. Still earlier in the
Kennedy Administration, he
. served as . Deputy Assistant
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ism. Once the executions have
occured there is no more
appeal left."
Paul was introduced by
Anne Mitchell, Coordinator of
the North Carolina Alliance
Against Racist and Political
Repression as a "people's
advocate". Ms. Mitchell also
read a letter from Rev. Benja
min Chavis, Jr. that called
on Americans not to be fooled
bv President Carter's stance on
human rights internationally.
The letter called upon Carter
to free the Wilmington 10 who
are imprisoned in North Caro-
Una jails and political prisoners
everywhere in they, S.
Several , pewom facing
40 years old and very active in
the abolition movement war
on death row in Florida for
nine years. He and Freddie
Pitts were released in 1976
after they were found inno
cent. Lee said that prosecu
tors knew of his innocense
but said "that's two niggers
that won't join Martin Luther
Ling." At the time of his
arrest he was on his way to
join the late Dr. King and other
demonstrators.
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CO-SPONSORS EGG HUNT - Durham Mayor Wade Cavln and Assistant Recrea
tion Department Director Carl Washington, examine some of the eggs In prepara
tion for the 1977 citywide East Egg Hunt. From left; are King Club memberir
George Suggs, Sr., public relations director; Walter Richardson, committee
members, Claude Daniel, social committee chalrmanj Mayor Cavln 'and
Washington. For the fifth consecutive year, the King Club, Inc.; was eoponsor '
of the uurnam necreanon
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ndepenaent egg nunts, dux some years ago, aeciaea o join ine tuv wim imi.pry .
ect. Members of the Kings Club and their families took part in this project
in tha natt. colarlna more than S.000 eaas for the citv wide hunt. Harold Brandon. .
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Borden, Ervin Johnson, recording, secretary; Andrew Jones, Robert McCloud,
Arthur Saunders, treasurer, Raymond Haves, assistant treasurers Paul Weeks, -athletic
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WILMINGTON Superior
Court Judge 4 Russell Lanier
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County Court begins considera? Leroy Blair of Wilmington,
tion of recent; recanUtions of ; t Rev. M. L. Dillingham of Wil
state witnesses and requests for mlngton, UNC professor Dr.
new trials for the civil rights Ann Carter, Granville County
activists " civic leader Rev. G. C. Hawley,
When the 'post convic- . & Administrative Assistant to
tion hearing begins on May 9th Congressman Ron Defluim,
i . u. wil. Barbara Lee. Manv of the
mington 10 remaining in North
Carolina prisons will not have
been able to confer jointly
with their lawyers to prepare
their case, Attorney : James
Fergusoir told Lanier that un
less he was able to get the
Wilmington 10 .free on bail
that unusual circumstances
would lessen the effectiveness
of their representation. He said
it... .it .l. iuni.iriM i n
aiStVSyiSr. Rex Harris, when asked
confer with them once --would,
require driving j moreif than
1,000 miles. ; v
Ferguson also argued that
the recantation of Allen Hall
last October, and of Jerome
Mitchell in February, and the
newly discovered 1974 recanta
tion of Eric Junious plus the
4400 page proceeding of the
first trial would take many
months for the Judge to con
sider. Meanwhile, Ferguson
argued, his clients should not
be kept in jail.
Ferguson presented more
than 100 affidavits of promi
nent and everyday people who
were willing to testify for the
Wilmington 10's character and
that thev would return tor
trial liufo 1 infer refused to
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Some of the persons avail
able to testify at the trial on
the character of the Wilming-
ton 10 were Fayetteville busi
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witnesses and others appeared
shocked when Lanier handed
the affidavits back to Fergu
son and referred to them as
"stuff."
Charlene Mitchell, Execu
tive Director of the National
Alliance Against Racist and
Political Repression responded
with "its more of North Caro
lina Klu Klux Klan style juv
tlce.
fair, shook his head in apparent
disgust.
' Rev. Leon White, Execih
tive Director of the N. C.
Va. Commission for Racial Jus
tice, said that he didn't expect
any relief from state courts and
would expect "the same in the
post conviction hearing that we
saw today". White said he ex
pected relief from the federal
courts.
At any rate, the post
conviction hearing is set for
May 9th in Burgaw. The last
time the defendants were in
that court they were con-,
victed for a total of 282 years
for firebombing a white-owned
grocery. The grocery was
; burned during a seige of white
vigilantes upon Wilmington i
- black ehetto. oartlcularlv UDOn
the WUmtagton-New, Hanover
School system.
