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Duke University Litrary Newspaper Department Durham, N. , 27705 11-26 The Black Press Our Freedom Depends On It! yvFiv in i. r Jim JVL . u Words of Vtedoni Preventive of evil are far better than remedies, cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result. Ttyoit Edwards VOLUME 54 - NUMBER 29 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA ' SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1976 TELEPHONE (919) 688-6587 PRICE: 20 CENTS if 8 I wm. ffiEE Will I ill mm J Jerry Paul, defense attorney for Joan Little, at Durham College Sunday. Dr. Helen Othow, co-chairwoman of the North Carolina Alliance Against Racist Politi cal Repression. She is the sister of Rev. Ben Chavis. ANGELA DAVIS Aim taorara Umi Angela Davis, co-chairperson for the National Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression, came to the Raleigh-Durham area this past weekend to promote the Labor Day March which will be held in Raleigh," N. C. on September 6. While here, she spoke at Shaw University and at Durham College. "The Alliance," said Ms., Davis, "is not alone in pin pointing North Carolina as the worst spot in the country as far as racism is concerned. 5;Workln:;eopl?blaclut; .' native Americans and whites are speaking out against political persecution in this country and the people of North Carolina live under conditions which are far worse than any place else in the country. When the court ruled on the death 'penalty, they said that the North Carolina statute was unconstitutional. The real danger in North Carolina now is that they'll try to get the legislature to pass another law using the guidelines that the Nixon Supreme Court esta blished. "In California, the execu tioner is talking about starting at the earliest possible date to kill those people who are on death row in California and the very same thing could happen here in North Carolina. "I found something in traveling across the country -that people seem instincitvdy to grasp something about North Carolina that relates directly to the repression that they're experiencing in their By Ray Jenkins own communities. I have found that people are still prepared stand up and struggle; to go out in the streets and march in protest and allow themselves to be counted as a part of a people's oppostion and people's determination to make the future into some thing we can all live with." "But is the revolution dead?" this reporter asked. "There are so many people who,; say that the awareness of the late sixties an4 .early seventies tonhat:yolK& ; people : v -; nowadays . ; are apathetic to the struggle." "That is absolutely in correct,", said Miss Davis. "In fact, I think it's a con job they're trying to push over on us. They're trying to con vince us that we don't want to struggle anymore. I found that people today, blacks, , young people and white people are much more attuned to what's going on in this country and in the world than even perhaps during the height, of the black liberation movement in this country. The problem is that there's a vacuum in terms of organized ways to express this. This is why we feel that it's so im portant to have Ben Chavis and the Wilmington Ten re leased, because despite the lull in the movement, Ben has continued to struggle. He began as a teenager to involve himself in the civil rights movement." This reporter comment ed, "Every year it seems that North Carolina produces something that reminds people that oppression is still here." He was referring this time to the case of Sandra Dupree the wife of a funda mentalist minister, who was acquitted by a jury of eleven whites and one black on a charge of murdering a black man, Henry Lee Dickens. "Take the case of Marie Hill," reflected Miss Davis, "who was picked up ' because she was the closest black target, tried in two ..days, convicted and Sentenced to death at the age And- then ytfu have a case a wnite woman whos so clearly in the wrong, who gets, acquitted because her victim so happens to be black." To the,' question of whether the Alliance has seen any concrete results of their efforts, Miss Davis responded with an emphatic 'yes.' "Whenever you can build a truly effective movement around a case, there're going to be victories, particularly in court case. Juries find it very difficult to escape the influ ence of a mass movement and that influence generally Continued On Page i HARRY LEE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE! ? By Rosetta C. Tozzo If you drive up to the Dickens' house in Scotland Neck, North Carolina and ask for Harry Lee, you wilj be told "Harry Lee doesn't live here anymore!". You may wonder, (not knowing what has happened,) just "where is Harry Lee?". He has gone from this earth, leaving you and I here to suffer wars, crimes, diseases, and prejudices: His young; twenty-one year old life was "snuffed out" in March of this year, by a white mother of four and wife of a Free Will Baptist minister! I had the opportunity to meet