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"The NAACP letdown"
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'Family of year':
Getting by with
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-Salem Chronicle
TfieTwin dry's Award-Winning Weekly
fxiV, No. 44
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thursday, June 23,1988
32 Pages This Week
■| have a problem with a plan that
white folks bring and put in black
folks hands."
-- Lee Faye Mack
Icommunity upset
over NAACP plan
JsyANGELA WRIGHT
[chronicle Managing Editor
Local NAACP President Waller Marshall was on the
[defensive Tuesday as he faced a barrage of questions about the
Inew election plan from Afro-American community leaders and
[concerned citizens.
Marshal] had organized an open meeting so that concerned
[persons in the community could voice their reservations about
Idle plan and get answers to any questions they might have.
The meeting was tense, and often hostile, as community
[leaders challenged the plan itself. Some criticized Marshall for
litot bringing the plan back to the community before agreeing to
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
■people and Forsyth County agreed to an out-of-court settlement
Ijuneb in a lawsuit the NAACP filed in 1986 regarding the
Imeiliod of election for the Forsyth County Board of Commis-
Isoners.
I; The lawsuit had sought a district system of election, and an
■aSiothe ai-iarge, staggered terms currently in place. But the
l^ent reached between the NAACP and the county calls
IfcfaKmbinaiion district/at-large system of election.
I Wider the new plan, there will be five districts -- one 92
■pefcent Afro-American. Candidates for the County Commis-
Ision will be nominated by disirict during the primary election,
|t)iiiwi]i run in an at-large general election.
The majority of those attending Tuesday's open meeting
iked strong opposition to the at-large general election portion
■of the plan and harshly criticized the plan as an inadequate
Imeans for assuring Afro-American representation on the Board
[of Commissioners.
Since in the general election everyone has the right to
■vote for everyone else," said Attorney Harold L. Kennedy Jr.,
I theoretically we could have a situation where these people
[could run a Republican, black or white, in our district and wipe
■out our Democrat vote in the general election.”
■ Marshall responded that such a scenario was not likely, but
■that to ensure against it, the community "would have to control
[ourRepublicans as well as our Democrats."
Marshall Defends Plan
NAACP President, Walter Marshall, defended the coun
ty's election plan during open community meeting.
Several prominent members of the community were pre
sent including; Aldermen Vivian Burke, Patrick Hairston and
Larry Womble; community activists Lee Faye Mack and
Velma Hopkins; county commission candidate Mazie
Woodruff; educator Anneue Beatty; and NAACP vice presi
dent Rodney Sumler. They all expressed either grave reserva
tions or outright disapproval of the plan.
"I have a problem with a plan that white folks bring and
put in black folks hands," said Mack. She told Marshall that he
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Eargle resigns post,
Phillips overlooked
School Board selects unqualified fill-in
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
The superintendent of the Winston-
Salem/Forsyth County school system, Zane
Eargle, has resigned effective July 31. On
August 1 he will take the helm at Pfeiffer
College, a Methodist
institution located in
Misenheimer.
Eargle
local board of educa
tion of his intentions
early last week. The
board met in an emer
gency session Friday
to accept Eargle's res
ignation and voted to
name N. Nelson Jes
sup acting superinten
dent.
Some local school
officials luive expressed their concern over
the naming of Jessup as acting superinten
dent, and questioned the school board's
intentions as they relate to Dr. Barbara K.
Phillips, assistant to the superintendent.
Jessup is assistant superintendent for
auxiliary services. He started with the Win
ston-Salem/Forsyth County school system
in 1960 as a math teacher at Hanes High
School.
Jessup lacks the certification by the
state board of education to be a superinten
dent. Although the local board had initially
named him interim superintendent, it was
necessary for them to change the title to act
ing superintendent because of his lack of
certification.
An interim superintendent must be cer
tified and draws the usual superintendent's
salary; an acting superintendent need not be
certified and draws less than the usual
Phillips
[ocal historian dies quietly
I^ROBIN BARKSDALE
r^le Slaff Writer
Joon vigil commemorates
976 Soweto massacre
I The Winston-Salem communi-
pas suffered the loss of one of its
ardent and devoted curators
■ local Afro-American history
In the death of Joseph L. Brad-
Bradshaw died Tuesday fol-
''•ng a long bout with cancer.
