DEDICATED TO THE CONTRIB sc OCT 2007 Issue miotec¥s UTIONS OF __ AFRICAN AMERICANS mnorrty Vorcr File Photo Eva Clayton . OEE ETI PERE Se a ah AE TERE ate rad gl td et BIRTHDAY WisHEs To Pastor Corsetr Maye’s wit brings wisdom to book store’s clients By Brock Letchworth The Daily Reflector Friday, October 26, 2007 Lathan Tumer found comfort in talking with Beatrice Maye when he moved from Raleigh to Greenville seven years ago. As he roamed around town mingling with different people in the community, Tumer said it was Maye, a retired educator, who really sparked his interest. “Mrs. Maye has an attraction that is so unique,” said Tuer, who works in student affairs at East Carolina University. “She's very cosmopolitan. She can relate to almost any subject you want to sit down and have a conversation about.” Several other people with ' Stories similar to that of Tumer joined Maye at Barnes and Noble Booksellers on: NationalMarch for West Thursday night as she signed copies of her recently released book “The Wit and Wisdom of Beatrice Maye.” The book that Mrs. Maye is a positive person and that Mrs. Maye is an avid reader who hopes she can encourage others to read, ~ consists of a collection of editorials written by Maye for newspapers and magazines over the years, With topics ranging from religion to race relations, Maye, 91, sajd she hopes the book will provide a positive . ane for anyone who reads “Things have been so rich in my life,” said Maye, the first black teacher to work at an integrated school in Pitt County. “Anyone who reads __ whoreadsthis book will lean write andlivethe best if ” possi Dr. Earl Travathan,a local pediatrician and longtime friend of Maye, was the catalyst for the book. He took the idea to Don Edwards, owner of Greenville’s University Book Exchange, and within afew weeks the wheels were in ‘motion. Edwards cleared the idea with Maye and decided to underwrite the book. Virginia Torture Victim Nov. 3 by Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA from the Wilmington Journal Originally posted 10/25/2007 (NNPA) - oan oe “busloads” supporters demonstrators from across the nation to protest the absence Shabazz of the D.C.-based Black Lawyers for Justice says a national march and rally is planned for Charleston, W. Va. for Saturday, Nov 3, The primary organizets for the march are Black Lawyers for Justice (BLE) and the Support Committee for Megan Williams. This march will be endorsed by at least 100 Black ions, student groups, clergy, and other community leaders, ? Charleston was chosen because the state capital and federal courthouse are located there, Organizers said. So far, Logan County prosecutors have resisted adding either state or federal hate crime charges to the long litany of first-degree criminal offenses six white career criminals ~ three of whom are women — are charged with in their alleged adduction . A pair of University Book Exchange employees, Tony Parker and Charles Moore, took on the project. The duo . visited Maye’s home at least once a month for more than two years where they gathered clippings from scrapbooks. “The idea had been ing fora while before we finally said “Allright we can do this,” Moore said, » Parker and Moore each attended E.B. Aycock Middle School when Maye was a media coordinator there. Parker said the positivity of Maye’s writing is sure to make this book’s collection an inspiration. “Her letters are always so popular and so positive that we thought it would be good to bring it out in a collected form for the community,” Parker said. “They can see what a good, positive role model she is,” Maye spent nearly 40 years in op veer ae spent time doing radio and television work locally. In 1983, Maye was named one of the 25 most influential black women in “I feel she has been an inspiration and provided support for a lot of people, , Maye’s son, John Maye, said. “The Wit and Wisdom of Beatrice Maye” is the third book Maya has fad pblished Her other works are ° Rite ene Biographies of Black orth AnAnthology Gana profits from the saleofthe — current book will go to a charity of Maye’s choice. Pe Brock Letchworth can be’ contacted at bletchworth@coxnc.com and 329-9574. PEELZ aTMTAUaeIN noF F*noay euTToIRD ) . ay Demand 1898 race riot gc arate : \ y” " — | reparations, says , need for help can be traced By: — aerevely — NACE right back to the slave period; Talking Taxes AF P C es oe Barber and the New Hanover parcel hapa Slavery (like om e | County NAACP featured 1898) Which in many ways was uy ‘The NC General AssembI surviving descendants of 1898 Worse.” 