Oct 25,2002- Nov 1 2002 ocal_ From the Hillsborough community the in Greenville area we find the son of Mother Rosa Weaver. Mother Weaver raised her children to be God loving citizens. Her daughter sister Shirley Weaver raised her chil- dren in the same manner. Shown above is her son young bro. Weaver, who is in a wheel chair. He saved a young person who was being attacked by a dog. Young bro Weaver rushed to the aid while in his wheel chair and got the dog off of his neighbor. Hat's off to Bro. Weaver. photo by Bro Jim Rouse correction from last issue the young man pictured here is from the Hillsborough section in Greenville and not Williamston. North Carolina Department of the Secretary of the State: — North Carolina Elections News Elaine F. Marshall Secretary of the State Press Release October 22, 2002 Constitutional Amendment on November Ballot RALEIGH When North Carolina voters go to the polls on November 5, they will find more than candidates’ names on their ballots. They also will be voting on whether to make a small but significant amendment to the Constitution of North Carolina. The 2001 General Assembly approved a measure (Session Law 2001-217) that will make a technical correction in how the Legislature transfers property to the state Nature and Historic Preserve, if approved by voters this fall. The North Carolina Constitution establishes a State Nature and Historic Preserve as a means to preserve park, recrea- tional, and scenic areas, as well as other natural and historic resources. . The proposed amendment to Article XIV, Section 5 of the North Carolina Constitution would allow the General Assembly to accept property into the Preserve by enacting a bill, rather than passing a joint resolution. Under the present constitutional arrangement, the General Assembly must approve a joint resolution to accept a piece of property into the Preserve. However, lawmakers must then also pass a separate legislative bill to codify and make the resolution legally bind- ing. The proposed change would allow the General Assembly to accept property into the Preserve by approving bills that could automatically become law after passage. The proposed amend- ment would not change three- fifths majority vote required for the General’ Asssenbly- a aueape property into the Preserve, NC Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall, ae Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission, says the technical amendment would help streamline the legislative process. "This would shorten and simplify the process of transferring property into the State Nature and historic Preserve- a two-step process would be made a single step process," said Marshall. :So the voters are asked in this matter if they choose to cut red tape, or to leave it as is." Each county board of elections office has been provided an official explanation of the pro- posed amendment that can be made available to voters. Also, for the first time, each county will receive a copy of the explanation of the amendment translated into Braille for visu- ally impaired voters. SAMPLE BALLOT Chair of the THE MINORITY VOICE NEWSPAPER Here, we believe that the future of Blacks will depend upon their awareness of the world around them. The 'M' Voice newspaper is designed to inform, educate, and entertain. Additionally, each issue features local photographs, stories, and advertisements that mirror this region. We endeavor to market those products that are of concern to the minority community. Since 1981, The Minority Voice newspaper has been the best print medium to-deliver your message into the homes of the minority communities that rely on us for news and information from a different perspective. FOU RTH OF JULY KK OK WHO REALLY RECEIVED INDEPENDENCE ? ? Ex-Offender Voting Rights A vibrant democracy seeks electoral participation by all members of a community and involves citizens of all backgrounds. Today, however, nearly 4 million citizens in the United States are denied the franchise by virtue of their status as ex-offenders. A starkly dispropor- tionate number of minorities, particularly African American males, are thus denied voting rights. Nearly 14 percent of African American males are denied the right to vote. While different states set different rules for enfran- chisement of ex-offenders (from Vermont and Maine allowing individuals to vote while in prison, to states like Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, where ex-offenders are essentially disenfranchised for life), overall, there is a crisis in this country. We believe ex-offenders should have the right to vote restored upon release from prison. Studies show that one of the best indicators of whether an individual will vote is whether their parents vote - and children of ex-offenders should not be put at an even greater disadvantage. State legislatures should encourage ex-offenders to become as in- volved