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cdriM tconcnu Dying Community Revitalizes Itself The Third Ward Community once considered by some the most run down area in Charlotte has recently become one of the most active and most news worthy areas in Char -lOttO. r--T ■■■, __ These citizens with the help of the Y.W.C.A. has taken it upon them selves to revitalize their community and to realize the full potentials of helping each other help themselves. The Third Ward Community is centered around the Third Ward Community Organization Group whose overall program is to inform and help. This organization has in stituted such functions to the comm unity as the “Intoxication program,” the “Mental Health” and “Social Service Program,” the “Transportation Program,” and the “Young Mothers Program.” Under the guidance of the Y.W.C.A. and under the leadership of Mr. James Mitchell these programs help give much needed advice and even more needed aid to the elderly, and the young, to the poor and to the needy, to the sick and to the forlorn of the Third Ward Community. The Community Organization Group provides transportation to those needing it for medical or legal reasons. They provide seminar ser vices by inviting professional people into the community to give much needed conseling on such topics as insurance, legal aids, and health. The group was also responsible for the much publicized community clean up activity that collected trash and debris, had junked cars re moved, old homes painted and re novated, and had weeds cut down 'and removed. Another ClgHTY-Up ' campaign is scheduled for October 19 to finish a quite successful pro ject. t With such success, all is still not perfect with the Third Ward Comm unity Organization group. A lot of services, a lot of counseling, and a lot of just plan help is needed to finish a very well started project. People versed in special talents should be willing to give some time to help a community that is going overboard to help themselves. Church groups, Civic organizations, fraternities, and sororities can give time and-or donations to a worthy cause. The community organization group is not funded and so far this entire project has been sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. in fact the Y.W.C.A. was the initiators of this community self pride effort. Third Ward Is Typical Example The Post feels that Third Ward is a typical example of what can be done when the desire, and the spirit to do something is there. What warms the heart even more is that the resid ence of Third Ward are not home owners, but rather renters who have taken pride in their living conditions and pride in their fellowman and have started a ball rolling to do something about it. The Post also would like to tip our hats to thank the Y.W.C.A. for caring about a comm unity, a people. With such assertions of people helping people we at the Post feel that the world is not all bad. It’s just a shame though that good tax dollars are going to waste in administrative cost because it is a shame that the city will not foot some of the bill. Keeps Youths Off Street To keep the youth off the streets the Third Ward Community Organ ization Group renovated the now known community building located at 1433 South Church Street into a recreation center. With planned act ivities going on the young people find themselves participating in organiz ed fun and games which has curbed crimes which occurred out of Bore dom. Something On Your Mind? Something on your mind is the name of a column devoted to you-the young at heart reader of this news pa per--as long as it relates in some way to young people, regardless of age. It will be written by you and about whatever is on your mind! So, if you have something to say.... WRITE ON! Some subject that may be of Special interest to you are: Drugs, Generation Gap, Welfare, Gangs. Schools, Going Steady, Police, Revo lution, Whites, Blacks, Integration, Busing Draft, God, Negro Churches, etc. Or any other subject you want to write about. Remember it’s your column. Your article should be at least 250 words, type-written and double space preferred. Include your name, age, school, and a clear photo, and send it to the Editor, Charlotte Post Newspaper, Post Office Box 97, Charlotte, N.C. 28201. We will pay $10 for each column used. I THE CHARLOTTE POST Serving The Black Community Since 1*18 The Charlotte Post Publishing Company. Inc. 8138 Trinity Road, P.O. Box 87. Charlotte. 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The Post Is not responsible for any photos or news copies submitted for nnbllcatlon. 1 Added Fuel For “Black Rage” !!! roy uuiLhin'i coLunnn f The people of South Boston Mass., are victims in th« drama, of equal education First, they are victims of tbc policy of administrative seg regation, widely practiced by northern school administrat ors. Second, they are the prey of a federal government that has no clear-cut support for the desegregation of northern schools and whose elected officials encourage citizens to defy the law. The law is that no school systems be maintained |Qr white or black children. The goal is equal education, not the busing of children, o^ “forced,” as former President Nixon said, or any other kind. The courts again and again have upheld the busing of children as a proper tool to be used against dual school sys tems. As recently as 1971 in the Swann case, the U.S. Sup reme Court approved incon venient or “bizarre” efforts for getting rid of racially se gregated schools. But the federal government has been playing a shell game with the people in South Bost on. The government knows that the law is against schools maintained for whites alone but they are hiding behind the confusion of the administra tive-and unapolpgetically se gregative-school procedure; in the North, behind the ego; of ethnic districts, behind the political opportunism an< emotionalism of busing am behind the encouragemen given by federal officeholder to defiance of the law. As has been noted, resis ance to law enforcement by people is deemed sufficier excuse for non-enforcemer “The coloreds aren't getting an equal education, right? Yet they (the school authorities) want to put our children in these schools where they’re not getting an equal educa tion, so then our children aren’t getting an equal educa tion.” Some of these mothers say they have no objection to Negro children going to school with their children. Then they tell the story of a lonfe black student at the high school who was hung by his heels and thus “persuaded’’ to go to school elsewhere. What is lost in the dislike of skin color is that black mothers want exactly the same things for their children that white mothers want for theirs. The whites are fighting fiercely against what they see as a danger to the education of their children. The blacks are