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To Black ProBy
JOHN SLADE
Assistant Editor
The city-county bond referendum ii
over, with local residents approving th<
$35 million package almost two to one.
But despite the strong support th<
public demonstrated for a package thai
included $23 million to expand the Bentor
Convention Center and finance
downtown revitalization, $7.5 million tc
help pay for the reorganization of th<
city-county school system and $4.!
million to exnand Forsvth Technical In
stitutc, not everyone was satisfied that th<
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
For a developer looking for a lucri
East Winston is a prime market.
White developer Mark Vieno, wh
East Winston Shopping Center, pla
dominiums on Claremont Avenue
Winston Branch of Wachovia Banl
Another group of white developers,
investor, has proposed building an
plex, called Summit Square, on tin
and File streets.
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package adequately addressed the needs
of housing and economic development for
blacks and the poor.
5 Now that the public has spoken, says
Mayor Wayne Corpening, 4'my responsibility
is to carry it (people's decision)
? out, and I'm going to do my best to get
t everybody behind me."
i And what does the bond package,
5 which proponents said was crucial to the
> growth of the city, hold for blacks?
5 "It's difficult to predict what the future
] holds," says Alderman Larry Womble,
who called a press conference three days
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rold' In East \
opened last Nov. 20, is s
handful of black investoi
ticipate in the project,
itive investment, "Everything that come?
gold," says East Ward A
10 developed the "But where is the blacl
ns to build con- developer? Black folk ha
behind the East beginning of time. But wl
c and Trust Co. Newell sums up the fc
, with one black ecutive Mel White, &
apartment com- Association Executive Dir
5 corner of 12th attorney Richard Archil
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By ROBIN ADAMS <
Stctff Writer
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With the exception of some migration to the ?1
northwest and northeast toward Kernersville, _ 1
the majority of black people in Winston-Salem '
still live in a semi-circle around the central city. 1
A comparative study of 1970 and 1980 census '
data (the latest available) shows that, while '
black people have moved to virtually all parts
of the city, the majority still live in East
Winston. The western part of the city near the
city limits and the western part of the center city
are still basically as white as they were 10 years
ago.
But the perimeter of the black community
has extended farther to the east. Black people
have moved outward from the East Winston
area and extended eastward between Interstate
,40 and Walkertown Road toward JCernetsville
into neighborhoods like Winston Lake Estates,
Skyland Park, Carver, Cityview and Lakeside.
ni i. 1- i ....
Diacit peopie nave aiso movea northward into
an area bounded by Polo Road, the North
Cherry Street Extension and the northern city
limits.
Although white resident* still make up the
majority of the population In thai area* wWeh
includes the neighborhoods Stonewall and
Bethabara, the atmiter of black people hat increased
from 336 in 1970 to 2,312 in 19$d.
Thtfe Is a total of 6,857 people in the area.?
Those who have moved from East Winston,
said Southeastward Alderman Larry Womble,
are younger people who have built homes yi the
suburbs. "The older people are pretty close to
where they were 10 years ago," Womble said.
?"The younger people couldn't find decent,
affordable housing in the central city, so they
moved out. But the old guard is still around
town."
Another neighborhood whose numbers of
black residents have grown considerably in the
last 10 years is Easton, bounded by Thomasville
Road, the southeast city limits boundary^Old
Lexington Road and West Clemmonsville
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1\WU. Ail I7(U, vuiy jit uiaw* pcupic duu 4,431
white people lived in the area. In 1980, there
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i financial success, only a tunities the area h
rs could be found to par- Just why are bli
the new developm
i over here is touched with Newell says tha
llderman Virginia Newell. large enough to hz
k investor, contractor or and are reluctant
ve been building since the businesses that c
lere are we now?" 44Black people n<
elings of many. Bank ex- decide that maytx
ist Winston Restoration poration and bid
ector Johnnie Johnson and she says.44With tc
i all feel that the East folk arenft the on
market for developers but vesting and stop f
it on the unlimited oppor- Newell says thj
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nee 1974" %0\ \
day, November 17, 1983 " ' .'. / -J#
es: Blacks
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ly, says i^e
were 1,436 blacks and 1,133 whites.
