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Belles still ring for freedom
4 Bennett College march
Commemorates 60 years
of civil rights activism
By BRIDGET EVARTS
JHe Chronicle Staff Writer
; 1? Bennett women no longer have to fight for
their place at the lunch counters of
Greensboro, but many students are still fight
ing for their place in society.
T-About 300 students from the private
Methodist college and their supporters
marched down Elm Street Oct. 10 to commem
orate 60 years of Bennett activism. The
marchers made their way from the school's
Pfeiffer Chapel to downtown sites of past civil
rights battles.
The march's route revisited Bennett's
involvement in the civil rights movement.
Among the marchers' stops were Woolworth,
site of the February 1960 Sit-ins, and the for
merly segregated downtown movie theaters.
Though it was four North Carolina A&T
State University students who began the
Woolworth Sit-ins, the marchers attested to the
fact Bennett women were there at their side.
But Bennett's involvement in civil rights
struggles predates the mass movement for inte
gration. In 1937. Belles led the successful
National Theatre protest against a resolution
issued by North and South Carolina theater
owners to edit out scenes in films in which
blacks appeared as equals of whites. After sev
eral months of low attendance, theater owners
abandoned the practice.
Protests resumed in the early 1960s as stu
dents protested segregated theaters, lunch
counters and cafeterias. Part of the Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE) actions of the
early 1960s, other protests occurred simultane
See BENNETT on A6
NAACP objects
to definition
of 'N' word
BALTIMORE ? NAACP
President & CEO Kweisi Mfume
criticized Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary's definition
of a "nigger" as a "black person"
or a "member of a dark-skinned
race" and has announced the
NAACP plans to join a national
letter-writing campaign to pressure
Merriam-Webster to either drop or
change the definition.
"The NAACP finds it objec
tionable that Merriam-Webster
would use black people as a defini
tion for a racist term," Mfume said.
"A 'nigger' is not a black person or
a member of a dark-skinned race
as defined by Merriam-Webster. It
is not a definition of a person's
race, but a derogatory word,"
Mfume added. "There clearly
needs to be a correction immediate
ly."
President Mfume warned the
publishers of Merriam-Webster
that if the dictionary is not
changed more forceful action will
be taken.
"We will soon be asking col
leges, universities and public school
systems to cease purchasing the
dictionary if changes are not forth
coming," Mfume said. "It is unac
ceptable that one of file most
offensive and hurtful words in the
English language would be used to
define African Americans."
For more information about
this issue contact us at our web site
at www.naacp.org.
HAWS did submit
drug grant on time
% BUDGET EVAKTS
tioo for nest
year's Drug
Eiimina-tion
Grant.
HAWS
board com
missioner
Ellen Haz
zard provided
The Chronicle
with a letter addres led to the
authority'! cx-ecuthfe director,
Marie Rosebonx la die kttet
Sandra L. James, North
Carolina's Department of
Housing and Urban
Development's acting director
stated that the grant was
received several hours before the
Aug. 8 deadline
Jessie Rome, public affairs
officer for the local HUD office^
said that the federal department
has not yet released information
on which authorities will receive
the grant for next year.
Black-owned grocery
unique to area, state
0y BRIDGET EVARTS
The Chronicle Suff Writer
It's not often that a trip to the
grocery store can include one in
the historical process.
I-But visitors to 5-Star Grocery
in early November will get to see
thp first full-service grocery store
o*$ned and operated by African
Americans open in Winston
j^alem. S-Star may even be unique
to the state and surrounding
areas.
The store is located on the
corner of Waughtown Road and
Reynolds Park Road in King
Plaza. With 27,700 square feet
available, S-Star will be the
anchor store of the newly reno
vated shopping center.
There are five people behind
5-Star. Two years ago, Noble
McGregor, Ben Penn, LaVerne
DeJournette, Chri^ Wallace and
Harry Hankins, all managers of
different Food Lions, were on
their way to a management meet
ing when they began discussing
the idea of their own grocery
store.
"We felt we could get together
and service the community better
together," said Penn. The five
worked on a business plan and
presented it to several organiza
tions and banks. Wachovia and
the city's Minority/Women
Business Enterprise program
both backed the partners with
start-up loans.
Backing the Ave wasn't much
of a gamble: between them is
over 80 years of grocery store
management experience.
DeJournette and Hankins, at 35
and 34 years the youngest part
ners, were recruited by Food Lion
while in college. Likewise,
Wallace spent a good portion of
his work life, 15 years, working
See FIVE STAR on A2
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Harry Hanktna an thm fhrm tfart of 3-Star.
Project Homestead wins
case in limo dispute
From Staff Reports
A 10-month dispute between
Greensboro's Project Homestead
and a business associate ended
with a favorable ruling for the
nonprofit housing provider in
Guilford County Superior Court
Friday. Dale Bledsoe, owner of
All Stretched Out Limousines,
was ordered to pay $1,000 to
Project Homestead for breach of
contract.
The dispute involved the ter
mination of a verbal agreement
entered in April 1996 between
Bledsoe and the nonprofit's pres
ident, t|ie Rev. Michael King.
Project Homestead purchased
two limousines for Bledsoe to
rent in his former business. East
Coast Limousine; 60 percent of
the profits went to the nonprofit
organization.
The deal soured, and Project
Homestead ended the contract in
December. Bledsoe entered
claims against the nonprofit,
which in turn filed a suit against
him.
Judge H.W. Zimmerman dis
missed all of Bledsoe's claims for
lack of evidence. The amount
awarded to Project Homestead
was determined by what Bledsoe
indicated he owed the organiza
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