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Exhibit traces pre-W WASHINGTON (AP) Marjorie Stewart Joyner at 91 remembers how it felt to be black in the South: the humiliation of being barred from white-only restaurants the terror of traveling all night through Texas in a railroad baggage car she shared with a coffin "There's not an ounce of hatred or animosity in my heart" says Mrs Joyner who was a special guest at the preview last week of a poignant new exhibition at the National Museum of American History that mirrors her life The show representing a through of sorts for the Smithsonian Institution documents the mass exodus of blacks from the cotton fields of the South before World War II in search of a better life in the industrial cities of the North Mrs Joyner left rural Virginia when she was a young girl lived in Dayton Ohio for a while and settled in Chicago where she became a business executive entertainer educator and civic religious and political leader Among the exhibition's nearly 400 artifacts photographs and displays is a reconstruction of Mrs Joyner's renowned State Street beauty salon Other displays trace journeys similar to hers from the rural sharecrop' per's shack to the grimy northbound train coach to the front stoop of an urban tenement house The show titled "Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940" opened Feb 5 for a yearlong engagement It is the creation of Spencer Crew 38 a Smithsonian historian whose own grandfather Rufus Crew took his family on a tortuous odyssey that began in South Carolina and ended in Cleveland in 1927 It wasn't until the show's curator interviewed his aunt while gathering material for the exhibition that he saw a photograph of his grandfather for the first time along with a snapshot of his father as a child "That experience helped give me a sense of continuity a better sense of myself and the other people in my family's story" Crew said The exhibition he said "indicates a new direction on the part of the Smithsonian a broadening of interest in the people who are part of America's history not just the famous and powerful figures but the diversity of ordinary people blacks women Hispanics native Americans who make up this country and its past" The Smithsonian says the show marks the first time that "an Mad your order or call toll tree 24 hours a day in-depth Smithsonian exhibition has focused on such an important part of America's overall social and demographic history from an Afro-American perspective" Parked outside the entrance is a 709 7079 Annual Percentage Rate Annual Yield Variety of interest payment options available Rate applies to deposits of at least $1000 13 This bonus rate also available for 60 Month IRA (minimum deposit of $250) Interest compounded daily Substantial interest penalty required for early withdrawal Each depositor insured up to 8100000 by the FDIC Rates subject to change without notice Call your CCEI banker fur more information Central Carolina Bank Your Financial Advantage SAVE15 ENTIRE STOCK OF WISE BUYSTM PANTIES IVEY'S BUY LINE PO Box 34799 Char lotre NC 28234 NC 1-800-432-7740 Owside C1-800-438-4013 Charlotte NC 333-5133 Member FDIC Save 2 5 on our entire stock of Maidenform Wise Buys panties All styles All colors All sizes An attractive everyday value that's now even more enticing! Available in 1001)0 cotton or satin nylon tricot Wise Buys feature smooth and pretty stretch lace trim for firm support complete with cotton-lined crotch Choose from the following styles and sizes Ivey's Foundations and Daywear: all stores 100 cotton with lace trim Beg 3 for 1050 sale 3 for 787 Styles include Bikini and Hipster in sizes 4-7 Brief and Hi-Leg Brief in sizes 5-8 Satin nylon tricot Beg 3 for sale 3 for 675 Styles include Bikini sizes 47 Brief sizes 4-8 and Hi-Leg Brief sizes 5-8 e--h-- 114 7 4-ir or -5 i A-- -4- 14v 4- zi-1z 1144- ial ey ss- lz- 4i iii 034 11 ivz''' 4-" 1 4" 5'171 14 a qi''' The Associated Press Marjorie Stewart Joyner 91 in front of Smithsonian exhibit's reproduction of her State Street beauty salon symbol of the "field to factory" saga a shiny black 1935 Chevrolet sedan with Georgia license plates battered luggage strapped to the roof and road maps for New Jersey and New York stuck in the black exodus northwar dashboard Langston Hughes' defiant poem "One-Way Ticket" is displayed nearby: "I am fed up "With Jim Crow laws "People who are cruel "And afraid "Who lynch and run "Who are scared of me "And me of them "I pick up my life "And take it away "On a one-way ticket "Gone up North "Gone out West "Gone!" Inside are graphic reminders of the hard labor and grinding poverty of blacks in the rural South made worse by boll weevils and flooding that destroyed cotton crops cheating landlords lynchings by hooded Klan members inferior schools and omnipresent "Colored Only" signs The printed recollections of old-timers seem to tell it best "We went barefooted" says Moses Burse of Georgia "My feet been frostbitten a lot of times My dad couldn't afford to buy no shoes" Or James Plunkett of Virginia recalling the words of a local white official: "We don't stop colored from voting if he want to vote but a bullet would follow him Love a Book! And love a book lover! Show your regards for your love by giving a great book on a subject you both love! You'll find more loverly books at the old emporium than just about anyplace else! Downtown and University Mall Chapel Hill And in the heart of Sutton SquareRaleigh Elzzszaulact The News and Observer Rateieb Sunday Feb 8 1987 17A out the door" Lured by the promise of high-paying jobs in northern factories their horizons expanded by military service abroad in World War I more than 1 million blacks trekked to the North and Midwest by 1940 to find a strange raucous new life In factory jobs ruled by the demands of machinery William Attaway said the black laborer's "muscles did not sing They grew weak and cried for long slow movement" Blue Jenkins of Wisconsin said his face would be You deserve a quality dress shirt that's as uncompromising as you are INTRODUCING IKE BEHAR DRESS SHIRTS Life is full of compromises Why should your dress shirt be one of them? 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A wearable work of art Seeing is believing so come see this exhibit of forward-thinking men's shirts at your fashion Ike Behar offers three basic collar styles: spread "Windsor" button down collar and the small point collar "Princeton" Not all styles and price points at all stores Ivey's The Men's Store: all stores black except for the goggles he wore "and your lungs you'd just spit up big clots of dirt" The exhibition ends with the question "Was It Worth It?" but does not attempt to provide an answer "There is no absolute answer" Crew said "Whether or not the move north was beneficial depended on individual perceptions" Starting in January 1938 an abbreviated version of the "Field to Factory" exhibition will tour museums and universities across the country until late 1990 And get your choice of a twin foam mattress or a teak bookcase for i mattress or bookcase Mon Tues Wed Sat 10-6 Thurs-Fri 10-9 I Sun 12-5 8601 Glenwood Avenue (US Rte 70) Raleigh NC 27612 919-781-6822 1-34 miles east of Airport Road WEST HATFIELD NIA GROTON CT CLIFTON PARK NY RALEIGH NC CHARLOTTE NC GREENSBORO NC CHARLESTON SC MERRIMINENIMINNI The News and Observer Rareieh Sunday Feb 8 1987 17A I Exhibit traces preloW black exodus northwars' i 0 4sN WASHINGTON (AP) Manor- -i--0-- 0 -4' Tr! 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