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The Augusta News-Review - February 22, 1973,
With the local P.O.W.’s
flying in to Bush Field at C.T.
Walker Elementary School, the
idea was introduced to the
children to consider just what
they would like to do to
express their feelings to the
locally returning P.O.W.’s.
Since the Army is such a large
part of the area, many of the
children immediately wanted
to personally become involved
in welcoming the released men.
The result of their enthusiasm
is a huge wall mural, displaying
contributions by well over 100
students filled with personal
letters, pictures, a scrapbook,
and Welcome Posters.
The mural is the culmination
of several days’ work involving
lively current events
discussions, vicarious
emotional and direct language
experiences, humanitarian
involvements, opinion
canvassing, and expressive art.
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The destroyer escort Jesse L. Brown is prepared for commissioning ceremony at
Boston Naval Shipyard. It’s named in honor of Ensign Jesse Leßoy Brown, the
Navy’s first black flier and the first black naval officer to die in the Korean War. A
native of Hattiesburg, Miss., and a graduate of Ohio Stale University, Brown, 24,
died jidtetrhisTilane waSshuL.down in 1950.
H. Rap Brown. 3 Others Identified
By Chef
New York -- (NBNS) --
Roger Jenkins, the Chef and
co-owner of the Red Carpet
Lounge, has identified H. Rap
Brown and three co-defendents
as the ones who held up the
Lounge Oct. 16, 1971.
Pointing to Brown, Jenkins
said, “and that man -- the man
with the cap - he kicked him.”
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The entire student body at
Walker School wants very rr-ich
to have their work placed at
the Welcoming proceedings at
Brown and three
co-defendants, Levi Valentine,
Samuel Petty, and Arthur
Young, all from St. Louis, are
charged with armed robbery,
illegal possession of weapons
and the attempted murder of
several policemen in a gunfight
that followed the robbery.
i Jenkins, the prosecution’s
first witness to make
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Ft. Gordon; they are presently
(with some adult assistance)
trying to contact the
appropriate officials to receive
courtroom identifications of all
four defendants, told the jury
last week that the holdup men
ordered everyone in the bar to
“hit the floor” and to empty
their pockets and purses and
hand over rings and watches.
He also said that he handed
over a $1,500 diamond ring, a
watch and $97 in cash from a
box he kept in the kitchen as
well as $350 from his wallet.
After the holdup, Jenkins
testified, he viewed line-ups at
the District Attorney’s office
and at Bellevue hospital, where
Brown, who was seriously
wounded in the gunfight was
hospitalized.
In an attempt to impugn the
credibility of the prosecution
witness, defense attorneys
brought out that Jenkins had
once been convicted of illegal
entry.
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permission to hang their
contributions in the hospital
halls at Fort Gordon.
Co-ordinators for the
C.S.R.A.
Business
Bits
By Gwen Loftlin
President of the C.S.R.A.
Business League, S.W. Walker,
11, Chairman of the Board, J.H.
Ruffin, and Executive Director
Harvey L. Johnson recently
attended the first Mini
Conference at the Washington
Hilton in Washington, D.C.
The purpose of the Mini
Convention was to continue
revanping the organizational
structure of the National
Business League. As a result of
that meeting, the National
Business League will present to
the National Body in
September, a complete
revamped program in which
the National Business League
can be of more service to its
constituents.
At the Mini Convention,
S.W. Walker was sworn in as
Regional Vice President for the
National Business League. In a
conversation with the National
President, Berkeley G. Burrell,
he said “the National Business
League was fortunate to have
among its members a man of
S.W. Walker’s caliber, and that
the C.S.R.A. Business League
was even more fortunate to
have him on a local scene.” It
is certain that the members of
the C.S.R.A. Business League
and its Board and the members
of Augusta congratulate Mr.
Walker on being elected to
such a distinguished position.
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Effective February 1, 1973,
the C.S.R.A. Business League
will offer “Special Services” to
the public and members of the
Business League.
Any persons desiring a
particular service, commodity
or merchandise of any sort
may call the Business League
and ask for “Special Services.”
The number is 722-0996. The
Special Services Department
will research and find out who
has the item and refer them to
you.
More than 8 million
Blacks aren’t
registered. Are you
part of the problem
or part of the
solution?
