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By ROBIN ADAMS
Stuff Writer
Before the 1982 primaries, an ad hoc group
< of black leaders from a spectrum of local
organizations met to "fill a leadership vacuum
in the black community."
The group named itself the Black Leadership
- Roundtable and endorsed a slate of local and
state candidates who it felt were responsive to
the black community.
Though the organization caused quite a stir
then, it has kept a much quieter, lower profile
since. Whatever happened to the Black Leadership
Roundtable? \ /
"We are Still together," said Alderman f Arry
Womble, one of the group's members.
"We were not a formalized, structured-typc
of organization. And this is the way we wanted
Rally Stirs Su]
By JOHN SLADE
Unity and persistence were tb* watcftword
Friday evening as nearly 200 people filled thi
basement of Shiloh Baptist Church to muste
support for an Aug. 27 march marking the 20t)
anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's Marcl
on Washington.
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By ROBIN ADAMS
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After less than five months of operation,
the Neighborhood Justice Center will be
getting a new home, says center director
Paul Cloud.
The center, which mediates cases referred
from the courts, is presently housed in
a rent-free office on the second floor of
Shiloh Baptist Church. But it plans to
move soon to an office at Sunrise Towers
on the corner of File and Ninth streets.
The space will be donated by the
Winston-Salem Housing Authority.
"As soon as the telephone strike is over
6 and we can get the telephones connected
in the office, we will be moving/' says
Cloud.
"We are receiving more cases from the
court system and, in all, the program is
working well. Already we are having an
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to keep it so we could be responsive to any
issues that affected the black community."
Womble said that many of the group's
members are still very* active and have openly
addressed many Issues. "Sometimes we come
out and speak as individuals and sometimes as a
"Sometimes we come out and speak as
individuals and sometimes as a loosely
organized organization."
Alderman Larry Womble
loosely organized organization," Womble said.
?For instance, he noted, members of the Rotmdtable
have been working with city officials t6
! get money allocated for housing.
t "We are doing a lot of other, things," said
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"If you can't go, put your money where your
mouth is - send somebody," said Velma
" Hopkins one of the featured speakers at the
flatty, sJKSMtti lytfr Comity Aug, 27
e Coalition. "We need lo wake up, take hands,
r walk together, pray together, and for God's
i sake, vote together.0
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march in Washington. The buses will leave
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effect on the domestic court cases." /M
When the center opened for mediation
in April, Cloud says, it handled about I
four cases that first month. "Since that I
time, the number of clients has increased I
50 percent each month/' he says. He
estimates that, by the end of August, the 5
center will have handled 35-40 cases for
the month.
"The numbers don't accurately show
how well we are really doing," Cloud |||||
says, "but we have become established in
the community."
Presently, the center handles cases in WXm
which the people involved have an ongoing
relationship either as husband and
wife, boyfriend and * girlfriend, or
neighbors, Cloud says. Four
The courts have been receptive and coast
clients are developing trust in the center, hte ti
he says. Cloud admits he didn't expect so not t
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Victor Johnson, another Roundtable member,
"but we are not publicising what we are doing.
We haven't come public lately with anything,
but we held a meeting two or three weeks ago."
Johnson also said that many "of the group's
members have been meeting to discuss the upcominc
citv-countv hond referendum which
will include a $26.5 million request by the city
for economic development, $7.5 million by the
school system to?finance its reorganization
plans and a possible $4.5 million by Forsyth
Technical Institute to finance its expansion.
4'We are not dead/' Johnson said. 41 We are
just not publicizing anything."
A third Roundtable member, Clifton Graves,
^saichthat the group was conceived as an ad hoc
committee with one specific goal in mind: "We
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Northside Shopping Center Friday, Aug. ?^at
midnight and return Saturday at jnidrfijht.
Roundtrfp tickets are $25.
The rally, which began ar 7 p.m. and lasted
more than three hours, was termed 44an important
meeting" by North Ward Alderman Larry
Little. But he cautioned his listeners not to end
_ their push for jobs, peace and_treedom - thc_
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^ Sfq/y Writer
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Board's Choice
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before an overflow audience Monday
night, to keep open both Forest Park and
Old Town elementary schools and to close
seven others.
The board voted to close Anderson
High School, which has been sold to
Winston-Salem State University; Ardmore,
Brown, Ferguson and Skyland
Elementary schools; and North Intermediate
and Dalton Junior High
School, which will be sold to Forsyth
Technical Institute.
Lowrance, Petree, Cook, Diggs, Griffith
and Jefferson will be retained for
other uses.
The Monday night special meeting was
a public hearing, and, of the 20 people
who signed up to speak, half were black.
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was the closing of all the elementary
schools in predominantly black
neighborhoods.
"Our small children are bused in grades
K-4 out of the black community, and then
they are bused four more years and they
continue to be bused/' said Velma
Hopkins.
"We feel deceived," said NAACP Vice
President Walter Marshall. "Had this
olan been nroDOsed in *78. we would still
be under court order. The black community
is still invisible.
44It's quite interesting that you never
mentioned closing (R.J.) Reynolds
(Senior High School). But it's so easy to
come into the inner city and knock them
(schools) down. You closed 14th Street
School, and before the people knew it,
you had knocked it down."
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