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A MULTITUDE OF MARCHERS braved
a mini-snow storm in Washington, D.C. to
turn out for Stevie Wonder’s march in
sopport of making January 15, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a
national holiday. According to veteran
marchers Rev. Jesse Jackson, President
of Operation PUSH, satirist Dick Gre
gory and Rep. Walter F'auntroy. the
marchers exceeded 100,000. which was
the largest march since the historic
march on Washington in 1963 at which
Dr. King made his “I Have a Dream”
speech.
“Wonder March” For Eh*. King
Attracts More Than 100.000
Special To The Post
WASHINGTON. D.C. -
An estimated 100,000 per
sons defied the chilly,
snowy weather of this
nation’s capital city and
marched on the 52nd anni
versary of Martin Luther
King Jr.’s birth in cele
bration of his life and
dream of a better America
and a better world.
Specifically, it was a
march sponsored by sing
ing star-Stevie Wonder to
petition this nation to make
Martin Luter King Jr.’s
birth date, January 15, a
National holiday.
The celebration march,
was predominantly Black,
but with a stirring upbeat
spirit of hope reminiscent
of the March on Washing
ton led by Dr. King here in
1963. Perhaps it was the
absence of white marchers
#that were highly visible in
the 1963 march that caused
. official Washington and
■ some media difficulty in
estimating the size of the
’ march.
U. S. Park Police and
National Park Service of
ficials after giving start
ling low crowd estimates to
the press on Thursday, re
luctantly-on Friday es
timated the King birthday
celebration march crowd
at 35,000.
On the day of the march,
the Park Service had given
a loviTestimate of 10,000 to
one Washington daily and
several other media out
lets.
There has been no offi
cial comment from march
coordinators on the num
bers game obviously being
played by official Wash
ington. It is known however
that there were more than
five times more persons in
attendance at the rally
than at Stevie Wonder's
concert at the Capital Cen
tre on Friday night which
was estimated to be 20,000.
The “Wonder March”
started at the foot of the
Capitol across from the
Labor Department Build
ing and massed at the
Washington Monument
grounds in a gala celebra
tion of joy and hope.
The “Wonder March”,
was exceptionally high
,vspirited, despite the bitter
^ cold and snow flurries. The
marchers strolled by the
stands which were being
erected to mark the inau
guration of a new Admin
istration already reputed to
be insensitive to their
TUKUMNW
Remember when the
ONLY PAYCHECK deduc
tion was the one slipped out
for a BEER on the way
home from work?
needs singing “I Ain't
Gonna Let Nobody Turn
Me ‘Round.”
At the rally site, Martin
Luther King III brought
chills to some and cheers
from others, when in a
voice marked by the nos
talgic cadence of his slain
father, declared: “My
daddy had a speech where
he said, How long, Lord?
and the answer would be.
Not long. ”
The heir to tne King
legacy continued: “Now
I’m asking, how long, Lord,
will it be before we get a
holiday? Not long No lie
caii live forever.”
It was a stirring remem
brance for those who had
marched in 1963 with young
King’s daddy. It also raised
the applause and cheers of
the already high spirited
crowd to a joyous cres
cendo.
March platform guests
included veteran civil
rights activists Rev. Jesse
Jackson, Dick Gregory,
Congressmen John Con
yers (D-Mich ), and Walter
Fauntroy (D. D.C.), Inman
Warith Deen Muhammad.
Martin Luther King III,
Ben Chavis, and Washing
ton, D.C. Mayor Marion
Barry.
Gregory drew loud ap
plause when he looked out
over the snow covered
Monument grounds and
predicted there was sure to
be disagreement on the
crowd size in the media.
Gregory said, “. There are
goo gobs of Blacks out
here.”
March participants came
from across this nation, 316
buses of them, from places
as far away as California
and Oregon (by air), bring
ing with them both hope
and thousands of signed
petitions to Congress to
make King's birth date a
national holiday
Even the dismal weather
cleared and the sun peeped
through snow-filled clouds
when march sponsor Stevie
Wonder mounted the stage
to thunderous chants of
"Stevie! Stevie! Stevie!”
In his prepared speech,
Stevie said. “There are
those who ask: Why a
holiday in honor of Dr
King? To those people we
say: Public holidays in the
United States should be,
and normally are. reserved
for celebrating great tra
ditions in the nation's hi
story and our highest ideals
and leaders who have
shaped, our common
destiny. Dr King lived and
died for this nation's ideals
of justice, honor, dignity
and freedom. He embodied
the best of the American
tradition which originated
with the Pilgrims of New
England, continuing on
with the' Boston Tea Party
and right through the Ame
rican Revolution.
"To those who ask why
Stevie Wonder, the artist,
is involved in this quest, we
say: I am not only Stevie
Wonder the artist, but I am
a man and a citizen of this
nation and I feel that as an
artist my purpose is to
communicate messages
that improve the life of all
of us.”
Stevie added, "We ought
to have a way to honor Dr.
