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VOLUME 57 NUMBER 24
' DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JUNE 16; 1979
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President's Aides
Meet Black U.S.
Attorneys
Special Assistant to the President, Louis Martin (center) recently met with fhe sin
black U.S. attorneys appointed by President Jimmy Carter during his two and one
half years in office. They were in Washington to attend a conference of all UiS. at
. torneys at the Department of Justice. Left to right are: G. William Hunter Nof
" thern California; H.M. Michaux, Jr., Middle District, North Carolina; Hubert
Bryants Northern District, Oklahoma; Louis Martin; James R. Williams, Northern
District, Ohio; James R. Burgess, Jr., Eastern District, Illinois; and Ishmaei A.
Myers, District of the Virgin Islands. ; 'y.
CHAPfeL HILL A
University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill
faculty advisory scommit
. tee has denied portions of
allegations by Dean H.
Bentley Renwick that the
school had hot followed
its admissions and recruit-
ment policies relating to
black applicants
Chaired by Professor
Charles H. Long, the
committee report, one by
one, ;.:admitted that (1)
qualified black applicants
were rejected by mistake
for the period of 1976 and
1977; (2) that
undergraduate admissions
officers did not make false
claims about recruitment
f visits, but that a
misudnerstanding liad
developed from inter
pretations of their logs: (3)
that the minimal qualifica
tions for the "special
talent" program should
not be applied to blacks;
and (4) that the office of
undergraduate admissions
has dilligently carried out
the admissions policies
relating to blacks.
Renwick's charges
created a stir when an arti
cle he " authored was
published in The Chapel
Wn Newspaper and The
Carolina Times last
'September.
Between September and
May, the advisory com-
mittee met a total of 28
times to investigate the
charges that the University
had failed to admit
qualified black applicants
and was not committed to
the increased enrollment
of blacks.
After restating the
history of minority admis
sions beginning in 1968,
the committee, citing
scholarships, recruitment
of in-state, and out-of-state,
and student aid,
concluded that the Univer-
James Kerr, executive
director of the Durham
Housing Authority
(DHA), made public his
resignation this week to
become effective within
40-60 days. Kerr, a Penn
sylvania native has served
the low rent public hous
ing agency since 1972 as its;
first black chief executive; '
ALIUS
mm w
their gross adjusted in
come) and the cost for
managing, maintaining,
and retiring bonds on the
housing units. A march of
nearly 4,000 public hous
ing ' tenants on
Washington, D.C. freed
monies impounded by the
Office of Management
and Budget in October,
1912,
Shortly; after Kerr took
many other around .the tlon began to cut back on
nation, began to ftfce ' operating subsidies the
economic andt. political -same year; measure that
difficulties at the hand of was initialed by the Con
a fiscally conservative ;'.''gress'of1974 and subse
Nixon administration-i quent cbngressesf. v 1
Department of Housings The, result has ' been' Griffin saying he was sen
subsidies were held up f materials, and labdr with Griffin fired Oxford
which pay the difference much of the 1 extensive Manor manager Johnny
in tenants rent (25 of maihtehahce work going White a nove which was
undone. An added factor
has been HUD pressure
for the authority to seize
every opportunity to, evict
lower rent paying tenants
for higher rent, income,
tenants which would lower
-HUD subsidies.
Due to pressure from
tenants to fire .the
manager of the Pxfprd
' piuciiciu complex, retcni
months have been tur-
' bulent for James Kerr.
When Kerr terminated the
position of his chief lieute
nant, Willie Oriffin,
t fori r r o ro 1 1 io-t tv ntnnni't
4-Yr.-0ld Killed By notorist;
Stories Conflict
Four year old Joseph Thomas Allen was fatally
struck by a var driven by a white motorist Sunday on
Dearborn Avenue. Conflicting reports say the
youngster was Crossing the street and was on the
curbside, The youngster was killed, and his mother,
Mrs. Barbara Allen is upset that the driver hasn't
told her he is sorry for killing her child.
Police reports on the incident had not been releas
ed when THE CAROLINA TIMES went to press
Wednesday. The driver's oame has been withheld.
