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A statement released by j
s. Melinda Pace, president i
the Tenants' Organiza>n,
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SATURDAY, MAY 14,
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The NAACP held its
innual Freedom Fund Banquet
last week but instead of
learing the usual words of
praise the more than 2,000
ittendants were told of the
ack of progress the black
jommuftity^-has-made^ ?r
T. Willard Fair, Director
)f the greater Miami Urban
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erms in describing the
jrocess by which 4diggers'\
lave moved through 4'the
colored" era, the Negro era,
o the black era.'' We have
lot progressed... we have
etrogressod, Fair said.
4 4 The black community of
Winston-Safam?j not
nade any substantial propose
in the la3t 40 yeais,"
?air charged, He_cited the
)olice force as one example.
- When 20 percent of the
x>Uce force is^ black and :8G ?
Percent of the people going
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grievances as: 1) Conditions
of Apartments; 2) Unfair
Lease Provisions ? The
tenants want a one year
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to jail are black; that^ ain't
progress."
"Until we change the flow
of money/V. Fair warned,
4 4we ain't about nothing.'' In
addition, he said there are
some blacks here who have
made it. But, *'There are no
new niggers with new money
in this town. Progress will
occur_ when some more
people get_ some of 4he
money.
"The only way you can
measure race progress is to
compare present self with
former self. We still have^
more unemployed niggers in?
the town than ever. Progress
has not been for black folks
but for individual blacks."
Fair warned that_ blacks
will have to penetrate two
areas in order to make
progress. These areas being
politics and economics^ He
urged blacks to take control
of local politics and vote. Not
just out of anger and hate, he
said, but because and
awareness of the political
Mrs. Jones Goes to Washingt
White House Conference on 1
Mary Sloat
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Mrs. Mary Sloan Jones of
Winston-Salem will be a
delegate at the first White
House Conference on Handicapped
Individuals May
23-27 in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Jones, whom former
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Success
, process is essential^ l__
'Money is needed in the
community to build schools
and reads and that's done
through the county commissioners."
In addition r14 We
must create an economic
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uase in me oiacK community,
We must become employer^
instead of employees." ??
Creating air economic base?
in the cornmimity would
mean that money would stay
in the community a little
longer.
The annual selection of the
Mother of the Year was also
held.?Mrs. Bonnie?Young?
was named for 1977.
Runnerup in the contest was .
Mrs. Sally Savage, Mrs.
Bertha?Parks,?Mrs. Ida
Pauling, Ms. Ricky Wilson
and Ms. Delores Wall.
Patrick Hairston, President
?of ?the?N AACP.
presented Mrs. Laura B.
Smalls, Dr. J.T. McMillan,
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George Reddy, Dr. Kenneth
R. Williams, Mrs. Helen
Falls and Charles McLean
with awards.
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on -- as delegate to the first
Handicapped.
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mayor M.C. Benton used to
call the "Ninth Alderman",
is well-known for her civic
work on behalf of the
handicapped and the elderly.
She is an organizer and
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