NAACP Education Caucus to meet Tuesday to discuss school litigation
! By CARLTON HVERSLEY
Spedri lo Tw Cwowcle
When you come to the second
; meeting of the NAACP Education
Caucus Wednesday at 8 p.m. at
Dellabrook Church, this is what
will happen: The meeting will start
precisely on time with the singing of
all three stanzas of the Black
National Anthem "Lift Every Voice
and Sing." We will have an invoca
; tion by the Rev. Donald Jenkins,
> pastor of Saint Paul United
Methodist Church- A New Testa
ment reading from Matthew 1:1-17
will be done by the Rev. Dr. Paul
Lowe, pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church. Part of the reason for the
prayer is to emphasize that the Cau
cus is a church based movement to
organize the entire black communi
ty on the issue of public education
for our children.
Ms. Irma Jackson, clerk of the
caucus and a science teacher at
Parkland High School, will give the
minutes, welcome and a brief state
ment of purpose. An excerpt fr&tn
"The Autobiography of Frederick
Douglas" will be read to place our
struggle in its historical context.
Each of the nine sections (par
ents, teachers, students, administra
tors, professional support staff,
and clerks arc, when and where
they'll regularly meet and what one
or two of our seven overall goals
(five long-term, two short-term)
their section wants to focus op. The
vocational, support stafT, legal
action, pastors and other religious
professionals and business) will
take two-and-a-half minutes each
to report. Mainly, they'll be telling
us who their permanent moderators
congregation will have two-and-a
half minutes per section for com
ments and/or questions (no speech
es). This will take about 45 minutes.
The moderator will lead the
next portion of the meeting. Most'
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importantly', he will ask the caucus
to make a commitment to the two
short-term goals, which are: to sue
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Coun
ty Schools for intentionally resegre
gating the district; and simultane
ously, to embrace and enhance the
all-black schools that are left in the
historically African American com
munity to ensure that they work for
our children. People will have had a
month to think and pray the depth
of the commitment to'and the care
of these short term goals
This lawsuit will take Ave-10
years or more to fully pursue and
will cost, minimally, between
S250,000-5330,000. Even more sig
nificantly is the lifestyle difference
required of us in order to organize
the whole black community in
order to embrace and enhance our
schools. It will mean dividing the
black community into quadrants.
Churches and businesses within
each quadrant must help our
schools by raising money; lobbying
the school system for whatever the
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