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Parker). See story on page A6.
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By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chcooidfl-Slaff Writor
The conviction last week of Darryl E.
Hunt for the 1983 murder of a 57-ycar-okl
Winston-Salem man has left a bitter taste in
the mouths of some black leaders.
A jury of 11 whites and one black found
Hunt guilty of second-degree murder in the
beating death of Arthur Lee Wilson. Judge
William H. Helms sentenced Hunt to 40
years.
James E. Ferguson II, one of Hunt's
attorneys, said Friday that he will appeal the
ease.
Hunt is currently serving a life sentence
in the 1984 murder of Deborah B. Sykcs, a
white Winston-Salem copy editor. An appeal
has already been filed in that case.
Wilson was found robbed and beaten to
death on Sept. 17, 1983. Hunt is one of three
men convicted of the murder. The other two,
Sammy Lee Mitchell and Merritt W. JOrayton?
were convicted last year of second-degree
murder.
Khalid Fattah Griggs, a member of the
Darryl Hunt Defense Coitimhtce, said that
the conviction is a continuation of the legal
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GREENSBORO - State officials The Ch
no longer block schoolhouse Alth(
doors, but equal educational oppor- Educat
tunitics still are denied to blacks
through weak classes, social promotion
and athletic programs that "W?
exploit students and then "discard stud
them like pieces of meat," a UNC sfud'
system vice president says. phy4
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"Wc hnvc nut black students and ed <
I white students in the same physical the
setting, but we have not provided 0dU<
equal access to the substance of
education," Lloyd Hacklcy told
I about 50 higher education officials ??
I at UNC-Greensboro on Thursday.
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Colleges in North Carolina and ago,
across the country compound those hcnsiv<
sins, he said, by accepting students outcon
regardless of their preparation. Hacklc
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>roceedings Trnhe~case
lynching of Hunt. "It's part of the continu
drama that is being jcted out in the court
Forsyth County that illustrates just how
things have gotten out of order in the c<
system," he said. "Once again white jui
have missed an opportunity to rise ab<
their own racism and dispense justice."
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er commiitcc member, said that the cornr
tec was disappointed not only with the tri
outcome hut with the proceedings as well
Members of the committee kept a c
slant vigil over the trial.
Eversley said that he was displca
with the jury selection. "I'm disappoin
particularly in the lack of black won
jurors," he said. "It looks like both (list
attorneys, (Donald) Tisdalc and (Warn
Sparrow, have been reluctant to lu
women on the jury. It's also unlortun
(that) when you have black defendants, v
ncsscs and victims, blacks aren't trusted
?be .on .the jury,
-"I did get a chance to speak with
two alternate jurors," he said. "Both at
end of the trial felt Hunt was innocc
That's significant. It's also significant that
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ed fair educ
jnfcrcncc on survival stratc- tion -- belt
r postsccondary education, black peop
larlottc Observer reported. As a re
)uch the Brown vs. Board of taged stu
ion decision outlawed seg- school car
pared to hi
es needed
have put black
ents and white AUhou
ents in the same Norll;can
?ical setting, but
lave not provid- ai,nost 10
*qual access to i9?4, he
substance of blacks ir
Cation." fnlling eve
5 - Lloyd Hackley ^
thai blacl
early and i
1 schools more than 30 years In high sc
we did not produce comprc- whites ta
z state plans that focused on courses,
ics rather than acccss ... ," chemistry,
y said. "Thus, we have not score as
vcly reduced disparities in tests, such
ton or in the ends of cduca tudc Test, I
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The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly
n-Salem, N.C. Thursday, October 8,19
] 1984 hous
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Chronicle Staff Writer
If the aldermen have to wail as
long for a report from the current _
m?? housing task force as they did from
its predecessor, they may be wailing
a long time. The previous task
force, formed in 1984, never subIP^:.
mined a completed report to the
, board.1
Opinions vary among former
lask force members and cily staff as
to why no hnisncu report was presented
to the aldermen. Opinions
also differ about whether any kind
of report was made to the aldermen
by the group.
And one former task force
member, prominent in East Winston
business and civic ventures, even
said the group was "unfocused" and
lacked direction.
>tist Church prepare Interest in the housing task
id (photo by James force's activities resurfaced Monday
night when the Board of Aldermen
passed a resolution re-establishing
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I James Parker).
