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Names In The News, 1976 - 77
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Paula Newsome edited the first "Mini-
Yearbook" in the history of the Black
campus community. The soft-cover pub
lication was called "Ebony Images."
Former Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee
failed in his quest for the lieutenant-gov-
ernorship but later was appointed Se
cretary of Natural Resources.
Sharon Payne, a Hillsborough native,
reigned as the first Miss Black Ink, gar
nering the title at the first Miss Black Ink
Pageant.
Activist Angela Davis came to campus to
stir up support for a Raleigh Laoor Day
demonstration which nevertheless fizzled
due to apathy.
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Durham native Anne Johnson reigned as
Miss BSM 1976-77 and pledged her ser
vice to the Black community.
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This photograph has been printed once in the Daily Tar Heel and twice in the Ink be
cause it so graphically and dramatically illustrates the concern of BSM demonstrators
during a silent University Day march to retain Upendo.
Spring BSM elections were held twice,
mainly because Elections Board Chairper
son Sandra Banks had no Elections Board
to support her.
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Journalist Bernadine Moses arrived on
campus to teach the first course dealing
with the Black press which has ever been
offered during the UNC regular session.
Tested by the Upe*ndo crisis, the BSM Central Committee, headed by Chairperson
Jackie Lucas (lower right), was a spirited group which had some weaknesses, but al
ways displayed strength and unity during "hard times."
Sam Fulwood, then a junior journalism
major, ran unsuccessfully in his bid to be
come the first Black editor of the Daily
Tar Heel.