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ilike ’84, Black Share Of
rimary Votes Levels Off
YORK (AP) — Although
;);son has been dramatical-
■ssful in the Democratic
i this year, analysts say he
repeated a major ac-
mentof his 1984 presiden-
maign: expanding the black
ifthe vote.
fcears ago, Jackson drew a
Igher blxk turnout in many
Blacks made up a fifth of the
iatic electorate in Ohio, up
liercent in 1980; a sixth in
iJania, also up from 8 per-
t while he has drawn
iktic crowds, expanded his
pmong whites and raised
Jpiare of the black vote this
md, he has not galvanized
:ks to register and vote,
rst candidacy brought a lot
ack voters to the polls,
as a clear pattern of in
black participation," said
Idivs poll analyst John Bren-
|at pattern is not repeating
is year."
[voter turnout is crucial for
ocrats because blacks
ip one of their core voting
l^ategists say Jackson could
he Democrats’ chances if he
fcliver an expanded black
She general election - and
e^party’s odds if he should
tags black support of the
wing the primary results so
le major implication is that
nnot expect an unusual black
iAis year," said independent
Jeter Hart •
the Democrats are counting
K oportionate black turnouL
0 be it’s going to be dif-
to achieve," Hart said. "If
n’t achieve it when there’s
! ne-to-one relationship, it’s
ikely to happen when it’s
to-one relationship."
n increased black voting
14 through massive voter
Mon drives. He has not con-
pich intensive drives this
nd exit polls in many states
E d the black vote virtually
I from 1984 as a share of
the electorate.
CBS News-New Yoik Times
polls said blacks made up 19 per
cent of the Democratic voters in
Ohio last month, compared to 20
percent in 1984; in Pennsylvania,
16 percent this year, 17 percent in
19^4; in New York, 24 percent this
year, 24 percent in 1984.
ABC News poll results have
been similar. "In Illinois, despite
the publicity about the crowds that
greeted Jackson, black turnout ac
tually was down a bit from 1984,"
said Brennan. "It was steady in
Pennsylvania, steady in Ohio, down
a bit in Indiana, up a bit in New
York."
Polls have shown sizable in
creases in some states: in Georgia,
blacks made up 35 percent of the
turnout in the NBC-Times poll, up
from 28 percent in 1984. in Ala
bama, though, an NBC News pall
said blacks made up 32 percent in
1988, little changed from 30 per
cent in 1984.
In many cases, more blacks may
have voted this year than in 1984,
but not in numbers any greater than
the increase of other voters,
pollsters noted.
Another issue for Democrats is
whether black turnout may fluc
tuate in the general election as it
has in the primaries, or is more
likely to remain stable. In 1984,
some analysts expected a greater
share of bl^ks, newly energized by
Jackson, to vote Democratic in No
vember, Brennan said. But blacks
made up 8 percent of the general
election vote, down a point from
1980 and three points below their
share of the voting age population.
The 1984 general election may
be a poor example, pollster Hart
said, "because that wasn’t a fight
that was turning a lot of people on."
Still, he said he was surpri^ that
Jackson has not broadly boosted
black voters’ electoral share this
year.
"At just lets you know institu
tionally how difficult it is," Hart
said. "Even one man as good as he
is isn’t able to disproportionately
shift the electorate."
NEA PRESIDENT MARY
HATWOOD FUTRELL deUvers
what has been described by many
as one of the most inspiring com
mencement addresses heard at
NCCU in years.
Durham Police Chief Hampton Sees Local
Shelter For Battered Women As Asset
lACP Calls For Boycott
Of Atlanta Banks
ANTA (AP) — The
IP’s Atlanta chapter says it
Me its account with Citizens
pem National Bank and is
a boycott and federal inves-
nlof the city’s white-owned
ial institutions.
