Students
HBy YVETTE N. FREEMAN
Chronicle Staff Writer
looking for audience |
Students in Carver High
School s Drama and Music Depart
ments hope their door-to-door cam
paign last weekend helped to sell
tickets to their upcoming production
of Purlie% Saturday, May 25 at the
Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium.
About 15 of the students
involved in the play passed out fly
ers Saturday, May 18, in the Carver
Road area to let people know of the
? ? Photo by LB. Spea$ Jr.
Shawn Robinson (left) and Mia Thompson (right) rehearse their
roles as the Rev. Purlle and Lutlebell, In Carver High School's
presentation of "Purlle."
upcoming showing of the play,
which will be the last for the school
year.
The play was first shown in the
Carver auditorium May 10th and
11th, but Director Annie Moye says
attendance to the production was
less than expected.
MWe had about a little over a
hundred people for each perfor
mance. I don't know if it was
because of Mother's Day weekend
or people had other obligations or
commitments to go other places.
But generally we have a bit more
than that when we're doing a musi
cal,'1 she said.
Moye went on to say that two
years ago when the school produced
"The Wiz," the production had the
largest audience than any other
nighttime school production, and
also set a box-office record at the
Stevens Center, where it was held.
And that was following three con
secutive nights at Carver's auditori
um, that had large audience atten
dance.
But Hal Tise, the set designer
for the play, says the reason atten
dance is low may be the subject
matter of the production primarily
-pertains to African- Americans.
Purlie is about a black minister
from Georgia, who goes back to his
v hometown togptclaim a church,
based on the pray Purlie Victorious
* by Ossie Davis. Use, who is white,
says because of that, white audi
ences may be turned off by the play,
although he says it has universal
appeal, and the community needs to
get beyond the racial barriers.
"It's just as important for a
_white_person to see the play as a
black person," he said.
The door-to-door campaign,
was the first that Carver has done to
Inmate freed after 14
years on death row
By HOYT HARWELL
Associated Press Writer
ODENVILLE, Ala. (AP) ?
Johnny Harris, who spent 14, years
on Alabttttta's death row, walked
free on parole Tuesday maintaining
his innocence in the stabbing death
of a prison guard in 1974.
Harris, 45, left the St. Clair
Correctional Facility near Birming
ham 21 years after he was sen
tenced to five life terms for four
r jobberies and one rape.
He was sentenced to death for
>lfie killing of a 43-year-old guard
I* Jkiring an inmate uprising but his
; jnurder conviction was dismissed in
> * 1*987.
Harris, who drew support from
international human rights groups
as a black man suppressed by white
society, told supporters as he
emerged from the prison that "my
, entire life evolved around this day."
"All of my struggling, pain and
suffering for. my freedom is some
thing beyond your wildest imagina
tioft," he said.
"One thing that I've learned
. from this 21 -year experience is that
Teedom is not a state of being ?
t's a state of mind." .
While insisting on his inno
cence, Harris did not comment in
detail on the cases that led to his
incarceration and death sentence.
"The past years have radically
transformed my way of thinking,"
Harris said. Tm striving to become
stronger during times of crisis,
humble during times of success,
tender in my feelings and grateful
to God at all times."
Harris, who denied stabbing
the guard, was convicted under a
Civil War-era Alabama death penal
ty statute.
That law, since struck down by
the U.S. Supreme Court, required
an automatic death sentence for an
inmate convicted of murder while
serving life. The murder conviction
was dismissed in 1987 by a state
judge on the basis of the Supreme
Court decision.
Luell Barrow was taken
hostage at Fountain Correctional
Center near Atmore, bound and
stabbed 27 times during an inmate
rebellion in a cellblock.
Harris was approved for parole
this year and will remain under the
supervision of state parole officials
for the rest of his life.
"If he so much as stumps his
toes he can be instantly back serv
ing that sentence," said Elmo
Graves, director of the state parole
board.
Amnesty International defend
ed Harris in the 1970s, describing
him as a victim of racism in part
because he was convicted of capital
murder by all-white juries.
His supporters also argued that
his initial guilty pleas to the rape
and robberies resulted from inept
counsel and a white-dominated
judicial system.
LA.
Tatia M. Davis
Former Chronicle staffer
receives her Masters degree
Tatia M. Davis, a former Win
uon-Salem Chronicle Staff Writer,
kvas awarded a Master of Science
Degree in Journalism by Columbia
Unive^fUy on May 15 at its annual
commencement ceremonies.
Davis was a staff writer last sum
' ner for the Chronicle, after having
graduated in May of the same year
rom North Carolina Central Universi
ty with a B.S. Degree in English.
While working at the Chronicle, she
covered community news.
She is a 1986 graduate of East
Forsyth High School and a member of
the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and is
the daughter of Dr. Lenwood G. Davis
and Dr. Glenda M. Davis. .
She is the granddaughter of Mrs.
Lucy M.Davis.
Photo by L B Speas Jr.
Pictured (toft to right) are: Llllle Peebles, Chad Fulton, Mia Thompson, Shawn
Cherry, and Quentln Gwyn, as they perfect their performances for Saturday s presentation at the
Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium.
inform the public of an upcoming
production, and Moye says it may
not be the last. She says generally
Carver's productions are advertised
through flyers and "every once and
a while we'll get a radio spot or a
public service announcement on
- television.-?
For this production, she says
advertising was mainly done with
flyers and a spot on the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County School Tele
vision Channel 2, which may not
have been enough to draw a large
audience.
But they hope last weekend's
effort will correct all that with a
large audience at Williams auditori
um, and they -say if anyone else in
the community is interested in com
ing to see the play, they should call
Carver High School at (919) 727
2987 for ticket information.
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