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State To Enforce Anti-Klan Law
E|y Jafyne Strong ,
Poet Managing Editor ^
"Did you know that the North
Carolina Constitution prohibits
groups like the Ku Wux Wan?
"Why is the Wan allowed to
break the North Carblina law?
Are Mayor Gantt and City Coun
cil encouraging these law break
ers by granting a permit for this
march?"
These questions were asked on
a printed flyer Aileen Hansen of
the Equal Rights Council was
passing out to spectators at the
July 4 march and rally of the Ku
Wux Wan in Charlotte.
On the flyer was also printed
Article 1, Section 12 or the NC
Constitution Declaration of
Rights which states: "The people
have a right to assemble together
to consult for their common good,
to instruct their representatives,
and to apply to the General As
sembly for redress of grievance;
but secret political societies are
dangerous to the liberties of firee
people and shall not be tolerated."
Hansen and the other members
of the Equal Right# Council feel
this law is strong enough, if en
forced, to end Man rallies in
North Carolina.
But the state and local law offi
cials are not listening to them.
"The Ku Mux Man has turned
the Fourteenth Amedment's
Equal Protection Clause, w)
treemaqa lifana A.
for black peopled?
ities, inside out.
"Through a sophist manipula
tion of the Due Proce#» Clause in
tha same Fourteenth Amend
ment, the Man has city manag
ers, police chiefs, mayors, and
even the State Attorney General
capitulating timidly to their form
letter which innocently requests a
permit to parade down the main
streets of North Carolina cities,"
writes Alan McSurely, Co
Director of Plowshares Projects,
he. . ‘
McSurely has written a paper
oa the Man and the anti-Klan
provision in the NC Constitution
which, entered in 1875, rsvisSd in
1971, remains in the law today.
In the paper, McSurely argues
"that the anti-Man provisions of
tha North Carolina Constitution
and statutes are potent tools for de
nying Man parade permits in
North Carolina."
iviemDers oi in# Equal Kights
Council, who staged an Anti
Man Rally in Charlotte a week
before the KKK march, feel
McSurely's argument is sound.
They Just don't understand why
M law makers are willing to do
anything about it.
The Equal Rights Council and
McSurely appear to be operating
in the shadow of a state which
doee not intend to try to stop the Ku
Mux Man. This idea ie backed
by a 1986 report released by North
Carolinians Against Racist and
Rsligious Violsnce (NCARRV)
which called for "stronger state
leadership to oppose continuing
high levels of Man activity."
The NCARRVs report for 1986
cited continuing levels of Men/
Nasi activity and bigoted inci
dent# in North Carolina. It listed
86 recorded violent/illegal inci
Blacks File Suit
Against Memorial
You may have a claim to (lie if
you were a minority employee of
Charlotte Memorial Hospital who
was hired between October of 1973
and June 1983.
Attorneys Johnathan Wallas
and Michael Bheely are encour
tany employee of Memorial
tal who filed a claim of die
nation in respect to their
initial job assignment, in respect
to not being transferred, in re
spect to being terminated or in re
spect to retaliation to contact their
offices. Wallas' number ie 375
8481 and Sheely can be reached at
878-1808.
Charlotteana gathered in an Anti-Klan rally to
expreaa their aantlmenta toward the bigoted, vio
lent organization. Some believe anti-Klan laws
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in the N.C. Constitution can end the Klan's in
creased activity in this state.
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H>o«o by Alcan Hanara
The July 4 Ku Klux Klan rally, held in downtown
Charlotte brought police protection out in force, as
the city government strives to protect the group s
First Amendment rights.
dents "apparently motivated by
bigotry or perpetrated by known
members of hate groups. These
incidents include:
crasbumings 11
■hooting/assault/rape 6
death 1
death robbery 2
pejury/contempt 3
threata/vandalism 12
/arson <
The report also cited that Wan
groups marched and rallied 64
times in North Carolina in 1986,
up 64 percent ovef 1986. Adding,
"Comparisons between 1985 and
1966 show more Activity, covering
more of the static and more vio
lent fallout." jfc,
Mecklenburg ipferie of 15 North
Carolina counties that has shown
the highest recorded levels of hate
group activity and bigoted vio
lence in 1986, according to the re
port.