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Black
Legacy
Richard Allen 1760-1831
Richard Allen, born a slave,
had to buy his freedom for
S2OOO. Ironic as it may be, it
was the city of Brotherly Love
that helped to shape his career
with its prejudices and religious
discrimination. He was the first
Black American to help his
people help themselves.
It was Richard Allen’s Free
African Society that helped
Philadelphia survive the cholera
epidemic of 1793. When
everyone who could were
leaving the city, the Free
African Society remained to
give aid to all who needed it.
With other Black Americans,
in 1794, Richard Allen started
the first independent church.
By 1816 he established a
national organization of the
African Methodist Episcopal
Church. He was it’s first
Bishop.
Richard Allen just another
part of our Black Legacy.
Teacher
Examinations
The National Teacher
Examinations will be
administered on April 7 at
Augusta College which has
been designated as a test
center.
According to Julian S.
Heyman, director of testing,
many college seniors preparing
to teach and teachers applying
for certification, licensure, or
those seeking positions in
school systems which
encourage or require the NTE
will be taking the tests. In
addition, the designation of
Augusta College as a test center
for these examinations will give
prospective teachers in this
area an opportunity to
compare their performance on
the examinations with
candidates throughout the
country who take the tests.
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CRIME FIGHTING
CAMPAIGN STEPPED UP IN
TUCKEGEE
Tuskegee, Ala. -- (NBNS) --
Following a weekend terror in
which an elderly woman was
slain and her two sisters severly
beaten and stabbed, Johnny
Ford, the first black mayor
ever elected in this
predominantly black city of
11,000, has promised to step
up the activities of his
recently-created Crime
Commission. A 24-year-old
ex-convict, David Lee Goode,
has been charged in the
incident.
NBNS GROWS TO 68 WITH
ADDITION OF SIX BLACK
NEWSPAPERS
Washington -- (NBNS) - The
addition of six black
newspapers brings to 68 the
total number of subscribers to
National Black News Service,
Paul H. Wyche, Jr., its
president, announced this
week.
The new papers are the
CHARLESTON (S.C.)
CHRONICLE, THE
BEAUMONT (TEXAS)
ADVOCATE, THE AKRON
(OHIO) REPORTER, THE
CHARLOTTE (N.C.)
METROLINIAN, THE
AUGUSTA (GA.)
NEWS-REVIEW, AND THE
CAROLINA (N.C.) TIMES.
“During the past 11 months,
with the increased support of
the black newspaper publishers
and editors, we have continued
to grow at an extremely rapid
pace,” he continued.
At the same time, Wyche
announced that within 60-90
days NBNS will begin offering
a photo service to its
subscribers as part of “our
ongoing commitment to
increase the services of NBNS
to our newspaper subscribers.”
DELLUMS, BURKE TO
PROBE KITTY HAWK RIOTS
Washington - (NBNS) --
Reps. Ronald Dellums and
Yvonne Burke announced last
week that they will conduct
their own investigation of
disturbances aboard two
aircraft carriers which a House
subcommittee concluded were
not caused by racial
discrimination.
The California democrats
have directed staff assistants to
talk with sailors from USS
Constellation and the USS
Kitty Hawk to obtain
first-hand information about
the incidents which occured
last year.
12 EXECUTED IN UGANDA
KAMPALA - (NBNS) -
Twelve men were executed
here before thousands of
Ugandans in the first public
killings in this country’s
history.
Reports from here said that
some 7,000 Ugandans watched
the executions by army firing
squads of 11 men for guerilla
activities and robbery.
SWEDEN LIFTS BOYCOTT
OF SOUTH AFRICAN
PRODUCTS
STOCKHOLM - (NBNS) -
The Swedish government has
decided to abandon its seven
year stand of boycotting South
African wines and liquors and
has already put them back on
sale here.
"Can They Do
These Things
Share
To Us?” •!!
Gwen
f would like to thank Adrienne Perry, who is an educator with
the Richmond County Board of Education, and James Perry,
associate with the Augusta Legal Aid Society, Inc., for sharing a
report by Dr. Arthur E. Thomas on a program for school reform.