4 mustenactpending legislation victims; a panel of experts, We need to make amends for ke - that compensates descendants including threemembersofthe that,” Dr. Franklinadded, ie of black victims from the 1898 __states’s 1898 WilmingtonRace Beyond on for the i. Wilmington race massacrefor RiotCommission, addressing the descendants, Dr. Franklin said Fe losses suffered historically by teasons why there should be reparations should be givenin es their families, and makes reparations andcompensation; ‘he formofsscholarships, [e reparations to Wilmington’s . andavideotapedaddress from _ffordable housing, and funding ee Americancommunity, noted historian Dr. John Hope. efforts to rebuild the black a or else the state should prepare Franklin, professor emeritus of aan histori. ‘ to be sued, declares the Duke University, discussing why symposia for , presidentofthe NCNAACP. he feelsjusticeis warranted for, n0tonly because for the frst e] That sentiment was sharedby the 1898 descendants, - lime 12 descendants were i hundreds of delegates and “‘Whatare we doing....asking brought together to tell how the 4 attendees during anational for apologies; offering apologies, Yagi, facisteventsofovera = wn aboveis.....Leftto right: PCt esident of 4 NAACP “Symposium onthe seeking apologies?” Dr. Franklin Centuty ago, stilleverberatein hse Ty Spahtiroawile Housing Authority Beverly Hines; 4 ~~. | 1898Wilmington Terrorist asked rhetorically. “Iwantusto their famulies today, but because Pastor James Corbett of Community Christian Church; Pitt County ROSE GLOVER FOR Attack,” held Oct. 12.as part stop and think about what this amajor commitment was being Commissioner Melvin McLawhom; President of Pitt 3 mei r rapier | of the64" Annual NC has done to aivast tiumber of College, Dr. Dennis Massey; Elizabeth Spruill of Pitt County ‘ CHTY COUNCIL NAACP State Convention at people who ate still crawling on _—rreparations pg8 Schools; PCC Job Link Director Emest Lee: Greenville City rf the Wilmington Hilton Riverside the ground trying to get up, Councilwoman RoseGlover: 4 Hotel, They er mie ~ (Staff Photo: Jim Rouse) S Rmormryty srarnrzan ON (ORS 4 gs . 2g “ He who would betray us’ | power of spit. In some ways it at WE byWILBERTA. TATUM. __ istragic, butnotreally. When : ota: _ the crooks ran the House of sev fenton c Publisher Emeritus and a Representatives they got things saved, God bless are Ne A Chairman of the Board done even if they had to beg, ce | | borrow or steal,or—to tell the pe pneta ian truhh—compromise te virginity seep aet : 3 : oe » They got Piapaiaicsce 3 , . should come with this | ith plier sdpvierg Butnow with wehave anew aeet ono ofthe Congres Teceatigene’ cundelCngenn eC SaTr relief from his addiction while uiteenoughcontroltoallow _SteP 10 while mising athesame time hoping and themtorape ahookerwithout "mao, oe that thenext ~ being charged with abusing a keep waiting fora _ Praying a jill House Page: a sexless pian to be cut, The Republicans come and be made available sar Feta ‘cing cran tohim. Thisisno matter World, having everything but the President ofthe United States, position in whatever istrue that commitee buy and That is why the magnificent community, be it diplomatic, Steal elections for the House of general who sits before us with hustler or hood, Representatives, Both the the four stars and all the medals Democrats and ever issued to anybody who has in _stole the House of experienced combat as a that Viagra be included “understands why he was chosen in the deal. The Democrats now asthe person to deliver the thighs sac. Message which was delivered to : apm wise pass ious, This the Engle ed tis nota town where | ittee had juri property through a stroke of racial politics wilgetBlacks, eee gan THeGSA - the pen. A slave code did the anywhere. Nonetheless, Blacks anadministative : Si alee Aiea ee cme Tk a unable to own pi ; ae ee ee | bli yee ! 