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GREENSBORO Som-
7,500 people par-
, ticipated in a march and
rally Saturday to protest
- the November massacre of
7? five Communist Workers
Party members and to
commemorate the beginn--init
of the n0slcivil
rights movement twenty
years ago.
Marchers assembled at
the World War Memorial
Stadium to walk four
miles to the Greensboro
Coliseum. Participants
traveled from as far away
as Los Angeles, New York
and Yellow Springs, Ohio
to attend the march which
was organized by the
February 2nd Mobiliza
tion Committee.
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Fed Violations
RALEIGH A class ac,
don suit, filed in Eastern
District Court in
December, by Ms. Lola J.
McEachiri, LaForrest F.
Mayes, Ms. Hilda Banks,
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NAACP officials and attorneys for plaintiffs in front of Federal Building la
Raleigh after filing $12 million suit against Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro. Left to
right are: Rev. C.W. Ward, president, Raleigh Branch, NAACP; Mn. Geneva B.
Hamilton, president, Goldsboro-Wayne County Branch, NAACP; George Frazier,
president, Durham Branch, NAACP; Earl Whitted, attorney; William Foy, chair
man, Legal Redress Committee; Giennle Matthewson, attorney; and Mrs, Carolyn
Coleman, state field representative, NAACP. '
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and others, charges racial
discrimination and viola
tion of Federal Statutes
and the Equal Protection,
. Privileges and Immunities
and Due Process clauses
of the i Fifth and Four
teenth amendments to the .
Federal Constitution.
The class that plaintiffs
represent consist of all
applicants for employ
ment, present and ' past
employees and discharged
employees of the defen
dant who are not male
Caucasians, and who have
been, are, or may in the
future be ) 1 limited, j
, classified . i restrictedr r
V disciplined,; lexcluded
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By Felicia M. Cassels
In an optimistic speech
Friday, Andrew Young
addressed the issues of
race, economics and Iran
at Duke University's Page
Auditorium.
Young, former con
gressman and United Na
tions Ambassador, said
race is just a symptom of
America's problems. Jobs
are not available because
our economy is running 73
to 75 per cent capacity, he
said. And while
50,000,000 citizens don't
share in the wealth as
those on a higher
economic level, he said,
Hispanics, immigrants
and other minorities are as
much a part of the number
as blacks.
He said both blacks and
whites have made tremen
dous economic gains as a
result of a boom produced
by the civil rights move
ment of the 60s. He urged
blacks not to be
discouraged by the present
widening gap between
black and white gross ear
nings. He said black earn
ing power has doubled
from 1960, but conceded
that white earnings have
escalated by 105 to 1 10 per
cent. He explained that
people already in the
system can earn and profit
by a boom quicker than
those just entering, as in
the case of blacks in the
60s. The gap will narrow
in the 80s, he predicted,
because more black people
have entered the educa
tional and political
mainstream.
Young said the situation
jn Iran is actually an
Islamic identification
struggle. He said
America's humanitarian
tradition will not allow a
return of the ousted Shah
to Iran, especially since
America help put him
there in 1953.
He said he sees tremen
dous hope in Iran,
because, while egos have
been damaged, no blood
has been shed and no pro
perty damaged. He added
that while the crisis is
frustrating, humiliating
and emotional America
is not dumb enough,
although strong enough,
to go to war with Iran.
It is not progress, he
said, for America to have
the power to destroy a na
tion fifteen times over. . .
."every additional dollar
we spend on death and
destruction contributes to
Cartor to Noninato Korncgay
os Mooboi of Seaway Board
WASHINGTON -President
Jimmy Carter
announced recently that
he will nominate Francis
Albert Kornegay, presi
dent of the Detroit Urban
League, to be a member of
the Advisory Board of the
Saint Lawrence Seaway
Development Corpora
tion. Kornegay, of Detroit,
Michigan, began his
career with the Detroit Ur
ban League n 1944 as the
League's vocational
secretary.
Kornegay was born in
Mount Olive. He receiv
ed B.S. degree from
North Carolina College I
(now North Carolina Cen
tral) in 1935 and a M. S.
(1941) and a Ph.D. (1973)
from the University of
Michigan.
He has worked at the U.
S. Treasury Department
(1935-36) and served as.
Commandant of Boys and
Head of Science at Dow
ington Industrial School
in Downington, Penn
sylvania (1937-41).
He is active in com
munity affairs and serves
on the boards of several
organizations.
He is married to the
former Geraldine
McWilliams Ellison and
they have two children.
our national insecurity."
It is insecurity; that keeps
people" within their own
group, he said, and such
sheltering leads to cultural
retardation.
He said he looks for the
future to evolve out of the
continuing experience of
the races working together
here in the United States.
