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...i . o ;> YOUR BEST 1 _ HttlSiUl liEWlfWWSS «OT | lfjprl THE : POST iligr "Charlotte’s Fastest Crosing Community Weekly" THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday. July 5. 1979 .. ^ 1 „ ' - — _ Pnce 30 Cents Evangeline ♦Redding To Speak Here by Eileen Hanson Special to the Po6t The first black woman ever to run for governor of North Carolina will be in Charlotte Friday, July 6 to meet sup porters and to discuss her campaign strategy. Evangeline Grant Redding of Tillery, N. C. will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfield Memor ial Baptist Church Chapel, 700 Sugar Creek Road. The meet ing is open to the public. Running as a “people’s can didate,” Ms. Redding plans to challenge Gov. Jim Hunt in the 1980 elections on issues such as freedom for the Wil mington 10 and Charlotte 3 and equal rights for blacks, and women. She will announce her platform at Fri day’s meeting. Ms. Redding is author of the book ‘‘Nothing: The Mental ity of a Black Woman” (avail able at Dar es Salaam Store, 7th and Tryon), and will soon publish a book on the Wilming ton 10. She is a close friend of Rev. Chavis and his family. Dr. Helen Otbow, sister of Chavis, said of Ms. Redding’s campaign, “This will be a great challenge for all minori ties and poor people. She represents the interests of all people who have been discri minated against.” According to Dr. Othow, a professor at Johnson C. Smith, “There is so much repression in this state and Evangeline’s going to challenge it.” Ms. Redding has long been kctiv* in civfl rights work. Sh6 gained national attention in November 1977, when she rode through the South tied to a cross on the back of a truck to protest injustice and to call attention to the plight of black youth. She has been active in help ing the families of the Wil mington 10 and plans to join the March for Justice and Unity on Saturday, July 7 in Charlotte. Photo by J«rry Curry LOVELY NATALIE WILSON ...Plans to attend Trim Modeling School Natalie Wilson Is Beauty Of Week by Sherleen McKoy Post Staff Writer Our beauty for this week is Natalie Wilson, a recent gra duate of Olympic High School. Her bobbies are writing poe try, listening to all kinds of music, dancing and delighting in little children. Natalie describes herself as a very sweet person who is emotional and cares about people. “My mother says I care too much, ” she said as an afterthought. Natalie presently bolds a part-time security post at the During the Fall on Saturdays, she plans to attend Trim Modeling School. She will also be attending a business college to major in Secretarial Science whenever she decides whether she will attend Hamilton, Kings or Central Piedmont Community College. Not only does she want to become a legal secretary, but Natalie also wants to be a Conference Set On Minority Employment Special to the Post The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the International City Man agement Association (ICMA) sponsored a conference last week at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. to identify public policy options for in creasing representation of minorities and women in administrative and profes sional positions in Federal, state and local government. The conference will redefine affirmative action and equal employment opportunity in the public sector in the face of the Supreme Court’s Bakke and Kaiser decisions, and Pro position 13 and other tax limi tation moves The two-day session is the ijf|j| culmination of a three-part grant program designed by HUD’s Government Capacity Sharing division to • assess affirmative action and equal opportunity in the public sector and to share informa tion on options for upward mobility strategies. Two HUD officials will • • • . » l The i r \ ■ longer \U>e RIGHT i i 'W *10, the I * ; four year* iat I obtained | {[ outside gj'- I 11 I "check* «* 1 l0<tC bergj address the conference, Donna E. Shalala, Assistant Secretary for Policy Develop ment and Research, and Ster ling Tucker, Assistant Secre tary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Others on the program will be Elijah B. Rogers, City Administrator, Washington, D C.; Carl Stokes, WNBC-TV, New York; Sue Simons, WRC TV, Washington, D.C., and executive directors of several public interest groups. The conference will bring together representatives from public interest groups, profes sional associations, schools of public administration, groups representing minorities and women and professional and civil rights organizations. A professional and educa tional association of urban ad minifttrators, the ICMA, through its Minority Execu tive Placement Program (MEPP), has helped more than 540 Blacks, His panics and women fill key positions in the urban management pro fession. Minority Trade Fair Scheduled The second anraaJ state - wide Minority Trade Pair wii be held at the Charlotte Civk Center on October i and 4 beginning at noon on the 3rc and ending at noon on the 4th More' than MOO purchasing agents apd vendors have beer invited to nourish old, an<j . establish. new relattqpajup* between purchasing agent’ Slid minority vendors Booth space t* ft. a 10 ft i will bv*u valla Me for a lota (Ml - ’ , I ^ ' • * * . I V * , • ' • a . • * • . ' • •* creative dancer. “After I’ve finished college and am not satisfied with myself, then I’ll go to another college and take up dancing,’’ she said. Natalie also expressed a desire to take Spanish courses while she’s in college. “I love the Spanish language," she said. Eighteen-year-old Natalie credits her mother as being most influential in her life. “My mom tries to bring me up in the way that I won’t easily