PLANTING THE SEED — As MHa 7-year-old Jennifer Ruth Cook listens Intently,
hur grandmother, Mrs. Hazel Cook el Gamer, teds her about the legacy el Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. at the memorial gardens. The 62-yoar-old woman
ranwmlors hew her Mack Mends were unfairly treated during the days of
segregation and beNeves that wa al “need each other.” (Photo by Cash Michaels)
Grandmother Plants The
Seeds Of King Dream
In Gardens Presentation
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
It was Sunday, the day after
Mrs. Coretta Scott King came to
Raleigh, and a storm was coming.
Threatening clouds had long
chased away the sun, and loud
booms could be heard coming in
the distance. Yet, at the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Memorial Gar
dens on MLK Blvd. in southeast
Raleigh, there was a beam of
sunlight..and hope for the future.
“Did Dr. King have any chil
dren?,” asked 7 year old Jennifer
Ruth Cook. The little girl from
Wake Forest had learned about
the great civil rights leader in
school, and while visiting the capi
tol for the weekend, asked her
grandmother, Mrs. Hazel Cook of
Garner, to take her to see Dr.
CRIME
BEAT
Editor’s NoterThis column, a
fixture of The CAROLINIAN in
years past, has retuned to our
pages in hopes of deterring
crime in our community. The
information contained herein
is taken from public arrest rec
ords and does not necessarily
mean those mentioned are
guilty of crimes.
POT POSSESSION
Forty-three-year-old Leon
Bunch of 620 Price Street was
charged with possession of mari
juana and possession of drug para
phrenalia. Bunch was arrested on
Varsity Drive at Western Blvd.
DRUNK AND RESISTING
ARREST
Twenty-five-year-old Regina
Joan Wright of 1204 Country
Ridge Drive was charged with as
sault on a law enforcement officer,
simple assault, resisting arrest,
drunk and disruptive behavior,
and 2nd degree trespassing Police
say Ms. Wright allegedly assaulted
Laurie Sutzer at a night club at
7112 Sandy Forks Rd.
BURGLARY-FORCED ENTRY
Thirty-two-year-old William
Griffin of 101 Manning Street in
Chapel Hill was charged with
breaking and entering, hit and
run, property damage, no drivers’
license, and driving in center lane.
Police say Griffin allegedly broke
into a body shop at 318 E. Martin
Street. The break-in involved a
1981 Chevy station wagon, a chain
link hurricane fence gate, and a
chain and lode.
CRACK POSSESSION
Twenty-four-year-old Joseph El
lis Farris of 3236 Hunt Leigh
Drive was charged with felony pos
session of cocaine. Police say Far
ris was arrested at 900 Harp Ter
race allegedly with one crack co
caine rock.
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY
WEAPON
Police have charged 21-year-old
Steven DeRowland of 3964 Meely
Street with assault with a deadly
weapon and simple affray, and 29
year-old Darrell Wayne Powell of
4060 Carlton Street with simple
affray. Police say the two allegedly
assaulted a 19-year-old Black fe
male in the parking lot of
DeRowland’s address, resulting in
a bruise.
King’s statue.
For the 62 year old woman, tak
ing her granddaughter to the me
morial wasn’t just sightseeing. She
recalled vividly how it was when
she too was a little girl living in
Wake County. Those were the
days of segregation, days when so
called “negroes” could not share
the same public accommodations
as whites. White and black adults
had lived their lifetimes under the
laws of “Jim Crow,” but black
and white children still didn’t
understand.
Sure her friends were black
Mrs. Cook remembers, but that
was their color, not their charac
ter. They were still her friends. So
when she and a black friend got on
a bus, and took seats together in
the white section near the front,
Hazel Cook found herself defend
ing her friend when the bus driver
told her she would have to get up.
She was as willing to stand up for
what she believed then, as she is
decades later today.
“We need each other, the
blacks and the whites. We just
have to learn to live together in
this country, and that's what Dr.
King was about,” Ms. Cook said.
It was clear that little Jennifer
was listening intently as her
grandmother spoke, and when she
went over to Dr. King’s statue that
stands prominently in the middle
of the park, she looked up at his
face, then at his outstretched
hand, and asked if she could touch
it. “Sure honey, he was a good
man, and this is history,” her
grandmother said reassuredly.
