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Vol. 3
Beau Jack Athletic Club
Alexander Williams Dreams
Os A Center For The Children
Ever so often a man
becomes obsessed with an idea,
a dream. Some men die
without ever seeing their
dreams come true. Alexander
Williams has an idea. And he
fears that morally, and
spiritually, many children may
die if his dream does not come
true.
Williams lives for the
children in his community. It is
they who give his life meaning.
His big dream is a
neighborhood recreation
center. He feels that this
recreation center is the only
way to stop juvenile
NAACP Hits Sheriffs Dept.
On Brutality,Segregated Cars
The Political Action
Committee of the Augusta
Branch of the NAACP met
August 21, 1973 and the
resolution below concerning
the Richmond County Sheriff
Department was discussed.
Also the following statement
was believed to be in the best
interest of the community as a
whole and highly conducive to
better race relations in
Richmond County.
HRC Urges Bond Reforms
A press conference was
called last Wednesday by
Human Relations Commission
Executive Director Charles
Walker. He said the conference
was to reaffirm HRC’s position
on the misdemeanor bond; to
outline HRC’s request to the
City Council and the Public
Safety Committee concerning
die misdemeanor bond, and to
pass on “accolades” to Judge
(Eugene) Kerr for the
Herculean step he took in
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Ruben Walker presents a $50,000 Estate to Brother Richard Williams of The
D’Antignac Street Church of Christ as Metropolian Insurance Sales Representative
Ronald R. Loftlin and Church Board Member Harold Morris look on.
The D’Antignac Street
Church of Christ after
announcing a $20,000
retirement program, has
established a $50,000 Estate
for the church. This Estate will
provide college scholarship
funds for students of the
church; and also funds to
supplement day care nursery
schools.
The members of the
D’Antignac Street Church Os
Christ say the move is a step
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delinquency. “The kids need
something to do to keep them
off the streets,” he laments.
The children Williams works
with are among the most
deprived in this city. They live
in the Twiggs Street area. They
are poorly housed, poorly
clothed, and poorly fed. And
they have no place to play.
The area has been designated
for urban renewal. But
Williams says the mayor has
said that urban renewal will
take at least five more years.
“A lot of kids will go wrong in
five years. We need the center
now,” Williams insists.
Whereas: The Richmond
County Sheriff Department has
been accused with acts that are
in violation to civil rights of
citizens of this country,
particularly Black citizens with
acts of police brutality,
abusive language, harrassment,
and plain old customary
disrespect toward the Black
citizens of Richmond County,
Georgia.
Whereas: The Sheriff
establishing a maximum for
misdemeanor bonds.
Walker urged that City
officials and Recorder’s Court
set a maximum bond that
corresponds with the
maximum misdemeanor
imposed by Judge Kerr and the
State Court.
Under the present system,
Walker continued, any person
arrested for a misdemeanor
would have to post a cash or a
property bond. “Especially in
toward financial independence
for the church, to handle .
Committees have been
organized to handle funds. The
church is now incorporated.
A spokesman for the
D’Antignac Street Church Os
Christ indicated that an effort
is being made to organize the
church to function with
modem day economics so that
the church may enter main
stream activities and become
self-substaining. “We as a
P.O. Box 953
ALEXANDER WILLIAMS
He motioned to the back of
his house - the site of his
department has not seen fit to
integrate the department’s poling
cars, thereby creating many
incidents whereby white
deputies must encounter Black
citizens in tense and precarious
situations.
Be it therefore resolved: that
the sheriff department take
immediate steps to fully
integrate its patrol cars and all
other facilities that are not
integrated. We call upon
the Recorder’s Court, the
person is tried within three to
five days, therefore affording
the professional bondsman
little or no risk.”
As an alternative, Walker
suggested that the City and the
State Court allow the
defendant to post a cash
percentage of the bond. He
further explained that a
defendant placed under a
$300.00 misdemeanor bond
would pay 10% of that bond in
cash-30.00.
young congregation feel that it
is our responsibility to develop
build, and organize all of our
activities so that we can
function in or out of any
economical society. With 217
members made up of mostly
young people, we have formed
our union and we have
established our goals so that we
can do the things that will help
our surrounding community.”
