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V t it k Tb Dbcfi Ocr Frcbddd On VOLUME 55 - NUM3ER 44 iff U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Thurgood Marshall poses for sculptor Reuben Kramer at the artist's Baltimore studio. The City Department of Housing and Community1 Developf ..............M.iiMn..nii.tll Dissisbhpi NEW YORK i The NAA CP.'this week expressed joy. over the .decision by the Mississippi ,. Supreme V Court that reversed and dismissed a . $240)00 Ubel suit that State , Highway Patrolman Robert' E.. Moody had won against the Association. To bec returned I is the $262, i 000 cash bond that the ,; Association had; posted to facilitate its appeal. , :-'s-. This " victory,4 although welcomed, in no way affects the more severe $1 .25 million judgment against the NAACP that had been won by a group of Port Gibson merchants in the Hinds . County Chancery Court last year. That suit is , being appealed in a higher state ''court and could take' up to. four; or five years to be resolved. , , 4; The Port Gibson mer chants had sued the NAACP because of alleged damages suffered from a civil rights ; boycotts in 1966. Initially, the Association was required to post a $1.6 million bond, But a federal judge set that ; aside, and, instead imposed a ,$U0,000 federal bond. The merchants; for their part, ' have appealed to the Fifth ' Circuit, U. S. Court of Appeals, ! to "have , the ori ginal state bond imposed. ; On the Moody case, NAACP General: Counsel Nathaniel R. Jones said; "The decision by the highest court ? in Mississippi gives hope that, . perhaps the climate is chang ing. We trust that we may be persuasive' when we present . arguments to that body on the boycott case." The, Moody case had been argued by Associate Counsel Charlesv Carter. q-r'Z'tr The case arose one night' in December, 1974, when ; State Highway Patrolman Robert E. Moody; stopped Mr. Stokes for speeding on Highway 18, between Ray mond and Utica. The patrol man allegedly struck Mr. Stokes in ; the back of the head with his gun and, while he . was on the ground,, stomped on his face and. ,...,,,,l,,.,.M.W.llN.IIIU.IiM.i(l.i."..i.il..'""""""'"1 Puke 11 rvivsrsity Library Newspaper Department . .turhar,'jr..,C.. 27706 . Press-- Defends It! " ;. "READ BY OVER 30,000 ll1iiI.III.MiiMIIIIMIMinIIHMHlll!lli , . ij , Sumno Court Dsrai I f inflicted other injuries. NAACP was then , asked to assist Mr. Stokes, '3 and Dr., Burns subsequently ( charged the patrolman with 1 police?, brutality Charges of . brutality , were also for ii mally filed; but subsequently dropped ? after 'Mr. Stokes was found guilty of reckless driving' and -resisting arrest by a Justice of the Peace who admitted that he was a personal friend of Patrolman Moody. Soon afterwards, Mr. Moody sued , the NAACP, iiuiiiiiiiuiii tXCU Building Honors ft . MISS NEWTON . - North Carolina Central . University's Communications Building will be dedicated at Founder's Day exercises at 1 1 , o'clock Friday morning at the Farrison-Newton Building, in honor of two , . retired r members Of the unwersity's English faculty. ' o Dr. William Edward Farrison and Miss Pauline F. Newton are ' expected to attend the Founder's Day exercises In B. N. Duke Audi torium::, ,,' 1 Miss Newton joined the unWersity's faculty in 1924, just after receiving her rrias 1 ter of. r arts degree from ' Columbia University She was DURHAMITES" Dr. Bums, Rev. Brown and Mr. Stokes for slander. tip: In Feb, 1976, nine mem bers of the 12-man jury in the Second District Circuit Hinds County, in Raymond, brought in ? the judgment .! against the NAACP only. Had i all four of the jurors who tai- tially wanted to dismiss the case held out, Patrolman Moody would have lost. All four of these jurors were black. But one relented and, joined , the eight jurors in favor of , conviction! The p eight were white. ' , '" - ' " - " V- - " -', ' , ' ' Js vliiiiillliiii I-?- :! I A . - - i ' sses Wit UluUHi'MUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIItllKlllllilllUIIUHtHltlNIIIIIIIUIIIIIIUIIII n ; DR. FARRISON hired by the' founder, Dr.' James E. Shepard, to teach language and arithmetic, ' methods to teachers seeking to upgrade their certification, , Miss Newton taught in . ; the school's English depart ment from 1924 until her re tirement in 1962. Courses for., which she; . had ' teaching responsibility , included com- position, speech communi-' cations, . American literature,' ' Shakespeare, and business. English. The late Dr. Shepard also employed Dr, Farrison, who joined the English faculty as department . chairman in Continued On Page 91 . 