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MY DOG'S BETTER THAN YOUR DOG - is what tht expressions of four year
old Gina Colvin and Jo Anjanette Martin seem to he saying. And Jesse L. Johnson
Jr., is glad they did; Johnson's snapshot of the girls won a $1 00 special merit award
In the Kodak awards competition in which more than 325,000 photos were
entered. .
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RALEIGH (CCNS) -State
enforcement of an Equal
Employment Practices Act is
proposed in legislation filed in
the General Assembly by Rep:
H. M. Michaux and Sen. Kathy
Sebo. Michaux and Sebo ex
plained the legislation at a
legislative seminar of the N. C.
Association of Human Rights
Officials. ,
Patterned after the federal
Equal Employment Opportuni
ties Commission (EEOC) en
forcement of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, employment
based on sex, national origin,
race, religion, and age would
be prohibited.
A Division of Equal
Opportunity would be esta
blished within the Department
of Administration to investi
gate, conciliate and make
settlements to compensate for
discrimination, All complaints
made to the Division would be
under the director of the North
Carolina Human Relations
Commission.
Complaints of discrimina
tion would be investigated
within 90 days. After com
plaint investigation had been
completed the Division would
make i finding of whether
j "reasonable cause" exists , to
believe discrimination occurred
ot was occurring; At that time
the Division would attempt to
get the parties to settle the
complaint through persuasion
. or concilliation. Persuasion
failing, the Division could then;
: use its administrative hearing
process to gather, infoimation
: through subpoena powers and
to make a decision. A com
: plainant not satisfied with the
ruling ofv-the j administrative
hearing cpuld "appeal to the
Superior Courts of the State,
then- to the state appellate
courts. Only after the appeals
through the state courts andthe
1 run of the hearing iprocess
1, could a complainant get relief
'from the federal courts or the
federal EEOC. ;
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REP. H. M. MICHAUX
Michaux and Sebo said
these provisions would be.
attractive to state officials and
employers who dislike federal
intervention. The provision
would make North Carolina a
706 agency which means the
North Carolina Human Rela
tions Commission would act in
place of the federal EEOC.
The federal EEOC has a back
log of more than -3000 com
plaints in North Carolina which
makes some complainants wait
for relief from discrimination
for more than a vear.
Defending the concept of
the State replacing the role of
the EEOC, Michaux, said, "1
have been one who has looked,
sort of with a jaundiced eye, at
states' rights, particularly when
it's used in terms of discrimina
tion and whatnot. But 1 think
this is one of the most sellable
pieces of literature for states
rights." Racial bigots and segre
gationists have generally used
the states' rights argument to
resist federal intervention and
discriminatory attitudes con
doned by state laws.
The investigative and con
cilliation powers of the state
Division of Equal Opportunity
would be available to local hu
man relations commissions if
they were constructed to
handle comnlaints. However
that poses a problem for some
human relations units in the
state including Raleigh which
has recently been dissolved as
an independent agency to a
division of civil rights under
the control of Raleigh City
Manager L. P.- Zachary.
Whether such reconstituted
bodies would be eligible for
enforcing the Equal Oppoi
tunity Law, is not yet clear;
; Enforcement of the pro
visions of the act for some time
has been another sticky issue.
John Brooks, Commissioner of
' Labor has been .lobbying for
the legislation to be enforced
within ( the department of
febor. Sebo said that Brooks
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had been convinced to support
passage of the provision under
the Department of Administra
tion. Sebo and Michaux also
said that the cabinet of state
and the governor had seen the
legislation and many were
supportive. -
Similar legislation was
defeated in the last session
when manufacturers lobbied
against the bill saying it would
destroy the state's right ,to
work laws. The bill had 'to
effect on the state's right to
work laws.
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North Carolina 'Central
University School of Law in
celebration of "Law Day" is
sponsoring a week of events
which began Tuesday. Forums
are being held through Satur
day, April 16 on topics such
as "Opportunities for Women
in Law and "Scientific Jury
Selection. Aspiring landlords
as well as unsatisfied tenants
would be interested in the
forum entitled "Landlord and
Tenant eminar" presented by
Durham's Legal Aid Society.
. On - Friday, April 15 la
B. N. Duke - Auditorium at
U a-ra. the Honorable Floyd
B. , McKissick, will speakjo
the Law Day Assembly, Mc
Kissick is the Director and
Founder of Soul City i and
an alumnus of the ; Univer
- slty's Law School That even
ing Moot Court Competitions
win be open to uxe puous
from 7 pan. - 9 pan, to the
Moot Court Room of the law
school , p Those .persons
attending wiU view: the final
rounds of the first year class
appellate arguments. .
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