Jennifer smiled, and then held the
statue’s hand. “Jennifer told me
that Dr. King was for civil rights
(See PLANTS SEEDS, P. 2)
New NCCU President To
Face Many Challenges
DURHAM — Julius Chambers has
made a career out of taking on
difficult tasks.
Now the former Charlotte resident
is coming back to North Carolina for
another one: North Carolina Central
University.
Chambers was named chancellor
elect of NCCU, succeeding Dr.
Tyronza Richmond, who resigned
earlier this year from the institution
under criticism of poor leadership
and financial mismanagement.
Chambers was elected chancellor
by the University of North Carolina
Board of Governors under the
recommendation of UNC President
C. D. Spangler, Jr., after a national
search. He will take over the $120,000
a-year job on January 1,1993.
Chambers is the first alumnus of
NCCU to become its chancellor and
also the first lawyer to head the
institution. Except for the founder,
James Edward Shepard, he will be
the first head of the institution whose
background is primarily outside the
academic world. Shepard was a
pharmacist and Baptist church
leader when he opened the doors of
the institution in 1910.
The new chancellor will take over
from interim Chancellor Donna J.
Benson, who moved on January 1,
1991, to the interim post from a
position as associate vice president of
the UNC system.
Chambers is best known for his
work in law, most notably civil rights
cases. He successfully argued the
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Board of Education case before the
Supreme Court in 1970, opening the
way for busing to be used as a tool for
desegregating public schools.
In 1984, be left North Carolina’s
first integrated law firm, now
Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins &
Gresham, to become chief counsel of
the NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fund.
Chambers, 55, was described by
Spangler as a “quiet, effective leader
whose life has been one of
commitment to equality for all
Americans.”
Chambers has his work cut out for
him at NCCU which has been
criticized for financial
mismanagement. Faculty members
have been accused of using school
funds for personal use and the
athletic department was taken to task
by athletes for allegedly reneging on
promises on scholarship money.
Chambers received his bachelor’s
degree in history summa cum laude
from what was then North Carolina
College at Durham in 1958. He
received his master’s degree in
history from the University of
Michigan in 1959 and then entered the
University of North Carolina School of
Law in Chapel Hill. He served as
editor-in-chief of the North Carolina
Law Review and graduated first in
his law school class of 1992. The
following year he received the LL.M
degree from Columbia University
School of Law.
Over the course of his career.
Chambers has taught civil rights and
constitutional law courses at the
University of Virginia, Harvard, the
University of Pennsylvania,
Columbia University and the
University of Michigan.
He was president of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund
for nearly a decade before he took its
senior executive post in 1984.
Chambers was appointed from the
(See NCCU PREXY. P.2)
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Only 2 African Americans Out
Of 57 To GOP Meet From NC
BY CASH MICHAELS
Sun Writer
It will either have all the fire and
spirit of a religious revival, or be one
of the largest political funerals in
history. But one thing the Republican
National Convention in Houston,
Texas next week will not have, and
that is a lot of african-american
delegates from North Carolina. The
CAROLINIAN has learned that out of
a republican of Held of 57 delegates
going, only two will be african
american. Of the 55 alternate
delegates, again only two of those will
be black. And according to one of the
two going, this is a 100% improvement
over how many black delegates
attended the convention in 1988.
In contrast, when the democrats
held their national convention in New
York City last month, at least 26% of
the 99 North Carolina delegates were
african-american, a deliberate and
direct reflection of the state’s black
population, according to state
democratic party political director,
Chris Haines.
The two North Carolina black GOP
delegates listed by the party are Dr.
Quentine Finch of Durham, and
Durham City Councilman and North
Carolina Mutual Insurance
Executive A.J. Howard Clement. The
two alternates are Dr. Jimmy Morris
of Oxford, and Atty Barbara Gore
Washington of Guilford County
(candidate in the 12 Congressional
District race against democrat Mel
Watt).
In an exclusive interview with the
CAROLINIAN leaving for Houston,
Councilman Clement was quite
candid about his role as a delegate, a
republican, and a black republican.
“As an african-american
republican, as long as the great
majority of us remain democrats,
nothing much is going to change in
terms of our economic and social
(See ONLY TWO, P. 2)
AIDS Epidemic
Embarks On The
Second Stage
GREENSBORO (AP)—New
AIDS cases among homosexuals
appear to have leveled off. But in
Southern cities, AIDS activists be
lieve heterosexuals-especially
blacks-are facing a second-wave
epidemic.