Jctions were prompted by a
of newspaper articles sug-
g; the banks rarely make
ns in black or integrated
hoods, regardless of in-
itement released Monday,
resident Julian Bond and
|ye secretary Narvis Grier'
leeffect of the bank’s actions
fng less than the purposeful
Jon of black Atlanta, the
^hg of the white noose
lihe center city, and a
Mil
"So these customers are going to be
seeing more aggressive competition
for their business in the near fu
ture."
A Trust Company Bank official
said the NAACP statement should
not apply to it.
"Our position is that we do not
discriminate in the extension of
credit on the basis of race," said
Wade T. Mitchell, executive vice-
president of the bank.
"All you’ve got to do is come
into our main office and sit and
watch for about 30 minutes, and
you tell me if we discriminate," he
said.
By Jim Wicker
When members of the local
Coalition for Battered Women and
Mayor Wib Gulley gathered in
Northgate Mall last Friday to
launch a campaign to acquire a
shelter for Durham, Police chief
Trevor Hampton gladly gave his
support to the project
"Domestic violence is a problem
that crosses all segments of
society," says Hampton, a veteran
law enforcement officer although
he only recently became the head
of Durham’s police force.
Uneducated women from pool
and under-privileged backgrounds
and communities are not the only
ones who are battered: the problem
also extends into the homes of the
educated in middle-class and even
wealthy neighborhoods, says
Hampton, who saw the problem
first-hand during the years that he
worked as a pattol officer.
"This shelter will be an asset, a
needed resource, for the com
munity," Hampton said shortly be
fore he joined the mayor in cutting
a ribbon to officially kick-off the
fund-raising campaign.
Spokesmen for the coalition for
Battered Women, Inc., said they
got more than 60 calls for help in
the past year from women who had
been beaten or threatened by
violent spouses.
Hampton says the setting up of a
shelter in Durham will be a help to
police, as well as to the many vic
tims of domestic assault.
"It will give us (police) a place to
take or refer battered women who
need protection," the chief says, ex
plaining the coalition presently has
only a small shelter in Orange
County, which is not only several
miles outside the city but in
adequate in size.
(TllKI TULA OK HAMPTON
Officials of the coaliliim said the
$150,000 fund drive will enable the
local chapter ic buy a suitable
house in Durham that can provide
emergency, overnight accommoda
tions for close to two dozen victims
(often a woman also has to flee her
home with her small children dur
ing an outburst of violence).
During the next several days,
members of the public can get a
glimpse of the coalition’s vision by
visiting the "mock" shelter struc
ture on the center stage at
Northgate Mall. Anyone who
desires can mak: a donation to the
shelter by selecting his or her
choice of items needed to furnish
and equip the shelter.
Hampton said he supports the
idea of a local shelter because it
will offer a convenient haven for
victims and will allow them to get
needed counseling and other help.
Also, it will help place victims in
a better position to get the protec
tion from violence that the law can
provide, if the spouses who assault
them arc prosecuted.
Many times, the chief says.
women will call in the police, file
charges in arrest warrants against
the men who beat them, but when
the case comes to court, the victims
ask that the charges be dropped.
"I’ve had it happen to me" as a
patrol officer, Hampton recalls, ad
ding he thinks battered women who
drop charges do so out of fear and
"to protect the economic situations
of their children and themselves."
But by having a shelter—even a
temporary place of protection from
violence—the victims may be en
couraged to let their assailants ex
perience the negative implications
of the court, thereby giving the law
a chance to function against men
who batter their women, Hampton
says.
Members of the coalition, point
ing out that battering is the single
greatest cause of injury to Amer
ican women, say statistics reveal
that 25 percent of all married
women "will be severely beaten by
their husbands."
Although it doesn’t seem rea
sonable to the rational individual, it
has been found that "batterers often
plan their assaults." Also, it is
pointed out that emotional, eco
nomic and sexual abuses "always
accompany physical battering.”
Reiterating the police chief’s
statement that all segments of
society are affected, members of he
coalition say "battering occurs at
every income level, among all races
and all religious denominations.
Battering occurs in Durham, in
Carrboro, in Chapel Hill, in
Hillsborough."
