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Atlanta Children
April 19 1981 . ' .
Pray For The Children Sunday
Proclaimed By Governor Jim Hunt , ,
Three minutes of silent prayer at noon asked. '
Dead 23 Missing 2
Murderer(s) Still Not Found
Wear A Green Ribbon
'Minify
Words Of Wisdom
One of the greatest obstacles to saccesa is man's
inability to pat first things first. .
Chsrtes B. Roth
Pretensions are a soiree of pain, and the happy
time of life begins as soon as we give them ap.
Nicolas Cfeamfort
VOLUME 59- NUMBER 16
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1981
TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
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Durham Groups
Protest H
U.S. Congressional
Black
Offers
. . - m
Alternative Budget
Glrns -Gtintsnhial Part ieipat ion
An "Outright Insult
To Black People
Caucus
Reward Increases
On March 5, 1981, a memorandum was circulated in
dicating that a reward of $250.00 would be offered for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
individual(s) making the threatening bomb telephone
calls at North Carolina Central University). We are
n6w narrowing the field of suspects and have obtained
funds through Governor James B. Hunt with which to
increase the reward to $1000.00. This reward will be
payable through the Chancellor's Office upon the
recommendation of law enforcement officials and the
informant's name will be kept confidential.
Information will be received in the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs, Administration
Building, Room 211 (Dd Blue); or, in the Office of the
Vice Chancellor for University Relations, Administra
tion Building, Room 201 (Dr. Simmons).
By Trellie L. Jeffers
"C The U.S. Congressional
Black Caucus (CBC) has
'proposed an alternative
budget to the budget
presented by the Reagan
administration on
.February 18, 1981. the
'.CBC says that its alter
native budget will
counteract the proposed
cuts for programs such as
the child nutrition pro
gram, the food stamp pro
gram, Medicaid, student
loans, Economic Develop
ment Admministration
and alternative energy
research, and reduce the
budget deficit by $43.5
billion rather than the $45
billion proposed by Presi
dent Reagan.
The CBC gives three
goals for its budget:
Hunt Proclaims "Pray
For The Children
Sunday"
Governor Jim Hunt nas issued a proclamation mak
ing Easter Sunday, April 19, "Pray for the Children
Sunday" in memory of the missing and slain children in
Atlanta.
Hunt issued the proclamation to ask that citizens
"unite in prayer for the children of Atlanta, their
families, and all those who have suffered."
During Easter services on Sunday, participating
ministers will ask their congregations to observe three
minutes of silent prayer at 12 noon.
"AH the citizens of our state need to unite in prayer
for the families that have been affected by this terrible
ordeal," Hunt said.
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A Mobile, Alabama Saga
By Pat Bryant
The author of this arti
cle is associate editor of
Southern . Exposure
magazine, an organizer
for the Southern Organiz
ing Committee for
Economic & Social Justice
(SOC), and has reported
: foryii .. black-owned,
newspapers ' in' the
he and Ms. Judy Hand,
SOC projects director,
went to Mobile, Ala., as a
blackwhite team Ms.
Hand to work with people
organzing in the white
community to build a
response to the lynching
of Michael Donald.
Donald, an Afro
America, was found hang
ing dead from a tree
Match 21. Three white
men have been charged
with his murder.)
MOBILE, ALA. As
we drove into this
Southern seaport, I
wondered how its police
and press could claim that
(he lynching of Michael
Donald, a 19-year-old
black man, wasn't racially
moiivated. Over the next
five days, I interviewed
more than fifty townspeo
ple and concluded that the
police and press were
wrong.
I talked with Casmara
Mani, an Afro-American
man who related how
racist Mobile police had
unsuccessfully tried to
lynch him by hanging him
to a tree in 1976. Follow
ing a community cam
paign, he filed a lawsuit
I lint was settled ou of
court lor $41,000.
Others told of white
men riding through
predominantly black
neighborhoods exposing
their genitals. Then I
heard of the fate of Elijah
Bridges, an Afro
American kidnapped last
fall, allegedly by whites,
driven to Mississippi and
fatally stabbed 49 times.
Scores of Afro
Americans, I learned,
have v been.. assaulted by.
if;white poliee and nothing
wSs done"; "ATI of "this" was
before Friday, March 20. .
