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By Julian Bond
In 1958 George Corley
Wallace, a rural Alabama
prbbate judge and former state
Portrait Os Lucy Craft Laney
Unveiled In State Capitol
By Audrey Frazier
Ceremonies for the unveiling
of the portrait of Lucy Craft
Laney, founder of Haines
Normal and Industrial Institute
now Lucy C. Laney High, were
held Sunday August 11th at
the state capitol.
Secretary of State Ben W.
Fortson, Jr., presided and
music was provided by the
530th Air Force Band, Georgia
Air National Guard. The
invocation was made by Dr.
I.E. Washington, principal of
Lucy C. Laney High School,
Augusta.
Miss Laney’s portrait was
unveiled by Miss Louise Laney
and accepted by Jimmy Carter,
Governor of Georgia.
Miss Lucy Craft Laney was
born in Macon, Georgia, April
13, 1855. She attended the
Lewis High School of Macon.
She began teaching in the
public schools of Macon,
Milledgeville, Savannah and
Augusta.
She began her work in
Augusta in the lecture room of
the Christ Presbyterian Church
in 1883. This gave way to the
Haines Normal and Industrial
Institute.
Miss Laney was the mother
of kindergarten training in
Augusta and this school was
the first kindergarten
established in Georgia. She was
also the mother of “nurse
training” for Black girls in the
city. The endeavor proved so
worthy that the city took it
over and from it came the
LaMar Training School for
Nurses.
She was the first to uniform
legislator, lost his first race for
statewide office. He was
defeated for governor by state
Atty. Gen. John Patterson.
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Mias Louise Laney (left) and Governor Jimmy Carter (right) unveil the portrait of
Lucy Craft Laney during unveiling ceremonies.
girls and the first organized
athletic team went out from
her school. In 1908, she was
visited by president-elect
P.O. Box 953
Patterson had two important
things going for him. First he
was the son of a martyred
man-Albert L. Patterson, who
William Howard Taft.
Also unveiled during the
ceremonies was Henry McNeal
Turner. Bishop Turner was the
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
Governor Still A
Racist, Rep. Bond Says
WALLACE WALKS THE PATH OF EASTLAND & BILBO
after receiving the Democratic
nomination for state attorney
general in 1954 was shot to
death by hoodlums. Second,
John Patterson, received the
endorsement of the Ku Klux
Klan; Wallace, the more
moderate candidate was
supported by the state
NAACP.
“John Patterson
out-niggered me,” George
Wallace said in defeat. “Boys,
I’ll never be out-niggered
again.”
Four years later he ran
again, and won with a
campaign that gained him the
support denied him in the
earlier race against a man with
a martyred father and the
ability to “out-nigger” the
innocent Wallace.
His inaugural address then is
a classic of Southern
demagoguery:
“Each race, within its own
framework, has the freedom to
teach, to instruct, to develop,
to ask for and receive deserved
help from others of separate
racial station . . . but if we
amalgamate into the one unit
as advocated by the
Communist philosopher, then
the enrichment of our lives, the
freedom of our development is
gone forever. We become,
therefore, a mongrel unit of
first Black Chaplain of the
United States Army and
member of the Georgia
Legislature.
Minority Donations Sougtit
By Fort Gordon Museum
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one under a single all-powerful
government...
“Today I have stood where
Jefferson Davis stood, and
took an oath to my people. It
is very appropriate then that
from this very Cradle of the
Confederacy, this very heart of
the great Anglo-Saxon
Southland, that today we
sound the drum for freedom ..
Let us rise to the call of the
freedom-loving blood that is in
us...
“I draw the line in the dust
and toss the gauntlet before
the feet of tyranny. And I say
Segregation now! Segregation
tcmmorrow! Segregation
forever.”
Twelve years later Wallace is
a remarried widower, a cripple
from an assassin’s bullet, and
to many, a changed and
chastened man. The proof?
Following long-established
custom, Wallace crowned the
first Black homecoming queen
at the University of Alabama.
But when CBS correspondent
David Dick asked him why he
didn’t complete the tradition
and kiss her, Wallace snapped,
“I’m not ready for that and I
don’t believe Alabama is
either.”
He received an ovation from
a conference of Southern Black
mayors, many of whom stood
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DR. DANIEL COLLINS
Paine College Board Os Trustees’ Chairman Dr. Daniel Collins
Gives His View Os Paine’s Future
By Audrey Frazier
Dr. Daniel Collins, chairman
of the Board of Trustees at
Paine College, sees Paine’s
future as “fantastic’’ and
“exciting”.
In a recent interview with
Dr. Collins, the News-Review
learned that the attitude of
Paine College students is geared
academically in which Dr.
Collins is verf pleased. “There
are now more, honor students
at Paine and the students grade
point average is much higher
than in the past few years. The
old Paine College attitude of
high scholarship is back,”
stated Dr. Collins.
Dr. £ollins views Paine as a
college which has gone through
a series of crisis which wen 1
Augusta, Georgia
to cheer him. One-not from
his state-says Wallace would be
acceptable as Vice President on
the 1976 Democratic ticket
with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
A few Black elected officials
and two local Black political
organizations endorsed him for
reelection as governor. He won
with an uncertain percentage
of Black vote, and hopes for a
national future.
