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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
November 7,1996
Tax break sought by AMcan Americans Suit
Continued from page 1A
“The big story is, there is no
story. For people who-claim it,
it’s a wasted effort. They’re
not able to get it,” IRS
spokesman Stephen
Mongelluzzo added. “If people
were entitled to it, we would
love to give it.”
Those whose claims are
denied and file subsequent
claims are subject to $500
penalty for filing frivolous
returns.
Johna Stephenson of
Matteson, Ill., said a friend
told her that she could receive
$5,000 to $8,000 in repara
tions. She said she didn't
believe the rumor but called
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s
office “just in case it was
true.”
Jackson’s office told her no
windfall was forthcoming, but
she called the IRS anyway.
She asked for Form 2439 and
told the IRS she believed it
would help her receive a
rebate. The form is actually
for shareholders. “He told me
he’d send me the form, but
that if I did file it, I would be
denied,” she said. But back
in 1994, at least four people
mistakenly were issued slav
ery reparations, Pyrek said.
He said he did not know how
much they received or what
was done to recover the
money.
The 40-acres-and-a-mule
concept comes from a bill
Congress passed in 1866
requiring that Confederate
property be confiscated to pro
vide former slaves with 40-
acres-and-a-mule. President
Andrew Johnson vetoed it.
Rep. John Conyers, (D-Mich.),
who is sponsoring legislation
to study the impact of slavery
on blacks, is recommending
“appropriate action” but has
n’t suggested direct compensa
tion to slaves’ descendants.
Continued from page 3A
were retaliated against by
members of the PG County
Police Department after they
testified against a white police
officer, Lt. Frank Walters,
who allegedly made a racist
remark during roll call March
19, 1992, at the department’s
Bowie precinct.
According to Harrison, a
commander interrupted
Walters to give him special
information about a suspect,
Walters allegedly replied,
“What do you think? Black.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - A
historically black school says
the state needs more black
nurses and it won’t give up its
four-year nursing program
without a fight.
S.C. State University has
taken its case to an adminis
trative law judge, citing 10
grounds for appeal.
The state Nursing Board
says the Orangeburg school's
program should close because
for five years its graduates
have passed the national
licensing exam for registered
nurses at a rate too far below
the national average.
But the school and its sup
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passing the exam.
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GREENSBORO - A pohtical
mailing using the name
“NAACP” has black community
leaders upset.
The telephones of local leaders
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People started ringing Saturday
after residents in east
Greensboro precincts received
an oddly worded endorsement
list of mostly Repubhean candi
dates.
The heading on the mailer
was the “NAACP Political
Action Committee,” although
the Greensboro NAACP chapter
is a nonpartisan civil rights
organization and has no politi
cal action committee.
The mailer has a tiny credit
line at the bottom that is partly
illegible. The News & Record of
Greensboro reported. The line
shows the words “New
Association for the
Advancement of Citizens
P...(last word illegible).”
The bulk mail permit number
on the address side matches the
account number used in the
past by O.C. Stafford, a
Republican candidate for the
District 26 seat in the N.C.
House.
Contacted by the newspaper
Sunday, Stafford said he was
too busy to comment on the
mailer. The woman who signed
her name as membership chair
woman of the “NAACP PAC,”
Denise Henry, declined com
ment on the organization.
Officers with the local chapter
of the NAACP were not amused.
“It’s an underhanded thing,”
said Gladys Robinson, a mem
ber of the chapter’s executive
board. “The organization is
being used very ruthlessly, and
we consider that an insult.”
'The mailer will be turned over
to NAACP lav^ers to see if it
constitutes voter fraud and
trademark violations, said
Guilford County Commissioner
Melvin “Skip” Alston, acting
president of the state NAACP
conference.
State says grades way too low
they didn't give us enough
time,” said Cherie Smith, stu
dent nursing association pres
ident.
About 4 percent of nurses
nationally are black, said
Sylvia Whiting, a nursing pro
fessor and interim department
chairwoman.
“One of our mandates was to
increase the number in South
Carolina as well as increase
diversity,” she told The
(Charleston) Post and Courier
for a story Monday.
About 25,600 nurses work in
South Carolina, of which an
estimated 2,240 are black,
according to the state Budget
and Control Board.
Five schools offer four-year
undergraduate nursing pro
grams: South Carolina State,
the University of South
Carolina, the Medical
University of South Carolina
and Clemson and Lander uni
versities.
“Our philosophy was that all
students ought to have a
chance to be admitted,”
Whiting said.
But now South Carolina
State has tightened academic
standards. In May, 78 percent
of those who took the exam
passed it the first time. It was
a marked improvement, but
still not close enough to the
national 90 percent passing
average.
The state Nursing Board
requires a passing rate no
more than 5 percentage points
below the national average.
“Because they fell below the
standard, we felt we had to
accept their involuntary clo
sure,” said Kristi Williams,
the state Nursing Board’s
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every school, she said.
South Carolina State’s sup
porters say its nursing class of
63 is so small that a few fail
ures can make a large impact.
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Other schools have been
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Carolina University voluntari
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