...i . o ;> YOUR BEST 1 _ HttlSiUl liEWlfWWSS «OT | lfjprl THE : POST iligr "Charlotte’s Fastest Crosing Community Weekly" THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday. July 5. 1979 .. ^ 1 „ ' - — _ Pnce 30 Cents Evangeline ♦Redding To Speak Here by Eileen Hanson Special to the Po6t The first black woman ever to run for governor of North Carolina will be in Charlotte Friday, July 6 to meet sup porters and to discuss her campaign strategy. Evangeline Grant Redding of Tillery, N. C. will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfield Memor ial Baptist Church Chapel, 700 Sugar Creek Road. The meet ing is open to the public. Running as a “people’s can didate,” Ms. Redding plans to challenge Gov. Jim Hunt in the 1980 elections on issues such as freedom for the Wil mington 10 and Charlotte 3 and equal rights for blacks, and women. She will announce her platform at Fri day’s meeting. Ms. Redding is author of the book ‘‘Nothing: The Mental ity of a Black Woman” (avail able at Dar es Salaam Store, 7th and Tryon), and will soon publish a book on the Wilming ton 10. She is a close friend of Rev. Chavis and his family. Dr. Helen Otbow, sister of Chavis, said of Ms. Redding’s campaign, “This will be a great challenge for all minori ties and poor people. She represents the interests of all people who have been discri minated against.” According to Dr. Othow, a professor at Johnson C. Smith, “There is so much repression in this state and Evangeline’s going to challenge it.” Ms. Redding has long been kctiv* in civfl rights work. Sh6 gained national attention in November 1977, when she rode through the South tied to a cross on the back of a truck to protest injustice and to call attention to the plight of black youth. She has been active in help ing the families of the Wil mington 10 and plans to join the March for Justice and Unity on Saturday, July 7 in Charlotte. Photo by J«rry Curry LOVELY NATALIE WILSON ...Plans to attend Trim Modeling School Natalie Wilson Is Beauty Of Week by Sherleen McKoy Post Staff Writer Our beauty for this week is Natalie Wilson, a recent gra duate of Olympic High School. Her bobbies are writing poe try, listening to all kinds of music, dancing and delighting in little children. Natalie describes herself as a very sweet person who is emotional and cares about people. “My mother says I care too much, ” she said as an afterthought. Natalie presently bolds a part-time security post at the During the Fall on Saturdays, she plans to attend Trim Modeling School. She will also be attending a business college to major in Secretarial Science whenever she decides whether she will attend Hamilton, Kings or Central Piedmont Community College. Not only does she want to become a legal secretary, but Natalie also wants to be a Conference Set On Minority Employment Special to the Post The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the International City Man agement Association (ICMA) sponsored a conference last week at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. to identify public policy options for in creasing representation of minorities and women in administrative and profes sional positions in Federal, state and local government. The conference will redefine affirmative action and equal employment opportunity in the public sector in the face of the Supreme Court’s Bakke and Kaiser decisions, and Pro position 13 and other tax limi tation moves The two-day session is the ijf|j| culmination of a three-part grant program designed by HUD’s Government Capacity Sharing division to • assess affirmative action and equal opportunity in the public sector and to share informa tion on options for upward mobility strategies. Two HUD officials will • • • . » l The i r \ ■ longer \U>e RIGHT i i 'W *10, the I * ; four year* iat I obtained | {[ outside gj'- I 11 I "check* «* 1 l0: parents are consi dored as wc*> > #■ assets of the applicant !’);• indepen dent “'•:dt,nis. the assets and inw- • ,*f the app'icant and hi-- ,ci >>p4>.