In nearly 12 years as chief
executive with almost
unchecked power, he has yet
to appoint a single Black to a
county jury commission or
voter registration board-local
seats of power. Now that draft
boards draft no one, he has
appointed Blacks to these
nonfunctioning positions.
All of the 247 cashiers
selling liquor in the state’s
liquor stores are white. All of
the game wardens, forest
rangers, revenue examiners and
highway road foremen were
white. Excepting the
Department of Public Safety
and the Mental Health
Department-now under court
order to integrate-only 2.8%
of the state’s 10,024 employes
are Black.
CoL Walter Allen, former
director of the Department of
Public Safety, testified in court
that Wallace had personally
treats to the survival of the
college. “These threats (the
burning of Haygood Hall, Dr.
Pitts’ death, etc.) have
threatened the survival of the
college but the college has
come back stronger each
time.”
As for Paine’s academic
future, Dr. Collins feels Paine
was once known for producing
only “preachers” and
“teachers” but now broadens
the field with the addition of
business as a major
“Paine hopes to have joint
programs with other colleges in
para-medical fields. Paine also
hopes to get its student body
enrollment up to 1000 so that
it can provide a mixed
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blocked the hiring of 22 Black
state troopers. After retiring
Gov. Albert Brewer appointed
a Black man to the Alabama
Commission on Higher
Education, newly elected Gov.
George Wallace removed the
Black appointee and
substituted a white man.
Despite suggestions from the
chief justice of the Alabama
Supreme Court, the chief judge
of the Court of Criminal
Appeals and the lieutenant
governor, Wallace refused to
appoint a Black to a vacancy
on the state Board of
Corrections.
He has fought -by word and
deed-every attempt through
the courts and the streets to
change Alabama’s monolithic
racist state apparatus. He told a
1960 s campus audience:
“... When we speak of the
Negro in the South, the image
in our minds is that great
residue of easygoing, basically
happy, unambitious Africans
who Consitute 40% of our
population and who the white
man of the South, in addition
to educating his own children,
has attempted to educate, to
furnish public health services
.and civic protection ... Ihe
people of the South do not
hate the Negro. They have
carried him on their shoulders
and have endowed him with
every blessing of civilization
that he has been able to
assimilate ...”
But as the tumultuous ‘6os
ended, passions and fears that
had been very real began to
seem remote. By 1974, they
have become half-remembered
memories for many and the
Wallace rhetoric began to
change.
At the same time, there
arose a heightened public
cynicism about the same
Establishment politicians
Wallace still rages against - the
“Limousine liberals” and
“pointy-headed bureaucrats”
who control our lives. Wallace
the rebel began to replace
WaUace the racist.
And the Wallace magic
became a narcotic-with die
addicts being the national
Democrats who seemed awed
by the power Wallace held over
a large rector of the decaying
Roosevelt coalition. One by
one, after the attempt to
academic program,” Dr. Collins
said.
Paine now has an enrollment
of approximately 775 students.
Paine College is supported
by both the United Methodist
and the Christian Methodist
which makes Paine a
“particular” college, says Dr.
Collins. “Most students that
come to Paine are in need
therefore Paine needs economic
support for major concern of
the college.
With the increaring
additional funds, Dr. Collins
hopes there will be a
“rekindling of the flame” that
was lighted by the present
administration in support of
higher education. This makes
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assassinate him, they trooped
to his side-firt in his Maryland
Hospital room, then in
Montgomery and Decatur, to
praise his “courage” and
“spirit”.
The percentage of votes
Wallace received from
Alabama's Blacks in this year’s
gubernatorial primary is
difficult to establish. Estimates
range from 8% in the state’s
cities to 25% in rural Alabama.
The difference between city
and rural support is explained
by the relative strength of rival
Black factions in the state-the
National Democratic Party of
Alabama, traditionally weak in
the cities, urged its followers to
boycott the primary; the
Alabama Democratic Council,
headquartered in the cities,
worked hard to turn out every
voter for its state legislative
candidates.
Many of the state’s Black
elected officials condemn
Wallace loudly outside
Alabama and support him
quietly at home.
“I’ve had to become an
independent in order to keep
open my options for my
people,” the Rev. Judge
Springer, Black mayor of
Hobson City said. “Not long
before the election, George saw
to it that we got $153,000 in
road funds. Everybody in town
remembered that, insteadof all
that he had done to us before.”
Highway money and
homecoming queens have made
governors before-and will
make them again.
The man who refused to be
“out-niggered” has changed,
they say. He now denies he
ever made a racist speech, or
ever believed in white
supremacy.
“We’re not saying that a
sinner can’t be saved, and can’t
come back into the church,”
the Rev. Andrew Young, a
Democratic member of the
House of Representatives from
Georgia, says of Wallace, “but
not as the assistant pastor.”
But manipulation of the
political process ought not to
be allowed to rehabilitate a
man whose dark past places
him with Eastland and Bilbo as
a champion of the politics of
race.
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for a background in which a
new president can function.
Dr. Collins feels Dr. Lucius
Pitts, past president of Paine
College, opened a new vista to
the college. “He performed the
miracle of developing local
support for the college. He
made greater Augusta
recognize what an asset Paine is
to the city.”
Dr. Collins came to Augusta
to attend a special meeting of
the Board of Trustees and
Search Committee at Paine
College. As chairman of the
Board of Trustees, Dr. Collins
is pleased with the reports
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