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Here Friday Celebration Commemorates Women’s Right To Vote By Karen Parker Post Staff Writer A celebration will be held Friday, August 26, com memorating women’s right to vote. The nineteenth amend ment which grants that right was passed August 26, 1920. Ella Talley, presi dent of Black Women’s Caucus and Kathy Gordon a board member of the Charlotte Women’s Politi cal Caucus explained the celebration in Charlotte will be held Friday begin ning at noon in Discovery Place. Gordon emphasized that celebrations similar to the one in Charlotte will be held across the country. The noontime program will be free and open to the public. “Participants may bring their lunch or order a $4.50 lunch," Gordon added. All orders must be placed by August 23. The guest speaker for the local celebration will be Warlene Gray, manager of Intergovernmental Rela tions for the National Edu cation Association in Wash ington, D.C. Entertainment will be provided by singer guitarist Sandra Bailey and actress Karen Jones Meadows. Meadows will portray the life of Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist during the Civil War. “We’ll have a voter re gistration drive and women from the sponsor ing organizations will be wearing costumes of early days," Talley mentioned. Other co-sponsors of the event include Mecklenburg County Women’s Commis sion, Charlotte YWCA, League of Women Voters, The Links, Inc., Charlotte NOW, American Associa tion of University Women, and Women’s Career Center at Central Pied mont Community College. This is the third conse cutive year Charlotte has recognized such a cele bration, informed Gordon. Initially it was created by the Mecklenburg County Women’s Commission. For Mrs. Talley’s organization this is the first year of participation. While she ad mits to some improvement in women’s right, Talley stressed black women have a much longer way to go because they have a dual role. "Being black and fe male makes it even harder for women to gain equal ity,” commented Mrs. Talley. Gordon agreed with Tal ley and stated before the Women’s Political Caucus and Black Women’s Po litical Caucus began work ing together, she didn’t realize the black woman’s stuggle. “I knew black women, like white women, suffered from sexism but the thought of racism Vote* R^re^ ]! Drive Continued from Page 1 velopment. Other registration drives will take place August 19 at 6 p.m. at Park-N-Shop in Try on Mall at 6:30 at the North Park Mall. J«Tom 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. Satur day, registrars will be lo cated at Meadow Oaks Pic nic area, Christ the King Center, Freedom and East land Malls. While all of these regis tration drives are expected to increase the number of people registered to vote in Charlotte, Gill believes a special event in Freedom Park, August 21 will be the one to add thousands of names to the list. The or ganizer of massive voting campaigns in about 25 states, pointed out the WPEG-sponsored Battle of the Bands attracts a mul titude of people. Our theme will be "Voting Power By the Hour,” she established. Hourly and throughout the ' entertainment provided by various live bands, people will be encouraged to take the time to find a registra tion booth and sign up to vote. Gill has also set up a Voter hotline: 372-0811. Forty more registrars have been deputized in Charlotte and we plan to utilize everyone of them,” Gill expressed with assurance. She emphasized not only the unregistered people need to register, but also those who have relocated to another precinct or changed addresses. Organizing a bi-racial coalition in Charlotte to assist her with the project has “been a wonderful thing," according to Gill. She stated she has received nothing but complete co operation from all organ izations from which she has solicited help. a native of North Carol ina, Gill expressed she con siders her responsibility to get people to register to vote as "movement work." She’s projected she was involved with the move ment long before she ac cepted her present position in Chicago. In the 1960s when Gill was growing up in a small town near Franklin County she was exposed to freedom marches. “My father was a mem ber of the local NAACP and I was active in civil rights," revealed Gill. As a result she began to organ ize various activities. Ac tivities so effective, poli ticians began to seek her out to help them with their campaigns. Two of Gill’s most recent efforts were her campaign work for Wilson Goode of Philadelphia and Mickey Micheau of North Carolina Gill realizes that getting people to register is good, but that getting those new ly-registered people to vote is essential. “In Philadel phia I worked with a voter registration campaign that registered 93,000 people,” Gill recalled. She proudly added nearly 80 percent of those came out to mark a ballot. Gill warned while peo ple may continue to re gister to vote after August 29, not registering by the end of that Monday will make them ineligible to vote in the Charlotte pri maries September 27. Bridge Club The Metrolina Duplicate Bridge Club holds dupli cate bridge games each Tuesday at the Greenville Community Center on Spring Street at 7:15. The winning pairs for Tuesday, August 9, were Walter Byers and Louis Hughes, Harry Bost and Emery Rann, and William Haygood and Charles Bost. never stood out,” Gordon projected. She believes the coalition of women’s groups especially during Equality Days helps to make their objectives more effective. “It's important to cele brate the woman’s right to vote because it’s the only right specifically guaran teed to women in the Con stitution,” Gordon men tioned. Talley believes the celebration is important and necessary to recognize all the black and white women who “came before the women fighting for equal rights today.” Talley encourages peo ple to attend the celebra tion Friday. “I believe we can open a lot of closed doors for people,” she as sured. According to Talley, many people, especially women, are afraid to look into various women’s groups and discover their purposes. “If you sit behind closed doors without ever opening them, you won’t know the needs and wants of society,” Talley insisted. One issue many women groups in Charlotte are carefully watching is the Minority Women Business Enterprise Bill in State Legislature. Positive ac tion on the bill will give local government the power to decide for them selves the percentage of contracts which must be uesignaiea 10 women and minority businesses, ac cording to Talley. With more women appointed to political boards (one of the priorities of women or ganizations) Talley and Gordon are hoping the pas sage of MWBE will not be as outdrawn as other bills affecting women have been in the past. Though the right for women to vote was passed in 1920, North Carolina didn’t ratify the amend ment until 1971. For more information about the Women’s Equality Day ce- r lebration, call the Women’s Commission Office at 374-3210. People who wish to re serve a box lunch provided by Palatable Pleasures should make checks pay able to Women’s Equality Day-Barbara Bemath, Mecklenburg County Wo men’s Commission, 700 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 28202. Ice tea will be fur nished at no charge by O’Neills. _[ The Charlotte Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta recently honored Mrs. Eloise Morton after she retired from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. Dedicated to the county school system for 38 vears. Mrs. Morton retired from Merry Oaks Elementary School. The P*rty was held in the auditorium of the Salem Publisbing House A "a«ve of Winston Salem and a graduate of Atkins High School. Mrs StaU°n|!n7elV^ 11,6 B A' dCgre* fr0m whiston-Salem State University and her master's degree from Mre MoLU11Ve7!‘y- B*f0rC m0V,ng Charlotte, Mrs. Morton taught at a school in Enfield. N.C. After relocating she taught at Briarfield before loin in e the staff at Merry Oaks. A member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Mrs. Morton is the recording secretary and chairman of the Special Projets Committee for the organization. She is a member of First United Presbyterian Church where she serves as elder and c airman of the Christian Education Department. 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