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The Augusta News-Review September 29,1984
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BOYCOTT VICTORY NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks announced to
a cheering rally that the NAACP’s two-month boycott against Food Lion, Inc., had ended
with the signing of an agreement.
Food Lion, NA A CP sign pact
CHARLOTTE, NC Benjamin
L. Hooks, NAACP executive direc
tor, today announced to a cheering
rally that the Association had finally
concluded, after hard-fought
negotiations, a fair share agreement
with Food Lion, Inc., thus ending a
two-month boycott against the chain.
This victory, he siad, demonstrates
that the NAACP “means business”
in these agreements. ‘‘The
Association will continue to seek
agreements with other companies
and will let no obstacles stand in the
way as we seek better job oppor
tunities and other exonomic benefits
for Blacks.”
At the same time, Mr. Hooks said,
“we congratulate Food Lion for
showing a corporate sense of social
responsibility.”
Mr. Hooks announced the signing
of the agreement to a cheering rally
of national N AACP board members,
South African protest tour
to come to Augusta
Exiled Black South Africans,
concerned clergy and southern
Africa specialists begin a 26-city
southeastern tour of the United
States Oct. sth, to alert citizens to
oppression under the white-ruled
government of South Africa,
dangers of the U.S. “constructsive
engagement” foreign policy there,
and the need for corporate with
drawal from the Republic. They
will be in Augusta, Oct. 7.
The 14-person multi-racial
delegation will visit campuses,
churches and community meetings
in nine states from North Carolina
to Florida and west to Louisiana
and Arkansas. Other states to be
visited during the 9-day tour in
clude Tennessee, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina.
‘‘Many Americans have vir
tually no knowledge of what is
happening in the Republic of
South Africa, and what it is doing
to de-stabilize countries on its bor
ders,” declared Jerry Herman,
tour coordinator, of the American
Friends Service Committee. He
heads the Southern Africa
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NAACP state presidents and branch
president from North and South
Carolina, Virginia and Georgia
states where most of Food Lion’s 241
stores are located.
NAACP board members had
come to Charlotte to walk picket
lines before Food Lion’s stores in the
city in addition to its supermarket in
nearby Salisbury, where the company
has its headquarters.
It is particularly significant that we
come to Charlotte, the home of Kelly
M. Alexander S r, chairman of the
NAACP national board of directors
and president of the North Carolina
State Conferences of Branches,” Mr.
Hooks siad. “He is a man who has
waged an incessant struggle for racial
equality in North Carolina, and in
deed, the nation.” Mr. Hooks noted
that Charlotte is also the home of
Alexander’s son, also a memberof
program of the Quaker
organization from its Philadelphia,
headquarters.
“The U.S. foreign policy of
‘construcstive engagement’ with
South Africa does hardly a thing to
chage that government’s devasting
programs and laws against South
African Blacks, Coloreds and In
dians, who make jup 84 percent of
the population.”
Herman said another focus will
be current disturbances in South
Africa, because of its new con
stitution and because of increased
rents. The constitution gives
limited votes to Coloreds and In
dians, but continues to deny the
vote to Blacks - 72 percent of the
population.
“We are using films, slides and
other educational resources to help
bring the facts of true conditions ir
South Africa to people throughou
the southeastern and south centra
United States,” Herman added.
The AFSC, a Quake
organization founded in 1917
sees human life as sacred, eacl
person in the world as a thild o
God.
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the national board, and chairman of
the NAACP’s economic develop
ment committee.
The scheduled picketing was
meant to underscore the NAACP’s
thrust to gain more jobs and
economic opportunities for Blacks
with Food Lion.
The NAACP has now signed seven
agreements with supermarket chains
and another 15 with other com
panies, including public utilities, since
Mr. Hooks launched Operation Fair
Share in 1981.
The NAACP’s Fair Share
program seeks benefits for Blacks in
four basic areas: increased hiring,
promotions and managerial-level
positions, contracts and business in
vestments in minority-owned firms
and more minorities on corporate
boards of directors.
Mr. Hooks said the NAACP ex
pects to monitor the agreement
through its Fair Share Departmen
tand state conference structure.
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544 reasons
to vote
port the NAACP in its boycott of
Food Lion in the private sector
because they ought to reinvest in the
Black community.”
He also said that SCLC was ready
to call for a Black boycott of Winn
Dixie, a chain of 1,300 supermarkets
in the South, which has less than 90
Blacks in management.
Lowery also called for moving
Election Day to Sunday from
Tuesday. He said the move will give
working people a better opportunity
to vote.
“Can’t you see the greatest mar
ches in history on Sunday morning
when the preacher pronounces the
benediction he says ‘let us pray, now
let us vote.’ Marching from the aisles
of the church to the voting booth will
be what Martin (Luther King Jr.)
said would be the most sacred walk
we could take.
“We need to preach the hell out of
‘em at 11 o’clock and then march the
hell out of ‘em at one o’clock to the
voting booth,” Lowery said.
Recalling the booing of Andrew
Young and Mrs. Coretta Scott-King
at the Democratic National Conven
tion, Lowery said Blacks must not let
political disagreement and disappoin
tment at Jackson’s failure to win the
nomination divide the Black com
munity.
Lowery said Blacks must be
mature enough to disagree without
being disrespectful to each other.
Blacks will always differ on strategy
and methodology, but the group’s
principles remain constant —to move
on to slidarity, he said.
“What a great tragedy it would be
if history were to write on the pages
of time that the Jackson campaign
became the instrument of division
and disengagement within the Black
community,” Lowery thundered.
“We must not allow that to hap
pen.”
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