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By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Clyonlcl* 8UW Wrltf
More than 200 black publishers
executives are expected to gath<
Salem when the Chronicle hosts t
National Newspaper Publishers Ai
venuon next monin.
.^ !-*he convention will be the first
ev?rrin North Carolina and will
Hyatt June 18-21. It will feati
- | seminars and an awards banquet, j
Tournament and a jazz concert
* ^ Center.
'The theme of this year's con
Power of the Black Press,' " said!
ecutive director of the NNPA, wh<
includes most of the nation's bla
"We expect to provide seminars a
will provide impetus to that them<
According to Allen Johnson, en
the Chronicle and workshop cooi
convention, the sessions will focus
editorial integrity, new technolo
design, and the recruitment and r
sonnel.
There also will be a spec
workshop, he said.
Some of thepanetttts for the wc
David R. Squires, a copy editor to
Times; Harry Amana, an fostrtMfe
sity of North Carolina at Chapel I
school; Ray Boone, an instruc
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By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
If you think you really know
the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson,
think again.
Author Barbara Reynolds
takes a candid, sometimes not-socomplimentary
look at Jackson
in her new, and hotly debated
biography, "Jesse Jackson:
America's David." The book recounts
Jackson's childhood,
discusses his flaws and strengths.
and suggests that Jackson may
not have been as closely allied/
with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
as Jackson claims.
Ms. Reynolds, a member of the
editorial board at USA Today,
Racial balanc
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By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle SUff Writer
Everyone seems to agree that
racial imbalances remain in some
city-county schools. Everyone
also acknowledges that, even
though they ride school buses
every day to integrate those
schools, black students often attend
classes where they outnumber
their white counterparts.
At Southwest Elementary
School, for example, 44 percent
of the school's enrollment is
black. Many of the kindergarten
clnses are predominantly tygck.
6ut exactly what's broken and
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doesn't agree on.
don't think those children
should be bused 15 miles to
i achieve a racial imbalance,*' said
Jade D. Goins, a school board
member,
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?s well as a golf JS9
at the Stevens
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Steve Davis, ex- MoflSjraJ
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on maintaining
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etention of per:ial
advertising
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journalism Singer Angela
tor in Howard keyboardist Lc
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d behind Jacli
defends her book as an honest
and balanced portrayal of the
Baptist minister she refers to as
the most prominent black leader.
4'My book shows how a black
man starting off in Greenville,
South Carolina - an illegitimate
man ? through intellect, through
brashness, rose to be the most
powerful black man in
America,** Ms. Reynolds said
during an interview at her
Winston-Salem hotel suite last
Saturday. "I didn't accept what I
heard. I went behind the scenes to
check it out. It was an eye-opener
for me. Some of the things we
have been led to believe just 1
aren't true."
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Some white parents have complained
that the racial imbalance
at Southwest has had an adverse '
effect on the education of their
children, said Mrs. Goins, who
lives in the western area of the
county.
"There are many
underachievers in the regular
classroom programs/* Mrs.
Goins said in an interview last
Thursday. 'There is a big gap in
the academic levels there and at
other schools."
Mrs. Goins has recommended
that the school attendance lines
be changed to achieve more racial
balance.
Some black leaders agree, saying
the changes could mean less
Dusing f or diack sraaems.
But other blacks say it isn't the
attendance lines that need fixing,
but the education, or the lack of
education, some Mack students
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receive. If more black students
than white students are not
achieving, they say, address that,
not school districts.
Changing the attendance lines
will not affect the education of
black students, said the Rev.
Serenus T. Churn, a member of
the local NAACP's Education
Committee.
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Thursday, Msy29,198C
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Chronicle Staff Wi
Related eto
f** f Though h
} black politician
o. Bailey shuns
, l ** "That is not tl
tf said. "I feel 1 cai
ing behind the s
name is in the n<
serve the commi
Bailey, 52, s
\ elected to the ci
^ He led a field
didates in the V
consider his re-e
^ sion. But Bailey
Forsyth Technic
Trustees, says h
hard to win tt^tl
"I believe I h
port among blac
mf Bailey, director
Hf . m Winston-Salem!
bridge the gap
black communit
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Bailey's solid si
1 Clarke and white voters. Th
n two benefit name recognitio
"He (Bailey)
mmmmI sincere," said l
chairman of the
|p tee of the Bapt
IV* and Associates.
service on the b<
Kg?Bailey began
1972, when he
school board sei
. "That was a
Bailey recalled.
