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MOUSE PAD? Rid home of rodents with peppermint/4D Volume 32 No. 51 J.C. Smith’s Golden Bulls look to put pep in their offensive step/1 C Our stories African American experience part of annuai Chariotte Fiim Festival/1 D $1.00 The Voice of the Black Community Also serving Cat: It ■v'fir-;, ‘ = Train of thought: Filtufe®; mass transit (febated at fomm PHOTO/CALVIN FERGUSON Charlotte Area Transit System's Lynx train heads north along Camden Road during a test run Tuesday. Two-thirds of the half-cent transit tax up for a November referendum funds buses, but light rail has drawn fire as a waste of public transportation dollars. CATS PEOPLE Ridership 66% African American 28% White Gender 52% Female 48% Mole Employment 83% work full-time Income 74% eorn $40,000 or less; Local riders earn an average of $20,870 a year; Express rid ers earn $54,490 annually Top bus ridership routes Central Avenue (1.4 million) North Ttyon (1.1 million) Beatties Ford Rood (1 million) South Boulevard (788,000) Town hall meeting examines half-cent transit tax referendum By Herbert L. White heFD.white®fhechortoffeposf-com The public debate over funding public transit moves to northwest Charlotte Thursday. The Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg is sponsoring a town hall meet ing at 6 p.m. at West Charlotte High School, 2219 Senior Drive with proponents and opponents of Mecklenburg County’s half-cent transit tax. Among the panelists are anti-tax organizer and former Charlotte City Council mem ber Don Reid; current City Council member Patrick Mumford and former Charlotte Area Transit System chief Ron Tober. (* We're concerned specifically about the east and west sides from an economic standpoint. We want to make sure the numbers are comparable from an economic impact. I) Black Political Caucus Chairman Dwayne Collins on the impact of adding light rail to Charlottes transportation options. "By the grace of God, we had no problem getting them BPC Chairman Dwayne Collins. "They were very eager to come to the table and give their diver gent views on both sides of the issue." The transit tax, which was approved by voters in 1998 and produced $77 million for CATS last year, is up for repeal in November. Critics contend the money can Please see TOWN HALLy2A Collins Gabriel Prosser led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800. Virginia slave revolt leader earns pardon By Jeremy M. Lazarus RICHMOND FREE PRESS RICHMOND - He was hanged as a criminal from a Richmond scaffold for leading the area’s biggest slave revolt. Now 207 years later, Gabriel Prosser has received a full par don from Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. Please see 1800/2A Churches sought to provide shelter By Herbert L. White herb.whifeS/hecFiortofteposf.com The Salvation Army is reach ing out to black churches to provide temporary shelter for homeless women in Charlotte. On September 15, women will have to leave emergency winter shelter so the facility can pre pare to house homeless men starting Oct 1. Until Room in the Inn opens on Dec. 1, there is no additional space for homeless women to go. "What we really need is for the African American church to help us with this sheltering issue," said Salvation Army Director of Social Services Deronda Metz. Two black congregations - Friendship Missionary Baptist Church and St. Paul Baptist Church - have joined the pro gram. Victory Christian Center houses 50 women at Church in the City near Johnson C. Smith University. “Typically, 70 percent of our population is African American,” Metz said. “We’re located in the Greenville com munity and it would be great if we could get churches on our side of town involved." The 200-bed Salvation Army Women’s shelter in the Greenville community, is work- See SALVATION/6A CENTER OF SUCCESS PHOTO/WADE NASH Dorothy Counfs-Scoggins fights back tears after accepting an honorary degree from Harding High School Tuesday. Counts- Scogglns was one of four black students to desegregate Chariotte schools In 1957. Day Of iofamy PHOTO/CENTRAL PIEDMONT'COMMUNITT COLLEGE Central Piedmont Community College President Tony Zeiss (third from right) helped dedicate the Student Success Center at the Levine Campus in Matthews. The center connects students to information and services including financial aid, career counsefing and enrollment assistance. honor Desegregation of schools brings tears and diploma By Erica Singleton FOR THE CHARLOTTE POST On Sept. 4, 1957, Dorothy Counts walked '^Fifty years later, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins was joined by family, friends, city officials and Charlotte residents who filed into the former Harding High School, to preview the documentary "9/4/57." "On the 50th anniversary of Dorothy Counts walking up the steps, we wanted peo ple to walk up the steps on the same day,” said filmmaker Steve Crump, who directed and narrates “9/4/57.” "By allowing people to walk down Irwin Ave...they got a sense of what Dorothy did." For Counts-Scoggins, the anniversary start ed out just as it did a half-century ago. "When I woke up this morning and 1 started getting dressed....! looked at the clock and I said 50 years ago at 8 o’clock I was leaving going to school,” she said. "Fifty years later. I’m leaving to go to work. It was a very emo tional feeling for me, and probably the first time I really got emotional about this day. 1 . think it’s because it’s such a milestone." Much like 50 years ago, September 4 held another unexpected outcome for Counts- Scoggins. During a public viewing of the doc umentary, she was read a letter from Gov. Mike Easley by N.C. Senator Charlie Dannelly, and received a certificate of recognition from Please see DAY OF/3A Museum pays homage to black WW n soldiers By Wilson Ring THE ASSOCIATED PRESS POWNAL, Vt. - Down a dirt driveway, in one of the whitest states in the nation, is a muse um dedicated to the experiences of black ser vice men and woman during World War II. The Museum of Black World War 11 History is run by Bruce Bird, a white, retired factory worker who sold his home and used the pro ceeds to convert a two-room 19th-century schoolhouse to house it. The museum, which opened in June 2006, and has display cases filled with World War II weapons, models of tanks and aircraft and other memorabilia. At best, it gets a handful of visitors a week. Bird doesn’t know where the money will come from to pay his next fuel oil bill. But he's steadfast in his resolve to recognize the service and sacrifice of more than IT mil lion black service men and women who nad to See MUSEUM/6A Black workers still on the ^ ■ bottom of pay and opportunity scale/K Life IB Religion 5B Sports 1C A&E1D Classified 3D Please Recycle INSIDE Religion 5B Business 8C To subscribe: (704) 3764)496 FAX (704) 342-2160.© 2007 The Chariotle Post Publishing Co. o OGO[ 1i aim
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