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Vol. 4
FBI ASKED TO INVESTIGATE
2 Black Men Beaten at Home By White Deputies
Sheriff Allegedly Watched One Beaten At Jail
Two Black men were beaten
last Monday by Richmond
County deputies as they
approached their mother’s
home while the apparent
thieves the deputies had been
called to apprehend got away.
One of the men said he was
beaten again at the jail in the
presence of Sheriff William A.
Anderson.
According to a witness, the
incident occurred about 5:00
August 19th when youths were
spotted walking along East
Cedar Street carrying cases of
beer. A patrol car approached
Andrew Young Speaks
At Bethel Sunday
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ANDREW YOUNG
Congressman Andrew Young
will speak at a rally at Bethel
AME Church Sunday at 8:00
p.m. The church is located on
the corner of 9th and
D’Antignac Streets.
Young has a long record in
civil rights and was a top aide
Rev. Marie Williams
Celebrates 96th Birthday
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REV. MRS. MARIE WINFIELD WILLIAMS
Ninety-six year old. Rev.
Mrs. Marie Winfield Williams,
spent her birthday at her home
Thursday August 15th.
She resides at 1345 9th
Street here in Augusta.
Rev. Williams was born in
Augusta at 100 Walker Street
in 1878. She is the daughter of
the late Rev. and Mrs. J.W.
Winfield. Rev. Winfield was a
CME minister.
She was among the first
students to attend Paine
College (then Paine Institute).
Augusta Athletes
Star In Europe
and the boys ran, dropping
some of the cases on the lawn
in front of the home of Mrs.
Matlen Mills at 414 E. Cedar
Street. The deputies did not
see them and the boys returned
to pick up the beer, but Mrs.
Mills tried to hold them for the
police as she suspected the beer
had been stolen.
Mrs. Mills lost her balance
and fell as she tried to hold the
boys. Two of them tried to
stomp her in the face,
according to the witness who
asked not to be identified.
Her brother saw the boys
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He is the first Black
congressman from the South
since Reconstruction.
He will address a rally to
boost the candidancy of
George Busbee for governor.
The rally grew out of a
meeting last week with Busbee
supporters at the home of City
Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays.
Others attending the
meeting included the Rev.
Gene R. Dean, Charles McCain,
Rev. Charles Wells, Livingston
Wallace, Joe Jones, Charles
Walker, Henry Brigham,
Mallory K. Millender, Arthur
Shaw, W.B. Bryant, Charles
King, Herman Harris and the
Rev. R.E. Donaldson, who was
elected chief organizer of the
rally.
The congressman’s speech
will be broadcast i live on
radio station WRDW, beginning
at 8:30 p.m.
The public is urged to attend
the program.
At an early age Rev.
Williams joined the Trinity
CME Church and is now one of
the oldest living members of
that church.
Rev. Williams is also the
oldest living member of the
Heroine of Jericho Yorkrite
Masons and a member of the
Lady’s Ministerial Council.
Her youngest son, Ernest J.
Shanks is home with Rev.
Williams and both ask that her
friends and well wishers come
by at any time.
P.O. Box 953
and drew a pocket knife and
made the boys turn her loose.
Two carloads of white
deputies arrived, didn’t ask any
questions and just started
putting the beer in the car.
In the meantime Mrs. Mills’
sons William and George were
with friends playing Bid Whist.
They decided to go play
basketball but George wanted
to stop at his mother’s house
to change pants. When they
arrived at her home they found
Maddox Won’t Win
Unless We Let Him
Editorial
On Tuesday we have a chance to send a message to
racists and bigots all over this state and nation. By
defeating Lester Maddox in his bid to again become
governor of Georgia, we would force all politicians to
come to grips with the formidable reality of Black Powr
at the ballot box. On election day, we are the judge and
we have the power to send a candidate to work at the
state capitol or to graze in the pastures of political
oblivion.
in the state of Georgia, 25.8% of the people are
Black. We have the power, but the question is whether
or not we will use it. The only way that Lester Maddox
is going to be defeated is that Black people will go out
in large numbers and defeat him. We cannot “wish” him
out of politics, we have to VOTE him out.
Many of us have the tendency to vote only in general
elections, in November. But for Black people, the
election will not be won in November; it will be won on
September 3rd. Because if George Busbee does not win
Tuesday, the choice in November will be between Lester
Maddox and Ronnie Tompson, and, in our opinion, that
is no choice at all.
Before the primary election, we listed our reasons for
voting for George Busbee, and printed his voting record
on many issues relevant to the interests of Black people.
W'e added the fact that 12 out of 16 Blacks in the State
Legislature have endorsed him, and gave information on
his qualifications. It is interesting, to note that a lot of
people who normally shout about voting for the most
“qualified” man have thrown qualifications out of the
window in this election.
Busbee has been a member of the Georgia House of
Representatives for 16 years. Lester Maddox has only
four years of service as an elected official. Busbee
attended Abraham Baldwin College, Duke University
and tiie University of Georgia, earning degrees in
business and law.
Lester Maddox dropped out of school in the middle
of the 11th grade.
Now we ask what qualifies Maddox to become
governor of Georgia. Is it the fact that he has
demonstrated that he has the genius to govern without
education or legislative experience? Or is it that he is
just an honest “Christian” who has demonstrated that
he can be depended on by racists to maintain
segregation and keep Black people in line?
