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NEWS
Black Republicans for Congress
Spurred by a desire to reform Congress and
promote government initiatives thai witt sratfl&eii
urban communities, this * toed bt|J||
Republicans are seeking rtjrijiCT
" ' V M VL 1 1 ' " ' ' JM ? -? 1 *' 'Sf-'T"? ~'ifc * y "? "It ? w-m ? m
It succcssful, the candidates will foISolpp
footsteps cast in 1990 by Rep. Gary Franks of Con
necticut's Fifth District Republican
The House candidates are seeking to represent
their prospective tfbfftets have majority black vot
ing-age populations. Others are mostly white. One
district is mostly Hispanic.
elected to the House of
Democrats have control
? since 1932.
since 1955.
Integrated cast, crew on N.C. film
WIILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) ? In the midst
of the nation's recent racial unrest, an integrated
cast and crew in the Wilmington area was busy
constructing something positive with "Simple Jus
i ice," a PBS film based on the life of the first black
Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.
"Simple Justice'1 starts with Justice Marshall's
early years as a law student and ends with his suc
cessful drive to end school segregation in the
Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka deci
sion (1954). Set primarily in the South from 1932
to 1954, the film is adapted from Richard Kluger's
book of the same name. < C *
Stage actor Ptfcer Franc is James stars in the
film and James Avery, best known as Uncle Phil on
TV's "Fresh Pri nee of Be! Air," is Justice Marshall's
mentor, Charles Homton. After shooCtBlfem May
11 to June 13, the film will air in late Januaryas
the first drama in "The American Experience"
series, which uiitil now consisted solely of docu
mentaries. r;;V:.
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Court ruling hurts black colleges
WASHINGTON. (AP) ? Black public col
leges face an uncertain future after a Supreme
Court ruling that such schools in Mississipgii were
unlawfully kept separate and inferior.
Some predict the ruling will bring increased
{muling and upgraded degree programs to histori
cally black colleges in states that would rather
close them than improve them.
In its ruling, the high eouart also held that lower
courts should decide how to remove the effects of
past segregation from historically black, state-run
colleges.
It was the court's first broad rtduig on segrega
tion in colleges, even though it dewed segrega
tion in elementary and high schools unlawful near
ly 40 years earlier.
There are at least 117 black U.S. colleges, 75
of which are state-run schools. Thirty-eight are his
torically balck, as in, built explicitly forblack stu
dents. , ?
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Blacks likely to be refused loans
BVANSVEXE, Ind. (AP) ? Several Vander
burgh County banks are puzzled by a publish*^
report claiming black applicants are more tfljlj
three limes as likely to be turned downfor home
mortgage loans than whities.
In 1990, blacks received less than 1 percent of
the money the area's nine banks and thrifts loaned
in 1000 to families to buy or renovate homes or to
refinance existing loans, The Evansville Courier
reported. About 12 percent of the county's popula
tion is black. ; \ V
The newspaper reviewed 3,43?|ioan ^plica
tions submitted to the banks and savings and ldiii
in 1990. It found that, in EvansviHe, the ovetjjft
rejection rate for white applicants was 8.1 percent,
while the black rate was 25.9 percent
The same data was used by the Federal
Reserve, which last foil released its report showing
that blacks nationwide are rejected for mortgage
lo ins twice as often as whites. ~~T"~
National News Briefs
Compiled from stqff and AP reports
Civil disobedience blocks board vote
? School board forced to delay
vote on redistricting plan
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chronicle Staff Writer
In a jolting and unexpected speech
last Thursday, the Rev. Carlton Eversley
told the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
school board that continued discussion
on redisricting without black representa
tives seated as voting members will not
be tolerated. ,
"We will not allow this board to
make a decision without black represen
tation. It is illegitmate. It. is not courte
ous. It is not right You are not our mas
ters and we are not your slaves," began
Eversley. His first outburst apparently
left the board members stunned and
shocked.
"We will not sit by idly and allow
six people to make our destiny. We are
men and women. We are not children.
We will not go away and will fight to our
dying breath for democracy/ he contin
ued
Eversley interrupted the meeting on
two instances, forcing the board to call
for a quick vote to table the issue until
the next meeting.
During Eversley's first speech,
board members Tom Voss and Gloria
Whisenhunt abruptly walked out, but
quickly returned for a vote to recess the
Please see page A2
Together again !
I
Ma
Marvin Halrston (left) and Fred Chavls couldnt wait to get their feet wet and talk about old times dur
ing the recent Atkins High School Class of 1953 reunion held at the Holiday Inn-North. The Class of
1952 held their reunion last weekend. (See story on page A6.)
A concerned parent told the Rev. Carlton Eversley that the white communi
ty supported him on the redisricting Issue.
Death penalty
sought for one
of four suspects
A Community leaders question
accounts of the death of Lt
Aaron Tise and offer to conduct
their own investigation
By SAMANTHA McKENZIE
Chronide Staff Writer
District Attorney Thomas Keith said the investiga
tion into the death of Winston-Salem police officer Lt
Aaron Tise has shown that only one of the four suspects
was on the motor grader at the time of the incident
As a result only one of the four black teenagers
will face the death penalty.
According to police reports, Tise died after being
struck by a motor grader on Friday, June 26. Four black
teenagers, Conrad Crews, 19, Jamarus Crews, 16, Der
rick Frierson, 19 and Theo Witherspoon, 19, were all
charged with first degree murder and are being held
without bond.
Keith said he has received a number of conflicting
stories from witnesses; one account stating that at least
Please see page A2
Word on the street . . .
A On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified and blacks became U.S. citizens. More than
a century later many blacks feel they are still not treated equally in this country.
* Realistically we are full
U.S. citizens, by the
ratification of the 14th
amendment. But actually
there are people of differ
ent races and religions who
are subjected to an imbal
ance in the application of
the principles o! the 14th
amendment. We can go
wherever we want to go,
but when we get there we
are treated unfairly. .
- La volte Roberts, 40
* We will never be treat
ed like full U.S. citizens
because of the color of our
skin. Not as long as we
have a white President.
Put Jesse Jackson in there
and then things will
change. When it's time to
get a job and to pick up
our checks, you see the
difference. In reality, we
are still slaves. It's just a
bunch of bull. .
- Reginald Smith, 39
vmm
* We are not treated like
citizens like we are sup
posed to be. Other people
come over to this country
and get better treatment
than us. Some of it is our
fault, but not all of it. The
white man will never
treat us the way he treats
another white man. We
will never get justice and
equality under this sys
tem.
- Juanlta Howell, 59
L
( I do think justice (for
blacks) is unequal and
unfair. When my mother
went into the store, she
gave the woman a $100
bill and the (cashier)
looked at her like she stole
it. The other person in the
store followed me around,
like I was going to steal
something. I don't see why
skin color should have
anything to do with it. j
- Tamlka F??mo?t#r, 15
f I think we are treated
half and half. Sometimes
we are treated fairly, but
then other times we are
not. At least now we can
ride the same buses and
drink from the same water
fountains. Sometimes a
white person witt get the
job before a black person
will. That's when you start
noticing the differences
(in treatment). I
- Ricky Rowland, 34
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