|vc ,re taken into ,i. Ms. Wilson Sounds Warning by Milton Jordan Editor, Convention Coverage News Service Special to the Post LOUISVILLE-Unless more black people rally to its call, the NAACP could find itself spread too thin, fighting too many battles on too many fronts to be as effective as it has been in the past. This undercurrent of warn ing drifted clearly through the 70th annual convention here last week that was a combina tion of discussions of problems facing the organization, pep talks, exuberance and inter nal squabbles. Margaret Bush Wilson, NAACP national board chair person, sounded the warning in her keynote address to more than 10,000 convention delegates opening night: "...we are now dealing with a climate much more treacher ous than we faced in the 60s and before. We are facing a subtle form, a covert form of racism, and it is masked in all kinds of colors, all kinds of styles, and all kinds of intri cate and sophisticated strate gies." Noting some of the issues, the problems that spread the NAACP's resources thin, Mrs Wilson, a St. Louis attorney, cited: + The energy crisis, a situation that earned the or ganization severe criticism last year when its policy sup ported energy expansion + The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which she called, “a survival mechan ism and a hedge against the greatest threat to our national security. She also said the SALT treaty will be a way to cut escalating armaments costs that take away money for the country's social programs + Sanctions against Zim babwe-Rhodesia, which the NAACP says should be main tained because the recent elections weren't fair, and the country still doesn't have majority rule -r international Aiiairs, about which Mrs. Wilson said: “This world of ours is no longer isolated, and what happens abroad impacts on us at home whether we want to admit it or not ” On domestic issues, the or ganization’s fiery executive director. Benjamin Hooks, told reporters, during a press meeting: “The headlines go to the political manuevering underway to beat back the steady progress blacks have made in the past 10 years in the field of civil rights No where is this concern of the public about equality de mands more evident than in the Congress of the United States What is generally felt among our white people in this country is being mimicked and pandered to in the United States Congress by way of attacks on affirmative action, and busing for school desegre gation " Other domestic issues con fronting the NAACP include apathy among black voters, especially young blacks Joe Madison of Detroit, who heads the NAACP Voter Registra tion Department, said: “Only See NAACP on page 7 Springam Medal Recipient Mrs. Rosa L. Parks’ Award Delights St. Louis During NAACP Convention by Gary Gregg Convention Coverage News Service Special to the Poet' LOUISVILLE--For five days in this city on the eastern , shore of the Ohio River, the NAACP tackled controversial issues, tried to marshall its . resources, attract new re sources awarded the coveted Spingarn Medal to Mrs. Rosa L. Parks,' and rang the city's coffers to the tune of more than $4.S million. Opening the convention on a controversial note, the more than 10,000 delegates support ed an emergency resolution that orders the Legal Defense . and Educational Ftjpd to stop using the civil rights organiza tion's initials The defense fund is known as “The NAACP l,eg» I Defense and Education al Fund," though the two orga nizations are completely separated. . At one point as the nation prepared to celebrate the 2Sth anniversary of the landmark decision, the White 'House wrestled with the problem-of which group to invite to the White House ceremony. Re portedly, NAACP executive director, Ben Hooks, said he would picket the White House if the Legal Defense Fund was given top billing. That confrontation was re Ifeved when the -NAACP National Bbard of Directors took it* celebration and regional board meeting to Columbia, SJC., the state where the'first anti-segrega tion suit was filed. It was one of'fiVe suits'covered in the Brown vs Board of Education Benjamin L Hooks . NAACP. Executive Director decision civil rights record, the NAACP awarded its Mth Spin garn Medal to Mrs Kosa L Parks Mrs Parks is credited with launching the civil rights movement of the SOs and fios I that launched Martin Luther King. Jr to international fame, and resulted in passage of the civil rights and voting rights laws In accepting the medal, Mrs Harks joined the ranks of previous winners, such as W E B DuBois, George Wash ington Carver, James Weldon Johnson, Marian Anderson. A Philip Randolph, and Andrew Young "Thiris a wonderful event, one that I never expected to witness.' said Mrs Parks, *4, who is a secretary-reception ist for US "Representative John Conyers of Detroit *1 4>m truly grateful All I have to say is that we must cdntinue to fight for freedom as long as it is denied '* . • Mrs Parks, an unknown •See PARKS on I’rfge i>