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RALEIGH, N.C,
THURSDAY,
JUNE 21, 1990
VOL. 49, NO. 60
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|A Symbol Of Freedom
■Mandela Captures Grassroots America
Fraa CAROLINIAN SUIT Report!
The most celebrated legend of the
ntury and the world’s most cherish
I International symbol of freedom,
-•bon Rolihlahla Mandela, has ar
rived in America and totally captured
'*" attention of millions, from
i to Fortune 500 suites.
Since he was freed after 27 Vi years
i prison, Mandela has become the
rld’s most celebrated figure,
_ J as a tough spokesman for
»African National Congress and a
“ a ted party member, declining to
exploit his celebrity for selfish
political ends.
If Mandela has political ambitions
within or beyond the ANCr he has not
disclosed them. A few days after his
release he was asked whether he
aspired to become South Africa’s first
black president. He said no.
“My ambition is to see to it that we
have peace in the country and that we
can appreciate each other’s talents,
each other’s contributions to the
future of South Africa.’’ he said.
4
Gantt Launching
Campaign, Attacks
Hdma On Issues
Ideological Crusade Has
Helm* Singing Wrong Tune
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Democratic Senate nominee
Harvey B. Gantt has launched his
campaign against Republican
Sea. Jesse A. Helms with a hard
hitting attack.
Gaatt set the tone for the fall
election with a focus on issues
aad says he is a champion of the
average North Carolinian. He
said that Helms Is consumed by
ideological crusades and singing
the wrong tune.
Fallowing a weekend vacation
with his family. Gantt, in a series
of news conferences in Raleigh,
Greensboro and Charlotte, thank
ed supporters throughout North
Carolina who worked so hard to
help him win the nomination in
the June 5 runoff. He called for
Helms to meet him in • series of
flve televised debates in five dlf
t parts of the state between
’ aad the Nov. e election.
“Mr. Heims Is reading off the
wrong page and singing the
wrong tune,” Gantt said recently
before a cheering crowd of sup
porters at the state Democratic
Convention at the Raleigh Civic
Ctatar.
“Mr. Helms seems to be more
Interested in what’s going on
Mosamblque, Argentina, Chile,
aad in El Salvador than he is
about what is going on with the
tobacco farmers in the east, the
textile workers in the. piedmont,
aad the apple growers in the
west.” Gantt said Helms was “ir
relevant for the times” with
si crusades.
“Let’s upt an end to
obscene amounts of
hiding behind 30-second televi
sion ads. Let’s go oat and talk to
votes in a series of town hall-type
debates where we eaa discass the
real issues facing North Caroli
nians—quality education, ac
cessible and affordable health
care, a clean environment.'’
Helms is well-known for
“negative” campaign ads that at
tack the character of his op
ponents, and Gantt said he wants
his support to be “strong and
deep. Like trees planted by the
waer, I do not want my sup
porters to be moved by hit pieces
they see on TV.”
Gantt, the former mayor of
Charlotte, met Tuesday with top
Democratic leadership of the
U.8. Senate in Washington. D.C.
(See HARVEY GANTT, P. J)
Religious, Educational Purposes
Women's Group Holds Historic Event
• 11m North Carolina Federation of
Napo Women, Young Adults and
Yonth Chibs will hold its 81st annual
convention at the Mission Valley Inn
Expo Center, 2110 A vent Ferry Road,
Raleigh, June 21-23, under the leader
ship of Ms. Alberta F. Sanders, the
IMh president.
The Central District is hosting the
convention. Ms. Beatrice Hall is the
Contral District president. Clubs
hooting the convention are the Active
Christian Women’s Club of Raleigh,
the Loo Brave Club of Garner, the
"iry B. Talbert Club of Raleigh the
Jpha Arts Club of High Point, the
Junior Daughters of Dorcas, the
Lady’s Aid Club and Model Mothers
of Durham.
_ JftCFNWC, Inc. is an affiliate of the
National and Southeastern Associa
tion of Colored Women’s Clubs, Inc.