Two such incidents in Meek
lenburg include: The attest of
Wan member James Haskell
who was charged with taking in
decent liberties with the 14-year
old daughter of another Wans
men. When the police searched
Haskill's home they found a
small arsenal of weapons
(grenades, hand guns, shot guns,
armor-piercing bullets, night
scopes, and a least two stolen
guns).
And, the fact of Klan organiz
ing in South Charlotte which is
associated with the incident of
Rosa McCall, a black woman
with four children, who moved
from her South Charlotte neigh
borhood after someone breaks a
window in the house, dumps dead
fish in the back yard, and places
a five-foot wooden cross next to
the mailbox.
Incidences such as these are
cropping up all over North Caroli
na. But none are as alarming or
as revealing of the true nature of
Klan groups as the testimony of
ex-Klansmen James Holder at
the trial of Glen Miller.
Holder testified that Miller's
strategy was to use Lee County,
NC, as a “stronghold for a racist
insurrection planned for 1991."
He also testified that he had ob
tained $50,000 from the White Pa
triot Party (Klan affiliate) fbr an
array of weapons: dynamite,
claymore mines, 100-200 pounds
of explosives, AR-15 rifles, MAC
machine pistols and chemical
warfare items. Holder said the
WPP had buried these weapons,
sealed in containers, in wooded
areas throughout the Piedmont.
The NCARRV states in its re
port, “Most law enforcement offi
cials interviews show an alarm
ingly consistent lack of knowl
edge about white supremacist or
organizations and ideology...Most
were not aware of paramilitary
training being promoted by extre
mists in their areas."
McSurely's paper, which es
l^owery And King Appointed To
UNC-Charlotte Trustee Board
Raleigh - Governor James O.
Martin haa appointed Bobby Low
ery of Charlotte and Margaret R.
King of Charlotte to the Universi
ty of North Carolina at Charlotte
Board of Trustees. Lowery re
places James Fry and King re
places Eli cabeth Koonti. Both will
serve until June 80,1001., .
Lowery, 64, graduated from
Carver Junior College. He is the
president of Better Cleaning
Maintenance Supply.
He is a member of the Business
Advisory Board at UNC-C, the
Board of Directors of Cities in
Schools and Board of Directors of
Building Service Contractors In-,
temational. vi,?# jo '• •;
King graduated from Duke
University in 1947. She is a mem
ber of the State Board of Elections,
nrxwry mwmy
...N«w trust** member
and a previous member of ths
UN C-C Board of Trust***.
Ths UNC-C advises the Univar
Administration on policy mat- •
ter* and adopts tha ml** and rag-,;
ulations which govern tha school.
sentially delves into the history of
the anti-Klan laws, explaining
why they were needed and also
why they still are necessary, also
points out that "In 1953 the North
Carolina legislature passed the
"anti-Ku Klux statute which de
fines a 'secret political society’
and makes it unlawful in
North Carolina to join, apply for
membership in, organize, or so
licit for or assist in any way any
secret political society, secret
military society or secret society
having for a purpose violating or
circumventing the lnws of the
state."
But it remains, reports the
NCARRV, There are tome seri
ous inadequacies in our ability to
respond to bigoted violence and
intimidation in North Carolina
at all levels of government."
While it appears state and
local officials and now even the
majority of Charlotte’s black citi
See Anti-Klnn On Page 4A
Civil Rights Symposium
Durham, N'C - The North Car
olina Central University School of
Law will host a two-day Civil
Rights Law and Advocacy Sym
posium July 16-17. The pro
gram will bring together civil
rights lawyers and community
advocates from throughout the
Southeast for a review of the state
of civil rights.