But Maddox has an ace in the hole - he is able to fool
some people by verbally embracing the traditional
American values of love of God, love of country, and
“little people”. These are indeed noble values if used to
lift up the morals or an amoral society and to improve
the human condition. But when they are used to justify
evil and deprive people of their lawful rights, then the
people of this state should rise up and say, “No, it is
time to reject bigotry, it is time out for deception; it is
time to end hypocrisy. It is time to end injustice and
racism.”
We have the chance to send this message all across
America Tuesday. We urge you to go the polls Tuesday,
(take a group of friends with you) and elect George
Busbee the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for the
state of Georgia.
deputies still picking up beer
bottles, but the sons did not
know what had happened.
As they drove up, one
deputy asked William if he was
trying to hit somebody.
William reportedly answered
no and kept walking. Then the
deputy said, “Boy, where are
you going?” William answered,
“I live here.”
William said as he opened
the screen door, “One deputy
pushed me and another one
Congressman Andy Young
To Speak Here Sunday
jerked me, and I picked him up
and dropped him. From then
on I don’t know what
happened. we were just
fighting.”
George said that as he and
another deputy were trying to
pull William off the downed
cop, he (George) was hit by
another deputy who jumped
off the porch. “My mother
jumped on my back because
she saw a deputy pull a gun
and thought he was going to
shoot me.”
A witness said “They all but
killed them boys, they would
have killed them if it hadn’t
been for the mother. The
mother jumped off the porch
and straddled George and
shouted, ‘These are my sons.
They’ve done nothing.’ ”
When a witness tried to
explain that the men being
beaten were the lady’s sons, he
was reportedly told by a young
deputy, “You better watch
- r your mouth.”
Sheriff Anderson later
arrived at the scene but things
were then apparently under
control.
The brothers, along with a
friend, Horace Brown, who was
not involved in the fighting,
were taken to jail.
George Mills said Anderson
and three plain clothesmen
Ali-Foreman Bout Preceded by James Brown, Aretha
Franklin, 8.8. King ,Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder
Concerts
New York-The super bowl
of the musical world -- “Zaire
74” - has added Miriam
Makeba, Tire Crusaders, Manu
Dibango and the Fania Latin
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JF J W
OLD FRIENDS FAREWELL-Lieutenant General Daniel (Chappie) James, Jr., the
highest ranking Black in the Armed Forces, chats with President Gerald Ford at the
White House. Gen. James, enroute to a new assignment, consulted with the President
and his assistant, Stanley S. Scott, on the U.S. missing in action troops in Vietnam,
race relations in the military, and Black problems in the nation. The three star
general is leaving his Pentagon post as Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Public Affairs to become Vice Commander of the Military Airlift
Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Augusta, Georgia
took him into a small room at
the jail, and asked him what
happened. Anderson then told
him he was lying.
Anderson then smiled at one
of the detectives who said “You
broke my buddy’s leg,” and
started beating Mills. The
smile, Mills said, was what he
believed to be the signal for the
detective to beat him. The
sheriff then told the detective
(who Mills could identify only
as “short, and smoking a
cigar”) “That’s enough.” He
said the sheriff did not protest
the beating, he just felt that he
had been hit enough. Mills said
the detective hit him again.
Then grabbed him in the collar
while the other two detectives
held him.
While the cigar-smoking
detective was choking him,
Mills said the man told him,
“Y’all think you can just beat
up on police.” When Mills said
no he’d just gotten back from
the war, the detective
reportedly said, “You should
have died in Viet Nam. You're
dead. We're going to get you.”
Deputies G.M.
Prickrett and -H.A. Dyke said
that the Mills brothers drove
up at an “excessive rate of
speed.” Pickrett yelled for the
driver to stop. The men
All-Stars to its previously
announced list of top-name
Black performers scheduled to
star in the momentus gathering
in the African Republic of
SHERIFF WILLIAM A. ANDERSON"'
“ ... no comment.”
jumped from the car and
started for the house at a rapid
pace.
The deputies said they told
the men to stop and they
didn’t and when they tried to
stop them physically, the fight
started. Prickett admitted
striking George Mills on the
head with his night stick during
the scuffle.
Zaire (Sept. 20-22)
Previously announced names
include Stevie Wonder, Aretha
Franklin, James Brown, 8.8.
King, Johnny Nash and The
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Sheriff Anderson refused to
comment. He said, “Those
people have contacted an
attorney; they've contacted the
Human Relations Commission
and the FBI. 1 have absolutely
no comment.”
The Mills family has secured
the legal services of Attorney
John Ruffin.
Spinners. Several other top
Black pop-rock stars and their
African counterparts are still to
be finalized, according to
Stewart Levine and Hugh
Masekela, producers of the
three-day event.
The concerts will be part of
a week-long celebration leading
up to the world’s heavy weight
championship fight between
world champion George
Foreman and challenger/-
former champion Muhammad
Ali. The fight will be held at 20
du Mai Stadium (capacity:
100,000) in Kinshasa, capital
of Zaire.
Levine and Masekela also
said that the entire group of
Black stars will depart for Zaire
in mid-September on specially
chartered jets, with a huge
kickoff party scheduled for
New York, followed by a
special reception in Zaire.
In addition, negotiations are
almost completed with a major
production company to film
the concert activities for a
forthcoming theatrical feature
to be released internationally.
Levine and Masekela
revealed that a series of albums
will be produced and will be
distributed by at least two
major record companies.
“Zaire 74” is located in New
York at 39 West 55th Street,
Suite 303 (zip-10019) 212
757-2707 All information
relative to special VIP package
tours and arrangements for
travelling to the Republic of
Zaire for both the three-day
music festival and the
Forman-Ali fight will be
handled by Festival in Zaire,
Inc. also located at 39 West
55th Street, 212 581-1880.