Shooting Leaves 3 Victims, Angers Manager from page a 1
fight broke yut near w here he ami >?
friend s(ixk1. then shots went oil He
ran outside, as did the rest of the
crowd of about 4tH) people l or him.
however, it was tix> late Realizing
he had been shot, he asked a relative
to drive him to the hospital
Rumple said Able and Stewart
also went to the hospital without the
help of erne rgeocv personnel Hospi
tal officials, required to report gun
shots wounds, called the police. The
three shooting victims were ques
t lonevJ bv the police at the hospital.
Rumple said Cunningham sakl he
dinSn t know Able or Stewart, and
wasn't partving with them
Brian Johnson, manager ot secu
nt> for the eluh. suffered a battered
nose because he tried to break up a
tight before the shooting started
Someone hit him with a beer bottle
and blackened his eye. When the
shooting started he dropped to one
knee and ^Irow his cun, but Lne\ or
did soo i ho person who was doing tho
shooting
1 ho on l\ 0110 who was treated
at tho scene was me." he said. 1
think this whole thing has really been
blown out of proportion." Johnson
said he didn't know how a gun was
smuggled into the club. Women are
scanned with a metal detector and
their purses are checked; and men are
pattednJown. ho said.
T\e worked at both black and
white clubs, said Johnson, "and one
is no worse than the other. You're
going to get a few melees no matter
Ik>w tight the security is."
Cunningham, w ho is on proba
tion resulting from a conviction
invol\ ing discharging a firearm, said.
"It s too bad innocent people have to
go through stuff like this. I don't
think I'll be going up there any time
soon."
Local Party Returns From Inauguration from page ai
Later in the day, many North
Carolinians gathered in Rep. Steve
Neal s office to get warm.
Nearly XIX) people attended the
North Carolina Democratic Party
reception at a nearby Ramada Inn.
including Rep. Melvin Watt.
Speaker of the House. Dan Blue and
Gov. Jim Hunt.
The Secret Service was abun
dant along the presidential parade
route, their eyes constantly moving,.
Wilson said. At one point during the
parade, someone opened a window
in the District of Columbia building
"Immediately, a sense of
urgency came over the Secret Ser
vice to get that window closed." she
Ode II Clantun, Rep. Mel Watt, Gov. Jim Hunt, Joan Card we 11 and Dr.
Theresa Johnson joined Democrats at a. reception. Photo by C.B. Hauser .
recalled.
Wilson said interest in Clintoij
has run high in the black commu
ntty, beginning with his campaign
for the presidency. After his election
they wanted to be present for the
swearing-in of the man who has
pledged to represent them fairly.
"Clinton really does represent
the changing of the guard." she said.
"He has done a lot to mend some
old wounds. And the time is right
for change."
Marshall Legacy Lives ?from page A1
before law school students and go
through a dry run of their cases a
few days before arguing at U.S.
Supreme Court. When the case was -
presented to the Supreme Court, the
students went to hear the argument.
Kennedy saw Marshall through
out the vears, the last lime at the
*?
^National Bar Association meeting
two years ago.
"He knew exactly where he was
trying to go and what he wanted to
accomplish for all of us," she said.
"He knew that the law was the key
to our gaining freedom. He.had deep
insight. He could go to the heart of
an issue."- "
His health began to fail while
he was ?till serving on the Supreme -
Court, hut Kennedy said that didn't
stop him.
"He went to court on days when
he was sick, and held on to his seat
as long as he felt he could." she said.
In fact, his politics gave him
reason to go on living, according to
Kennedy.
"When I heard he was dead, 1
had the feeling that he lived long
enough to see a Democrat become
president. He wanted that more than
anything, and he expressed it several
times. We felt he was able to give
up then." she said "He was the
greatest lawyer of our time, and it is
a tremendous loss to America and to
the world. But he left us a great
legacy."
Dr. William Rice, chairman of
the local\Society of Afro-American
History, called Marshall axatalyst.
"If you U>ok at the Court at the
time he was arguing those cases, he
did an almost impossible job to win
the majority of them. But he care
fully organized his presentation and
convinced them overwhelmingly."
Rice speculated on how Mar
shall must have felt when George
Bush chose conservative Clarence
Thomas to replace him.
"It must have hurt him. to be
replaced by someone whose
philosophies were so different."
"He was a giant." said attorney
Greg Davis. "I hate to think where
black America might be without
^him. He was a tighter. For Clarence
Thomas to replace him on the
Supreme Court is a foke. Thomas
isn't qualified to carry his jockstrap"
Attorney Larry Little remem
bered Marshall nor just as a master
of the law, but a man whose life was
constantly threatened.
"When he came into town to
overthrow segregation, he was run
out of town, they tried to homb his
car. they tried to shoot him. He
didn't just have to practice law. he
had to he an escape artist."
Legal Aid attorney Hazel Mack
said Marshall uas a blessing, and
left gtant footsteps to follow.
. "I was "saddened because in
some respects I don't know whether
we as a body of black attorneys
really, live lip to his legacy. I think m
some respects we've fallen down on
the job His life speaks for him."
Remembering Marshall's
courage and tenacity, she said. "He
just hung in there all the way. We '
have to stand ? : even when we
stand alone."
Avant Garde
didn't know who would take her
there. We didn't know hyw many
miles she would have to journey
before it would be time.
We did not know the danger of
the road that lay ahead, the thieves
that would lie in wait.
We worried if there would be
food enough, if there would be
water enough, if there would be
warmth enough for mother and
child to survive.
We wondered how long she
would be gone. We didn't know if
we would ever see her again.
Desperately, we clung to her.
wanting so much to sojourn with
her. But her eyes would only say,
"Think of me. Remember me. I
will remember you. I will take your
thoughts with me."
So we thought of her. Hoping
and believing that our thoughts and
our prayers would be food when
they became hungry, water when
they weYe-^&iwt^CT^nkcts when
they were cold.
Without us. sistcrmother would
fail, and we knew this.
Last Sunday. Mother and Child
came back home It was a glorious
day indeed.
She had returned victorious.
She had given birth to literally mil
lions. Her words had traveled to the
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four corners of Gixis great earth.
Now. this morning, she was
home.
Proudly she stood up before
her village people, before the vil
lage elders, before the children,
before all of her 'people, to sing her
new song, to sing her 1 i "
And she did. singing as if it
would be the last time. Singing of
the River. the Rock, and the Tree.
Singing songs of not being
moved "just like a tree planted by
the water," and about laying down
her burdens by the riverside.
Smiling in between her words
of song as if even her words would
be insufficient to tell us of the joy
of her being.
Proudly, she told of her jour
ney. of how our prayers had trans
ported her to a place where only she
had gone.
How she had soared with the
wings of angels when she had dared
hxik down upon the waves of a rag
ing sea.
How she had climbed from the
deepest valley of the shadow of
death to stand upon great moun
tains. to see great lands across the
way.
Then she bowed her head, and
we all gave thanks. God had per
formed a miracle.
out.
" This mother had given birth,
yet again. To a child that would
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