I / ?V \ V ROOT/ ^ ^ of BIKK ^ cWinstori - Salem'. 1 v . X " * ^ ? -.1 Civil Ri&h CF" Demonstrations to end lunoh counter segregation began in February 1960 and ended thr^months later as major?downtown arug stores desegregated their counters. By January 1964 Winston-Salem was an open city with those, refusing to serve to blacks being the exception. The Winston-Salem Chapter of the NAACP was instrumental in bringing out - numerous changes including desegregation of recreational facilities and . racial discrimination in hiring. In 1962 two NAACP leaders., Dr. J. Raymond Oliver, Jr. and Dr. F. W. Jackson, demanded that Reynolds Park Skating rink be desegregated. The rink was a pub ? r ? - lie raciitty and they thought it should be desegregated. A Goodwill Committee was* appointed to study demands for desegregating Reynolds Park Skating rink. Dr. Kenneth Williams, Rev. Jerry Drayton and Attorney Curtis Todd were the blacks on the committee. The Committee was first set up in I960 to meet problems arising From the sit-ins. The second committee was set up after blacks tried to integrate the skating rink and the third during the summer of 1962 after blacks successful attempt to integrate the city's swimming pools and? cei tain other-park facilities. Panthei Malloy: Organizer jisonMalloy happening in the communiI got involved in the ty, and what could be done Black Panther Party in if anything to alleviate 1969. Leading up to my some of the "conditions of involvement, I was a stu- police brutality, indecent dent at Winston-Salem housing, there was a lot of ?University!?I -worked -one -ControvenTjrwittT tJre^schooh summer in a program with system, with the Ku Klux other college students that Klan running around^ unworkec" different cities employment and those around North Carolina, things. Low-income neighbor- Just an informal group of hoods., and basically we guys. There were some were trying to organize guys in Greensboro there around welfare rights, un- were with A&T, and had paved streets, unemploy- belonged to the Black Panment, just organize people ther Chapter in New York. I and help them to get things forget whit exactly hapthey were entitled to by pened but we made contact being citizens of the United with them and they gave us Stales. some of the idealogy, some After this particular sum- books, and we started from mer, this program had a that particular point there. profound effect on me. I a ser^es of ra^" worked in Goldsboro, N.C., lies, wherebout we would and ran into a lot of people g? into a neighborhood who had no indoor plumb- where we would speak in ing. Three or four families open fields or in the streets, would have to use the same At that particular time we spigots outdoors^ This was wore black* berets, black 1968. Streets weren t paved jackets and we openly earin the neighborhoods and ried weapons, shot guns, the only type of employ- 'rifles which were legal weament black people had, like pons. This drew attention they worked in the tobacco to the group in Winston-Safields. This was seasonal lem. work and for the most part As a result of these they were unemployed. meetings, we would tell This put something in my - people what our platform mind. I needed to do some- program was and this drew - thing immediately to help attention with our dress _my people. So about a year and the manner which we later, I became involved carried ourselves; they had with the Black Panther never seen this before. Party. We were trying to say The Black Panther Party that black people had a started in Winston-Salem right, a constitutional right, in the summer of 1969 so I to bear arms and that it was got in Almost from the legal. That was the basic beginning. There was a message we were trying to bunch of guys here in get across, tnat we would Winston-Salem who had defend ourselves, that we organized themselves or would no longer be subject were talking about organiz-^ to attacks^ physical attacks ing themselves to do some- of abuse. thing in the black commu- Contrary s to beliefs of nity. ? most people, the Party has i was in that particular never been a mass mem7~I,,g* Q" tefSTtifr afiganlzatluri. Nry"***7 typt' iff grrmp jwSffl sit down and talk. about different things that were See Pmge 8 \ % 1960-70: Tht This week the Roots of Black Winston-Salem -covers the turbulent 60's. This was the time that the Civil rights movement was in full swing. There were sit-ins, demonstrations and a new change in tne way of life for blacks. * During this time many restaurants, hotels and stores previously closed to * blacks were now