The church recently
awarded Brother Williams a
$20,000 retirement program.
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
dream. In his backyard he has
built a basketball court; it only
has one goal, attached to a
tree. The court is not paved
and the ground is soft. But
that’s where all the
neighborhood kids play. It’s
the only place in the
neighborhood to play
basketball.
Williams is not really
dreaming. He knows exactly
what he wants and how he
wants it. “It will be a 60 by
50-foot gym. In the mornings I
want to have some lady come
in and look after the little
children and keep them off the
Sheriff Anderson to take
preventive measures to insure
that police brutality will not be
tolerated and also take
immediate steps to insure that
all citizens of Richmond
County.. Georgia are treated
equally. We further call upon
Sheriff Anderson to make a
consecrated effort to hire more
Black deputies and to upgrade
through equal employee
opportunity, those Blacks that
are now employed by the
Sheriff department.
When he appears in court,
the $30.00 would be applied
towards his fine, and if
acquitted, the 30.00 would be
refunded. “The present system
- utilizing the professional
bondsman - penalizes a man
whether he is guilty or
innocent which is unfair to
all concerned,” Walker slated.
A second alternative, he
said, would be to pass an
Ordinance requiring a
professional bondsman and/or
other persons charging a fee for
his services to refund a
defendant 50% of his fee when
he appears in court and is
found innocent
Walker ruled out the idea of
blanket policy concerning the
misdemeanor bond. But he
urged the “appropriate
governmental bodies ’ to begin
taking a serious look at the
bonding system in Augusta and
Richmond County.
Hosea Williams Runs For President
Os Atlanta City Council
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HOSEA WILLIAMS
Augusta, Georgia
streets and out of trouble after
school. It (the gym) will have
four - two for the
boys and two for the girls.
Later, we plan to teach our
boxing lessons in the back of
the gym. (He plans to have a
swimming pool for the kids
under 10 years of age.)
Williams has had a long and
varied career in and out of the
ring. He is currently Augusta’s
only fight promoter. He has
trained such noted boxers as
Sugar Ray Robinson, young
Joe Walcott, Hurricane Kid,
and James Brown, the Soul
King, before he turned to
entertaining as a career.
Young Alexander Williams
had seven professional fights
and lost one, mostly in
Philadelphia back in the 20s.
Ironically, his only loss came in
Augusta.
Williams is proud of the
interest the white community
has shown in his project. The
mayor heads the list of whites
who have pledged support,
according to Williams. He adds,
“I want to make something
clear. When Black people say
that the white people don’t
love them, they are wrong.
Because there are more white
people who are Christians than
Black. They know love is the
key to Heaven and in order to
get there, they have got to love
their fellow man.”
Whatever the subject,
Williams brings it back to his
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Sanders Quality Signs One Hour Martinizing
1139 12th St 702 Ellis St.
Brown Derby Bar One Hour Martinizing
502 Ninth St 2305 Milledgeville Rd.
Esquire Package Shop Deal’s Curb Market
527 Ninth St. Golden Camp & Milledgeville Rd.
C.W. Woo Grocery Store Floyd’s Grocery
1001 Ninth St. 302 Hwy 25, N. Augusta, S.C.
Tates Grill Tuffey’s Restaurant
2451 Wheeler Rd. 2061 Milledgeville Rd.
Honky Tonk Record Boutique Skyview Package Store
859 Gwinnett St 1718 Olive Rd.
Oak Village Apts. S & P Curb Mkt.
104 Capital St. 8032 Deans Bridge Rd.Hwv No. 1
Williams Quick Chek Super Mkt. Roberts Grocery Snack Bar
839 E. Boundary 2064 Old Savannah Rd.
Andersons Clothing Store Pickney’s Sales & Service
1599 Old Savannah Rd. 1257 12th St.
Ella's Beauty Salon Jones Variety Store No. 2
1104 Ninth St. 1237 13th St.
Barton Village Package Shop Intimo Lounge & Package Shop
Barton Chapel Rd. 1815 Milledgeville Rd.
