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Volume 5
Lee Elder Answers Caddy’s
Criticisms - Won’t Use Him Again
By Stan Raines
Golfer Lee Elder this week
denied charges by his Masters
Tournament caddy Henry
Brown of Augusta. He also
added that when he comes
back to Augusta, Henry Brown
will not be his caddy.
Brown said in an interview
(News-Review May 29) that
Elder failed to make the cut in
the Masters because he had too
much fun at parties, didn’t
trust anyone including his
caddy, and did not want advice
except to know the distance
Accused Os Stabbing Step-Son
Bobby Louis Bryant, 25, of
lOS’/i Oak Street, was stabbed
to death early last week.
Martha Bryant, his mother,
had left her husband, Johnny
Former Augustan Stars In Miller Theatre
Movie, To Visit Here This Weekend
By Robert L. Moore
Lawrence Fishburne 111, is
an Augustan who co-stars in
the movie “Cornbread, Earl and
Me”, now showing at the Miller
Theatre here.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Fishburne 11.
According to his grandmother,
who lives in Augusta, he is a
regular kid who likes to sit in
chairs backwards, read comic
books and get into devilment
like most other boys his age.
Lawrence’s grandmother
who has a sixth grade
education managed to put
eight daughters through college
with sheer determination and
the “help of the Lord.”
Lawrence became interested
in the theatre through a
summer playhouse in
Brooklyn. Even though he has
been in the business for only
three years. He is presently
seen in the TV soap opera
entitled “One Life To Live”,
and was seen in the television
drama entitled, “If You Give A
Dance, You Gotta Pay The
Band.” Although he has done
numerous commercials,
“Combread, Earl and Me” is
his first feature length Him.
Angela Smith of the
Amsterdam News states that
this is not the kind of poor
quality film that has been
coming out depicting Black
life. She states that it is a film
which is about as close as we’ll
get to a realistic portrayal of
Abernathy Returns
Groups To Form Coalition For Boycott
“We Want Our Share” will
hold a coalition meeting and
rally at Bethel A.M.E. Church
Wednesday June 18. The
coalition meeting will begin at
6 p.m. The rally will start at 8
p.m. and the public is urged to
attend according to
acting-president, the Rev.
Michael McCoy.
SCLC national President Dr.
Ralph Abernathy will be in
town to help organize the
coalition and is expected to
address the rally,, according to
SCLC communications director*
Tj -one Brooks.
Abernathy earlier promised
to return to Augusta to help
organize and intensify the
efforts of “We Want Our
Share”.
The group is picketing
selected downtown stores,
from one hole to another.
Elder answered the charges
this week in a telephone
interview at his home in
Washington, D.C.
“Henry Brown is not the
caddy that he says he is ... He
does not know distance.
“When I arrived in Augusta,
I told Brown that I wanted
yardage and 1 didn't want him
to just hand me a club.
I always take advice from
my caddy and if Henry Brown
Welcher laying on the couch
when she went to the Flamingo
Club. A little later, Johnny
Welcher, the victim’s
step-father, went to the
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LAWRENCE FISHBURNE HI
ghetto life in relation to Black
youngsters.
It is a motion picture puzzle
pieced together with some fine
demanding more jobs for
Blacks, better recreation
Vivian W. Henderson
P. O. Box 953
is such a good caddy . . . why
hasn’t he won in Augusta?
The things that he said are
untrue, I tried to talk to him.
He is caddying and I am
playing. If he is as good at
caddying as he claims to be
then he would be playing not
caddying. I have been playing
for eight years.
As far as parties are
concerned, I know when to
party and how to party. I only
went to one reception in
Flamingo Club where he
reportedly told his wife that he
had stabbed her son Bobby.
Mrs. Bryant then rushed home
where she found her son on his
acting talent. Moses Gunn and
Lawrence Fishburne II are the
two actors who pull the pieces
together. Both actors are
facilities, support for Black Wallace Branch Library be kept
news media and that the open on a permanent basis.
Clark College President
Elected Bendix Director
East Providence, R.I. -
Vivian W. Henderson, president
of Clark College in the Atlanta
University Center was elected
to the Board of Directors of
the Bendix Corporation.