1 Ris'itm U:rCEDlf DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA ' : . . MA wOlr Li Joins Uutnbor of And local Oganizafrons NEW YORK - The NAa'.' CP this week joined a number;' of national and local organi- x zations in picketing the South ; African Consulate to protest the recent intensification of racial repression in that country. V" Carrying picket signs that . said "South African Ban . on Black Newspapers" and k "South Africa Release Poli tical. Prisoners," the NAACP. staffers marched quietly for -nearly two hours along New York's prestigious Park Avenue at 55th Street, where) the consulate is located! Leading the NAACP contin-C gent was Mrs. Margaret Bushf Wilson, chairman of thej Board of Directors. Glosteij B. Current, deputy to the executive director, organized the nine-man contingent of NAACP executives on the line. In all, about 50 people"' picketed the consulate. H The NAACP joined the protests . as a member of The Emergency Coalitiorr for -Human Rights in South Africa. The other members are the American Committee' WEEK'S THIS EDITION 0. L 5i::h Build's Soler Povcr Wafer PAGE 11 Teu Gna Delia Fbundsrs Day PAGE 18 : Vildr.gfon 10 Aftys. File PAGE 2 iiizsuiifiuiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiititiitiiiiiiiiiiiunumiituw Two English A VOTELESS PEOPLE IS A HOPELESS PEOPLE VOTE Tuesday, November 8 t:CCU Founthr's Day Hovcd Fro Gypcasluri to AoAtcritd .'A ii'';'-;,Y'-v,j k- ' . . '.-4' " ':. ''. ? :i ' . North Carolina Central University's Founder's' Day' :t observance Friday, November 4, will be in B. N. Duke Auditorium, not the R. L. McDougald Gymnasium as previously announced. ; , . The ' program will , begin, at 11 a.n.. Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., of North Carolina will be the princi pal speaker.: , r . . , Founder's Day honors the late Dr. James E. Shepard, who founded the university in 1910 and served as its pre- ' sident until his death in 1947. . h. Also part of the Founders Day observance will be the dedication of the university's new Communication. Build-, ing as the Farrison-Newton Building. The name of the' i building honors two veteran faculty members of the uni. versity, both now retired. They are Dr, William Edward' Farrison and Miss Pauline Newton. ., -The university's. Museum of Art will be dedicated . during the Founder's DayObservance as well. The-official dedicatory exhibition is of works by three North Carolina ' : natives, each 'black. They are, sculptors William Artis and : - Selma Burke and painter Roma re Bearden. ' ' Voach very jnent $ persons se were SATIIRHAV WSxFMgWy dedicated to ' ' - .-A fot 4l,K5flnVT v It on Africa, Association ot Black Journals (N. Y.), Black Council on Africa, Black Enterprise, Black Tuesday, Community Church, Encore magazine, National Council of Negro Women, National Urban League, One Hundred Black Men, Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York Amsterdam News, The New York Voice, Washington ' Office on Africa. Also participating as individuals were State Sena tor McCall and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton. t: The text of the Coali tion statement is as follows: We are a coalition of or ganizations who protest the repressive and despotic ac tions of the South African government in detaining and banning a large number of anti-apartheid groups and in dividuals. The white minonty government of South Africa is unmatched in its denial of basic human rights. For al most three decades the White Afrikaner National Policy has . implemented racist policies which divide the country into ethnic units; disallow black jpebplefrorflVe a - areas'pfr;1n1i'HpttrpoW of exploitative labor; prohi bit blacks from participating ' in elections and from holding public Office.1 Twenty-one years ago, 156 opposition leaders were arrested and tried for treason. In 1960, the African National Congress and the Pan-African ; 'Congress, leading liberation movements, were banned following the Sharpesville massacre. Thousands have sub sequent ly been banned , arrested, imprisoned, and other thousands have been killed by police while pro testing apartheid, mostly in non-violent demonstrations. Since October 18th, vir tually all black conscious ness ' organizations, the ' leading black newspaper, and several f hundred black, f colored,4 and white leaders have been banned in a "' governmental : attempt to completely stifle resistance. Continued On Page 7 feocbcrs fJationcI no t JTER PARTICIPATION Uijara and one who w3I won be tv Council. 1 write to express a. r election day. Tueiday. I basic principle of our de of the people, by the pi anr jb such a vast Majority ofr 1 a primary was held fct seeking at -la persons oi ojj uaA ISIAH GATLING EPA I1AMES AREA DIRECTOR OF CR FOR RTP Isiah (Ike) Catling was recently , selected to serve as Area Director of Civil Rights for Research Triangle Park with responsibilities at other U. S. Environmen tal Protection Agency; in? stallations at ?, Montgomery, Ala.; Corvallis, Or.; St. Louis, Mo.; and Wenatchee, Wa. In announcing the selection ok . ''tUirAIngPiretfor - of EPA's Washington Office of Civil, Rights, Edward Jenkins, praised Catling's outstanding experience and exposure in the area of Equal Employ ment Opportunity in the Federal Government. Commenting on his new position. Catling said, "My goal is to integrate equal employment opportunity into the system to the extent that it becomes part, of the ' overall Agency mission,-' ', Prior to joining EPA, Catling held a position with the U. S. Army Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command in fort Monroe, Va. t where he was in charge of the civil rights program, the V Federal i -Women's program, military equal opportunity and Spanish speaking minority employees program. Catling received his bachelor's degree in health education from Ndrth Caro lina Central University and an MA in education and psychological counseling Continued On Page 9J km (CCNS) Civil rights attorney Jerry Paul said