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Vol. 15, No. 1 Thursday, June 1,1989
THE AWARD-WINNING "VOICE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY"
50 Cents
Sam Carr Plans
Run For Council
By HERB WHITE
Post Staff Writer
Sam Carr says he knows run
ning for city councU could be a
difficult task, but he's going to
run against Incumbent Demo
crat Ella Scarborough In Dis
trict 3 anyway.
"I know It's going to be a chal
lenge to run against her, but
that's the American way," he
said.
Carr, 44 and a former city san
itation worker, said he has
about 25 percent of his cam
paign set, mostly In the form of a
camp>algn committee.
"By the middle of June, I'U have
another 50 percent and by the
end of June, I'll have the last 25
percent," he said.
Carr, who lost to Scarborough
In 1987, acknowledged the first-
term councllwoman's accom
plishments, but believes he can
do a better Job of addressing
District 3's concerns.
Carr
"I think Ella Scarborough has
done a tremendous job In her
first term as a city counctlper-
See SAM CARR On Page 2A.
Madans Offers
Anti-Crime Plan
Madans
By HERB WHITE
Post Staff Writer
Democratic mayoral candidate
Craig Madans says Charlotte's
crime Is often seen as someone
else's problem, and for It to be
attacked, that attitude must
change.
"The sever
ity of the
problem Is
that It af
fects every
body," he
said. "It's no
longer the
other guy."
In unveil
ing a six-
point plan to
combat the city's rising crime
rate, much of It stemming from
drug use, Madans said: "I think
everything Is Inter-related.
"Crime Includes more than
drugs and drugs obviously In
volves more than crime. They're
Inter-related, but yet they're
separate."
An Increase In crime deserves
decisive action, Madans said,
but he alleges the city hasn't
gotten It from Mayor Sue Myiick
and mayor pro-tem A1 Rousso,
who Is also seeking the mayor's
seat
A change at the top, he said. Is
needed to fight the problem.
"In large corporations that
have double-digit losses, they'll
bring In new people to shake
things up," he said. "Charlotte's
management team of the mayor
and mayor pro-tem are not giv
ing the proper direction or solu
tions."
Points of the plan are:
• More Involvement for citizens
and law enforcement to work to
gether In reporting criminal ac
tivity through neighborhood
watch programs.
• Increase citizen Involvement
In the police process by Improv
ing the existing 911 emergency
system and citizen-based com
munity watch systems. Saying
that the city "has a tendency to
neglect neighborhood Input,"
Madans said he would stress
greater citizen Involvement In
crime prevention.
• Implement programs to edu-
See ANH-CRIME Oh Page 2A.
Jackson,
Leonard KO
Drugs
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.
(AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson
and champion boxer Sugar Ray
Leonard teamed up for a one-two
punch against drug abuse.
The champion boxer, who Is
training for a June 12 super
middleweight title bout with
Tommy Hearns, and the former
presidential candidate warned
Palm Beach and Martin County
school students against drugs In
appearances last week.
"Resist drugs at all costs," Jack-
son told students. "We have nev
er known a threat before of the
magnitude of cocaine or heroin."
He told them of visiting 60 drug-
addicted newborns In hospitals.
Drugs, he said, "are at best a
PhotPt/CALVIN FEROUSON
THE AWARENESS ART ENSEMBLE (photo right) Jammed Sunday afternoon. Hundreds turned out for sun, fun reg-
for Memorial weekend revelers at Lakeview Country Club gae music.
Black Teachers Back NCAE Chief
RALEIGH (AP) — The executive
board of the black caucus of the
North Carolina Association of
Educators voted Saturday to
support the group's associate ex
ecutive director, whose contract
was not renewed In a contested
meeting of the NCAE's board.
The black caucus executive
board voted to support Frances
Cummings, associate executive
director, said Hiawatha Foster,
chairman of the NCAE black
caucus. But the black caucus
board took no action regarding
NCAE executive director Thom
as Husted, whose contract also
was not renewed by the NCAE
board.
Only 14 of the NCAE board's 24
voting members met In Raleigh
May 20 when 13 of them voted
against renewing contracts for
Husted and Mrs. Cummings.
They voted after suspending "all
polices, procedures, rules and
regulations dealing with person
nel."
An NCAE faction led by Karen
Garr, president of the 47,000-
member NCAE, filed suit In
Wake County Superior Court
over the meeting. They won an
order to temporarily stop the
firings.
Ms. Foster said the black cau
cus executive board also went on
record Saturday In support of
Initiating action to bring focus
to returning the association
back to Its membership; asking
the board of directors to unify
behind the purposes and goals of
the NCAE: and focusing on the
healing of the organlztion.
