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M Civil rights organization
says more county contracts for
women and minorities is vital
goal for economic development
and should be political priority
for county commissioners.
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
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Officials say that, if gz:\::n“yoh, >
Mr. Handy represented the interests of
blacks, which constitute the majority in his
district, he would have voted for Commis
sioner Willie Mays for chairman.
Like many concerned black business own
erswhoarethreatening a recall of Mr. Handy,
NAACEP officials contend that Mr. Handy’s
political moves should be “watched, chroni
cled, and used to elect someone of responsi
bility as commissioner of the 2nd District
next election cycle.”
One official said, “If commissioner Handy
would like to get things done for the future of
African Americans in Richmond County, he
should keep the issue of the disparity study
on the front burner.
“He and the other African American com
missioners should vote ‘no’ on everything
See NAACP, page 3
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I HYDE PARK RESIDENTS PRESS FIGHT AGAINST
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M Residents in the
predominantly black
neighborhoods of
Hyde Park and Vir
ginia Subdivision vow
to picket the Masters
Golf Tournament if
action is too slow on
their demands.
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
If Hyde Park residents
aren’t assigned a court date
before the Master’s Golf Tour
nament, there will be a repeat
of last year’s demonstration
at the highly profiled event,
according to Arthur Smith Jr.,
a Hyde Park resident and
member of their advisory
board.
The residents of Hyde Park
and neighboring Aragon Park
and Virginia Subdivision filed
a S7OO million lawsuit against
ITT, former owners of South
ern Wood Piedmont.
Promised a federal court
date in April 1994, residents
have not yet had their day in
court.
See HYDE PARK, page 3
THE KING PHILOSOPHY
M.L. King & the Newt’s
Contract with America
W Martin Luther King would
waste no time in shredding Newt
Gingrich’s Contract With Ameri
ca. The Republican lack of com
passion for the poor and toler
ance for corporate and individual
greed would find no place in Mar
tin Luther King’s philosophy.
By Frederick J. Benjamin Sr.
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
As the most conservative Congress in memory
gets back down to the nation’s business, it is
difficult to overlook the irony of preparing for a
national celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s
birthday. While much of the verbiage that sur
rounds the holiday has been reduced to rank
rhetoric about dreams, and love, Dr. King’s out
look in his later years began to burst from the
tight confines of civil rights.
Dr. King was an unabashed believer in eco
nrlocal newspaper sponsored by your local grocer.
January 11-18, 1995 VOL. XIV NO. 682
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WATER-BORNE HAZARDS Photo By Jimmy Carter
A drainage ditch near the site of Clara
Jenkins Elementary school is discolored
with chemical contamination. Residents
complain that when there is a heavy rain,
the contamination from the Piedmont Wood
Processing Plant site increases.
nomic justice. It is important to note that he did
not rest on his laurels and accept the accolades
without continuing to challenge America to awak
enits conscience and act out its creed —ln God We
Trust.
When King chided corporate America for its
aggressive assault on the world’s natural resourc
es, whether it be in Southeast Asia or South
Africa, he lost many formerly sympathetic sup
porters who could applaud his stand against rac
ist Southern sheriffs, but could not stomach his
call for the redistribution of their hard-earned
wealth.
Such an outlook is anathema to the majority
party currently pondering economic strategies for
the nation. There is sufficient evidence from King’s
recorded thoughts to believe that he would be
appalled at Newt Gingrich’s compassionless out
look on the poor and the nation’s responsibilities
toward the struggling masses.
King’s public stance on economic issues became
prominent in 1966, a year after the Voting Rights
Act and two years prior to the Civil Rights Bill of
1968. As the civil rights movement languished in
the controversy stirred by its radical “black pow-
See KING, page 5
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High Court
11th District
redrawing
WASHINGTON
(AP) The Supreme Court has added Georgia to its study
of the tactics state legislatures employ in designing election
districts to benefit racial minorities.
The justices said Friday that they would expand the study
beyond a case from Louisiana,
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xd - /R Texas and North Carolina.
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McKinney: N the Georgie had urged the court to add thp
Legislature gets a chance I€Xas case because, they said, it
to redraw the districts, raises a legal point not contained in
m%"r‘g";:;?:::’nfl"d the Louisianadispute. Instead, the
Valdosta. court chose to combine the Georgia
case and leave the Texas case in limbo.
In Georgia, a three-judge court last September struck
down as unconstitutional the state’s congressional reap; r
tionment law. The lower court said Georgia’s current re.ap
portionment amounts to unlawful racial gerrymanderin
The Supreme Court postponed the effect of the three
Jjudge court’s ruling so the state’s congressional elections
could be held under the invalidated plan.
The reapportionment map drawn by Georgia legislators
was challenged by white voters within the state’s 11th
congressional district. They said the district’s shape, creat
ed to give black candidates a better chance to be elected to
Congress, unduly takes race into account.
The district stretches 250 miles across east-central Geor
gia with finger-like extensions reaching into Atlanta, Au
gusta and Savannah to group black voters. The boundaries
split several counties, cities and neighborhoods.
About 64 percent of the district’s voters are black.
“lam elated that the Supreme Court will give us a chance
to win,” said Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who represents the
11th District. Besides her own seat, that of new House
Speaker Newt Gingrich also is at stake in the case, she said.
See SUPREME COURT, page 3
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