the Dickens family, Mrs. Dickens (mother) sisters, Mrs. Patricia Powell and Mrs. Katie Lee Smith, and a neighbor, Mrs. Mae West Cofield. Sitting and listening to them relive the incident that occurred on March 11th was very touching. I could tell by the expression in everyone's tear filled eyes that just talking about the March incident was very painful. Mrs. Dickens talked of how much she missed her only son and how he was a good youngster. She related thetitne that she bought him a little pen knife because at the time all the kids had them, you know, the ones that can be used as key chains. One day she was standing in the kitchen and Harry Lee came; he must have been around six years old, and he just stood there not saying anything just looking at his mother. She asked him what was the matter and he looked up at her and said, "Mama, I don't really want this knife, in fact I don't want to ever carry a weapon as long as I live." accused Harry Lee of earlier assaulting her son and re lieving him of $5.00. Her son Could not actually identify Harry Lee as the culprit. Witnesses said that Mrs. Dupree struggled with Harry Lee and he was holding her hands to keep her from Stacking him. She left and To the day he died, Mrs. Dickens said that Harry Lee never to her knowledge carried any type of weapon on his person. Harry Lee's sisters and neighbor, Mrs. Cofield, stated that on March 11, 1976, Mrs. Sandra Dupree came on to the Dickens' family yard and then returned a second or third time but with a gun at which point the argument started again. She threatened him with the gun and he wrestled with her trying to get the gun out of her hands. Seeing that he could not make her drop, the gun, he Continued On Page 10 s j If'' ; ' ( f m mnMk' "hi Miiiiiiin"Miiiiiinii,iiiiiiiiii..iwMMw smwtmi i BEAUTY PLUS BRAINS - Beautiful and brainy Fayetteville State University coed Charlene Hines made all "A's" during the spring semester. Charlene, an English major at FSU, is currently doing summer work in the office of the Vice -Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Charlene, a senior, plans to enter law school or pursue a career in education. (FSU Photo by John Henderson). hm QmW freedom Socfal Uorbore Teld By Warren D. Blacicshear Last week North and Encouraging the mem bers to continue, their efforts Chunn, the dean of Howard University School of. 11?, SquuV -Clihack,fsocial tfjhmMoitiicA. tk -blaeic '" Social Wo, told the gather- ... committ W- workers wfeintiat'' Hofcsstonate at pVerty h ing that before coming to told the aseot form a critical mass to force still with us," Further, he North Carolina he had sought is a coi the freedom of Rev. Ben, Chavis." These were the words of Jay Chunn, president of the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW), as he addressed the Carolina delegation during the national steering committee meeting in Charlotte Saturday. Sterring committee members from around the nation held a three-day meet ing to discuss organizational affairs and issues affecting the black community. said, "you must understand triat racism is more rampant now than a few years ago." , During . the briefing for the Carolina social workers, Chunn told the members that their organization (NABSW) has been the first national group of black professionals to call for the freedom of Angela Davis. He told the group to continue their efforts to free Chavis, who has become "a national symbol for the reform of the penal system." licensing was given by Jim Wright, national anti-licensure ; committee1 chairman- Wright group that licensing continuation of racism under the disguise of protect- Toward A New Bill of Rights 66fh National Urban league Confab to Open August 1 In Boston, Mass. to visit Chavis in prison. His request was denied and the president of the national organization was also refused a meeting with Governor James E. Holshouser regard ing Chavis' condition. The special briefing, for the Carolinians was chaired by Cenie J. Williams, NABSW Executive Director. He told the members that he was proud of their growth rate in the Carolinas with its six chapters. The NABSW has now grown to more than 100 chapters throughout the states and in South Africa, Williams said. A report on the national fight against social worker ing the public against un trained and unethical practices." Licensing legislation being sponsored by the pre dominantly white National Association of Social Workers Wright said, is aimed at "con trolling who will enter the field of social work." The Wright said that the people who usually make up the licensing boards are mem bers of the sponsoring group. The test results of another NASW test show that 75 of the blacks who have taken the test failed, whereas, the failure rate for whites is only 10, he said. committee chairman con- tended-' licensing would ul timately eliminate black ' prople from the field. Due to the black social work group's national efforts last year, Wright said, licensing was defeated in 29 out of 30 states. He