Southfield, Mich.
Dr. Henderson is a member
of the Board of Trustees of the
Ford Foundation, and a
director of the National Urban
Coalition.
He was appointed
education co-chairman of the
Augusta and I feel that this did
not harm me in any way. So
I'll say again that Henry Brown
did not have the proper
yardage for the Master’s course
so I did not seek his advice
after learning this. The people
of Augusta are fantastic and I
enjoyed playing there. I was
well received and I shall never
forget it. You can be looking
for me because I shall return to
Augusta . . . but under no
circumstances will 1 use Brown
as my caddy.”
back with blood on his shirt
and chest.
Police went to the Flamingo
Club to get Welcher but was
told that he had gone back to
equally proud ot what the film
and feel that in
some ways, it is a model for
the injustices of what happens
in ghetto communities
everywhere.
They see no negativeness in
the film or in their roles, and in
describing their roles, they are
quick to point out the way in
which they see their particular
character. “Blackwell is a very
positive role,” statesGunn,
“Because he sets out to defend
the death of a kid who was a
hero in the community.”
Lawrence Fishburne matter of
factly believes that the
character he portrays did what
he knew he had to do - he had
to do what was right.
•I Gu n n pointed out some
of the vibrations that the film
projected. “I think the
audience sees the injustice, and
is hopeful throughout the
picture that the truth will be
told.” Continuing he states,
“It’s not one of those
mysteries where you wonder
who did it, but what the
audience does not know, is
that once the courtroom trial
begins, they do not know that
the boy’s name will be cleared.
They might feel that here’s
another one of those situations
where a kid just gets done in
by the system.” “You just get
mad at what happens to the
characters,” states Mr.
Fishburne, rather defmitely.
Georgia goals Commission by
former Governor Jimmy
Carter, is president of the
Board and chairman of the
Executive Committee of the
Southern Regional Council,
and is a member of the
Advisory Committee of the
Atlanta Charter Commission
and the University Senate of
the United Methodist Church.
In commenting on Dr.
Henderson’s election, Mr.
Michael Blumenthal, chairman
Augusta, Georgia
HENRY BROWN
Photo by Stan Raines
Oak Street. Police found him
walking around in back of the
trailer where he was arrested.
The suspect then denied
knowledge of why he was
being arrested.
Mclntyre Gets SIO,OOO
For Paine Recreation Program
County Commission
Chairman Edward M. Mclntyre
has again secured SIO,OOO for
the Paine College summer
recreation program.
House Passes Voting Rights
Act Extension For Ten Years
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
U.S. House of Representatives
has passed a bill to extend the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 for
10 years. The law, which has
been called the most effective
civil rights legislation passed by
the Congress, led directly to
widespread political gains by
Black people in the South.
The House-passed bill makes
permanent the nationwide ban
on literacy tests as a voting
requirement, and for the first
time extends protection of
of the board said, “We
welcome Dr. Henderson to the
Board for his knowledge of
economics and education and
we hope that he will be
particularly helpful in our
equal employment opportunity
and other ‘people programs’ to
which we are deeply
committed at the Bendix
Corporation.
“In addition, we are pleased
to have a director from the
South, an area of the United
States where we have many
importnat operations.”
In the 1950’5, Dr.
Henderson conducted pioneer
studies of the Black labor
market and the potential
buying power of the Black
community. Before his
appointment to the presidency
of Clark, Dr. Henderson was at
Fisk University as an
administrator, a professor and
chairman of the Department of
Economics.
Bendix is a world wide
manufacturing company
serving the automotive,
aerospace and shelter markets.
The company ranks No. 71 in
Fortune magazine's listing of
the top 500 companies in the
U.S , and had a reported sales
in 1974 of 52.5 billion dollars,
largely in aerospace and
automotive equipment.
Deadline
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June 12, 1975 No. 12
Jet, Ebony Publishers Fail To
Reconcile With SCLC Leaders
Tyrone Brooks, National
Communications director for
SCLC informed The
News-Review that Johnson f
Publications, the nation’s
largest Black publishing
company, did not meet the
June 9 deadline to give
“satisfactory replies” to seven
demands submitted Monday by
the national office of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and the Movement
Coalition for Fair Coverage.
