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No one can ever better his posi
tion by limiting the mind. No one
can ever make a success of life by
thinking failure. Every success is
achieved first in your own
thoughts.
Robert Collier
he Carolinian
Dept ot Cultural
Resources, N.C. State L
109 East Jones Street
Raleigh NC 27601 . ,/
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Family Manaaes Thru Gravesite Ordeal
While investigators with the
Wake Sheriffs Department and
the State Office of Archaeology
continue to search for clues to who
desecrated a Garner African
American family burial site, de
scendants of that family are still
trying to deal with the pain, and
are asking why it happened.
Sheriffs investigators are digging
pn the property of Walter Perry in
Campus Officer
Awarded $116 Gs
InUNC-Ch. Suit
BY CASH MICHAELS
SUIT Writer
Officials of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill are expected to
appeal $116,000 in damages
awarded to an African
American campus police of
ficer in a civil rights suit
last week.
An Orange County jury
laat Thursday agreed with
Officer Keith Edwards that
she was the victim of con
tinuous racial and sexual
discrimination by her supe
riors during her tenure
with the campus police
force. The jury of 10 whites
and two blacks took eight
hours to deliberate after
hearing almost two weeks
of testimony.
The three defendants,
former UNC-CH Police
Chief Charles Mauer, for
mer Director of Public
Safety Robert Sherman,
(See OFFICER WINS. P.2)
the White Oak subdivision, look
ing for evidence of graves that may
have been covered over years ago
when the area was developed.
Perry reported the situation to the
State Office of Archaeology after
being told by a neighbor why he
shouldn’t build a pool in his back
yard.' Perry says that while it’s
clear his neighbors knew, he was
unaware that his double-wide
home was built on the site of a
family cemetery when he pur
chased the property last October.
Perry says that investigators
unofficially believe that there may
be as many as 100 or more graves
spanning a two-acre tract of land
where four homes are currently lo
cated.
Members of two African-Ameri
can families, the Bankses and the
City Police Suspect N. Y.
Enforcers In Local Slaying
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
When the body of a Raleigh man
was found in a wooded area be
hind St. Ambrose Church last
month, it confirmed something lo
cal law enforcement officials have
been dreading: the local drug turf
wars are intensifying, and Raleigh
is becoming more and mere a part
St Ambrose Church at 813 Darby
St.
Police have issued arrest war
rants for 25-year-old Ranking
“Rocking” Smith of Brooklyn, N.Y.
and William “Lord" Daniels, 30, of
Mount Vernon, N.Y. According to
Sgt T.W. Gardner, Smith stands
5’8" and weighs 170 pounds, while
Daniels is 5’7” and weighs 160
Police believe that “Rocking” and
“Lord” have gone back to New York,
where they are believed to be part of a
key crime organization there.
of it.
This latest harbinger of things
to come is alleged to be a rub-out
by two New York drug “enforcers.’
Police say the victim, 37-yearold
Phillip L. Wortham of 19 Meck
lenburg Terrace, was apparently
beaten and then shot to death be
cause he may have stolen money
from area drug dealers. His body
was found on June 27 outside of
pounds. Both men are black.
Police believe that “Rocking”
and “Lord" have gone back to New
York, where they are believed to
be part of a key crime organization
there.
While Durham police aeem to
have a drug-related “murder a
week," drug rub-outs have been
(See “ENFORCERS,” P. 2)
DWIQHT HAWKINS
I don't think it should be mandatory
in order to be married. The two
individuals should be responsible and
caring enough to have the test done
without it being mandatory.
Ofiaf/n/v . WKA the number of
OriGTiny m AIDS-infected people
reaching epidemic proportions, many
people are pondering what measures
should be taken to curb the rising
number of people who have con
tracted the HIV virus. We asked if
AIDS tests should be a mandatory
requirement before marriage and this
was the response:
TIM PULLEY
I do not think that AIDS testing
should be required before marriage.
It is a violation of that person’s right
to privacy. If that person’s spouse
wants him/her to take the test, it
would be all right. No one should be
forced to reveal such a vital secret.
AIDS testing goes against the very
foundation of what marriage stands
for—trust.
ANTONIO MILLS
I think people should take the test
before they get married. It would be
too hard to tall if someone had AIDS
without it. If you’re living your life
right you shouldn’t have to think
•bout AIDS or disease anyway.
CHRIS PHIFER
I don’t think AIDS testa should be
required. You should be married
before you have sex anyway. If you
think you may have AIDS or HIV,
then it would be all right, but I don’t
think it should be required.