con cluded saying, "You must defeat licensing wherever possible." State Senator Fred D. Alexander told the social workers that the social ser vice system "is a sleeping giant" and that they "must be concerned what the legis lature is doing as it pertains to your field." The Mecklenburg County legislator added, "you must become more politically aware and concerned about who is sent to" represent you on both the state and local levels." A special commemora tive ceremony, "And This Is Our Legacy," will be one of the major highlights of 10 Allied Don Scotfbad Meek --For IFire Bofflbtags SCOTLAND NECK - Ten black persons were arrested here Sunday and Monday in connection with a series of firebombings that occurred in the town following the con troverisal "innocent" verdict in the Sandra Dupree murder trial. Charges ranged from unlaw ful burning to aiding and abet ting burning, according to Scotland Neck Police Chief Ted Mitchell. He said more arrests may be made later. As of late Wednesday, nine of the accused had been re-' leased on bond. According to Detective W. L. Murphy, Nor man Little, 20, had "not made bond." Mrs. Dupree,a white funda mentalist minister's wife, had been charged with killing Harry Lee Dickens, a young black man. . The trial was moved to Henderson in Vance County because of pretrial publicity. Charged with unlawful burning in the Harrison Oil Company fire on July 12 ($8,000 in damages) were Nor man Little, 20, and Ernest White, Jr., 21. Charged with aiding and abetting in that fire were Bobby Smith, 23, Vin cent Brown, .20, and Jeffrey Lee Jones, 19. Brown and Edmond Als ton, 21, were accused of at tempted unlawful burning in the Columbia Peanut Com pany unsuccessful firebombing on July 13. A third suspect in being sought. Ajtwood Jones, 23, Ron ald Brown, 25 and Theodore Smith, 20, were charged with attempting to burn Edward Forks Grocery. YOU ARE INVITED to th NJULCP. OPEN MB-IEHUH? MEETKIG Sunday, July 25 4 P.M. Mt. Vernon Baptist Cbrdi SOUTH 10X1010 SHUT the opening day activities of the 66 th Annual Conference of the National Urban League, in Boston, Mass., on Sunday, August 1 . The special program, to be held in the John B. Hynes Auditorium 9 a.m., is a Bicentennial tribute honoring black contributions to the building of America. Ossie Davis and his wife, Ruby Dee, will give drama tic readings of selected ex cerpts from the works of Frederick Douglass, Mary McCleod Bethune, and David Walker. The New Temple Singers of the St. Paul AME Church from Cambridge, Mass. will sing several songs interspersed between the readings. Lerone Bennett, Jr., Senior Editor of Ebony Magazine and noted black historian will speak to con clude the program. The theme of the Con ference - "Toward a New Bill of Rights" - was formulated to call the na tion's attention to the need to address the pressing social problems of the last decades of the 20th century that were not envisioned when the original Bill of Rights was adopted in 1791. The Conference officially opens at 8 p.m. Sunday, August 1st, when Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Executive Direc tor of the National Urban League, delivers the Keynote Address. ' During the four-day con ference, a number of special programs will be presented, and plenary sessions and speakers will address a num ber of important social and economic issues. Some of the participants from Busi ness, Labor, Government and Education include: William Ellinghaus, Vice chairman of the Board and Director of AT&T; Addie Wvatt, Director of Women's Affairs for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, and one of the highest ranking women In the organized labor movement; Henry Kissinger, Secretary, U. S. State Department; Dr Edythe J. Gaines, Super intendent of Schools, Hart ford, Conn.; Dr. John Hope r 1 1 lliil mmm Ik STEERING COMMITTEE PARTICIPANTS-Above National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) President Jav Chunn dives DUrDOSe of Steering committee meetins durino a nm w.fn Franklin, distinguished black ence. With him from the left are Hiram Snain.South Carolina State Rennuntatiwrw;. historian and University of Charlotte Chapter President; and Ann Speight, North Carolina State Representative. Below from Chicago professor; and left, Chunn flanks N. C. State Senator Fred D. Alexander and Dr. Andreye Johnson of Durham uvwt . Aauuifiuvj, v. u. nniun ucvicuuy. ii uc Carolina i lines pnoios oy piacKsnfan Senator from Minnesota Headquarters hotel for the Conference, which is expected to attract in excess of 8,000 persons, is the Sheraton-Boston. The more than 200 exhibits which comprise the exhibition por tion of the Conference will be housed in the John B. Hynes Auditorium where plenary and other major sessions will be held. Registration to the Con ference is open, to the Eublic. Information may e obtained by contacting the National Urban League Conferences Department, 500 East 62nd Street, New York, New York 10021. ml ii i.lui i) o
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