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VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 3? "READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES"
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Southwest Regional Meet
Set For fJeiv W.C. tovn
Soul City is the site this
week of the SouthSouthwest
Regional Meeting of the.
American Association of ;
'Minority " Enterprise 5 Small
Business Investment Corpora
tions (AAMESBICS).
Over thirty MESBIC offi
cials from across the country
are attending the two-day
session Thursday and Friday. ;
. The meeting is being
hosted by James F. Hansley,
president of Vangard Invest
ment Company, North Caro
lina's only MESBIC, and Kirk
Saunders, president of Nor
folk Investment Company,
Inc., Norfolk; Va.
A wide range of topics
of interest to minority-owned
enterprises will be discussed
including industry goals, ob
jectives and trends, pending
legislation, new market
opportunities and successful
operating strategies.
Speakers will include
Philip T. Dortning, Director
of Corporate Social Policy for
Standard Oil of Indiana;
Michael Lacagnia, Purchasing
Director of Westinghouse
Turbine Components Plant;
Clarence Bishop,' legislative
aide to Congressman Parren
J. Mitchell, chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus;
and Howard N. Lee, North
Carolina Secretary of Natural
Texas Farrnvoriers Union March to the Carotinas
Continuing their 1500
mile "March for Human
Rights," fifty members of
the Texas Farmworkers
Union (TFW) are scheduled
to arrive in Charlotte on
August , 15, Greensboro on
August ' 19 and Durham on
August 22.
They embarked on
their 80-day trek on June
18, when they left Austin,
Texas, on their way to
Washington, D. 1 C, where
they are ' scheduled to arrive
on Labor Day weekend. Since
then the marchers - including
children and elderly persons
- have maintained a twenty-mile-a-day
pace afoot. They
have passed through
Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama and Georgia. , .
The TFW is marching
to raise support for federal
legislation to extend collec
tive bargaining rights to all
agricultural workers In the
United States and to repeal
Section 14(b) of the Taft
Hartley Act, the legal basis
for the passage by states of
"right-to-work" laws.,
The farmworkers v are
LIGHTNER TAKES OATH
Resources and Community
Development.
i MESBICS originated in. t
H the? eady97ff whentthe
rt federals tgovernmeiftci?fr
j nized :that i businesses
owned, in part or whole,
by American's of minority
descent, ' were without
adequate capitalization and
the means to raise equity
and venture capital for
modernizing, expansion or
start up costs.
In 1972, Congress
officially authorized amend
ments to the Small Business
Investment Act of 1958 to
create business investment
companies with a special
responsibility of providing
venture capital to business
es owned by socially and
economically disadvantaged
minorities.
Later in 1972, the
American Association of
MESBICS was formed to pro
mote joint action among the
newly formed investment
companies entering the capi
tal market area for the first
time.
Today, the members of
AAMESBIC represent more
than $100 million in assets,
including participation by
some of the country's largest
banks,' insurance companies
and retailers;
from the Rio Grande Valley
of Texas, which "they call
"El Valle de Lagrimas" (The
Valley of Tears). ,'
With annual incomes of
only $3,000, farmworkers in
Texas comprise the most
poverty stricken section of
LIGHTNER TAKES OATH
Hearing To Do Held On
Amendments to tho FLORA
RALEIGH - Fourth Dis
trict Rep. Ike Andrews, chair
man of the House Subcommi
ttee on. Economic Opportu
nity announced Monday that
the subcommittee will hold a ,
hearing here on Wednesday,
August 24, on proposed
amendments to , the ; Farm
Labor Contractor, , Registra
tion Act. 'V-..
: , The hearing will begin at
9:30 am atN. C. State Unt
versity's Jane S. McKimmon
Center on Western Boulevard .
at Gorman Street. ' . .
Testimony will be re
ceived; from farmers repre
sentatives of, farm workers, .
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HHS CLASS OF 1947 IN REUNION
' PAGE 8
A&T SURPASSES STADIUM FUND
gltAISIN6,DRIVE:v;,v'i, ,.,
Wilmington 10 Pardon
Sought By Justice Dept.
RALEIGH (CCNS) -Top
officials of the U. S.
Justice Department have been
in contact with ! Governor
James Hunt pushing for a
pardon for the Wilmington
10. Jack Cozart, special coun
sel for Gov. Hunt, said last
week that a meeting is being
arranged between the govern
nor and representatives of
U. S. Attorney Griffin Bell.
That meeting followed a
meeting of Wilmington 10 de
fense counsel and Hunt held
Wednesday, August 10.
The action by Justice
Department officials followed
a petition signed by sixty
members of Congress who re
cently asked Attorney
General Bell to do what he
could to persuade Hunt to
intervene in the case.
Hunt has reluctantly
approached the pardon issue
farmworkers in the U. S.
They have the lowest life
expectancy in the country
(49 years), the highest
disease rate (250 per cent
above the national average),
and an educational level of
less than eight years. ; ;
and others on bills introduced
in Congress by Rep. Dave
Stockman of Michigan, Rep.
