i Julius Chambers Named Equal
Opportunity Day Dinner Speaker
By Audrey C. Lodato
Poet SUff Writer
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Urban League will host its Second
Annual Equal Opportunity Day
Dinner on Friday, October 5, at the
Charlotte Convention Center at 101
S. College Street.
The dinner program will begin at 7
p.m„ following a 6:30 reception.
Keynote speaker at the dinner will
be Julius -Levonne Chambers,
formerly of Charlotte and now
Director-Counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund,
headquartered in New York. Mr.
Chambers had been senior partner
of the Charlotte law firm Chambers,
Ferguson, Watt Walfac aiMj
■ • Fuller, P.A., before leavingin
August to head the LDEF. He has
long been in the forefront of the Civil
Rights Movement and has iqade
numerous contributions toward
equal opportunity for blacks and
other minorities.
The Equal- Opportunity Day
Dinner will be the occasion for the
presentation of the Urban League’s
1984 Corporate, Corporate Leader
ship, Community Service, and Equal
Opportunity Awards.
n»e Equal Opportunity Award will
be announced during the dinner
program. According to Birdena
Samuel, Project Coordinator for th
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban
League, thi? award goes to an
Individual who htfs exhibited
outstanding support in the area of
civil rights or affirmative action.
1. John Crawford, Director of Youth
— Services for the Charlotte Housing
^Authority, will receive the
^Community Service Award for his
work with the Teens in Touch
— program and for Us successful
— efforts in starting a scholarship fund
~ for youth living in public housing.
“ This year’s Corporate Award will
• be presented to the NCNB
Corporation for outstanding contri
; \3>utions and support of the recently
■ announced Word Processing Job
.-Training Center Mr CC. Camara.
m .1 Tiatrman of the First Union Corpor
mtion, will receive the Corporate
Attorney Julius Chambers
.LDEF director-counsel
Leadership Award.
"Mr. Cameron was the catalytic
force that ensured funding for the
Word Processing Job Trainiig
Center,” explained Ms. Samuel.
There have already been 500
applicants for the first 15-week
training program,, which is
-scheduled to begin November l,—
Samuel revealed. Applicants are
being screened on the basis of 4
minimum typing speed at 40 words
per minute, high school diploma, 9th
grade reading and math levels.
Mecklenburg County residency, ana
dassuicattaa as ‘ ‘economically dis
advantaged.” This classification is
based on Job Training Program Act
(JTPA) guidelines, which include
- -income factors and the need for re->
training in order to participate in the
employment mainstream.
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