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Aiujitata Neuts-Ueww Vol. 4 By J. Philip Waring This week marks the beginning issue of the “Blacks Who Helped Build Augusta” series. These series should run weekly into 1975 immediately prior to the American Bicentennial Year of 1976. Again we repeat that with scores of Black Augustans who know about their own past and presence and serving on Historic Panels for the series, then Augusta will stand an excellent opportunity of winning recognition and awards through the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and its allied structure. As the NEWS-REVIEW will be one of the first member papers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to have its own readers and local residents to write t eir own history, this project will receive nation wide coverage around America The series “Stacks Who Helped Build Augusta” (BWHBA) will also salute the efforts of the late Dr. Carter Woodson, “The Father of Black History” and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. (As you know that latter group’s name was recently changed to “Afro-American"). The rich work and contributions of that association over the p.-st fifty years and the objectives of our BWHBA series will be closely paralied . . . telling the world about the records and achievements of Black People. SERIES TO BE “DO-IT-OURSELVES” “Blacks Who Helped Build Augusta” will be a “do-it-ourselves” project wherein local Black residents will give a first time public summary of accomplishments made by their parents, grandparents, and themselves. Those who are not native Augustans or long-time residents are cordially invited to give their full participation, especially in describing what is happening today. Several columns will be devoted to our Black Ministers. COLUMNIST TO VISIT AUGUSTA During the Memorial Day Weekend I expect to be in Georgia and plan to also come to Augusta to assist Publisher Mai Millender at the May 24 media conference which will formally introduce the BWHBA series to the public. There will be many other important sectors -- the Greek letter organizations, such as fraternal groups as Elks, Masonic and Shriner units, local groups of national social-civic bodies and others - which will be contacted and meshed into the subsequent BWHBA series. A PLACE FOR RETIREMENT Another mission - and this is personal - my wife and I plan to spend a few days in Augusta before going on to Atlanta - to look over retirement options and resources in the Augusta area. Last year about this time I became ill in Connecticut and took an early retirement for health reasons. (And my many friends in Augusta were most kind and thoughtful). Later in the year it was found that 1 could return to work and I accepted an appointment with the St. Louis Urban League. Upon return to St. Louis I met one of the warmest welcomes ever accorded me. At present time my wife and 1 are reviewing a community for retirement which is Wil. OBW MM® X r VI" •.-<-'/ Q 1 9j O £ <® -W' •"A tv • < 7? * i ' - iw Ik l ■ Brykv fWW \£ w • * IHwHIill • iJ„• •■ ■-... . ■,. I HUdßKfi I II Augustans attend Omega Psi Phi 7th District meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, (brom left to right: Charles Lamback-Delegate, Arthur Owens-Georgia State Representative, James Carter, 111-First Vice District Representative, Dr. James Carter, Jr.-Retired Keep of Finance, John Gilciki ist, Henry Daggett-Cliairman ot the Reclamation Committee, and William Bryant-Director of Public Relations. Local Omegas Re-elected To District Posts Augusta Omegas elected to office at Huntsville during the recent 37th annual District meeting of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporate in Huntsville, Alabama. James E. Carter, 111, director of Minority Student Affairs at the Medical College of Georgia, was elected to serve a one-year I NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE MEMBER Series To Honor Blacks Who Helped Build Augusta term as the first vice district representative of the 7th District which includes the states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. William B. Bryant, principal of A.R. Johnson, Jr. High School, was reelected as director of Public Relations to serve his sth term of office. P.O. Box 953 projected after the Bicentennial Year. We’d appreciate any advice from our friends on the advantages of retirement in Augusta. Now let’s take the recent edition of the Amsterdam News and review an editorial on one of my national bosses, Don McGannon (Don, Brother Lucius Pitts and I had a delighted chat last August in Washington at the NUL Conference). THE BOTTOM LINE It is difficult to wear two hats but some people manage it, and we know of no national figure who can do it any better than Donald McGannon, who wears one hat as president of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and another hat as president of the National Urban League. McGannon, who does not have to tip his corporate hat to anyone in the field of employment because of Westinghouse s equal opportunity employment policies, demonstrated again last week that he does not carry liis Urban League hat in his hand when he is talking to his peers in the business world. In a speech entitled “America's Racial Dilemma,” delivered in Denver last week, McGovern calledonthebusinesscommunity in this country to tear down the walls of racism, saying: “The bottom line of any corporation is going ultimately to reflect society’s bottom line, and to the degree that racial tensions, discrimination and inequality put America’s stability in a sea of red ink, that loss will hit business, too. It will hit us where we live, where we work, and it will hit us in the pocket book.” He continued by proposing a four point program of “Social Responsibility” for big business which calls for getting American business “Back into the action again - back into he main stream of the efforts to save our society and thus to