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Personal seat license owner Michael Hicks said he has been
with the Panthers through the lean times, when the team was
1 and 15 to now when the entire city seems to be a fan of the
blue and black. Hicks said he remember going to games where
there were only 30,000 fans at home game. He smiled at the
scene in front of him at the stadium.
“I didn’t know this would happen so soon,” he said. “No one
gave us a chance to go this far, but look at us now.”
Roars erupted from the crowd as a Charlotte firefighter
jumped up on the top of a fire engine and waved a black and
blue Panthers flag.
“This is great,” said Antonie Archie as he walked past the
stadium’s gate to wait for the players and coaches to return. “I
went to the first game they had here and I’ve never seen any
thing like this. Charlotte needed this excitement.”
Excitement poured from ever comer of uptown. A sea of
humanity poured from bars, restaurants, spilling over the
sidewalks and into the streets. Many waved their hands,
Panthers flags and T-shirts. Cameras flashed as fans snapped
pictures of the crazy things they did, like jumping on the front
of a fire engine that was stuck in traffic and dancing as if it
was New Year’s Eve.
“ESPN has to respect Charlotte!” one fan yelled as she ran
through the crowd.
And Laveme Blue wanted to make sure her friends and
family up north had a little added respect for Charlotte as
well.
“I called everyone and rode through town with my cell phone
to let them hear the city,” she said.
The sound of the fans welcoming the NFC champions home.
Edwards looks to convert Iowa boost
and regional ties into S. Carolina win
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Edwards has staked his can
didacy, the push is on yet
again for the coveted
endorsement of South
Carolina’s only black con
gressman.
Such an endorsement,
could sway blacks, who are
expected to make up as
much as half of the elec
torate on Feb. 3.
Of the seven candidates for
the Democratic presidential
nomination, Edwards, who
finished a strong second in
Iowa, has lavished the most
attention on South Carolina,
his native state.
He has made 18 visits in
the past year and has stops
scheduled Wednesday in
Greenville and Friday in
Columbia. He was the first
to go on television with cam
paign commercials, in
August, and has ads on
black radio stations.
By contrast,
Massachusetts Sen. John
Kerry, the Iowa wirmer, has
not visited since Sept. 12 and
does not expect to return
Sharpton
until after Tuesday’s New
Hampshire primary. He also
has run no campaign com
mercials here.
Kerry cam-
p a i g n
spokesman
David
DiMartino
said paid
staff and vol
unteers are
stuffing mail
boxes and
dialing
Democrats
to build support.
Former Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean, retired Army
Gen. Wesley Clark and Sen.
Joe Lieberman all have had
TV ads up for weeks. In
addition, these three candi
dates and Sharpton have
campaigned often in the
state.
“Skipping South Carohna
has never been a considera
tion,” DiMartino said. “Just
because John Kerry is not
there doesn’t mean he’s not
campaigning there.”
Clark and Sharpton cam
paigned separately here on
Monday, each calling for the
Confederate flag to be
removed from the
Statehouse grounds.
Dean has stepped up his
efforts in the state in the
past two months, opening
five campaign offices, hiring
50 full-time field workers
and running radio and news
paper ads.
Clark and Lieberman, both
of whom passed up Iowa to
concentrate on other con
tests, have their sights set on
South Carolina as well.
Edwards, who was bom in
Seneca, S.C., and was a boy
when his family moved to
North Carolina, is counting
on winning the primary. And
his finish in Iowa on Monday
should help, political consul
tants say.
“We had always thought
South Carolina had to be his
springboard. He went up
and took a pretty big hop
(Monday) night,” said John
Moylan, state chairman of
Edwards’ campaign. “The
spring is already there.”
Edwards is not taking the
early momentum for grant
ed, though, and is sphtting
the next seven days between
South Carolina and New
Hampshire.
“The people of South
Carohna absolutely expect
that their candidate wfll pay
attention to them and not
take them for granted,”
Moylan said. “I think candi
dates ignore South
Carolinians at their own
risk.”
Exhibit chronicles 1954 school lawsuit
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tie education and how they
started a process that tore
away part of American
apartheid.
“This exhibit presents a
special opportunity for
everyone to learn how people
in the Carolinas played a key
role in one of the greatest
struggles in American histo
ry,” said Emily Zimmem,
Executive Director of Levine
Museum. “\^sitors will expe
rience how it was then, and
what a powerful story came
out of Summerton.”
“Courage” was created by
Darcie Fohrman and muse
um historian Tbm Hanchett.
Fohrman designed “Daniel’s
Story” at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. Hanchett,
who writes and lectures
about the New South, devel
oped Levine Museum’s per
manent exhibit, “Cotton
Fields to Skyscrapers.”
Hanchett worked exten
sively with De Lame’s chil
dren to make “Courage” a
reality. DeLaine’s daughter
Ophelia, now a retired col
lege professor in New Jersey,
was 11 at the time of the
lawsuit. Two sons live in
Charlotte. The younger, B.B.
was 12 and is now a retired
educator. Joe was 16 and is
a retired chemist.
Exhibit visitors will wit
ness the harsh realities of
the segregated South. As
they try to open the front
doors, they will be faced with
questions of separateness,
and inequality. Once inside
the exhibit, visitors will be
transported back to “The
Way It Was” in Clarendon
County in the late 1940s,
and then join Rev. De Laine
and his neighbors as they
fight for better schools.
The exhibit also tells the
story of Judge Waties
Waring, a white South
Carolinian who provided
counsel and assistance, and
Thurgood Marshall, the first
black Supreme Court justice
who organized much of the
work that become Brown v.
Board of Education.
Marshall was the first legal
counsel of what is now the
NAACP Legal Defense
Fund.
Exhibit admission is $4
each in groups of 10 or more
to $6 for adults. For informa
tion or to make reservations
for groups, call {704} 333-
1887 or log on to www.muse-
umofthenewsouth.org.
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