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Joseph Bradshaw is a living er
local black community.
Since 1957, Bradshaw has coll
memorabilia about the city's
photographs of the 1930s grad
School, the city's second black hij
most of the history of the Safe I
owned black bus company in the
to sell out in 1965 to the Winstonof
economic and social pressure.
"If you want to know anythii
most people come to me," s
schoolteacher.
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history museum for his collection.
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petitioning the federal governmei
museum.
By next year, Bradshaw said he
funds to buy a building for housi
"The museum is imporant so th
said Bradshaw.
Bradshaw knows the importa
history as a result of his experienc
seen a World War II picture that
He served in the 49th Truck C
Germany. His division was respoi
other supplies to General Georg
Local Urban
Thomas J. Elijah Jr., president
of the Winston-Salem Urban
League, has announced that the
$550,000 goal of the organization's
Challenge to Achieve campaign
has been met.
"We are very pleased to have
met our goal," Elijah said. "As
soon as some outstanding pledges
come in, we will know our final
total." ,
Funds from the campaign will
be used to construct a new
employment training center in the
Urban League's buildings at the
northwest corner of Fifth and
Trade streets. Renovations are
scheduled to begin this month.
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Fourteen year-old Omar
Risdon, his brothers Keir Ridson,
16, and Kyle Risdon, 17, say they
hope to show Los Angeles native
. Ernest Mclntyre how it's really
done when they go up against the
tiny youngster at a local
nightclub here in October.
The Risdons moved here twoand-a-half
years ago with their
mother from the Bronx. Their
brand of break dancing is the
original cement acrobatics you
only see in the movies.
The limber teenagers formed
their own break dancing group,
The Untouchables, and invited
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and George Cheek to join them.
Omar, spokesman for the
break dance team and the $100
first place winner of this year's
break dance competition at
- - upcoming dual with Mclntyre as
"light work."
"It's all in fun, though," says
Omar. "We have an agreement.
Me, Little Richard Scales and
Ernest don't talk junk about each
other..."
... Marguerita Marsh, a receptionist
by day and by night the
owner of a new photography
shop, AM Studio at 1610 E. 14th
St., says the shop hours ot 7-6
p.m. are really much more flexible
for her and her photographerpartner,
Al Brown.
"We're really open 24 hours,"
she says.
Marsh's studio specializes in
weddings, portraits and advertising.
Local hair stylist and one of
this summer's hottest socialites,
Jim Conrad, and his staff of
Conrad's Hair Design and Conrad's
Beauty World returned last
week from the National Beauty
Show in Atlanta at the Hyatt
Regency there. The Pineapple, a
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I teacher is a li
tcylopedia to the history of the
ected pictures, slides and other
black community. He has
uating classes of Atkins High
$h school. And, he has compiled
ius Line Co., the only privately
history of the city. It was forced
Salem Transit Authority because
ng about black Winston-Salem,
>aid Bradshaw, 69, a retired
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He is seeking a charter from the
it society. In addition, he will be
nt for tax exempt status for the
warns 10 siari a campaign to raise
ng the historical data.
at we will never forget our past,'*
nee of documenting your own
e in World War II. 44I have never
I liked," he said.
0. in the Army in England, and
nsible for providing gasoline and
e Patton's Army as it marched
League meets
1.L. Long Construction Com
pany has been selected general
contractor.
Robert A. Emken, executive
vice president at R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co., served as general
campaign chairman. At a kickoff
breakfast in January, Emken
announced gifts of $150,000
from R.J. Reynolds, $75,000
from the Hanes Group and
$50,000 from Wachovia Bank
and Trust.
Emken noted that the Urban
League has a proven track record
in training and retraining the
unemployed, but that inadequate
facilities have hampered local efice
duel sched
new hairdo created at the show,
will undoubtedly catch on in the
Twin City, he says. "You gotta
try it," he says. Some of the
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nothing documenting the role of I
walked out of the movie when I fi
So Bradshaw is about the busine
records of the legacy of the city's I
scrap book on Long Lance, a loca
dian, to author Donald Smith for
was one of the first important blac
ty. He was an athlete, who attend
"If you want to know any (I
Salem, most people come to
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Bradshaw also has pictures of W
detective^ and brother of Long,
heavyweight champion, Jack Johi
When Atkins High School was c
cond black high school lay gather
school. Bradhshaw took those pict
the original pictures from the gra<
Also, he has pictures of the Dei
elementary school, built in 1887. 1
Woodlawn Avenue Colored Grade
to the eighth grade. The schools 1
Heights Colored School, built in
that was replaced by Atkins.
$550,000 ch
forts.
"The League will be moving
from about 4,000 square feet in
the Pepper Building to nearly
13,000 square feet when the Fifth
and Trade facility is completed,"
Emken said.
Located in the heart of the
downtown redevelopment area,
the Urban League will be highly
accessible and visible, he added.
"It is an ideal location for their
offices and training center."
Elijah noted that the Urban
League's primary goal for the
center is to help the disadvantaged
break the poverty cycle.
"Many of our clients have
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other local hairdressers spotted at
the show were Minnie Ervin,
Dwight Jones and Curtis
Carpenter.
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Mack troops during the war. 44I
rst saw it/' he said,
ss of keeping accurate historical
Mack community. He loaned his
il black man who passed for Inhis
1982 book on Lance. Lance
k public figures in the communied
Carlyle University near Harhing
about black Winstonme."
?Joseph Bradshaw
'alter Lance, the city's first black
sparring with the first black
ison.
losed, the class pictures of the seing
dust in the basement of the
ures and now he has collected all
iuating classes of the 1930s,
sot Street School, the first black
[t was eventually replaced by the
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were replaced by the Columbian
1913,the first black high school
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been unemployed for years/* he
said. "They are seriously disadvantaged
in today's job market.
They not only lack job skills, they
also lack job search skills. The
training and retraining they will
get in this expanded program will
enable them to find and keep the
jobs they need."
The former Wachovia Bank
branch and several small adjoining
buildings were acquired by
the Urban League in 1980. One
building was renovated more
than a year ago to house its
Senior Citizen Center.
Construction on the training
center is expected to be completed
in early 1985.
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Local historian Joseph Bradshaw reminisces about his Army
days during World War II (photo by James Parker).
Bradshaw is proud of Atkins because it produced many prominent
black citizens. Kenneth R. Williams, the city's first black
alderman and president and chancellor of Winston Salem State
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