LISTEN TO |THE #1 STATION| = 3B No BE | es FOR TALK AND m® Serving Eastern North Carolina's Mino rity Com MUSIC WOOW 1340AM | VY on | C E Please Take One Vol Xa ee Issue ‘dgecombe and Pitt County Home for 26 Rosenwald Schools seiricvswise x ninver located at various sites Providence. By: .C. Rudolph Knight across the county. The Each community that sought a € Rosenwald rural school following Rosenwald schools school had to provide enough building program was a major are listed in order of land for playgrounds effort to improve the quality construction dates: - and agriculture production; of public education for 1921-22, Logboro No. 1 and two acres was the minimum. African-Americans White’s Chapel; 1922-23, Labor, land, and materials in the early 20th century - Acron Hill, Bellamy, furnished locally counted as a South. The schools are Chinquapin, Kingsboro and cash contribution at current named for Julius Willow Grove; 1923-24, market value. Each } Rosenwald, who at the time Bryan, Dogtown (Keech), community had to guarantee of the program’s inception Harry Knight, Lawrence, to equip, furnish and maintain was the president Logboro No. 2, St. Luke and _ schools after they were built. of Sears, Roebuck and Co, Tarboro; 1924-25, Coakley, | | Rosenwald had become * Dixon, Draughn, Lancaster, Rosenwald Fund would only friendly with black Leggett, Living Hope, Marks support construction if the educator Booker T. Chapel, Mount Olive and school term was at least five Washington and began to Wimberle oo . make charitable donations 1925-96, Pittman Grove; and story cont. pgs to the black secondary . schools and colleges that Washington’s Tuskegee ° Institute was helping to UU MOSENWaid s establish. Washington asked if a small portion of Teachers Grades Pt spils* one $25,000 gift could be Chinquapin 4 18 110 used for elementary School tee eee. .---—é‘iE:~Si*t Ls @hinquapin 2... . programs and-Rosenwald Hickory | View ......3 r 14 110 agreed, with one stipulation; Kingsboro ....3..3° 4-6 =) Hi give the money to the black L ' communities, he wanted SUE SI eeconcar 3 1-6 110 to match funds that the people Living Hope ...... 12 1-8 500 had iron themselves to fund Mount Olive....... 3 (146 110 e schools. A couple of years later, he set up the P rovidence sees 4 1-8 180 Rosenwald Fund to continue Saint Luke........ 3. O16 110 this work on a larger scale. 2 North Carolina was home to Bellamy ees 3 1-6 150 more Rosenwald schools than Dixon..........., 2 1-4 90 any other state. All but Marks Chapel ..... 2 1-4 100 seven of the state’s counties had at least one Rosenwald Willow Grove...... 2 «13 110 school, although most are Wimberly ......... 4 1-8 200 concentrated in the Piedmont Acorn Hill ........ 4 1-8 180 and Coastal Plain. ; Built between 1917 and 1932, Coakley........., 2 13 100 these small, wooden Lawrence ........ 3. 146 140 structures are in the state’s White: sChapel....2 1-3 100 rural counties, and once served as the center of rural " + prospective number black community life. Edgecombe County had 26 1,000 or more attend Greenville’ s first N ational NI right O Out Councilwoman Rose Glover By Corey G. Johnson night I’ve had in over 20- re —" The Daily Reflector some years of police work.” credited Police Chief William Samm Ss , | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 More than 50 Greenville Anderson for backing the ednesday, August 02, vent | : At least 1,000 people filled police officers and numerous Thomas Foreman Park on representatives from East , eee tice e en Tiersen ieiien Carolina University and Pitt - vues vlick t s Greenville’s first National County Memorial Hospital host kt vn ‘. oes "Night Out celebration, police Were at the event. oak nee When the children ata overwhelming,” said Glover, the exact rane were still dunking booth couldn’t hit who oe meet “ns a being tabulated, but police their mark, ey ee ro Newchictand ne on estimates ranged from 1,000 and pushed it, anyway. Their leadership.” to more nearly 3,000. The victims; Capt. Thomas Forrest Ki Ay anevent numbers underscore the and Major Kevin Smeltzer, P i _“ dh thusiasm felt by officers “Oh well, I guess I’mnotas °F inator, cee 7 “an ‘ hee for Young as I used to be,” sid pleased with how community te initiative which seeks to Seltzer, his smile glowing cuted ana build strong ties between pangvine ae water dripping eee sve mae the re rian citizens, organizers Children sod parents wanting calls to ask for support, there said. ; ; were no debates and no “There are people sts mt elt Pilea bit animal negotiations,” Gaskins said. haven't soothed rep u manned by Tim Langley of If you look in the dictionary | sweden the Greenville vimal control for a definition of partnership Judge’s Night Out. . . District Court Judge Joe Blick who is running for re-election(center) was Highland of the ae has Even some came up and and unity, a picture of this present for the National Night Out which was sponsored by the Greenville PD, is flanked by Police Department. “This has tips,” he said, event should be right there.” Council Members, Chip Little (1)and Ray Crate the event was a tremendous success, been the most fun in one story cont. pg5 photo Mike Adams ee nn. 16 thtvmeeyeiae 3 tcc e eee . . Minority Voice August 1 - 18,2006 pg2 By George E. Curry NNPA Analysis George W. Bush - or his speechwriters — unglerstands the indignity of slavery and its impact on the United States. I was at the NAACP’s national ; convention last week when Bush said: “For nearly 200 years, our nation failed the test of ‘ extending the blessings of liberty to African- Americans. Slavery was legal for nearly a hundred - years, and discrimination legal in many places for nearly a hundred years more. Taken together, the record placed a stain on America’s founding, a stain that we have not yet wiped clean. — “When people talk about America’s founders they mention the likes of By James Clingman Jr. The saddest part about this issue is the fact that we could see this one coming. Now that it has hit its mark, right between our eyes, maybe the pain will be severe enough not only to get our attention but also to hold our attention long enough for us to rally our forces and fight back. The Black Hair Care Industry (BHCI) has, once again, become a hot topic among folks other than Koreans. Now that an investigative documentary has been produced about the industry, obviously shocking Black — ° people once again, maybe some of us will resolve to do something to reclaim at least _ aportion of that vertical market. After all, the last time I checked, no one is using Black hair care / OPIN George Bush ’s Bigotry of ~ Expectations Washington and Jefferson and Franklin and Adams. Too often they ignore another — group of founders — men and women and children who did not come to America of their free will, but in chains. These founders literally helped build our country. They chopped the wood, they built the homes, they tilled the fields, and they reaped the harvest. They raised children of others, even though their own children had been ripped away and sold to strangers. These founders were denied the most basic birthright, and that’s freedom. ... They toppled Jim Crow through simple deeds: boarding a bus, walking along the road, showing up peacefully at courthouses or Joining in prayer and song. Despite the sheriff’s dogs, and the jailer’s scorn, and the hangman’s noose, and the assassin’s bullets, they prevailed.” Sitting there in the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, I remembered hearing Bush utter similar remarks at the National Urban League’s 2003 convention in Pittsburgh. products except Black folks. The documentary discloses information, none of which was news to BHCI insiders, about the ownership of stores businesses