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The YWCA Activities Club of
the Glade Street YWCA
celebrated its 30th anniversary
with a program and a banquet on
Saturday, Feb. 23.
Winston-Salem attorney James
Lassiter served as master of
ceremonies.
The invocation for the program
was given by the Rev.
David R. Hedgley. Music was
provided by soloists Janice Benjamin
and Shedrick Adams.
The featured speaker for the
program was Martha Young,
former executive director of the
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"When you are doing things
for the poor ... you will have a
group of people to find fault with
you. I feel that he had the sincere
interest in the welfare of people."
Carter has been criticized for
not appointing more black people
to high-level cabinet positions
and for his failure to get Congressional
approval of a national
holiday commemorating the birthday
of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
But the failure to get a King
holiday through Congress wasn't
Carter's fault, said Schoonmaker.
"If it (a King holiday) hadn't
been put in at an earlier time, it
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time," said Schoonmaker.
"Hardly any legislation goes
through the first time."
Holland said his criticism of
Carter is based on behind-thescenes
knowledge about the
Carter years. Many black people,
who served in various positions
throughout the nation and who
were instrumental in helping
Carter win the 1976 Democratic
nomination and the presidential
election, were forgotten once the
electoral college casts its votes,
said Holland.
"Blacks were given the 171
form (employment form) once
the election was over," said
Holland. "A president has the
right to make Schedule C appointments,
or appointments that
bypass the federal bureaucracy.
If I work and help you become
president, why should you give
me a 171 to fill out? But that's
what black folk .were given.
"Blacks didn't receive the
rewards in proportion to the
amount of work they did and
didn't receive the rewards they
should have been given."
That attitude among some
blacks helped cause Carter's
demise, said the Rev. Jerry
Drayton, chairman of the
political action committee of the
General Baptist State Convention.
"The Carter years were the
best for blacks in the history of
the presidency," said Drayton,
pastor of New Bethel Baptist
Church. "More blacks were appointed
to judgeships and important
positions and blacks were
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House. But major black leaders
criticized him when he had done
more than any president in
history.
"That's what caused the 1980
white backlash. Whites got tired
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YWCA. She discussed "True and
Golden Friendship."
Special invited guests were
Dawn Thompson, executive
director of the YWCA; Courtney
Sanders, YWCA director of adult
women; Donna Odom, YWCA
public relations director; and
Hazel Scott.
Members of the YWCA Activities
Club shown sitting left to
right are Minnie Shoffner, Ozel
Long, Cora Turner, Rachel
Lewis, Estelle Walters, Mozelle
Pelzer, Everleen Byrd, Cora
Broome and Pauline Samuel.
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of hearing blacks say, 'We put
you there.' Blacks overplayed
that. So the whites completely
changed that."
Walter Marshall, vice president
of the local NAACP, agrees with
Drayton.
'On a scale of 1 to 10,1 would
say he was a 9 or higher on civil
and human rights," said Marshall.
"He was one of the better
presidents. He kept his commitment
to civil and human rights
even when it was not economically
possible. That was probably
his downfall with white conservative
Democrats. He was too accessible
to blacks, too open."
Carter's humanitarian views
also won him the favor of
Shedrick Adams, an aide to Con
gressman Steve Neal.
"Personally, I support and
give my allegiance to Jimmy
Carter- because I supported his
humanitarian views," said
Adams. "He acted out what he
said. He was a great peacemaker.
He was a good president."
So great, said Adams, that
many of the strides Carter made
have been credited to Reagan.
The appointment of Paul Volker
as head of the Federal Reserve
Board is one example, said
Adams.
"Reagan is given credit for
that appointment, but Volker
was a Carter appointment," said
Adams.
When people say they like
Carter and supported his
presidency, said Holland, they
first need to ask, "What did he
get done? What did Carter do
after heoecame president? There
is no hard evidence around."
In Boston, where Holland lived
during the Nixon administration,
Holland said there was a black
regional administrator for the
Small Business Administration, a
black deputy at HEW for the sixi
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Members shown standing left j
to right are Janet Blue, Carol I
Richardson, Evelena Clayborn, I
Sally Clayburn, Dazelle Jones, I
Odessa Perry, Evelyn Hairston,
Isabel Tate, Etta Franklin, j
Gladys Thompson and* Annie
Pearson.
Officers of the club are Rachel
Lewis, social committee chairman;
Evelena Clayborn, presi- j
dent; Sally Clayburn, vice presi- |
dent and social committee chair- j
man; Dazelle Jones, recording j
secretary; and Evelyn Hairston, J
treasurer and chaplain. |
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state region and a black regional
head for HUD. Under the Carter !
administration, blacks lost all of
those positions, said Holland.
'There is form and there is
substance in government and
Carter had a lot of form but
substance I didn't sec and history
will bear that out," he said.
"Blacks put a lot into his candidacy,
but got little from it."
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