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Apollo Theater In Harlem.
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THIS WEEK
James Beckwourth, bom
into slavery in 1779, settled
with the Crow Indians and rose
through the ranks to become
chief. He is credited with
having discovered a pass
through the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, appropriately
named Beckwourth Pass.
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HOUSE SPEAKER DAN BLUE
Conference Aims
At Quality Of
Life In Region
Daniel T. Blue, speaker of the
North Carolina House of Represen
tatives, and John L. Atkins, III,
president of the architectural firm
of O’Brien/Atkins Associates, will
co-chair a Dec. 2 conference aimed
at raising the quality of life in the
Triangle region. To be called Wcrld
Claas Region/1992: Investing in the
Future, the conference, organized
by the Triangle J Council of Govern
ments, will focus on the economy,
natural environment, education,
human resources and cultural
amenities.
TJCOG coordinated a similar ef
fort in 1987. The World-Class Re
gion Conference: Putting Vision
Into Action resulted in the creation
of the World Trade Center, Triangle
Transit Authority, the regionwide
water-quality monitoring project,
the region’s first model school, re
duced long-distance telephone
rates, and other accomplishments.
“The importance of this confer
ence is twofold," said Atkins. “First,
it’s an opportunity to build on the
impressive achievements of the
earlier conference. Second, we rec
ognize that new issues have arisen
in the region, such as the impor
tance of our place in a global econ
omy, and we want to prepare and
deal creatively with them.”
The kickoff steering committee
meeting for the conference was held
last week at the North Carolina
Biotechnology Center in Research
Triangle Park. About 65 business,
government and education leaders
(See DAN BLUE, P. 2)
Judge In BB Gun Case Was A Teacher
BY CASH MICHAELS
Contributing Writer
A District Court judge who sen
tenced a 16-year-old student to two
years in the Youth Correctional
CenterforbringingabrokenBB gun
to school was once a teacher in the
same school system.
As first reported in The CARO
LINIAN last week, 16-year-old Wil
lie Barnes was told by District Court
Judge Anne B. Salisbury that she
was making an example of him for
bringing a broken BB gun to Enloe
High School last November.
The case has caused controversy
in Raleigh’s African-American com
munity because there was no gun
charge entered against the young
man. Yet, it was the primary reason
he was found guilty on three assault
charges and two counts of verbal
threats.
The sentence deeply disturbed
Willie’s mother, Mattie Barnes, and
stepfather, Jim Scales, because they
feel he should have been found
guilty or innocent on the charges
before the court.
After the story appeared in The
CAROLINIAN, several sources told
us that Judge Salisbury was once a
teacher. Lynn Garrison, public in
formation officer for the Wake
County School System, confirmed to
The CAROLINIAN that Judge Sal*
isbury was indeed employed by the
Wake County School System from
1973 to 1979. According to state
records, she taught at Garner High
School during that time, and was
certified to teach Spanish and Latin.
The CAROLINIAN spoke with
several attorneys in the area who
were familiar with the judge. All
aaked to remain unnamed because
they did not want to be perceived as
criticizing a judge they may have to
appear before.
A consensus of opinion on Judge
Salisbury was that she is very tough
when it comes to sentences, and at
times could be considered harsh.
(See BB GUN JUDGE, P. 2)
NAACP Denounces Flag Day
Plans To
Protest
At Capitol
i'iortn (Jarouna’s Confederate
Flag Day on March 4 haa drawn the
wrath of the N.C. NAACP.
The civil rights organization will
sponsor protests in Raleigh. The
Charlotte chapter will sponsor abus
trip to Raleigh.
Mary L. Peeler, executive director
of the N.C. NAACP, announced the
organization's opposition to Confed
erate Flag Day, which has been
proclaimed by N.C. Gov. Jim Mar
tin. In a prepared statement, Peeler
noted that the Confederate flag is
considered offensive to blacks and
has been controversial for years.