The child was reportedly dragged 62 feet after im
pact,' The. speed limit on Dearborn where Joseph
Allen was killed is 35 miles per hour.
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sity had made efforts to
dilligently recruit blacks
and minorities'. r:v
Contradictions' in: data
released by Renwick and
claims by the admissions
office that admissions of
ficers had recruited at cer
tain schools were due to
"misunderstandings to
differing interpretations in
their logs", the report
concludes.
Several admissions pro
cedures had been changed
at the writing of the report
and additional personnel
were recommended by the
committee. Also recom
mended were thatt more
intensive minority recruit
ment program should be
devised, that reliability
and applicability of
scholastic achievement
tests for minority ap
plicants be studied, and
recruitment of black
faculty members, along
with at least one high
ranking black on the
Chancellor's ad
ministrative staff.
Edgomont ftogisiraiion Planned
upheld by Kerrv and thfeS Commissioners ioh May 22
' Board of Commissioner which contended that "an
Many tenants contended fiiff.''of--..dete:fji)ration
that Griffin's firing was 'prevails to the extent that
due to White's firing.. .commissioners "have been
Griffin's job was lost in a. ''caught up in a "web" of
new reorganization of the ;neglectr.tnefficiency, lack
authority before, th.e(,of wholesome directions,
reorganization was K'apvi supervision of employees
proved by the Board of and . ,the lack, .of sound
commissioners. t ' managemem,, .
Residents of Edgemqnt,
a bi-racial community in
East Durham, have their
share of the City's pro
blems. Besides a
deteriorating housing
stock, the Durham City
Council is considering
plans that may destroy 127
homes ire- order to . make
Way.', f dr.. ft, cim garage.
.Mrsi, Joan. Button direct
posals has been in closed
council meetings called ex
ecutive sessions. Despite
public pleas of the Edge
mont residents for their
community to be left in
tact, some city councilmen
are thought to be
clandestinely pushing the
project
Edgemont, Hudson con
tends that the removal
would "be an organized
thing" and that residents
would not be "thrown out
in the street".
Mrs. Burton questions
if relocation . would be
orderly pointing, to a scar-
city of housing created bv
to see that public pf Kcials ' xommunky in the 90s.
pressures of rbalancinst' a
budget and maintaining t,
deteriorating , housing-X
stock, Kerr has also been
without the support of his
board members in recent
months. At the last board
meeting, members openly
criticized the, administra-,
tion for inefficiency.
Chairman J.J. Hender
son gave a report to the
The Impact of Desegregation on Higher
Education'' to Be
Enamined
'The Impact of
Desegregation on Higher
Education" will be ex
amined at a national con
ference at the Sheraton
Crabtree Motor Inn in
Raleigh, July 18-20. The
institute on Desegregation
at North Carolina Central
individual institutions", on
statewide systems of
higher education, and on
society and social values.
' Enrollment
Characteristics at
Historically Black Col
legeS," administrative
policies, tod Staff, and
College System, and Ray
mond Cavins, Associate
Professor of History at
Duke University.
Further inforamtion is
quit thC authority within
the last year either under
resident pressure, ad
ministration pressure, or
their own dissatisfaction.
What isn't clear is
whether Kerr was forced
to resign or resigned of his
own volition. He said
Tuesday, that his an
nouncement was not forc
ed and that he was taking
a position in Washington,
D.C, but would not
specify where.
available from the office;
of the Institute on
Desegregation at North
Carolina Central University-
JOIN
THE IJAACP
TODAY!
munity Center says a ma
jor cause of the area's pro
blems is that many
Durham officials don't
understand human
jieeds."
To make officials more
sensitive to the human
needs of residents of
Edgembnt, Mrs. Burton
says a voter registration
drive will begin in July
and continue through the
summer. Increased activi
ty at the polls is respected
by politicians, she ex
plains. Residents of Edgemont
have met at the " City
Council in large numbers
protesting the proposed
use of community
development funds to
demolish their homes and
replace them with a garage
to service city vehicles. So
far, discussion on the pro-
somebody," Mrs Burton
asserts.