Sponsors of the symposium in
clude the NCCU law school along
with Legal Services of North Car
olina, Inc., the Legal Services
Southeast Training Center, the
North Carolina Human Relations
Commission, the South Carolina
State Support Center, the Vir
ginia Poverty Law Center, the
North Carolina Clients Council,
Legal Services of Western Caroli
na, Inc. (a South Carolina agen
cy), $he Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ) CASJC Pro
ject, tiie United Church of Christ
Commission on Racial Justice,
and the North Curolina Legal Ser
vices Resource Center.
Information about the sympo
sium is available from Nelda
I
Wright, ISNC, Post Office Box
26087, Raleigh NC 27611 (Phone
919 832-2046).
Topics for discussion include
fair housing, women's rights, ra
cial violence, voting rights, access
to municipal services, and police
violence.
Invited to serve as presenters
are Leah Wise of Southerners for
Economic Justice; Mnb Segrest of
North Carolinians Against Racist
and Religious Violence; Carolyn
Coleman, North Carolina State
NAACP Director; G. K. Butterfield
of the law firm of Fitch, Butter
field & Wynn; Roslyn Gray, pri
vate attorney and consultant of
Washington, DC; Irving Joyner,
associate dean of the NCCU law
school and president of the North
Carolina Association of Black
Lawyersr Don Saunders of the
North Carolina Legal Services Re
source Center; and Roberta
Wright, in private practice in
Rock Hill, SC.
For further information, call:
919-832-2046 f Raleigh)
"White Girl" Films
In North Carolina
Tony Brown’s new film ivill be made in Durham
Tony Brown, columnist, televi
sion host and new filmmaker,
announced today that his first
full-length feature film titled,
The White Girl" will be filmed
in Durham, NC.
At a press conference held in
Raleigh, Brown, joined by Gov
ernor Jim Martin, informed the
public about plans to film "The
White Girl" in Durham, specifi
cally on the campuses of North
Carolina Central University and
Duke Univer
sity.
Brown se
lected North
Carolina over
six competing
states as the site
for the filming
which will take
place in Sep
tember.
"We are
honored that a
man of Mr. Brown's accomplish
ments has chosen North Carolina
to be the site for this film," Gov
ernor Martin said.
"Tony Brown is undertaking a
film that brings a serious mes
sage to North Carolina and the
nation in several ways," Martin
added. First, its anti-drug theme
carries obvious importance. The
plans he has developed for distri
bution of the movie also offers eco
nomic opportunities to black en
trepreneurs, promoters and non
profit organisations."
The winner of numerous
awards for his national televi
sion series on PBS, Brown says
"The White Girl" is scheduled
for release in theaters across the
country in early 1988.
He explains the movie's story
line relating, " The White Girl*
is a double entendre. It's the street
name for cocaine and, in the mo
vie, the way a young black worn
an sees herself. In this case, self
hatred contributed to the drug ad
diction. Both are problems. One
leads to the other.
Tony Brown nyi the first Huy g
Freedom" movie will give local
black entrepreneurs a chance to
distribute the film in their areas.
That's why it's a love story
with a love yourself them," adds
Brown, who wrote the original
screenplay and will direct the
movie.
Brown claims the movie will
provide black actors with some of
the best dramatic roles in years.
However, final decisions on the
leading characters have not been
made.
From financing through pro
duction an marketing of video
cassettes--the picture will be con
trolled by Tony Brown Produc
tions, Inc.
The movie will also serve as a
vehicle for black economic devel
opment. Brown, an exponent of
self-help and ehairman of the Buy
Freedom campaign, a national
network of black-owned firms,
says this production will also
create a "movie-making opportu
nity" for black entrepreneurs,
promoters and non-profit organi
sations.
"For ths first tims,” says
Brown, "black entrepreneurs and
organisations will be offered a
tele in the marketing of a movie
in their own locality or state.