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Nor?h Carolina Room Forsyth County PubHc UbrW 660 West f.f*S Sir-" _ m ^ - . C0?7 :b 020697DA01 FORSYTH CNTY pub - S-S^vc. *s*"'r:} -? ' '???? --V' -*. ? * <*;. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1995 Dedicated to the memory of Ciare nee ? Nottingham - i903-1995 VOL. XXII. No. The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, left, listens as Minister Louis Farrakhan addresses the participants at the National African American Leadership Summit held last week in Washington, D.C. By WILLI AM REED National Newspaper Publishers Association Correspondent Just one month after they engineered the largest assem blage of black male activists in American history, Louis Far rakhan and Benjamin Qhavis were back in Washington, this lime hosting 500 grassroots and community leaders, most of whom do not yet have national stature as "black leaders." The people who came to the three-day National African American Leadership Summit were heads of an assortment of black professional associations, fraternities, sororities, and com munity groups. They came to discuss how to address, and introduce, a new agenda to help cure black Amer ica's ills in light of the shortcom ings qn these issues illustrated by more established civil rights organizations and elected offi cials. In their workshops and semi nars in the nation's capital, they endorsed discussions on reparti tions and a black health care pro* gram. They also agreed to pursuer a tax-exempt trust. They wel comed some "established" black leaders and ignored others. see BLACK page 8 SYRACUSE, M Y (AP) - A Pennsylvania prosecutor's deci sion to charge only three of the five white police officers involved in the death of a black motorist left the victim's family only partially satisfied. "We are not completely sat isfied with it, but there is nothing we can do," Narves Gammage said Monday after learning that two of the officers involved in the death last month of her 31 year-old son, Jonny Gammage, escaped criminal charges. Two of the officers were charged with third-degree homi cide, while the third was charged with involuntary manslaughter. "We are satisfied with the two top charges. But involuntary manstau&lilun till IWlt a slap on the wrist to me. It's like someone went in the store and stole a candy bar. I know it. ymi, worse than that. So we are not completely satisfied with that decision," she said. _ "All five officers should serve time ... none of them tried to stop it," she said. "I m sure at some point they subdued him and he was alive. If they had just left him alone. I think they were mad with rage and evil and they kept on until they caused his death." she said. Gammage, a Syracuse native and cousin of Pittsburgh Steelers player Ray Seals, died early Oct. 12 after a low-speed chase by police from Brentwood, a Pitts burgh suburb. The chase ended jii^t inside Pittsburgh. A coroner's jury recom mended early this month that all five officers be charged with criminal homicide, which encompasses first-, second- and third-degree murder as well as voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. Brentwood police Lt. Milton Mulholland and Officer John Vojtas were charged Monday with third-degree homicide, involuntary manslaughter and official oppression, s^id Allegheny County Distrtir Attor ney Robert Colville. Third degree homicide is punishable by a prison sentence of 20 to 40 years. Colville said Baldwin Police Officer Michael Albert was charged only with involuntary manslaughter because he arrived at the scene later and did not express the malice necessary for a third-degree homicide charge. Whitehall Police Officers see GAMMAGE page 12 Fitting Tribute Wake Forest Honors McPherson For Service By MAURICE CROCKER v Chronicle Staff Writer More than 100 friends, students, and colleagues gathered to honor and recognize the service and dedication of Wake Forest University English professor Dolly A. McPherson Monday night The reception was held in honor of her 21 years at Wake For see McPHERSON page 9 Robert Brown, owner of BAC Associates of High Point, look on as Dr. Dolly McPherson receives congratulations from one of her many guests ot her recognition reception Monday night at WFU. Pictured Left, Poet hitua AuomIdu* a (el low Wflfr tmbraces Mrs. Ervin, owner of Ervin's Beauty Service. Pictured right, Winston-Salem Mayor Martha S. Wood and her hus band, Dr. Frank Wood commend McPherson for 21 years of service at the university. The Rev. Carlton Eversley reads a statement outlining the support of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem for a boycott of Kmart stores. Ministers Call for Boycott of Super Kmart: A Workers complain about discrimination, low pay: By JOHN HINTON Chronicle Senior Staff Writer The Ministers Conference of Winston Salem has called for a boycott of the Super Kmart Store on University Parkway in sup port of African American workers who have charged racial discrimination and harassment of their union at the Kmart Distribution Cen ter in Greensboro. The ministers^ group announced the boy cott at a news conference last week at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. "The boycott is on," said the Rev. Gregory Headen, a representative of the Pulpit Forum, a ministers group in Greensboro. The Union of Neddletrades, Industrial, and Textile Workers staged demonstrations at the Super Kmart in Winston-Salem and three stores in Greensboro. Demonstrators carried signs and passed leaflets to customers for about an hour Friday afternoon before Kmart officials ordered them off the premises. The Rev. Carlton Eversley, a spokesman for the Ministers Conference, was the only Winston-Salem resident to participate in the demonstration. The union decided to boycott Kmart after they received an unsatisfactory reply to their grievances from company officials. "They did not address our concerns,'!: Headen said. "Kmart must sit down with the. workers and negotiate some reasonable terms: They want to be paid." ; Greensboro workers receive an average of $4.60 per hour less than employees in other centers, Eversley said in a prepared statement? They get less sick time, fewer holidays, an& see MINISTERS page 9 1 SPORTS 28 .12 n 17 .17 nis Week in B Lack History December 3,1864 Twenty-fifth Corps, largest all-black unlUn history - of U.S. Army, established in Army of the James. ? ? - ? . ... . . Woman Evicted Thanksgiving Eve A Back rent leads to untimely holiday put-out By MAURICE CROCKER Chronicle Staff Writer A Winston-Salem woman did not feel she had a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, after she ana ner ram ily were evicted from their home a day before Thanksgiving. Wilhelmina Tolliver, 29, was asked to leave and escorted from her home on East 21st Street by a sheriffs deputy last Wednesday morning. "Here it is the day before Thanks giving and I don't have any place to stay. I don't even know where I'm going to eat tomorrow,^ Tolfiver said as she sobbed on a neighbors porch. According to Tolliver, Derrick S. Rolle, who owns the home she was fenting, arrived at 9:30 a.m. with a law enforcement officer and asked her to leave. Rolle could not be reached for comment. "I wasn't even given a 30-day notice, 1 received a letter in Nov. 17 telling me I had to be out by see WOMAN page 9 SFF SPORTS SECTION FOR CHROMICI PS Al I FORSYTH COUNTY FOOTBALL TEAM
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