About Veritas. ([Athens, Georgia]) 1970-1970 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1970)
unity news Veritas thanks the United Free Press for the permission to reprint some of their material. This permission does not reflect compliance of the UFP with Veritas' policy. On the 29th of April Black students marched with a police permit to a special meeting of the Board of Education. Friction occurred at the corner of Milledge and Broad and resulted in police tear-gassing the marchers. Some store windows were broken along Broad St. and in the downtown area later that evening. During the next afternoon police began random tear-gassing of the Broad Acres area and arrested many Blacks for unlawful assembly. There were unwarranted searches, many children were left without their parents, and several people were brutally beaten by those charged to uphold the law. The students were protesting because they felt that the merger of the all-Black Burney-Harris High School and the all-White Athens High School would deny to them a continuation of expressions of Black heritage. They feared that they would lose Black teachers, their school name, and the symbols they had lived with as students. These may seem like small matters, but these symbols were all-important to the identity of the Black students. They had visited with the school board, they had made formal requests, they were angered by a lack of response. The police and the city reacted violently to a demonstration which had begun peacefully. While meetings were being held concerning the grievances of the Black students and the brutality of the police, many students at the University of Geor gia began to protest the war in Cambodia and the slayings at Kent State. During the afternoon of the 6th of May, students picketed the ROTC building on campus and demanded that the university close in memoriam. In the evening the officers of student government sponsored a memorial service for the Kent State Four. At the conclusion of the service about 250 students marched through town to Pres ident Davison's house and from there across Milledge to Baxter and back to the campus. About three thousand students had joined the march by the time that it had arrived back at the Academic Building. They demanded the university be closed, they de manded to hear the President. Three students were arrested for burglary. On May 7, university students obtained a permit to march a scarce 4% hours before the scheduled time. From 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. they marched along the route they had followed the previous evening. On May 11, Black Monday participants marched with permit downtown; about 200 gathered in front of the courthouse, then dispersed without incident. They also applied for a permit to march on the following day; but the request was denied due, said city officials, to the fact that they had not given 24 hours notice. They lacked about one hour of the twenty-four. On Tuesday, after a rally at Ebenezer Church, 72 persons, mostly Black, were arrested for marching without a permit. In continuation of previous procedures, the police used tear gas indiscriminately through the neighbor hood and tear gassed those left on the steps of the Church. After the arrests, the marchers, who had been brought to the city stockade were tear gassed without apparent purpose. Although five fires were reported in the city that evening, the police gave no justification for their actions in regard to the marchers. On Wednesday, May 13. the National Guard was stationed at the Fair Grounds, while most students and protesters turned their attention to Nina Simone, who was appearing at the university in connection with the Black Awareness Week sponsored by the Student Union. On Thursday Hosea Williams spoke to a mass meeting at Ebenezer Church and prepared the marchers for a further confrontation the following day. May 14, when approximately 250 people were arrested for unlawful assembly. The sequence of events summarized here never Milledred in the local newspapers, and some of the events themselves were never reported This helped to Summary: campus and civil unrest produce rumors and confusion. The United Free Press was conceived in part as a remedy to this situation. We feel that events such as these need to be as fully reported as possible. Help wanted: community referral service Veritas thanks the United Free Press for the permission to reprint some of their material. This permission does not reflect compliance of the UFP with Veritas' policy. There has been a great need in Athens for a director of social service groups. This need was clearly defined last spring by a joint steering committee of the Human Relations Council and the Concerned Citizens Committee. Thanks to the awareness of the faculty of the Institute of Social Work, a study group decided to accept the task of compiling a referral directory as their summer project. At present their findings are being typed and collated into a usable manual. Amazingly, the Institute of Social Work was unable to locate representatives for 30% of the social service groups listed in the last directory published by the League of Women Voters. The inability of trained social service personnel to locate information points up the plight of those who, in the past, immediately needed help, and proves the desirability of a referral service. First, volunteers are needed to fill the gaps in information and to keep it up to date. Next, this valuable information must be used. The information includes services offered, eligibility requirements and volunteer needs. The joint steering committee needs office space, volunteer time and a telephone. The people of Athens have a right to receive this informa tion and to use the services set up for their benefit. Volunteers are needed now! There are unending possibilities with this project. Once initiated and functioning, it can develop into a volunteer referral service, a watchdog and an advocate of the people's needs and rights to community services. Call 5491639 (after 6:00) and express your interest in the success of the referral service. WELCOME, STUDENTS! 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