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Qt" | Aa ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ H^aff^?^B4?. fmftl^lJl ftl|l||%w|| F^es Now Belongs Bond Leaders H 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 5 Please see Dane A3 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 Winston area is a prime ig Center, which that blacks are missing oi Is On Wheel# ? nodest beginnings 21 yean eals on Wheels, now under Hfifiiil gis of the Creative Life , has been recognized as one inest programs of its type in I Salem Serving the Winston-Salem Community Si WINSTON-SALEM. N.C. Thai PW riionn JL V TT V^llOllg In Inner Ci By ROBIN ADAMS < Stctff Writer 1 i 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 DAA/4 T~ IOTA am1.. c 1 A LUmL 1- 1 ^ *** 1\WU. Ail I7(U, vuiy jit uiaw* pcupic duu 4,431 white people lived in the area. In 1980, there Iron.JOBS AND F. I H c ' * Vinston - But 1 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 Gbfot nee 1974" %0\ \ day, November 17, 1983 " ' .'. / -J# es: Blacks a O 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 1 : ^ J?L 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 TT 1 Ioray Lamoasi Urges Creatic By ALLEN JOHNSON Executive Editor ^m^mm^m^mammmmmmamm^mmmamammmmmmammmmammm^rnammaammammmmmammmam^a 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. t?*at. \ t I ]icle cent* 50 Pages This Week Remain nsus 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 S j WHiiton-$ *#?, NX. 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 * 'it Please see page A 9 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 Please see page All