The Confederate flag is the target
of an NAACP resolution to have the
pennant removed from state capital
buildings and state flags. Missis
sippi and Georgia have included the
C moderate flags in this century.
Mississippi added the rebel pennant
in 1984; Georgia adopted it in 1956.
The point of contention is the
NAACPs opposition to the flag’s
racist past After the Civil War, the
v • I-Qux Klan adopted the pennant
as its standard.
A silent protest will be held Wed
nesday from noon to 1 p.m. at the
state Capitol in Raleigh. Par will
assemble at 11:30 a.m. at First
Baptist Church, 101 S. Wilmington
St., and will proceed to the front of
the state Capitol (Wilmington
(See FLAG DAY, P.2)
A NEW BEGINNING—Memphis Mayor WIINe W. Herenton,
left, and Mayer Dwight Tillery of Cincinnati spark “A New
Beginning” by scoring big victories as the first Black
elected mayors of their cities. They are “taking charge” in
their newly elected positions, eech by responding to the
needs of ell of the members of their communities. Herenton
vows to change the national imege of his racially polarized
city and Tillery pledges to unite his community.
Genealogical Symposium Observes
Legacy, Wake Black High Schools
BY JOHN T. MOORE, JR.
An Analysis
The ■ympoeium held at St.
Augustine’* College by the North
Carolina Historical and Genealogi
cal Society was a huge success. The
audience listened for about four
Traveling Smithsonian Exhibit
Saluting Inventions By Blacks
WINSTON -8ALEM (AP)-The
invention of an automatic lubricator
for locomotivae changed the work of
many railroad man.
It also may have prompted the
coining of an American saying: “the
real McCoy.”
An original example of the lubri
cator, Elijah McCoy’s invention,
shines behind glass at the Oreens
l
Community Calendar
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC HEARING
The Raleigh City Council will hold a public hearing on Tucaday to
community development block grant! actdvitlee for the 1992-93
fiscal year.
The hearing will be held during the regular City Council meeting
K.ginnJr.g «t 7 p.m. The meeting is held in the City Council Chambers,
Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 W. Hargett St.
The City of Raleigh anticipates receiving about $1.7 million in commu
nity development block grant ftmds for the period of July 1 of this year
through June 30, 1993. In addition, the city expects to receive about
$400,000 in income generated from existing programs.
BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL TO MEET
The Triangle Area Business Advisory Council will hold its quarterly
meeting on Thursday at 9 a.m. at Burroughs Wellcome Co. on Cornwallis
Road in Research Triangle Park. The program is titled “Breaking Down
Barriers" and will involve discussion on the hiring and supervising of
persons with disabilities. TABAC is composed of area employers and
vocational rehabilitation specialists networking to discuss opportunities
for employment of persons with disabilities.
For more information about the group or meeting, call Sue Spicer at
248-2299.or Vicki Winston at 677-8000.
(See CALENDAR, P. 2)
boro Historical Museum, where it
sits as part of a traveling exhibit
from the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington. The lubricator’s nick
name is part of the exhibit’s name:
The Real McCoy: African-American
Invention and Innovtaion,
1619-1930.
Through artifacts, replicas,
graphics and videotapes, the exhibit
fallows the inventions of black
Americans from their days in bond
age through the 1930s, when inven
tions were taken over in large part
by corporations. Few free blacks
received patents before the Civil
War, and slave inventors received
none.
McCoy was a mechanical engi
neer who worked as a fireman on the
trains of the Michigan Central Rail
road. He lived from 1843 to 1929.
Before his invention came along, a
locomotive could run only so far
before the train had to stop and men,
including McCoy, had to jump out
and oil the engine to prevent over
heating, said Linda Evans, the
museum’s publicity and special
events coordinator.
McCoy developed a better system
with which the train no longer had
(See INVENTIONS, P. 2)
hours on Saturday, Feb. 22, to a
speaker, panelists and inquirers
and commentators about “The Leg
acy of Raleigh and the Nine Other
Black High Schools of Wake
County.”
