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Ben Hooks May Run For President?
Lovely Tina Jackson
.Our Beauty Of The Week
Tina Jackson
Is Multi-Talented
By Teresa Simmons
Post Staff Writer
| As a member of the Na
tional Honor Society, the
Student Council, the band,
plus three sports teams,
aur beauty, Tina Jackson,
is one who can easily be
Called aggressive and
multi-talented.
A rising 9th grader at
Albemarle Junior High
School Ms. Jackson has set
some pretty rough im
mediate goals to accom
plish. Her long range am
bitions, concerning her
career for example, have
not been completed. But
she does know that, "I want
to be the best at what ever I
am doing in life. I do know
that I would like to con
tinue my education after
high school.”
Miss Jackson partici
pates in three sports at
Albemarle Junior High
School: volleyball, basket
ball and track. Last school
term she received the
“Most Valuable Player”
award in basketball. One of
M3 goals in 1964 is to make
All-Conference in basket
ball and to receive the
Monogram Award - a spe
HKTIMAM
As a rule, the man who
knows what he ts talking
about has littlest to say.
dal award for participat
ing in three sports.
Her hobby is also sports
related. “I enjoy swim
ming and I plan to get my
life guard license as soon
as possible. “Presently
she is helping to teach
swimming on Tuesdays
and Thursdays at the
YMCA Day Camp on Beat
ties Ford Road.
She is an extremely ath
letically inclined indivi
dual. “I guess it came from
playing with my big bro
ther who is now 15.” Miss
Jackson’s brother is
LaMak Jackson. She is the
daughter of Wanda Jack
son and the late George
Jackson.
miss Jackson also en
joys attending her church,
Simpson-Gillespie United
Methodist Church. She is
now serving as correspond
ing secretary of the United
Methodist Youth Fellow
ship.
Being an active person
Miss Jackson states that
she has never liked to alt
around. "I have always
wanted to do something.
I volunteer to do a lot of
things." She believes that
goals set can become goals
accomplished.
Debbie Allen, the multi
talented actress of televi
sion’s "Fame" program
has Impressed Mias Jack
son because of her ambi
tions to succeed. "1 have
read in EBONY about Ms.
Allen and about the high
goals she has set for her
self. What is even better is
the fact that she reaches
her goals ”
Our beauty’s favorite
person is her mother,
Wanda Jackaon. "She’s al
ways pushing for me to do
i better until I can do It
myself.
%
Drive To Set
Tone For
Carolinas
By Karen Parker
Post Staff Writer
North Carolinians for Ef
fective Citizenship (NCEC)
have selected Charlotte as
the site for the largest
voter registration drive in
the state.
Pat Gill has been se
lected as the project co
ordinator. She is the voter
registration and education
project director for the
Citizens Leadership Foun
dation baaed in Chicago.
Working through organiza
tions like NAACP, SCLC.
League of women Voters,
A. Philip Randolph Insti
tute, Carolina Community
Project, Conservative
Council of N.C., Grassroots
Leadership Project, Insti
tute for Southern Studies,
NOW of North Carolina,
N.N. Association of Educa
tors, N.C. Common Cause,
N.C. State AFL-CIO and
the Rural Advancement
Fund, and other local or
ganizations and churches,
Gill stated, “The goal is to
register 2,000 people within
two weeks. When the regis
tration booths close at 5
p.m., August 29, we want to
have 2,000 people listed on
the books,” Gill explained
excitedly.
Registration has already
been held at the South
Independence Food Stamp
Office, Edwin Towers,
uptown Charlotte, Pitts
Drive, Charlottetown Ter
race, Sunridge and Provi
dent Square housing de
See GIGANTIC Page 12
DOLLARS MAKE SENSE - Benjamin L
Hooks, Executive Director of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), holds a Susan
B. Anthony silver dollar and a two dollar
bill - the denominations the NAACP is
urging blacks around the country to use
exclusively during the upcoming Labor
Day Weekend to dramatically demon
strate the spending power of black
Americans. Called "Black Dollar Days,”
the demonstration - conducted through
the Association's 6 regional offices and
1.800 branches - urges black citizens to
secure silver dollars and two dollar bills
from banks prior to the holidays and to
use them between September 1-5, 1983.
By spending money in these denomina
tions, Hooks has said, the power of the
black dollar will be clearly demonstrated
and this knowledge will lead to new job
and business opportunities for blacks.
'Photo by Bryan Berteau - Times
Picayune-States Item)
Billions Of Dollars
Bypass Hands Of Blacks
By Charles E. Belle
Special To The Post
Since the first of the
year, the new issue com
mon stock securities mar
ket has been raising a
record one billion dollars a
week. The new issues
market is for those com
panies first making stock
available to the general
public to be purchased in
parts by way of common
shares It is the first time
someone other than the
initial founders, friends
and financial high risk
takers can take part in the
equity or ownership of a
company. It calls for a bit
of a celebration, since the
founders finally walk away
with a chunk of cash,
usually a few million dol
lars or more, as do the
financial risk takers, com
monly called venture capi
talists. The public is pro
vided an opportunity to
share the expected future
profits of a successful
company
See BILLIONS on Page t
First Lady Of Charlotte Talks About
Being Married To Mayor Eddie Knox
By Karen Parker
Poal Staff Writer
Almost everyone knows
how busy Mayor Eddie
Knox is from day to day.
They somehow always
manage to hear about the
proclamations he has
signed or the last banquet
at which he was the key
note speaker.
