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the latest, chic fashions
However, that’s not the reason
Tanya says her mother is her
favorite person. “I look up to bar,”
she comments concerning her
mother, Mattie Studivant. “I take
the advise she gives me. After all,
they say, ‘mother knows best,”’
Tonya relates.
Tonya’s father, Giles Strong, is a
supervisor at Johnson C. Smith
Uhiversity. “I enjoy the time we
spend together,” she adds.
About herself, Tonya admits she
likes solitude. “I like to be myself,”
she points out. “I don’t mingle with
big crowds."
She wanU most in life to “be
happy in the near and far future,”
claims Tonya. She would also like to
see peace in the world and food
supplied for the people of Ethio
pia.
1984 Was “Rough tear”
ear: Blacks Can No Longer Afford
To Be Captive
Of One Political Party
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Post Staff
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Charlotte Community Leaders
e For Dr. Martin L.
Kbig’s Birthday Celebration
By Loretta Manago
Post Staff Writer
In less than a week, people all
across the country will pay tribute to
a great leader, Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Marches, memorial pro
grams and all types of activities have
been scheduled to honor the man
who died for equality, who suffered
for justice and who taught the whole
world the message of love.
Charlotte will be no exception.
Already, the stage is set for an
unforgettable birthday celebration.
Beginning Sunday, January 13, the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte’s Black Student Union will
sponsor a worship and remem
brance service at 6 p.m. in Mc
Knight Hall. The speaker for the
evening will be Dr. Clifford Jones of
Friendship Baptist Church.
on Monday, January 14, the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community
Relations Committee has planned a
celebration to commemorate the
birth of iJr. King. The seventh an
nual Celebration vriffbe heldhtTSttWi
Rock AME Zion Church, 401 N.
McDowell St.
An art exhibit and soup service
will set off the evening’s activities.
The art work scheduled to be fea
tured is the art work of local
elementary, junior and senior high
school students. This segment of the
program will last from 5:30 until
8145 pirn.
At 7 p.m. the main program will
commence. Dr. Leon C. Riddick,
chairman of the Community Rela
tions Commitee, will preside over
the program. After the prelude by
organist Steven Cooper and invoca
tion by Rev. William White, the key
address will come from five indi
DR. MARTIN L. KING JR.
...Slain Civil Rights leader
viduals who were prominent in the
community’s civil rights struggle.
Marion Cannon, Dorothy Scoggins,
Charles Jones, Kitty Huffman and
Kelly Alexander Sr. are the chosen
speakers.
Special presentations will be made
by Jack Bullard, director of the
Community Relations Committee.
Also, during the service an offering
will be taken and the proceeds will
be donated to the Crisis Assistance
Ministry, in Dr. King’s honor, to help
in its services to the needy of the
community.
This celebration is being planned
in conjunction with Pepsi Cola Bot
tling Company of Charlotte, the
Afro-American Cultural Center, the
local chapter of the National Con
ference of Christians and Jews,
WBTV, Little Rock AME Zion
Church, the Charlotte Area
Clergy Association and the Chris
tian Ministers' Fellowship The
purpose of the celebration i6 to bring
together citizens of Charlotte,
Mecklenburg County and surround
ing communities to pay tribute to
Dr. King's memory and to recom
mit to his ‘'dream."
Johnson C. Smith University’s
plans for King’s birthday celebra
tion wjll begin Tuesday, January la.
A full schedule of events has been set
for the day. Beginning at 10 a m., a
convocation service will be held at
the University Church. The speaker
for this event is tentatively Delano
Rackard, a local citizen known for
his striking rendition of Dr. Martin
Luther King's speeches
Throughout the day, an art exhi
-bit featuring works of King and
other works of black artists taken
• from the university's library will be
showcased.
from 12:30 p.m. until 3 pjji., a
film festival will be held in the
Science Hall, room 107. Film clips of
Dr. King in various phases of the
civil rights movement will be high
lighted
At 3 p.m. the Lyceum Dance
Group will present a Cultural Dance
upstairs in the Student Union.