Historically speaking, Raleigh
and Wake County youth did not
receive “quality” and “equal* educa
tional opportunities like their white
counterparts of Wake County and
Raleigh until after 1954.
There were no public black high
schools in Raleigh wherein hun
dreds of “poor” African-American
boys and girls could obtain a “free
education" until 1923. It was then
that the George Washington High
School was established in Raleigh,
allowing black adolescents of all
social classes and sexes to secure a
free education as was guaranteed to
them under Article I, Section 1 of
thie Constitution of North Carolina
and “separate but equal* education
as mandated by the U.S. Supreme
Court in the Plessy vs. Ferguson
decision of 1895.
Even then, the African-Ameri
cans did not receive "quality educa
tion” because of inadequate school
equipment, facilities, etc.
The state of North Carolina, along
with some other Southern states,
used the "education test” as an ex
tra-legal method for qualification to
(See SYMPOSIUM, P. 2)
Rep. Hall Asks
For U.S. Aid
To Feed Hungry
BY LARRY A. STILL
NNPA News Service
Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio), chair
man of the House Select Committee
on Hunger, scheduled an appear
ance before a joint hearing of the
House Foreign Affairs Subcommit
tees on Human Rights and Interna
tional Organisations and Western
Hemisphere Affairs to describe the
suffering and deprivation gripping
the Haitian people.
“So far, 1992 has been the year of
living desperately for the people of
Haiti. If my colleagues on the For
eign Affairs Committee understand
nothing else, I want them to under
stand that,” Hall declared.
aikuauv/u cuiu uic
refugee crisis have gotten a lot of
attention in the press recently, from
[Haitian] President Aristide’s exile
in Venezuela to the refugees still
arriving in Cuba. It’s important that
we take some time to focus on the
plight of the people left behind i n the
(See HUNGER, F. 2)
5,000 Expected
At NAFEO Meet
Set ForD. C.
Approximately 5,000 educators,
community leaders, government
officials, legislators, students and
alumni are expected to attend the
17th National Conference an Blacks
in Higher Education, March 18-22
at the Washington (D.C.) Hilton
Hotel and the Howard Inn.
Participants are scheduled to dis
cuss such current issues as the
status of minorities in higher educa
tion, the Department of Education’s
latest decisions on “race-based
scholarships,” federal and state aid
for all higher education, legal issues
facing historically black colleges
and universities, black students on
predominantly white collage cam
puses, multi-culturalism, Africa
and African-American linkages in
higher education and international
education.
(See EDUCATION, P.2)
UK Directors Plan
Annual Convention
For First Time Here
The Executive Dlrectoi« Aitociation (bu«) of Opportunities
Industrialization Centers or America (OICA) will hold their annual
meeting March 6*10, at the Raleigh Marriott at Crabtree Valley.
Raleigh, North Carolina, this is the first year the EDA will be
convening In North Carolina. Nearly 100 executives, including
chairmen of the boards of directors of OICA affiliates, from across
the United States have pre-reglstered so far.
OICA was founded by Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan. 1964 In
Philadelphia, Pa., to provide training in vocational and educational
areas and to provide self-esteem and motivational skills to the
unemployed, low skilled and disadvantaged population.
From its modest beginning in a dilapidated jailhouse, OICA has
grown to an international organization of local community program
offering: Pro-Vocational Skills Training, Food Bank Programs. j
Home Ownership Programs. "At-Risk" Youth Programs. Homeless
Shelters, and Traditional C urricula such as Basic Education and
Vocational Skills Training.
Co-hosts for this event will be Howard Jones of Wilson CMC.
Convenor OIC'A Region III; Willie Powell of Rocky Mount OIC and
Mrs. Evelyn Jervay, of The Triangle Area OIC Interest group.
HOWARD J0NE8