and create wealth for their families. Oh yeah, | we still get to look good, and we are quite willing to pay for it, but is looking good better than “doing good” — for yourself? The three questions again come to mind: What? So what? Now what? At this stage, since we have ignored the “so what?” stage, we must deal with the “now what?” What are Black people going to do, if anything, about this situation? On the video, there are calls for boycotts, which could be done simply by buying your products at Black owned stores that get their products through Black owned channels of distribution. Oops, I almost - forgot; we don’t have very many of those, do we? But, we do have some, so let’s _ Start there. We also have a relatively new organization, called BOBSA, the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association (see bobsa.org or call 650 357 0073). Every _ venture begins with a first step, so our “now what?” step must be taken from where we are, with what we have, and with whoever will go. If Black people are serious about slowing down the Korean Black Hair Care Express and revving up an economic engine of our own in this industry, we had better “Recently, on my trip to Africa, I visited Goree Island in Senegal, where for centuries, men and women were delivered and sorted and branded and shipped. It’s a haunting place, a reminder of mankind’s capacity for cruelty and injustice,” he said at the time. “Yet Goree Island is also a reminder of the strength of the human spirit, and the capacity for good to overcome evil. The men and women | who boarded slave ships on that island and wound up in America endured the separation of their families, the brutality of their oppressors, and the indifference of laws that regarded them only as articles of commerce. Still, the. spirit of Africans in America did not break. All the generations of opptession under the laws of man could not crush the hope of freedom. And by a plan known only to ~ Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awake the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America . free.” e Black Hair Care Tragicome get busy buying from one another, expanding the Black channels of distribution we already have, creating investment pools to build warehouses and wholesale facilities, and all the other things it take to become “players” once again. BOBSA is advocating for — those changes and more, but it needs help from you, the consumer, on two fronts. BOBSA needs you to become a working member and “supporter, and it needs you to commit to redirecting your spending. In addition, if you are serious, you should locate every Black hair care products store in your area and ask the owners to support BOBSA by becoming members. From that effort a nationwide database can be developed and posted on BOBSA’s website, and no matter where you are in the country, you can find a Black owned store from which to purchase your products. Now these suggestions are not coming from an expert in the industry; there are folks who know much more about this than I. Call upon them and get their ideas; use them as consultants to help recapture a portion YOUR market. Do everything it takes to hold on to what is probably the last vestige of an industry developed and maintained by Black people. . It is, quite frankly, shameful, as I think of the great brothers and sisters I teach about in my Black Entrepreneurship class, The problem with Bush is that he uses all the right words ~ while, more often than not, doing the wrong thing. Let’s take the landmark University of Michigan affirmative action cases. On Jan. 15, 2003 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday — Bush announced his opposition to two Micitigan programs, one for undergraduates and one for the law school. g Again, there was the studied compassion: “I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education...” Then the real George W. came out: “At their core, the Michigan policies amount to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes perspective students based solely on their race.” A Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, . disagreed. The court upheld the University of Michigan’s law school program while striking down a more rfumbers-oriented undergraduate admission program. Even more disturbing than Bush’s duplicity is his y that we have allowed this to happen. Nothing against the Koreans for taking care of their business and beating us out of our own game, but are they really that much smarter than we are? Are they more capable of running this business than we are? Are they that much better at marketing to our people than. we? Oh, it’s about the money isn’t it? It always is. Do they have more money than we? Or, is it that they use their money collectively to help their group a lot more than we do? Now we're getting to meat of this issue, right? We can come up with all the excuses and reasons for being behind in a race that only Black people _ Tan in for years, but we cannot _ truthfully say that we are consciously disturbed enough, collective enough in our thinking, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to do what other groups do to build their wealth. Watch the video and you will see how it’s done, just in case you have forgotten. I end with this challenge. Make a commitment and then follow through on that commitment to purchase Black manufactured hair care products from Black owned outlets. Let’s write a happy ending to this tragicomedy. One more thought: Don’t envy the hair that Brandy wears; buy your own, from your own willingness to manipulate or or misstate the facts. In announcing his opposition to the Michigan programs, Bush said: “At the undergraduate level, Mricant!i- American students and some Hispanic students and Native °W American students receive 20 points out of a maximum of 150, not because of any academic achievement or life experience, but solely because they are African American, Hispanic or Native American. “To put this in perspective, a perfect SAT score is worth only 12 points in the Michigan system. Students who accumulate 100 points are generally admitted, so those 20 points awarded solely based on race are often the decisive factor.” To be blunt, Bush lied about the Michigan undergraduate point system. It was not restricted to people of color. Bush neglected to note that 20 points were awarded to any disadvantaged student, regardless of his or her color. He did not mention that 20. points were automatically awarded to all scholarship athletes. He ignored the a Dear Editor: Recently, I was asked why I did not attend the march protesting the resistance exerted toward the renaming of East (and the remaining portions of West) Fifth Street to Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Initially, I felt defensive, but, I quickly reitterated my support for the naming of some thorouhfare in Greenville in Dr. King’s honor. I further reminded the civic-minded gentleman of a proposal I floated with Mr. Bennie Rountree, Mayor Parrot and Mayor Pro-Tem Council, among other civic and community leaders. First of all, like most Greenville citizens, I resent the bickering between well-intended protesters on both sides. But, to coin a phrase, “I have a dream” about what I think would be a fitting tribute to Dr. King’s legacy in Greenville. Think for a moment about Dr. King’s work and its purpose to bring about an end to racial discrimination and to bring about peace in the world. Now, imagine enjoying a peaceful moment to oneself in a place dedicated to the harmonious co-existence of Americans and we, together, BEV SMITH aa Néi-Fri'7pm “woow JOY 1340AM provision that allows the university’s provost the discretion to give 20 points to any student. He also was disingenuous in discussing