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VOLUME 59 NUMBER 15
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATUROAY, APRIL 11, 1981
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Mourns Lynching Of Her Son
Mrs. Beulah Donald is comforted as she arrives at the church for the funeral of her
Michael Donald. 19. who was found murdered ana Hanging irom a iree in
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TIMOTHY HILL,
whose mud-covered, near
ly nude body was pulled
from the Chattahoochee
River, is recorded as
Atlanta's 21st missing and
murdered children
victim. UPI
Dr. Shipman
Named UNCF
President
SALISBURY Liv
ingstone College presi
dent, Dr. F. George Ship
man, was elected president
of the United Negro Col
lege Fund recently in New
York. He will represent
the 41 -member institu-;
tions ot the UNLr in
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
(NNPA) The Southern
Organizing Committee for
Economic and Social
Justice (SOC) labeled the
March 21 murder- of
Michael Donald in
Mobile, Alabama, a
"lynching," and said it
proved anew that "a
resurgence of racism has
reached crisis proportions
in this country.
. "Our national clock
moved back last Saturday
in Mobile to the 1920's,"
SOC said, "and if con-'
cerned citizens, white as
well as black, do not
organize quickly to reverse
the trend, we will find
ourselves back in the
1870's."
The body of Michael
Donald, 19-year-old black
man, was found in the ear
ly morning of March 21,
hanging from a tree near a
Mobile apartment com
plex. He had been beaten
and strangled. Three
young white men have
been arrested and charged
with murder in the case.
Police have stressed the
fact that Donald was ap
parently dead before he
was hanged in a noose
from the tree.
"It doesn't really mat
ter whether this young
man died before or after
he was hanged," SOC
said. "This was clearly a
lynching in the traditional
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Body Found Hanging
From Alabama Tree
lynching shaped the
history pf this country for
so many years?" SOC
, asked. "Between the end
of Reconstruction in 1876,
and the 1960's, there were
more than 5,000 recorded
lynchings :of blacks in our .
: nation.
: "The first sign of a
: return to this pattern
should have produced
banner headlines across
thhe country. Perhaps
some people feel that if we
ignore such a happening it
will go away. The opposite
is true. This nation must
face the truth about the
direction in which it is
civil rights movement.
v "In MobUe itself,
blacks have been barred
' from effective participa
tion in the political pro
cess by city-wide instead
of district voting. When
they challenged that in a
, lawsuit, they were rebuff
headed, so it can dig up ed by the U.S. Supreme
the root of the evil that Court. Meantime, the Ku
produces such a tragedy."
, "The root cause is the
fact that racism has
become respectable again
in the United States," the
organization said.
"National leaders attack
affirmative action and
school desegregation and
imply that blacks and
other people of color are
to blame for the country's
economic problems.
Racist stereotypes have
gained new credibility,
and powerful forces seek
to turn back the gains
blacks made through the
Rally Protests Wave
Of Racial Violence
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By Donald Alderman
RALEIGH Under
bright, sunny skies and
eighty degree
temperatures, a crowd of
nearly 400 people met
Saturday at Raleigh's
Chavis
eluding the Commission
for Racial Justice, Na
tional Black Independent
Political Party, the
Greensboro Black United
Front, and Harambe Stu-
Klux Klan operates
paramilitary training
camps in Alabama, un
challenged by the govern
ment." All of this, SOC said,
creates an atmosphere in
which racist violence has
grown. "The end result of
racism is always murder
and genocide," the
organization declared.
"In a society where racism
has become socially accep
table again, it is inevitable
that lynching will also
become socially accep
table." SOC called on citizens,
both black and white, to
unite to deal with the
situation. "There must be
swift action at all govern
ment levels to halt the
racist violence," the
organization said. "But
also there must be a
massive new campaign to
destroy the racist myths
that divide our country.
All persons who have
helped perpetuate those.,
myths, or have sat silent as
they have spread, must
dent Union, NCCU.
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Council Votes 'NO' Power Rate Hike
By Trellie L. Jeffers
Despite pleas to the City
Council, Monday night,
April 6, by representatives
from the local Council of
Senior Citizens, the Na
tional Council of Senior
Citizens, the Durham Peo
ple's Alliance, and the
Durham Congregation in
Action, the City Council
voted 7-5 not to authorize
its attorney to intervene
on behalf of its citizens in
a request for a 19.7 rate
increase by Duke Power.
The council voted instead
to send a resolution
stating that it supported
the Durham citizens in its
opposition to the re
quested rate increase.