In 1970, the area bounded by Sixth and
Seventh streets, Norfolk and Western Railway,
Marshall Street and Northwest Boulevard was
predominantly black. Now, that same area isalmost
evenly divided, with 715 whites and 712
blacks. Black people have also moved from the
area bounded by 14th Street, Glenn Avenue
and Marshall Street. In 1970, 4,070 black peo
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majority black ^\L/?
Qjhlgh parcantaoa black ^
majority wMta
pie lived in that areajmt in 1980, only 1,769
black residents live there.
The census data, which divides the city into
50 census tracts, gives the black and white
populations of each tract. Of those 50 divisions,
only 27 of them have more than 400
black people and two of them have no black
people at all.
The area closest to the central city with no
black people is the census tract bounded by
Stratford Road, 1-40, Coliseum Drive and
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Urges Creatic
By ALLEN JOHNSON
Executive Editor
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Though black people have ma
notable strides in the political arena, t\
have a long way to go, Congressm
William H. Gray told a local audience 1
Saturday night.
Gray, a Democrat from Philadelp
and the keynote speaker at the BU
Political Awareness League's (BP^
Third Annual Banquet borrowed
words of Charles Dickens to charactei
the condition of black Americans.
4'It is the best of times, "Gray said,
he Prospector
as to offer. projects
icks so hesitant to get involved in task she 1
ents? in the Ea
t small, black businesses are not hell to g<
mdle major projects by themselves of the E
t to join others to form larger specific ]
an handle major developments. ...and I
*d to get together. We have to got nowl
t together we can form a big cor- 4 4 And
for some of the major projects," now sayi
>gethemess there is strength. White from us,
es in our way. We need to start in- center) ij
ighting among ourselves.1 * co store
it the lack of investors in the new
plonshlp Bid
LJ Rams took the CIAA SoutEwn ~
itle last weekend by trouncing St.
7. They'll meet Virginia Union Saturoves
Stadium to determine the 1983
mpion.
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Westview Drive, better known as the Buena
Vista and Country Club area. The other area
inside the city is located between 1-40, Silas
Creek Parkway and U.S. 158, containing the
Somerset, Hampton Woods, Brook Hollow
and Salem Woods neighborhoods.
In the rest of Forsyth County, excluding :
Winston-Salem, only three of the 32 census i
tracts have more than 400 black people and ;
4 ( Cinius Tracts 1M0
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none of the tracts have a majority of black people.
The tract in the county with the largest
number of black people is a continuation of ftST~
city census tracts into the eastern part of the
county near Kernersville.
Basically, no one seems surprised that black
people still live in the same general area after 10
years.
According to Womble, there are several
reasons why _blacks still choose to live in East
Please see page A 3
:s Helms, Reagan,
>n Of Coalitions
is the worst ot times."
The election of black mayors in a
number of American cities, including
ide Chicago, Philadelphia and Charlotte, is
ley encouraging, Gray said, but the Reagan
lan administration's insensitivity to the needs
ast of the black and the poor is not.
"I can see in Washington, D.C., a
hia government that is trying tp turn back the
ick clock," Gray said. "I worry about our
kL) country. I worry about its misplaced
^ t ?
me polices."
ize Referring to N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms' attempts
to fight the passage of a Martin
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sAre White
in East Winston reminds her of the difficult
had trying to convince black people to invest
st Winston Shopping Center. "I worked like
it black folk to take part in the development
ast Winston Shopping Center. I contacted
people who 1 knew had the money to invest
begged churches to invest," she says. 14But I
here.
now that the stores are a success, people are
ing, 'They (white people) are taking it away
she says. "Food Lion (in the shopping
\ doing fantastic business. ... Of the 20 Revs
in North Carolina, this one (also in the
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