“Part of that is because in North
Carolina we may be prone to the
attitude that we’re good people,
we’re God-fearing people and it
can’t get us here,” said John de
Lashmet of Triad Health Project,
where white gay male clients of
the 1980s have given way to black
heterosexuals in the 1990s.
“I still hear doctors say, “Well, I
don't really think it’s much of a
problem.”
The first signal that the preven
tion message had failed among
heterosexuals was the increase of
syphilis, which Mps spread the
AIDS virus through open sores.
Guilford County’s syphilis rate
today is five times what it was in
1987.
"That tells you right there how
many people sure having safe sex,”
said Pat Candler, a nurse at Moses
Cone Memorial Hospital’s adult
outpatient clinic. “Nothing’s
changed.”
In the first quarter of 1992, 81
percent of the people who tested
positive for the AIDS virus at the
Guilford County health depart
ment were black.
Last month, staff members at
the Triad Health Project saw 19
new clients with the AIDS virus.
(See AIDS, P. 2)
KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE — As she finishes her
remarks before an estimated 700 young people and
community activists from across the country, Mrs..
CoreHa Scott King is congratulated by St. Augustine’s
College President Dr. Prezell R. Robinson. Mrs. King, in
ft
Raleigh last Saturday to address the 5th annual MLK ’
National Youth Assembly at the Raleigh Civic and
.Convention Center, told young people to keep Dr. King's
dream alive by dealing with life’s chalenges through non
violent means like education and hard work.
Mrs. King Urges Youth To
Seek Non-Violent Solutions
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
“What is happening here, is very
beautiful...!”
That’s what more than 700
black, white, yellow and brown
young people from across the coun
try waited to hear, the approval of
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife
of the great civil rights leader in
whose name they had all gathered.
This was not someone talking from
a history textbook. This was his
tory from that textbook, talking for
herself.
Mrs. King’s keynote luncheon
address last Saturday afternoon
was the highpoint of the three day
Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have A
Dream” National Youth Assembly.
Commencing on Friday, the con
ference brought youths ages 9 to
19 to the Radisson Hotel and the
Raleigh Civic and Convention Cen
$95 MILLION ISSUE - In a series of community meetings and public hearings
cWzotts have been discussing their views on the proposed Raleigh Civic and
Convention Center project. In top photo, Norman and Dorothy Sanders expressed
their concern about closing off another street (Lenoir) in southeast Raleigh
business district and tlw lack of hotel accommodations in the immediate area. J.
J. Allen, director of marketing for Reynolds and Associates Indicated the lack of
funds for southeast Raleigh projects and the awarding of contracts to African
Amorican contractors. In bottom photo, loft, Ralph Campbell Jr., District C. City
Councilman entertains question from Leroy Reynolds relative to the approximately
$6 mlion shortfall, the debt yet to be paid on the current Civic Center. Dave
Butts, assistant director of planning, explained how the 6 percent hotel/motel
occupancy tax along with the one percent prepared meal tax would bo used to
Rnanco the now center during a community meeting recently held at Chavis
Heights Community Center. (Photo by James Giles)
ter for a series of workshops,
speeches, and group sessions. But
it was the special visit from Mrs.
(See URGES YOUTH, P. 2)
NEWS BRIEFS
PRIDE
EVENT SET
The location of the College
Park Community PRIDE
Celebration Church Service has
changed. In conjunction with the
Community PRIDE Weekend
Celebration, the College Park
Community Watch is sponsoring
an interdenominational church
service on August 16, at 11 a.m.
under the tent at Tarboro Road
Community Center, 120 N.
Tarboro Road.
SAVE THE
BLACK
MALE
The Save the Black Male
Foundation of North Carolina,'
Inc., is a non-profit corporation
dedicated to ensure continuation, ’
improvement, and betterment of
black males. A meeting at *
Richard B. Harrison Library on
August 20 at 7 p.m. will examine *
issues relating to black males
according to Elouise Stevens.
Homicide has been the leading
cause of deaths of young black -
men for some years she says. *
“The black male child is fast -
becoming a rare and endangered *
species...the time toact isnow." ‘
To help the black male, call 833
3304, 828-0512 or 856-1202.
NEW
DIVISION
DIRECTOR
Dwight Pearson, former
principal and a consultant hi the
Department of Public
Instruction, is the new director of
the Division of School Services in
the Auxiliary Services area of the
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)