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EDITORIALS
RELIGION
PEOPLE
Jackson:
We can
help him win
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St. Philips, Afro-Americans
played an important role
in the heritage of Old Salem
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Huel Speight:
His life is
a real circus
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W^'^^'^in-Salem Chronicle
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U.S.P.S. No. 067910
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thursday, February 25,1988
32 Pages This Week
Forsyth County shelters hundreds of battered women, children
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chfonide Staff Writer
♦Barbara, an assertive, can
did woman in her late 30s,
shakes her head in amazement
several times as she recalls a
nightmarish time in her life, a
memory she can share with
approximately two million other
women in this country.
Today a strong-willed, con
fident woman with a determined
gait, Barbara speaks calmly and
freely about the times that she
nursed headaches and bruises,
the result of her husband’s regu
lar beatings.
"It was hell," she said of
her 10-year marriage. "It was
fine when we started off. But
then he got frustrated about
money or whatever. He wasn't
the kind, though, that would get
drunk and beat up on me. I
think he was just frustrated
about things."
She said any little thing that
didn't go her husband's way
would often send him into a
rage and he would strike out at
her in his anger. For years, Bar
bara suffered silently, never
mentioning the abuse to her
family or friends. One particular
beating sent her to the hospital's
emergency room and at that
point Barbara decided to put an
end to her husband’s unpro
voked attacks.
The last straw, Barbara
said, came the same day that
one of the couple's three chil
dren had a birthday party at
their home. She said that when
her husband returned home
from work, he wanted to go out
and, despite being tired, she
agreed to join him rather than to
upset him.
Studies reports that:
. An American woman Is
abused by her partner
every 18 seconds.
Battering Is the single
major cause of women's
Injury.
Family member or
boyfriends kill 40 percent
of the female homicide
victims.
"When we came home, my
son had overfed one of the gold
fish that he had gotten for his
birthday and the fish was dead,"
Barbara said. "I went on to bed
because I was real tired. 1 heard
him (her husband) rattling on
about the goldfish and telling
me to get up and come look at
it, but I stayed in bed. He got
real upset because 1 wouldn't
come and see the goldfish and
we started fighting. He came
into the bedroom and just went
off on me."
Barbara said her sister, who
was staying with them, ran 10
blocks to their parents' home to
get help and to call the police.
By the time the officers arrived
she said her husband had
severely beaten her on her head
and in her face. She ran to the
door when the officers knocked,
but her husband landed one
final blow to her head as she
stood with the officers. They
arrested him on the spot and
rushed Barbara to the hospital.
She said she was horrified to
see her face, which had swelled
to a ballon-like shape as a result
of the beating. Her reflection in
the mirror terrified her so, she
said, that she determined at that
point that never again would
she suffer that kind of punish
ment at the hands of her hus
band.
"He had beat me before,
but that lime he had really hurt
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THE NATION'S NEWS
Compiled From AP Wire
J Brawley accused sheriff
I POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Tawanna Brawley, who
ii'ji ^he was Uic victim of a racially-motivated sex-
^lai attack in November, wrote a note after the attack
ming the county sheriff, according to a published
kport.
Tlie contents of the note were never disclosed to
lounty authorities, including Sheriff Frederick W.
Bcoralick, according to last Friday's editions of the
roughkeq)sie Journal.
The note reading "I want him dead. I want Scoral-
Ick" was kept secret by the Brawley family, their
^wyers and a small group of black activists until it
was revealed to state investigators early this month
by the head of the Newburgh NAACP, B. Harold
j ilamsey. the Journal reported.
3U wants MLK's FBI files
BOSTON - Attorneys for Boston University have
I tsked a judge to have Coretia Scott King release
[ apes of conversations between her late husband,
lin Luther King Jr. and others, recorded secretly
)y federal investigators.
The action, which Mrs. King's attorneys charged
vas a form of harassment, was the latest round in the
egal fight between the school and Mrs. King over
he papers King to the university in 1964.
-orraine tenant must move
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The last tenant of the small
loiel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was
lain has been ordered to leave her residence of 11
®ars so it can be turned into a museum honoring
le civil rights leader.
The motel was closed Jan. 11 but Jacqueline
niilh, a former motel employee, ignored a state
leadline Feb. 8 to move out and likened her protest
' civil rights battles staged by King. She has said
le multimillion-dollar museum at the site would
3rce poor people out of the neighborhood.
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Gray seeks Neal's
seat in Congress
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
School Days
Brenda Hodge, a local chemist, discusses her job at a Black Awareness Day program held last
week at Moore Alternative School. The program demonstrated the variety of jobs through which
Afro-Americans contribute to the community (photo by Santana).
Local businessman Lyons Gray announced his candidacy
for the 5th District congres
sional seal currently held by .
