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Governor appoints Carrie Mays
to State Alcohol Council
Gov. Jimmy Carter has
appointed City Councilwoman
Carrie J. Mays to the Georgia
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Nation prepares for Martin Luther
King birthday celebration
ATLANTA - The largest and most significant celebrations ever
of the Birthday Anniversary of the late Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. are being planned across the nation for January 15.
It will be the sixth consecutive year in which millions of
persons from all walks of life will observe “Martin Luther King
Day” in tribute to the life and work of the slain human rights
leader.
In -his home city, Atlanta, a gala Benefit Concert for the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change will be followed by an
Ecummenical Service, a Celebration March and mass Community
Rally. In Los Angeles, another star-studded benefit will be held,
while a special observance can be seen nationwide on CBS
television’s broadcast of the National Basketball Association
All-Star game from Seattle. Community groups in Washington,
D.C., will be pressing Congress to make Dr. King’s birthday an
official national holiday. In New York City, the Council of
Churches and the King Center will sponsor activities in support of
local human rights organizations. And so it goes across America.
While the national holiday legislation is pending in Congress,
masses of people everywhere already personally declare the date
to be their own to honor one of history’s greatest leaders.
The result has been, in each year since Dr. King’s assassination
(April 4, 1968) an increasingly massive outpouring of activities
and observances - all dedicated to the continuation and
strengthening of his nonviolent movement and teachings.
“This is the marvelous way in which people say they will keep
alive my husband’s work and legacy,” says his widow, Mrs.
Coretta Scott King. “By participating in this nonviolent
movement for racial equality and peace, all persons of goodwill
on January 15 are celebrating a birthday, a holiday, and a
movement day.”
Mrs. King is president of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
for Social Change, the Atlanta-based organization which once
again is coordinating the nationwide January 15 observances.
As in past years, national attention this month centers on
events in Dr. King’s home city of Atlanta.
On Monday night, January 14-the eve of Dr. King’s 45th
Birthday Anniversary-celebrations begin with the Third Annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. Benefit Concert. This year’s Benefit
Qi .cert is being sponored by Columbia Records at the OMNI,
Atlanta’s renowned entertainment and sports facility. Columbia
recording stars scheduled to appear at the gala event, which will
inaugurate the two days of activities celebrating Dr. King’s birth
are: Sly and the Family Stone, The O’Jays, Ramsey Lewis, and
Maxine Weldon.
Presentations during the Concert will be highlighted this year
by the announcement of the second recipient of the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, the highest award
conferred by the Center.
Proceeds from he Benefit Concert are earmarked for programs
and operations of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social
Change, which is entrusted with the responsibility of furthering
Dr. King's philosophy of achieving positive social change through
nonviolence.
An Ecumenical Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr.
King was co-pastor with his father, is scheduled for 10 A.M.,
Tuesday, January 15, preceded by the traditional Wreath Laying
Ceremony at Dr. King’s crypt.
The Service, already a tradition on the birth date, this year
features musical selections, readings from the works of Dr. King,
and an address by Reverend Calvin S. Morris who became
executive director of the Center this year.
The Service will be followed by a Celebration March from the
Church to the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, where a mass
Community Rally sponsored by the King Center, will feature
national and local speakers, music and entertainment, and the
presentation of special community awards. Winners of student
poster and oratory contests on Dr. King will also be presented,
and the rally will mark the kick-off of a sustained voter
registration drive sponsored by the Center in the Atlanta area.
The theme of the celebrations in Atlanta is "Keep the Dream
Alive: Do Something New-Make Nonviolence A Part of You”.
The theme reflects Dr. King’s life-long affirmation that human
conflicts cannot be solved by violence, and that progressive social
change begins with a personal commitment to noviolence.
A NATION IN TRIBUTE
Across the nation on January 15, people and their
communities will observe the Birthday Anniversary in many
ways.