Councilman TOmiry
Hudson, representative of
Ward 6 which encom
passes most of the area
known as Edgemont, is
one of the city's
lawmakers who supports
the building of the garage
in Edgemont. Hudson's
family owns and operates
a funeral home at 1800
Angier Avenue, also in
Ward 6.
Hudson says that op
ponents to the garage be
ing built in Edgemont
shouldn't worry because
the Council's public works
committee voted recently
to disband plans to build
the garage in Edgemont.
Quieting fears that the
families living in the 127
houses would be displaced
if the garage were built in
University, The UNC -1 rac"y recruitment are
School of Education.- some of the specific areas
ERIC Clearning house on
Higher Education, and the
North Carolina
Humanities Committee
are co-sponsoring the con
ference. Several hundred
educators and other in
terested people from all
Over the country are ex
pected to attend.
The conference "will
to be discussed.
Two! specific state
systems are to be discuss
ed , Florida and Ten
nessee. But due to the pen
ding litigation between tle
University of North
Carolina and the Depart
ment of Health, Educa
tion . and , Welfare, the
UNC desegregation plan
sec
Mies 2,500 Do Conffrotit Item
hrini? together Government " nas not oeen included on
officials, researchers and Z the program
educators to discuss
policies, issues and pro
blems of desegregation
and to present research
that might aid in resolving
these problems," explain
ed Df.s Benjamin F.
Speller, Jr., NCCU pro
fessor and a member of
the Institute on
Desegregation's inter-
institutional
group.
The conference
research
-was
Keynote speakers at the
conference include Dr.
Elias Blake, president of
Clark College in Atlanta,
Dr. Stephen J. Wright,
Vice-President of the Col
lege Entrance Examina
tion Board. Charles V.
Willie, Sociologist and
Professor of Education
and Urban Studies at Har
vard Univc ity, and J.
LeVonne' Cnambers, an
attorney at law and presi-
originally conceived by the dent of the NAACP Legal
institute nn Deseoreea- Defense and Educational
llhfvik yaiv vmm ..
tion's research group dur
ing the summer of 1978.
The research group in
cludes faculty fromjpublic
and private institutjdns
and colleges throughout
North Carolina.
Conference sessions
deal with the impact of
current desegregation
policies on students and
the campus environment,
Fund. , " r'
Area particpants in
clude Helen G. Edmonds,
Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of History from
NCCU, James Olliver, ac
ting' Executive Director of
the N.C. Assoc. of In
dependent Colleges and
Universities, Hazel SmalJ,
Associate Vice-President
of the N.C. Community
community patrol was
ready to spring into action
with firearms to protect -black
demonstrators at a
moments notice.
We Shall Not Permit
The Clock Of Racial
Justice To Be
Turned Around
. The confrontation was
a continuance of a May 26
march protesting the con
viction by an all white jury
of Tommie Lee Hines, a
mentally retarded black
..youth accused of raping
three , white women.
ships. Nearly a thousand " K,ansmen ?efi,ed PI,ce
state troopers, Decatur ' shots were fired, and four
police, and county sheriffs People, two blacks and
were perspiring in ridf' tv, whites were officially
gear. Federal Bureau' of'';,nJured- Several oth,er
Investigation agents mks- whltcs perhaps as many
queraded as SCLC as twenty, reportedly were
demonstrators and Klari! euKa"d shot-
More than 100 newsmenv We cannot we sh?uld
armed with cameras, tap- "ot,we must not, and we
ing devices, pens and pads sha11 :n( Slt, ,d,,v am?
talked to whoever they permit the clock of racial
' . justice to oe jurnea oac
! to . the dark and dismal
days when black folk had
By Pat Bryant
DECATUR,
ALABAMA -f Threats of
Ku Klux Klan violence
fizzled last Saturday in
this Northern Alabama
town, as 2300
demonstrators faced off
150 hooded " whites
wielding clubs and con
cealed weapons,- as state,
local and county law en-;
forcement officers looked
on. '
Decatur was an armed
camp. , National guard
smen crisscrossed the sun
could interview. .