Ron Sarasin of Connecticut,
Rep. Charlie Whitley and
Rep. Bill Hefner of North
Carolina.
The act, originally passed
by Congress in 1963, is en
forced by the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor. Persons who
contract for farm labor must
register with the department
and meet certain guidelines
for housing, sanitary and em
ployment conditions of work
ers who live within a 25 mile
' radius of their place of employment.
tiuimng ceremony
CLEMENT AND LIGHTNER SWORN IN -A. J.
Howard Clement, III and Clarence Ughtner are
members of , the North Carolina General
Assembly. They were sworn in August 4th and
9th in the state capitol building with Secretary of
State Thad Eure administering the oath and
Assistant for Minority Affairs John R. Larkins
presiding. Clements and Llghtner will finish the
unexpiried terms of former Rep. H. M.
Michaux and Senator John W.. Winters. Michaux
vacated his position in July following his appoint
ment by President Jimmy 'Carter to be U. S.
Attorney of the U. Saddle District Court in
Greensboro. Winters was appointed to a commis
sion on the North Carolina Utilities Commis
sion. Dr. John Larkins said the swearing in cere
mony represented the first - time in ' the state's
history that blacks have vacated posts in the
General Assembly and their replacements were
blacks. Both ceremonies were attended by family
and friends of Clement and Ughtner. Governor
James Hunt was conspicuously absent, but Lar
kins made a first by presiding over the cere
monies. Secretary of State Thad Eure said Larkins
presiding over the cermonies marked a first.
Larkins, according to Eure is the first black to
preside over swearing in ceremonies for members
.ill M I
ot tne vaenerai Assemoiy.
which will have serious poli
tical consequences for his
career. Repeatedly he has said
that he ought not intervene
in the Case as long as it is in
the courts. The case is now
on appeal in the U. S. Federal
District Court in Raleigh and
in the North Carolina Court
of Appeals.
The defendants' chief
counsel, James Ferguson, has
said the appeals might take as
long as four to five years to
complete the . judicial pro
cess.' Meanwhile the defen
dants would have to continue
serving long prison terms un
til they became eligible for
parole.
The Wilmington 10
issue, along with dissatisfac
tion with political patronage
among many blacks, has been
signaled by many black
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The growers and the
Texas Rangers have reacted
violently to TFW attempts to
organize workers in the
fieldsWhen some 3000 farm
workers struck the melon
harvest two years ago, one
ranch supervisor shot and
wounded eleven pickets. A
local newspaper quoted him
as 1 saying, "I'm going to
make sure my melons get to
market even if they have a
little Mexican blood on
them."
Farmworkers in Texas
and other states, excepting
California, are excluded from
the union elections and
representation guaranteed
to other workers by the
National Labor Relations Act
of 1935.
Unionization is also
made difficult by state "right-to-work"
laws which outlaw
the "union shop." (In a union
shop, once the majority has'
voted the union in, all must
join and pay dues.)
. ; Labor compalins that
"right-to-work" laws enable
the employer to break the
Continued On Page 8 '
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Dr. Ralph Abernathy Hires
Paul
f (CCNS) Civil rights
attorney, Jerry Paul, has been
retained by Dr. Ralph David
Abernathy to prevent the
showing of the film Martin
Luther King, Jr. Dr. Aber
nathy is President Emeritus
of the Southern Christjin
Leadership Conference. Paul
says the film is controlled by
whites and redefines Dr.
King's role to make him
acceptable to white
America. The film was
written by Abby Mann and is
. to be shown by NBC tele
vision affiliates. Besides dis
torting the image of Dr. King,
Paul says, the distortion of
the character of Dr.
Abernathy will be the sub
ject of a civil suit to prevent
the film's showing.
Abernathy has been
presented a contract which
Paul says is "totally un
acceptable", because they are
attempting to get Dr.
Abernathy to "sigh his life
away and make it impossi
ble to present Dr, Abernathy
in any light they want,-whether
truthful or untruthful."
The film has been
. attacked by two other
Southern Christian Leader-
N. C. ARTISTS
SUPPORT 1710
RALEIGH (CCNS) -Eighteen
North Carolina
artists are coming together
for a Black Cultural Festival,
to be held August 14 at St.
Augustine's campus from 4
pjn.' to 8 pm. All the artists
are donating their time and
talent to the event.,
The festival, organized
by the North Carolina Alliance
Against. Racist and Political
Repression, is for the free
dom of the Wilmington 10
defendants. MrS. Elizabeth
Chavis, mother of Rev. Ben
Chavis, will address the
gathering. . , v
Walter ; Norflett of
WVSP-FM radio is one of the
coordinators of the event
and has Worked, continuously
to : bring together talented
, North ; Carolinians for the
festival. "It's , (the festival)
giving artists a chance to
make tj. positive political .