A blazing cross on the
lawn of the Mobile Coun
ty Courthouse that Friday
evening escaped the atten
tion of the town's law en
forcement officers ex
cept for a few police and
county employees who
were afraid to report it, or '
to allow their names to be
used in this report. But I
saw pictures of the char
red cross.
About the time thexross
was burned, Michael
Donald left a nephew's
house in the Orange Grove
housing project to buy a
pack of cigarettes. He
never returned.
Early the next morning,
March 21, a black man on
his way to work found
Donald's" mud-and-sand-covered
body hanging
from a camphor tree in an
integrated neighborhood.
Detectives speculated that
he was murdered
elsewhere, then brought to
Mobile and hanged.
Family members who
saw Donald's body said
his face and head were
badly beaten, almost
beyond recognition. Ac
cording to State Senator
Michael Figures of
Mobile, knife punctures in
his neck seemed to result
from some ritual. His
lower jawbone was
broken; a footprint was
embedded in his face.
When we left town two
weeks after the lynching,
authorities said the autop
sy report had. not been
completed. Death by
strangulation is the
preliminary finding.
.'Across the street from
v where Donald's body was
ment house owned by an
avowed Ku Klux
Klansman, a former
Mobile policeman. Two of
the men charged with
murder in Donald's death
lived there.
Donald's identification
papers and a bloody sheet
believed to have been
wrapped around him were
found three blocks away.
The girl friend of one of
the alleged attackers lived
across the street from
where these items were
found.
On the day after the lyn
ching, reports circulated
in the community of emp
ty nooses hanging from
Interstate bridges and
flowing from passing cars.
The end product: fear.
Mrs. Gertrude Hunter
who lives around the cor
ner from Donald's apart
ment said her children are
afraid to go to the store or
leave their apartment.
On the following day,
Mobile Police Captain
Sam McLarty was inter
viewed on the radio about
an Afro-American who
had been killed in a tavern
and reportedly referred to
the victim as a "N r"
male. Afro-American of
ficers say McLarty's staff
includes two blacks out of
total personnel of 36.
Anger flared
throughout the Afro
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-fhelp achieve full
employment and Improve
the quality of life for all
Americans, particularly
the poor, working and
middle class Americans;
reduce deficit spen
ding beginning the fiscal
year 1982, and at the same
time increase the govern
ment's commmitment to
the poor both in the
United States and around
the world; and v; '
Hcut waste and 'abuse
1ft ThT federal i-budeettWntt'vft
tltatfrfore" equitable
resources are available to
the poor, working ; and
middle class Americans.
The CBC budget pro
poses to eliminate the
trillion dollars that , the
Reagan administration
proposes to spennd on
military equiomment
because it states that it
does not "believe that the
nation's problems are acts
of aggression but are
economic and social pro
blems." The CBC further states,
"The American defense
against any foreign at
tacks does not lie in an in
crease in guns, tanks and
more sophisticated
weaponry but rather in
better maintenance of ex
isting weaponry and, more
military personnel n the
operation ofsuch equip
ment." The CBC and the Na
tional Black Leadership
Roundtable (NBLR)
which is comprised of
several national groups,
are attempting to mobilize
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Last Rights Held
For Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow,
known to the world as Joe
Louis, "The Brown
Bomber", holder of the
world heavyweight boxing
title for twelve years, died
Sunday morning at age 66
at Desert Springs Hospital
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Louis had been in
declining health for
several years. He had been
confined to a wheelchair
since heart surgery in
1977.
Born May I3, 19I4 in
Lafayette, Alabama,
Louis grew up in Detroit.
As a youth beginning to
learn the fight game,
Louis often boxed trees to
toughen his knuckles. He
became a professional
fighter in I934 and three
years later, at age 23. won
the heavyweight title of
the world by knocking out
James J. Braddock in
eight rounds in Chicago,
June 22, I937.
By this time, Louis had
amassed a record of 31
knockouts in a 35-1
career. He had won his
first 28 fights before being
knocked out, in a fight
under suspicious cir
cumstances, by the former
heavyweight champion
Max Schmeling, a Ger
man. Because of Louis'
uncharacteristic reflexes
during the fight and
drowsy condition follow
ing the .fight; speculation
flew hot and heavy that
Schmeling had used some
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Miss Hinton
Durham Lass
Named Pogue
Scholarship
Recipient
CHAPEL HILL The
1981 Pogue Scholarship
winners at the University
of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill were announced Fri
day by Samuel R.
