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VOL. L NO. 4
ATLANTA, GA.
JANUARY 1977
‘A New Order for a New Age’
MLK Celebration To Be Held
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
AUC Joins Program
Dream Still Alive
By Amanda Seward
Activities for the Ninth An
nual Martin Luther King Jr.
Birthday Celebration are set to
start on January 13, culminat
ing on Dr. King’s birthday,
January 15. Activities include
workshops, a labor /
management leadership
breakfast, march for full em
ployment, an ecumenical
service, the dedication of Dr.
King’s permanent en
tombment, a benefit concert,
and an annual meeting with
the Board of Trustees and the
Board of Directors of the
Martin Luther King,Jr. Center
for Social Change. The
workshops will embody the
relationship of full em
ployment to quality education,
criminal justice, adequate
health care, and decent
housing.
The Center is calling for jobs
and justice. The theme of the
celebration will be “A New
Order For a New Age.” Mr.
Leon Hall, manager of the
January 15 program
explained, “The election of
Jimmy Carter is part of the
new order. The Center’s
purpose is to keep the pressure
on solving the unresolved
problems during the bicenten
nial era, 1976-89.”
Volunteers are needed to
marshal the march, host
visitors, and to perform
general office duties. Students
are encouraged to participate,
urged Mr. Hall. Anyone
interested should call the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center
of Social Change at 524-1956.
Last year more than 5,000
AU Center students
participated in the program
said Rev. Byron Long, King
Center staff member. Freda
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The annual celebration of
the birthday of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. will feature
activities spanning for days,
January 13-16, around the
theme “A New Order for a New
Age.” The ninth annual meet
ing of the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Center for Social Change
salutes the Bicentennial Era,
1976-89, by calling attentionto
America’s challenge to fulfill
Dr. King’s dream through “A
Renaissance for America”
with the priority of full em
ployment, jobs and justice, be
ing the hallmark of the new
order.
On January 13, an all-day
Full Employment Conference
will be held, beginning at 9:00
A.M. at the Ebenezer Church.
The conference will address
itself to the relationship
between full employment and
housing, education, health
care, criminal justice, and the
arts. Position papers will be
presented by six leading
spokesmen in various areas.
The workshops and
deliberations following these
. presentations will serve as the
basis for an “Agenda for the
Nation” focusing on these
critical problems int he area of
social change. Among the
participants will be Represen
tative Augustus Hawkins,
Pennsylvania Secretary of
State Delores Tucker, Dr. Leon
Keyserling, Mr. Ossie Davis,
Mr. Murray Finley, and Mrs.
Coretta Scott King.
On Friday, January 14, at
8:00 a.m. in the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Community Center,
the second annual Labor /
Management Awards Break
fast will be held, the purpose of
which is to bring labor and
management together to try to
find ways in which both
groups can contribute most
effectively to the development
of a full employment economy.
Receiving awards this year
will be Mr. A. Philip Randolph
and Mr. Leonard Woodcock for
labor, and Mr. Henry Ford II
and Mrs. Freddye Henderson
for management. Speakers at
the breakfast will include Mr.
Leonard Woodcock
Congressman Andrew Young,
and Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr. Follow
ing the breakfast will be a dis
cussion period which will in
turn be followed by a press
conference.
The afternoon of January 14
will be given to the annual
meeting of the Board of Direc
tors of the King Center. At 8:00
P.M. Friday evening, the Com
munity Rally will be held in
the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Community Center, with The
Honorable Coleman Young,
Mayor of Detroit, as the main
speaker. Also speaking will be
Mr. Marc Stepp, President of
the United Auto Workers.
Each year awards are
presented at the Community
Rally to persons in the Atlanta
community who have been ac
tively involved in bringing
about social change in the
spirit of Martin Luther King,
Jr. This year the awards will
go to individuals representing
institutions which have made
significant contributions to
the betterment of Atlanta.
On Saturday, January 15,
the traditional Ecumenical
Service will be held from 10:00
A.M. until noon at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church. This
event, the heart of the
celebration, will be addressed
by Senator Edward Kennedy.
Other participants will include
The Honorable Maynard
Jackson, Congressman An
drew Young, Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays, Mr. Bert Lance, Mr. Ros-
coe Lee Brown, Atlanta
Symphony Conductor Robert
Shaw, Mrs. Dorothy Height,
President of the National
Council of Negro Women,
Concert Artist Mattiwilda
Dobbs, Rev. Martin Luther
King, Sr., Mr. Dexter King,
and Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
The permanent entombment
of Dr. King and the Interfaith
Peach Chapel will be dedicated
following the service, with
members of the family and
persons in attendance at the
Ecumenical Service
participating.
The March for Full Em
ployment, scheduled for noon
on Saturday, will follow the
same route as the march last
year, proceeding from the
crypt area to the area in front
of the Federal Reserve Bank in
downtown Atlanta. Con
cluding Saturday’s events will
be the annual benefit for the
Center’s programs.
On Sunday afternoon,
January 16, “Martin Luther
King Sunday,” there will be an
interfaith service at Big Bethel
A.M.E. Church at 5:00 P.M.
Principal speaker will be
Federal Communications
Commissioner, now Executive
Director-designate of the
N.A.A.C.P., Benjamin L.
Hooks. Choirs from various
churches throughout Atlanta
will provide music for the oc
casion, the culminating event
of the 1977 celebration of Dr.
King’s birthday.
Tax Tips
For 1976
Good news from the Internal
Revenue Service for taxpayers
who pay for child or disabled
dependent care: rules for
claiming these expenses have
been liberalized starting with
the 1976 tax year.
Five changes made by the
Tax Reform Act of 1976 will
enable more people to claim
child and disabled dependent
care costs on their 1976
returns. The changes are:
(1) Expenses now are
claimed as a tax credit rather
than as an itemized deduction.
Now those who take the stan
dard deduction, as well as
those who itemize, will be able
to claim child care costs.
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