The Los Angeles dinner/show, “Salute to a King”, is co-chaired
by Mayor Tom Bradley and Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite
Burke. Stars indicating they will perform or attend this Benefit
r the King Center include Isaac Hayes, Redd Foxx, Billy Dee
.jams, Lili Tomlin, Raymond St. Jacques, Paula Kelly, Richard
■> * ryor, The Four Tops, and Roscoe Lee Brown.
During the nationwide celebrations, additional states, cities and
towns will join those which have already made January 15 an
official holiday.
Thousands of school systems, businesses and labor unions
recognize Martin Luther King Day by closing; thousands more
pause for observances. Churches hold commemorative services,
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the State Capitol in Atlanta.
The 15 member Council
meets four times a year and
makes recommendations to the
Department of Human
Resources regarding alcohol
problems in the state.
Mrs. Mays said she learned
of the appointment last Friday.
Carter told her that she had
and many community and human rights organizations engage in
social action in the tradition of Dr. King, such as voter
registration, economic development programs, and nonviolent
campaigns against poverty and discrimination.
The news media contribute to the holiday with editorials and
special articles about Dr. King, and with radio announcements
encouraging people to drive with their car lights turned on during
the day. Special features and documentary presentations on the
Movement are printed and broadcast.
One of the most popular and important activities during the
January 15 Birthday period is the showing of the
Center-sponsored documentary, “King: A Filmed Record . . .
Montgomery to Memphis”. Hundreds of schools, community
groups, churches, and television stations have shown this authenic
account of Dr. King’s life and the Movement he led.
Atlanta’s Black mayor
pledges 'people’s
administration’
(From The Atlanta Journal)
Maynard Jackson solemnly
confronted a packed house for
two-thirds of his inaugural
extravaganza at the Civic
Center.
Jackson loosened up and
cracked his face-splitting grin
when Fulton Superior Court
Judge Luther Alverson had
sworn him in as the 47th man
and the first Black to be
mayor of Atlanta.
Steady applause rained
down from all parts of the
largely Black, largely
conservative and well-dressed
crowd which packed the
4,600-seat auditorium.
Jackson promised an
administration serving all the
people, “the masses as well as
the classes,” placing that even
above the war on crime which
he has frequently proclaimed.
“Over the next four years
we shall work to create a
people’s administration, and
that will afford even the most
destitute person an alternative
to agony,” Jackson said.
The crowd interrupted with
applause 16 times.
His aunt, opera singer
Mattiwilda Dobbs, was the
only other person on the
program to bring the crowd to
its feet.
Jackson’s aunt, who traveled
from Stockholm to participate
in the ceremony, was the clear
favorite among the entertain
ers.
The Morehouse College Glee
Qub led the audience in “Lift
Every Voice and Sing.”
It was the same number that
hundreds of college students
burst into, apparently to
Jackson’s pleased surprise,
when he first announced his
candidacy last March.
Jackson’s speech was a lofty
one, dealing more with
attitudes and intentions than
specific programs.
He recalled the slogan Jong
used to boost Atlanta: “A city
too busy to hate.”
“Equally as important, we
must ask during the difficult
days ahead, are we a city too
busy to love?
“If we are to make this
evening a meaningful
beginning, we must make a
been recommended for several
appointments by several people
from Augusta and other parts
of the state.
“I just hope I can make a
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conscious decision to start to
change the way we live,”
Jackson said.
“We must do more than say
we are concerned and that we
care. We must begin to
translate that concern into
action, because we know that
injustice and inequality are not
vague and shadowy concepts
that have no tangible
dimensions.
“Behind every unjust act
and behind all unequal
treatment there are conscious
decisions made by conscious
men and women who choose
not to care,” he said.
He then covered the full
range of municipal problems
saying in 13 terse sentences
that love must bring action to
resolve them.
“Love must be the absence
of racism and sexism. Love
must be a chance for
everybody to be somebody,”
Jackson concluded.
The Augusta Chapter of
the NAACP will meet
Monday January 14th at 7:30
p.m. at the Tabernacle
Baptist Church.
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contribution. 1 was honored to
have been asked by the
governor,” she said.
Mrs. Mays is believed to be the
first woman to serve on the
Council.
