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LIFESTYLES / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, April 17, 1997
Around Charlotte
News of note
•The National Coalition of 100
Black Women of Greater
Charlotte will sponsor “Suit Up
for Success,” a clothing drive
with the Charlotte Housing
Authority’s Self-Sufficiency pro
gram. Professional attire,
including men’s and women’s
suits and shoes, are needed. No
bags of clothing will be accepted.
Clothing drop off will be May
17. For more information, call
391-2600.
Friday
•Sisters on the Move will hold
a fish and chicken fiy begiiming
at 11 a.m. at 6424 Eaglecrest
Road. Plates are $5 and include
beans and cole slaw. Delivery
available for more than five
orders. For more information,
caU 329-5359.
Saturday
•Diane Long, a former New
Hampshire state represent
ative and presenter for Emily’s
List in Washington D.C., has
been nominated for third vice
chair of the Mecklenburg
Democratic Party.
Long, who works for the
Department of Environmental
Health and Natural Resources,
Woman
shares
saga of
integration
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which Joseph Holt’s future
would be played out.
“Raleigh was not going to
accept integration as the new
order,” Deborah Holt says in her
documentary, “and the city had
the backing of a more influential
voice, a governing voice.”
That voice was Gov. Luther
Hodges.
In a 1956 address Hodges
made his position clear. He said,
“Let no one be misled as to how I
personally feel about mixing the
races in the schools. I am unal
terably opposed to it and intend
to continue seeing that our state
uses every lawful and proper
means h.) prevent it.”
Their application to junior
high denied on a technicality,
young Holt-and his family were
now told they had to be inter
viewed by the school board
btTore it would address the fami
ly’s request for Joseph Jr. to go
to Needham Broughton High
School, a school closer to his
home. Their attorneys advised
them not to go, and attended in
their place.
“You knew they would use any
ruse they could find to delay,”
Taylor recalled.
“One reason we didn’t want
Joe and his parents to go to that
school board meeting was we
knew they were going to try to
intimidate them, browbeat
them, and put him through all
kinds of torture,” Taylor added.
“As their lawyers, it was our
business to shield them from
that.”
But after carrying the fight
through the federal courts, the
family was told that because
they had failed to appear in per
son before the school board, they
had not exhausted their state
administrative remedies. They
were not entitled to appeal to
the federal courts for relief,
Joseph Jr. said.
“For years we felt like we had
done something that let the
black people of Raleigh down,”
Joseph Jr. said.
It would not be imtil 1960 that
the first black was admitted to
school in Raleigh. In the inter
vening years the potential harm
predicted in Chief Justice Earl
Warren’s opinion in Brown vs.
Board of Education came to be a
reality in the life of Joseph Holt
Jr.
In the opinion, Warren wrote,
“To separate Negro pupils from
others of similar age and qualifi
cations solely because of their
race generates a feeling of inferi
ority as to their status in the
community.”
also served as vice president of
the New England Black Caucus
of State Legislators. Elections
will be held Saturday at Park
Road Elementary School, 3701
Haven Drive. The election is
open to all registered
Democrats.
•Northeast Middle School will
host “Hoopin’ for Eagles,” a
three-on-three basketball tour
nament at Independence High
School, 1967 Patriot Drive.
Entrance fee is $60. In addition
to the games, there will be slam
dimk and free throw challenges.
All proceeds will benefit the
matching grant campaign to
equip the school’s computer lab.
For more information, call 343-
6920.
•The South Iredell NAACP
will host its annual banquet at 7
p.m. at the Mooresville Citizen
Center on Main Street. The
keynote address will be given by
Charlotte attorney T. Michael
Todd of Todd, Parham and
Harris Attorneys at Law. Todd
is a former District Court judge.
Tickets are $20.
•The Charlotte Chapter of the
N.C. Association of Urban
Bankers will host “Back to the
‘70s - P-Funk Scholarship
Dance” at 8 p.m. at the Adams
Mark Hotel, Proceeds will bene
fit the group’s scholamhip fimd.
Tickets are $10 in advance and
$15 at the door. For more infor
mation, call 559-6401.
•ParenfrStudent-Athlete Day
will be held at Albermarle Road
Recreation Center, 5027
Idlewild Road from 9:30-3 p.m.
The event is free and covers
issues that affect student ath
letes: financial planning,
employment, education, fitness
and how to handle problems
that come with athletics. The
guest speaker will be Charlotte
Knights general manager Pete
Moore. For more information,
call 367-4235.
•Golden Hue Chapter No. 15
will host its annual Calendar
Tea at 7:30 p.m. at Greenville
Center, 1330 Spring Street.
Tickets are $5. For more infor
mation, caU 392-0913.
Sunday
•The Fiber Artists’ Guild of
Charlotte wiU meet at 2 p.m. at
the Hezekiah Alexander
Museum, 3500 Shamrock Drive.
The topic will be medieval
tapestry. For more information,
call Ann at 596-4165.
•The Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Chapter of Las Amigas will pre
sent the Second Orchid Parade
Pageant at Greenville Center,
1330 Spring Street at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday
•Thirty of Charlotte’s top
restaurants will donate their
time to eliminate hunger in
‘Taste of the Nation,” 7 p.m. at
Foimders Hall. Tickets are $25
in advance or $30 at the door,
for more information, call 331-
0078 or 376-1785.
Thursday
•Big Brothers Big Sisters
Appreciation Banquet, will be
held at McDonald’s Cafeteria,
2810 Beatties Ford Road at 6
p.m. Charlotte City Council
member Patrick Cannon will
deliver the keynote address. For
more’information, call 377-3963.
•National Black MBA
Association will meet at 6:30
p.m. at Charlotte Chamber, 330
S. Tryon Street. For more infor
mation, caU 329-9497.
Tues' Sat 7-9
Appts. available
on Mondays
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