They are also affiliated with the Ns
tional Council of Women of the United
States, the International Council of
Women of the World, and are one of
the oldest black organization in
North Carolina.
In 180ft, a group of Afro-American
women from the state of North
Carolina met in Charlotte to organise
a league of chiba known as the
NCNFWC, under the guidance of
their founder, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins
Brown. They were inspired hy women
like Mary Church ‘Terrell, the first
president of the Nationalt
of Colored Women;
Washington, wife of
^»ii president tf t
American Federation-of
Women; and Mary McLeod!
founder of the Southeastern Associa
tion of Colored Womao.
NCFNWC, Inc., is organissd and
for charitable,
religious and educational purposes.
The group endeavors to promote in
terracial understanding, justice and
peace among all people; raise the
standards of the home and advance
the moral, social ,n|i
religious welfare of the family; pro
mote the education of women and
youth through local, state, regional
and national activities; and to foster
sndr protect the constitutionally
guaranteed civil rights for all people
including the rights of women and
children to work and obtain equal op
portunity in all areas of employment.
All dubs work for social and
spirituial progress oftheraoo in par
tieulir and humanity in moral.
The membership consists of any
dub in the state of North Carolina
organised for the purpose of improv
ing the status of women and youth
NCFNWC, Inc., is divided into four
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Though he carries the title of the
ANC’a deputy president, its domestic
leadership has been entrusted'to his
old comrade, Walter Sisulu.
Such is his devotion to the ANC that
Mandela, who will be 72 on July 18,
embarked on an exhausting six-week
tour of 13 countries only a day after
be was discharged from a Johan
nesburg hospital after surgery to
remove an inflammatory cyst from
Ms bladder.
What does the ANC hope to gain out
of overseas audiences? Mandela in
sists that it is too early for foreign
Countries to lift sanctions against
South Africa or for the ANC to re
nounce its armed struggle against the
white minority government with
which it has opened a dialogue. These
issues he perhaps will discuss with
President George Bush in
Washington along with Congress.
His visit to America will be greeted
with fanfare from New York to Atlan
ta and in North Carolina plans are for
buses to carry the “grassroots” to
Atlanta.
Bruce Lightner said after a press
conference that the “Caravan to
Mandela” response was astounding
on the grassroots level.
The Raleigh-Wake Mandela
Caravan Committee held a press con
ference Tuesday to announce plans
for the massive bus caravan from
North Carolina to Atlanta on June 27
to participate in the historic
festivities.
The conference was held at the
Jane S. McKimmon Center on Gor
man Street, the site of the departure
point for Triangle residents. The
Raleigh caravan is scheduled to link
up with hiieos from Durham, Fayet
teville, Greensboro, Winston-Salem,
Rocky Mount-Wilson, Gastonia,
Asheville and Charlotte before conti
nuing to Atlanta for the massive rally
in Georgia Tech’s football stadium.
“Across North Carolina hundreds
of people, Mack and white, are mak
ing necessary arrangements to join
the Caravan to Mandela,” Lightner
said.
“At present we have IS buses sold
out and anticipate another IS to be
filled bydeparture time. At 10 a.m. on'
(See MANDELA, P. 2)
Released On Bond
TWO RALEIGH WOMEN RAPED
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According to the Raleigh Police
Department, two men raped a
woman in a vacant lot at die corner of
New Bern Avenue and South Swain
Street early Sunday.
According to police reporta and in
an interview with Sgt. John E.
Beasley, the l#-year-oki woman was
walking down New Bern Avenue bet*
ween 12:30 and 1:30 a.m., heading for
her mother’s house, when two men,
one of whom had a knife, forced her
into the lot and raped her.
“She was able to give a good
description of the men, but no arrests
have been made,” stated Sgt.
Beasley, who was on duty Oris past
The woman was taken to Wake
Medical Center where she was
treated and released.
In another incident, Raleigh police
arrested two men and charged them
in connection with the rape of a
36-year-old Raleigh woman Saturday
evening.