Monday that he received a telephone call from Miss Joan Little while he' was : serving a nine day contempt of court sentence in , Wake t County jail. Following his release , from jail last, Saturday, Paul said Joan used a code name when she called and he returned her call. . . ; Miss Little disappeared from the North, Carolina f Correctional Center :: for ,. Women on October 1 5 and was discovered missing by E risen officials at the evening ead count. Authorities have? since concentrated searches in the Norfolk,- Virginia and Raleigh areas. :. While not disclosing the entire contents of his con versation with Miss Little, Paul said "she wants to work . out a strategy to deal with the pressures and live a normal life." Miss Little became inter nationally known during her struggle to avoid conviction in a .1975 murder trial for K the tee pick slaying of Beau fort' . County jailer Clarence . Altigood. A jury acquitted her and found that Alligood , attempted to rape her and o a n A lrmTi?ii mf i . iT lileM WWWtWMWW'MM IMMmw V 7 tATKOVtJ 277P6 Dear Editor:, Please Open At ference tot 7 em-- j . ' ; VJords of VJIcJcm . The hardest tips and trig expenses down and Up, TELEPHONE Old) is the mm SPEAK IPCNS icsHsnnnaissaffirai public Opinion Column laasaas Terrorism is in the news again. "Political extremists" from both the right and left vie for world attention and free publicity to air their views. Lately, Durham has felt the shocks of its own "down home style" terrorists. Impossible as it may seem, the evidence is very clear. Count the number of locks on our doors, guns in our closets, and bars on our windows. Presently there are: more security guards in unk' form than policemen on and off duty throughout the country. A society under siege not by outsiders, but preying upon itself. The choice is ours; either we remain content prisoners within our own homes, or begin to re-assert our free--dom Of movement on our own streets. How would you improve public safety on the streets? JIM KERLY. 35, Service Representative, Security, Durham - The. biggest thing the community can do to make things safer is to get involved and look out for each other. If you see something around your neighbor's house that looks suspicious or just not right, call 91 1 and have somebody come and check it out. It may be your neighbor who is trying to get in but its better to check it out than have him come home, and find every thing missing. Community in volvement is the best answer, getting involved with each other. .. xmm . .....f.-.jiiMf jm ( AKy. Paul that she kilted him in self defense. Her trial and ac quittal bcame one of the5 most celebrated of recent times, attracting the support of hundreds of organizations and individuals around the world, si ' r r.'- Miss Little was in prison serving a 7-10 year sentence for breaking and entering and larcency and was waiting appeal when she was attacked by Clarence Alligood. Follow ing ; her 1 acquittal for Alligood's murder, she was unable to overturn the breaking and entering convic tion in state courts. Immediately . following Joan ' Little's disappearance, Paul said she was "forced to escape" because of pressures from prison officials. That in formation, he said, was ob tained when Ms. Little called him by telephone from the prison the day before her disappearance. Prison offi cials denied pressures that would have : forced Joan to escape but did admit they were questioning her, and others, about possible charges that may have been brought against her. ! v . ., Miss Little, waiting for a decision from ' the North Carolina Board of Paroles, for downs in life are keep' keeping appearances -A l noaymous PRICE: 20 C.i' HlHUIIStaealBni zs ,r r. I JEROME WADDELL, 70 retired, Durham A long time ago here in Durham they used to have cops out on the streets. I think that would stop a lot of crime and these robberies. I don't go out at night at all. Once? I come home in the afternoon that's it, frankly Fm scared. mSSS '!"' ii ANNIE LYONS, Recep tionist, Durham - We need more street lights and foot patrolmen in areas where crime is most likely to happen. Its so bad almost nobody goes anywhere at night. People need more information on crime and how to protect themselves against it ' 1 release, had. been suspended from her work release job because of - charges that she was away from work without authorization. Prison officials say that she was not work and was not : at the prison. Her employer, Dr. D. P. Lane, said she was at work both days. . Shortly ' before . her es cape, she allegedly said to a reporter "they are trying to railroad me", when explain ing that she was innocent of the charge! . Paul - would not say where Miss Little was when ' , he said she called him or where she is now, except to say "if the governor will call off his heat fot a while, and let me make a trip to Atlanta. I think in a couple of weeks, we can bring mis matter tot head and get it back into the court system. . : On October 13, two days before Miss little's escape, federal masistrate, Lo;in HoweQ. ordered the State of North Carolina to answer all aDega.tions in a petition cmss toning the kUty of IV.zt little s 1973 conviction far , breaking and enterirj tr.i Continued On Pa; 9J ! ; i rtjftrS'-an
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