The culminating activity begins at
6 p.m. with a candlelight march
beginning from the entrance of the
University proceeding to the
school’s church. At 7p m , a worship
service will be held As of this
writing the speaker is yet to be
announced
Admission to all these events is
free and the * public is cordially
invited to attend.
For Civil Rights
Economists Advocate Minority Coalitions
In Fight
Blacks must form coalitions with
other minority groups - including
women - if they are to make further
gains in the fight for equal rights,
says the Black Enterprise magazine
Board of Economists.
Their recommendation is part of
“The Annual Economic Outlook for
Black America: 1985" appearing in
the magazine’s January issue. The
"Outlook" examines the overall eco
nomic prospects for black America
and analyzes such specific com
ponents of the economy as income,
employment, trade policy, and the
stability of the dollar worldwide.
The recent Supreme Court deci
w
sion in Memphis Firefighters v.
Stotts, which ruled that federal
courts could not bypass “bona fide
seniority systems” in favor of min
ority workers hired through affirm
ative action programs, poses a
major setback for affirmative ac
tion, in the opinion of the Black
Enterprise Board.
; Kelly Alexander Jir, ^ *
.NAACP state president
who were employed through Af
firmative Action Programs.)
More decisions such as those
pasaed down in the Stotts case are
likely, predicts Alexander, as the
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Supreme Court bn increased it*
conservative perspective with the
addition of Reagan appointments
in agreement with Alexander s
assessment of 1M4 is Horace Shef
field, columnist for the Michigan
Chronicle. He wrote on December 8,
1984, “Civil rights and social justice
are no longer at the bottom of the
nation's agenda, where Mr. Reagan
placed them at the beginning of his
first term in 1980. Surely you must
know that with the Reagan landslide
victory, civil rights and social jus
tice are no longer even on the
national agenda."
Sheffield went on to urge, "What
all this means is that we are in a
period now when we need our most
effective leaders, men and women
who can really articulate the needs
and interests of the black com
munity and also galvanize our peo
pie."
wnat is the NAACP s strategy tor
resurfacing and reconstructing hope
in the black community? With
Alexander, the discussion begins
with politics, For It was, sftar
promises, promises, in the political
arena that blacks confronted their
biggest disappointments of 1W4.
M retrospection many have
concluded that blacks suffered from
the “putting all your aggs in one
basks*” syndrome, "blacks mads a
great mlatake in their partisan
views of supporting the Democratic
Party," remarks Alexander, who
admit# he Is a Democrat
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bays Dr Phyllis A. Wallace. Pro
fessor and Co-Director of the In
dustrial Relations Section, Sloan
School of Management, MIT, and
a member of the Board of Econo
mists, "Immediately after the Mem
phis decision, the Reagan Admin
istration saw this as a chance to turn
back the clock not only on seniority
layoff issues but on a variety of
affirmative action procedures that
for the past 20 years the courts have
ruled on.’’
“I think the Memphis case is just
the beginning, and the private sec
tor will clearly go the way of the
public sector," warns Black Enter
prise Publisher Earl G Graves, also
a member of the Board
As relative newcomers to the
public sector, blacks lack strong ties
to public sector unions, notes
Wallace, and may be laid off in
massive numbers if state and local
governments are forced to take belt
tightening measures.
Wallace suggests that blacks unite
with other minorities, especially
white women, to ensure that affirm
ative action measures are kept
intact.
"Blacks initially bore the
brunt of (civil rights) legislation.
They were on the ffont lines," says
Wallace "Now it’s time for black
men and women to work with other
groups and let them step forward to
do the righting "
Dr Beraard E. Anderson, an
other member at the Board and
Director at Social Sciences Divi
sion at the Rockefeller Pounds
tion, goes one step further and re
commends that the coeHtiom be
based on shared issues, such as
comparable pay. “We have to assess
what we have to trade and (work to)
form coalitions that bring results
that (can) give us a share of the
decisions that are economically be
neficial."