opening their doors, some quite reluctantly. This week the Chronicle talked to Carl Russell,. Sr. a long time alderman and leader in the community. He talks about his stay on the board and the changes he has witnessed in Winston-^ Salem through the years. Russell also talks about his past political career and his plans for the future in politics. Russell gave up his seat to ruiTfor mayor, afld aTthougfr he won ? in the primary, he lost in. the run-off. During the ts Movement * CT In 1963 blacks were able to integrate a park and two swimming pools in the summer of 1963 without arrests. * Wmston-Salem cornimred^to operate Its pools despite a 1 t p m nririni ? -? ?1.1 * ~ -aa 1 ivuuuiuii in wiiuc auenaance. In the area of employment biacks were hired at Hanes Hosiery, a firm they had never been employhed above the level of maids and janitors. It was in 1963 that Gordon Hanes, _ president of Hanes Hosiery announced that the Company would hire blacks as machine operators. Winston-^alem had the highest percentage of Negroes employed in manufacturing of any city in the South, and blacks had the highest family incomes in the area. According to the 1960 census, tHe median family income for blacks was $3,254. Twenty-two per cent of .22 per cent of the black families earned over $5000 .the median years of school completed for blacks were 7.8 years .8.9 per cent had some college education .12 per cenfof the work force workedirTwhitecollar jobs. EDUCATION The Winston-Salem school system integrated in 1957? r_ Leaders Tel I I IflU ^r -w -^?. ^7 ?jfc ?/ *''- J^ilj 3 1N| -g^? ^wjjk^B ^L. ^IRA' ^^V^IH^K^H> fl^hkJ MH M II Jii " 7~t r :^H Nelson Malloy Former . ? r I* jssssSss^ w &? <?W ?^r <** , ^M-ACK5t?M0ClD?l ?^_\mh ti&ijmf A..A>v5m.\?saij*w ' * *' vfilrJ^^SM BEcTTPanthers test chTWr > ? ? \ t i Civil Rights The Chronicle also explores the involvement ot two leaders of the Black Panther Party. We talked to former leader Nelson Malloy and recorded his experiences as a Black Panther. We also talked to Larry Little, former Black Panther leader and presently alderman of the North Ward. Excerpts from their taped interviews were used. We also took a look at 'the demise of Kate Bitting Reynolds Hospital as a hospital, and the additional role the NAACP played in- the Civil Rights Movement in Winston-Salem. During the 60's in Winston-Salem blacks made political as well as economical gains. In the mid 60's there were three blacks on the school board compared to none today. We also examined the~effect the consolidation of the city-county schootsjhad on blacks. : begat Chan; when they granted one of four transfer requests which they had received from black students. Desegregation upon request continued^through to the^%3^>4 school year. Three of the eight requests received in 1958 were granted. During the 1962-63 school year only 19 black pupils attended previously white public shcools. The transfer policy permitted granting transfers only when the black student lived closer to a white school thanlo-a black school he was attending. All white pupils attending an integrated school had the option oT transferring out. Winston-Salem and Forsyth County schools consolidated in Januarv 1963. The countv school ?vstpm u/hirh . C """J W % * TT " " " ^ " included all students living outside the city of Winston-Salem was integrated. The great geographic area of the county had created genuine hardships on black children. 4 The city-county school board had three members, one-fourth of the 12-man board. This was the highest ratio of blacks to whites on any major North Carolina governmental board or commission. The newly constituted board then changed assignment policies to allow any pupil to attend the school nearest his home without special board approval. trr~ t I the Impact m m J ^Bl v ^%*\ A &> % *L * r* V ttf W 5 I fl ill ^L II (J t Mr ^V* ^*. pH I Leaders ^"v ^e utym|H^ m rl HI ' ft 1 < j 1 i cK I feATM flgiagWif^llgmrSr^ ? ? ? c M??iM?immmmm? f The Chrooicic, Saturday Marcfe 24, 1979- P?f? 5 Movement 1 up our Roots of Black Winston-Salem. This series would not have been possible without the assistance and cooperation of those who have made information available to us. We hope that you have found the Roots of Black Winston as interesting and enlightening as we have. We hope we have helped to uncover the untold story and expounded on information that had been neglected in the past. Next week we will close with the 70's and try to examine the progress blacks have made since colonial times. Whether we have progresses or regressed is still a question left