The Augusta news-review. (Augusta, Ga.) 1972-1985, July 17, 1975, Image 1

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James Brown Gives Airlines 30 Days
to Hire Black Ticket Agents
Entertainer James Brown
last week gave airlines serving
Augusta 30 days to hire Black
ticket agents.
“Either they are going to
have to ride Black or we may
have to ride another way.” By
riding Black, Brown said he
meant “letting us ride on that
same freedom train so that we
can feed our kids, so we can do
things for ourselves. We’ve got
people qualified. Why should
we go to school if we can’t get
a job?”
Brown made the comments
in an emotional editorial
broadcast over his radio
station, WRDW.
The editorial, which had an
Sickle Cell
Victim Dies
Mrs. John (Nancy Cobb)
Young died Wednesday, July
9th in Detroit, Michigan.
Funeral services were held
Monday, July 14 in Detroit.
Mrs. Young, a native
Augustan, last visited Augusta
in February 1974 when she
presided at the official opening
of the Augusta Comprehensive
Sickle Cell Center’s lodging
facility named in her honor -
Nancy Cobb House, located at
Nation Os Islam, SCLC
Omitted From Leadership List
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and the
Nation of Islam were left off
the list of National Black
leaders and organizations, by
the business magazine. Black
Enterprise.
Tyrone Brooks, National
Communications Director for
the Southern Christian
Editorial
Time To Take A Stand
The News-Review backs James Brown one hundred
per cent in his effort to have Blacks employed at Bush
Field as ticket agents. We feel Blacks and other minority
groups should be hired at all levels.
James Brown had an experience at the airport which
forced him to stop and look injustice square in the eye,
and he was motivated to do something about it. Rosa
Parks had an experience with injustice in Montgomery
and her confrontation witn injustice led to a civil rights
movement that changed tne course of history.
In a conversation witli Mr. Brow n this week, we asked
him what he thought it would take to arouse the
community to the point of doing something about
injustice. He replied, “You and I, The News-Review and
WRDW.” He went on to say that he wanted people to
know that “our relationship didn't start as peaches and
cream. We had to evaluate each otner.”
He was referring to some of the disagreements that
we had had. But the point is significant. While we have
had some bitter disagreements, out they were settled in
private. We did evaluate each other and came out of the
experience with a sense of mutual respect and love.
We urge people to become involved in t.iis effort
because it affects all of us. All of us won't get jobs at
the airport. All of us don’t fly. But all ot us tace
injustice. And we can't afford to wait until each of us is
the victim before we become involved.
In too many instances, the problems that exist in
Augusta exist because Black people allow them to exist.
We nave a majority of the population here and we could
get rid of officials who perpetuate injustice, it we
registered and voted.
Most stores in Augusta are dependent upon tne
dollars of Black people for ttieir very existence. And we
could get rid of merchants who refuse to give our people
justice, if we witheld our dollars.
Tne future of Black Augusta is in tiie hands of Black
people. But as long as the oppressor knows that we
won’t stick together and will allow him to pit us against
one another, ne nas nothing to worry about.
equally emotional version of
“Let My People Go” playing in
the background, called for
whites, Chinese and other
nationalities to “join in this
crusade for freedom and
equality.”
“I’ve fought and did
everything 1 can for this
country and for this city. I’ve
preached America and I’ve
preached goodness. And I’ll be
dammed if I’m going to stay
here any longer and accept
some of the things I’ve been
accepting, he continued. “I
didn’t see it, and I did see it. 1
guess it didn’t register,” he said
of the lack of Black ticket
agents at the airport.
1518 Gwinnett Street.
Mrs. Young was one of the
last surviving members with
sickle cell anemia of the first
family studied by the late Dr.
Virgil P. Sydenstricter of the
Medical College of Georgia.
Mrs. Young worked for many
years in various departments at
the University Hospital prior to
moving to Detroit in 1967. She
was a member of the
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Leadership Conference took
issue with Earl Graves,
publisher and editor when he
listed several Black leaders and
organizations but omitted two
of the most powerful and
respected groups in the nation,
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and the
Nation of Islam. Brooks
P. O. Box 953
Brown said that 35-40% of
the riders that leave this city
are Black. The money is leaving
our community and it’s not
coming back. Black people
spend money out there but
we’re not good enough to sell
tickets.
This is not a race case.
Brown said, it’s a case of right
and wrong.
Interviewed at his home
Monday, Brown said that if the
airlines are smart they will
meet the timetable. “If they
are ignorant, they’ll try to fight
it.”
Augusta is served by Delta,
Eastern and Piedmont.
While acknowledging that
In addition to her husband,
John Young, she is survived by
her daughter, Mrs. Precious
Wallace and a sister, Mrs. Lila
Carter, all of Detroit.
In lieu of flowers, the family
requested that contributions be
made in her name to the Nancy
Cobb House Fund, Sickle Cell
Center, Medical College of
Georgia.
pointed out that both groups
have made tremendous
contributions toward the
development of Black America
and that the SCLC has a
membership of over one
million. He further stated that
even though he did not know
the membership for the Nation
of Islam, the numbers and
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FULL GENERAL - Lieutenant General Daniel James.
Jr. of the United States Air Force, a graduate of
Tuskegee Institute, has been nominated for promotion
to four-star General. Secretary ot Defense James R.
Schlesinger announced last week. I he appointment it
approved, becomes etteethe September I and Janies
will become the first Black officer to achieve four-star
rank in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces.