save the system that’s been so good to us.” We hope that big business, which only yielded a “piece of the action” to Blacks when they tried to burn up our cities during the Sixties, and who immediately cut down that “action” when the fires of the riots dwindled down, will listen to what McGannon has to say. Our summers are cooler now, but the people who warmed them up are still out there on the sidewalks. BLACKS DID HELP BUILD THE AUGUSTA AREA There is rich legend and history around the accomplishments in many fields wherein Blacks Helped To Build Augusta. But little has been put together or written about these contributions. History books have not included us. A NEWS-REVIEW article earlier this year told that in Columbia County, Georgia someone had cut out information about Dr. Martin Luther King from the history books. It is the purpose of these series to have Black residents of Augusta to execute a “Do-It-Ourselves-Project". To dig out and review the past accomplishments of our fore-parents. This will show our young people that despite cruel barriers of segregation and discrimination how their grandparents moved ahead. It will Dr. James E. Carter, Jr., a local dentist for the past 43 years, retired as the District Keeper of Finance after 31 continuous years of service. He was the honoree at the District banquet, and was awarded a plaque commemorating his many years of “untiring service” to the Fraternity. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER Black Trade Unionists Still Believe Wallace Anti-Black The efforts of Governor George Wallace to change his anti-Black image have not been persuasive with the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). The broad-based coalition, representing some 40 national unions, has expressed its “strong disbelief" in the “miracle transformation" of Governor Wallace “whom, we are told, is no longer racist or anti-labor." The CBTU said it has “little confidence in miracles." observing that ‘throughout his public life" Governor Wallace “has built a record opposing racial equality. He never has repudiated that record." The Governor's labor record Nine Paine Studens Students Freed Os Assault And Battery Nine men were freed from the game and got up with a charges of simple assault and battery in State Court Thursday in connection with the beating of a 30 year old Paine College student last March. The student, Johnny Gary, of Macon, Ga.. charged he was beaten by the nine during an unusually physical basketball game in the Paine Gymnasium. It was disclosed by several witnesses that an altercation between Gary and Johnny C. Nimes. also a student, led to a melee involving spectators during which Gary was roughed up. According to one witness. Lucius H. Pitts. Jr.. Nimes was knocked to the floor during Augusta, Georgia help youth to learn about and appreciate their past - tell them from whence thev came. TO HIGHLIGHT THE PRESENT AS WELL AS OUR PAST. BWHBA is intended to highlight what our leaders and institutions are doing today. While old time Augustans will have a heavy load on this project, we cordially invite the many fine people who have moved to Augusta to live and work to also participate with their ideas and personal involvement. Hopefully, the project will instill a new sense of pride in Blacks. And bring about added information to whites with more respect and understanding for their brethren of color. SALUATE TO BLACK PRESS AND NNPA BWHBA is being made possible becuase there is a Black newspaper which is operating in the finest tradition of the Black Press. BWHBA parallels with the objectives of the NNPA which has been faithful in telling our story since 1827. Thus, we also salute the NNPA, its service to our nation and our race. BWHBA WILL TIP ITS HAT TO THE ASSN. FOR THE STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY AND THE GOOD WORKS OF DR. CARTER WOODSON This series also meshes in witii Dr. Carter G. Woodson s program started in 1915 - To give the history of our people. The work of our Historic Panels will also parallel the past and present work of this group (Formerly known as The Assn. For The Study of Negro Life and History). HOW WILL THIS BE ACCOMPLISHED? Thanks to arrangements by Publisher Millender the series will run weekly and probably enter well into 1975. Tins writer has simply set a reference frame, given a brief summary and gathered together (thanks largely to Augusta friends such as Dr. I.E. Washington and State Rep. Richard Dent who were most helpful to us) as well as a 1903 book written by Rev. Silas X. Floyd about Dr. Walker). Thanks to Mrs. Mary Cummings. Persons or groups not included in the inital edition are extended a most cordially invitation to participate. While the series will be very informal and flexible, it is our hopes that it may yet be condensed into book form. And above all we need teamwork and Cooperation within and among the Historic Pa neis BLACK PROFESSIONALS WHO SERVED THE HEALTH NEEDS IN AUGUSTA For a long time Black doctors and dentists have faithfuliy and skillfully served the health needs in Augusta. While hospital services and medical-dental school facilities were not opien to them, they nevertheless gave good account to themselves and professional credos. And they also served the Republic in its major wars. As examples. Dr. George Stoney was in the Spanish-American War and Dr. Robert Screen’s life ended while in the Italian Campaign during World War 11. We’ve often mentioned the 75-year saga of service in dentistry to the people of Augusta given by Dr. James E. Carter, Sr. and l.is son. Dr J.E. Carter. Jr. The latter also won high honors for in Alabama, the statement continued, shows “he is r.o friend of the working men and women.” The CBTU concluded: “At a time when this country desperately needs national leadership to inspire the best that is in us, for human rights and dignity, any suggestion that Governor Wallace might be a part of that leadership is