The report, is entitled “Can They Do These Things To Us?” It
offers ten proposals to begin to repair the damage done to Black
and minority group children by racist administrators and
insensitive teachers.
No. 1. Prove it isn’t so. “School official and government
officials must effectively communicate in every way possible to
the Black, poor, and oppressed that the question of genocide is
not a reality. Not only must this be communicated, it must be
proven. There is a growing concern among Black educators and
community leaders that, since there is no more cotton to pick
and there are no more ditches to dig, Blacks as a people are no
longer necessary to this country.”
No. 2. Premeditated failure. “Black and other minority
children come to school ready and eager to learn, yet they
continue to graduate from high schools able to read only at an
eighth grade level. This doesn’t happen because Black children are
inferior. It happens because if they were taught to read at the
proper levels, they would be able to compete for the same jobs as
white children and the society wants to avoid that. -- One way to
deal with this problem is to take those individuals responsible for
the institutional racism of public schools to the courts where they
will be held accountable for their policies.”
No. 3. “I am Black. America should be proud.” “I have found
that if you show children that you love them, trust them and
respect them, they will respond with love, trust, and respect. If
you believe in them, they will learn to believe in themselves. ---
Until you teach a child that he is somebody, and until you get
him to believe this, you’re wasting your time trying to teach
reading, writing, and arithmetic. -- Self-image should be one of
the chief things taught in school.” A child should know more at
three o’clock in the afternoon than he knew at eight o’clock that
morning. He should know more in June than he knew in the
previous September. A child should certainly know more in 1971
than he knew in 1967. Measures for holding school administrators
accountable should deal specifically with these questions: Does
the student know more at 3 p.m. than he did at 8 a.m.? Does he
know more in June than in the previous September? The
traditional attitude holds the child accountable for his progress or
failure. The school’s contribution to that success or failure should
be measured, and the administrators responsible for failure held
accountable.”
No. 5. Who else knows the right questions? “A series of
national and local student fact-finding commissions should be
established. These student commissions would have access to
lawyers and other research personnel. Potential areas for
discussion and presentation of position papers could include the
following topics: suspension and expulsion, freedom of
expression, school security, guidance and corporal punishment.
Who knows more about classroom injustice than its victims?”
No. 6. Give the consumers a voice. “Young people are asking
to be listened to, to be made a part of the things that affect their
daily lives. School boards.should be expanded by at least four
members, and those members should be between the ages of 7
and 21. The young members should be entitled to all of the
privileges and responsibilities accorded school board members,
and they should share equally in the decision-making. We must
not only listen to our children, we must also give them the power
to help themselves, and by doing so, help us all.”
No. 7. Cut out the middle man. “It is imperative to quickly
begin federal funding of programs created by and administered by
and for students. Think of a Head Start program completely
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students. Think of student-run recreation programs.”
No. 8. We’re all in the same boat. “I cannot call a man
prejudiced when he wants his child to go to a school nearest him.
Black people want their kids to go to neighborhood schools, too.
It is wrong, and grossly unfair on the part of middle class Blacks
and Whites to state that poor Whites are racists because the
Whites do not want their children to go to school in a Black
community -- when that Black school is, in fact, an inferior
school because of a school system’s racist policies.
No. 9. Integration in reverse. “Black students and parents and
teachers working together can make Black schools among the
best, rather than the worst, in the city. If, a Black school had the
best facilities, the best staff, the best textbooks, supplies,
equipment, then integration would be meaningful. It would be,
for the first time in history, a two way street. As it is now, the
typical situation is the Black child supposedly improving himself
by association with Whites and White educational institutions.
But if the reverse were also true, a whole new world opens up, a
world of creative exchange between equals.” ,
No. 10. I saw it on the tube. “Student run cable TV
could affect the quality of life in school. Programs instructing
students about what they can do when a teacher or administrator
violates their rights can show students ways to beat the system
rather than giving in to it.
Because of the length of this report it was impossible to bring
it to you in its entirety. However, I hope you found it as
interesting and enlightening as I did.
Copies of this report are available free by writing: Center for
Study of Student Citizenship, Rights and Responsibilities; 1145
Germantown Street; Dayton, Ohio 45408. Please request as many
as you need -for individual use or for group discussions.
Thank you Mr. and Ms. Perry.