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puUe University Lilrary Newspaper Department Durhtta, N. C 2770G 11-2G - rtlS-V Wind that blows outthe 1P of thc mmd' Anonymous THE BLACK TRESS OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON IT! VOLUME 54 - NUMBER 22 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY. MAY 29, 1976 TELEPHONE (919) 688 6587 PRICE: 20 CENTS V if ' rfl Annn WEI oo ir oo Two Million oo oo Dollar Suit ws ira7( oo fs Fifed Asainst NCDC TONIE MARIE SMITH IVine-year-Qld Girl Killed Monday By Automobile Little Miss Tonie Marie Smith will be funeralized here Saturday at 1:30 at Mount Vernon Baptist Church. She was a third grader at Oak Grove Elementary School in Durham, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie H. Smith of Wedged ale Drive. Marie, age 9, was struck by a car Monday evening about 9:20, . when she Reportedly rah into its path in the 29Qa;Jl0ek.f;TO by Public Safety Officer W,Ai-' ByVd !(jS ill, UntdaJil.fied"., citizen to revive Toriie, proved to be irv vain.' She was pronounced dead on arrival at Duke Hospital. The name of the male driver of the 1967 Ford which hit Marie has not Keen released by the Durham Police Department pending completion of investigation in the case. Interment will be in Glennview Memorial Gardens. Old North State Med. Society Meeting Set New YorkRaleigh, Attorney James E. Ferguson, on May 20 filed a petition in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro lina, Raleigh Division, on be half of The Reverend Benjamin Chavis, Plaintiff versus Mem bers of and the Institution of the Department of Corrections of North Carolina, for the in humane treatment and re pressive acts on the part of prison officials, resulting in the arbitrary, unreasonable and malicious confinement, isola tion, denial of freedom of expression, failure to due pro cess prior to isolation and in fringing upon the plaintiffs' rights, secured by the United States Supreme Court under Sections 1983,1985, and 1986 "due process" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. Dr. Charles E. Cobb, Executive Director of the Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, informed the North Carolina Associated Press, in a telephone interview from New, York, that as of the date of this action by the attorney for The Reverend Ben Chavis, the North Carolina prison authorities have refused to act in a decent and humane C7 manner toward The Reverend Ben Chavis. Dr. Cobb has pointed-out the overt acts of those responsible, as inhumane and is believed to be a con scious effort in their part to destroy an innocent person who is gifted, by God, with the power to help his fellowman, even though he is incarcerated in a hell-hole made by man. The reference made by Dr. Cobb, relates to the re cent transfer of The Reverend tally ill prisoners. This transfer took place on March 18, 1976, in violation of the plaintiffs' rights. The Reverend Ben Chavis, demonstrated his repulsion of this treatment by the North Carolina penal authorities and the unfair treatment of other prisoners under the North Carolina prison system, by Fasting. He has vowed to con tinue this Fast until he is tran sferred from the McCain LI) ft W 1 Chavis fromCaledonia Prison, Correctional Center. a minimum security prison to the McCain Correctional Cen- The petition filed, also. calls for The Reverend Ben ter which is a prison hospital Cravs to be examined by a housing tubercular and men- private physician. Cora Flood receives her degree from Chancellor Whiting. The Hickory, N. C. native received a standing ovation from her fellow graduates. This touching scene brought tears to the eyes of many of the graduates and 9,000 spectators. Durham Man Files For Spat In Fourth District RALEIGH - Dr. George Debnain. president of the Old North State Medical Society, said malpractice insurance, the sexual revolution and new developments in the treatment of alcoholism, will be high on the list of subjects to be discussed . at . the: annual meeting of the society in Winston -Salem. June 11-13. More than 100 black doctors and their families from across the state are expected to attend the three day convention which will be held in the Hilton Hotel. The women's auxiliary will convene at the same time with separate agendas for their business and social interests. The 89- year old medical society will convene at a business meeting Friday night. Continued On Page II : , RALEIGH;- Lenzie G. Barnes, 1, who lives at 1 207 Elmira St., Durham, paid his filing fee to the State Board of Elections here Wednesday, becoming the first black Republican to file for a seat in Congress, for three quarters of a century. He is making a bid for the seat now held by Ike Andrews. Barnes is a protege of the late Dr. James E. Shepard, with whom he gained favor, as a student at NCCU. He was born in Selma and went to Durham with his family, where he attended the elem entary schools of both the county and the city. He grad uated from Hillside High and received a BS degree from NCCU. Upon graduation, he accepted a job with the U. S. Postal Service, Washington, D. C, from which he retired - " v i . - - - NCCU COMMENCEMENT PRINCIPALS compare notes prior to the formal ceremonies on Sunday morning. From left are W. A. Clement, Chairman, Board of Trustees; Dr. Vernon E. Jordan, who delivered the commencement address; and Chancellor Albert N. Whiting. NCCU CHOIR DIRECTOR CHARLES GILCHRIST, (Right), steps forward to lead his group in one of their stirring renditions during commencement exercises Sunday. LENZIE G.BARNES after 30 years service. He took leave from the job and served his country, during World War II. He did a tour in (Continued On Page 8 BILACCt COLLEGES A NECESSITY 111 "Wtx U " W l o 0,, O SOME OF THE HONOR GRADS AT NCCU as they stood for special recognition during graduation ceremonies. THE CLASS OF 1976 with part of the audience in the background during Commencement Sunday at NCCU. More than 8,000 persons were on hand to hear the National Executive Director of the Urban League deliver a thought pro voking and challenging message to NCCU's class of '76. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., a national spo man whose syndicated column appear i The Carolina Times, came alive to the many friends of North Carolina Central University during the 65th annual commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23rd at (TKelly Field. The Urban League executive told the graduates that in this bicentennial year the symbol of the civil rights struggle is sym bolized by the photograph of a Boston mob attacking two black men on the steps of City Hall with the American flag. Jordan said this incident "symbolizes the mood of meanness and vindictiveness that effective ly negates the meaning of the very principle this Bicentennial ought to be celebrating." While a college education in the thirteen colonies was a rarity, Jordan said, today it is a necessity. And schools such as North Carolina Central University, that are both public and historically black institu tions, assume a special place in the educa tional prospects for black people. According to Jordan the black colleges enroll less than half of all black college. By Warren D. Blackshear students, although they grant two-thirds of the bachelors degrees earned by blacks. BLACK COLLEGES UNDER ATTACK Jordan revealed to the gathering that the traditional black colleges are "under attack". Today the very forces that once sought to restrict the once segregated black institutions suggest that integration means that there can no longer be a place for his torically black colleges in the public sector. Deploring these forces Jordan said it is "hypocrisy to brand traditionally black collegesas segregated when a significant pro portion of their faculty and student body is non-black." At the same time, he contends, the integrated white colleges have 99 white faculties and 95 white student bodies. The opponents of black colleges, in the name of integration, are unusually silent when it comes to urging greater integration of administrators, faculty and student body at the overwhelmingly white colleges and universities. Nor is there much interest raised, he added, in integrating state boards of higher education. "Integration cannot be invoked to strip blacks of their leadership roles while leav ing white privilege and white power intact and unshared," he declared. While there cannot be a return to a segregated dual system of exclusively black or white campuses, there should be ways within the framework of integration to preserve valuable attributes of those insti tutions that have historically served the minority community. FUTURE ROLE OF BLACK COLLEGES The Urban League executive suggested that the future role of traditionally black colleges may be to educate young people of all races whom the middle class oriented predominantely white colleges have neg lected. A healthy pluralism has plenty of room for public institutions that reflect the history, culture and interest of minority groups, he said. Jordan noted that the "continued fiscal and educational health of thc black college is a necessity." At issue, the national spokesman con tended, is not the concept of integration but the way in which it is carried out. He suggested that black citizens will be vigilant in assuring that integration docs not become synonymous with thc destruction of historic black institutions. Calling them "the new p ioneers of a brave new integrated future," Jordan said, you are among thc first graduating classes of a predominately black univer sity to be substantially integrated racially. SPECIAL IMPORTANCE FOR WHITES "I want to especially tell those white graduates of this class,"Jordan saidthat your education and degree will be of special importance as you are now equipped with a valuable experience in human relations. I call on you to use this experience to "tell it on the moun tain" and to work with black people to build an open, pluralistic, integrated society." He further called onthe white graduates to remember their alma mater and said "be as loyal to Central as others are loyal to Duke or to Chapel Hill." A special word to the black graduates was couched in the words of Reverend Purlie of the famous play Purlic Victorious by Ossie Davis. He said, "My friends, I find being black, a thing of beauty, A joy, a strength. A secret cup of gladness. A native land in neither time nor place; A native land in every Negro's face. Be loyal to yourself, your skin, your hair, your lips, your southern speech, your laughing kindness. A Negro kingdom's vast as any other. Accept in full the sweetness of your black ness; not wishing to be white nor red nor yellow noj any other race of face, but this. Farewell my deep and Africanic brothers. Be brave. Keep freedom in the family and do what you can for the white folks." Jordan concluded his speech with this advice to all graduates. "Now. may the Constitution of the United States go with you; the Declaration of Independence stand by you; the Bill of Rights protect you and may your own dreams be your only boundaries." Although his speech was only interrupted several times by applause, he was given a thunderous standing ovation at the end. During the two hour ceremony Chan cellor Albert N. Whiting conferred degrees on 900 students. Pr. Cecil L. Patterson, dean of the; College of Arts and Sciences and Dr. Ivory Lyons, dean of the school of business presented 576 candidates for bachelor degrees. Almost 200 candidates for masters degrees were presented by Dr.; Joseph A. Pittman. dean of the graduate school. . The first graduates since national accreditation. 16 candidates were pre sented for library science degrees by Dr. Annette Phinaee. dean of the school of library science. The largest law class (109 candidates) in Central's history was presented by Law School dean LcMarquis DeJarmon.
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