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Leadership, scholarship and
lots of hats at fund raiser
Dargan
Hampden
McFayden
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the honorees, who have made
significant contributions in
their professions and commu
nities: Dee Dixon, CEO of
Pride Communications;
Bridget-Arme Hampden,
President and CEO of JHR
Associates and Shannon
•McFayden, senior executive
vice president at Wachovia
Coip-
Angelou presented a
posthumous award to the
family of Elizabeth Ross
Dargan, retired teacher and
principal with Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Schools and
longtime community volun
teer. An avid supporter of
UNCF, Daigan was serving
her second year as chair of
the Maya Angelou event
when she died in late April.
Larisha Rhbdes, a graduate
of Beddingfield High School
in WUson, was awarded a
$5,000 scholarship. An
aspiring poet and social
worker, Nelson will attend
Livingstone CoUege in the
fall.
“I believe ih the lifting up of
youth,” said. Angelou.
“Education is the only thing
that will liberate us from oiar
ignorance.”
A colorful display of hats—
all shapes and sizes—made
this year’s ‘HAT-ti-tude” con-
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“I can't imagine a better
home than the home of Dr.
King for this collection,”
Redden told The Associated
Press. “It was there for years,
it’s going to be there forever. I
think that’s a marvelous con-
dtision to this extraordinary
process. It guarantees that it
will be looked after properly
and made available to the
public.”
Redden would not disclose
the purchase price, but said
Morehouse CoUege ' will
acquire the coUection.
Andrew Young, a lieutenant
of King’s dining the civil
rights movement, became
overcome with emotion wh«i
discussing the deal.
“People have seen this as an
ofiportunity to step up and
lay daim to Martin Luther
King’s nonviolent heritage as
a part of Atlanta’s tradition,”
Young said. “It really didn’t
bdong anywhere else. The
people who responded... it just
lets you know who reaUy
understand and appredates
what Atlanta has done for
them. Of course, in the
process, they’ve done a lot for
Atlanta.”
Franklin did not immedi
ately respond to calls seeking
comment. ■
Atlanta is the birthplace of
King and where he and his
wife, Coretta, are buried. The
city was the sentimental
favorite in the bidding and
was immored to have stiff
competition from . others
across the country induding
the Library of Congress, the
Smithsonian Institute, Duke
University, and the
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture at
the New York Public Library
Coretta Scott King’s death
in January was a catalyst for
the sale, as her will calls for
the liquidation of her estate.
The coUection indudes
items ranging from canceled
checks, to a term paper he
wrote as a student at
Morehouse, to a draft of his
most famous speech, ‘T Have
a Dream,” delivered at the
1963 March on Washington.
As a requirement of the sale,
the coUection had to be
bou^t as a single lot. If it is
resold, it cannot be broken up
as long as the Kings’ children
are ahve.
Before the sale, U.S. Rep.
John Lewis, D-C-a., was hope
ful that the papers would end
up at an institution in the
South that can publicly dis
play them. Lewis, who repre
sents Atlanta, was a leader of
the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
during the hei^t of the dril
rights movement and the
State employees face
increased scmtiny
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RALEIGH— The Department of Homeland
Security would verify the legal residency sta
tus of aU new North Carolina state employees
imder a bill unanimously approved last week
by a House panel.
New state employees already submit self-
identification forms to the state. But Rep.
George Cleveland caUed that process an inade
quate ‘Yarce.”
“We have a humongous illegal alien problem
in this coimtry and state, and nobody’s doing
anything about it,” said Cleveland, the biU’s
primary sponsor.
DHS has expanded its fi:ee, Web-based s^-
vice across the coimtry althoi^h only a few
states have capitalized on the project. Most
have simply encouraged businesses to use the
program to verify the legal status of workers.
test another highli^t of the
luncheon at the Hilton
Center City. Participants
earned trophies for sporting
the best hats in five cate
gories; dressy, classic, sassy
unique and whimsical.
“Afrfran-,Americam women ■
wear ^aii^' 'hats—mothers,
teachers, p^diers. We wear
many hats,” said Angelou.
Proceeds will benefit N.C.
UNCF schools Bennett
College in Greensboro;
Johnson C. Smith University
in Charlotte, Sahsbury’s
Livingstone College, and
Shaw University and St.
Augustine’s CoUege in
Raleigh.
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GRADUATE LEARNING; Vonda and Ron Frazier congratulate daughter Riana Friday at grad
uation ceremonies for Love of Learning in Davidson. The program, sponsored by Davidson
College, prepares high school students for the academic and social rigors of college. Riana
Frazier, a Berry Academy graduate, is headed to N.C. Central University in the fali.
M.L. King papers go to Morehouse
youngest person to speak at
the 1963 March on
Washington. .
“Atlanta is the home of the
modern-day civil rights
movement in America, and I
think that’s where the papers
should be,” he said.
Seven years ago, the
Library of Congress offered
$20 million for the collection.
Negotiations stagnated a
year later after historians
debated the value of the
papers. Sotheby’s also faded
to seU the coUection three
years ago after it was dis
played on the 40th anniver
sary of the March on
Washington.
Morehouse CoUege is an aU-
male historicaUy black col
lege near downtown Atlanta.
The 139-year-old school
stands as the largest private,
hberal arts coUege in the
coimtry for men with 2,800
students, and one of only four
aU-male coUeges in the U.S.
The school’s other famous
alumni include actor Samuel
L. Jackson, former U.S.
Surgeon General David
Satcher and film director
Spike Lee.
On The Net:
Sotheby’s:
wwwsothebys.com
Morehouse College:
wM'wjnorehouse .edu
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