Before the meeting
began, Samuel Reed,
President of the National
Council of Senior
Citizens, distributed infor
mation showing that Duke
Power had a net income of
$311 million in 1980, a $27
million increase from
1979.
Reed said that Duke
Power's request was based
on "greed rather than
heed" as it has claimed.
Dr. C. E. Boulware,
representing what he call
ed "thousands and
thousands of worship
pers" in the Durham Con
gregation in Action, told
the Council that he felt a
"cloud of rising gloom.".
, He cited the rising cost
of gasoline, cuts in the
food stamp program,
manpower training pro
grams, educational funds,
and legal aid services for
the poor as "those that
paint a picture of gloom."
"Those of us on fixed
incomes are coming closer
to the poor house," said
the former City Council
member.
All of those who spoke
in opposition to the re
quested increase (none
spoke for it) cited the ad
ditional hardship that
such a rate increase will
place on the already
burdened elderly.
Fishbach of the N.C.
Utilities Commission has
reported that utilities com-'
panies across the state are
now beginning to rush the
office for rate increase re
quests in what Fishbach
said was a strategy to get
an increase granted before
the commission has had
ample time to study them.
If an increase is
granted, however, and the
t i
N. C. Commission should
rescind its decision,
customers will be granted
a refund. But Mrs. Eula
Miller, president of the
Council of Senior
Citizens, said this would
be like lending money to
Duke Power, loans which
citizens cannot afford.
The council voted
several months ago to res
cind a policy which would
have given the City At
torney power to intervene
on behalf of Durham
citizens in requests for a ,
rate increase by all utilities
companies.
In other matters, the
council voted to accept a
report from the Durham
Committee on the Affairs
of Black People by John
Hudgins, chairman of the
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.bla'cksNarid other' Third
World people have been
increasing' daily
throughout our country
for the last few years.
Now with the return of the
lynch rope, we have taken
a qualitatively new and
tragic step backward into
darkness."
SOC is a southwide in
terracial network of ac
tivists working in southern
communities for the goals
stated in its name,
economic and social
justice. Its headquarters
are here in Birmingham,
and its co-chairmen are
the Rev. Ben Chavis of
North Carolina and Mrs.
Anne Braden of Ken
tucky. The organization said it
was especially concerned
because most of the na
tional news media have
not given adequate atten
tion to the Mobile event.
"Does our press unders
tand the manner in which
Street, then held an emo
tional rally J;'
They , were com
memorating the 13th an
niversary of the slaying of
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., and protesting the
"wave of racial violence
that is sweeping the coun
try." The one and a half mile
march and rally was spon
sored by the Raleigh Black
United Front.
The marchers waved
banners and signs and
distributed leaflets and
newsletters. "Save The
Children", "Stop Racism
and Racial Violence",
"America Stands For
White", "Wake Up Black
People" were a few of the
slogans on banners and
signs. They chanted
slogans expressing con
cern about contemporary
social problems.
Political and social ac
tivist groups were the at
tending majority, in-
isia the crowdlthanledLT sihilitvv-tbt thai' 'bodv
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Children.'? In outrage to
. recent attacks on blacks
' and racial violence, they
chanted "We're fired up,
can't take any more."
Onlookers and
bystanders often chanted
with the marchers and
some marched along for
several blocks.
The crowd was told of
the many social problems
confronting blacks and
several speakers blasted
current conditions. Con
cerns ranging from racial
violence to the Reagan '
budget cuts proposal were I
aired.
VWe are facing the
grertest economic crisis .
since the Great Depres
sion," a RBUF member
said while attacking the ;
Reagan econornic pro-
gram. "Many elderly and :
poor black? shall suffer
needlessly oecause of an
unsympathetic econom
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in Mobile last Saturday
March 21 J."
SOC noted that the fact
that three men have been
arrested in the case does
not necessarily mean there
will be convictions.
"We are aware of the
pattern of acquittals, or
token sentences, in such
cases," the organization
explained. "There is a
tendency to say juries
often won't convict. But
usually what juries do
depends on how the pro
secution presents a case.
"We are asking our
friends to communicate
with Mayor Gary
Greenough, City Hall,
Mobile, Ala., and
Alabama State Attorney
General Charles Grad
dick, Montgomery, Ala.,
letting them know that the
world will be watching this
case and that this nation
demands serious and ag
gressive prosecution,"
SOC said.
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A youth watches from the window as friends and police file in and out of the home of Timothy Hill, whose mod
covered body was pulled from the Chattahoochee River, March 30. The 13-year-old became the 21st victim la the ct
ty's string of 23 murdered and two missing children. The medical examiner said the youth had suffered "agential
asphyxiation death." UPI Photo