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2A NEWS/The Charlotte Post Thursday, May 18, 20Q0' Women fought for gender, race Continued from page 1A Greensboro, used her older sis ter’s birth certificate to get into the WAC at age 17. She saw the militaiy as an opportunity for advancement as well as a chance for personal growth. When Ingram’s outfit reported for duty at Douglas Army Air Base in Arizona, she and another private were assigned to the print shop, freeing six men to go overseas. Ingram earned several recom mendations for promotion, but when a new officer showed up, he had other ideas. “He said ‘Get the (expletive) out of my print shop,” Ingram, 75, said. “If you want to do some thing for the service, stay home and knit socks.” That wouldn’t be the end of the taunts. Black personnel were rel egated to segregated facilities on and off military bases. But Ingram and her imit protested and won equal treatment before it became a widespread national phenomenon. “You could say we had marches and sit-ins in Douglas, Ariz., in the 1940s, long before (Martin Luther) King,” she said. “The Army did not let this out because they thought it would spread like wildfire and that others would rebel.” In Europe, the 6888th was given six months to clear the postal bottleneck while Germany’s first-generation bal listic missiles fell on England. Working 24 hours a day for three months, the task was accom plished. ‘We had a backlog of mail for months,” Gaddy recalled. ‘We went in and along with German (prisoners of war) that all of us supervised, and we got that mail out in record time. We should’ve gotten a citation for that and we did not. We felt very bad about that because we did an excellent job on that.” The raditary often didn’t honor - or even recognize - the achieve ments of aU-black units before the armed forces were officially desegregated in 1948. Although units like the Tuskegee Airmen were acknowledged much later, outfits like the 6888th served in relative obscurity. To Gaddy African America’s “Double V” campaign - victory abroad against foreign enemies and vic tory at home against American racism - didn’t deliver what it touted. The same went for England’s black soldiers, who endured the same treatment, she said. ‘We had no victory, nowhere,” Gaddy said. “.. .My feeling is we had no victory there because we were short-changed and segre gated. We had no victory here because we were not appreciat ed. We had no victory anywhere. But we served proudly and we did an excellent job in aU wars, not only in World War 11 but World War I and the wars pre ceding that.” 7b contribute to the Women’s Veterans Historical Project at UNC Greensboro, call Betty Carter at (336) 334-4045 or write her in care of Jackson Library, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402. Her e-mail address is betty_carter@uncg.edu. N.CyS.C. HOUSEHOLDS CAN GET $35,000 Up to $35,000 per household is now avsdlable through the Neighborhood Housing Renewal property improvement loan program. The program requires no equity or appraisal and homeowners may be eligible regardless of length of ownership, income, age, condition of home or credit history. Some homeowners may even^, qualify to pay off bills. All payments are set to fit each' homeowner's budget. Funds may be used for new siding, windows,- roof, deck, HV/AC, kitchen, bath,, sunroom, additions, etc. ’ ’ t Contact NHR atl-800-526-3064* or write: P.O. Box 5261 LakeWyUe,SC 29710 ^ WE BUY HOUSES, LOTS & LAND. Any Condition. Anywhere . CASH! Mediation is next step for fractured school board Continued from page 1A inner city schools. They say the hurried time table sought by the commissioners and others is unnecessary since the appeals court’s stay means Potter’s order is null and void and the appeals court could rule in favor of the school board after next month’s hearing. If a plan is not passed until September, it would be in time to convert from the busing plan to a controlled choice plan by August 2001, they said. Arthur Griffin, the board chair man who has received the most criticism, told a group at First Baptist Church West Monday night that his credibihty was challenged during the desegrega tion trial that led to Potter’s rul ing because he had voted for plans and programs which he testified had contributed to urrfair treatment of minorities and a segregated school system. “I got badgered for voting to compromise,” Griffin said of his two days of testimony last year. “I said ‘I wfil never go through that again.’ “ “I don’t want that to happen again,” Griffin said, promising to remain resolute against the con centration of low-income stu dents. He noted that the federal governments is spending mil lions of dollars to break up con- Inmates sue L.A. Sheriff By Bart Jones THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Sheriff’s deputies intentionally allowed Hispanic inmates to attack black prisoners during a recent series of racial brawls in a county jail, a civil rights lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of 273 black inmates, alleges that deputies took away black prison ers’ shoes so they couldn’t stomp other inmates. Attorney Leon Jenkins says deputies also did not retrieve razor blades from Hispanic inmates that later were used as weapons. The lawsuit, filed 'Tuesday by Jenkins, seeks class-action sta tus, unspecified monetary dam ages for those injured and an injunction to force the depart ment to take steps to prevent future riots. Sheriff’s officials would not respond to specific allegations in the lawsuit, but issued a statement that said, “acts of violence have never — and wdl never — be condoned.” “The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department has always held foremost in its responsibfli- ties in maintaining the county jail system the welfare and safe ty of all inmates, regardless of race,” the statement said. Rioting that began April 24 and lasted three days left one black prisoner in a coma after his head was bashed into the concrete floor. More than 80 others were injured. Six Hispanic inmates pleaded innocent to attempted murder and mayhem charges in the attack on Ahmad BurweU, 21. In their lawsuit, the black inmates contend the Sheriffs Department placed them in life- threatening situations by isolat ing them in dormitories dominat ed by rival Hispanic groups. Rembert centrations of low-income hous ing units for similar reasons. Griffin and board members Wfihebnenia Rembert and Vilma Leake say the plan wfil lead to a dual school system similar to those out lawed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education rul ing 1954. Leake, who c a M 0 n d meeting District which she rep resents, said she will continue to fight for children and would oppose plans which re-segregat- ed the system. Rembert, a Winthrop University administrator, said Wednesday the mediation process could take more than three weeks, since it may be dif ficult to find a mediator immedi ately. “I’m certain a mediator wfil be able to help the board truly iden tify what board members want in a student assignment plan or would find acceptable in a stu dent assignment plan,” she said. “The mediator will perhaps cut through some of the pohtical con cerns people have and really address what is in the best inter est of all children in the district.” Part of the conservatives’ oppo sition to the pupil assignment plan is the relocation of magnets program - particularly International Baccalaureate pro grams at North Mecklenburg and Independence high schools - to other schools closer to the city’s center. West Charlotte and East Mecklenburg. Opponents of those moves include board vice chair John Lassiter, Jim Puckett, who is running for the board of cormty commissioners, and Lindalyn Kakadalis. 'Those moves are being made to help insure racial and socio-eco nomic diversity and to make close in schools more attractive, school officials say. Said Rembert: “I hope the mediator will help the board determine whether or not this plan is even feasible, given the positions board members hold, and if it is not feasible, to help the board determine what is the best way to arrive at a plan that would be feasible. “My difficulty with this plan centers around the fact that no where in the cormtry have we found consistently...rm not talk ing about isolated cases here and there...where urban schools that have high concentration of poor children and a high concentra tion of children performing below the level they are probably capa ble of performing, have been suc cessful.” Rembert said the debate over equity is also troubling, because some don’t feel equity requires additional help for those same inner city schools with high con centrations of low achieving stu dents. 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