Working closely by his
side is First Lady of
Charlotte, Mrs. Frances
Knox. She too Is a visible
figure representing the
mayoral office at functions
sponsored by such groups
as The Charlotte Chamber
of Commerce, or special
teachers groups. But not
often are her responsibi
lities or appearances
, publicized.
After viewing Mrs.
Knox’s role in Charlotte,
The Peat will spend a few
weeks focusing on the may
oral candidates’ wives and
their role in the political
process to which their hus
bands are dedicated.
Mrs Knox explained she
has several obligations
Mrs. Frances Knox
.A visible figure
being wife to the mayor
Besides teachers meetings
L
and meetings with tne
Commerce, she must
sometimes serve as hostess
to other politicians and
their spouses from around
the state.
“That requires every
thing from making speech
es to coordinating fashion
shows,” Mrs. Knox
beamed. In spite of her
around-the-clock schedule
she sincerely stated she
has experienced many
more joys from being First
Lady than she has sorrows
The special moments
which Mrs Knox recalled
included visiting under
privileged families on
Christmas Eve and adding
spirit to their homes
She doesn't like to just
know that poor people's
homes are being insulated;
instead, Mrs Knox is al
ways instrumental in the
weatherization program in
Charlotte
While Mrs Knox and her
entire family are busy
working in the community,
she makes certain she
gains more knowledge
from each experience
See FIRST on Page 4
NAACP Head To Force
Political Concession?
By Tony Brown
Special To The Post
‘‘I started off in January
thinking about this (a black
presidential candidacy) I
thought of running myself.
But I decided not to run
because this is not the year
to do it and I'm gearing up
my mechanism to think
about running in 1988 if we
don't come out right in
1984.'’ NAACP Executive
Director Benjamin Hooks
reveals as he threatens a
NAACP-led symbolic poli
tical protest in the 1988.
presidential elections
The statement is made
on "Tony Brown’s Journ
al" in an upcoming pro
gram on the nation’s public
television stations (PBS'.
Hooks and the NAACP
have consistently opposed
a Black presidential candi
dacy in the Democratic
Party primary race next
year, but for the first time,
he is now threatening to use
his personal popularity and
position as head of the na
tion's largest civil rights
organization imore man
1,700 local branches with
450,000 members) to force
political concessions from
the Democrats for the
black community.
“Tony Brown's Journ
al” the longest-running.,
top-ranked, Black-Affairs
television series has been
sponsored by Pepsi-Cola
Company for nine consecu
tive years. Televised na
tionally on public television
(PBS), the program will be
seen in this area on WTVI,
Channel 42. at 6:30 p.m on
Saturday. August 20
The 1984 elections, how
ever, is not the year for a
black symbolic protest,
Hooks asserts, because “r
don't think that a black
person has a ghost of a
chance of winning in 1984 "
His latest announcement is
based on a “strategy that
would open up the Demo
cratic Party more fully-to
galvanize attention of
black voters ” But, he
adds. Afro-Americans are
too sophisticated to need a
black presidential candi
date to stimulate their go
ing to the polls in 1984 “I
don’t think we’re that
dumb"
what television viewers
will see is a man freed from
internal politics who is now
fully in charge of the
NAACP On his differences
with NAACP Chairman
Margaret Bush Wilson, he
asserts that he now has
“the powers" to run the or
ganization-for the first
time since he became the
executive director
Obviously irritated by
the criticism of some
black writers in white
newspapers, the NAACP
leader called them "so
called blacks" who "verge
on stupidity." He added:
"They wouldn't ever be
heard from unless they at
tack black institutions I
accuse them of selling out
the black community "
In a direct reference to
Kenneth Clark who wrote
in the New York Times that
the NAACP was a 'Black
separatist organization,”
Hooks said that "he has
despitefully used us "
Clark himself insisted.
Hooks asserts, that a pre
vious meeting on Andrew
Young s dismissal from the
United Nations' post be
limited to "blacks only.”
"I think some of them
'black writers for white
publications) are really
white supremacists; they
would really like to see
white folk in charge of
everything," Hooks tells
Tony Brown.
The NAACP head is also
ruffled about the misplaced
credit that some are get
ting for voter registration.
Hooks points to the recent
NAACP drive which regis
tered 30,000 Black voters in
Mississippi But, he says,
Bradford Reynolds. Rea
gan Administration civil
rights attorney general,
while singing “We Shall
Overcome" and register
ing only 111 black citizens
in the same state "makes
headline news."
SUX1 To Sponsor
Buses To March
On W ashington
Members of the Southern
Christian Leadership Con
ference will sponsor buses
to the March On Washing
ton celebrating the 20th
anniversary of the Dr
Martin Luther King Jr
Freedom March
According to Carrie
Graves, coordinator for the
SCLC chapter in Charlotte,
at least five buses will
leave from the Westover
Shopping Center on West
Boulevard by 11 p m
Friday, August 26 The
buses will arrive in Wash
ington, DC Saturday
morning, in time for Char
lottes ns to get prepared for
the August 27 March The
buses will return to Char
lotte Saturday evening
A round-trip fare to the
March is *35 Because
seats are expected to fill
fast, Mrs Graves suggest
ed people pay their money
well in advance All
money is payable at the
Equal Rights Council of
fice, located in the West
over Shopping Center
The March On Washing
ton, utilizing the theme,
"Jobs, Peace and Free
dom," is expected to at
tract millions of Ameri
cans from all walks of life
Notable speakers and at
tendants include Coretta
Scott King, Martin Luther
King III, Stevie Wonder,
Joseph Lowery, Jesse
Jackson, Benjamin Hooks
and many other black na
tional leaders.