yialion's Black Women Ijaivyers
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M M<( MKKS AT I.ITTI.K TKIAI. SITK » Some 2S* persons turned out in Washington. on
l-'nda> . \prii I. “to call altenlion to black Homen in prisons." according to a statement attributed to
tiolden Frinks of Kdenton. state field director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
f rinks and the Kes Ralph Abernaths are shoHn in the center of top photo. The trial <if Miss Jo \nne
I iKic Is esperted to begin in Washington nest Monday. (Statt Photo by Kick lligh>.
ISAACP^s Clarence Mitchell
Against Tampering With Act
NKW YORK. NY -
('lareni'p Mitchell, director of
the NAACP Washington Bur
eau. soil urge the Senate next
uti'k ti) reject any moves that
v^Duld complicate a simple
••stension of the 1965 Civil
Rights Art. uhich Congress is
about to consider, by adding
provisions to broaden its
coverage
The crucially important
ser'ions 4 and' 5 must be
fenewetl every 5 years and the
deadline for such action this
year i\ in August There have
'been demands, however, to
exnand coverage of the law to
include Spanish-speaking min
orities in the Northeast and
Southwest. American Indians,
poor whites in Appalachia and
hlack innercily residents in the
North
Presently, the law is limited
principally to southern sta'es
that historically had the worst
record in denying black
residents the right to vote
.Mr Mitchell, in principle,
supports efforts to provide
federal protection for the right
to vote for everyone, which is
w'hai the 1965 Act does for
black people m the present
Unit Readying For
May Boston March
NEW YORK - NAACP units
and supporters around the
country continued to express
Number Of
Elected
Blacks Told
ATLANTA. Ga. — The<
number of black elected
officials in the 11 southern
slates, has increased over 2.000
percent since 1965. but blacks
hold only 2 percent of the
elective offices in the South,
according to research data of
the Voter Education Project
(VEPt
The VEP’s 1975 figures
indicate that 1,588 of over
79.(x»o elective offices in the
South are now held by blacks
Since l%5. the numbers have
increased as follows: 1965-72.
1966 159. i967-no data avail
able. 1968-248. 1969-388. 1970-
565. 1971 711. 1972-873. 1973-
1.144. and 1974-1.307
John l.ewis. VEP executive
director, credited the Voting
Rights Act. reapporlionmenl.
and more than a decade of
minority voter registration and
citizenship education for the
gams in minority political
representation “It is still a
source of pain ihal the Voting
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support
association’s March on Boston
in support of school integration
on May 17. the 2l8t anniversary
of the Supreme Court's Brown
decision that outlawed separ
ate but equal educational
facHities.
In a scheduled news confer
ence on Monday. April 7.
NAACP executive director Roy
Wilkins, elaborated on plans
for the March. Key NAACP
leaders across the nation also
held similar conferences to
explain the purposes of the
March and to solocil support
In the NAACP National
Office in New York. Glosler B
Current, director of branches.
IS coordinating the program
Thomas Atkins, president of
the Boston Branch, and Leon
Nelson, are the local coordina
tors Thev may be reached at
(617 ) 267-'l058
The Rev Charles Smith, a
member of the National Board
of Directors, is also assisting
Mr Current
To obtain the widest possible
support, friendly organizations
will be asked to participate by
providing donations and finan
cial contributions A nation
wide transportation system is
being arranged to bring people
to Boston
The March will begin at 12
noon at the Pens Area (Fenway
Park), proceed down Com
monwealth Ave and culminate
with a mass rally on the Boston
Commons two hours later
STARTS NEW CAREER IN RARE FORM - llfvelind, l» -
With his first victory as a manager under his belt. Prank Kobinsun
wears a big grin as he talks with reporters after his team defralrd
New York. S-3, .April H. Robinson, first black to manage a niajtir
league team, blasted a home run in the first inntng to aio in me
win. (IPI>
target areas. But he strongly
feels that, to incorporate the
new provisions in the present
bill, might lead to no bill at all.
Mitchell was one of the key
architects of the present law.
In testifying before the House
Subcommittee on Civil and
Constitutional Rights on March
25. Mr. .Mitchell noted that
Congress faced a similar
situation in 1970 when the first
extension of (he law was made.
At that lime, Congress was also
considering a bill to give
18-year-olds the right to vote.
But. Mitchell noted, the
lowering of the voting age was
presented as a separate title.
This became law, and Con
gress gave 18-year-olds the
righ' to vote in federal and
stale elections
But. in a constitutional
challenge, the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld their right to vote
in federal elections, but not in
state elections. Mr. Mitchell is
concerned that any adverse
ruling by the Supreme Court in
a challenge to the broadened
bill could lead to a similar
decision that would place the
entire act in jeopardy.
In his testimony. Mr.