KKK members bran
dished axe handles. Bulges
that appeared to be
firearms could ' be " seen'
under the donned white
sheets. Imprints of pistols
were seen in the pockets of
several black marchers. A
black group known as the
no rights that white folk
were bound to respect,"
said Dr. Joseph Lowery,
'Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC) president to
demonstrators on the City
Hall steps.
Imperial Wizard Bill
Wilkerson stood on the
steps of City Hall prior to
the SCLC march and pro
mised "we are going to
show the Negroes one
thing that they understand
and that is burning and
shooting." Wilkinson said
Klan vigilantes will con
tinue to enforce the laws
against blacks who, are
lawbreakers. He also pro
mised "when the Negroes
march, the white people
will be there marching
also."
Wilkinson and Bill
Receio, chaplain of the
Alabama Klan, spoke
against housing, health
care, and other social pro
grams as "give-aways"
for blacks.
March Breath of Life .
- For SCLC
The march and con
frontation was a breath of
life to the SCLC, many
observers noted. Not since
the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. in
Memphis in 1968, and the
Poor Peoples Campaign
in 1969 has the organiza
tion been as active.
SCLC Board member
Rev. Fred Shuttleworth, a
leader in the Birmingham
struggle in the late 50's
and 60's, recalled how, in
1957 men and women
didn't have the right to
march and how, through
tactics of non-violent con
frontation, ft , powerful
movement was built.
Washington, D.C. Con
gressman Walter Faun
troy, also a SCLC Board
member and Mickey
Leland represented the
Congressional Black
Caucus.
. Bringing a message
from the Hispanic Coali
tion, Leland promised
that his constituency
would march against
racism and oppression
everywhere.
Klan Mislead
Mrs. Anne Braden, co
chairman of the Southern
Organizing Committee
(SOC), referring to the
rape conviction of Tom
mie Lee Hines, said "rape
is used as an excuse to kill
black men in the South"
and that "white women
should not allow
themselves to be used in
that way anymore".
Klan rhetoric about
blacks taking whites jobs,
and being the cause of
high taxes, she said, were
lies that "we have to go to
whites and tell them it is a
dead issue."
Self-Defense
And Non-Violence
Before the SCLC march
and after the marchers
departed Decatur, blacks
were faced with Klan night
riders and other attackers.
Responding to violence
and threats of violence, a
community patrol was
organized. They were
members of the communi
ty patrol who returned the
fire of Klansmen on May
26, which, observers say,
accounted for only two
blacks being injured.
Clem Peebles,, an
Continued on page 4
dudes scores of black
busineses and residences.
Many households and
businesses did not survive
the renewal effort.
Mrs. Burton ties
together the Hayti renewal
project, the proposed ex
tention of the East-West
Expressway through the
Crest Street Community,
and proposed garage in
Edgemont as having un
favorable ramifications.
"There has not been a
displaced community in
Durham that wasn't
black", the long time
community tenants ,
workers says. She also
cites an existing housing
shortage of low rent units
evidenced by more than
2,000 on the public hous
ing authority waiting list.
Councilman Hudson
and Mrs. Burton both cite
similar reasons to support
their positions. The value
of inner city land, Mrs.
Burton contends, would
add value to rehabilitated
homes, and Hudson says
the garage would be better
located near the inner city,
than a more remote site.
Dearborn Road has been
considered as a site for the
garage.
CONGRESSMAN
RON DELLUMS
calls for transfer of
military funds to social
programs ; . .
See
"SUPPORT
ESCALATES FOR ,
TRANSFER
AMENDMENTS"
Page 4-D
General Assembly Ratifies
Honor to Lato J. IL VJhcclcr
A joint v resolution
honoring the life and
memory of the late John
H. Wheeler, sponsored by
Representative Kenneth
Spaulding of " Durham,
was ' ratified June 8 by
both the North Carolina
House of Representatives
and Senate.
The resolution cites
Wheeler's achievements
on banking, business,
education, his community
and the nation, ac
complished "while main
taining the mutual respect
of persons of goodwill of
every race and creed".