. statement. For so long people
have .thought, artists are
apolitical; and here we will
have a collective of artists
making a political state
ment.' . '
- yi r W srzzl't """'H
To Stop
ship Conference (SCLC)
board members, Dr. C. T,
Vivian and Rev. Hosea
Williams who read the script
and viewed the film clips
Nat'f Dor Association
Holds Annual Confab
The National Jar Asso
ciation held its 52nd Annual
Convention in New Orleans,
La., July 31 -August 7. Mem
bers of the Louis A. Martinet
Legal Society were hosts for
the convention.
Convention co-chairpersons
were Ms. Etta Kay
Hearn, Revious Ortique, and
Judge Ernest Mortal. Carl C.
Character, president, Cleve
land, Ohio presided over the
convention.
Featured speakers in
cluded the Honorable Griffin
Bell, Attorney General of the
United States; the Honorable
Leon B. Higginbotham,
Federal District Court Judge,
Philadelphia; the Honorable
Wade McCree, Solicitor
General of the United
States; and James Kelly,
president of the American
Bar Association.
Various Seminars on
current problems facing the
legal profession were held. -
Harry E. Groves, Dean,
North Carolina Central Uni
versity School of Law, served
as moderator for the Seminar.
WbHqbors Boyeofn)
WHITAKERS - One
by one, black patrons can be
seen drifting in and out of
the highway grocery and ;
convenience; store of Joe
Judge, ' located on Route
301 in the town of Whitakers.
One week ago, a boycott
was imposed upon Joe
Judge by three organizations,
the Peoples Coalition for
Justice, African ; Liberation
Support Committee and
Workers Viewpoint Organi
zation, at t rally. Two of the
organizations are not
Whitaker-based organizations.
- - The,, boycott of. Joe
CLEMENT TAKES OATH
CLEMENT TAKE5 OATH
King
along with Dr. Abernathy.
They both claim that the
movie represents a distortion
of the civil rights movement
and its leaders as well as Dr.
"Performance of Blacks on
Bar Examinations-Implications
for Legal Education."
The Judicial Council
Seminars dealt with impacts
of the recent decisions of the
U. S. Supreme Court. Pane
lists included the Honorable
Theodore Newman, Jr.,
Chief Judge of the Court of
Appeals for District of
Columbia; the Honorable
Kenneth Wilson, Appellate
Court of the State of Illi
nois; and the Honorable Julia
Cooper Mack, Judge of the
Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia.
Mark T. McDonald,
Houston, Texas, was elected
the new president of the
Association. Junlous W.
Williams of Newark, New
Jersey is president-elect.
The 1978 meeting of the
National Bar Association will
be held at Hotel Diplomat,
Hollywood, Florida.
Durham - lawyers in
attendance included C. C.
Spaulding, Jr., W. W. Perry,
Jr., Dean Harry E. Groves
and Ronald Belfon.
Judge's store was called after
Judge shot and killed a black
man, Charlie Lee, on April
19 when Lee attempted to
5et S7.00 change back from
udge. Judge was charged
with murder and released on
bond. No trial date has been
set.
For , a brief period
following Lee's murder the
town's blacks did ' not
patronize Judge but following
cessations of demonstration!,
then led by Rev. Edward
King and Golden Frinks, the
town's residents again
began to patronize Judge.
CIW
Film
King. They are calling for
immediate action to prevent
the showing of the film by
NBC affiliates. Rev. . Hosea
Williams and Dr. Vivian have
been particularly critical of
the film's depiction of Dr.
King as being "manipulated"
by a white SCLC fundraiser
from New York.
Williams has said, "For
them to have a Ralph David
Abernathy just around to
tell a few jokes, and just a
jolly fellow around is a
great injustice done to black
history. . . ' He noted that,
"Martin Luther King, Jr.
depended upon no indivi
dual living as much as he
depended upon Ralph
David Abernathy, who gave
him a kind of strength that
I have never been able to
explain." The negative por
trayal of Dr. King and other
black leaders in the film
prompted Williams to re
mark, "Black people will
have betrayed Dr. King and
gambled over his legacy the
same as the Roman soldiers
did with Jesus' garments if we
sit idly by and allow this
movie to be shown around
the world without raising a
voice of dissent "
C. T. Vivian contends
that the divisiveness among
black leaders depicted in the
film and the portrayal of Dr.
King as being dictated to by
a white New Yorker give the
impression that black people
were never together. Vivian
says that, in the film. "Black
(Continued On Page 8)
. Black businessmen in
the town say they can't
understand why blacks still
buy, goods at Judges store
since the same goods can be
purchased at black-owned
stores. Mack Williams, who
operates an Amoco station on
the town's main street, said,
"It's frustrating. When I ssk
them (blacks) about a blU
they .won't come back. The
white man has all of his colcr
trading with him . and 92
of the blacks. -
, Ms. Clyde Worsley, a
black woman to her 1: j
Continued On Pa;? 8
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