Mitchell suggested that Con
gress extend the law for 10
rather than 5 years to avoid the
expected redistricting snarl
following the 1980 Census
Difference
In Ethnics
Is Cited
NEW YORK. N Y - A
nationally prominent sociolog
ist last week, warned that
public educational institutions
should neither suppres nor
strengthen ethnic differences
Instead, he declared, they
should adopt a position of
benign neutrality "
Nathan Glazer. professor of
sociology at Harvard and
co-author with Daniel Moyni-
han of “Beyond (he Melting
Pot . ' said that (his country can
not develop a situation like (hat
of .Soviet Russia, “in which
every person must carry his
natinalily on his identity card,
and may not change it even if
he has no interest in it
Mr Glazer was one of three
principal speakers at the
opening session of a three-day
conference on “Pluralism m a
Democratic Society sponsor
ed by (he Anti-Defamalion
League of B'nai B rith under a
grant awarded by the I'S
Office of Education under the
Ethnic Heritage Act
The objective of the confer
ence being held at (he Plaza
Hotel through Sunday, is thf
development testing and eval
uation of a model American
history curriculum on minority
group experience in the L’niied
Slates The proceedings and
conclusior of the program will
be publi ->ed and used for
training s hool personnel
In anciher paper .Michael
Novak former associate di
rector for humanities at the
Rockefeller Foundation and
author of “The Rise of the
I'nmeiuble Ethnics called
for the development of an
'intelligent cultural plural
ism in which rihniciiv is
freely chr^sen developed as
pan of a multicultural
competence and rooted rather
in the socially aware individual
than in the unthinking group
David .Apter Henry Heinz
II. professor ol comparative
political and social develop
ment at ^ale said that
assimilationism has proven
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Criticize
Actions Of
2 Leaders
(Editor's Note In order to
keep its readers up to the
minute on the developments of
the JoAnne Little case. The
CAROLINIAN dispatcheii
newsmen Rick High to Wash
ington. .N C and Alexander
Barnes to Washington. DC.
The following is an account of
their findings);
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\i>rlli ('.Iirolimi's l.rtnliiia Kvflily
“Rahhil” Stroud Is
SHOT TO DEATH
Delegates and officers VDI- m NO 24 HAI.KIGH. N.C.. WEEK RNDINT. SATUHDAY. APRIL 12, 1975
responsible for the second ' ’ ‘ * ■ *
annual conference of the
National Association of
Black Women Lawyers.
Inc., held at the Statler-
Hilton Hotel. I6th and K
Streets. N’.W.. VA’ashing-
lon. D.C., April 4-5.
vehemently denounced Dr.
Ralph David Abernathy
and his announced lieuten
ant, Golden Frinks, for
their gyrations and mani
pulations. said to be carried
on lor Ms. JoAnne Little,
the 20-year-old black girl
who is awaiting trial for the
slaying of a white Beaufort
County jailer.
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Second Black In Wake County
The more than 200 delegates,
mostly students at the several
colleges in or near the nation’s
capital, heard Karen Gallo
way. one of JoAnne's lawyers,
describe the case as it relates
to ethical legal practices, ^e
told how she and her associates
had planned the defense of
their client and related how
Frinks came into the case,
along with Abernathy. She
denied any contractural agree
ment with either of the two. She
did say that they had worked
with Julian Bond and his
Southern Poverty Legal Pro
gram It was her belief that if
the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference would with
draw from the case, the
chances of freeins JoAnne
LAWYERS RAP P 2l
Plans Are
Told For
Facility
The Raleigh Rape Crisis
center will open as a non-profit
organization on April II, with
24-hour service available
through Hopeline. In event of a
rape, call 782-3(^4 and ask to be
connected with uie Rape Crisis
Center.
Legal and health care
information will be available
and counseling will be offered
to victims and their family. If
the victim desires, an escort
service by Rape Crisis Center
counselors to the hospital and
police station will be arranged
at any time
The Rape Crisis Center was
recently organized to help
make area women aware that
no woman is immune to rape
and to educate women on their
rights and health needs in
event (hat they are raped.
Members of (he organization
will be happy to speak to any
interested club or group and
explain the services (hat they
will offer
CRJ Gives
Riflhts Act
To Council
BY TRAVIS L FRANCIS
The Inited Church of
( hnst s Commission for Racial
Justice North Carolina-Virgi-
nia Field Office has presented
to the Raleigh Cilv Council a
far reaching local civil rights
act This plan would give the
lUleigh Community Relations
Commission now largelv an
advisory body, the power to
investigate complaints of dis
crimination hold formal hear
mgs on charges make findings
of facts and procure court
orders to seek compliance
This proposal was prsented
by Travis L Francis director
of Community Organization for
the North CarolinaVirginia
Field Office Accorrtmg to Mr
Francis this civil rights law
would provide for executing
within ihe city of Raleigh the
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Freeman Assistant Supt.
Federal HoldBiLJJ
Post For
Principal
Wake County Schools
superintendent, A. C.
Fussell and the W'ake
County Board of Education
have named William M.
Freeman, principal of
Fuquay-Varina High
School, to the post of
assistant superintendent of
Wake County Schools in
charge of federal programs
in their regular meeting on
M nday.
' n^eman, who several years
ago became the second black to
hold the position as a
secondary principal in Wake
County since the integration of
schools, will have that distinc
tion in becoming Wake County
School’s second black assistant
superintendent, following Dr.
C. J. Barber, who is retiring at
the close of this school term.
