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aan THL BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1876 PAGE 2 57YR. OLD, FR. AKIN EY, WHO WAS NOW Id TEARS SAID, ‘LE THINK EVERYSODY DESERVES cera t4 — & PLACE TO STAY" On Monday, July 13, hr. Haskell We went back dovm to the case- LC, x Mckinney came to the N.C.C,F, worker, this time she started call~ “| je is blind and wanted ecmeonc ing Realty Companies until she got _ poe TL Re ae a es 6 one nee a oS etal genteel waked \z to help him go sign tie lease toa house that he wanted. Brother Mc- Kinney was told by his caseworker thar al] he hed to do was siga the lease. But when we acrived at Baldwin's Reatiy Co. we were told that Mr, McKinney couldn't rent a Louse because he had not established any credit In the city in the last 10 years. Since Mr. McKinney ‘isn’t eule to work and draws a disa‘ility check to take eare of his living expeases, So he shouldn't Lave needed any credit. T took Mr. MeKianey directly to Ris ceseworker, After she called Baldwin be told ber to send Mr. McKinney back down to the Realty Office. By the time we got thore Baldwin had run off from the office and a racist coz named Fovst put us through the same changes about no ‘established credit’, Mr. McKinney is 57 years old. He has’ been staying any place he could find because, for about the . last two weeks since he left the hospital, his caseworker had been giving kim the run around, In the hospital, he had an operation on his eye aad the sizht hasn't re~ turned yét. He hag no credit be- cause he hss been fiving with his Bon ever since he Icst his eye- sight in 1956, therefore he hasn't worked or rented because there was ne need to, These pigs denied the man a place to Live aithoug: hehadrent tnoney for a month in advence. # place for him to tay. Mr. Mc- Kinney, who was now intears said, “*| think anybody deserves a place to stay.”” ‘This is what happens in a cap- fral:stic system when things tic: are needed by everyone like feod, housing and clothing ere controled by a few low-down lapzing hess Uke T, W, Baldwin end Son, T, E. Johnson and the rest of the pigs. fr is vitally necessary for the Blacks in Winstou-Salem toreelize our situation, and orgzaize to do something about h, “There is housing Shortage ord that’s no ac cident. There aren‘t enovgh house: because Baldwin and other realties do not see fit to construc: any more, They cas control me peorle as long as tasy have bess housing rather then more housing, ‘They can charge more money es much as they please; the peopie will have to pay bec2use every- body needs 2 place to stay, We must siart tw incve on these beasts of man, by aot pzying rent for the things that shouli ve guaranteed to every man froin the day he is bern, because ev man, womar and child shoul guaranteed the bestrhette chnolos) can cHer, Teshnolczy cen offer every man in this cou-ny a decent house, fit for the steker of human beings. N.C.CF., Winston-Salem, N.C. Tt SRR ee weet nee oe tere ene yon eR ERS, grt eee % Ww