to be answered. jIf you have history that you would like to share, , "I let us recorcTiTtirour last installment information that we have on the history of black 1 ~ 5e in W-S 1964 the .board approved the assignment of all first j _ -? * ' * * graaers \o tne scnoois nearest their homes without During the 1964-65 school year, 13 out of 42 elementary schools in the county were integrated. KATE BITTING REYNOLDS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL By 1959 most of Winston-Salen^s top leaders had agreed that a new hospital was needed in the area. To construct a new hospital would require a substantial increase in the city's bond indebtedness. The bonds would have to be submitted to the county's voters in a referendum. * _ There was some difficulty in securing the black vote because the white^leaders would not state that the new hospital would be integrated. Instead a plan was devised to offer blacks the City Memorial Hospital in exchange for support by blacks. "The city hospital had been condemned as a hospital and they wanted to give blacks a condemned hospital," J said Dr. F. W. Jackson a NAACP - leader. ? "The NAACP fought it." R1 3pVc 11' r> ro finallti n ~ Ul ? ~ t- L ! a _ 1 _ I ? w.xvnd nviv 11IIU1IJ piuiilistu O 1ICW UlttCK UU$pil<llS 111 exchange for suppdrt. The bond carried and plans were ~~macteTo build Forsyth Memorial Hospital. of Party Little: Manchild tS I played a role. My role in I loved it all because I he community was not to had read Malcolm, I had :ake no s--t. Was to enforce read Mao Tse-Tung, I had the demands of the black read Kwame Nkrumah. community, even if it Lord, it just blew my mind. meant putting my life on 1 said hey 1 have to be a part the line, and many times I of these (black people), and jusohat;? ? r it was that thmfrtharmad^= When I couldn't gradu- nie attracted to the Panate from high school my thers. senior year, I left town in \ saw a couple of guys I 1969, and went to New knew. I sAiri rm/ ran 1 ir*i? , - ? V > V VMli A JVliJ York. And when I got up Up, man?' They told me it there I read the autobiogra- just wasn't that easy and to phy of Malcolm X. When I check with them. So I would read Malcolm's autobiogra- check with them. And the phy things seemed clear for next thing they had a me. I was conscious that I meeting, it was on a Sunwas black. I had partici- day at a church on Thurpated in the riots. Basically mond Street. Homes MeI was an athlete at a white thodist Church, and they school and because I felt I said, come on and join, had been exploited, I was I joined on May 19, which upset. was Malcolm's birthday. I After reading Malcolm's started going to the politiautobiography, I pursued cai education meetings, an intellectual campaign of an(j \ was what' you call a my own, educating myself, pit, a Panther in training. I was like a dry sponge that At the political education you pour water on, I soaked meetings they would go it up so quick. I learned to over the red book, Mao jse my mind, my imagina- Tse-Tung's quotations, I tion and creativeness. had read it so I knew it. I finally after six months So they said, YouV a 3r so came back to Win- pretty well-read brother but ston-Salem, where I had s^\\\ remains to be seen begun to read all the time, how tough and how strong Then 1 got a job^at Hanes yOU are. So we had tramps 1 t *? * i^yc anu nnisn, l jngt we would go lip on job, probably because I was Paisley's football field and in the'Panthers.* work out and train for Once I was reading in my hours. Start at 7 o'clock in room, like I usually did, I ^e morning and work until would read for hours at a 12. We would be walking time. At about 4 o'clock 1 on our stomachs, doing got up to take a walk. I was running drills; we would Staying with my mom. run for four miles and it When I turned the corner a was that sort of thing. girl came running to me \ was very good physicalsaying, "There's black men jyt good athletic person; I with shot guns, them black could dp all the training so men , with shot guns, people started admiring. they're going to vtear up me> They brought me up something." I said where? ancj macje me the LieutenShe said down there at the ant 0f information. 1 sold end of the street. t started papers! T was good at running down there. Lo and selling papers. behold 1 saw these black j was going to school at brothers with these black Winston-Salem State, I wa* gmfarw H&ncsi>yy P^l > ??~ in tb(-TT-t^ly44uuliuK Mai ^ni<;h ami it WHV^ftrnir^ colm, quoting Mao. Tse- ^ Tung, Nkrumah. Se? Page 6 / /

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