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By ALLEN JOHNSON * i
Managing Editor
Although 1982 contained the same nilhiber of months,
weeks, days and minutes as the 1,981 years that preceded
it, the year had more than its share of major news stories,
particularly where the black community is concerned.{
Among the noteworthy developments in 1982:
After spending more than two decades on the drawing
board, the East Winston Shopping Center finally
materializes, providing the centerpiece for economic
revival in the^black community. Principals in the center's
success story include East Ward Alderman Virginia; K.
Newell and her Committee To Promote Black Ownership,
Mayor Wayne A. Corpening, the East -Winston
Restoration Association and Minneapolis-based
developer Mark Vieno.
As the grading for the center begins, black, contractors
express concern that they might be excluded from the
! project, but those fears are dispelled and the construction
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As for the hope that the center will be black-owned.
Alderman Newell says efforts to attract enough investors
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to ensure black ownership of the center are continuing
ancTthat she expects that goal to be reached by the end of
June 1983.
Four black candidates score impressive wins in the
Nov. 2 general elections with the black community not
only voting heavily, but selectively, largely avoiding its
traditional tack of supporting the straight Democratic
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ticket. That strategy, many say, is the key to victories by
school board member Beaufort O. Bailey, state House
members C.B. Hauser and Annie Brown Kennedy aftd
County Commissioner Mazie S; Woodruff...
The elections also featured the formation of a vital,
new. organization in the black community. The Black
Leadership Roundtable Coalition, chaired by Alderman
Larry D. Little, works with the NAACP in its voter
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drive, interviews and endorses candidates in
both the primaries and the general election and revels in
triumph late Nov. 2 as all of its endorsed candidates except
one emerge victorious.
The Roundtable may herald the changing of the guard
in the black community's leadership.
A man dubbed the East Winston Bandit makes a bad
crime situation in the black community worse with a string
of armed robberies that baffles police for more than
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ly injure his victims, he fires his gun white fleeing on
more than one occasion and during a school parking lot
robbery knocks a female victim to the pavement *and
kicks her in the head.
The crimes appear to have stopped and any of a
number of suspects arrested on other charges could be the
bandit. But no one can say for certain.
Winston-Salem State University's Coach Clarence
"Bighouse" Gaines is inducted into the Naisraith Basketball
Hall of Fame in May. Gaines is college basketball's
winningest active coach with 688 wins.
The Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen passes a fair
housing ordinance, although dissenting board members
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Bob Northington and Ernestine Wilson maintain that it
isn't needed.
That's a bit like saying you shouldn't keep a fire extinguisher
around because there's no fire.
Three of the town*s promising young black ministers
? G.G. Campbell, Michael Curry and Warner Durnell
? depart for greener pastures.
Some say that it was simply time for change in these
men's lives. Others, including* us, partially blame an ^inflexible,
intolerant, conservative element in WinstonSalem's
black community that strangles new ideas.
The city adopts an affirmative action plan, although
black Aldermen ViviairBurke and Larry Womble vote
against the plan because they feel it isn't strong enough.
The East Winston Restoration Association, under the
l^ari^rchin of ftmrnfl Mill nrm/#nt? th# conversion of the
St. Benedict the Moor convent into a home for emotionally
disturbed Willie M. youth, contending that East
Winston already has too many burdens to bear.
We agree.
The Voice of Minority Contractors and Suppliers,
desperately seeking business for its membership, pickets
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