Brooks said that those
offices will mobilize to form a
nation-wide boycott against
Johnson’s JET and EBONY
Magazines since they have
failed to lift a blackout of
SCLC and other relevant and
worthwhile community
organizations. The popular
magazines will be burned in the
streets, he said.
SCLC’s demands are:
- lifting the “black-out on
SCLC immediatly”
- Johnson Publications give
“fair coverage of SCLC news
nationwide”
- fire Harmon Perry at Jet’s
Atlanta bureau chief for
Last year when the program
did not have the money to
operate, he was able to get
SIO,OOO from Gov. Jimmy
Carter’s emergency fund.
voting rights to millions of
Spanish-speaking people,
American Indians, Alaskan
natives, and Asian Americans.
The measure now goes to
the Senate, where civil rights
forces are driving for passage
and final enactment into law
before the Act’s present
expiration date of August 6,
1975.
Under the bill passed by the
House:
1— The special coverage in
seven southern states (all of
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EEOC CHIEF TAKES OATH -- Lowell W. Perry became the sixth chairman of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Tuesday, May 27, when he
took the oath of office in the Rose Garden of the White House. He was nominated
by President Ford for the position on May 12 and confirmed by the Senate on May
21.
Shown at the swearing-in ceremony are (L-R): Judge Dammon Keith of Michigan
who administered the oath; Mrs. Maxine Perry, the chairman’s wife; Perry and
President Ford. In the background (L-R) are Commissioner Raymond Telles,
Commissioner Ethel Bent Walsh, vice chairman; Rep. Augustus Hawkins, Chairman
of the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities; Walter Washington mayor of
Washington, D.C., and Lowell Perry, Jr. Standing in front of Representative Hawkins
is Perry’s daughter, Merrideth.
“refusing to cover very relevant
and significant events and
activities that were of great
importance to the Black
community in Atlanta”
- provide bureaus with full
time staff
- bureau directors “who are
sensitive to the programs of
SCLC”
- resume coverage of the
civil rights movement
- and project positive Black
leaders as much as entertainers
and sports figures.
A meeting May 13 between
Robert Johnson, Jet publisher
and representatives of local and
national, SCLC offices failed to
resolve the issue of coverage of
the civil rights organizations
and possible boycott.
“The meeting was a
complete waste of time,” the
June 2 letter to Johnson
Publications stated, “simply
because Mr. Johnson came into
the meeting closed-minded and
with no intention of settling
the problems.”
At that explosive meeting,
Atlanta SCLC president Hosea
Williams demanded that Jet
This time he got the same
amount through Sen. Sam
Nunn’s office.
Mclntyre said he wll ask for
$5,000 from the county at the
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina,
and Virginia, and 39 counties
in North Carolina) would
continue for ten years. This
means that these states and
their counties or other political
subdivisions must obtain
advance clearance by the U.S.
Justice Department before
putting into effect any changes
in voting laws or procedures,
such as registration rules or
redistricting plans. These areas
are also subject to the U.S.
and Ebony scale down its
coverage of Rev. Jesse Jackson,
founder of Operation PUSH
who appears frequently in both
publications.
“Jesse ain’t done s--t and he
gets all the coverage,” Williams
told the Black publicher. “But
Dr. Abernathy is on the front
lines and doesn’t get
anything.”
No memtion of Jackson or
PUSH was made in the letter
released by the national SCLC
office Monday.
He continued that Johnson
Publications is backing-out
SCLC and other movement
groups “because they don’t
want to lose big business
advertising”.
Brooks said SCLC also has
grievances against Atlanta’s
Black press. “Right now, we’re
on Johnson Publications but
we also have problems with the
local Black press-not you guys
who come out on the streets
but the guys at the top, editors
who have written the
movement off.”
next Finance Committee
meeting.
The recreation program will
serve some 400 youths and
adults this summer, according
to Director Ernest Tolbert.
Attorney General’s authority
to send in federal registrars and
poll watchers.
2- Literary tests and other
discriminatory voting
qualifications would be
permanently outlawed
throughout the nation.
3 Spanish-speaking
citizens, American Indians,
Alaskan natives and Asian
Americans - all of whom have
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