Williamson, Jr., dean of
the College of Arts and
Sciences and the General
College.
Miss Angela Tanita
Hinton, daughter of Mrs.
Jean Hinton of 1905
Capps Street, Durham,
and graduate of Hillside
High School, is one of five
recipients of full scholar
ships. Primary criteria for
Pogue Scholar selection
are superior, . academics.,
andevidence of response
ble citizenship. The
scholarship is open only to
North Carolina residents
and financial need is not a
consideration.
Full scholarship winners
receive an annual stipend
of $3,000. Other winners
receive awards that pay
tuition.
The other four reci
pients of full scholarships
are: Derek M. Eily, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eily
of Rt. 1, Box 22A, Rox
boro (Person High
School); Harvey C.
Jenkins, Jr., son of Dr.
and Mrs. HHarvey C.
Jenkins, Sr., of 727
Ashburton Drive, Fayet
teville (Reid Ross High
School); Ms. Albertina D.
Smith, stepdaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Glover of 6149 Cove
Creek Road, Charlotte
(Myers Park . High
School); and Allen H.
Sullivan, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Frank Sullivan, Sr.,
of lOlOFaison St i, Wilson
(Fike High School).
The winners of Pogue
Tuition Awards are: Lorre
Bonner, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D.A. Bonner of
Rowland (Rowland High
School); Terrie Bryant,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
By Donald E. Alderman
When Senator Jesse
Helms shows up at Nor
thgate Mall Sunday, April
26, to help celebrate
Durham County's Centen
nial, he will be confronted
by vexed individual and
group protesters.
Many social and
political interest groups
say they will protest the in
vitation of Sen. Helms to
Durham and his conser
vative, right-wing stand
on certain domestic and
foreign policy matters.
Senator Helms' Centen
nial presence represents
an "outright insult to
black people" designed to
downgrade and under
mine the black presence in
Durham, said Dr. Valora
Washington, president of
the Black Child Develop
ment Institute-Durham.
"The Centennial is a
farce," she added. "It is
overlooking the needs of
Durham's black com
munity. The past 100
years have not been as
rosy as they are making it
seem," said Dr.
Washington.
The BCDI-D is schedul
ed to release a report on
the status of Durham's
black children during
Centennial weekend. The
ftro.up.Mud Northgate Mall
will b ttte Issuing fKtnuL&
"If they invited Jesse
Helms to keep blacks,
away from Centennial ac-
5 5
tivities, then their trick has
back-fired," said a
Raleigh Black United
Front member who asked
not to be identified. "We
shall definitely be there,"
he added.
"We will pass out
leaflets showing Jesse's
position on social pro
grams and his support for
military aid to El
Salvador," said Ms. Leslie
Nydick of United Duke
Students, a mostly white
student group. "We can't
believe he was invited,
she said.
Because of Senator
Helms' stand on housing,
the Durham Tenants
Steering Committee is
obligated to be present,
said Mrs. Patricia Rogers,
director of the group.
"Sen. Helms does not
represent the larger
Durham community and
we are outraged that so
meone had the audacity to
invite him to Durham."
said Isaiah Singletary of
NCCU Harambi Student
Union. He said Harambi
would be present to pass
out literature to "educate
the misinformed."
Many other groups are
planning to protest Sen.
Helms' presence in
Durham including the Na
tional Black Independent
Political Party, Com
wiui Wotkers py
Peoples Anti-War
Mobilization and the War
Resisters League.
Democratic Party Calls
For Party Building
By Trellie L. Jeffers
RALEIGH Gover
nor Jim Hunt of North
Carolina and Governor D.
Robert Graham of.
Florida, speaking at the
1981 Jefferson-Jackson
Day Dinner, Saturday
night, April 11, at the
Civic Center here, praised
the Democratic Party for
the kind of leadership it
has taken since the
November, 1980 defeat
and criticized the
Republicans for wanting
"to put their heads in the
sand." .