He said the celebration in
Greensboro Saturday is
very good because it is
commemorating a move
ment that introduced par
ticipatory democracy to
America. This democracy
produced the women's
movement, the economic
withdrawal campaigns led
by Ralph Nader and the:
movement of environmen
talists, he said.
The civil rights movement,
he concluded, made the
Continued on Page 6
Dr. V. Clerk
Speaker At
ACA Progrca
Dr. Vernon Clark,
North Carolina Central
University biologist served
on January 19 as a partici
pant on the three day pro
gram of The American
Camping Association in
San Antonio, Texas. Dr.
Clark is Director of the
Governor's School-East
during the summer. At
the Texas meeting he
spoke on the topic An Ap
proach to Gifted and
Talented Education: The
Governor's Schools of
North Carolina.
The American Camping
Association became ac
quainted with the Gover
nor's Schools' program
from The Today's Show.
Dr. Clark was extended
the invitation when
Governor James Hunt was
unable to honor the re
quest. The Governor's
Schools' program is the
oldest summer residential '
program for gifted and
talented high school,
juniors and seniors in the.
country.
against py the defendants
in ways which deprive or
tend to deprive - them of
equal employment oppor
tunities, or which other
wise affect their status as
applicants for employ
ment or employees
because of their race, col
or or sex.
Cherry Hospital is a
state owned and operated
institution, an in
termediate care facility of
the North Carolina
Department of Human
; Resources, in Goldsboro
(Wayne County).
( The plaintiffs are or
were employees at Cherry.
They are all residents of
Goldsboro.
The ' suit seeks to
challenge a racial pattern
and practice of systematic
' racial and sex discrimina
tion by the defendants and
their agents in the hiring,
; firing, promotion,
' discipline and arbitrary
and summary handling of
grievances filed by black
men and women, and
other minorities.
The plaintiffs are seek-
ing both injunctive relief
and general damages in
the sum of $11,650,000
and $500,000 in punitive
damages.
According to the suit,
'.... as of March 13,
1979 Cherry Hospital
had thirty two (32)
managerial and ad
ministrative positions of
which 90.67
(twenty-nine) were filled
by whites and 9.3
(three) were filled by
Blacks.
". . . . Black females
held 0f$ or none of the
thirty-two managerial and
administrative positions. .
"That one of the three
Blacks" holding an ad
ministrative position,
"one of the Black males,
the Personnel Officer, was
hired by the defendant,
Department of Human
. Resources and not by the
Defendant Cherry
Hospital, Office of State
Personnel or Personnel
Commission. ..."
"That prior to
September, 1978, The Ex
ecutive Committee at
Cherry Hospital inten
tionally excluded blacks,
minorities and women
from its meetings and its
: Continued on Page 6)
. Kev. ci. Vivian, co
? director -of the event,
noted the tremendous tur
nout, despite the cold
; weather. He outlined the
. agenda for the march and
' asked participants to con
: duct themselves in an
- orderly and peaceful
fashion. The Mobilization
Committee was made up
of fifty: organizations in
cluding the NAACP, the
National Association of
Black Social -Workers, the
National Alliance Against
? Racist. an4 Political
Recession and others.
The march itself was led
by students from North
Carolina A&T State
University in Greensboro.
This was significant in
that it was four A&T
freshmen Franklin Mc
Cain, David Richmond,
Joseph McNeill, Ezell
Blair, Jr., now Jibrel
Khazan who staged the
sit-in at F.W. Woolwdr
th's lunch counter on .
February 1, 1960. While
previous sit-ins had occur
red in neighboring cities,
Greensboro's action
sparked subsequent
demonstrations.
Today, McCain is a tex
tile executive in Charlotte;
Richmond lives on a farm
in Franklinton; McNeill is
a Fayetteville stockbroker
and Khazan is a job pro
gram reviewer in New
Bedford, Mass.
Woolworth too, has
undergone some changes
and now has a black na
tional vice president,
Aubrey .Lewis, who is a
former college football
star.
At the Coliseum, Rev.'
Lavert Taylor of Norfolk,
Va., led freedom songs
while program speakers
assembled.
Opening remarks were
delivered by Rev. C.T. Vi
vian. He said persons were
present from every spec
trum of thought and
ideology something
that had never happened
before. Vivian requested;
the audience to be
disciplined and respect the
views of all organizations
represented although
some disagreement might
exist. The invocation was
given by Greensboro
native, Rev. Sadye
Joyner-Milton, who asked
God to be with those com
mitted to the struggle.
The following is a short
synopsis of each of the
speeches:
Rev. Fred Shut
tlesworth, Southern Chris
tian Leadership Con
ference (SCLC) organizer,
was the first speaker. He
told the audience it was
time to put on their mar
ching shoes and encourag
ed all Americans to join in
the struggle to non
violently end Ku Klux
Klan terrorism.
