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VOL. XI NO. 9 U.S.I
Angela Davis:
Times change,
but she hasn't
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
GREENSBORO - She looked
as if she'd stepped right out of
the 60s.
The burnt-orange afro - which
became her symbol 10 years ago
- is still there, and she's still lean
and tall and smokes a black pipe.
But Angela^Davi$r4Sra well-bred
and -educated product of a
middle-class background who
became a Communist in the 60s
and made the FBI's 10 Most
Wanted List in the 70s, hasn't
- -been in the news lately.rtoi/ic
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uo?io, a vuiivgfc piui?aui ai
San Francisco State University
and a spokesperson for black
rights everywhere, insists she
hasn't changed. In fact, with the
exception of her marriage to
Hilton Braithwaite, a chef and
photography instructor, the
Angela Yvonne Davis of the 80s
is very much like the Angels
Yvonne Davis of the 60s and 70s,
she says.
But to others, Davis seems to
have matured. For one thing,
even though she's the Communist
Party's candidate for vice presiPlease
see page A5
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
When the Forsyth Association
of Classroom Teachers released '
its slate of endorsements for the
Nov. 6 general election last week,
one name not included on the list
may have attracted the most attention.
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Willie Anderson, the group's
president, said it decided not to
endorse school board candidate
Evelyn Terry, who works for
because she "flip-flops" on the
issues. The group endorsed
Teriy, a black woman, in the
primary.
"We watched through the
primary season all the candidates
to see if they were consistent on
advocating the causes they say
they are advocating," said
Anderson. "But in Mrs. Terry's
Edmisten vis
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
State Attorney General and
Democratic gubernatorial can
didate Rofus Edmisten apologized
Tuesday morning for failing to
accept an invitation from the
North Carolina Black Press
Association to meet with its
editors and publishers.
Edmisten made the apology
during a meeting he had requested
with Chronicle Publisher
Ernie Pitt, who had attempted to
invite him to the press con
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idorsement
in the end
case, those advocacies weren't
consistent."
. Anderson would not say which
issues Terry had been inconsistent
on.
"We don't want to attack a
candidate," he said.
On the other hand, Anderson
said the group did endorse
William Tatum, a black school
board candidate whom it didn't
endorse in the primary, because
he has been consistent in his
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"Tatum was true to his word
and true to the word he said in
the beginning/' said Anderson.
"He seems a better ally for us
than Terry."
But Terry said she isn't worried
about not receiving the FACT endorsement.
Please see page A12
its Chronicle,
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Editor Allen Johnson.
The Aug. 31 conference with
the state's black press was to have
included both Edmisten and his
Republican opponent, Jftm Mar*
tin. Martin said he would appear,
but Edmisten declined to appear
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with Martin. When Pitt offered
to schedule different times for the
candidates, he said he was told by
Edmisten campaign aides that
there were scheduling problems.
When he offered an alternative
date, Pitt said, an Edmisten aide
said the candidate wasn't interested.
Joining Edmisten in the hourand-a-half
meeting at the Chronicle's
offices wpre Winston-Salem
NAACP President Pat Hairston,
school board candidate Bill
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Picture local community leaders 15, 20, 2!
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the man or woman you know today.
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d-Winning Weekly
Thursday, October 25, 1984
Of Food Lion grocery^ sti
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iy GREG BROWN
/hronicle Staff Writer
CHARLOTTE ? The national director of the
JAACP's economic development program says he
tow doubts that a Salisbury-based grocery chain
vill live up to commitments it?made when?it
legotiated an end to a nine-week boycott last sumner.
And, if Food Lion Inc. fails to show sufficient
progress in meeting those commitments when they
ire reviewed in a few months, the official says, the
>IAACP may renew the boycott.
"If Food Lion is not sincere in the commitments
hey made, then our original course is open," Fred
* as heed told about 250 persons attending the
Agreements not ava
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By ROBIN ADAMS
^hrnnirlA Accictant FHitnr
Though they are intended to benefit the black
:ommunity, the economic covenants the NAACP
:alls Fair Share agreements are not available for inipection
by the public, including the black comnunity
at large and local NAACP branches.
While no blanket policy appears to exist concernng
the disclosure of the documents, none of several
ompanies contacted by the Chronicle recently
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By ROBIN ADAI
Chronicle Assistant
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students last We
noon. None woul<
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"This organization functions on the theory
of the credible threat. We cannot be about
the business of bluffing. We have to be
about the business of sure 'nuffing. I just
want to let that percolate. "
Kelly A lexander Jr.
Saturday morning Session of the 41st annual conference
of state NAACP chapters at the Adam's
Mark Hotel.
Rasheed also attacked the Chronicle for stories it
published about the Food Lion negotiations, hinPlease
see page A14
liable to public
would make the pacts they have signed with the
NAACP available. Neither would the NAACP.
Shortly after the NAACP signed a "statement of
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\ji uicijjics wuii r uuu Liun inc. grocery stores, ine
Chronicle requested a copy of that agreement. Food
Lion officials said the newspaper could read a copy
available at the Food Lion store in the East Winston
Shopping Center, but that they would not send the
newspaper a copy.
Please see page A2
stone students
isse cold reception j
But Helms, an arch conser- |
E^jtor vative who is locked in a bitter i
senatorial race with Gov. Jim r
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? aen. jesse num, may nave gouen a coiaer E
lis hand to a shoulder than he expected,
tone College First, the majority of the f
dnesday after- students at the school chose not
d shake it. to hear Helms' speech,
had hardly ex- Second, before Helms got in |
reception, he his car to leave, he walked across
:k by the polite, the street from Varick
jnt response to Auditorium to the 150 to 200 "t
predominantly students who had boycotted his |
school. speech and extended. his right f
mpanieff ^fcry btmehi^Hehtts^ried"th?ee'4??es-to 4-??otball
player get one of the students, who were
and former locked elbow to elbow, to shake |
le Bob Keyes, his hand. But none would con- f
lad accepted an sent.
ipeak at the "Just the same, I love you,"
;o, according to Helms told the students,
i wouldn't say As Helms walked away, |
me." Please see page A2
's meeting set for Wjnston
CP elects new head
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^ the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
tGr NAACP chapter was elected over
' George Frazier, 56, president of
? The torch the Durham chapter, in a threeone
generation hour meeting closed to the press,
ders to the next Frazier had campaigned for the
lelegates to the post for the past year,
iference of the The election marked the end of 4
cted Kelly Alex- the 36-year presidency of 69-year?ed
his father as old Kelly Alexander Sr., first
state organiza- elected to the post in 1948. The
elder Alexander was named
Id president of Please see page A3