Speaking to a packed
house for the annual
Democratic fund-raising
affair, Gov. Hunt told the
crowd, "We had a set
back, but we will over
come. Our revitalization
has begun to restore our
faith in government."
Gov. Hunt cited what
North Carolina during his
administration. He said
that $8.2 billion in in
dustry has been brought
into the state "to create
millions of jobs."
In spite of what Gov.
Hunt called progress in
North Carolina, he said
that the state now face a '
crisis in its . roads and
highway system - because
the proposed federal cut
in the highway funds will '
not allow additional need
ed roads to be built.
Gov. Hunt said thai the
Republicans arc sug
gesting that money be
taken from the general
funds to sustain the cuts to
highway funds, bin the
governor said that this
would mean a reduction in
money to school pupils,
and a reduction in the
number of teachers and
he called the progress in (Continued on Page 8)
Black Medical Schools Lead
List of Doctors and Dentists
Hy Trellie I.. Jeffers
The National Advisory
Committee on Black
Higher Fducalion and
Univepirkvs Jjas issued
statistics showing that
predominantly' black
universities and colleges
have made an outstanding
contribution toward pro
moling equity of
minorities in the health
professions in the United
Slates.
The fact sheet issued by
the organization included
the following:
Mcharry Medical C ol
lege and Howard Univer
sity together produced
22 of all black doctors
and 40 of all black den
tists in the United States in
1977.
Howard University, Fisk
University, Morehouse
and Oakland colleges pro
duced 259, or 10 of I lie
total number of black ap
plicants to medical schools
in 1979. Each supplied
more than the 32 that
came from the largest
predominantly while in
stil ui ion.
Howard Universiiy's 254
black first professional
graduates in 1979 were"
four limes l he number of
blacks who earned degrees
,ai any predominantly
white institution in the
U.S. and il represented
9 of the nation's total
number lor blacks.
In the slates where
historically - black colleges
are located, these institu
tions accounted collective
ly in 1976 for 62 of all
baccalaureates earned by
blacks, 45 of all
master's degrees earned by
blacks and 62 of all first
professional degrees earn
ed by blacks.
In 1976 and 1977.
Tuskcgcc Institute,
graduated 85 of all
veterinarians receiving
degrees.
In -979. Oakland Col
lege (Alabama) produced
more black applicants' 10
medical school than any
predominantly while in
stitution. .
92 of all black reci
pients of master's decrees
and 18 of all black reci
pients of master's degrees
in biological science in
Georgia in 1979
matriculated at Atlanta
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Former Hostage At Duke
Expresses Feelings
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By Donald MarabW
Richard Morefield,
former consul general to
the American Embassy in
Tehran, Iran, expressed
feelings about his capture
of 444 days, and the surge
of international terrorism
on Tuesday at Duke
University.
"The attack of interna
tional terrorism is not
.solely directed to am
bassadors and consuls
general. We've lost, a loi
of American businessmen
by these acts."
Morefield said thai he
was not allowed to speak,
except during interroga
tions, and that he was
never physically beaten or
abused, but only saw the
sun live limes before
Faster. "I always fell we
had a good chance of
coming home. 1 fell my
chances were around ten
per cent the week before
Christmas, and in the
months following, my
belief changed to 50-50,
then to about a three
quartPr chance of coming
home."
Morefield stated that
the militants had bragged
to him that they had won
over the Shah's guns by
moral strength and that
they would win over this
situation with moral
strength. "But we beat
them at their own game."
Morefield said.
Morefield commented
on the release of the black
and women hostages dur
ing his capture. "I was not
aware of the release of the
others, but later I found
that some were released. It
didn't .bother me."
Morefield pointed that.
"This stratagem was bas
ed on a misconception the
militants had about the
race relations in the
United States. They did
this in order for the
minorities in the U.S. to
rise up, and they con
tinued to conduct similar
maneuvers for the same
effect, but thev didn't
work."
As Consul General.
Morefield's objective was
to get to know the people
of Iran on all levels
rich. rKKnv professional
and layman. Morefield
said, "It was when we got
to know the people in all
walks of life, and especial
ly the businessmen, thai
the militants beuan to rise
up."
Morefield commended
the U.S. for its stand
against the militants and
said the U.S. was not
humiliated. "I have no
bitter feelings. The whole
thing is people have, to get
to know people."