Baptist minister Mac
Jones said there is a
sickness in the land and a
poison in the system that .
needs to be rooted out '
before America self-:
destructs. The purpose ofj
the meeting, Jones, said;;
national Association of
Machinists, admonished
Greensboro Mayor Jim
Melvin for declaring the
city a state of emergency.
Melvin made this move to
prohibit the carrying of
weapons in the march, but
Greenwood said he didn't
need a weapon to beat the
Klan.
SCLC cofounder Rev.
Joseph Lowery recalled
his confrontation with the
Klan in Decatur, Ala. He
said none of the Klan had
been arrested in connec
tion with a-killing that oc
curred there, although
police knew who they
wxrj!..
Lowery went on to urge '
.America to not only unite
over the hostages in Iran,
but also to protest the
holding of black hostages
in the U.S. by the
"ayatollahs of white
supremacy and the failure
of education."
Lowery was followed by
Robert Locklear f the
Lumbee Indian Nation. ,
He remembered a con
frontation between the Inv
dians and Klansmen in
had to do with people: southeastern North
standina ud for the truth Carolina, pointing out
despite persecution. To be
with God, he said, is to
help the weak struggle to
overcome oppression.
Dick Greenwood,
special assistant to BUI
Wipinsinger of the Inter-.
that the Klan is after U
minority groups. ,
Skip Robinson of the
Northern Mississippi
United League stressed
non-violence during
Continued on Page 7
ByTrellieL.Jeffen
In a move that surprised
the - standing-room-only
crowd at Monday night's
tegular City - Council
meeting, Councilman Car,',
roll Pledger introduced a ,;i
motion to postpone the
previously scheduled
discussion on the Durham
Housing Authority Com
mittee and to reschedule
another meeting for
Thursday night, Feb. 7.
When several council
members expressed con
cern over the short notice
being convenient to the
members of the Housing
Committee, Councilman
Ralph Hunt called on J.J.
Henderson, chairman of
the Housing Committee,
who, along with all other,
members of the commit-;
tee, was seated in the au
dience. The committee
members had apparently
been present due to the
public announcement that
the City Council had plan-,
Tony Drown
Guest Lectcrcr
At J.C Soitb
ned to discuss its future at
the . Monday night
meeting.
Mayor Harry
Rodenhizer had formerly
requested that all
members of the Durham.
Housing authority Com-1
mittee submit their
resignations. All except;
one member refused, leav-:
ing the mayor to decide on
another course of action.
Councilman Pledger, :
responding to a question
. from the- floor by Mn.
'Carolyn I. Thornton on
why the discussion was;
postponed, said, "We arc1
i hoping to take another ag
Continued on Page 2
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CHARLOTTE - Tony
Brown of Tony Brown's
Journal will be guest lec
turer at the Johnson C.
Smith University Church
on .Monday, February 11
at 4 8:15 p.m. Tony
Brown's Journal is the
longest running nationally
syndicated black affairs
program on television.
There is no charge to the
public.
The founding Dean of,
Howard University's
School of Communica
tions, Brown was selected
one of the Top 50 Na
tional Black Newsmakers
by the National!
Newspapers Publishers
Association, and one of:
the 700 Most Influential
Black Americans by1
Ebony Magazine. He is,
President of the National
Association of Black
Media Producers. Brown
writes a nationally syn-
' Continued on Page 6'
Black Perspectives on Urban Planning
James Horton (left) of Durham ud Mi. Diane Bennett of Charlotte talk wisk.
Mayor Robert Drakef ord of Carrboro (center) daring UNC-CH symposium "Cade
Perspectives on Urban Planning" held la Chapel 1113 recently. Drakeford stressed tfct
importance of politics in the future development of small cities. Horton sod Ms. Bca
nett are graduate students in the UNC-CH department of city and resSosnl
planning. rnoto y L.C. El
EDITORIAL
THE LYON PARK CONTROVERSY
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understanding. "
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Proverbs 4:7
The Senior Citizens of the Lyon Park
area have been more than a little con
cerned in recent weeks about the flow of
funds to their center for continued
operation, supplies, services and equip
ment. Some, potentially serious complaints
have been discussed, including the firing
of the center's director, Jimmy Lee; ac
tions of the Coordinating Council for
Senior Citizens; and some serious ac
cusations have been made against .the
Durham Branch of the NAACP and its
president, George Frazier.
In our continuing investigation of
charges, counter-charges and counter
counter charges, the web gets more and
more tangled. At this point, we nave
been able to arrive at only partial con
clusions. We intend to see this situation,
through to the end, however, and report
to our readers our findings without fear
or favor.
One of our general conclusions, at this
point, is that it seems numerous
misunderstandings on the part of masy
concerned with the Lyon Park tcdor1
Citizens Center controversy havt cca
tributed to making a bad situstica
worse. , ,
Another Is that the actions of th
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