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H r \A’S' "Si' ii-Salem Chronicle The Twin City’s Award-Winning Weekly ;XIN0.24 U.S.P.S. No. 067910 Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, February 7,1985 35 cents 30 Pages Thfs Week •‘■•S' -■ • •*' v-’K .Vcfei in order ofcoffee and apple pie changes history GREG BROWN We Staff Writer he Black Teacher rang Public Television’s offerings this Black History onth is “Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment In reedorti,” the story of a teacher of emancipated slaves star ring Melba Moore, and airing Feb. 25. Meanwhile, our look at black educators continues with a special section on B14, a guest column on Page A4, and the story below. Police know Fm innocent Darryl Hunt: Police know that he didn't murder Sykes By ALLEN H. JOHNSON •Chronicle Executive Editor Rough Road Ahead This article is the first in a two- part series. Darryl Eugene Hunt is a soft- spoken, brownskinned man with a slim build, friendly eyes and a mouth that slightly curves into a perpetual half-smile. He wears his long, thick hair combed back sometimes, other times in braids. Each of his arms is tat-' -’'V toed with a set of initials and he Darryl Hunt wears an earring in his left ear, which he says a friend pierced for him after num bing it with a clothespin clamped on the lobe. He says he wishes the daily newspapers would run a better picture of him. “That picture frightens me,” he says of the photo which was taken during a police lineup and depicts him in braids - and which has appeared on front pages more times than he’d care to remember. But times are not so good right now. Tahara, who is the daughter of a former girlfriend and who Hunt took care of as his own, though he isn’t her natural father, is in a foster home. Hunt, Deborah Sykes 19, is in jail, arrested for the Aug. 10, 1984, rape and murder of Deborah Brotherton Sykes, a 25-year-old copy editor for the Winston-Salem Sentinel. His trial begins April 15. Mrs. Sykes died of 16 stab wounds to the chest and was raped and sodomized behind the Crystal Towers elderly highrise building downtown. Alderman Larry Little has organized a defense fund on Dar- Hunt says the photo doesn’t look very much like him - that it makes him look as if he did something wrong. ta Jibreel Khazan, Joseph McNeill, " ® ^'■Csin and David Richmond sat at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in -nsboro 25 years ago, little did they realize Quiet confrontation with Southern egation would blossom into a national lement. commemoration of that act amid the Wcxcitement at a Woolworth’s crowded ^porters and curious onlookers last Fri- , stood in stark contrast to the 'cpidation felt by the four N.C. A&T mversity freshmen back then. wdT!' camera crews swarmed countp”"'as he strode up to “*ci to aS' T" toKe his order a quarter of a century earlier. “I’ll have the same thing 1 ordered 25 years ago,” he said to Ima Jean Edwards, who couldn’t remember what it was. Then she brought him a cup of coffee and a slice of ap ple pie, compliments of the Woolworth management. Outside the five-and-10, few people caught in a heavy, icy rain seemed to take notice of silver anniversary of the civil rights milestone. Inside, Richmond waxed philosophically about a similar attitude prevalent among black students he instructs at A&T today. “They do not realize the way things were,” he said. “You have to have bad times before you can enjoy the good times. They just assume the good is good. Everybody wants to remember the good things, the good aspects of it. But if you can remember how things were, then you can go further and deal with relationships and human understanding among people.” The fact that there was some such understanding at the time allowed Greensboro to make a peaceful transition from near total segregation to the integration of public places and facilities, he said. “Everybody resists change,” he said amid the glare of camera flashes. “But you don’t need a majority of the people to bring about change. You just need a few and this is what happened. ‘ ‘The white community was very supportive of us when we were down here,” he said of the sit-in demonstrations, noting that several of jthe store’s white customers voiced their sup port for what the four young were trying to Please see page A3 He asks us please not to use that photo. Tattooed on the inside of one of Hunt’s arms are the initials “TSH,” on the other “TS.” They belong, he says, to a 2-year- old named Tahara. Hunt smiles when he talks about Tahara. “I’d like her to have everything she wants,” he says, “like a mother and father’s love.” Hunt adds that he’d like four additional children and a big house to raise them in. It doesn’t matter whether the children are his. Hunt says. He’ll adopt them if he has to. He just wants to take care of them. ryl’s behalf, saying he fears that Hunt won’t get a fair trial. There are too many unanswered ques tions, Little says, and the pro secution has a case so flimsy that it scares him. When a crime ap pears to be committed against a white person by a black man. Lit tle says, no black man is safe from suspicion. When Hunt was arrested, says Little, who says he played basket ball with Hunt occasionally in the Liberty-Patterson neighborhood, “I made the decision that I wasn’t going to sit back and let somebody I know go to the gas chamber. The more I began to dwell on the case, the flimsier the evidence was. “I’ve even had people in the police department to tell me that they felt it was a very weak case.” Please see page All N men arrested during protests fSouth African Embassy in D.C. NEXT WEEK • A Black History Month profile of retired school system administrator Palmer Friende. Klansmen: They’D recruit in schools ''OBIN ADAMS Editor jailed on Tuesday, Jan. in w South African “’"lilieni ^ three local men were D*ayn51, Menrl!''" Revs. Carlton Eversley " ■ ‘''"tonstrathig^ arrested and charged with il- of arrested,” said Eversley, *’'®*'’yterian Church. “We South Africa of B j *^7 TransAfrica under the Eversley, 2'’*“ Robinson.” *tross Jackson joined scores of ® nation who have made the pilgrimage to Washington to protest South Africa’s apartheid policies. But, while being arrested in front of the embassy grows more popular, critics say, the effort lacks grassroots support and is merely a publicity stunt. Most of the protesters, say critics, including black poet Nikki Giovanni, are doing it for selfish reasons. They make appointments to be arrested, are ar rested after lunch and back home by dinner, critics say. And in most instances, all charges against the protesters are dropped. Eversley confirmed that demonstrators had to make an appointment to be included among those arrested for that day, but he said it is done only to Please see page A3 • A progress report from blacks on Leader ship Winston-Salem. By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor • The second article in our two-part interview with Darryl Eugene Hunt. • The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference takes its ailing basketball tournament to Philadelphia. Call us at 723-8448 if you have a story or pic ture idea, or if you wish to register a com plaint. Send your letters to the editor to Chronicle Letters, P.O. Box 3154, Winston- Salem, N.C. 27102. C. Joe Grady, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told the city-county school board Monday night that his organization plans to recruit students from the local schools. How Grady intends to conduct the recruitment is uncertain, however, since he also said Klansmen wouldn’t be on the campuses and wouldn’t recruit students under 18 years of age. Board Vice Chairman Beaufort Bailey said he thinks Grady, accompanied by 15 others dressed in military fatigues with patches identifying them as Klansmen, is trying to get publicity. “They used to attend the school board meetings Please see page A3
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