Long recognized as the lead-
authority on the history of
'nsioti-Salem's Afro-American
"I'nunity, the 73-year-old Brad-
had compiled a historical col-
city that included the
“'"8 thttl history of the Safe
‘ a pictorial history of the
'"■American flight to the city
and documents from the old Slater
Normal School. He pursued little
known facts about the Afro-Ameri
can community with a passion that
frequently led him to the attics of
local residents.
A graduate of Pennsylvania's
Lincoln University, Bradshaw was
a retired history teacher who taught
in the Surry County School Sys
tem. As a history teacher, he said
he was disturbed by the omission
of Afro-Americans from history
books and began his quest to com
bat the oversights by collecting as
much information as possible.
And Bradshaw was more than
willing to share his slices of histo-
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"I just want to share this
history with everyone.”
- Joseph Bradshaw
Police seeking
black applicants
Recruitment program underway
By VALERIE ROBACK GREGG
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Winston-Salem Police Department will
actively recruit minority applicants for 20 new
positions to be filled next year in order to bring
the percentage of Afro-American police officers
more in line with the city's population, Police
Recruiting Sergeant A.D. Vance said Monday.
City Police Chief George L. Sweat recently
asked the City Board of Aldermen to fund the
addition of 20 officers to the police department
for next year, hopefully to begin work by March
1989. With 31 vacancies already existing on the
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sitnif™’’ Winston-Salem
B„iM"'®“"fronloftheFeder-
Member ihe June 16. 1976
“I , ”"'=‘*■“”“^">’001-
ne VP young as
old, in Soweto, South
^"'“'"lAhng 12 years
G “d Carlton
■ hv rsley carted the weapons
* posters, placards, leaflets
and the strength of their convic
tions to lead Thursday's demon
stration.
They did more than commem
orate the 12th anniversary of the
Soweto Uprising, however. The
protest was also part of a nation
wide lobby day to encourage pas
sage of the Comprehensive
Sanctions Bill now proceeding
through the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives and Senate. The bill is
the strongest anti-apartheid legisla
tion to go through the congression
al committee process ever, accord
ing to the Washington Office on
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photo by Harden Richards
The Rev. John Mendez was one of the leaders of a demonstration support
ing a sanctions bill now making its way through Congress.
salary.
Sue Carson, the city-county scho
ol/community relations liaison, said the
board of education wanted a temporary
replacement who would not be a candidate
for the permanent position. She said that
Jessup had publicly stated that he would not
I apply for the permanent
I position.
Jessup says he is one
I course away from certifi-
I cation and that although
I he "never really thought
I about applying for a
I superintendent's posi-
«tion," he planned to com-
«plete the course neces-
® sary for certification as
^ so(m as possible.
S "I think I'm going lo
® get that course because I
think it's important for
the superintendent to have that certifica
tion," he said. "If I can take the course pret
ty quickly, I will."
Jessup said, however, that he viewed
his acting position as a "learning experi
ence" and that he had no desire to be super
intendent of schools. Jessup said his respon
sibilities as assistant superintendent for aux
iliary services involved construction, main
tenance, transportation and food service.
When asked why Jessup was chosen
over several other persons who have super
intendent certifications, Garlene G. Gro-
gran, chairman of the board of education
said, "We did not feel like that was that
importanL Mr. Jessup has been in the sys
tem for a long numbCT of years."
Grogan said she could not divulge any
of the school board's discussions about Uw
interim replacement because the decision
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and Alton Maddox stood by the Rev. Ai Sharpton
today, saying the man who claims he was hired by'
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government.
On the t^)es, Sharpton and lawyers Mason and
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the alleged kidnapping, not to be a kidnapping, but
actually a four-day party."
Cancer linked to poverty
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among black Americans is a factor in the higher can
cer death rate among blacks, said Ihe new leader of the
American Cancer Society.
When middle-ciass blacks are compared to middle-
class whiles or poor blacks lo poor whites, "the differ
ences in cancer survival between blacks and whites
nearly disappear, said Dr. Harold P. Freeman.
Fade cream ad angers blacks
PHILADELPHIA - A new advertising campaign
for Porcelana Fade Cream that invites young black
women to become "faded beauties" by bleaching their
skin is creating an uproar in Philadelphia.
The billboards feature a close-up photograph t)f
two light-skinned black women and the words, "Faded
Bcaiiiics of Philadelphia," along with the product