the SAT points. a perfect SAT score was rth only 12 points. And that’s because the University of Michigan gave greater weight to grades than standardized tests. A straight- A student, for example, was awarded 80 points, more than seven times the weight given for a perfect SAT or ACT score. Even C-students were awarded 40 points under this system. In discussing African- Americans, Bush likes to talk about the bigotry of low expectations. I am more concerned about the bigotry of people for whom we have high expectations. George E. Curry is editor-in- chief of the NNPA News Service and BlackPressUSA.com. To contact Curry or to book him for a speaking engagement, go to his Web site, “WWW. georgecurry.com. MORNING. LATIN MUSIC SUPPORT BLACK RADIO created a monument fitting of the slain civil rights leader. My dream, if you will, would come alive in the form of the “King Memorial Gardens” located on the banks of the Tar River. The Tar, symbolic in itself of King’s cry for Justice to roll down like a mighty stream; the Town Commons, which once was home to Greenville’s segregated black citizens, is where many Greenvillians currently go to enjoy nature, to relax, to introspect, to socialize and to read. This monument would be made of marble and encrypted with a message for all who love peace. In my dream, this will be a place that fosters peace, tranquility, introspection and most of all, it will promote love and respect for each other. I support the renaming efforts, but in my dream, I found peace. Come and share in it with me. Sincerely, Jeffrey E. Savage Pitt County Commissioner 1992-2000 We reserve the right to edit any news or information received according to our editorial needs. We will not edit any thing in such a Way as (0 be misleading or that would fundamentally alte) tits accuracy or intent of the orivinal information, The Minorin Voice b, OMMU Minority Voice August 1 - 18,2006 pg3 ITY NEWS Others as you want to be treated. Do the best you can. Anything worth doing is worth doing night.) Suejette A. Jones Christianity. and Money From the Apostle’s Paul’s warning that “love of money is a root of all kinds - of evil” to churches’ critical Let me know where you are, so I don’t worry. If you change your plans, let me know. Be careful when you drive. A moody. . Take care of your pet or don’t — have one. Use the phone responsibly and keep your calls a Reflections _ response to the spending excesses of American televangelists. Christians have tended to view money with a suspicious eye. There is a general feeling among experienced church people that the way churches have handled money needs some work. One professor of church administration says, “It is not simply a questions about raising money. The way churches have thought about money needs to be theologised. And at the same time it needs to be. subjected to greater responsibility and general accounting practices.” One particular church lost its building as payment for back taxes and penalties. The federal government charged the church with failing to. withhold income taxes of employees from 1987 to 1993, The church maintained the payments were gifts, not wages, and therefore not subject to taxes. A federal court sided with the ‘government, and the church now has no home. Such disputes could be avoided, if only churches would embrace a more businesslike mindset and apply basic money management strategies to their operations. Year after year, many churches fail to pay their property taxes when due and consequently have to be advertised year after year. Such is a classic example of poor money management strategies. One fallacy found. in churches is that they trust one person to handle the financial affairs. Churches need checks and balances so there is not one person who is in the position of being able to take money with no one else knowing. There should be a division of financial responsibililty among the minister, a treasurer, and deacons or other elected church leaders. Also, a fact sheet of collections and disbursements should be distributed periodically among the church members. It is the duty of the church to let the members know how their contributions are managed. Some clergy and churches do not see money and budgets and auditing as having any religious or spiritual content. And that is a bad theology. Whatever problems do exist, it’s likely that churches won’t deal with them effectively until they can learn to talk about money and let their members know where and how their money is being spent. And right now, even that appears to be | significant hurdle. There is a widespread reluctance on the part of the church leaders to talk about money. Money seems to be the last taboo. From: Religion News Service (Respectfully submitted by: Mother Suejette Jones) before you try to do anything. | Daniels Community Development Cener,Inc. Daniels Community Center is a faith - based 501(c)3 non- profit organization that has been incorporated since July 27, 2000. The program has embraced the vision and dream of providing a commu- nity program that would impact and change the lives of the children and parents that have long been the victims of poverty and despair. Their mission is to reach the unde- served children of ou commu- nity, redirect their paths,deter dropout and crime, and build character in the youth and their families. Implementation of this project has begun on a small “test pilot’ scale with limited personal funding. The pro- gram will be a full-time project that will work with youth that might have been suspended, expelled or at-risk with anger management problems and a hostile atti- tude. Project sustainability will depend on annual fundraisers and reimbursable services that the Center will provide in the future. All interested persons who would like to help in this effort call Ron Daniels @ 412- Be nice to your enemies. You car is a lethal weapon when _reasonable length. Keep your room clean and matches, even while bowling. _ have to learn to get along not used safely. Learn appropriate table orderly. 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The been used as a school since weatherboards walls with homes if the school term school plan was Floor Plan =—-:1947. _____ exposed rafter eaves. All but - was at least eight months. No. 2-C Today it is hard to imagine its _ one of the several large nine : | Currently, after a limited . (Two Teacher Community roots alive with the sounds of _ pane over nine pane sash NEEM Alexander investigation by this writer, _ School) from the Rosenwald an average of 126 pupils windows are missing. Pick Up YOUR ¥ the Gogtown School, Fund and is located on State ‘im its first year of operation. Most of the Rosenwald _ Copy OF THE Sci Coakley School and Mount Road 1526. An earlier school on this site schools were discontinued in| M’VOICE NEWSPAPER 7s Olive are the three known ‘There is no decoration at all. Wasinsuch poor condition the mid-1950s-with the AT Mo's surviving structures in Tongue-and-groove interiors in 1925 that it was valued at _ consolidation of the one- a Edgecombe County. and plain weathered $25. a teacher and two-teacher The Dogtown (Keech) boarded exterior walls are Accordingly, application was _ schools into county school is one of the most typical. After the last classes aa " at Rosenwald elementary schools. sia altered of Edgecombe were held in 1948, the und for » WhIC wanld @e ef on sales een County's g urviving J original windows were all together with about $500 Rosenwald Schools Pitt Co Bryan | Detowion waco, Rosenwald schools. It was replaced when the building from local black residents, c et MEN s | built in 1925 by D. H. was converted to a house. helped build this two-room —_[ayden 4 1919-1920 $10.00 TO $12.00 Harris & Son, the usual The owners also erected frame school. Bethel 6 1925-1926 SHAVE $5.00 contractor for such schools, numerous partitions inside, The two classrooms form a CherryLane 4 1918-1919 EYE BROW ARCH with funds coming from living there.until they builta .tectangular mass witha gable farmvitle 6 1922-1923 $5.00 | local African-Americans new house closer roof. A front hipped — Fitzgerald NECKLINE TAPER & EDGE citizens and the Julius to the road. The other _Toof pavilion overhangs one High (Ayden) 9 ‘1926-1927 $5.00 Rosenwald Fund. It surviving school is atypical entrance and encloses a Greenville 2 1919-1920 PS HAIRCUT $8.00 replaced the former . 