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President Ford Names OIC Head To M o --omission Nhiw-Kw ieut THE PEOPLE’S PAPER r Vol. 4 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 Newest Trustee ' ■ /jhi p- ■ J f I \, W > .IMP ™ BISHOP JOSEPH COLES 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. It is traditional that the Mrs. Emma Hawes Warren Retires flKd- l i- ■ I'4l C“.lb \ w> iy r "' r*? ■ r J’Kv ‘ '*' (L-R) Christopher Elam, Mrs. Emma Warren, and W.S. Hornsby, Jr. I I f X. ' [•v b I f" 4m ‘ L'flC -ST / dMwl- , V& »■ ■ W** \ / '**■ * / "A| IW I I -A I <4/ fl /J’ w i II A i , Hr ■ i&v i George McKinney with Lucy Laney Counselor Louise Ross. 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 P.O. Box 953 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 Mt ■ Ji iHpgWF 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.