3 pi lowe: an and a pa every. by ALTON, MADDOKIR. ; Insurance and Real Estate Tine bower doesiot om vists (FIRE) have a big say in all sanctify the originalcrime. Amsterdam News a peony acta | ‘New York City is billons - Originally posed 192007 ‘ ee. ae eels acme anchored the fourth leg. Cong. ive, neg frome ~~” monument and proposed Savage secured the gold. Ina uns si ~ museum constitute chump If the truth will set us free, we _Telayrace, the first andfourth — Time was of the ésence and » change. Blacks need lawyers -__ might be enslaved forever. A — ee Politicians had to pay attention ~ who already understandthe recent example is the myth _ (FIRE. This grouprunsNew natucoftheprolem and will now suounding the African _ York City. The African Burial pursuetheclaim, BurialGroundinlower Dating the secondlegofthe was of no Masha that was mead Pee usable ge _ toFIRE’s passion for greed. Blacks should séize control of 0199 * ans tor No mayor would step on the City Council and Gracie FIRE’s toes without committing Mansion in 2009 to secure political suicide, reparations, We cu " ‘shes constitute the largest voting | Ourrevered ancestors have to bloc in New York City. We be teary-eyed. They havenever have two years to develop a Greiner salogy and tctcs to achieve s brought: fo this obj eG ¢ _ NewAmsterdamin 1626, ey __ African females would be - While we are inthe driver's | brought here two years later. seat, we should erect a statute Whites were unconcemied of Carson in lower Manhattan. | teal rer il for Itis hypocritical for New York enslaved Africans, _ City toreap benefits from his ard labor while dé r- : Enslaved Africans p phased , mun Four months ago, the . ad to partici the land forthe Aftcan Burial New York City Council mise, even \ Ground. The Dutch permitted refused torename four blocks was our rev a enslaved Africans to own obec roa ancestors. They are our ~ Auigust9, 1992. property, They eared the honor, eet Shares) yy ‘money to purchase unwanted a. Ipicked up the baton and real estate by working after ‘Dutingthe vettnaeben Theearliestandmost vocal handed apetition to Cong. hours. During the seventeenth October 5, Sen. Charles advocate forstoppingthe ‘iemineten sean ese ft Abc Schumer tok an inadvertent Heispast president of funeral cee however, have the powerto a ~ Carson was amitintandmost - Resor ill Cosy.” | Chula ot Ki fori ; . to teach meanirigful Black history to public school students. Uhavenoidea why any Black send a child to the’ New York Public Schools, These 3 _ schools even fail Booker'T. ae mn’s test.Cong. Donald - 3 Payne contrasted New York with | the efforts in New Jersey to put — = truth in public schools. An effort is afoot in the “Garden State” to : BS Siem te. Sbeicaid et over the sixteen years - following the discovery of African“ bones in lower Manhattan. They ae revising history inplin view. If Sonny Carson’ name pops up - later, itwill only be as anex-con. The New York City Council. rendered its verdict on Carson four months ago. No Carson thoroughfare will be sited. "anywhere in New York City. This is evidence of minority rule, like in South Africa, in the 1960's. There were severil Black ~ Participants in the October 5, ceremonies, but they were all feigning atnnesia. None ofthem — wanted to irritate whites. They knew that militant Blacks aie | never to be honorably mentioned ; in the presence of whites. Dictionaries define: artis Black asa person who fights for his or her people. Whites, T. Yah bem te Nr Ca Baa Service by Gov. Mike Easley, Willoughby, 43, often Willoughby Mortuary. Inc., in Tarbor Ine. ,amember of the NC - Vietims C ‘Ganoslat:28 Thon God sald, “Lat us mak saites neni one Bass igh ——— = the"C tint anklin Ave. Oct.27- Alton Maddox will or CititandSranee | sing Court, | Suees, Ran 523, New York, - NY at9:30am, _ for “Letter to Sen, Barack Obama on the “Jena 6,” and “Democratic Party and the ~Jena6, ” “Strategies oar couldn’ tlive without it? I wonder what would if we treated our Bible like we treat ourcell phones, _ What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets? What if we turned back to go getitif we forgot it? | Whatife fipped throught : a several fimes aday? What if weuseditto received : messages from the text? Whatif we treated it like we Whatiwe gaveittokids asa | ‘What if we used it as we . traveled? Whatf wewseditincaeofan soba ‘whey BD? Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don’t ever have to worry about our Bible | : si einer: Ask the he Teenager _ know that has a cell phone. Popae! ta ala Mrs Beatrice Maye ati beaten Sin hitch icone yu "Your Child’s Friends As parents, we need to be completely aware of the friends : who have gravitated toward our: “children, and vice versa, and - children to peers who will be a. good influence uponthem.Do - a note misled, “Bad Company corrupts good character.” What are some characteristics } of the “Right” friends? — 1. Alove of God. Look activelyforother Christian childrento __,. Play with our children, 2.Godratin wiht 3. Kindiearted notmean ereranng ages 13 - 15, was asked ee qaeetine ‘Doyou gossip? Welde Guanine: a \ joneins eal lec iis ~~ yourlife, Inever made up stuff about other people, but I did repeat gossip told tome. T was ~ gossiped about many times, once, in the fifth grade, all my friends ditched me, heen idea why, but I heard them talking about me behind my back. Even though I soon made better friends, it hurt I'd take that pledge, It would ens Gossip is like food for me, . .the juicier the better, Tell aoa pci Ses Ci Tonly gossip when I'm bored. I wouldn't take a _ pledge not to gossip, because then I’d sleep in class. With all the wickedness in the World, we don't need to be hurting other people’s hearts . t OS Rts otk iene ont ed 8. Show alfecon, This does not mean sexual embraces; itdoes : include hugs and kisses appropriate for public _ Viewing, Aschildren routinely see great love ~ expressed between their parents, they are filled with confidence that the households is in good order, that all is well at Re ee ti i a i wes Det ee Dat aherkig, a Jon F Kennedy * Ly aS I nivactaeiitic ices 5. Robert Kennedy _ World. No one’s ever gotten ~. Outofit. The earth takes 6.Lyndon B, Johnson __, @Veryone —the kind, the cruel, , the sinners. Aside from that 7.Richard Nixon , 4 there's no faimess on earth. Remi ane Kokrage: o 9,BilClinion a ae 4 a 10 i inftebeaei Modern Americans — (The Ciiptcatea _ Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond) hes kr p fora Michael Lindeviewsthisbook serving senator in U.S. History. Intelling the story of their fellow fe South Carolinian, Bass and Thompson show the South __ helped to shape modem _ America by shaping Thurmond, © - Before Alabama’s George Wallace, no one symbolized resistance tocivilrightsfor Thurmond. In the Senate, the former Dixiecrat set filibuster record when speaking against the 1957 Civil Rights Act. Indeed, Thurmond broke alot of records; bythe timeofhis death, shortly after having retired from the Senate at he ageof100,hehad become serving senator in U.S. history, » Thurmond’s libido made his fe Complicated indeed, Acconting | to Bass and Thompson, Thurmond was romantically involved with SueLopue,the a first woman ever sent to the electric who played a role in a : ee: _ the 67-year-old widower maid his second wife, a22- % chairin South Carolina, year-old former Miss South Carolina. In his nineties,he — would impress visitors by doing push-up in his Senate _ Office, unknown to almost everyone; the symbol of ~~ daughter. Six months after his "impregnated by the 22-year ny old Thurmond a atine when | “tmiscegenation” was illegal under South Carolina law. According to Armstrong ae Williams, a black bah te les andthe lange 0 tg Thurmond patronized late in ~~ life, “When aman brings a childintothe world,he = _ Should take care of the child; which and “scons Walls Cho Be - Alice Mary Baldwin professor of History and formerDean of © #8 YOur church a happy peel alae Oe » doyou look forwar ee oe 4 | Franklin Roosevelt he a ey eco 2. Eleanor Roosevelt Bet cere .e . trust accounts for his children, Strom Jr., Paul and Julia, splitting up his real estate holdings in Aiken and Union Counties and other assets, Around the same time in 1998, 3 he stopped making payments 10° > a Essie. He set aside $30,000 death on June 26, 2003, a that she would receive overthe 78-year-old African - Rext three year as her legacy..”” American woman named Exactly one year after his Essie Mae Washington- funeral, the name “Essie Mae “ Williams helda press __ . was added to the list of conference in which she _Thurmond’s Children on the -Tevealed, “My father’s name - pedestal of the statue of was James Strom Thurmond on the grounds of the Thurmond”—a fact that grounds of the Columbia S.C. Thurmond’s family statehouse. confirmed, Her mother— Carrie Butler, then a 16- | : i ae R fully submitted -Suejette A. Jones Note: In the book “Dear Senator” written by his daughter Essie about her and her mother, Carrie and their relationshi With Strom. It was a life-long love affair in which Strom - Continued to see and support Carrie until she died at the Pe _- Young age of 38. Was i vil | Pictorial view of. 