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Tbpeka, third-grader Linda
Brown had to walk one mile
through a railroad switch
yard to get to her all-black
elementary school, although
a white school was seven
blocks away. Linda’s father,
Oliver Brown, tried to enroll
her in the white school, but
the principal refused. The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People assisted the Browns
in challenging the segrega
tion in public schools.
At UNC Charlotte’s lecture
and reception, Henderson
and Thompson, will provide
their personal perspectives
and share their experiences
before, during and after the
legendary decision. The lec
ture and reception are free to
the public; however, advance
reservations are necessary
by calling the Campus
Activity Board at (704) 687-
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For a list of events, log on
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the Office of Educational
Outreach at UNC Charlotte
at (704) 687-2060.
i Haiti cuts off diplomatic relations with Jamaica
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Transi^rica President
Randall Robinson. “I think
the Bush administration
hates President Aristide
♦ largely because he’s not a
president to be told what to
do by Americans.”
As protesters escalated
demands for Aristide’s
return, he boldly moved to
' Jamaica on Monday, hoping
to return home soon. He
describes himself as the
president of Haiti and con
tinues to insist that he was
forced to resign by U. S. offi
cials on Feb. 29 as armed
rebel forces closed in on his
palace in Port-Au-Prince.
He has urged his followers
to peacefully resist the occu
pation by foreign troops,
including 2,000 Americans,
and says he is willing to
return to power in Haiti. But
the Bush Administration
insists that Aristide resigned
willingly, has pushed ahead
for a transitional govern
ment until new elections in
2005.
That move, says Ira
Kurzban, Aristide’s Miami-
based attorney, is only
Bush’s way of getting even
for his father, George
Herbert Walker Bush, whose
administration first helped
to oust Aristide in 1991, only
to see him reinstated by
President Clinton in 1994.
Fletcher points to the offi
cial U. S. security strategy as
documentation that the U. S.
government currently sees
itself as being among what
he describes as “the cowboy
wing of the ruling group.”
The 20-page document
posted on WhiteHouse.gov,
titled, “The National
Security Strategy of the
United States of America,”
states in its overview that
“the United States possesses
unprecedented— and
unequaled—strength and
influence in the world” and
promises to “expand the cir
cle of development by open
ing societies and building
the infrastructure of
Democracy” and to use
America’s strength to “pro
mote a balance of power that
favors freedom.”
Fletcher sees that as an
extension of the Monroe
Doctrine of 1823 that basi
cally holds that it is the
United States’“manifest des
tiny” to rule the Western
Hemisphere.
Fletcher says America is
essentially stating, “There
vrill never be a military com
petitor with the U. S. And if
you disagree with the first
three points, the U. S. has
the right to take you out.”
TransAfrica raised its pro
file as a leading group for
Haitian Liberation in 1994
when its then president,
Randall Robinson, went on a
27-day hunger strike, help
ing to force Clinton to restore
Aristide to power.
“This is a poHcy of simple
meanness. Don’t look for
rationale in this. You won’t
find it,” Robinson says. “This
is a reckless, cruel, stupid
American policy that in large
part wears the face of the
first Black secretary of state
in the United States.”
Secretary of State Colin
Powell was among the first
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