Pates Package Shop White Horse Package Shop
2102 Milledgeville Rd. 497 Berkman Rd.
Jims Supermarket Nu-U-Hopkins Wigs & Beauty Salon
2056 Milledgeville Rd. 2138M1 Milledgeville Rd.
Leßa’S House of Fine Millenery L & N Grocery
217 Ninth St. 602 Monte Sano Ave.
Del Morocco Club Tutt’s Grocery Store
2066 Walnut St 1614 Old Savannah Rd.
Cantrell’s Grocery Blaylock Food Store
2507 Meadow Brook Dr. 1359 Ninth St
Turner’s Wig Palace Elam’s Grocery & News Stand
211 Ninth St 1205 Gwinnett St.
Turner’s Boutique & Beauty Salon Ruby’s Grocery Store
215 Ninth St. 1029 11th St
Down Beat Grocery Progressive Grocery Store
177 Aregon Dr. 1223 Augusta Ave.
Budget Food Inc. Hildebrandt’s Food Store
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Alexander Williams (L) pictured with neighborhood kids.
dream for the children in his
community. He>M»ays that
Bethlehem Center is fine. But
it is not in the Twiggs St. area,
and the kids need a place to
play in their own
neighborhood. His
conversation is punctuated
with a recurring theme -- “Our
Civil Rights activist Hosea
Williams recently announced
his candidacy for President of
the City Council in Atlanta. He
is taking an indefinite leave of
absence from his work as
President of the Atlanta
Chapter of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference and as Chief
Organizer of the POOR
PEOPLE’S UNION OF
AMERICA.
Williams said he is running
o realize two dreams: (1) that
»f Dr. Martin Luthor King and
2) “The Great American
Dream”. He said he hopes to
restore truth and honesty in
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children need a decent place to
go. We build every thing for
the adult - beer gardens, night
clubs -- but nothing for the
kids. That’s where the trouble
lies today, with our young
people.”
Editor’s note: Construction
EDITORIAL
Poor Need Minimum Wage Bill
President Nixon has indicated that he will veto the
proposed Minimum Wage Bill, mainly on the basis that
it would be inflationary. Whereas the President is
justified in his efforts to curb inflation, it is clear that
the President’s concern is for maintaining the buying
power of the affluent while showing absolutely no
concern for those hit hardest by inflation -- the poor.
Certainly among the hardest hit will be domestic
workers. Household workers, the majority of whom are
Black, are among the least protected by labor laws;
although 1.4 million of them provide the necessary
management of the homes and care of children that
allow* their employers to go out and earn higher
salaries. It must be remembered, however, that food,
rent, clothing, and gasoline cost just as much for the
domestic worker as they cost the white-collar worker.
The domestic worker usually works without paid
holidays, paid vacation, premium overtime pay, health
insurance, pension plans or other fringe benefits. The
average income of a full-time domestic worker is less
than SIBOO a year, although only one in six domestic
workers works year-round, full-time.
Some argue that many domestic workers would be
without jobs if their employers had to pay them SI.BO
an hour, $2.00 an hour by next July, and 52.2 U
beginning July 1, 1975. This is unlikely at a time when
more and more people are seeking domestic workers.
In addition to the proposed minimum wage, steps
should be taken to get the kind of fringe benefits, social
security, and status for domestic workers that are
enjoyed by other workers.
It is not likely that the President will ever become
sensitive to the needs of the poor. But it is imperative
that Congress exercise its option to override the veto.
government. “If the concept
and practice of good
government is to survive, if
American Democracy is to
survive, then corruption must
be eliminated from
government.”
Noting that his campaign
colors are green and white, he
explained that green
symbolizes the concern he has
for the poor people of Atlanta
and their right to jobs, income
and dollars with substantial
purchasing power so they can
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of the proposed Beau Jack
Athletic Club is estimated at
SB,OOO. Persons wishing to
contribute should send their
donations to Beau Jack
Athletic Club, P.O. Box 592,
Augusta, Ga. 30907. Mr.
Williams can be reached at his
home at 1648 Savannah Road.
have decent food, clothing and
shelter. White, he said,
symbolizes the fact that he will
never sell out the dreams and
interests of poor white
Atlantans. “I care about the
poor white man, woman and
child. In fact, I care about
people.”
He said he didn’t feel that
black was needed in his color
scheme because his
“committed life” has always
been on the line for the Black
poor.