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Miller, who was _ known for being so industrious, it was said that he loaned : money to both blacks and Whites, which was rare then, Miller’s descendants wanted to know, “Where did his money and property go after 1897” _ One of the most prominent descendants was Dr. Levin | Manley, Jr., grandson of black publisher Alexander Manly, who was forced to flee for his life from the state after a racist white mob bumed his black newspaper, the Daily Record during the 1898 massacre. Dr. Manly said he and other _ descendants of those who were victimized then are entitled to due compensation from the state for which was lost, taken or destroyed. “As far as I am concemed, there is no statue of limitation on the need for compensate the ts (for) their loss in anly said during a visit to Wilmington earlier this yeat. “Stolen from Alex Manly was his most important possession ~ his dream. ..and are priceless,” As the 13-member 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission recounted in its: report to the NC General Assembly last year, the Democratic Party of North Carolina in the late 1890s conspired to do away witha coalition “Fusionist” party of G 4a Ki FOR CITY COUNCIL for today. for tomorrow, - Greenville, ran Wilmington City Government, and threatened to power. Blacks in part of North Carolina at that time were doing well not only in business, but inpolitics, — being elected to both local offices and the Legislature, : Black men were able to vote as part of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Wilmington, the state’s largest city then, was considered a shining example of black power, with numerous businesses and property owners, as well as elected officials in city government. Blacks outnumbered whites, and controlled what went on. “The overthrow or coup ad tat took place within the context of an ongoing statewide political campaign based on white _ Supremacy,” the commission’s report, six years in the making, said. “An armed overthrow of the legitimately elected municipal government,” _ Powerful elite white racists, including Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer at the time, plotted to overthrow Wilmi government, and take the port city back from Black hands. Other major white newspa across the state, including the Charlotte Observer and Wilmington Messenger and Moming Star, also fanned the flames of white insurrection and conspiracy against Blacks, On Nov. 10, 1989, after the elections, a white mob of “Red LET’S BUILD eae toate aan 2 ® Bg. eae Saat ey yee eas ie é E As a fourth generation Greenville resident, I am proud of our city and : to help shape its future, My goals for a greater Greenville include: . If you share my goals for Greenville, please share your vote during the upcoming election on ¥ 5 & " a T, | Oh oy \ sf i + www.fnitireli4Council.com THE MINORITY VOICE NEWSPAPER GREENVILLE NC27835 (252) 757- Afford Inez Campbell-Eason, a able Housing Rates Weey $175.0 + ax Daly $35.48 tax ® Spacious Fully Furnished Rooms | W private baths © Telephone; Cable with HBO ® All Utilities © Pree Parking © Indoor Pool 8 Mi Series 0425 email: mvoicenews@yahoo.com Shirts“ fanned out acrossthe decline as some businesses Wake District Attomey for . city with weapons, murdering Closed or moved from the city’s possible indictments, descendant of black untold numbers of black i district to traditionally NC NAACPPres, Rev. William businessman Isham Quick Sr,, Citizens, forcing other to flee for black neighborhoods,” Ever Barber says the General talked about the tremendous their lives, never to return to since then, black economic and bly must revisit those research she employed to find their homes and businesses. . Political power, along with the 1898 bills next session, orelse out more about her great, great “Unknown numbers of blacks New Hanover County, has. face litigation. Rep. Thomas grandfather and the assets he were killed in the conspiracy steadily eroded. “(The white Wright, who co-chaired the left behind. The fact that the _ designed toend black political © mob was) goaded into ariot by — 1898 Commission after the man massacre of 1898 took Quick s power and the progressive the atmosphere that was who originally conceived it, Sen. legacy from her family, she said, governmentin Wilmington and created. ...artificially by the . Luther Jordan, passed, related isdeeply hurtful. establish white supremacy anda white leadership of the state,” how angry his fellow lawmakers Mary Alice Thatch, editor of control byanew government,” said Dr. Franklin via videotaped — were at him for introducing the The Wilmington Journal and asummary ofthecommission atthe NAACP symposium, legislation. For instance great granddaughter of Henry report says. “.. ... Blacks lost adding that white ists, Wright’s House Bill 1558, the