in the fabric of community as possible and thus, should restore voting rights and instill a greater sense of social responsibility. as stated by The Center for Voting and | Democracy Rights fhe Minority Voice New spaper, Inc, 405 Evans Street RO. Box 8361 Greenville, NC 27834 Phone: 232) 757-0365 Pax 757 1793 WOON Radio Station Greenville, NC 27834 Joy 1320 4M WTOW’ Radio Station Washington, NC 27889 Constitutional Amendment As provided by Sec::on 3 of Sessicn Law 20010217, the question will appear on the bal- lot as follows: [| FOR Constitutional amendmert making a technical correction to allow dedication and accep- lance of property into the Stat2 Nature and Historic Preserve by the Generai Assembly by enacment of a bill rather than a jo nt resolution. |] AGAINST He Ok Oe tk & ok ok & Don't Forget To Vote November 5, 2002 + RRR ae Justice Butterfield Supreme Court ¢ IT’S TIME for Jesse Helms to go. * IT’S TIME for better schools. Judge Loretta Biggs Court of Appeals Join your Judges and Congressional candidates in voting a straight Democratic ballot that will move us to a better time and place. Judge Wanda Bryant Court of Appeals Vote early at your local Board of Elections, October 17 - November 2, 2002 It’s Time! 7 * te > ‘ ae ae toe + Frank Ballance 1st Congressional District Mel Watt 12th Congressional District ¢ IT’S TIME for more and better jobs. * IT’S TIME to elect Judges that are fair. ¢ IT’S TIME to provide prescription drug coverage for seniors. We can’t wait. Now is the time! VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET! AND THEN VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATES IN THE NON-PARTISAN RACES Paid for by the NC Democratic Party Not Authorized by any candidate a ie # or i > a. pe i ¢ w from tite Air. Vary Says Bojangles sc. NG. WILL BACK ROOSEVELT \ MAticnican Wea FINAL >. EC. C. SPAULDI , me _s : WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936 - Prices: 7c in D.C.; 10c Elsewhere . E . Whether or not the GOP wins its fight to get Jesse Owens on the stump or Landes at least they have gotten a sunflower in his buttonhole, _ |UNIA Meeting Victim 40th Ga. Mob Hangs oN) 0 Politics Ends in Canada roRoNT ar) @INCE Suspect While than 500 officers and mem-| Since 9 2 5 Sheriff Sleeps bers of the Universal Ne- gro Improvement Associa- f) 7 tor Jesse” fn (UNLA), headed by Second Jury's Freak Verdict _DAVTON, Ga, te tinued on page 2, col. amy, , arrested after ° Cotime nme tet | Frees Slayer of CCC Maniiresking into the house ot SAYS Bill—But G.O.P. Say a widow, was lynched here, Lawrence Basey was the fortieth colored per- Sunday, by a mob of about al: son shot to death by Metropolitan police since 1925. 200 white hoodlums while Owens Is for Landon Every officer involved has been exonerated. Most of Sheriff J. T. Bryant slept. the victims were under 21 years of age. McCamy was shot down by the mob, which surrounded the jail,| NEW YORK—“Jesse Owens, world’s fastest runneg, last week announced his support of Gov. Alfred M. Following twenty-two hours of hearings and de-| 1. he attempted to escape after| Landon for President and told Representative Joseph Wea. fiberdtions, during which one coroners Jury was dis- | she leaders took him from his cell.| Martin, Jr., white, Republican Eastern campaign mana, charged, Officer Vivian H. Landrum, white, of the | More or less dead, he was strung 8€%, that he would take the stump for the Republicam.e, Ninth precinct, was exonerated late Tuesday night Ms yp ‘to a telephone pole 277 his Presidential nominee.” the fatal shooting of Lawrence Basey, 27, a CCC enrollee, | poay riddled with bullets. This bulletin was sent out by G.O.P. headquarte the night of August ae » Sheriff Bryant was asleep in his' on Tuesday. The second jury, which! ° quarters adjacent to the jail. Hej ; rreported at 10 p.tn., almost: Hung Jurve i) Basey said that when he aztived at the! “Jesse Owens will not stump; Qwens Takes Plane - . e . ~ five hours after it retired.| Case Thought First | scene of the lynching McCamy for Landon or any other puliti- i dict the as-' - ° 9 was dead and the mob had dis-: cian,” says Bill (Bojangles) Sal to See Gov. Landon : based its verdict on in History of D.C | oon 1 sumption that Landrum J) - persed. "inson, unofficial Mayor of Harlem © CLEVELAND, 0. — Jeseo feared for his life as @ re-' Go far as this city’s oldest Year's Twelfth Lynching | and world-famous tap dancer; Owens left by plane Tues- ‘ ’ sult of ‘a mental process,| jawyers can remember, the McCamy’s death marks the when interviewed at the T.incoln| day for Topeka, Kas, where J; «| and not by.any overt act or} coroner's jury which on Sat- | twelfth lynching of the year, the| Theatre where’ he headed the) he will meet Gov. Alf Lam<“hf- acts” onthe part of hia vic-) urday considered for twelve ‘| last being in Fort Smith, Ark., in: stage show which inaugurated the} don, Republican presidential» ff tim. . hours the fatal shooting of a July, when officers and citizens, theatrical season here last week.