1920s Rosenwald school that second. Surprisingly, , Harris 2 1923-1924 BOY'S HAIRC $8. Dogtown colored school. lies abandoned near Coakley, inside one of the pavilion’s — pactolus = 2-—S——1919-1920 BEAUTICIAN’S PRICING VARIES The school has a standard now used for hay storage. small front rooms aremany payls = 11920-1921 | ACCORDING TO HAIRSTYLE form with a side-gable roof The school was built in 1924 original school desks. _ PostOak 3 1923-1924 Gervis TWO LOGATIONS ToS uniting two large classrooms _ for colored children of the Typical plain exterior finish Khelmerdine 2 1921-1922 ~—r" wy es ae nae cast , a Simpson__4__1922-1923 » VOTH OY. BREENVILLE 9 9 ; r ; = 7 Te BARBER SHOP: (252! 754-2600 Here’s the church, here’s the steeple ... | sims tie cnet arena - e e 9 Sure Fs Wells Chapel marks building’s progress __ tase) 903-1017 By Paul Dunn 7 TF The Daily Reflector MO’s Barber Shop Wi . siseied Friday, July 28, 2006 Brian Mooring To It’s staff White on gray, a monochrome _ beginning toa new era. A pristine church steeple floating | against a leaden sky. Parishioners clapping, hugging, snapping pictures, joy and pride evident on their faces. ; Winston Martin ~ wmautorepair@ earthiink Wednesday morning a | construction crane hoisted the glistening steeple to its throne } atop the new Wells Chapel es Church of God in Christ. The | 22,000-square-foot church began taking shape in April ona tural lot at 1585 Allen Road W&M Auto Repair ee and should be ready for its first | Service by Jan. 1. Domestic & Foreign Car The sparkling new building will } teplace the congregation’s current facility at 1401 Martin _ Luther King Jr. Drive — home prinder ee to church members for the past | 43 years. , All Service Car Care 252-327-7802 “We're going to miss that (the | old church), but you have to move with time and the future, | and here is the future,” said the Rev. Austin Parker, Wells’ pastor for 12 years. “We’re oad growing, and we needed more facilities, off-street parking and an area for our young people.” Farrior & Sons Construction Superintendent Mike Folen orchestrated the coronation. It was his first, he said. The steeple came with manufacturer’s installation instructions. Folen followed them explicitly. a “It’s amazing that they can send you instructions on something like this (securing a steeple) and everything goes smoothly,” Folen said Wednesday, shortly after he’d guided the steeple into place. “When you’re doing something outside the realm of your expertise, you have to install according to the manufacturer’s recommendations.” Folen said the building’s specially built trusses could accommodate a steeple weighing up to 5,000 pounds should future church members decide they want a larger one. For now, though, they’re overjoyed with the one they have. The pastor, Superentendant A. B.Parker, (yellow hat) and st lady Caroline Parker along with some members of the hurch stop for a moment for this picture for the M’Voice ewspaper while touring the progress of their new church. National Night Out front page. .. . The hospital donated $1,500 West Greenville residents, “By the kids getting to know for food and gave free Janice Bryant, 39, and Kelley _the police in a good way, I screenings for people Alford, 27, said the event did a think it will help to motivate wanting to know their blood —_lot to allay community distrust |The towns of Winterville and sugar fevels. Sam’s Club of police. Ayden also held events. kicked in $1,000 for food and supplies. Minges Bottling Group provided refreshments. Target, the national sponsor of the event, provided gifts cards to those who attended. For those seeking jobs, recruiters for the police department and the military were on hand. 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Minority Voice August 1 - 18, 2006 pg6 By: Dr. Maulana Karenga Somewhere beyond the barbecuing, the beach and backyard parties, the fireworks, the proforma flag- flying and perfunctory parades, are the original meaning and motivating ideas of celebrating of the indepen- dence and creation of a country that would protect and promote the God-given inalienable rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” After all, the - Declaration of Independence advocated and promised it. . But even before the indepen- dence of the country, there were contradictions. For those seeking freedom for themselves were enslaving us; those proclaiming the right to life were enslaving us; those proclaiming the right to life were committing genocide against Native Americans; and those advocating equality rejected the priniciples and practice when applied to us, Native Americans and even their own women. They had not encountered the Latino and Asian yet, but the pattern of oppression had been put in place and would continue in various forms and fashions to this day. It is because of this continuing contradiction that African Americans and others similarly situated hve mixed feelings about the Fourth of July. It’s not that we don’t welcome, like others, another day to rest and recreate ourselves. Nor is it that we don’t want to concede to good life some of us live here because of the struggle of our people and others. It is, above all, because we — experience in our daily lives a continuing contradiction between the self- congratulatory claims of the country and its everyday practices, and because of a deep historical and ongoing sense that whatever independence was achieved in 1776, it didn’t include us. And so, even when we deny or don’t know it, we still stands with Frederick Douglass at Rochester, NY in 1852 as he gives his classic lecture, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro.” And with him, we are asking ourselves and the ruling race-class of this country, “what hve I or the people I represent have to do with your national Independ-ence? Are the great prinicples of political freedom and natural juices, embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am] therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude forthe. blessings resulting from your independence” Douglass’ questions are both real and rhetorical. For we know the anwers already, as he and they did. As he says, “ would to God, both for your sakes and ours that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions....But such is not the case.”Douglass lists several things that prevent him from seeing the Fourth as a day of celebration for him and his people. Among those are “a said sense of the disparity between us”; “the immeasurable distance between us”; the fact that “the blessings” and “the rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers, is HEALING THE RACIAL DIVIDE IN Renaming 5" Street for Dr. By Rev. Ozie Lee Hall, Jr. Last year Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s North Carolina State President Bennie Rountree set off a controversy by calling for the Black community to boycott the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Unity” Breakfast that is supported by the City of Greenville, East Carolina University, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, and the Pitt