He will be assigned Commanded-in Chief. North
American Air Defense Command with headquarters al
Ent Air Force Base. Colorado Springs, Colorado.
General James. 55, is a former tighter pilot with 101
combat missions in Korea and 78 more in North
Vietnam.
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Eastern has one Black ticket
agent, Brown said the airport
management itself is very, very
far off key. “Because they
haven’t changed nothing for
the past 25 years. They may
have one line boy, and he’s late
at night. That airport itself is a
drag. But we are going to
change that.
“Every city in this whole
state has changed but Augusta;
We are the only one that hasn’f
changed.”
Asked how he would explain
the lack of change in Augusta.
Brown said the people who are
in office in Augusta are “very
comfortable being where they
are. And the man is more
Sen. Julian Bond
Atlanta, Ga. -- State Senator
Julian Bond announced that he
concrete work that the Nation
has carried on warrants
inclusion in the article entitled
National Black Leaders.
He said that the exclusion
was an insult to Black
Americans and all persons who
read Black Enterprise.
Augusta, Georgia
comfortable than they are
because he knows that they
aren't going to bring about any
changes. They don't intend to
bring about no changes.
“I have to exclude Mrs.
Carrie Mays, and Mr. (Ed)
Mclntyre has done some
good.”
What will it take to make
Augusta concerned about
discrimination and injustice?
Brown said, “First, it’s going to
take The News-Review and
WRDW. After the local City
Fathers see that we are not
playing, that we are really
serious, that we’re just as
serious as cancer, they are
going to take notice.
Julian Bond Quits
Presidential Race
would not be a candidate for
President in 1976.
“It’s simply a matter of not
having the money,” Bond said.
“In spite of the hundreds of
people who have written
expressing their support and
those who worked long, hard
hours trying to build a base of
Financial support, we just
couldn’r raise enough cash,”
Bond said.
“Unfortunately,” he added,
“none of the remaining
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Black Mayors Meet With Ford’s Aides
A delegation from the Southern Conference of Black Mayors called recently on aides to the President to explain
needs and concerns at the White House. They later visited the Congress and various departments.
The Black mayors endorsed the continuation of federal revenue sharing and asked for assistance in a number of
areas, ranging from jobs to housing, and including fire trucks, water, and sewage. Participants in the White House
meeting were: William J. Baroody Jr., assistant to Lie President;; Stanley S. Scott, special assistant to the
President; John Calhoun, deputy special assistant to the President; Richard Parsons, associate director, The
Cosmetic Council; James Falk, associate director, the Domestic Council; Patrick Delaney, Bernard I orche,
executive director •, Southern Conference of Black Mayors; Mayor A.J. Cooper, Pritchard, Alabama: Mayor
Clarence Lightner, Raleigh, North Carolina; Earl Lucas, Mound Bayou, Mississippi; Lelia Foley, Taft, Oklahoma;
Mayor Johnny Ford, Tuskegee, Alabama; Bennie Thomson. Bolton, Mississippi, and Rev. Judge Stringer, Hobson,
Alabama.
Employment Test Not
Job Related Are Unlawful
New York. N.Y. - The U.S.
Supreme Court today ruled
that Blacks who suffer lost
wages as a result of
employment discrimination
should ordinarily recover those
wages in the form of "back
pay." The Court also ruled that
employment tests which
restrict the opportunities of
Blacks and which are not “job
related” according to
established professional
standards are unlawful.
This important decision
arose out of a lawsuit involving
the Albemarle Paper Company
“Blacks have just never been
concerned. If they were
concerned, they were
concerned inwardly. But we
are going to let it be
outwardly.”
The changes, he said, have to
be made by whites because the
power structure is white. But
Blacks can let them know that
we are ready for changes to be
made.
“In the final analysis, it
doesn’t mean Blacks banding
together, it means citizens
banding together. This, “he
concluded” is why I appeal to
all races to let’s bring this
(racial discrimination) to an
end right away... It’s going to
be brought to an end.”
candidates seem likely to
promote the radical political
and economic changes so badly
needed to insure redistribution
of wealth in America and
common control of our
resources and our future.”
“I am more than grateful to
the local corps of volunteers,”
he added, “who worked
without pay to keep us going
until now.”
Bond said he would not
support any other candidate.
and Local 425, United
Papermakers and
Paperworkers. Brought in 1966
by the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. Inc.,
Albemarle Paper Company V.
Moody concerns the
application of Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the
federal law designed to end
discrimination in employment.
Julius Chambers, a North
Carolina attorney. now
President of the Fund, argued
the case before the Supreme
Court.
The Fourth Circuit Court of
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Appeals had held that the
defendants had discriminated
and ordered that back pay be
awarded to the class of Black
workers and that
discriminatory testing practices
be halted. Although the
Supreme Court also
determined that the defendants
discriminated and that a
remedy was required, the
Court articulated the standards
for awaiting relief differently
from the Fourt Circuit. The
Supreme Court made clear that
the courts will order full relief,
including monetary awards, for
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all the consequences of racial
discrimination.
Jack Greenberg, the
Director-Counsel of the Legal
Defense Fund, stated that
“The decision is of tremendous
practical importance, since
companies and unions now
know that if they discriminate
they will be liable for
substantial back pay awards.
This fact should cause many
companies and unions to cease
discriminating and to take
effective measures to provide
equal employment
opportunity.”