TRAVIS MANGUM, THE NAACP and Precious-A family connection?

[TexKat]

Hey maggief, thanks. This has been a long drawn out ordeal. But thank God light is streaming through this tunnel now.

We need to ship Nifong over to the Sunni area of Iraq and see how long he will last.

Have you guys made any connections yet with Crystal Gail Mangum and Elmira Mangum?

[maggief]

No connection yet ...

SCHOLARS
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
September 8, 1998


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Elmira Mangum-Daniel of Durham has received the 1998 Delbert Mullens Award for ``Thinking Outside the Box.''

The Hillside High School graduate recently earned her doctorate in educational leadership and policy from State University of New York at Buffalo. She also holds an undergraduate degree in geography and education from N.C. Central University where she graduated magna cum laud.

She is married to Dr. Gregory Daniel, and they have three children. She is the daughter of Alice Blanche Vanhook Mangum and the late Ernest Mangum.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/daniels1.htm
The Rise and Demise
of Ben Chavis at the NAACP
Ron Daniels



The news that Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis had been selected as the new Executive Director of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization, was greeted with great expectancy by many within the National African American community and the progressive movement. There were great expectations for Ben Chavis as head of the NAACP because he came to the position with a long history as a progressive activist. This mood of expectancy was re-enforced when Chavis selected as his top aides Don Rojas, former Director of Communications for the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada under Maurice Bishop and Lewis Myers Jr., a progressive activist and attorney and former legal adviser to Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and Minister Louis Farrakhan. ...........................

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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0036,noel,17936,1.html

The Shame of Mosque No. 7
With a Sex-Harassment Suit Hanging Over His Head, Some Are Wondering Whether Nation of Islam Minister Benjamin Muhammad Is Fit to Lead the Million Family March
by Peter Noel
September 6 - 12, 2000

Louis Farrakhan's disarming grin belied the embarrassment he felt being in New York City on the morning of July 6. Looking thinner after a year of battling prostate cancer, but still dashing in a royal blue suit, the Nation of Islam leader had stopped Uptown to promote next month's Million Family March in Washington, D.C. Although Farrakhan had planned several weeks earlier to make sweeping changes within the hierarchy of his black Muslim movement, he remained tight-lipped about an impending shuffle in the top echelons at Harlem's historic Mosque No. 7. Once the envy of leading mosques in the NOI, "the house that Malcolm X built" before his assassination in 1965 has been plagued by a series of political, financial, and sex scandals in recent years. ...........
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Chavis is in the hip-hop world these days.

[maggief]

More on Chavis/Willimas ...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0040,noel,18692,1.html

=:-o

[gopheraj]

mark

[maggief]

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9781400083114&z=y

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
by Timothy B. Tyson

EXCERPT

Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets, led by 22-year-old Ben Chavis, a future president of the NAACP. As mass protests crowded the town square, a cluster of returning Vietnam veterans organized what one termed "a military operation." While lawyers battled in the courthouse that summer in a drama that one termed "a Perry Mason kind of thing," the Ku Klux Klan raged in the shadows and black veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses.

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Author joins Duke faculty
Tyson's book 'Blood Done Sign My Name' is UNC reading assignment
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
July 3, 2005
Author: PAUL BONNER

EXCERPT
(no link)

The author of UNC's freshman reading assignment, "Blood Done Sign My Name," joins Duke University's faculty this month.
Timothy Tyson, who remains a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will be a visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern culture at the Duke Divinity School. He also will be a senior scholar of documentary studies at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.

Tyson will be teaching two courses and taking part in the Divinity School's new Center for Reconciliation, which will focus on issues of race in North Carolina, Mississippi and South Africa, he said.

"Blood Done Sign My Name," Tyson's account of the 1970 racially charged killing of a black man in Oxford, will keep him busy, as well, with several discussions and speeches on the Chapel Hill campus scheduled for late August, Tyson said Monday. As a 10-year-old living in Oxford at the time, Tyson was a witness to the aftermath of the slaying.


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[ladyjane]

We should also remember Malcolm X's point, which says, "If black people can't get justice in the courts, we have to demand justice in the streets."

Nice.

[maggief]

This just in ...

http://wral.com/news/local/story/1183786/

Defense Attorneys Meet With New Prosecutors in Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke Lacrosse

Posted: 22 minutes ago
Updated: 12 minutes ago
Durham — A scheduled hearing for the Duke lacrosse case has been postponed as defense attorneys met with the new prosecutors assigned to the case on Tuesday.

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[maggief]

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/537768.html

The hearing set for Feb. 5 in the Duke lacrosse case has been postponed while new prosecutors get up to speed on the case.

This morning, lawyers for three former lacrosse players met with the two prosecutors assigned to the case by the attorney general's office for about two hours.

When the meeting was over, the defense lawyers came out and said the hearing, which was to be an important test of the prosecutions case, will be postponed.

Joseph B. Cheshire V, who represents one of the players, said the prosecutors had a tremendous amount of information to review and said he was pleased with the meeting.

"We are excited to have professional prosecutors who are willing to sit down and engage us in conversation," Cheshire said. "We are excited that we are now engaged in a professional process."

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[Sue Perkick]

This thing has reached a point of absurdity that can't even be put into words.