Black Union Soldiers Buried In S.C.
Jackson
short-term pleasure and a long
term pain."
Jackson, dressed In a Michael
Jordan T-shirt, blue shorts, and
black Air Jordan tennis shoes,
visited Leonard's camp and
watched a two-hour workout.
Jackson had another warning
afterward: "One way to go broke
is to bet against Sugar."
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — To the
beat of muffled drums and the
sound of a fife, the remains of 19
black Union soldiers were es
corted to their final resting
place Monday at the Beaufort
National Cemetery.
As Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis and his wife Kitty
looked on, an honor guard of
about 50 men dressed In Union
uniforms escorted the flag-
covered coffins to a corner of the
cemetery shaded by three giant
oaks shrouded In Spanish moss.
"The black soldiers of the Mas
sachusetts 54th and 55th regi
ments were fighting for their
own liberty, to grasp their own
freedom and to ensure both for
others of their own race," Duka
kis told a crowd of about 4,000.
The remains, unearthed two
years ago during road construc
tion on Folly Beach are from the
Massachusetts and the 1st North
Carolina Infantry regiments.
All were black units that fought
for the North during the Civil
War.
The Massachusetts regiments
were the first Union regiments
formed with volunteer black
troops.
The remains were found In
what was a Union cemetery used
during the selge of Charleston. It
apparently was forgotten after
the war.
Dukakis and two men whose
forefathers fought In the Massa
chusetts regiments laid a wreath
In front of fhe coffins which
were laid out In three rows.
Each coffin had a flag with 34
stars; during the service, offi
cials from Massachusetts put
small state flags next to each
coffin.
Later, a group of women wear
ing white hats with blue ribbons
put a handful of soil from Mas
sachusetts Into each grave. Two
buglers echoed 'Taps" and a 40-
gun salute crackled In the still
afternoon.
Those dressed as Union sol
diers had appeared In the movie
"Glory," a Civil War production
about the 54th Massachusetts
which recently completed film
ing near Savaimah, Ga.
As the procession wound Its
way through the cemetery where
thousands of American flags
marked the graves. It passed a
group of nine men dressed as
Confederate soldiers who stood
at attention.
N.C.’s First King Shrine To Be Unveiled In Raleigh
North Carolina's first public
shrine honoring slain civil
rights leader Marttn Luther King
Jr. will be announced June 15 In
Raleigh.
The N.C. Martin Luther King
Statue and Memorial Gardens,
organized by the Raleigh-based
King Celebration Committee, Is
expected to start construction of
the $180,(X)0 shrine Aug. 14. The
formal dedication Is expected to
be made Jan. 15, 1990, the fifth
national holiday honoring King.
The statue and memorial will
be funded through private and
corporate contributions
throughout the Raleigh area.
Raleigh city coimcllman Ralph
Campbell said the memorial is
Intended to give North Carolin
ians a powerful reminder of
King's life and example he set.
'The overall objective of the
project Is to create a perpetual
climate and physical tribute to
Dr. King and the many others
who worked so hard and gave
their lives to bringing racial and
social injustices to the forefront
of American consciousness," he
said. 'We are very pleased with
the development and support
for this project which Is evident
here today. I am also absolutely
delighted that this Impressive
statue and memorial gardens
will be built In southeast Ra
leigh. This Is Indeed a proud and
important day for all of North
Carolina."
The six-foot, two Inch bronze
statue is being developed by In
ternationally known sculptor
Abbe Godwin of Colfax, N.C. Her
best-known works are the Viet
nam veterans memorial statue
on the Capitol grounds In Ra
leigh, the Beirut memorial at
Camp Lejeune and a sculpture
at the N.C. School for the Blind
In Greensboro.
When Godwin's work Is un
veiled, It will be the world's only
statue that depicts King in
a clerical robe.
"First, I was honored and deep
ly moved when contacted and
asked to compete for this work.
Over the past six years I have
been doing my own research
and studying Dr. King and his
powerful spiritual approach to
nonviolent social change," she
said. "I wanted to create an Im
age of King which not only fo
cused on his unusual gifted ora
torical powers, but also his
Inner spiritual resolve. For the
next eight months, my total life
will be devoted to this Incredibly
Important work of art."
Landscape architect Hal
McNeely volunteered his servic
es to develop the renderings for
the memorlEil gardens. His plans
call for a circular marble walk
way around the statue, with park
benches on the perimeter. A me
morial wall bronze plates will
recognize people who made sig
nificant contributions to the ad
vancement of human rights and
social justice In the state.
Trees and shrubbery will be a
part of the memorial, which Will
be lighted at night.
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