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player booted SSSZ vets'tales dress u p - See rage Bl ^ W\ - See Page A3 _ See Page A10 -S?* Page CI t TTI/^X For Reference J / - k z?-? >n rvvJf> n?' - -??-Sli WXKSTOH SALE* VC 27J2U 27S3 ? 75 cents WlNSTON-salem ? greensboro ? Hh;h Point ,rorT1 this library Vol XXX No 10 ?WWWIM I.UI ill???>??: ? Mothers of accused killers hope trial will bring answers, freedom BYT. KEVIN WALKER llll CHRONK I I Arlenc Tolliver has moved away from the Southeast Winston neighborhood where her fami ly's world fell apart last year. Tolliver is the mother of one of the teenage boys accused of violently tak ing the life of gas station owner Nathaniel Jones last year. Jones was found beaten in the yard of his Moravia Street home. Robbery was apparently the motive. Tolliver said she and her six other children have not been the same since the night police informed her that her son. whose name The Chronicle is choosing not to publish because of his age. was being arrested for the crime. 'There were too many bad memories." Tolliver said, describing why she moved from the East Devonshire Street house she and her family had called home for seven years. But her new East Win ston apartment has not dulled her pain or weakened her resolve to see her son walk through her front door again. Tolliver maintains that her son did not commit the crime. She has taken an active role in trying to prove it. Last week. Tolliver met with Stephen Hairston. the president of the local NAACP. Hair ston said he helped Tolliver open up a better line of communication with the court-appointed lawyer that will represent her son in a trial that will begin See Mothers on A4 Photo by Kevin Walker Arlene Tolliver and Geneva Bryant are mothers of fwo of the boys who will stand trial next year for killing businessman Nathaniel Jones. ? Keepers of a Rich History Project unveiled that chronicles elders'stories BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE C.B. Hauser doesn't need history books or a television Movie of the Week to rein fdrce the ugliness and injus tice of pre-Civil Rights Amer ica. Long before Rosa Parks niade her historic refusal. Hauser was arrested for hold ing up a Greyhound bus in Mount Airy after he refused to give up his seat to a white man. Hauser - who would go on to serve in the General Assembly on his way to becoming one of this city's most respected residents - recalled the bus incident and many other stories from his more than 80 years of life in "Shades of Forsyth." a recent ly completed multimedia exhibit on display at the East Winston Heritage Center See Elders en A11 Photo by Ke\ in Walker I Vivian Clingman Evans (from left), Ella Whitworth and Lonnie Nesmith were interviewed for the project. Work of writer to come alive at fund-raiser BY COURTNEY GAILLARD i nr. v ni\ui> iv i r Winslon-Salem Stale University will cele brate the life and works of Lorraine Hansberry on Nov. 14 at the Anderson Center with "Lorraine Hansberry: The Woman." The program will spotlight several of Hansberry's plays, including "What Use Are Flowers?" and "A Raisin in the Sun." "What Use Are Flow ers?" is the focus of the One Book. One Community reading project at WSSU, where students and facul Dortch ties lake a yearlong look at her play across all academic disciplines. "What Use Are Flowers?" D Set Hansberry on All | Phrrto bv Kevin Walker As is the tradition, the Winston-Salem State University marching band led the school's homecoming parade on Saturday. Several other bands, floats, cars, motorcycles and horses followed the band. To take a pictorial journey back at the sights of this year's parade, see page CI J in this week's issue. Photo by Kevin Walker Larry Womble announces his plans to protest outside of the Bush luncheon during a meeting last week. Bush visit expected to draw protesters BY T KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE . Protesters hope to steal some of the spot light away from President Bush tomorrow as he comes to town to speak at a $2.(X)0-a-plate campaign fund-raising luncheon. The president's appearance at the Benton Convention Center is expected to raise about $1.5 million for his re election campaign. /\ few blocks away in Winston Square Park, the Forsyth County Democratic Party hopes to generate hundreds of cans of soup for charity during an event that is being billed as an alter native to the $2.0()()-a plate luncheon. During an event Hairston called "Free Soup and Free Speech," Democrats will create a soup line in order to draw attention to the have-nots in America. Organizers say those who can't afford a $2,000 lunch will be invited to bring a bowl and a spoon and enjoy a cheap meal. Those taking part in the event also are being asked to bring cans of soup to be donated to a food bank. "The best way we can draw attention to the damage Bush has done to the economy is See Protests on A4 Medical center regrets eugenicJ involvement' CHRONIoii STAFF REPORT Wake Forest University School of Medicine released the results of a months-long inquiry into the role the school played in the controversial eugenics movement of the 1940s and 1950s. North Carolina was one of dozens of states active in the movement, which involved sterilizing people deemed disabled or feebleminded. Accord ing to some reports, as many as 8.000 people in the state were sterilized under a state law that was struck dow n only a few months ago. Many of those sterilized were poor African-Americans. The Wake Forest University School of Medicine report acknowledges that beginning in the 1940s, several school faculty members promoted the prac tice of sterilizatkjn as a away to "reduce the inci dence of inherited diseases." The report states that one faculty member and possibly others performed
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