County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Rountree got fed up with what many considered the hypocrisy of the event and decided to revive the more than seventeen year struggle to name an entire street in the City of Greenville in honor of Dr. King. East Carolina University’s Chancellor Steve Ballard responded by appointing a MLK Street Naming Ad Hoc Committee. The Ad Hoc Committee hired a Consultant and conducted feel good forums to allow citizens to discuss _ feelings about naming an entire street and to receive suggestions from the community on how to resolve the issue. The Ad Hoc Committee was Co-Chaired by Dr. Don Endsley, an ECU Vice Chancellor and Greenville City Councilwoman, Hon. Rose H. Glover. The Ad Hoc Committee issued a report that identified three alternative resolutions, including (1) complete the renaming of all of 5 Street with signage denoting “Formerly Historic Fifth Street,” (2) rename 10th Street/Stantonsburg Road including the proposed 10" Street connector, or (3) name the proposed 264 Bypass. The Consultant. report noted that naming all of 5" Street to honor Dr. King was the “most discussed option by all forums” and.a, straw poll favored 5"... Street. It further noted the major opposition to the most popular alternative is “strong resistance of some White owners to having to say their address is Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.” Some community leaders say the effort to rename all of 5" Street should continue and that the other options of 10th Street and the future 264 Bypass are too remote to be seriously considered and present other insurmountable barriers. Some also point out that these other options have been proposed by Whites who have already vehemently opposed renaming East 5" Street. A preliminary survey by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Memorial Committee indicates that many people in the East 5" Street area support the name change but many fear to publicly support it because of fear of reprisals from Confederate Flag waving White Supremacist. Over seventeen years ago'the late Rev. Alonzo Mills and Mr. Rountree began a camp-aign to name a Greenville City street in honor of Dr. King. Several options were explored but there was opposition by Whites to renaming any street for a Black outside of the Black community. Ultimately West 5" Street from Memorial Drive to Washington Street was renamed in honor of Dr. King but Black leaders vowed to revisit the struggle in the future in more favorable times. It was believed that over _ time Whites who opposed the street renaming would have a change of heart as Dr. King’s message of love and brotherhood settled in to their hearts and minds. It was believed that over time even the most bigoted White racist would transform their thinking and would be proud to have a whole street honoring Dr. King. Over the past year a coal-ition of Blacks and Whites organized by Mr. Keith Cooper and Mr. Joshua Fisher under the banner of the MLK Completion Committee have worked to heal the racial divide in Greenville and have conducted two peaceful permitted marches down East 5“ Street to show a united front between the Black and White communities. During the second march held on July 29, 2006, a known White Supremacist was first observed along the marching route and : Lg i Active White Supremacy hate groups like the National Alliance, the Council of Conservative Citizens, the World Church of Christ, Neo- Nazi’s, Skinheads, and others have members that have already been convicted of hate crimes in other areas of the State and Nation. Rev. Hall says these oH 2 Ege Cee Seen gt ete bs a ae says this is terrorism against US. Citizens by White Supremacy hate groups who, generations later, still support a failed terrorist Confederate government. The Confederate Flag is a foreign flag of a terrorist rebel government who committed acts of terror against the United States. One of the ye ata then the racially mixed group of marchers was confronted by a group of White men who derided the marchers and shouted epithets as a Confederate Battle Flag hung from the balcony of 703 East 5 Street. One 21 year old White male and member of Pi Kappa Psi Fraternity acknowledged the Confederate Flag is a symbol of “Racism.” The Daily Reflector denou- need the use of intimidation by this group of Whites in an Editorial and some residents — denounced the acts of this group and noted their fears of becoming the victims of retaliation. Some community leaders have discussed filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. Department of Home-land Security to ask the federal government to protect White East 5" Street area residents who support changing the name of the street from reprisals by White Supremacist. One marcher said that “it is a sad day when Whites try an terrorize other Whites in our own neighbor-hood. We won’t be deterred by these bigots. This is like the civil war all over again.” Rev. Ozie Lee Hall, Jr., and Mr. Keith Cooper requested the Pitt County Board of Commissioners remove the Confederate Monument located at the Pitt County Court House earlier this year. They claimed it is a rally point for White Supremacy hate groups that are currently active in Greenville, is intimidating to Blacks, and offends Whites of conscious. The Confederate Monument contains the Official Seal of the Confederate States of American as if the Confederacy was still the active government in Pitt County. It bears the Latin ° inscription “Deo Vindice” which means “God will vindicate.” The Monument stands as a bce to White Ha and attempts to justify their ancestors fight to keep Blacks in slavery during the civil war, groups are a significant threat to progress in the City of _ Greenville and Pitt County and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and government officials should be concerned about their activities in this community. Rev. Hall says that White Supremacy groups connected to the Confederate Monument have been actively involved in the suppression of Black progress dating back several generations. Rev. Hall says the Greenville Parents Asso-ciation, a recent group of White parents, who oppose their children attending school in the Black comm-unity of West Greenville have. members whose ancestors are connected to the Monument. He says their Attorney, Charles McLawhorn, Jr., has family connections to the placement of Monument in 1914. Rev. Hall says there is still a strong element in Pitt County and the City of Greenville who are actively anti-Black. He says that “although past generations of racist are dying out many young Whites are following the foot steps of their parents and are being attracted to the Conservative teaching of WhiteSupremacy hate groups.” The recent intimidation and terror tactic by White Supremacist on July 29" on East 5" Street underscores the racial divide in Greenville, says Hall. The Greenville Police Department and East Carolina University have been requested to investigate the use of intimidation and terror tactics by White Supremacist in the East 5" Street areas. Rev. Hall says that many good people who live in that area support the renaming of East 5" Street in honor of Dr. King because they understand the man and the principles for which he stood and died. Hall says many of East 5" Street area residents fear‘ speaking out in support of the street name | ‘because they fear retaliation by White Supremacist. Rev. Hall conditions imposed by the Federal government after the civil war for North Carolina being readmitted into the Union was their pledge of loyalty to the United States of America. On July 29" when that group of White men displayed that Confederate Battle Flag it was like making a declaration of war against Blacks and all Whites who support Blacks citizenship