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Rabbi Jacob Rothchild, who died last Monday,
orchestrated Atlanta’s tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
on Jan. 27, 1965 after the civil rights leader won the
Nobel Peace Prize. Here, Rabbi Rothchild presents Dr.
King with a crytal bowl expressing the city’s “respect
and admiration”.
Cities throughout the nation will observe Dr. King’s
birthday January 15.
Julian Bond wanted
commitment from Saxbe
State Representative Julian
Bond waged a vigorous effort
to get the case of slain Black
college students re-opened.
Bond urged the Senate
Judiciary Committee to
withhold confirmation of
Attorney General William
Saxbe until “he satisfactorily
states that the inquiries into
the deaths of Black college
students at South Carolina
State, Southern University and
Jackson State College will be
re-opened and that guilty
parties will be punished.”
Saxbe was confirmed
Friday.
Bond, Chairman of the
Southern Elections Fund, a
Southern political action fund,
sent letters to Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman, Senator
James O. Eastland, and the
other Democratic and
Republican members of the
Committee.
Bond noted that former
Attorney General Elliot
Richardson, who resigned
October 20th rather than
dismiss Special Watergate
Prosecutor, Archilbal Cox, at
President Nixon’s request “had
already re-opened the Justice
Department investigation into
the deaths of four students and
the wounding of others by
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Kent Stat? University on May
4th, 1970.
“These other killings are
different only because the
victims are Blade,” Bond said.
“At Orangeburg, on February
8, 1968, more than six
students from South Carolina
State College were shot and
three of them killed by South
Carolina State Troopers. All
were shot in the back, but no
one has yet been punished.
“At Jackson State on May
14, 1970, two young Black
men were shot, apparently by
Mississippi policemen
responding to what has been
demonstrated as non-existent
sniper fire. No one has yet
been punished.
“At Southern University, on
November 16, 1972, two Black
students were shot in the head,
again by law enforcement
officials. Two investigating
committees have placed the
blame with lawmen on the
scene, yet no one has been
punished,”
The members of the
Judiciary Committee of the
United States Senate have a
unique chance to see that
justice is done in these cases,
Bond said. “The crimes must
be punished, the secret slayers
must be brought before a court
EDITORIAL
LUCY LANEY PORTRAIT IN STATE CAPITAL
It was very fitting that Gov. Jimmy Carter named
Miss Lucy Craft Laney as one of the first three Black
Georgians whose portraits will be hung in the State
Capitol in Atlanta.
Miss Laney’s picture will be displayed along with that
of Dr. Martin Luther King and the Rev. Henry McNeal
Turner (a Methodist bishop and a Georgia legislator).
It was also appropriate that her nomination was made
by Dr. I.E. Washington, principal of Augusta’s Lucy
Laney High School. Laney, built in 1950, is Augusta’s
first public high school for Blacks. It developed from
Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, a private school
founded by Lucy Laney. Dr. Washington is also
chairman of the steering committee for the proposed
Laney/Walker Boulevard.
A poll of News-Review readers showed that there is
complete support for this proposal.
There was no opposition. We hope that Dr.
Washington will get the community and governmental
support needed to make Laney/Walker Boulevard a
reality.
Augusta, Black Augusta in particular, was extremely
fortunate to have had such a gifted, dedicated educator
to spend her career in this city fighting ignorance and
opening doors of opportunity for thousands of persons
whose lives were touched and enriched through her
contributions.
Miss Laney died in Augusta in 1933.
of law.”
Bond urged others to write
or wire the Committee
members to urge the new
Attorney General to commit
himself to investigate the
student deaths before he was
confirmed.
The Southern Elections
Fund, which Bond heads,
supports local level candidates
for public office in the 11
southern states between
Virginia and Texas. With
financial grants and technical
assistance, the Fund has aided
more than 400 Black and
liberal white candidates in its
four year history.
Paine SCLC program
to honor Dr. King
SCLC and Paine College will sponsor a joint program honoring
Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday on Jan. 15. The program will
be held in the Gilbert Lambuth Chapel at Paine College at 7:30
p.m.
The public is encouraged to attend.
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