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Visiting In Augusta
Black U.S. Marshall
Protects Nixon Tapes
One of the good things
Richard Nixon did as President
was to appoint a Black man,
George McKinney, UjS.
Marshall for the Washington,
D.C. district. The same U.S.
Marshall issued Nixon the first
subpoena for the surrender of
the Watergate tapes.
McKinney is the son of
Morgan State professor
Richard McKinney whose wife
is the former Lena Martin,
formerly of Augusta.
One of only three Black U.S.
Marshals in the continental
United States, McKinney still
has jurisdiction over the
Watergate tapes, to which he
says Nixon has not had access
since leaving the office. All of
the Watergate defendants who
were sent to prison had to
surrender to the Black
marshall.
He was in Augusta last week
serving as a consultant on civil
disorders at Ft Gordon.
McKinney also was the chief
negotiator in the case where
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Bishop Joseph Coles was
elected Saturday to the Paine
College Board of Trustees. He
was also named vice-chairman
of the board, replacing Bishop
P. Randolph Shy who retired
this year as Bishop of the Sixth
Episcopal District.
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Bishop of the Sixth Episcopal
District be named to the board
and that he serves as its vice
chairman. Prior to being
elected bishop earlier this year,
he served as pastor of the
Williams Institutional C.M.E.
Church in New York City.
He is married to the former
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President Ford Appoints
Dr. Leon Sullivan To
National Manpower Commission
In an historic breakthrough
for Black Americans, Dr. Leon
Sullivan, founder and
Chairman of the Board of
Opportunities Industrialization
Centers (OIC) of America and
OIC International, was
appointed last week by the
President of the United States,
the Honorable Gerald Ford, to
serve on a policy formulation
and advisory commission
created by the 1973 Manpower
Law. Since Black Americans
are today suffering the highest
unemployment rate and have
the largest percentage of
unskilled workers in the
workforce, the presence of a
Black American on this
particular commission gives
some hope that the needs of
Blacks will be considered in the
Geneva Hamilton of South
Boston, Va.
The Coles have three
children, Rubie, 19; Jocelyn,
13, and Joseph 111, 8.
They are now living in
Atlanta.
Retirement ceremonies were
held last week at the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance
Company for Mrs. Emma
Hawes Warren. She has worked
for the company since 1947.
Pilgrim President W.S.
Hornsby presented Mrs. Warren
with a watch, and her
supervisor, Christopher Elim,
Jr., presented her with a service
pin.
“If the company had all
employes like Mrs. Emma, we
will never have to worry about
the job being done and about
the progress of Pilgrim,”
Hornsby said.
Mrs. Warren is married to
Paul E. Warren and they live in
Lincolnton, Ga. They have one
adopted daughter, Dr. Alyce Y.
Hawes.
Augusta, Georgia
planning stage instead of as an
afterthought.
Dr. Sullivan will sit with the
Secretary of Defense, Secretary
of HEW, Secretary of Labor,
Secretary of Agriculture, and
Administrator of Veterans
Affairs, who serves as ex-officia
members of the Commission.
He will serve along with nine
other members appointed by
the President representing a
cross-section of American
citizens.
OIC, which now is operating
in some stages of development
in 200 communities in 45
States, has proven to be a
demonstration project of how
to make the new
Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act work for the
benefit of poor people. Local
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RUNS FOR “WHIP” -- Savannah legislator Bobby
Hill has announced he is running for Democratic Party
whip in the Georgia House of Representatives. Hill will
make the bid at the party’s caucus in November. No
Black legislator has ever held the post.
— A. CANDLEI
Black Runs For
'Whip’ In Ga. House
two inmates took over a cell
block in a Washington federal
prison several months ago.
Four civilians and 25 prisoners
were held hostage for several
days.
The inmates, James Jones
and Frank Gorham,
surrendered after the last
hostages escaped when a
sanitary napkin was used to
smuggle a key to a female
hostage.
Sometimes his work takes
him far from Washington, he
recently had to fly to the
Middle East to return a
prisoner who had escaped from
the U.S. in April.
An articulate man,
McKinney attended Morgan
State College and is a member
of the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity.
He is married to the former
Mildred Sensabaug. They have
four children, Richard, Monica,
Marla and Hank Hiram.
OIC leaders have successfully
sought the approval of more
than 100 of the Nation’s
Mayors to include OIC in their
city’s plans for the
development and training of
manpower.
Other members of the
Commission include: Eli
Ginsberg, of New York City;
Rudolph Alva Cervantes, of
Whittier, California; Dorothy
Ford, of Whittier, California;
John V. Klein, of St. James,
New York; Juanita Kreps, of
Durham, North Carolina; John
H. Lyons of Potomac,
Maryland; Tom Moody, Mayor
of Columbus, Ohio; John W.
Porter, of East Lansing,
Michigan; and Milton L. Rock,
of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.
Blacks Gain
Council Seat
Two of three incumbents
were returned to office by
Augusta voters Wednesday.
Dr. I.E. Washington, Lucy
Laney High School principal,
defeated incumbent C.
Doughty Sylvester for the
Sixth Ward seat on the city
council 2.278-1,748 votes.
In the other two contested
races both incumbents B.L.
Dent (Second Ward) and M.L.
“Slick” DeWitt (appointed to
fill the Sixth Ward Council
seat) were returned to office.
DeWitt beat Wade E. Bryant
2,063-967 votes, and Dent won
out over William H. Mays 111
2,512-1,562 votes, according
to unofficial reports.
Teacher Os
The Year
Mrs. Ruth E. Crawford has
been named teacher of the year
from Richmond County.
She teaches English and
social studies at Monte Sano
Elementary School.