| nominee. ye Pleads Mental Vision ccc lee b white | Shot down a preacher-farmhand,; “I’ve known Jesse for quite a While he has no defintte . ; ~ ero 7 8 Charles Evans. number of yoors and I have aj Plans for aiding Landor, * Landrum had testified, when policeman, was the first ever . ; O la ' der- asked whether any of the five! dischar ed) here without This community will be remem-/ genuine «Zaid for his future and RII AEA SIC cc he had placed und peerine a verdict bered as that in which Miss Juli-.1 advised him not to get tangled stood that the Kansan’s man- . o men he hac pa under & . ; j Cc ith it.” agers might make him offers. arrest just before the shooting John R. Pinkett, Jr., 22, of | ette Derricotte, national YWCA/up with it. £ had actually struck him, that he 122 V Street, Northwest, was | official and Fisk University fac- Won't Allow It now and can’t be dabbling in po=! did not give them a chance, as jay he ote Cave. wore ulty ale te was fatally oes “1 absolutely won't allow | litical matters.” a 4 a “vision of Officer Kennedy at white. - , |i Sm auto accident, in 1930, and! Oens to stump for Governor| With these two conflicting.’ Truxton Circle flashed through According to reports, five |”*S refused admission to the local 7 sndon or anybody else or to take | opinions sent out this week, the. Pande ' jurors favored exoneration of hospital. any part in politics,” Marty For-|public will have to wait to cat) . ; the officer, while one is said kins, white, Owens’s pro manager, | what actually will happen. He was apparently referring) to have held out for grand Sheriff N am eS Three told the Associated Negro Press as} The G.O.P. campaign commit aae to the slaying of Milo Kennedy,| jury action. It was generally a i : white policeman, in Logan Cir-| assumed that Pinkett was the soon as the news reached fm. | reported hats ; ari LL lone juror opposing exonera- “] didn't even know about this} “Owens visited Republicag i Continued on Page 6, Col. 7 tion of the officer. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ANP) — | Statement at headquarters. I|headquarters at 41 East 42000 m ' | wouldn't have allowed him to/Street and met newspaper men Wi ST: . . . . Three rsons will be on tye aa a : ; What a Whale of a Diffe rence a Few Yea rs Make ® “ the tat ot J. Carroll Cate, Knox | take any side in the ae Mr. Martin’ ee Press oe Latset photo of Marcus Garvey, founder of Universal Negro Improvement League, au } In ants County sheriff, who assumed of- Coie ‘ , had nown eee , 4 seid he wanted . aoe oven ont who ‘attended a league convention in Montregl, Canada, last week. Ten years ago . fice this week. Rufus Cain and| “I don’t think he’s interesiet (Tee ee "and expected to go til \ ) : . Lindsey Graves have been named much one way oF the other Topeka to see him. - 3 politics. He told me he voted the a he was more pépular in New York than Father Divine. The best he could do was to Mesitie anal tha sheritt bee) an Be ot. ETE i 5 i - eputies im . a ve . ' go to Toronto. He, is barred from the United States. New York has forgotten him. F D Re- elected nounced he will appoint a third | Republican ticket but beyond that) 1 Oimpie triumphs would | e ® % detective at|didn’t pay much attention to poli- Se rhoauienn tics. He’s in the public's hands Continued on page 2, col. 7 Soviet Reds Admit They re ; . . e e V . . “y a ; ee ‘| Insurance Head Had Been Young White Methodists Vote | Are Wiser Than God Listed os G.O.P. Speaker}! Unification, 147-17 13 t . ; e e e e a «ee , +. | own Unillication, i: . P oo : “The publishing of my name as G.O.P. cam- __White youth “We expect you to live Christianity, 4 U:S. Tourists Who Say RUSSIA FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY || paign speaker is without my knowledge or consent,” ||, BEREA COM re In-| or quit talking about it.” [ So) sit ae) Nea pa gpa ble pg CIE alpine stitute here voted against unification Conservative churchmen sought dur } | N +t Mi S ) PROVIDED 60D IS AGAINST IT Mutual Life Insurance Company, told the AFRO- with-the M.E. Church, South, 467 to 17 | ing the year to curb the liberal move- }é ENR TO MUX severely AMERICAN, Tuesday. : : n the | round that the plan called for | ment among young people. Two white. Hleckled | One white Georgian and a white Texan, while not expressing “I feel that a change in administration at this ° at f colored brethren leaders, Kirkpatrick and Owengeer,, ol . . themselves as being for or against jim crow schools, said they time of national economic improvement would not segregation ol colore . . ‘led here last year, were sent Apne ‘ —S=> thought that mixing would “disturb” the races, that “Go din- P , improv" They also voted to boycott the Louis- detailed here year, F; .