Woman who desegregated Greensboro High relives ordeal
By DAMON FORD
nBCMPIIXE
'? GREENSBORO - Septem
ber 4,1937 was a day Josephine
Boyd Bradley will never forget.
It was one day after five
black children in Greensboro
? enrolled at the all-white Gille
spie Park Elementary and
Bradley began her own histori
cal journey by becoming the
: first black to attend then all
white Greensboro Senior High
School (now Grimsley High
School).
Schools across the nation
had become battlegrounds.
Just one week earlier nine
black students in Little Rock,
Ark. were escorted into segre
gated Central High School by
federal troops while hundreds
of protesters surrounded them,
shouting racial obscenities.
Bradley didn't get any spe
cial escorts from Washington,
D.C. Bradley's only prptector
was her mother, Cora Boyd.
Though she never garnered the
amount of media attention
that accompanied her Little
Rock counterparts, she knew
she was as significant.
"I remember that first day
people were lined up," Bradley
said. "(White people) made
some noise about it (saying)
'Nigger, go home,'-that kind of
thing. The thing I remember
most was this lady with this
German shepherd dog and 1
was kind of expecting this dog
to pounce on me because I did
n't know what to expect.
"1 remember the assistant
principal Mr. Glen met us at
the door and he wasn't too
pleased to see me, and he made
that very clear that he wasn't. I
went to my homeroom and
signed up for my classes and I
think that was about the extent
of it the first day."
Though the historic Brown
decision struck down segregat
ed schools in 19S4, the ruling
could not protect her from the
problems she would face.
"One of the teachers had
told the students to throw
eggs," she said. "Whenever I
would go out one building to
the next they would drop eggs
on me."
The next day was no better.
"When 1 went into the cafe
teria 1 ended up with all this
ketchup and stuff all over my
clothes."
Students in her classed
would leave ink and thumb
.
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i$ople calling for a change in the way public money is distributed to
Schools.
*?" The Public School Forum of North Carolina released a study last
Week urging state officials to adopt a system of funding that would pro
vide extra money for school systems with a high number of at-risk stu
ttehts.
v The yearlong study concludes that without the extra funding, thou
sands of at-risk students will be vulnerable when a new statewide testing
system is implemented in 2001.
> Under the new system, students who fail to pass year-end tests in the
third, fifth, eighth and 12th grades, will be denied promotion to the next
grade level.
. "The question is whether North Carolina's schools will have programs
in place that will give young people a better chance to succeed before the
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Greensboro university and
JCSU tops in educating blacks
By LATOYA HAN KINS
CONSOLIDATED MEDIA GROUP
When it comes to educating African Americans, North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University is better than Harvard or
Yale, according to a national magazine.
'i-Jn the January edition of Black Enterprise, the Greensboro school
r<Jutscores Ivy League heavies Cornell University and the University of >
Pennsylvania, and public schools UNC Chapel Hill and UCLA as one
<Sf the best schobls for black students.
* The school ranked eighth in the annual survey. Charlotte's Johnson
C. Smith ranked 18th out of 1,077 schools evaluated.
? "We are pleased to be recognized, and we plan to continue to do
what we do, and we plan to do better," said JCSU President Dorothy
Cowser Yancy.
"It makes me feel really good, and we are just going to have to fight
.to get in the top 10."
Other North Carolina schools that made the list were UNC (19th);
and Durham's Duke University (20th) and N.C. Central University
(31st).
lire top three schools for black students are Spelman College, Mote
house College and Florida A&M University in that order.
Marjorie Whigham-Desir, senior editor of Black Enterprise and
coordinator of the story, said the idea came from a 6-year-old conversa
tion. 1
"A fellow editor at the time and I were talking about having a list to
help African Americans make a decision when it comes to attending col
lege, but we didn't know what kind of statistics or how to rank the uni
versity," she said.
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1998 will be remembered for highs
By JEW YOUNG
THE CHRONICLE
El Nino, the Bombing of Iraq and a
stained blue dress dominated head
lines in newspapers across the coun
try in 1998.
The news from Washington was shock
ing and occasionally bewildering as tales of ?
sex scandals - new and old - took center
stage. Not even the founding fathers were
immune.
Science proved that Thomas Jefferson
may have fathered an illegitimate child by
slave Sally Hemings. Ken Starr, aided by
tales of cigars and clandestine tapes, proved
that while the president may not have
inhaled, his relationship with White House
intern Monica Lewinsky was more than just
business.
U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde admitted he had
an affair as did a host of other powerful
Washington types including House speaker
elect Bob Livingston.
The sex scandal led to the nation's sec
ond impeachment of a president.
Though Washington took center stage,
life went on - almost as usual - in the Triad.
Nineteen ninety-eight proved to be a year
that most Triad residents will not soon for
get.
In January, the city began a retooling of
the Minority Women Business Entrepre
neurs program after two of its top ranked
officials resigned in less than a month. The
beginning of 1998, also saw visions of dia
monds - baseball diamonds, that is - danc
ing in the heads of local residents. After an
aggressive campaign, a May referendum for
an additional tax on prepared food to fund
a baseball stadium failed to garner much
support - despite promises of jobs and
opportunities for African American busi
nesses. A poll of 200 Chronicle readers
found that while most wanted to see the
"Boys of Summer," more than half didn't
like the idea 6f a tax to fund what many
viewed as private industry. The fight to
bring baseball to the Triad lost even more
steam when the Black Leadership Round
table declined to issue an official stance on
the effort.
"One issue is baseball - the other issue is
the tax," said Roundtable co-convenor and
N.C. Rep. Larry Womble, who said he per
sonally supported the effort in an April 23
article, "...but it's the way in which we're
going about it that's wrong. It's going to be
about taxing food."
May saw Winston-Salem State Universi
ty Chancellor Alvin J. Schexnider face alle
gations of financial mismanagement. Uni
versity employees reported that Schexnider
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Prosecutors plan Clinton strategy
By LARRY MARGASAK
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - For the first time, the
House members appointed to prosecute President
Ginton plotted strategy Tuesday for a historic
Senate impeachment trial. Some said they want to
call witnesses - an idea that got a cool reception
from the Senate Republican leader.
"I personally, aSt a former prosecutor, always
like to have witnesses," said Rep. James Rogan of
California as he entered the closed-door meeting
of House managers named for Clinton's trial.
"Which witnesses, the tenor of their testimony,
what areas need to be gone into, depends on a
number of things," including whether Clinton will
accept certain facts and not challenge evidence,
Rogan added.
But Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R
Miss., said he believes a trial could be held without
witnesses.
"Are witnesses required? I don't think so," Lott
said in a telephone interview with The Associated
Press. "I think the record is there to be reviewed,
read, presented in a form that (House prosecutors)
choose ... and I think that would be sufficient."
Lott also said he wants senators to vote up-or
down on removing Clinton from office before seri
ously considering censure as an alternative.
"I would prefer that there would be a vote on
the articles of impeachment," Lott said.
The trial would be the first of a president since
1868 and would be presided over by Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist.
The House prosecution team, comprised of 13
Republican lawmakers, is responsible for present
ing evidence to prove that Clinton perjured himself
before a grand jury and obstructed justice in trying
to conceal his affair with former White House
intern Monica Lewinsky.
The prosecutors are led by Judiciary Commit
tee Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois.
Rogan said that whether senators will allow
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commencement exercises. During an emotional address, Mines
encouraged her follow graduates not to fear the future, for full
story, see page 3A.
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