King and reaffirm the
ideals he lived and died for,
to honor him through a
national holiday would,
also, of course, bestow a
great honor on Black Ame
rica by implicitly recog
nizing him as a symbol of
the tremendous contribu
tions Black people have
made to this country’s hi
storical development."
In Charlotte
Study Says Housing Values
Related To Schools’ Ouality
Conference
To Focus
On Health
The Cardinal Business
and Professional Women’s
Club is sponsoring a Poli
tical-Health Conference on
Saturday, January 31, and
Sunday morning. February
1. at the Sheraton Center;
registration opens at 8am
on the 31st
The political workshops
will help you understand
what makes politics inter
esting. fascinating and ful
filling You wil( be able to
understand politics and
how it affects your daily
lives.
Subjects to be covered at
the political conference
are; How to run for public
office, plan a campaign,
raise funds for candidates.
answer political f|uestion
naires. conduct a public
opinion poll, deal with the
media, lobby for legisla
tion, speak with confi
dence. and prepare a cam
paign advertising pro
gram.
The Political Conference
panelists are: Hon Mari
lyn B. Bissell, member.
Mecklenburg Board of
County Commissioners;
Hon. Betty Chafin Rash,
Mayor pro tern. City pi
Charlotte; Hon. Louise
Brennan, member, N.C.
House of Representatives,
Hon. Liz Hair, past chair
man, Mecklenburg Board
of County Commissioners;
Hon Carl Stewart. Imme
diate Past Speaker, N.C.
House of Represenatives;
Hon. Roy Spoon, member.
N.C, House of Represent
atives; Herry Hancock,
Community Development
Manager. Greater Char
lotte Chamber of Com
merce; Karen Gaddy, past
president, Charlotte
League of Women Voters;
Theodore S. Arrington,
Ph D., Associate Profes
sor, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte; and
Sid Smith, partner, Green,
Smith & Crockett. Inc., a
public relations-public
affairs lobbying firm
VIVACIOUS TINA QUINN
...If t‘st ( htirlolif srnior
Scintillating Tina Quinn
Is “Beauty Of The Week”
ny i eresa minis
Host Staff Writer
Every aspect of Tina
Quinn is tilled with scin
tillating charisma. Her
thoughts rest within those
quarters of bettering her
self and her ambitions are
backed with gallons of en
thusiasm.
I feel you should be
yourself and be the. best
you can be," Ms. Quinn
conveyed. Her immediate
goal involves attending
Bander Fashion College to
major in Retail and Mer
chandising.
She is still a senior at
West Charlotte Senior High
School and has. emersed
hersell thoroughly in the
fashion world I go to a lot
ol fashion shows." she re
vealed. "I am enrolled in a
Fashion Merchandising
elass in school where I
design outfits also "
l love clothes, and people
and I would like to teach
fashion coordinating. Ac
tually I'm pretty open I
would like to learn to coor
dinate lor catalogs, fashion
shows or even television
ISI)A Says:
Food Stamp Recipients
Must Search For Jobs
Special To The Post
WASHINGTON - Able
bodied food stamp reci
pients must actively search
for jobs or be dropped from
the program under new
rules announced today by
the U.S Departments of
Agriculture and Labor
"Under the new regula
tions, people who fail to
look for a job on their own
or who don't report for the
“At (wiila Celebration”
Charlotte Friends Of The Arts
Will Honor Eight Charlotteans
A Gala Celebration to
be held during Black Hi
story Month, will honor
eight Charlotteans. The
event will take place Fri
day, February 7, at 7:30
p.m. in the Gold Room of
Belk in uptown Charlotte.
Presented by the Char
lotte Friends of the Arts
and the Board of Directors
of the Afro-American Cul
tural Center, the event will
also feature local talent
The following people will
be recognized at “A Gala
Celebration”: Ester Page
Hill (Art Education), Juan
Logan and Tommie Lee
Robinson (Art), Elsie E.
Woodard (Drama),
Blanche Rann Oliver
(Music Education), Irene
H Jones (Performing Mu
sician), Eugenes. “Genial
w
Mrs Blanche Oliver
...Music teacher
(»ene Potts (Communica
tions) and Willie L. ‘‘Bill"
Johnson (Communica
tions)’.
Esther Page Hill is pre
sently Associate Professor
of Art at the University of
North Carolina at Char
Mrs Esther Page Hill
Associate professor
lotte She obtained her B.S.