Smiths, are believed to be buried
on the land. Alice Graves, a de
scendant of the Banks family,
says the burial site was given to
her family at the turn of the cen
tury by a white doctor who owned
it. After his death, the property
changed hands several times, but
the family continued to bury their
dead there as late as 1969. At
that time, there waa a pig farm
there, and family members had a
dispute with the owner about ac
cess to the site. Though it hasn’t
been used since, the family never
expected that the cemetery, which
was never registered with the
county, would be disturbed, even
after it was developed 10 years ago
for homes.
One of the keys to confirming
the existence of a family cemetery
at the site may be aerial photo
graphs taken of the area in the
1960s. Those photographs, part of
the county archives, should show
the existence of gravestones on the
property.
“Folks tell us that those head
stones could be plainly seen,”
Capt. Max Pickett of the Sheriffs
(See GARNER FAMILY, P. 2)
LA
“DESECRATED GRAVES”—Gamer homeowner WaHor looking for other grave* that a housing subdivision was
Perry points to two telephone lino boxes that he says are buHt over. Pony says ho didn’t know his homo rested on a
sitting on top of at least ons grave. Wake Sheriffs cemetery when ho bought It last October.
Investigators are digging for clues on Perry’s property.
Mrs. Soloana Ingram Still Driven
To Find The “Truth” In Son’s Death
BY CASH MICHAELS
SUIT Writer
Had he lived beyond that fateful
evening of Nov. 8, 1991, Ivan
Lorenzo Ingram would have
turned 36 years old on July 13,
this week. But on this, the first
birthday after his tragic shooting
by a Raleigh police officer, the will
to find out what she believes to be
the “truth” still burns strong in
the heart of Ivan’s best friend...
his mother.
For Ms. Soloana Ingram, the
Record Number Of Blacks
Hold Key Spots In DNC
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A record
number of African-Americans hold
key positions with the Democratic
National Committee as the 200
year-old political party conducts
its 1992 national convention in
New York’s Madison Square Gar
den July 12-16, under the leader
ship of Gotham-born, Harlem-bred
DNC chairman Ronald H. Brown.
More than 40,000 delegates, al
ternates, elected officials, party
regulars, supporters, guests and
media representatives will be at
tending the biggest political gath
ering ever, with New York City
Mayor David H. Dinkins serving
as honorary chairman of the host
committee.
“I smell victory in the air,”
Mayor Dinkins jubilantly told col
leagues at the opening of the DNC
Platform Committee hearings in
Washington. Dinkins, as a vice
chairman of the Platform Commit
tee, was aggressive in presenting
“minority issues” for consideration
by the committee.
Congressional Black Caucus
chairman, Rep. Edolphus Towns
(D-N.Y.) a few days later echoed
the “victory in the air” theme after
a CBC meeting with Gov. Bill
Clinton in Washington.
Despite simmering debate at the
Platform Committee hearing on
such concerns as urban aid, enter
prise zones, school choice, women’s
choice, minimum wage ($6.25 an
hour), unemployed black youth,
minority reports or open floor
fights are not expected at the New
York convention.
Brown, the dapper DNC presid
ing officer, grew up about 100
blocks from the “Garden” in up
town Harlem, where his father
managed the celebrated Theresa
Hotel. However, Brown began his
political career as a Democratic
leader in suburban Mount Vemon,
N.Y. Before being elected DNC
chairman in 1989, Brown served
as deputy campaign manager for
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s 1980
presidential campaign, convention
manager for Rev. Jesse Jackson’s
(See BLACKS AT DNC, P. 2)
“answers” supplied by a Wake
County grand jury (which cleared
the officer, Vincent Kerr, of the
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MS. SOLO ANA INGRAM
shooting), and Raleigh Police Chief
Frederick K. Heineman (who
agreed with the grand jury) don’t
even begin to fill in the painful
puzzle of why, and what really
happened. It’s not bitterness that
drives Ms. Ingram to seek the
truth eight months after her son, a
bystander to a police drug raid,
was killed, she told The CARO
(See MS. INGRAM. P.2 )
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
EXHIBITS AT HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER
“Visions in Ebony," works by visual artist Thomas Poole, will be on
display at the Lyda Merrick Gallery, Hayti Heritage Center, through
Aug. 8. Poole’s style comes naturally. His canvas paintings of acrylic and
oil are representative of his life as an African-American. Gallery hours
are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2
p.m., at the Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St. (corner of
fayetteville Street and Lakewood Avenue). Call 683-1709 for more infor
mation.
“Old Hayti Remembered," a special exhibit of photographs from the
Old Hayti Business District and African-American community of Dur
ham dating back to 1910, collected with the assistance of the Stanford
Warren Library, will be held July 16-31.
(See CALENDAR, P. 2)