Sgt. Beasley said officers arrested
the two men at the woman’s,
residence after a man called them '
from a pay phone at Bloodworth and
Cabarrus streets to report a rape.
Sgt. Beasley said be did not know how
the man was aware of the rape or who
the man was.
The rape took place between 6 and
6:90 p.m. in the rooming house where
the woman lived, stated the nolice of
(See RAPE, P. 2)
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Did Lucille Hunter School Seen
At Mecca To Many In Community
BY JOHN THOMPSON MOORE. JR.
Aa Aailyah,'
A philosopher probably would call
the Lucille Hunter School of the late
’Ms and ’90b the “Mecca” for Afro
Americans during that decade.
Mecca was a city in Saudi Arabia
where all Muslims throughout the
world would go for all educational,
religious, and recreational activities.
One must remember that during
district associations: Northeastern,
Southeastern, Western, and Central.
Each district is composed at local
clubs in their respective geographic
area. A department known as the
North Carolina Federation of Youth
Chibs is a section oMICFNWC, Inc.,
which includes girls from right to 18.
There is afro a young adult division.
Signifying the organisation's aims
mnA purposes, the «wnM«mn shows a
woman climbing a ladder with a hand
reaching down to a younger woman
as they climb rung by rung higher
and higher. The club’s motto is “Lif
ting As We Climb.”
The convention activities will in
clude registration; an executive
board meeting; awards banquet;
workshops; president’s luncheon
which includes the parade of local
youth chib presidonfr and umbrella
purade; arts and crafts exhibits;
youth program; prayer breakfast;
devotion; memorial service; election
and installation of officers.
Women of the community who are
helping to make this convention a
success include the Hon. AUyson K.
Duncan of Durham, speaker fpr the
awards banquet; Ms. Carol Gartrell,
director of counseling services at
Shaw University, who win meek
from 10:80 to U:h» a.m. at the
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these poet-Depression days when this
school was erected, all of the United
States was trying to recover from
that Great Depression of 1929.
In Raleigh at this time, many banks
were dosed. Ms. Alice Carrington
Jones, the teacher of the fifth grade,
related to her class how she lost her
savings in the bank. Many of Hunter’s
students could not pay their book rent
fees. Remember that book rent fees
were only $1.50 a year. Lunch in the
cafeteria was a bowl of vegetable
soup with crackers and a half-pint of
milk for only 25 cents. Many of
Hunter’s students could not afford to
ches used its playground for Easter
egg hunts, etc. In a way, Lucille
Hunter School was an all-purpose
educational institution for this East
Raleigh community.
Imagine, duing the afterschool
hours, boys like James Bridges,
Lemuel Hodges, Harold Parker, Ed
ward Hall, James Hill, John T.
Moore, Jr. would use the playground
to (day what we called “outlaw foot
ball.” None of the boys had regular
football gear like shoulder pads,
leather helmets like the “Midget”
Afro-American boys use today.
Also, imagine there were no adult
Furthermore, alumni of dear old Lucille
Hunter School believe that those old Victorian
teachers would- not survive in today's
classroom situation and environment.
pay that. Can you baiieve this? Many
got penniasion from their teachers to
walk home nearby to eat an egg sand
wich, etc.
Moreover, there were no public
recreational puts nearby and the
community churches used the school
auditorium for country gospel sing
ing, etc. Also, on Easter Mondays,
Sunday Schools from nearby chur
supervisors to coach or to referee the
games. In fact, during the daily
recess period, the boys played
separately from the girls on the
playground. When one visits Lucille.
Hunter School today, it is a different
story. Not only are boys and girls
playing together, but children of all
(See LUCILLE HUNTER, P. 2)
(State Workers
Honor Turner
For Services
More than IN
government nplqmi mat at
the North Carolina Association of
a1*
lac.
Longtime Raldigh reoMentDr.
A.J. Turner, special assiotaat to
the secretary of the Department
of Human Resource*, received
the Blacks United in Govern
ment’s highest honor, the
Distinguished Service Award.
As the oldest state employee.
Dr. Turner was honored ter
iaoeA.J. TURNER. P. 2)