The new assistant superin
tendent is a native of Nash
County and has spent nearly 2S
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Woman Is
Charged
In Knifing
A Raleigh woman was
arrested Montiay and charged
with the stabbing of 47-year-old
James H. Wilkerson. of 204 E,
Cedar St
Raleigh detectives arrested
Ms Delois Hunter of 925 E.
Lane St., and charged her with
assault with a deadly weapon.
Police reports stated (hat the
wounded man was found lying
in a parking lot early Monday
morning.
Wilkerson was taken to Wake
Memorial Hospital, where he
was listed in critical condition.
Appreciation
Check Won By
Mrs. Holdman
Mrs Sarah Holdman. 824
.Manly St . was the only winner
of a 810 check in last week's
CAROLINIAN Appreciation
Money feature, sponsored by
this paper and participating
businesses
Mrs Holdman s name ap
peared under the Liles shoe
Store ad Liles is located at 131
Fayetteville St and specializes
in ladies shoes and handbags
There were two other names
on the Appreciation page,
located on the back page of the
front section of The CAROLIN
IAN
If y»u would like to see if you
w ere a w inner cneca mat page
every week and yours just
could appear some day
WILLIAM M FREEMAN
Ms.Wilson
Keynoter
For Fund
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Mrs
Margaret Bush Wilson, chair
man of the NAACP National
Board of Directors, will be
keynote speaker at the NAACP
Special Contribution Fund
banquet on April 23. when
Awards for Distinguished
Service will be presented to
Hobart Taylor, Jr. and G.
William Miller for their
(mntributions to civil rights
Mrs. Wilson was elected
chairman of (he NAACP Board
on Jan. 13, to succeed the late
Bishop Stephen G. Spotlswood.
Born and raised in St. Louis.
Mo., she has been a member of
the NAACP Board since 1963.
She was elected permanent
chairman of the NAACP
Annual Convention in 1973
After attending local public
schools in St. Louis. Mrs.
Wilson went to Talladega
College in Alabama, where she
earned her bachelor's degree
in economics, cum laude She
next received her LL.B degree
from Lincoln University School
of Law in 1943.
The $100-a-plate benefit
banquet for the NAACP Special
Contribution Fund will be held
at the New York Hilton The
fund receives lax deductible
contributions for civil rights
work.
‘Puffy’ In
‘Bull aty’
DUKIi.-WI — Mourners of
Raven FIvnn "Rabbii”
Stroud, 2.1. who is alleged
to have been shot to death
in the early hours of .-Xpril
5. and triends of Julius O.
■■Pufly' Robinson. 21,
streaniftl in and out of The
House ot Rwves. Tuesday
night, to get a glimpse of
Stroud.
While (hey were viewing
Stroud’s remains, "Puffy" was
languishing in the Durham
County jail, where he was
placed Monday, after surrend
ering himself to police, facing a
first degree murder charge.
“Rabbit" is said to have
encountered trouble at the
Bluefield Recreation Center as
early as March 26. when he was
said to have been beaten up
and thrown out of the cf :er.
suffering an injury to his leg,
causing him to have to use a
stick to walk
'Sre .SHOT To. »• 2i
IN ASA Sets
Symposium
For Shaw
The aerospace industry and
the space program will be the
focus of a week-long informa
tional seminar • Space Sym
posium '75 - to be held April
21-25 at Shaw University,
Raleigh.
Workshops and exhibits will
be featured in the symposium,
which is aimed at disseminat
ing information on the space
program to the state's minority
community.
Upper elementary, junior
high and high school students
from schools within a 75-mile
radius of Raleigh, will be bused
into Raleigh to view the
exhibits and hear a lecture
'SiH* SYMPOSIUM. P 21
REP BEN BROWN
Brown To
Speak At
‘YM’ Mon.
The Honorable Ben Brown ol
the Georgia House uf Repre
sentatives. will speak at the
annual meeting of (he Blood-
worth Street YMCA on Mon
day. April 14. at 8 p.m. Dr.
Nelson H Harris, chairman of
the YMCA Board of Manage
ment. will preside
Rep Brown is a graduate of
Howard University with the
degree of Doctor of Jurispru
dence and of the Mass.
Institute of Technology and
presently serves on the execu
tive committee of the Demo
cratic Parly of Georgia, the
Martin LuO.er King Democra
tic Club, and chairman of the.
House Subcommittee on Com
munity Development and
Housing, the Education and
Industrial Relations Commit
tees.
He is also chairman of (he
Board of Managers of the
Weslside Branch. Butler Street
YMCA of Atlanta and secre
tary of the Southeast Regional
YMCA of the National "YMCA
Council.
Ernest L Kaiford. executive
director, will present the
annual report of the assciation,
which will include reports of
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Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
BKK him:
For Appetizing Food At Low Cost
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\T SEVENTH ERS.ARY CEREMON Y OF ASSASSINATION — AtUaU, Ga. — CoreCU Scott
King, widow of slain civil rights Irader. Dr. .Martin Luther King. Jr., and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Sr., along with about 25 other relatives and friends, join la service*. April 4, at King's gravesite,
marking the 71h anniversarv of his death. April 4. 1988. (UPl)