fighting, too, for a better edu cation for their children and a new place for them in the world of tomorrow. Both need to heed the late James Michael Curley, mayor of Boston in another era. Said he at an NAACP dinner: “Some politicians carry this NAACP membership card to get votes. I carry it because I know about race discrimina tion. When I was a boy an Irishman couldn’t get in City Hall not even to scrub the floors. When I was mayor, I defy you to find one Yankee in City Hall. We Irish know what discrimination is.” It is still the same today, regardless of whether the Irish or the Neprrw»s use it. by Secretary Caspar Weinbe rger of the Department of Health, Education and Wel fare. A study by the Center for Policy Review found that, al though the law prescribes the cutting off of HEW funds as a last resort from school dis tricts that fail to comply, HEW had not cut off funds. A black child is hurt as much by law segregating the races as he is by administra tive procedures. Racial seg regation is outlawed as uncon stitutional. Since schools in black neighborhoods were generally inferior in equip ment and in the experience of teachers, the only way black children could have access to equal education was to be bused to the schools where better education was being taught. Besides recognizing this - truth, an unnamed South Bos a ton housewife put her finger t on another irritation. She t said: Lanning For District Court Judge by Gerald Johnson With election day Just a round the corner it is time to take a close look at the cand idates running for office. In some cases this is a hard task , but for the district court judge I think that black people should cast their votes for James Lanning. Mr. Lanning's opponent, Mr Joseph Beard, has a long record of conservatism, apple pie, law and order that sort of thing Mr. Beard is an anit abortion proponent and his supporters are relishing in the fact that Mr. Lanning is a Liberal Mr. Beard's support ers are using Mr. Lanning's recent participation as an A ttorney behind the school's desegregation suit as an issue that should be held against him This would imply to me that Mr. Beard is against school desegregation Even if backers. I have saiu 6nce and I will say it again that any office holder is obligated ,t0 those who put him in office regardless of how unfair it may seem. That's politics. Mr. Lanning of course is a partner in the law firm of Chambers, Stein, Ferguson, and Lanning. His ability as an Attorney is unquestionable, but more importantly his val ues seem to be in line with what is fair for all. He played a major role in desegregating Charlotte's school system. In my attempts to evaluate the candidtates until election day and to give my personal opinion on who to vote for this choice was by far the easiest My judgement is completely bipartisan and my conclusions are strictly on a candidtates record As I See It. Consequen tly these two candidates are as different as night and day. Needless to say who is the day he wasn't against school de segregation. Mr Beard's sup porters are not the type that would benefit the well being ol blacks in this metropolis II Mr Beard won the election he would be obligated to his DOWN TO BUSINESS _ _ Black Power And~ _Community Development We in business and those in the social services talk constantly about the concept of community development and the potential it holds for Black people. But very few sit down to say what it means in terms of an economic and political base or even where we should begin to develop it. Recently a member of NBL’s Committee for National Policy Review commented, “We must demonstrate unity in the struggle for survival of all segments of the Black community. All of us must find a common bond of sharing the deprivations of Blacks.” I think that is the starting point.. UNITY. Understanding and sharing in the problems somehow makes achieving the future successess more satisfying. When that bond is translated into a unified body of people-committed to a common cause and with the resources to achieve their goals-then we begin to understand the “power of unity.” At the National Business League’s Convention in Atlanta, October 23-26,1974, we will devote our attention to making the concept of the “power of unity” the foundation upon which we as Blacks .will develop into an economically and socially viable part of the international scene. The strategy to achieve this includes pioneer ing new areas of African and Caribbean business opportunities. But it also calls for the revival of QHITIP of thncp Kacin incfitntinnc tkof Vtnfm • brought the Black community to the point it is today. I’m talking about our Black banking, lending, saving, and insurance institutions. That is what I call development-identifying, challenging, and conquering these new frontiers that will shore-up and solidify that which we already have. • ' v If there is one element that has stood by us through the other hard times, it has been our Black money institutions. Historically, the majority banking and lending enterprises have been the happy recipients of our deposits and repositories of our hard-earned savings. Yet when the time comes to assist us in financing our dreams of ownership of home, property, or business, we are time and again met with unhearing ears. The other method was to charge an interest rate so far above prime interest rates that we couldn’t afford it anyway. Where did we go then, to the “Brother” down the street. - I am not hesitant to repeat a belief that I have expressed to Black people across this country and that is: every time you bank, save, or borrow from a whitd"institution, you are financ ing your own discrimination. That’s what the facts of money-making are all about. When we have at our disposal every sort of Black bank, credit union, lending and saving ocorvoi otion tViorn ic nn ovnnco fnr omr nnn them failing because of lack of support from the Black community. As far as I’m concerned, banking and saving Black equals Black power for community deve lopment. When the Black-earned dollar stays in our community we can rest assured that that money is going to serve the needs and interests of our community. 4 ' There is no question of the power of economic unity. If we can amass the money we earn and spend outside our community and then channel it back into the community; no one will have to vfarry about or study the possibilities and potential for development in the Black commun ity. We would be a model for the world. The power of unity would have another REAL example. Representatives of each of our major national Black banking, loan, and saving associations will meet with us October 23-26 at the NBL Annual Convention. Join us and we’ll all get down to business. Support The Black Press Our Freedom Depends On It!
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