insulting and repugnent, and we particularly resent those Black elected officals who give him a measure of credibility with their public support of his national candidacy.” The statement was adopted by the 1,200 delegates attending the CBTU's third annual convention last stick in his hand, and advanced toward Gary. “Gary grabbed Nimes, and the others joined Nimes and either hit. kicked or held Gary.” he said pointing to the nine seated in the courtroom. Judge Eugene Kerr deemed the incident as of those brief temper flare-ups that sometimes occur during athletic contests He said, “I don't think it waj premeditated, therefore I am not going to fine you gentlemen." Those treed were Johnny C. Nimes, Barry Barnes, Jerome Bennings. Larry Harris. Robert Hall. Robert Brinkley, Joseph Lynch, Gary Johnson, Charles Briscoe, and Johnny O’Bryant. May 23, 1974 No. 10 weekend (May 3-5) in Detroit. Bill Lucy. Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of State, County a d Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO), a founder of the CBTU, was elected its first president at the Detroit meeting. In other resolutions, the CBTU: - issued a terse warning to organized labor, expressing the “overall dissatisfaction” of Black worker> with their “limited role and involvement" in the shaping and implementation of union policy at the local and national levels. recommended that organizing the unorganized “must be the top priority task of all American labor," noting that “no more than 25 percent of the working force in this country is organized, including millions of Blacks and other minorities." - called for the impeachment of President Nixon (“Black Americans have been aware for Cue past 25 years of Nixon's criminal acts toward the Black community ...”). - urged tax reform that would “close the loopholes w hich force American workers to pay more than their fair share of the tax bill, and ask Congress to “end the series of giveaways to wealthy individuals and giant corporations." - Endorsed efforts in the various states to establish Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday as an offical state holiday,” recommending that “ all Augusta when lie was elected as president of the National Medical Association. In the present era Dr. Allen Borwn won high honors and opened doors as he went onto the Faculty for Community Health at the State Medical School. We recall the handicaps visited upon Negro patients when their doctors were not allowed to visit them at the University Hospital. To resolve this Dr. A.B. Johnson, and others, organized and operated the Bruce Hospital down on Jackson Street. This is only an informal introductory highlight to this topic because the more formal details will be spelled out by a Historic Panel comprised of Dr. James E. Carter, Jr., Chairman and Dr. Allen Brown, Co-Chairman with. Dr. William Griffin, Dr. Paul Weston, Dr. Arthur Keller and their associates being asked to tell the full story of the past and present. We are also asking Mrs. W.W. White, President of the Women’s Auxiliary of the George Soney Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Society to serve as special consultant. And again if any one Las a picture of Dr. Stoney please share the same with Editor Mai Millender. fF ■ > wSI K Z- >'i ' WWSiii LUCY C. LANEY THE LIFE & TIMES OF MISS LUCY CRAFT LANEY Miss Laney, “The Mother of the Children of the People", was singularly honored (and so was Augusta) when her picture, along with the late Dr. M.L. King, Jr. and Methodist Bishop Henry See HISTORIC SERIES Page 3 unions during negotiations include tiiis as a primary goal for the extension of paid holidays, until such time as the birthday of Dr. King shall become a national holiday." supported a federal collective bargaining law for public employees. - endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment and offered its 'Guinea Pigs’ EDITORIAL The development of new methods to transform the behavior of “aggressive" or other non-conforming individuals by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, using prison inmates as "guinea pigs, has been the subject of growing public concern. Inmates from minority backgrounds have been the subject of psychiatrists and medical research. Experimentation is going on in many states of the union with hardly a cry from the American citizen. New light was shed on the problem recently when the Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ held an investigation into the program proposed for the Federal Center for Correctional Research now under construction at Butner, N.C. Following a two-day meeting with prison officials, the Commission’s team of clergymen, psychiatrists and criminal justice experts concluded that the program should be abandoned, charging that it will make inmates behave submissively within the prison environment, but will not prepare them to function effectively in their communities upon release. The Commission has consistently opposed all medical and psychological experimentation on prisoners, declaring that it violates basic human rights of privacy and dignity. It has also warned that techniques developed within the prison walls max eventually be used outside to control the behavior of others with unconventional opinions of life styles. We join the Commission for Racial Justice in urging an immediate end to all government funding of behavior modification experiments in prisons, and calling for development of a new program for the Butner facility that will meet the real needs of inmates and reflect the participation of both inmates and the public. NOTICE: NEW DEADLINE The news deadline will be Mondays at 5 p.m. starting June Ist. support to the Coalition of Labor Union Women “in its efforts to unite union women and develop action programs to further the interests of all working women.” The CBTU was formed in Chicago in 1972 to give Black workers a greater voice in the labor movement and national politics.