Republican yeai
candidates did v
Bailey won s
school board in
re-election atteir
"I hadn't c
then," Bailey sa
ropes."
Bailey tried q
SL primary, he led 1
\ ran strongly in
JpjjK where black can
ose to King as Bailey won
r)? general election
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''That is not going to fix the
problems that black children are
having in school/' said Churn,
pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist
Church.
"I am for integrated schools, but
a change is needed in the perception
that white educators have
about black children.
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hrom
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cly) Is not the way I operc
? effective working behlrn
>nt care If my name Is In 1
b. I just want to serve the <
). Bailey
y: He's not
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Iter But s<
led the
ty on A2. consider
white vc
[E is the most successful In Sej
in the county, Beaufort board i
publicity. received
tie way I operate," Bailey Leaders!
n be more effective work- "report
cenes. I don't care if my dorsed. 1
ewspapers. I just want to not tak
mity."
the only black ever to be
ity-county school board,
of 14 Democratic canlay
6 primary and many ~ I
lection a forgone conclu,
who also is chairman of < I
cal College's Board of
le will have to campaign Lgpji?
ave a broad base of supk
and white voters,'v said
of the media center at? - IfBl.l.
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aiaic university. | iry 10
between the white and
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Servers acknowledge
ipport among black and
ey also say he enjoys wide ^^^8
is good, dedicated and
:he Rev. Jerry Drayton,
Political Action Commit
ist Ministers Conference
"He has a good record of
oard."
his political career in
ran unsuccessfully for a
it. board*!
i Richard Nixon year," schools
"That was a landslide "Th<
r, and local Republican all the <
ery well here." making
i four-year seat on the meetin]
1974, but was defeated in T. Smi
ipts in 1978 and 1980. take a
established myself well Mrs.
id. "I hadn't learned the John H
to the 1
gain in 1982. During the not. "E
the Democratic ticket and man w
several county precincts, school
didates usually fare poor- . Othe
"He
in the November 1982 issues
and began serving his seBus
incident
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Chronicle Staff Writer
A local mother says a school
bus driver invited other students
to attack her two sons, then watched,
during a ride home from
Bolton Elementary School last
March.
Sheila L. Jeter of 1438 Oak St.
says her two sons, Kenneth, 12,
and Reginald, 8, were beaten by
other children on a bus driven by
27-year-old Roderick Orr on
March 14.
The incident was investigated
by the school, then referred to the
state attorney general's office,
which handles injuries sustained
on school buses.
According to the WinstonSalem
Journal, Orr, who could
not be reached by the Chronicle
for comment, has said he was
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a militant j
mas a school board member. j
3me of his critics say Bailey has
Democratic ticket because he is **
ed weak and non-threatening by i
>ters.
ptember 1983, .Bailey and fellow
member Mary Margaret Lohr
low ratings from the Black
hip Roundtable in an informal
card" on candidates fc.had enBailey
especially was criticized for X - " t
ing a more active role in the
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5 reorganization of the city-county
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: black community's feelings about
changes the school board has been
[_have not been voiced at the
gs," Roundtable member Norma
th said. "He (Bailey) just did not
leadership role."
Smith said that board member
[olleman often had been responsive
alack community when Bailey had
lut why do we have to go to a white
hen we have a black man on the
board?99 she asked.
rs agreed.
hasn't been as aggressive on the
as he should have been," said
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isprobed
mey general
fired because of the incident. He
and all of the students on the bus
were black, Ms. Jeter said.
School officials will say little
about the incident. Now that they
have turned the case over to the
attorney general's office, they
say, they prefer not to comment.
However, James H. Kleu, principal
of Bolton Elementary
School, did say that he doesn't
believe that the Jeter youngsters
were attacked. "In the first place,
I don't think the students were
beaten up," Kleu said in a
telephone interview. "Somebody
got punched. Someone was pushed
down on the floor. There was
a great deal of confusion among
the children as to who did what."
But both of the Jeter boys said
in interviews last Wednesday that
they were beaten at the driver's
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