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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
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address the conference,
Donna E. Shalala, Assistant
Secretary for Policy Develop
ment and Research, and Ster
ling Tucker, Assistant Secre
tary for Fair Housing and
Equal Opportunity.
Others on the program will
be Elijah B. Rogers, City
Administrator, Washington,
D C.; Carl Stokes, WNBC-TV,
New York; Sue Simons, WRC
TV, Washington, D.C., and
executive directors of several
public interest groups.
The conference will bring
together representatives from
public interest groups, profes
sional associations, schools of
public administration, groups
representing minorities and
women and professional and
civil rights organizations.
A professional and educa
tional association of urban ad
minifttrators, the ICMA,
through its Minority Execu
tive Placement Program
(MEPP), has helped more
than 540 Blacks, His panics
and women fill key positions in
the urban management pro
fession.
Minority Trade
Fair Scheduled
The second anraaJ state
- wide Minority Trade Pair wii
be held at the Charlotte Civk
Center on October i and 4
beginning at noon on the 3rc
and ending at noon on the 4th
More' than MOO purchasing
agents apd vendors have beer
invited to nourish old, an<j
. establish. new relattqpajup*
between purchasing agent’
Slid minority vendors
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creative dancer.
“After I’ve finished college
and am not satisfied with
myself, then I’ll go to another
college and take up dancing,’’
she said.
Natalie also expressed a
desire to take Spanish courses
while she’s in college. “I love
the Spanish language," she
said.
Eighteen-year-old Natalie
credits her mother as being
most influential in her life.
“My mom tries to bring me
up in the way that I won’t
easily get hurt,” she related,
“and she opens the way that I
may get as many chances as
possible, especially in regards
to school and studying the
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Some memorable times in
Natalie's life occurred this
past calendar school year.
During the football season,
she was Olympic’s Homecom
ing Queen as well as “Miss
Olympic” and “Miss Black
and Gold Pageant ”
Some things Natalie has
always wanted to do and
someday hopes to are: get
married and have a couple of
kids in about five or six years;
be tall (she’s 5'2”); and build
a dream house for her and her
present family to live in when
times get unusually hard.
Reflecting on her gradua
tion day, Natalie responded,
“graduation was great, but
not as great as I thought it
would have been. Others’
graduation seemed more
exciting.” She decisively pin
ned the cause down to too
much anticipation in the pre
ceding years.
The daughter of Ms. Carol
M. Williams, Natalie is the
oldest of three children. She
has a brother, Derrick and a
sister, Caryn.
Dissension In The Ranks
NAACP Faces “More And
More” Internal Problems?
NAACP, LDF
Remain
At Odds
by Susan Ellsworth
Post Staff Writer
The NAACP and the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educa
tional Fund remain at odds
over whether or not the
NAACP has the right to order
the Fund to stop using the civil
rights organization’s name.
This issue may have to be
resolved in court.
‘‘The NAACP has no right to
order the Fund to change its
name," asserted Julius Cham
bers, president of the LDF
But the NAACP says other
wise.
After the National Organiza
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People was founded in
1909 as a civil rights organiza
tion, a legal department was
created in 1935 and incorpora
ted under its present name in
1940. The legal department
was given permission to use
NAACP initials in its name,
according to Benjamin Hooks.
Executive Director of the
NAACP.
“The Fund was created to
receive tax deductible contri
butions in furtherance of the
NAACP’s legal programs,"
Hooks said.
On advice from Council
Thurgood Marshall the two
groups split in 1957 into separ
ate organizations to avoid the
loss of the LDF’s tax-exempt
status.
Hooks contends that since
LDF now has a self-sufficient
Board of Directors and takes
legal action without consulting
NAACP policy it should no
longer use NAACP initials
that imply involvement with
the organization.
Jack Greenberg, the
Defense Fund’s Executive
Director, maintains that the
LDF has a right to use those
initials
“The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund is our
name and has been for 40
years,” Greenberg said. “It
has our name as well as their
name."
Chambers said the LDF
disclaims any relationship to
the NAACP on its letterhead
and printed materials
1 Supporters of the Wilmington 10 and Char
lotte 3 will be marching again Saturday, July
7 in the second March for Justice and Unity.
The march and motorcade will begin at 12
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noon at University Park Baptist Church and
continue to Marshall Park
• Photo by Eileen Hanson)
Here Saturday
Second “March For Justice”
Expected To Lure Large Turnout
oy tween Hanson
Special to the Post
Charlotte will have its
second March for Justice and
Unity on Saturday, July 7, and
it promises to be an even
larger turn-out than the one
last year The procession will
begin at 12 noon at University
Park Baptist Church, 2156
Senior Drive, and end at
Marshall Park for a rally,
voter registration and a lively
disco. A motorcade will follow
the marchers for those who
don’t want to walk the 5-mile
route down Beatties Ford
Road, past the Square and to
the park.
Sponsored by People United
for Justice and joined by
many church and community
groups, the march will have
three slogans:
+ Free the Wilmington 10
and Charlotte 3
+ Help stamp out the Klan
in your lifetime
+ Let’s keep District Re
presentation
"These issues are closely
related,” according to Rev
James Barnett, one of the
march organizers “We re all
being oppressed Those keep
ing the 10 and 3 in prison are
just trying the old tactic of
divide and conquer."
He went on to say that this is
also the aim of the Ku Klux
Klan which is trying to come
to Charlotte, “divide and con
quer." On the issue of district
representation, Barnett said
".. those who want to retract it
are just wanting to strip
blacks of their power.”
Clerks will be on hand to
register new voters at the
rally Any citizen 18 years or
over is eligible
"We need political power if
we are going to punish Gov.
Jim Hunt for keeping the 10
and 3 in prison,” said Barnett
who has led many marches
and delegations to see the
Governor about the political
prisoners
Speakers at the rally will
include Rev. Robert Morgan.
Seigle Avenue Presbyterian
Church; Rev Donald Brown.
Greater Bethel AME Church,
and Rev. Barnett.
Following the rally there
will be a free disco provided
by the Disco Wizard (Ron
Cornelius) which will continue
through the afternoon in
Marshall Park.
Barnett stressed the impor
tance of unity at this time, in
face of growing attacks of
blacks and poor people,
“We’re all in this together,
fighting for justice ’’
INew HEW Kern illations Set
HEW Secretary Joseph A.
Califano, Jr., announced last
week that HEW has published
new regulations that will open
the way for an additional
70.000 students to receive
Basic Educational Opportu
nity Grants for the 1979-60
academic year.
These changes appear in the
May 30 Federal Register
They liberalize eligibility re
quirements for independent,
or self-supporting, students by
providing more equitable de
ductions or assets and basic
expenses.
"In addition to expanding
the number of participants to
reach more at middleincome
levels, these amendments
allow more than 600,000 stu
dents to receive increased
awards," Secretary Califano
said.
Eligibility for a Basic Grant
is determined by a student’s
financial need Need is calcu
lated on the basis of the
Family Contribution Sche
dules, formulas developed
annually by the Office of
Education and reviewed by
Congress These formulas are
applied consistently to all
applicants and take into
account indicators of financial
strength, such as income.
Assets, family size, and unu
sual expense*
In the cas ! -'pendent
students, the . * cts and
income •«>: 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
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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
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