\ By WARVEY. TARTWELL _| tended for the races to be apaft,” that mixing “might result in be wise. To my way of thinking, if the present ad- ‘lie and Nashville Railroad because of | where. The understanding was that they - ; || social equality and intermarriage,” etc., etc. ministration had done little else than revive con- Vule Bishop Blake, quoted | were too progressive. : with so Gals sebotarshige toe the ltr and mixing of | tb “168 +0 sdowalities in Soviet Russi on fe OD eid one te sying, “What else did you expect?” Juanita Jackson of Baltimore, is a} a s rsni e i i} ssia 0 ) is. i ‘ H ‘ : LJ ’ : ¢ } @ate, their inferior Paces te rerulted tn complete harmony, boar dgy oven Phe rule, when raja basis, it would have justified its exis was given the reply: vice-president of the body. a a j ‘th ' ti segregation, country w 6 : ae tal tio per pase with continesl racial ‘latusbancts and programs, ie. Iynchings a een 5 WOM AN ACCUSE f Pere il | Si Sr ang og, eta Ot ond er || TAM. NC = EPIL oe Brothers, Alleged Embezzlers ‘ace, . ’ “ fade among Americans visiting|| while ;before the Revolution, when there was a God, racial Lem - yak for “the “l . a er ro ers, eg SLAYING INTRU Moscow, dyring the past summer.|| separation and perpetual bloody feuds and strife, the Bible || |; BP os ; >. Below are given the comments ee gunternan, wore ers emer Te econ e wisdom of: Bobs Specidinn, f I d e rom Prison ‘at. several Ameri Bs u . vu ’ B F R d fatal sh Soe ie He iewitenemtat| Of Bank Funds, Releas sone ; JUNE PURCELL GUILD | Gren of t eget MRS, FAUSET HEADS Com any an the Mechanic Pict Page 2 tice Cox took cognizance that "ta .° “ ‘net poor home in "the 1400 Meck f aT ; a te h- ‘ . ures on Page nts on member of the staff of ore of tne ceity and superte| : and Farmers Bank of Dur ° the offenses to which the brothers oward. satisfying the bank's May Price, is AAR Magis Union University: “Seg.| {elias of inferiority and supelie ham, N.C.; stated that he| Edward A. and Clarence ; he ' : ~ . = : ded guilty were committed Tat eacols are distinctly dis. | °"'Y- Even where tne aporopns WOMEN DEMOCRATS favors the re-election of{S. Baker, former cashier|PMto) OO. ‘ine indetermin-| Sblgatlons. | seg to nave] Women's Bureau, pending ai wy tions and other things are equal, “* President Franklin D. Roose-| and bookkeper, respective-| ate sentence Act. been. influenced to some extent] quest. : fo colored people. t . i | be De féveannot supply equal or nearly so, the jim crow school velt. ly, of the. Prudential Bank,| he brothers are required to by numerous appeals by friends ome oS ee m is hi irable.” . oh. 8 facilities to both races, (°7%™, 19 highly undes NEW YORK—Mrs. “ : released from J. ¥, Reeves, white, races.| “Miss HELEN PATTERSON Ts. Crystal t am a firm ‘Believer - have: been report to J. Y. s and acquaintances on behalf of to Freedmen's Hospital suffe: the' law. demands it,| , Byrd'Fauset, of Philadelphia, was| ‘President Reosevelt’s her Lorton Reformatory, where] District probation officer, once a ite), student, University of ° pls, administration.” he sald, ’ = the Baker brothers. lice colored people al- Wisconsin: “4 think that pda named by the Democratic Ne-) he had dene se a they were serving embezzle-jmonth during their probationary Bishop Intercedes from gunshot wound near, period. They were granted per-| . rose said to nave’ made such : bu me. ¢verywhere ‘receive, in- ne a distinc tional Committee to head up the|: revive confidence in'banking |ment sentences of from — , pei traisiing in jim crow schools, schools are a di t disadvantage women's division campaign for| business and banks. on vighteen months to three|mission to leave Washington and appeals, either in writing or in ; ¢ WE ts: but-an example ot the| Continued on page 2, col. 7 | the Democratic party, Friday. # sound basis:he would have years each. are reported to have gone to eee ee UNIDENTIFIED BOY ‘ity Yeal, life ‘the colored | ~ = Mrs. Fauset, prominent in peli~| -Sastified hls position. Richmond. Bishop James Freeman of the dees not Charles. E. Mitchell, head of| ‘Their release followed a suc- Mt ot get his cdnetitutional , | ties, and civic work, is a former ’ , ° $100,000 Reported Missing | washington Cathedral; the Rev. DROWNS AT WH AR _ oe at - ; The -AFRO-AMERICAN international : secretary of the ie Lage Suse | ccna cessful plea id wer rscelindieeos The brothers were originally Thomas J. Brown, Episcopal rec a 7 Bous. | Publitned every Saturday by | YWCA and hasbeen te head listed Mr. Spaulding as « speaker ray met Taredibork eae ne sentenced on pleas of guilty to| tor ete of . uke Sooke ‘ nt, Unj versity _ The APRO-AMBRICAN of the WPA work in Philadelphia. me me ; one count each of separate in- University; "George A, Robinson,| The body of an unideritified? ae i on July 15, 1035, and : ., . COMPANY }. : raithin rhe pair. They, were|dictments.. The amount involved) 1419 G Street, Northwest; Dr.| year-old boy was fished out of