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VOL. XVII, No.29
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School Board
still looking at
election plans
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor vf
After nearly three hours of often contentious
debate and political maneuvering, the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County School Board agreed to con
sider changing the current method of electing board
members.
? The all-white board waded through a maze of
possible election proposals before reaching a con
sensus on five methods of electing board members
that could ensure African-American representation
on the board.
Board members (though some reluctantly)
unanimously decided to make a decision on which
of the proposals, if any, it would endorse during the
board's regularly scheduled meeting Monday night.
Three of the plans guarantee that two or three
African- Americans would be represented on the
board while the other two increase the likelihood of
African-American representation.
Jane Goins, one of the most conservative
members of the board, maintained' throughout the
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Lee Faye Mack
Joseph Nance
Murphy
"We need to take our kids out of
school and teach them ourselves. "
? Lee Faye Mack ?
Photo by L.B Speas Jr.
The African-American community told the NAACP It Is tired of waiting on the
school board: they urged that the suit be filed. . ???
Community
backs NAACP
against Board
expects to file suit Thursday
iem/Forsyth County School
Board in U.S. Middle District Court in Greensboro
on behalf of the Winston-Salem branch due to the
failure of the board to come up with an acceptable
election plan that ensures African- American partic
ipation on that board. ? ; ? ' ? :
The African- American community gave an
unwavering endorsement Tuesday night to the local
NAACP to follow through with its plan to sue the
city/county school board to force district elections
to ensure African-American participation on the
board.
More than 150 members of the African- Ameri
can community, including members of the Win
ston-Salem Board of Aldermen and the Forsyth
County Board of Commissioners attended the
meeting to lend their support to the effort to force
district school board elections.
The Rev. Joseph L. Nance, local NAACP pres
By RUDY ANDERSON
Please see page A3
N*A*T*l*0*N*A*L
NEWS
State probes shooting
WASHINGTON, N.C. (AP) _ The State
Bureau of Investigation is continuing its probe
into the shooting death of a black man by two
white officers of the Washington, N.C., Police
Department, the police chief said.
; A state laboratory is conducting tests on physi
cal evidence gathered at the scene of the shoot
ing of Amos Guilford, including a ballistics tests
on the officers' weapons, Washington Police
Chief John Crone said Monday.
Indictments to be sought
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Prosecutors said Fri
day they'll seek grand jury indfctmcnts against 0
police officers pictured in the videotaped beating
of a mc?brisl stepped for speeding. ? '
The district attorney's office said that instead
of filing charges itself, it would begin presenting
i is case before a grand jury Monday "in order to
get the matter to trial as soon as possible."
The widely televised amateur video showed
several officers taking turns beating&and stomp
ing on the man* who offered no resistance.
. ACLU defends racial slurs
* * WASHINGTON (AP) The new president of
the American Civil Liberties Union today joined
conservative Republican Rep. Henry Hyde in an
? ; effort to give students at private colleges the
right utter racial slurs. %
ACLU President Nadine Strossen and Hyde
; announced the introduction of a bill to empower
students to sue private colleges and universities
over disciplinary codes that restrict offensive
speech.
State probes shooting
. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ The
defense accused a key witness today of telling "a
pack of lies" by claiming Winnie Mandela had
beaten and punched him and three others during
a bloody interrogation.
Chief defense lawyer George Bizos continued
for a fifth day to chip away at the credibility of
witness Kenneth Kgase.
Letter calls commissioner "nigger lover"
Board's action termed polarizing
Photo by L B. Speas Jr.
Holleman says the letter is evidence of
how polarizing the board's action is.
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
County Commission chairman John Holleman says his
call for the school board to reconsider its position on main
taining the current system of electing board members has
brought out that element in the community that has no desire
whatsoever to see it move forward.
Holleman said he received an unsigned letter last week
after he made his statements about the school board's straw
vote. The contents give some indication of just how deep
racial hatred still runs in this community.
It read, "There you go with that nigger mess again. You
nigger lover, I guess you are part nigger. Let the school
board alone ? that is not you business. If you had anybody
but a drunk running against you last time, you would have
been in trouble- you have to run in a district where you get
the nigger vote to get elected. Try the state legislature some
time and see how far you get. Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax is all
you know you crumb."
"The letter is evidence that the school board could not
have done anything that was more polarizing in this commu
nity," fiolleman said. At the time Holleman said he thought
the board's decision not to consider district elections serious
ly compromised the "common vision" concept.
"Common Vision" is the name of a long range strategic
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CIAA group seeking to
snare tourney in '94
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
A five-member committee in
Winston-Salem is laying plans for an
all out blitz to land one of the biggest
sporting events in the country, the
CIAA Basketball Tournament.
The committee consists right
now of Mayor Martha Wood ; Fred
Nordenholz, president of the Greater
Winston-Salem Chamber of Com
merce; Jeter Walker, director of the
Chamber's Visitors and Convention
Bureau; Ernie Pitt, publisher of the
Winston-Salem Chronicle\ and U.S.
Air executive Dan Brock. Pitt and
Brock are co-chairs of the commit
tee.
Brock said the committee was
formed to organize a larger group jn
order to pull off bringing the tourna
ment to Winston-Salem. "The CIAA
is so big that there's going to be a
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*1 have. ..an under
'standing of what
people want "
??Marie Roseboro ?
Black woman
on Park Board
By PATRICIA SMITH-DEERING
Community News Editor
For the first time in the history Of the
Forsyth Colttnty Park Authority, an African
Amcrican woman will serve on its board which
has primary oversight responsibilities for, Tangle
wood Park. The Forsyth County commissioners
voted 4-3 to appoint Marie H. Roseboro, regional
cashier for Golden State Mutual Life Insurance
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Transition team picks
Urban League Board
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Edtor
The Winston-Salem Urban
League has now put to rest a turbulent
period in its history with the naming
of a new board of directors by the
transition committee established to
reconstitute the board.
Members of that transition com
mittee and officials from the National
Urban League office in New York
held a news conference Tuesday to
make the announcement.
Reading from a prepared state
ment, Mildred Love, vice president of
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, Photo by LB Speas Jr.
Officers of National Urban League: (left) Vincent Austin, Mlldr#?d Love and
? transition committee chair, Rev. Wendell Johnson announce new board.