[xoxoxox]

Duke LAX Hearing Delayed -- May 7th -- ?
WTVD Eyewitness News

(01/30/07 -- DURHAM) - Eyewitness News has just learned a major court hearing in the Duke Lacrosse case has been delayed.
Special prosecutors who have taken the case from Durham DA Mike Nifong say they need more time to go over the boxes of evidence.

The hearing will now be held on May 7th.

At that time we should learn whether the case will move forward or be dropped.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=4985186

[JLS]

Well that gives them more time to consider before dropping the charges. So will they go a month? Will they drop these charges this week or next?

[ladyjane]

Joseph B. Cheshire V, ... said he was pleased with the meeting.

Good.

[ladyjane]

I just can't imagine what it is costing the families.

[Sue Perkick]

More than money, that's for sure. They ought to be reimbursed for what their financial loss has been. But the emotional cost can never be replaced.

[Jezebelle]

Okay. :>

[maggief]

Well that gives them more time to consider before dropping the charges. So will they go a month? Will they drop these charges this week or next?

About five minutes after they conclude their meeting with Precious. ;o)

[maggief]

How times change?

(no link)

Death penalty nixed for suspect in March slaying
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
August 21, 1996
Author: JOHN STEVENSON The Herald-Sun

EXCERPT


In another Durham murder case, Hudson said this week that Public Defender Bob Brown will have to find better arguments if he wants to have gunshot residue tests done on the hands of the victim, 62-year-old Annie Williams.

The woman was fatally shot on Feb. 11 in the living room of her house at 307 W. Corporation St. A bullet pierced her right shoulder and passed into her chest, an autopsy showed.

The victim's husband, Albert Lee White, 60, of the same address on Corporation Street, is accused of killing her.

Brown argued this week that further testing for gunshot residue might support White's version of events.

In one of three accounts he gave to investigators, White said his wife committed suicide by shooting herself. In another, he said the fatal gunshot was fired while the couple struggled over the weapon.

Tests conducted at the state's request already have shown gunshot residue on White's hand. Also, tests showed such residue was not present in ``significant'' amounts on Williams' hands.

However, state testing did not ``eliminate the possibility'' Williams' could have fired the gun herself.

Brown argued that the defense, at state expense, should be allowed to conduct independent testing of its own.

But the judge said this may not be done unless Brown demonstrates a ``reasonable probability'' that such tests might yield useful results.

Nifong argued that independent testing, for which a high-technology microscope would be needed, would take a number of hours and cost $75 to $100 an hour.

``The state opposes writing a blank check for this sort of thing,'' said the prosecutor.

[kalee]

I think it should be pointed out Tim Tyson is white. His father was the minister at Oxford United Methodist Church, the white Methodist church, at the time the events in the book took place. Tim Tyson was 10 at that time.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Thank you. See the interview below. I wondered if he was black or white.

http://altweeklies.com/gyrobase/AltWeeklies/Story?oid=oid%3A138897

A 1970 Race Murder in North Carolina is Recalled
By Ellen Meany (Freelancer)

‘Let the truth that I’ve told speak for me’

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.....The book is Blood Done Sign My Name, a memoir of a 1970 race murder and the subsequent violence that rocked the small tobacco town of Oxford, N.C., where Tyson and his family lived. Tyson was just 10 at the time, and a hearsay witness to the crime, when his playmate, Gerald Teel, told him what Teel’s father and brothers had done the night before. It’s the book’s haunting first line: “Daddy and Roger and ’em shot ’em a nigger.”............

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...............Robert Teel and his 18-year-old son, Larry, were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury, despite testimony by two black eyewitnesses. Roger Oakley, Teel’s 21-year-old stepson, actually confessed to shooting the gun but was never indicted.

Henry “Dickie” Marrow, a 23-year-old U.S. Army veteran whose wife was pregnant with their third daughter, had been beaten down and shot to death in the street by these three men, for allegedly making a remark to Larry Teel’s wife. In an Army photograph of young Marrow in fatigues, he looks small, like a child.

“He weighed 140 pounds when they killed him,” Tyson sputters with disgust. “Hell, my leg weighs 140.”

Tyson watched as this murder in Oxford brought the Black Power movement to town. There were marches, boycotts and riots. Two huge tobacco warehouses were burned to the ground, setting the night skies aglow for miles around, and causing millions of dollars in damage.

Just a kid, Tyson struggled to comprehend what was happening. Eventually, he “acquired the tools to investigate and understand.” Twelve years after the crime, with an ice pick in his pocket for protection, Tyson walked into Robert Teel’s barbershop to ask him why he and his sons had killed Henry Marrow..............

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....But Blood Done Sign My Name isn’t just about the murder; it’s about Tyson’s upbringing amid racial turmoil. Central to the story is Tyson’s father, Vernon, a liberal Methodist minister, whose attempts to reach across the color divide in Oxford before and after the murder eventually got him run out of town.

Toward the end of 1970, the Tysons packed up and headed for a new home in Wilmington, N.C., “where statues of Confederate generals loomed on the street corners” along the banks of Cape Fear. There, Vernon Tyson learned about an 1898 race massacre, yet another chasm in American race history, one so deep that his son says, “its omission from North Carolina history may have been the biggest of the lies that marked my boyhood.”

Historical omission is the heart of the matter. Race massacres and murders still stain the fabric of America. Blood is a bright light on our dark past. Like the verse in the old gospel song, it declares, “Let the truth that I’ve told speak for me.”...

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The interview is an interesting read.