Mrs. Elizabeth Otwell, a
chemistry teacher at the
Academy of Richmond County
was also selected to represent
Richmond County in the
competition for the Georgia
Teacher of the Year.
The Georgia Teacher of the
Year will be named in October
and the award will be made
Nov. 14. The winner will
represent the state in the
National Teacher of the Year
competition.
An elementary school
teacher for 31 years, Mrs.
Crawford has very definite
ideas about what education is
about and what educators
should be doing. “Take a child
where you find him and carry
him as far as you can.” His
home environment and family
achievements should not be
used as an excuse for “watered
down” teaching. Education, to
a large extent, will be what the
teacher makes it, she said.
“Go into the classroom
every day and teach as if the
woods were on fire and you
MUST put them out.”
While she is happy about
programs which have been
designed and implemented to
aid the gifted student, she is
equally concerned about that
the slow learner has not “been
written in”. He deserves at
least as much consideration,
she said.
A graduate of Paine College,
she received the master’s
degree from Indiana
University. She has done
further study at Boston
University, Atlanta University,
The University of Georgia and
the University of Hawaii.
She has held numerous posts
with the Richmond County
Association of Educators and
helped organize the first Head
Governor Appoints
Mclntyre
Gov. Jimmy Carter last week
appointed County
Commissioner Edward
Mclntyre to serve on the State
Long-Term Health Care
Facility Act Advisory Council.
Mclntyre, Richmond
County’s first Black
October 10, 1974 No. 29 20€
EDITORIAL
The Sons Os Slaves
There is an interesting bit of Black history to be
found in a very unlikely place -a school built for white
girls.
Tubman High School was founded in Augusta in
1874 by Mrs. Emily Tubman. A centennial celebration
is to be held Nov. 10. The following information on
Mrs. Tubman is taken from a history prepared for the
centennial celebration:
“She was firmly opposed to slavery and it is said that
she often bought families of slaves in order to keep
them from being sold separately, and then freed them
because she had no desire to own them. She wanted
them only to able to remain together.
In his will, her husband asked that she apply to the
Georgia Legislature to pass a law enabling her to free all
his slaves.” In those days it was quite difficult to free
slaves as Georgia law was very rigid against such
liberalities in an effort to protect slave owners from the
danger of having freedom entice slaves to run away. The
only condition which slaves could be freed was that a
place for them be provided outside the slate of Georgia.
“In 1844, (approximately 20 years before tire
Emancipation Proclamation) Emily lubman called her
slaves together and gave each the coice of either
remaining with her or being given freedom to go to
Liberia. Sixty-nine chose freedom, seventy-five stayed.
“She furnished a ship for the 69 and they were
colonized at Harper, leading city of Cape Palmas in
Maryland County, Liberia. Liberia was established in
West Africa for freed slaves. Mrs. l übman contributed
to a fund which provided homes and supplies for them
in Liberia. To those slaves who did not go to Liberia,
she gave land and supplies until they became able to
support themselves. She realized that legal freedom was
not the only need of Negroes. They needed help in
adapting to their new status in society .
“The influence of Emily Tubman is strong in the
African country of Liberia today. One settlement there
bears the name of Tubmantown. William Vaccanarat
Shadrack Tubman was elected in 1943 and again in
1951 as President of the Republic of Liberia. He was the
grandson of W illiam Shadrack and Sylvia Ann Elizabeth
Tubman, two of Emily Tubman’s slaves who chose
Liberia in 1844.
“He ruled Liberia for nearly three decades during
which he boosted the national budget from $1,750,000
to over SSO million, pacified and integrated some 28
indigenous tribes into Liberia’s politics, extended the
right to vote to women, made freedom of religion a
national policy, opened Liberia’s vast rubber and iron
resources to all markets, and constructed many schools,
hospitals, railroads, paved roads, and ultra-modern
buildings. He died in London in July, 1971 at the age of
75. His body was flown back to Monrovia via Royal Air
Force jet, dispatched by Queen Elizabeth ll.’
During the ’sos, Tubman High School in Augusta
became a co-educational Junior High School. During the
60s, it was integrated. Today 48% of its students are
Black. Half of its teachers are Black. The chief guidance
counselor is Black, and the school has a Black principal.
We would like to believe Mrs. Tubman would be
proud to know the offspring of slaves will lead the
centennnial celebration of Tubman High School. We
believe that this is a celebration of w hich all Augustans
can be proud.
Start program in Augusta.
She also helped to organize
the Augusta Chapter of the
National Association of College
Women, and adult education
classes in the community befire
the board of education began
supporting adult education
classes.
Last May, she organized and
sponsored a financial drive to
support the Paine College
Emergency Fund. This effort
netted the college
approximately S3OOO.
Mrs. Crawford also received
a Merit Award for 15 years of
“unselfish work” with the
United Negro College Fund.
commissioner, also had the
distinction of being named vice
chairman of the council
Accompanied by his wife,
Jaunita and mother, the Rev.
Essie M. Mclntyre, he was
sworn in using his mother’s
Bible.
Dr. Calhoun
Visits Paine
Dr. E. Clayton Calhoun,
former president of Paine
College visited the campus last
week to obtain information to
be compiled in an official
report for the United
Methodist Church.
He was a guest at a luncheon
at the college for Dr. Robert
Astrup, chairman of the
National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher
education Visiting Committee.
The meeting served as an
orientation of preliminary
procedures of the forthcoming
Visiting Committee of the
NCATE which will be on
campus Nov. 4-6.
Dr. Calhoun was president
of Paine for 14 years. Since
leaving Paine in 1970 he has
worked with the United
Methodist Church primarily as
a fund raiser for predominantly
Black colleges.