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• \ .'I First woman to serve ~, k Governor appoints Carrie Mays to State Alcohol Council Gov. Jimmy Carter has appointed City Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays to the Georgia Advisory Council. She was sworn in Tuesday by Carter at 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, tOb "uegE ™ E peoples paper AUGUST*, G* 3090 1 Vol. 3 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 I I •I >1 t MAYNARD JACKSON 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. \ Augusta, Georgia 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. 188 r w 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 Ohio National Guardsmen at January 10, 1974 No. 43 d|. wSL' / jBjF CARRIE J. MAYS 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. ciwnni a mini is MIEBHBM ATERUBLETMS MUEKFHI. tr waste. 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