The coalition says "women who
stay in shelters learn that they are
not alone, that their experiences are
similar" to others and that silence
and isolation forced on them by the
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®ing of the hopes and
is of generations of hard-
Charlotte NAACP Official
ng citizens."
ficials at Atlanta’s largest
[.denied any intentional dis-
Btion and promised to i.m-
jservice in black com-
Social Services Worker Sues County For Discrimination
kNationa! Association for the
praent of Colored People
ils supporters to withdraw
Jtjnds from banks cited as
i^ieg discrimination.
called upon local, state
I eral officials to prohibit
inking practices by with-
ng public funds from such in-
ons.
Jd told The Atlanta Constitu-
^siatement applied to every
IdJ'ued bank and savings and
uXUanta.
vivhile, bank officials asked
^tomers not to overreact to
Jkles in the Constitution and
paper. The Atlanta Jour-
'i® feeling i
S o among many bank-
® of missed opportunities,"
a spokesman Dallas Lee.
CHARLOTTE (AP) — A Meck
lenburg County Social Services De
partment employee has sued the
county for more than $1 million,
claiming she has been racia'ly dis
criminated against because of her
involvement with the NAACP.
Valerie Woodard’s lawsuit, filed
in U.S. District Court in Charlotte,
claims she has been denied promo
tions, suspended and demoted be
cause of her membership and ac
tivities with the NAACP.
Ms. Woodard, a 35-year-old of
fice assistant, describes herself in
the suit as ”an active and vocal”
member of the NAACP. She's a
vice president of the NAACP’s
Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
branch.
Ms. Woodard, who earns
$17,433 a year, is seeking
$1,050,000 in damages. She claims
her constitutional rights have been
violated and she has suffered pain,
humiliation and embarrassmenk
The NAACP’s Charlct'e-
Mecklcnburg County branch l as
contributed SI,000 to help Ms.
Woodard pay for her legal battle
against the county, said Kelly
Alexander Jr., president of the
NAACP in North Carolina.
Ms. Woodard began working for
the social scpuces department in
November 1980 as a clerk typist
The suit says she sought a
promotion to caseworker more than
50 times in the next 3 1/2 years.
She was promoted to that position
in May 1984, but was suspended 12
months later, and according to the
suit her bosses recommended that
she be terminated.
Following a grievance hearing,
.Ms. Woodard was reinstated but
demoted to a clerk typist and her
salary lowcrcu, tlic sua alleges.
in July 1986, after clerk-typist
po.iitions were elimir.aivu,
Wcodard was rcclacslf.cd tc .x of
fice assistant, the suit says.
Woodard claims the reclassifica-
a was a demotion, and that she
was denied raises in 1986 and 1987
ali'.i being unfairly rated in her job
..erformance reviews.
The lawsuit re ties as defendants
Mecklenburg County, County
Manager Jerry Fox, Ed Chapin, the
Social Services Department’s
director, and three social services
department supervisors.
Fox and Chapin could not be
reached Monday.
Louis Farrakhan Defends Cokely;
Bernardine May Enter Fray
CHICAGO (AP) — A former
aide to Mayor Eugene Sawyer,
fired for making anti-Semitic com
ments, is getting support from con
troversial minister Tthe Rev. Louis
Farrakhan.
Farrakhan, leader of the Nation
of Islam faith, told about 4(X)
people Tuesday night that some
■„Ack aldermen—not Sawyer
should be blamed for Steve Coke-
ly’s dismissal because they
wouldn’t defend him.
"What (Cokely) said was printed,
not the total context" Farrakhan
said. "And immediately some of
our black leaders said ‘fire him, fire
him.”'
Farrakhan aimed some of his
harshest rhetoric at Aldermen Tim
Evans and Dorothy Tillman, ack
nowledged Sawyer foes, and
Alderman Danny Davis.
"The shame of Tim Evans," Far-
lakhan said. "He waited until the
time was just right and he yelled,
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