Clay McNeill, whoev Positionsin govemment,in _jealousof the achievementsand 1898 Wilmington Riot - left the city, said the impact of professional arenas and as enterprise of “black manhood” Reconciliation Act of 2007 1898 on the black community in skilled artisans, Black in Wilmington, couldn’t let it effectively says if the General and beyond the port city has businesses and workers continue, Asse a been devastating and long suffered economic decline...” “(The 1898 Wilmington terrorist acknowledges the unjust impact _ lasting. McNeill sson, William, The report ads, “Organizers of attack) providedamodeland on the African American was forced to leave the city : the coup instituted a banishment framework for white ~ community not only in “within 24 hours ‘ campaign, targeting political . across the nation,” Carolyn Wi but through ‘As thing about it now, it opponents, black and white, Coleman, national NAACP North Carolina, then it is brings tears to my eyes, "Ms, leading to the expulsion from the Board member, saidin compelled to make amends, Thatch, daughter of Wilmington City of over twenty targeted prepared remarks. Based on essed the findings of — Journal founder, the late . individuals andamassexodus “What wedo here today, and the Wilmington Race Riot Thomas Jervay Sr., said. “I of over 2,100 others, what we doin Wilmington after Commission, the purposesof think about what happened on ently, the Republican we leave from here, willshow _this act, with respecttovictims that night, andI visualize how power base in Wilmington was __ the nation Whether weare of the November 10,1898, my greatuncle answered that ° destroyed.” “One result of the serious in dealing with our past, Wilmington coup d’etat, are to door....I'Itbe honest with you, Wilmington diaspora (the and making our present and provide a special statue of _ _ itmakesme angry.” ‘The departure of African Americans future better.” : limitations, of two years fromits impact of 1898 has also been from the Port City, voluntaryor The 1898 Commission made 15 enactment, that will allow the devastating to black otherwise) was a decline in recommendations to the estates of persons injured, newspapers like The Journal, economic opportunity for Black — General Assembly on how best killed, or that otherwise suffered Ms. Thatch added, which are citizens,” the commission’s to repair the damage from ___ Personal or property losses still struggling to stay alive report notes. ‘Analysis of 1898, including setting up an resulting fromthe November + — because adversaries have Statistical data indicates that authority to promote small black 10, 1898, Wilmington co leamed to target the advertising Wilmington’s black businesses business growth in the area; d'etat, to file legal claims,” in lieu of tepid community and workers suffered losses making sure the story of the That murrorsthe Support, instead of burning after 1898 in terms of job 1898 massacre isincludedin _ . remarks made by the 1898 down the building. There were status, income, andaccessto North Carolina public school Commission leadership when other family descendants there ital.” history curriculums; and their report was issued a year as well. All expressed pain ioe comand prone beter, a Sk tea sil fthe state | oayiachap bier | businesses sufferedeconomic inthe current counties Bu OF thy | d | | covered by the 1965 Voting actually being held liable for 1898 to African Americans, and Rights Act, : injustices over acentury old Specifically to their ancestors, Rep. Thomas Wright (D-New Clearly frightened man and what was taken from their Hanover) filed atleastadozen lawmakers. Rep. Dan Blue families and never returned. | bills last session based on the _ (D-Wake), the chair of the Many of them said despite the commission’s ions, House Judiciary Il Committee, civil rights advances for black | but only one of them ever reportedly confirmed to people since 1898, they feel — reached the floor of both colleagues that language that they yoke of racial j ‘Vv an houses, and was ratified, - Contained in the pending 3 Oppression is still present in watered down in the state field to lawsuits bythe... to stand up and demand justice Senate, the measure, which was psp she eda for their ancestors and their signed into law, expressed killed, “ injured or forced to by “profound regret” forthe 1898 leave town,” accordingtoone “We want to do more than say riot instigated by “political. published report. 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