get hurt,” she related, “and she opens the way that I may get as many chances as possible, especially in regards to school and studying the RiKlo •• Some memorable times in Natalie's life occurred this past calendar school year. During the football season, she was Olympic’s Homecom ing Queen as well as “Miss Olympic” and “Miss Black and Gold Pageant ” Some things Natalie has always wanted to do and someday hopes to are: get married and have a couple of kids in about five or six years; be tall (she’s 5'2”); and build a dream house for her and her present family to live in when times get unusually hard. Reflecting on her gradua tion day, Natalie responded, “graduation was great, but not as great as I thought it would have been. Others’ graduation seemed more exciting.” She decisively pin ned the cause down to too much anticipation in the pre ceding years. The daughter of Ms. Carol M. Williams, Natalie is the oldest of three children. She has a brother, Derrick and a sister, Caryn. Dissension In The Ranks NAACP Faces “More And More” Internal Problems? NAACP, LDF Remain At Odds by Susan Ellsworth Post Staff Writer The NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educa tional Fund remain at odds over whether or not the NAACP has the right to order the Fund to stop using the civil rights organization’s name. This issue may have to be resolved in court. ‘‘The NAACP has no right to order the Fund to change its name," asserted Julius Cham bers, president of the LDF But the NAACP says other wise. After the National Organiza tion for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909 as a civil rights organiza tion, a legal department was created in 1935 and incorpora ted under its present name in 1940. The legal department was given permission to use NAACP initials in its name, according to Benjamin Hooks. Executive Director of the NAACP. “The Fund was created to receive tax deductible contri butions in furtherance of the NAACP’s legal programs," Hooks said. On advice from Council Thurgood Marshall the two groups split in 1957 into separ ate organizations to avoid the loss of the LDF’s tax-exempt status. Hooks contends that since LDF now has a self-sufficient Board of Directors and takes legal action without consulting NAACP policy it should no longer use NAACP initials that imply involvement with the organization. Jack Greenberg, the Defense Fund’s Executive Director, maintains that the LDF has a right to use those initials “The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is our name and has been for 40 years,” Greenberg said. “It has our name as well as their name." Chambers said the LDF disclaims any relationship to the NAACP on its letterhead and printed materials 1 Supporters of the Wilmington 10 and Char lotte 3 will be marching again Saturday, July 7 in the second March for Justice and Unity. The march and motorcade will begin at 12 * ' ■ * noon at University Park Baptist Church and continue to Marshall Park • Photo by Eileen Hanson) Here Saturday Second “March For Justice” Expected To Lure Large Turnout oy tween Hanson Special to the Post Charlotte will have its second March for Justice and Unity on Saturday, July 7, and it promises to be an even larger turn-out than the one last year The procession will begin at 12 noon at University Park Baptist Church, 2156 Senior Drive, and end at Marshall Park for a rally, voter registration and a lively disco. A motorcade will follow the marchers for those who don’t want to walk the 5-mile route down Beatties Ford Road, past the Square and to the park. Sponsored by People United for Justice and joined by many church and community groups, the march will have three slogans: + Free the Wilmington 10 and Charlotte 3 + Help stamp out the Klan in your lifetime + Let’s keep District Re presentation "These issues are closely related,” according to Rev James Barnett, one of the march organizers “We re all being oppressed Those keep ing the 10 and 3 in prison are just trying the old tactic of divide and conquer." He went on to say that this is also the aim of the Ku Klux Klan which is trying to come to Charlotte, “divide and con quer." On the issue of district representation, Barnett said ".. those who want to retract it are just wanting to strip blacks of their power.” Clerks will be on hand to register new voters at the rally Any citizen 18 years or over is eligible "We need political power if we are going to punish Gov. Jim Hunt for keeping the 10 and 3 in prison,” said Barnett who has led many marches and delegations to see the Governor about the political prisoners Speakers at the rally will include Rev. Robert Morgan. Seigle Avenue Presbyterian Church; Rev Donald Brown. Greater Bethel AME Church, and Rev. Barnett. Following the rally there will be a free disco provided by the Disco Wizard (Ron Cornelius) which will continue through the afternoon in Marshall Park. Barnett stressed the impor tance of unity at this time, in face of growing attacks of blacks and poor people, “We’re all in this together, fighting for justice ’’ INew HEW Kern illations Set HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano, Jr., announced last week that HEW has published new regulations that will open the way for an additional 70.000 students to receive Basic Educational Opportu nity Grants for the 1979-60 academic year. These changes appear in the May 30 Federal Register They liberalize eligibility re quirements for independent, or self-supporting, students by providing more equitable de ductions or assets and basic expenses. "In addition to expanding the number of participants to reach more at middleincome levels, these amendments allow more than 600,000 stu dents to receive increased awards," Secretary Califano said. Eligibility for a Basic Grant is determined by a student’s financial need Need is calcu lated on the basis of the Family Contribution Sche dules, formulas developed annually by the Office of Education and reviewed by Congress These formulas are applied consistently to all applicants and take into account indicators of financial strength, such as income. Assets, family size, and unu sual expense* In the cas ! -'pendent students, the . * cts and income •«>: parents are consi dored as wc*> > #■ assets of the applicant !’);• indepen dent “'•:dt,nis. the assets and inw- • ,*f the app'icant and hi-- ,ci >>p4>.