rights. It sent a message of intimidation to Whites in the community who would dare support naming a street in the White community in honor of a Black man. The organizers of the Confederate Flag display at 703 East 5" Street had to have known that news media would be covering the march. Rev. Hall says the flag display was intended to call White Supremacist to action to oppose the street renaming. Hall says a prominent local White Supremacy leader was seen in the area just before the flag display. . Pitt County and the City of Greenville’s Black and White communities must rally together and say racist terrorism will not be tolerated in this community, says Rev. Hall. Our City and County have made substantial progress but has a long way to go. One thing it can do now is take a stand to close the racial divide. The renaming of all of 5" Street from the City limit to 10" Street and the relocation of the Confederate Monument will ' make an important statement to the world that racial intimidation will not be tolerated in Greenville or Pitt County. To understand the racial divide in Pitt County and the City of Greenville it is important to have a history lesson. 5" Street officially became a City street in 1774, nearly two years before the U.S. Constitution was signed in 1776, Many White residents in the areas ( Blacks being made U.S. Citizens at the founding of the Nation. Many East 5" Street area residents opposed the Missouri Compromise Act of 1820 that would have limited the expansion of slavery. Many White Churches split from their Northern Congregations in the 1850’s over the issue of slavery and taught doctrines to support slavery and White Supremacy. Many East.5* Street area residents supported the secession and the Civil War to "maintain slavery. Much of the local economy was built on the backs of Black slave laborers. Many family fortunes of property owners in the East 5 Street area and throughout Pitt County today trace back to wealth accumulated from slave labor and the oppression of Blacks, many of whose descendants now live in poverty. Many East 5" Street area residents opposed Recon- struction laws after the Civil War that gave freedoms to Blacks, including the right to vote. Blacks were oppressed and terrorized after the Civil War and in 1914 the Confed- erate Monument was erected at the Pitt County Court House at a time when Blacks were suppressed from voting. The Monument has served as a ratly point for organized White Supremacy groups since it was erected in 1914. Many East 5" Street area residents opposed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark school desegregation case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Many White citizens in Greenville resisted implementation of the decision through the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. In 1984 U.S. Senator Jesse Helms received 1947 votes from residents in the East 5" Street area in a race against Governor Jim Hunt for the U.S. Senate after Helms attempted to block the King National Holiday law that was proposed by Congressman John Conyers. Pools showed the Helms Opposition to the King National Holiday law improved his standing among White voters. Senator Helms argued that Dr. King was Communist inspired but Dr. King had long ago answered that question by saying that he was inspired by a man named “Jesus.” Dr. King won a Nobel Peace Prize for his ~ Work and the U.S, govern-ment created a National Holiday to honor the man. A National eal / Minority Voice August 1 - 18, 2006 pg7 GREENVILLE: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is under construction on the Capital Mall in Washington, D.C. Dr. King stands with George Washington, Thomas Jeff-erson, and Abraham Lincoln as one of the greatest men America has ever produced. ECU Geography Professor, Dr. Derek Alderman did a study of street renaming of streets named to honor Dr. King - around the nation. Dr. Alderman’s research showed no evidence that renaming a street to honor Dr. King results in a loss of property value or any other decline attributable to the street renaming. Dr. __ Alderman’s research dispels all _ the myths about the negative effects touted by White Supremacist they claim will result if a street in named in honor of Dr. King. The City of Greenville’s recently approved West Greenville Revitalization Plan, is already underway. The current section of West 5“ Street that is already renamed to honor Dr. King is already having dilapidated housing torn down to make way for new houses, streetscapes, and a major face lift. Fifth Street (5" Street) and Martin Luther King, . Jr. Drive is already a major thoroughfare. It contains entrances to Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the new ECU School of Nursing, it will be a major entrance to the new Cardiac Center. It contains the Pitt County Office Complex for Pitt County Government, Pitt County Schools, and Pitt County Social Services. The new Greenville City Hall, a major entrance to East Carolina University’s main campus, and - other significant landmarks exist along the street. Naming all of 5" Street in honor of Dr. King, from the City limit to 10" Street, will connect all the major institutions located in the City of Greenville and will connect a historically White and a historically Black community.~’ This is in essence Dr. King’s dream. In the 1980’s a controversial book came out called “The Bell Curve.” Many people were offended because the book claimed that Blacks IQ’s were lower than Whites, and Whites were lower than Asians. One thing the book did point out is that Blacks 1Q’s are just as high as Whites and all other groups . when they are not subjected to racism, exploitation, and economic oppression. The history of racism in Pitt County, the City of Green-ville, and the East 5" Street area is well documented and can be researched in the North Carolina Collection at the Joyner Library at East Carolina University. Many senior citizens, Black and White, have told me stories about the history of racism in Pitt County, says Rev. Hall. Rev. Hall says that “true healing will only take place after a frank and open discussion of the facts. We are not discussing this issue to create antagonism. We pray that healing will come about and we can rename all of 5" Street in honor of Dr. King with broad support from all the citizens of this community.” Rev, Hall says “the poverty, ignorance, and disease that plague the Black community is the result of years of oppression and lack of hope.” Rev. Hall says that “preachers have a responsi-bility to transform this community into a community of brotherhood.” He quotes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who, speaking to preachers, said “we have the ears of more people then anybody else in the community week after week. If we would commit ourselves,” A ITIPIWWATTr %Wrmar>wrrahnrn=. 