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Volume 5
Augusta’s Daily Newspapers Deceive Public About Boycott
Much is being said about the boycott of downtown
stores. Many people don’t understand what is going on,
and many people who do understand are deliberately
spreading false information in order to prevent the
boycott from succeeding.
The daily newspapers in Augusta are a prime
example.
Editorials that they have written have tried to
persuade readers that preferential hiring means “hiring
Blacks whether they are qualified or not.” That is
ridiculous. That idea has never been suggested by “We
Want Our Share” or by anyone connected with the
boycott. “We Want Our Share” demands specifically
state that* merchants and local government should
advertise the available positions so that Blacks would
Augusta Visitor Foils Attempted Rape
An Augusta visitor thwarted
a rape attempt last Sunday.
An Augusta woman stated
that she and a friend were at
Boardman’s Spillway
swimming and sunbathing
when a man from across the
Spillway approached them and
struck up a conversation. After
ten minutes the girls told the
man that their boyfriends were
Black Man Beaten By White Police Chief
LUMBER CITY, Ga. - A
pattern of racial discrimination
in police enforcement may be
surfacing in south Georgia as a
result of investigations into the
alleged beating of a Black man
by a white police chief and
patrolman.
“At this point there are
preliminary indications that
the state of police-community
relations in south Georgia is in
bad shape,” said Bobby
Doctor, director of the
southern regional office of the
U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
“We’re going to recommend
Local Students Graduate From Bennett College
Three Augusta students
recently received degrees from
Bennett College.
Gwendolyn Johnson received
the bachelor of science degree
from Bennett College for
women in Greensboro, N.C. A
biology major, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Johnson who reside at
3646 London Boulevard.
Her collegiate involvements
included memberships in Who’s
Wiw Among American Colleges
and Universities, Senior Honor
Society, Beta Kappa Chi
Science Honor Society, Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority, Choir,
Gospel Choir, and Student
Government Association.
Gwendolyn graduated with
honors and received
departmental recognition in
Rape Crisis Task Force
To Meet Tuesday
The Augusta Rape Crisis
Task Force, a group of
concerned citizens, will meet
on July 1, at 7:30 pm., in the
conference room of the
Augusta Area Mental Health
Carter (behind University
going to return and that they
were going to leave in an effort
to get rid of the man. The man
left and after a few minutes
returned and told them that he
thought they were going to
leave.
The man then pulled out a
knife and grabbed one of the
girls and put the knife to her
to our advisory committee that
they be about the business of
conducting a study of
police-community relations in
the area.”
Doctor said preliminary
indications were bearing out
the reality of a discriminatory
law enforcement pattern which
he had feared existed after
hearing of the beating
reminiscent of activities during
“the 20s, 30s, 40s and 505.”
The victim, Fletcher King, is
reportedly still hiding out at
the Florida home of a friend.
The white assailants,
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Hospital, just off University
Place.)
The subjects to be discussed
are: The current situation in
the Augusta area; input from
local agencies; planning for a
comprehensive support service
P. O. Box 953
know that the jobs are available. The group has
volunteered to find Blacks to fill the jobs. And asks that
merchants provide training where necessary. At no point
does the group ask that unqualified people be hired for
a job. The problem is that many whites automatically
think of Blacks as being unqualified.
It should be emphasized that SCLC’s Ralph
Abernathy never suggested breaking any law. Nor did he
suggest violence. In fact, he reaffirmed his and SCLC’s
commitment to nonviolence. The daily news papers
could have printed that. But they, we believe, wanted to
create ill-will toward the boycott, so they never told the
public the whole truth. We still have the tape of
Abernathy’s speech here, where he reaffirmed SCLC’s
back and attempted to molest
her. The girl managed to break
away running and screaming,
but was caught near the top of
the Spillway by her pursuer.
When the man caught the
girl he laid down his knife and
attempted to rape the girl. But
the girl managed to get hold of
the raper’s knife and stabbed
suspended police chief Ray
Cook and suspended patrolman
Jimmy Creamer, are free on
$6,000 bond.
According to King he was
beaten by the men as a
suspected informer on a
moonshine, bootlegging
whiskey ring. King has said the
chief indicated involvement in
the illegal liquor operation.
The U 5. Justice Department
has launched an investigation
into the alleged April 12
beating that left King
possessionless and seriously cut
and bruised.
King told the media he had
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MARILYN ROBERTS
for rape victims; and,
implementation of a RAPE
Crisis Telephone Line.
All interested persons are
invited to attend. For further
information, contact: Treena
Levins, Telephone: 828-2327
(Weekdays, 9-5 pm.)
AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE
him in the left side and back.
As she stabbed him, the
attacker managed to grab the
knife by the blade and asked
the girl to give him the knife
and he wouldn’t rape her. The
girl stated that she held on to
the knife but her attacker
grabbed it out of her hand and
ran off through the woods
toward Barton Village.
to receive daily medical
treatment for the cuts in the
genital area and hand in
addition to bruises left by the
blows he received.
He has said he will not
return to the city because the
suspended chief has threatened
his life.
He said the FBI, which
located him in Florida after
rumors of the incident spread
through southern Georgia, has
offered protection if he has to
return to give testimony.
Both the Justice Department
and Civil Rights Commission
investigations are continuing.
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SARA DIANE LIVELY
Josey Students Get
$4,600 Scholarship
Helen D. Rosier and Ceasar
Cooper liave been awarded
$4600 academic scholarships
to attend Knoxville College.