|vc ,re taken into ,i. Ms. Wilson Sounds Warning by Milton Jordan Editor, Convention Coverage News Service Special to the Post LOUISVILLE-Unless more black people rally to its call, the NAACP could find itself spread too thin, fighting too many battles on too many fronts to be as effective as it has been in the past. This undercurrent of warn ing drifted clearly through the 70th annual convention here last week that was a combina tion of discussions of problems facing the organization, pep talks, exuberance and inter nal squabbles. Margaret Bush Wilson, NAACP national board chair person, sounded the warning in her keynote address to more than 10,000 convention delegates opening night: "...we are now dealing with a climate much more treacher ous than we faced in the 60s and before. We are facing a subtle form, a covert form of racism, and it is masked in all kinds of colors, all kinds of styles, and all kinds of intri cate and sophisticated strate gies." Noting some of the issues, the problems that spread the NAACP's resources thin, Mrs Wilson, a St. Louis attorney, cited: + The energy crisis, a situation that earned the or ganization severe criticism last year when its policy sup ported energy expansion + The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which she called, “a survival mechan ism and a hedge against the greatest threat to our national security. She also said the SALT treaty will be a way to cut escalating armaments costs that take away money for the country's social programs + Sanctions against Zim babwe-Rhodesia, which the NAACP says should be main tained because the recent elections weren't fair, and the country still doesn't have majority rule -r international Aiiairs, about which Mrs. Wilson said: “This world of ours is no longer isolated, and what happens abroad impacts on us at home whether we want to admit it or not ” On domestic issues, the or ganization’s fiery executive director. Benjamin Hooks, told reporters, during a press meeting: “The headlines go to the political manuevering underway to beat back the steady progress blacks have made in the past 10 years in the field of civil rights No where is this concern of the public about equality de mands more evident than in the Congress of the United States What is generally felt among our white people in this country is being mimicked and pandered to in the United States Congress by way of attacks on affirmative action, and busing for school desegre gation " Other domestic issues con fronting the NAACP include apathy among black voters, especially young blacks Joe Madison of Detroit, who heads the NAACP Voter Registra tion Department, said: “Only See NAACP on page 7 Springam Medal Recipient Mrs. Rosa L. Parks’ Award Delights St. Louis During NAACP Convention by Gary Gregg Convention Coverage News Service Special to the Poet' LOUISVILLE--For five days in this city on the eastern , shore of the Ohio River, the NAACP tackled controversial issues, tried to marshall its . resources, attract new re sources awarded the coveted Spingarn Medal to Mrs. Rosa L. Parks,' and rang the city's coffers to the tune of more than $4.S million. Opening the convention on a controversial note, the more than 10,000 delegates support ed an emergency resolution that orders the Legal Defense . and Educational Ftjpd to stop using the civil rights organiza tion's initials The defense fund is known as “The NAACP l,eg» I Defense and Education al Fund," though the two orga nizations are completely separated. . At one point as the nation prepared to celebrate the 2Sth anniversary of the landmark decision, the White 'House wrestled with the problem-of which group to invite to the White House ceremony. Re portedly, NAACP executive director, Ben Hooks, said he would picket the White House if the Legal Defense Fund was given top billing. That confrontation was re Ifeved when the -NAACP National Bbard of Directors took it* celebration and regional board meeting to Columbia, SJC., the state where the'first anti-segrega tion suit was filed. It was one of'fiVe suits'covered in the Brown vs Board of Education Benjamin L Hooks . NAACP. Executive Director decision civil rights record, the NAACP awarded its Mth Spin garn Medal to Mrs Kosa L Parks Mrs Parks is credited with launching the civil rights movement of the SOs and fios I that launched Martin Luther King. Jr to international fame, and resulted in passage of the civil rights and voting rights laws In accepting the medal, Mrs Harks joined the ranks of previous winners, such as W E B DuBois, George Wash ington Carver, James Weldon Johnson, Marian Anderson. A Philip Randolph, and Andrew Young "Thiris a wonderful event, one that I never expected to witness.' said Mrs Parks, *4, who is a secretary-reception ist for US "Representative John Conyers of Detroit *1 4>m truly grateful All I have to say is that we must cdntinue to fight for freedom as long as it is denied '* . • Mrs Parks, an unknown •See PARKS on I’rfge i>
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