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I By R UTHELL HO WA RD
Staff Writer
Several city workers, who have asked
not to be identified, allege that there is
discrimination against black employees in
their department.
The workers said a group is considering
I fihng an Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission suit against the city if their
grievances cannot be ironed out.
Other individual employees threaten to
file their own lawsuits, saying they have
been discriminated against.
What prompted the employees to conI
sider stfcKjactions are racial problems that
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By EDWARD HILL JR.
Staff Writer
Sweltering summer temperatures not
only can be uncomfortable and irritating,
they can kill, says a local physician.
One culprit is heat exhaustion, which
occurs when the body loses large amounts
of fluids and salts that are not replaced.
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have been brewing for years, they said.
The employees, who work in the water
and sewer unit of the City of WinstonSalem
fs Utilities Division, charged that
black workers aren't given the same opportunities
for training and advancement j
that are given to whites who haven't been |
in the unit as long.
The employees also complained that I
there are black workers who have been in \
the department for a number of years who ?
started out as laborers and are still j
laborers despite efforts to get better jobs. I
Through classes taught by city staff
members, laborers can learn to become <
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tion engage in heavy physical activity,
such as road racing and tennis, or work
outside.
"Occasionally, you'll get people who
have been competing in a marathon or
who have played sets of tennis at 2 in the
day who are the victims of heat exhaustion,"
says Dr. Kimbell Johnson of Forsyth
Memorial Hospital.
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Michael Montgomery, 35, chairman of the i
social science department at Winston-Salem c
State University, resigned under pressure last
Friday when school officials discovered he s
did not have the required credentials for the i
post. 1
Montgomery, whose resume indicated 1
that he had a bachelor's degree in sociology
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This article Is the first In an dghl
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?August 25, 1971.
f~ It was the first day of school and no on
had slept the night before. But that's th
sjL> way it is for most students at that time.
The next morning, children, dressed i
new clothes, carrying the finest ne1
nntehnnltc and cnortina nneharnenpH rvr
cils, lined the streets and roads of the cit
|| and county waiting for the bus.
But this school day was unlike an
before it. For the first time, all children i
Forsyth County would be attendin
1 . school together. Integration had come
not by choice, but by force.
On July 21, 1971, Federal Judf
Eugene Gordon had ordered that, by tl
fall of that year, the schools must adopt
Jg* pupil assignment plan that would ma)
u.Tjrialhf school* obsolete,
cluster school plan, adopted the yei
before, where smaller, predominant
white and black elementary schools we
grouped by size and location, became tl
||| model for the 1971 pupil assijhoient pla
Qn July 26, nine daysafter Judge Go
don*s order, the school board, co-chain
^ by William F. Mar cad y and form
\ Superintendent Marvin Ward, had devi
96c ed the present 4-2-2-2-2 (K-4, 5-6, 78
9-10 and 11-12 grade organization) scho
(fe assignment policy. y
The board had previously worked wi
|J| a 6-3-3 (1-6, 7-9, 10-12) plan. The nc
Ife pupil assignment plan, based (
6& mathematical probability, was founde
interestingly enough, at Reynolds Hi{
2 School, in a social studies class.
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By ROBIN ADAMS
S Staff Writer
This article is one in a series pro!
ing local school board members.
Pill "My friends and allies oftentin
IIE* describe me as a fast mover," says Jo
Si S. Holleman Jr., 30, the youngi
member of the Winston-Sal em/Fors}
County Board of Education.
"If I see things 1 believe need to
done, I work hard to accomplish the
goals," he says. And during Hollemai
_ six months on the board, he has manaj
to accomplish most of the things he pi
hoto mised during his campaign.
"I worked to get a dental insurai
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nd a master's degree in criminal justice
rom the University of Cincinnati and a docorate
in sociology from Ohio State Univerity,
actually has only a two-year associate
irts degree from Cincinnati, said a university
>fficial.
WSSU Chancellor Douglas Covington
;aid that Montgomery was hired on recomnendations
from the school's academic affairs
office, which normally ensures that applicants
have the required credentials. A
search committee appointed b% the office's
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and 31 were less than five percent black.
The sparsely integrated schools had come
about as a result of the system's "free
transfer policy," whereby black students
could decide if they wanted to attend a
predominantly whit# school.
ic The free transfer policy, according to
ie Walter Marshall, vice president of the
NAACP, was a hoax.
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n " i ney saia tnai anyooay couia go to
w white schools but no one was encouraged
i- to go. The ones who went were not really
:y welcome," Marshall says. "Free transfer
was a policy to appease the public and to
ty show that a mandate wasn't needed for
n integration."
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n. The new pupil assignment plan was said
f-?to be the "least expensive, least disrup
?d * tive, least burdensome and the most
er equitable plan."
is- But the plan placed most of the burden
8, of desegregation on the black students,
ol Nearly 10,000 of the 14,000 black
students were bused, compared with
th 22,000 of the 32,397 white students. Bus
;w i rides averaged in length from three
)n minutes to an hour and 20 minutes. Black
d, children were bused in grades 1 -4, 7-8 and
gh 11-12, and they attended neighborhood
schools for grades 5-6 and 9-10. White
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plan for the employees; we got a supplemental
salary increase for teachers, a
citizens' advisory council, and we have a
II- reorganizational plan," says Holleman.
But Holleman's term has not been all
roses. In fact, the four-year high school
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hn contains very few of the things Holleman
est fought so hard for.
rth Holleman is an advocate of a K4
neighborhood school system and the
be board endorsed a K-6 grade structure.
>se The board endorsed independent
n's districting, under which the attendance
;ed lines for elementary, middle (grades 6-8)
ro- schools and high schools are drawn independently
of each other, and Holleman
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head, Dr. Arnold Lockett, interviewed applicants
and submitted Montgomery and two
other nominees to Lockett. He then
presented the nominees to Covington, who
made the final decision.
"This is what normally occurs: The
nominees come to me and I make the choice
on the assumption that records and credentials
are in order.'* Covington said in a inter
view Tuesday.
Covington said Montgomery's credentials
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