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slu Auiuwta Nms-ltewiu A Vol. 3 Laney Principal Took Slain Black School Superintendent On 'Sentimental Journey’ The slain Biack superintendent of schools in Oakland California was in Augusta last year visiting relatives who took him to Athens, Ga. to see the house in which he was bom, his father’s grave, and the grave of his grandmother. It was a sentimental journey and time was running out. Dr. Marcus A. Foster, 50, was slain on November 6 in a parking lot as he and his deputy superintendent Robert Blackbum left an “unusually calm” meeting of the board of education. They were caught in a shotgun and pistol crossfire. Foster died immediately Blackbum reportedly died later. Dr. Foster is the first cousin of Paine College professor Dr. Justine Washington. (His father was her mother’s brother ) Drs. I.E. and Justine Washington visited the Fosters in Oakland during the summer of ‘72. In September, Foster and his wife Abbie cam to Augusta where they were given a reception in the Washington home prior to the sentimental journey to Athens. The trip was the first time he had seen his birth place. His family moved to California | City Council Refuses To | | Dismiss Stockade Gaurds I Charged With Negligence by Robert Oliver The Stockade committee of the Augusta City Council voted not to suspend two guards for alleged negligence in the death of 58 year-old Henry O’Bryant in a meeting Tuesday. O’Bryant died of a brain hemorrhage last Sunday and :• 'A** "~r > Bf»-;, •» V. ESI . . • . . iSSferf! »>< ’ -i, ' H TvSfafc? •’* JmpAL'* ’ Wife W : k wKw ** K« i«, OB 6, * ■ ■I 1 >- F I W*?.*.’?’*' 1 Jk Wt -We ■*• y wF'«’.*• ’ ':•.- M /IMfc , iB'&FBmitHI <,dig x * kuV CM® Sgrifly * ,W Ms IHMB^HBBBMBBHB■riIr tIBBBBBI IB Mary Faye Harris, “Miss Paine College” is flanked by runners-up Dorothy Burley (K), Roberta Frails and Student Government President, Michael Thurmond. Miss Harris was crowned Fridav night by Paine College President Dr. Lucius H. Pitts. She is the daughter of Mrs. Robert Harris, Sr. of Fritzgerald, Ga. 0 NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SER MEMBER when he was a baby. Foster earned the doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote a book, ‘‘SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION” which has been widely acclaimed. Lucy Laney High School Principal Dr- LE. Washington said Foster mentioned some problems he was having with a group of disenchanted Blacks. The group had voiced opposition to Dr. Foster’s selection as school superintendent because they had nothing to do with it, Washington said. But Foster did not appear disturbed by the opposition, Washington recalled, “He talked about it as if it was a ‘light-weight something’.” The Fosters have two sons and a daughter. A Black group called the “Symbionese Liberation Army” claimed credit for the slaying in a letter stating “This attack is to serve notice on the board of education and its fascist elements that they have come to the attention of the SLA and the Court of the People and have been found guilty of supporting and taking part in crimes committed against the children and the life the Committee had considered dismissing the two for not responding to calls for help. According to Mayor Lewis A. Newman, the action was taken as the committee felt O’Bryant would have died anyway. Newman told the family (five neices) present at the meeting, “You have my Box 953 I ■hJF | > wil ■V-li'X : s u Dr. Marcus A. Foster of the people.” The SLA letter continues that other ?f school officials are planned “until such time as all political police are removed from our schools and all photo and other forms of identification are sympathy for the loss of your uncle. However, most of us (committee members and medical examiners) feel that nothing could have prevented his death even had he been in intensive care. “I think the easy way out is to fire two people who were negligent, but with no rules or THE PEOPLE’S PAPER stopped.” Dr. Fruster and the school board were accused of forming a “special political police force to occupy and patrol the schools in our cities,” censorship and a photographic regulations to guide them. I admit they should have reacted and we do not condone this, we take it very seriously.” The five neices of the late O’Bryant disagreed as Charlene Jones, spokeswoman for the group, said, “We do not concur with the committee’s decision. Our uncle was neglected, and system “patterned after the system of apartheid in South Africa.” The SLA claimed that students who showed potential criminal behavior would be rounded up and detained in youth camps for indefinite period of time. Schools mold young people into “high style superfly life and fashion shows,” the release continues, and “lie to us in an attempt to perpetuate the interests of the rich ruling class.” “It is clear that Dr. Foster and sideman, deputy superintendent Robert Blackburn, represent the rich ruling class and big business and not the children and youth of our communities,” the letter from the revolutionary group goes on.” The school officials were attacked for instituting programs “aimed at the control, imprisonment, execution of Blacks and other minorities.” SLA concludes the letter with the, slogan: “Death to the Fascist Insect that preys upon the life of the People!” Authenticity of the letter is supported by its statement as a 100 per cent disabled veteran who should have been taken to the hospital, we feel he could have at least had a chance.” City Councilwoman Carrie Mays and Bth Ward Councilman Thomas Huggins also did not concur with the decision. Mrs. Mays stated, “It is the system’s fault if they vote to reprimand and not to suspend the two guards. With voting like this, things of this nature will continue to occur.” The five neices, Doris Brightharp, Rena Harper, Cleo Crawford, Charlene Jones and Joan Bush, appeared visibly shaken by the committee’s decision. ■■Register I ■ And ■ Vote B NAACP MEETS The Augusta Chapter of the NAACP will meet Monday November 26th at 7:30 p.m. at the Tabernacle Baptist Church. Notice The CSRA Business League Annual Awards Banquet will be held on Friday November 30, 1973, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richmond Hotel Speaker for the occasion will be Dr. Bryant George of the Ford Foundation. Tickets are on sale for $6.00 each. For more information or tickets, please contact the CSRA Business League at 624 Greene Street or call 722-0994. Augusta, Georgia Foster’s execution by “cyanide bullets” two days before California authorities announced that bullets fired in the attack were hollowed out and replaced with cyanide, a •’eadly poison. Dr. Foster had come to Oakland from the Philadelphia school system in 1970. He had formed citizens committees to advise the schools and took he lead in negotiating an end to a potential strike by he city’s teachers. Oakland police said Dr. Foster and Blackbum were in the parking lot of the school system’s administration building when three Black youths wearing ski masks opened fire with a pistol and a shotgun. Authorities said they had never heard of the “Symbionese Liberation Army”, before. Webster’s Third International Dictionary defines a symbion as a state of different organisms living together. mniK IMITEB NEGBO CBLLEGE FINB. 11 ; ■ I ■r ■ fl IL iLIM i ■ w W w ’ . J «| 11 ' 'T MB ’CK/S - ■ ■ -ddUKSK. .'.ifi. ~ OIC GRADUATION Augusta OIC graduates are shown during graduation ceremony at Paine College on Friday. Mayor Lewis A. Newman was the speaker. Other platform guests included City Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays, OIC board chairman Joe Scott and Rev. J.S. Wright. _______ Notice Mr. James S. Trowbridge, District Manager of the Augusta Social Security Office, advises that beginning November 19, 1973, the Augusta office will be open to the public at the New Federal Building, 816 Walker Street. The telephone number remains the same - 722-7733. The office is on the second floor of the building. PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! f We want to print your news. But we MUST have # Bit by NOON TUESDAY in order for it to be« B printed that week. There can be NO exceptions. B K Please co-operate with us so we can better serve® ■ you- ® November 2K1973 No. 36 Julian Bond To Speak At Paine Sunday Night -u ■■ ■ a ' WMiy MV 1 wU llv'. • / ■ « W' * **— -* ll fit liiSb i * * Sri fr 1 f Julian Bond 'Tire Augusta Black Caucus announced this week that State Rep. Julian Bond will speak in Augusta on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Gilbert Lambuth Fort Gordon Wife Os The Year Sought A search is underway at Fort Gordon for the military wife who will represent the post in Army-wide competition in March. The 1974 Military Wife of the Year program kicks off for the eighth straight year to find Chapel at Paine College. The program will be billed as “Usher Rhodes Night”. Rhodes is a “man-on-the-street” that the Caucus feels “deserves to be honored”. the five military wives who best represent the one and a half million wives of men serving in the Armed Forces. The Fort Gordon selection will be made December 14 and all nominations must be submitted by December 7. The Army Wife of the Year will be honored with the four other service wives at a Washington awards banquet next May. Official nominations forms are available from the Fort Gordon Information Office, the Officers Wives Qub or the Noncommissioned Officers Wives Club. Any Army wife at Fort Gordon is eligible for nomination.