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ID Start End Days Time Location 29656 8/14/06 9/1106 M-W 9am-12n GS109 Microsoft PowerPoint Fundamentals Hours: 18 Cost: $55 OE Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program that allows you to make on-screen presentations, overhead transparencies, as well as speaker notes and handouts for the audience. You can dress up your presentation witha professional look: add sound, music, special effects and automated slide shows. This class is excellent for anyone who makes presentations to audiences, such as teachers, sales people, managers, realtors, etc. Class will introduce creating a presentation, modifying a presentation, enhancing a presentation, and enhancing text, graphics and charts. You will also create hyperlinks, work with embedded and linked objects, and create slide shows. ID Start End Days Time Location 29662 8/21/06 9/13/06 M-W 6pm-9pm GS110 Microsoft Word Fundamentals Hours: 30 Cost: $60 OE Microsoft Word is an excellent program for all of your word processing needs. Learn how to create professional documents such as letters, memos, resumes, réports, as well as a host of other things. Learn to take advantage of helpful features like spelling and grammar check, cutting, copying, and pasting items, as well as creating professional looking formats for your work. This class is great for anyone in an administrative role, or for anyone who has to create letters, memos, and reports. Class will cover getting started with Word, editing and proofing docu, formatting a document, working with tables, formatting pages, adding graphics to documents, creating a web page using Word, using mail merge to create form letters and mailing lists. This class will also prepare individuals for the MOUS Word certification exam. ID Start End Days Time Location | 29658 8/14/06 9/18/06 M-W 9am-12n GS110 Web Design for You! Hours: 30 Cost: $60 OE This course will cover the basics of HTML to create your own web pages. This easy-to-learn language does not require previous programming experience. You will be introduced to inserting graphic images and setting up hyperlinks. You will gain an understanding of how to make your, pages accessible on the Internet and web page design is introduced. Learning and using FTP clients will be covered to fully implement your web pages to a remote server. ID Start End Days Time Location 29657 8/14/06 9/18/06 M-W 6pm-9pm GS109 Nursing Assistant: Nursing Assistant | Hours: 144 Cost:$87.25 OF Nursing Assistant I is a 144-hour course which prepares graduates to provide personal care and perform basic nursing skills. It includes classroom, lab, and clinical learning experiences. Students desiring to enroll in this class must meet admission requirements and have a HS diploma or GED. The ‘successful graduate will be certified through the Division of Facility Services in Raleigh, NC. A State Nursing Assistant I Test must be passed with 80% to become certified with the Division of Facility Services. Employment opportunities may include employment at Long-term Care Facilities, Home-Health Agencies, and occasionally at the Hospital level. *Pre-requisites are Required. ID Start End Days Time Location 27587 8/23/06 12/7/06 WTh 8:30a-12:30p GS115 27585 8/23/06 12/7/06 WTh 1:00p-5:00p GS115 27586 8/23/06 12/7/06 WTh 6:00p-10:00p GS115 Home Companion Aide Hours: 75 Cost: $66.25 OE Home Companion Aide is a 75-hour basic introductory course for individuals needing to prepare themselves to work with the elderly, disabled, handicapped or any incapacitated person that needs someone for family aide to assist them in general areas of nutrition, home management, and personal care. This course does not require that the student have a HS diploma or GED. This is not a certification course and involves no clinical rotation. ° ID Start End Days Time Location 27588 8/25/06 10/27/06 Fri | 8:00a-5:00p GS115 Small Business Center: Notary Public Hours: 6 Cost: $55 OE This course covers information necessary for persons wanting to apply for notary public commissions. Prior to being appointed, first-time appointees must successfully complete this course as one of the state requirements. A textbook is required and must be purchased at the PCC Bookstore prior to class, ID Start End Days Time Location 29346 8/24/06 8/2406 Th 9am-4pm GS 104 Small Business Bookkeeping Hours: 12 Cost: $55 SBC . Even if you have an accountant, it’s important to understand the basics » of bookkeeping. How do you set up your books properly? How should you prepare for your accountant? What's the difference between assets, liabilities, equity, and expenses? What do you need to know about debits and credits? This seminar will help the “non-accountant” business owner. ID Start End Days Time Location 29380 8/29/06 9/716 ‘TTH 6pm-9pm GS 104 From State Convention Close to Home At a recent press conference in Goldsboro, NC, The _ Minority Voice Newspaper caught up with the state president, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber. Dr. Barber had this to say: “We come here today to announce the gathering of the 63™ convention of the North Carolina NAACP State Conference of Branches during the 97" year of the NAACP’s storied history. This momentous event shall take place October 12-14 here in the city of Goldsboro, in the county of Wayne, on the site of the Goldsboro-Raleigh District Assembly. The gavel will sound at 10:00 a.m., and the convention will open to do the work of Civil Rights. _We are also coming on-the 70* anniversary of the Youth and College Division of the NAACP, when in 1936, the youth demanded their place and part right in the middle of segregation, to be engaged in the works of civil rights and justice. On Thursday, we will open with Religious Emphasis day and send a call our to NAACPERs and clergy throughout the state to converge gn Goldsboro, — __. Thursday night a public mass meeting and worship service will be open to everyone. All persons interested in the cause of justice are welcome and can either register as a delegate, member, or an observer. Our purpose at this convention is to continue to move forward, to. come and ae the work of strategy and planning around civil rights the Desk of: issues so that we can continually be there in the debates, at the grassroots in the process to.insure fairness and equality. © - We gather to teach and train so that we can take action, so that we can demand-action on the relevant Civil Rights issues of our time In the area of Public Education, we are convening to teach and train so that we can take and demand actions regarding: + Ensuring resource equity Challenge and change the - continuing legacy of re-segregation Increasing teacher quality Promoting parent and family engagement _ literacy initiatives On Friday, during the convention at 5:00pm, the entire convention will gather for an education action press conference, to draw attention to the sad legacy of re-segregation and inequality in education that allows us to foster systems that engage in what we believe is legalized child abuse and what Judge Manning calls educational genocide. This convention will make it clear that the North Carolina NAACP will never sound retreat when it comes to our children’s welfare and we will use every resource, every “coalition, and every method at our disposal to fight for equity and to close the achievement gaps. In the area of Economics, we ate convening to teach and ~ train so that we can take and demand action: - Ensuring economic reciprocity with business (we will present the national: report card on businesses) ._ discrimination-free employment and workers rights to organize through labor unions | Ensuring fair and equitable home ownership policies and practices Promoting community wealth building through savings and investment Promoting entrepreneurship In the area of Healthcare, we are convening to teach and train so that we can take and demand action: — Ensuring access to high-quality, affordable healthcare Reducing obesity disparities and related diseases — heart disease, hypertension Eliminating disparities in HIV/ AIDS Eliminate policies, practices and behaviors leading to disparities in contraction and treatment of HIV/ AIDS Reducing disparities in respiratory ' diseases Promoting the ‘development of good mental health practices and programs and practices that lead to disparities In the area of Housing, we are convening to teach and train so that we can take and demand action: ‘Providing and guaranteeing opportunity for fair, descent, and _ affordable Housing Buffalo Soldiers congregate in Greensboro by Melde Rutledge Carolina Peacemaker Originally posted 7/28/2006 