and Master’s degrees from
Teacher's College Colum
bia University. New York
City. She did further study
at the University of Wis
consin and New York Uni
versity. In 1979 BO she pur
sued the Ph D program in
Art Education at the Flo
rida State University under
the North Carolina Board
of Governors' Doctoral
Study Assignment Pro
gram and completed all
residency requirements
Ms. Hill has had several
exhibitions, is a member of
numerous organizations
and boards and has re
ceived countless honors
Juan Logan and Tommie
I^ee Robinson will be
honored for their artistic
abilities. Logan, born in
Nashville, Tenn , studied at
Howard University and
Clark College He has pre
pared 12 one-man exhibits
and numerous two-man,
three-man and major
, groups exhibitions Ixigan
received the Romare Bear
see CHARLOTTE Page 8
interviews at their state
employment office w ill find
their households dropped
from the food stamp pro
gram for two months,"
said Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman
Those who are exempt
from the work registration
requirement are primarily
the elderly and disabled,
those already working,
those responsible for the
care of dependents or those
already subject to work
requirements under the un
employment insurance or
work incentive programs
The rules also require
recipients who register for
work to be called in to their
slate employment service
- now identified as the job
search in many states for
an interview and job claSsi
fication
State job service agen
cies will continue to refer
registrants to potential em
ployers, but now food
stamp job seekers will also
have to supplement this
service with their own
eight week job search
The new rules will es
tablish as a standard that
work registrants contact
up to 24 potential employ
ers within the eight- week
period, and also report
back twice to their em
ployment counselors on
progress made. F'oreman
said Requirements for
each person’s job search
will depend on their indi
vidual circumstances and
the availability of jobs
’ «#
commercials, she
continued.
M.s Quinn's favorite
clothing is the sweater
dress As lor the shoe type
she rates the pump highly
She completed a window
display at Mitchell Tuxe
dos and adv ises the fashion
conscious to window shop
lor apparel ideas
At the age of IK our
Capircorn beauty has other
interests as well Her
favorite television show
program is "Dallas She
enjoys swimming, dancing
an occasional modeling.
Her favorite entertainer is
Hilly Dee W illiams awhile
the highest ranking singer
on her list is Diana Ross.
As vice-president of the
Ninos Phi Delta Kappa
Alpha Iota Sorority, a
member of DKtTA.
NAACP. Coterier Club and
participant in the Delta s
Debutante Hall 81. Ms
Quinn* schedule is often
filled
. She is also a member of
St Paul baptist ' hurch
and fourth vice president of
the Junior Missionary
Mecklenburg County and
president of the Junior Mis
sionary of St Paul
Who's Who Among
American High School Stu
dents listed her in their
1979-80 volume for her
academics as well as com
munity related accomp
lishmenls
The youngest in a family
of six Ms Quinn doesn't
appear to he the spoiled
type often assumed by
many On the contrary her
personality reflects matur
ity and kindness
The two big influences in
her life are her parents.
Mr and Mrs Herbert
Quinn "My mother gives
me much support she
loves me and is mostly
behind everything 1 do My
father is sensitive The one
thing I have learned from
him is to save money I
love both of them to
death "
One of our beauty's
favorite individuals is
FJeaf Frazier "He models
and has inspired me to go
ahead with my fashion
career He works hard at
his work and f believe he is
going to the top,"
There's no mystery con
cerning our beauty - her
career goals are set and
her path constructed With
her poise she is on her way
to fashion stardom.
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CkkkI Schools
May Stop
“White Flight”
By \\ ilson Davis
Special To The Post
GKKFXSBORO - Con
trary to what had been
expected a new study of
growth patterns in Char
lotte suggests that the aca
demic quality of public
schools is a more import
ant factor in determining
housing values than the
racial mix of students in
the area public schools i
there. 1
The study w as conducted
by Dr Donald Jud. a pra
fessor of economics at the
University of North Caro
-lina at Greensboro, and by
Dr .James Watts, director
of operations research at
CIBA-GIEGY Corporation
in < ovensboro i
i r,t two .ire publishing ■
Imciings from the research I
in the winter issue of a
national professional
journal entitled "Econo- 1
mics of Education Re
views "
"i fur results suggest that
housing demand is more
strongly influenced by the
academic quality of public
schools than by the level of
racial integration.” wrote
dud and Watts in their t
article 1
They added that other ’
studies which did not con
sider academic quality of
schools in all probability
have overestimated the ne
gative effect of school dese
gregation on area housing
demand
dud admitted that he and
Watts were ‘‘somewhat
surprised” to find that area
school racial ratios were
not mare important than •
school quality in determin
ing housing \alues in
Charlotte
"We were prepared to
find that race was the
dominant variable in our
study." stated-Jud
1 think the study pro
vides some reason for op
timism, in a way," added
Jud "It says, in effect, if
you can improve the
schools, you may be able to
stop white flight and im
prove property values "
While the study was re
stricted to Charlotte, Jud
said some of the implica
tions from the research
also may lx* valuable to
some of North Carolina's
other larger cities, such as
Greensboro, Raleigh and
Winston-Salem, as well as
elsewhere
"Our study shows ttjat
people are willing to pay
for good schools when they
buy a house,” said Jud
"This means that to the
extent that a city can pro
vide good schools, it can
increase in value of the
property within its bound
aries."
In the study, Jud and
Watts examined real estate
values, school quality and
the pattern of urban de^
velopment in Charlotte,
using 1977 data.
Figures on home sales
were obtained from the
197B Master Appraisal File
maintained by the Tax Su
pervisor of Mecklenburg
County The sample in the
study was composed of
every existing single
family residential property
see STUDY Page 14
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