Knoxville Tenn. They received
the scholarships for academic
excellence during their four
Augusta, Georgia
Editorial
commitment to nonviolence. And we challenge the daily
newspapers to listen to it and to print the truth.
The whole attack on preferential hiring reflects either
a commitment to white superiority or just a plain
ignorance of history and the causes that have led to the
current state of inequality in America. However, this
subject will require much more space than we can give it
in this editorial, and we will write a separate editorial on
that issue alone.
Some years ago, Blacks boycotted the daily
newspapers. What many Blacks don’t realize though is
that in boycotting the stores, they are boycotting the
daily newspapers. The daily newspapers must fight the
boycott in order to stay in business themselves. If the
stores downtown are threatened, the daily newspapers
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"Hosea Williams Day"
Veteran civil rights leader and former executive for
the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Georgia State
Representative Hosea Williams observes Atlanta’s Mayor
Maynard Jackson as he signs proclamation declaring
June 20, “Hosea Williams’ Day” in /Atlanta. Mayor
Jackson issued the official proclamation in conjunction
with a testimonial dinner and dance held Friday, June
20th, sponsored by friends of Rev. Williams.
biology.
A Iso graduating from
Bennett were Sara Diane Lively
and Marilyn Roberts. Sara
received the bachelor of arts
degree in business site is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
F. Lively who reside at 1107
Sixth Ave.
Her collegiate involvements
included memberships in
Business Club, Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Choir, and the
Gospel Choir.
Marilyn received the
bachelor of arts degree in
political science. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Mary L.
Harden of 3058 Dent St.
Her collegiate involvements
included membership in the
Co-op Club, Drama Club and
was a Davidson-Foreman
Scholarship Winner.
years at TW Josey High Schooi.
Miss Rosier is the daughter
of Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas,
2010 Grand Boulevard, and
Mr. Cooper is the son of Mr.
John R. Cooper, 1747 Cornell
Drive, Augusta.
June 26, 1975 No. 14
PLEASE DON'T
SHOP THESE
STORES!
1. Belk's
2. Big Star
3. Cullums
4. Davisons
5. H.L. Green
6. J.C. Penney
7. J.B. White
8. Rhodes
Furniture
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Our Share!
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are also threatened. The newspapers stay alive on
advertising from the downtown stores. If the boycott is
successful and those stores don’t have money with
which to advertise, the daily newspapers will go out of
business. So the newspapers have to fight the boycott,
it’s a matter of survival in addition to the fact that the
daily newspapers have always led in maintaining the
status quo of Black oppression.
It should be added that the goal of the boycott is not
to put people out of business. It is to get justice through
a legal means over which we have control - withholding
our dollars. It should be remembered that most of those
stores do from 50% to 95% Black business. We keep
them in business. So it is up to them to decide whether
or not they want to keep our business.
Mayor Says He
Expects To Go Free
Jackson, Miss. - Civil rights
leader Charles Evers, whose
income tax evasion trail ended
in a mistrial, apparently will be
tried a second time.
Justice Department attorney
Michael Alden announced
shortly after U.S. District
Judge Dan Russell Jr. declared
the mistrial that the
government “is fully prepared
and awaiting a new trial
whenever a date is set by the
court.”
The four-day-old trial was
aborted after an Internal
Revenue Service agent
suggested from the witness
stand that the Fayette, Miss.,
mayor’s 1968 congressional
campaign might have been the
source of undisclosed income.
Defense Attorney Michael
Fawer of New Orleans branded
the statement “an outrage”
and moved for a mistrial on
grounds the IRS had not
mentioned campiagn
contributions in its allegations
or in briefs filed with the
court.
The civil rights leader and
his former wife were indicted
last August on charges of
evading income taxes during
1968, 1969 and 1970.
Testimony by an IRS agent
accused the couple of failure to
report income totaling
$161,409 and evading $48,177
in taxes during the three-year
period.
The indictment against Evers
and his former wife, Nan,
accused them of failure to
report $159,335 or to pay
$52,503 in taxes. There was no
explanation of the differences
in the figures.
Fawer moved for a mistrial
after tax agent William Jack
Sykes, pressed on cross
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(Photo by Stan Raines
M; ter of Ceremonies Dennis Wylds delights guests at
testimonial dinner given in honor of Lucy Laney High School’s
retiring Principal, Dr. I.E. Washington.
examination for the source of
income allegedly undisclosed in
1968, replied: “Well, he did
run for Congress.”
“The problem with us is that
we were so close to a victory to
have the case tainted that
way,” Fawer said. “Mayor
Evers had requested that I
withdraw my motion for a
mistrial and that we take our
chances with the jury.”
Evers told reporters he was
“not really displeased, with the
outcome but “I would have
liked to have gotten it over
with.”
He said he never doubted he
would be acquitted.
The IRS took a “net worth”
appraoch in the case,
attempting to prove without
showing specific sources of
income that Evers total assets
jumped from $58,457 at the
beginning of 1968 to $222,692
at the close of 1970.
The defense contended
Evers’ assets did not actually
increase during the period
because he had about
$160,000 in undisclosed cash
at the time.
Fawer said the money was
earned from bootlegging,
gambling and other illegal
operations in Chicago during
the late 1950 s and early 19605.
Evers returned to Mississippi
from Chicago after the murder
of his brother Medgar in 1963.
He took over Medgar’s role as
state field secretary of the
NAACP and was elected as the
first Black mayor of a biracial
Mississippi town in 1969.
An unsucessful gubernatorial
candidate four years ago, he
later became Democratic
national committeeman from
Mississippi. ,
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