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Jesse Jackson's c
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ate CHARLOTTE (AP) - Charlotte everyone," Gantt s
wit- Mayor Harvey Gantt says he's don't have a bunch
to staying neutral in the 1988 Demo- ing a path lo n
cratic presidential -racc, but he -says ?Gantt said toe -prob
the he's under some self-imposed as long as did in
the pressure to support the Rev. Jesse remained neutral ui
nt. Jackson since he knows him per- Walter Mondale j
. at sonally. Democratic conv<
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suit, he said, disadvan- |r J
fall behind
and
school cours- J|
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gh black enrollment at
)lina's universities is ris- jM HSpMEfl I
undergraduate enrollionally
has fallen by
percent from 1982 to
said. The number of . M>-3 M
n more dramatically.
/ figures thai show
tc students fall behind
Lhcn lend to stay behind. ..
hool, fewer blacks than D??-|ignTTUl!
ke college-preparatory
such as algebra and Actress/producer and, more recer
As a result, they don't Dee presented a one-woman si
well on standardized Monday night. Ms. Dee read poen
i as the Scholastic Apii- book, "My One Good Nerve,"
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ing task force report
hrough the cracks'
and iho legal process surrounding
cPA PAlatorf Qtnrioc ' lhc bond c,cclion vvas Pllt in
^ W?aieq^IOrie5 motion, the amounts allotted each
on Aizana A13 bond item coukliK)trbc raised.
"I cannot understand why such
"v"- an important report never made its
the organization. way into the hands of the members
Northwest Ward Alderman of this Board of Aldermen," said
Martha S. Wood first brought up the Mr. Wood in the August meeting,
subject of the former group's report "I need the benefit of that report
.in an Aug. 17 Board of Aldermen before I can make up my mind
meeting. about the city's housing needs."
"I don't remember us ever East Ward Alderman Virginia
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housing task/force," she said during had attended some of ihe organizathe
meeting. "Somewhere il slipped lion's meetings and felt a report had
tlirough the cracks." been submitted.
At the time, the board was dis- ^\[y Manager Bryce A. Stuart
cussing the first steps necessary to sa'd '10 was ,U)l sure whether or not
put the Nov. 3 bond referendum a report had been made by the task
before the public for a vote. Mrs. force to the aldermen, but he told
\\tood felt information in any hous- board, "II it exists, we'll locate
?ing task force report would be help- ^
ful in deciding the city's housing NO report was found.
needs before setting ceiling Marie Roscboro of Golden
amounts for the bond items. State Mutual Insurance Co., a
Once those ceilings were set Please see page A12
II Black jobless outnumber whites
I Unemployment rises
By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronide_StafnAfriter
Blacks account for 8.5 percent of the unemployed
in Forsyth County, compared to only 3.5 percent
for whites, according to figures just released by
the N.C. Employment Security Commission.
Job discrimination is one reason for the continuing
gap between black and white unemployment,
wjt says a local business and economics expert.
^ Blacks have traditionally been the "last hired and"
the first fired," said Dr. Willie Bailey, chairman of the
business and economics department at Wjnston(file
photo by Salem State University.
Black unemployment continues to rise in the
county as figures from 1985 show at least a 1-percent
linq increase from 1986, while white unemployment
increased only slightly. In 1985 the unemployment
SI rate for blacks in the county was 7.3 percent and that
for whites 3 percent, with the overall rate at 3.9 pernid,
adding, I cent.
of people beat- The ovcra" unemployment rate in the county in
ly door yet." August was 4.1 percent. In the state during the sjmu*
ably won't wait month "the rate was 4.2 percent, and for the nation it
1984, when he?was 6 percent.
nil he endorsed Howard Holbrook Jr., assistant manager of the
ust before the Employment Security Commission office in Winstonintion.
But he Salem, said that there has always been a gap between
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Pendleton: No to
affirmative action
By The Associated Press
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TULSA, Okla.? Civil Rights Commission Chairman
Clarence Pendleton says he is disappointed President
Reagan has not abolished affirmative action employment
regulations, which the black appointee c.ills
"immoral."
"Many people don't realize affirmative action isn't
I law," Pendleton said during a visit to Tulsa on Thursday.
"It is merely an executive order and Mr. Rcavian
could abolish it with the stroke of a pen. But thinr.s are
going on business as usual, to my chagrin."
I Affirmative action regulations mandate the number of
minority employees certain businesses must employ.
Pendleton, who has been criticized by civil rights
activists for
his conservative views, spoke in Tulsa at the Oklahoma
Els*. Human Resources Conference.
?-" Reagan appointed Pendleton in 1982 its the first black
to lead the commission. Pendleton has sparked controversy
by continuing his attacks on affirmative action,
questioning the need for the Voting Rights Act of 1964,
ltly, writer Ruby and calling comparable worth ^ probably the looniest
low at SECCA idea since Looney Tunes."
ns from her own "There's no requirement that the government pm a
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