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Jackson Pushes 1
i By RUTHELL HOWARD
Staff Writer
DURHAM ? When the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to
town last Sunday afternoon, he, like those in the pulpit
before him, came with a message. But Jackson's sermon
was not so much on spiritual salvation as it was on
political salvation.
"A sin is ... not using your vote," Jackson said to an
audience at White Rock Baptist Church that had patiently
awaited his arrival for nearly three hours.
Jackson, national president of Operation PUSH (People
United to Serve Humanity), reminded the ministers in
attendance, "Reverend, you'd be surpised how many
deacons you've got that are unregistered, how many
(unregistered) congregation members are sitting there
Uphill Battle
Inmate Fights For Custi
By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
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daughter, Toshiba, and her seven-year-old half-brother,
Derrick.
But Olverson's fight is a little different from that of
just any father trying to retain parental rights.
Olverson has been fighting from a jail cell.
"When I came into the prison system, I left my
girlfriend pregnant/' Olverson, 28, says as he sits in a vacant
office at the Forsyth Advancement Center on Cherry
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_Xhe_ visit to. White Rock in Durham was part of
Jackson's Southern Voter Registration Crusade in North
Carolina, whfch covers Raleigh, Wilson, Rocky Mount,
Enfield, Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte, Fayetteville
and Wilmington and includes rallies at churches and high
schools. It was also part of a larger voter registration
crusade in five Southern states that could lead to Jackson
entering the 1984 presidential election.
While Jackson did not disclose his political plans
outright, he hinted, "When you run, you may lose, but if
you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose."
Jackson said there is a strong need for an increase in
the number of black registered voters in the South, and
especially among black teen-agers.
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7dy Of His Children
Street. 44In here, all I could think about was, when I get
out, how I am going to spend time with mv little
daughter."
But Olverson's dream changed course when he received
a letter from the Department of Social Services in August
of 1979, informing him that his daughter had been placed
in an adoptive unit and that a family was interested in
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"It hurt me when I saw that letter asking me to give
away my daughter/* Olverson says. "Tread it and read
it, but I couldn't sign it. And they (the DSS) were certain
that I would sign it." '
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
Although there are no riots on Liberty Street, as there
were in August of 1975 and July of 1974, the relationship
between police and the black Winston Salem community?
is not what many think it should be.
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i.ioi aui/jvki nas uccn uiuawucu again in ngm oi a recent
scuffle between Kimberly Park residents and black
and white police officers in which witnesses allege that officers
were belligerent and used unnecessary force and
abusive language while arresting a man for drinking in
public.
"I had thought the relationship was good between the
police and the black community," says Northeast Ward
Alderman Vivian Burke, who also chairs the aldermanic
Public Safety Committee. "But in recent months, I don't
have the same feeling. Some people feel the police department
is not fair in the black community. And I'm con- '
cerned about the way the police react to situations in the?
black community."
Burke refuses to be specific as to what incidents she
NAACP Opposes
By ROBIN ADAMS
_ Staff Writer
Unless certain changes are made in the ^organizational
plans the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board
Of tdlucahon is considering, the NAACP will ask the
black community to vote against a bond referendum to
finance the plans.
"They (school board) forgot we are over here," said
Walter Marshall, vice president of the NAACP, in a recent
telephone interview.
"Those plans are worse than the others," he said.
"They overlooked us altogether. They were trying to appease
everybody but us."
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was referring to, but says that most of them deal with the
way police treat black people charged with driving under
the influence.
"1 talked with (Police) Chief (Lucius) Powell about
these incidents, but the chief always tells me that the
police have acted property;** Burlce^aysT^and this con"They
try to outnumber us. Just like hunting
rabbits, they come over here trigger-happy and
try to show their force. "
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cerns mc. The police arc only human and I'm sure that, in
some of the incidents, they make mistakes.**
Burke says that she has worked with both Chief Powell
and former Police Chief Thomas A. Surratt and finds
that, while the two are similiar, there are very visible differences.
"Chief Surratt tried to build a relationship in the black
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School Proposals
Marshall expressed his organization's displeasure with
two plans the^oard considered at its May 16 meeting. =
In both of the plans, most of the elementary schools jn
me predominantly black neighborhoods would be closed.
In the first plan, which uses eight geographic districts,
Ashley, Brown, Cook, Diggs, Kimberly Park and
Lowrance elementary schools would not be used.
In the second plan - the one the board tentatively
chose to use on Monday and which uses independent
district lines, drawn separate of the eight high school"
districts ? Brown, Cook, Diggs, Petree and Skyland
elementary schools would not be used.
Dr. Jim Sifford, director of research for the school
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Newell Lambasts
Local Democrats
By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
The local Democrats, who like theirs to be known as a
party for all of the people, are turning out to be a party
for some of the people when it comes to performing important
decision-making tasks, charges Virginia Newell,
East Ward alderman.
Newell, in a letter last week to Joseph Parrish, chairman
of the Forsyth County Democratic Executive Committee,
charged that blacks are overlooked when important
positions on the party's executive committee are filled.
"My concern is over the apparent design here in Forsyth
County to keep blacks from being elected to
chairperson of the executive committee," Newell writes
in the letter. When black Democrats are elected to positions
on the executive committee, Newell continues, they
are given "only menial tasks and are not free to function
in the position."
"Black Deonle have been nut in thnse nositions and
they have never gone on up to be chairperson," Newell
said in a recent telephone interview.
At the April 30 county Democratic convention.
Secretary Earlene Parmon, a black woman, did not call
the roll, a usual function of a secretary, Newell said. "I
questioned this at the meeting and I was told that calling
the roll is the usual function of the chairman?" she said.
One function that Parmon did carry out, Newell noted,
was to pin name tags on some of the guests.
She added that Second Vice Chairman Shedrick
Adams, the only other black member on the executive
committee, serves as a "doormat."
There have been black people who were elected vice
Please see page 5