Buffalo Soldiers from across the nation assembled in Greensboro from July 24-29 to take part in their 140th annual reunion in Greensboro-being held in North Carolina for the first time. From July 24-29, various events was scheduled during . the gathering, including a parade downtown, and a ceremony for the late Buffalo Soldier and Greensboro native, William McBryar. About 500 people took part in the reunion, headquartered at the Koury Convention Center. The origin of the Buffalo Soldiers dates back 240 years. In July 1866, U.S. Congress passed legislation launching two cavalry and four infantry regiments (later consolidated to two) whose enlistment was to be made up of African Americans. These new mounted regiments—the majority of whom served in all black units inthe Union Army during/the Civil War—were the 9th arid 10th Cavalries. They were later nicknamed “Buffalo Soldiers” by the Cheyenne and Comanche Native Americans. } According to the International Museum of the Horse, many Native Americans dubbed the 9th and 10th Cavalries as Buffalo Soldiers in respect for the troopers’ bravery and valor. We had each other’s.back,” said Henri LeGendre, who became a Buffalo Soldier in 1942. “Never let it be said that a Buffalo soldier ran away from a fight and left your comrade stranded.” Earnest Collier was stationed in the Philippines for 10 years as a Buffalo Soldier- following in the footsteps of his father. Collier recollected the crash course troopers received in learning how to ride a horse. "Four o’clock in the morning, they get you up and go to the stables,” he recalled. Albert Curley, who became a - Buffalo Soldier in 1940, also remembers the experience of mounting a horse for the firs time. "If the horse threw you, they made you get back on the horse again until you learned to ride it, “ he explained. Curley is also treasurer for the Ninth & Tenth Calvary Association and served in World War II, Kofean War and Vietnam War. | Until the early 1890s, the 9th and 10th Cavalries constituted 20 percent of all cavalry forces on the American frontier. The 9th and 10th Cavalries’ accomplishment in subduing Mexican revolutionaries, hostile Native Americans, outlaws, comancheros and rustlers was as invaluable as it was unrecognized. "First of all, you got to remember that white folks controlled the press,” LeGendre said about the recognition of Buffalo Soldiers. “White folks only like to publish what blacks do as crime. "Those of us who were educated, they didn’t put that on the front page,” he added. LeGendre left the military as a corporal and now resides in Charlotte. . Buffalo Soldiers campaigned over some of the most rugged and inhospitable country in North America. Some of the troops’ adversaries included Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Billy the Kid, and Pancho Villa. Less recognized, but just as significant, the Buffalo Soldiers explored and mapped immense regions of the southwest and strung hundreds of miles of telegraph lines. In the area of Criminal Justice, we are convening to teach and train so that we can take and demand action: Ensuring felony re- entry Promoting a moratorium of the death penalty In the area of Civic Engagement, we are convening to teach and train so that we can take and demand action: - Ensuring voter empowerment (we ‘will present our 2006 legislative report card) Ensuring voters’ constitutional rights are protected Monitoring redistricting and nsus | ce ~\ Promoting ballot — initiatives to address social justice issues We convene because the empirical data and public policy information says yes we have over the years advanced the cause of civil rights but we still have much work to do. Whenever the NAACP has stood up for justice it has always made America, North Carolina, and our communities better. We are convening to focus on the challenges of Civil Rights and-to breathe fresh vigor into the cause of justice for all people, especially minorities throughout North Carolina. Let it be clear the NAACP is not a social club, not a social service organization we are a multi racial civil rights organization with a clear mission and purpose.” Note: The NAACP State 63" Convention will be held October 12-14". It will be hosted by the Goldsboro Wayne County Branch. The Buffalo Soldiers consistently received some of the worst assignments the Army had to offer. They also faced fierce prejudice to both the colors of their Union uniforms and their skin by many of the citizens of the post-war frontier towns. "Fighting racial segregation was the big thing to me,” said LeGendre, who was stationed at Fort Clark, located in Texas. In June 1943, LeGendre left Fort Clark, on his way to Greensboro. He was going to take part in a U.S. Army- sponsored program at N.C. A&T State University. When his train stopped in Atlanta, LeGendre happened to drink from a “white’s only” water fountain. And I got locked up for six hours until my train left,” he said. Despite their hardships, the troopers of the 9th and 10th Cavalries developed into two of the most distinguished fighting units in the Army. "1 don’t call it prejudice,” said Albert Curley, who became a Buffalo Soldier in 1940. “I call it jealousy. _ "Whites were jealous of what the Negroes could do.” The 9th and 10th Cavalries disbanded in 1944. Minority Voice August 1 - 18,2006 pgil IMPORTANT Back to School Information ) 2006-2007 Open House Pitt County Schools will hold a system-wide open house on August 24. The first day of school for students is August 28. Open House Schedule: K-8 Schools 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 6-8 Schools 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 9-12 Schools 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. High School Freshman Orientation * Ayden-Grifton August 22 6:30 p.:m— 8:00 p.m. *D. H. Conley August 23. 5:00 p.m.— 7:00 p.m. “Farmville Central © August 24 3:00 p.m.— 5:00 pm. *J.H. Rose August 22, 9:00 a.m._— 1:30 p.m. *North Pitt August 21. 5:30 p.m— 7:30 p.m. “South Central August 22 6:00 p.m.— 8:00pm. For more information, please contact your child's school, REMINDERS August 17 -First Day for Staff August 28—First Day of School for Students It is important to register your child for kindergarten now, if you have not done so already! School Supply Lists The 2006-2007 School Supply lists are now available. You can access them by visiting our website at www.pitt.k12.nc.us. They are also on display at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Office Depot and Staples, IMPORTANT HOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL Beginning Dates Optional Mini-Football Camp August 16-17 Football August 21 Cheerleading August 22 Volleyball August 29 Any student interested in Football, Volleyball or Cheerleading must have all the necessary forms filled out and turned into the school by the first day of practice. Students participating in the OPTIONAL Mini-Football Camp must have their forms completed by the first day of camp on August 16, 2006. Please contact the school at 355-7071 to inquire about these forms, At least twenty Buffalo Soldiers have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, including McBryar. McBryar served with H. Troop, 10th Cavalry, from January 1887 to April 2, 1895. He received the Medal of Honor for his bravery against the Apaches in Arizona. McBryar’s ceremony was on July 26, across from the old post office on East Market Street. A marker will ultimately be placed on the site. This is the first ttme the city has officially recognized McBryar’s accomplishments. A parade took place on July 29 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 .m., beginning at Smith treet, down Greene Street and ending on Washington Street. 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