Congressman Stephen L. ^
Neal. In announcing his
candidacy. Gray said that
the issue of jobs would be a
major campaign focus.
Citing the pullouts by
AT&T and R.J. Reynolds,
Gray said he projected a
S180 million "payroll loss"
for Forsyth County. "We
have not done the job in
selling what we have," Gray j
said. "Sooner or later we I
have to decide if we will be |
an overgrown mill town or
gel in the game.”
Gray criticized incumbent Neal saying, "There’s more to
the job than just voting yes or no. A congressman must help
people with their problems." Gray said that, if elected, he
would use the congressional office as a "catalyst for retaining
Gray
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AIDS cases in North Carolina tripled during 1987
By The Associated Press
RALEIGH - The number of new
AIDS cases reported in North Carolina
more than tripled in 1987, and the fig
ures show that blacks have been hit
harder than whites.
Although the state's population is
about 22 percent black, blacks
are the victims in about 44 percent
of the reported AIDS cases in the state.
Scott Hustead, health educator
with the state AIDS control program,
said the black community may not have
enough health education on AIDS.
"Certainly not as much as there needs
to be," he said.
"There used to be a perception
that AIDS is a white-gay-male disease.
People thought, 'If you're not a white
gay male, you don’t need to take pre
cautions,'" he said.
The state is stepping up its AIDS
education program in the minority
community. Starting Monday, Hustead
said, a new health educator will be
working full time to gel the AIDS edu
cation message out to minority groups.
The state also has been awarded
$90,000 from the federal Centers for
Disease Control to distribute to com
munity organizations for minority edu
cation. State health officials have asked
organizations to submit applications
for the funds by March 1.
The number of AIDS cases
jumped to 247 from 81 the previous
year, officials said Friday. About 70 of
the 419 cumulative North Carolina
cases reported by the end of December
were due to a new, broader definition
of the fatal acquired immune deficiency
syndrome, health officials said.
The impact of the new definition
was especially apparent in December.
As of Nov. 24, only 166 new cases had
been reported for the year.
"I think there were a lot of
physicians who went through their
files," Hustead said. "Under the new
definition, it became clear more cases
were AIDS.”
The figures show North Carolina
is keeping pace with the rest of the
nation in its rate of increase, although it
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tudy: N.C. blacks, Indians
rrested more frequently
Ji'TOM FOREMAN JR.
psociated Press Writer
9 PEMBROKE, - Blacks and
(dians were arrested more often,
tained longer and served longer
niences than whites, according
a 10-county study on the treat-
ent of Indians released last
lek.
The report, entitled "A Report
1 The Treatment of Indians By
5 Criminal Justice System," was
esented at a Robeson County
eting of the Commission of
lian Affairs. The meeting, which
w nearly 1,000 people to West
beson High School, gained
added significance after two men
protesting the treatment of Indians
in the county took hostages at the
Robesonian newspaper in Lumber-
ton earlier this month.
The ad hoc committee recom
mended the establishment of pub
lic defender offices in North Car
olina's 6th, 16th and 30th Judicial
Districts in Halifax, Mecklenburg
and Robeson counties, respective
ly. It also said pre-trial release poli
cies should be reviewed and more
Indians should be recruited into the
criminal justice system.
" ... What this report points out
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QUOTABLE: Self-
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racism - racism dspends on
no:i-rellant people for its
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Jackson stresses economic justice
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Saying his
campaign is one of gathering "the
little fish" to protect themselves
against "the barracudas," Jesse
Jackson brought his campaign of
economic justice to Georgia.
The South particularly, he
said, should spend more on educa
tion.
It costs about $30,000 to
send a student to a stale university
for four years, while it costs about
$120,000 to maintain a prisoner in
a state penitentiary for four years,
the Democratic presidential candi
date said.
Jackson said his political
campaign gathers the working poor
against huge corporations, like
General Electric, which has made
billions in profits. But GE managed
to get a tax rebate of $100 million
during the last four years of the
Reagan administration, and paid
no taxes, Jackson said.
"Some of that money must
go to educate the children of Geor
gia," he told an audience at Paine
College Sunday night
They had waited three hours
because Jackson's plane had been
delayed in New Jersey.
Jackson made his own plea
for money at the end of the speech,
and said his campaign doesn't have
the financial backing that other
Democratic candidates sport.
"But our message is getting
out," he said, adding that other
Democratic candidates are picking
up on the "Jackson message" of
economic justice.
Jackson’s other major thrust
was against drugs.
"Let's stop drugs from going
in, and stop jobs from going out,"
Jackson said, referring to multina
tional corporations who have
plants in other countries. "Drugs
are the No. 1 danger in our
streets."
He asked members of the
audience to stand if they knew
someone who had been involved
in various aspects of the drug
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