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AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE LESS THAN 75% ADVERTISING Vol. 5 Editorial Augusta Chronicle Pours Slime Over Martin Luther King’s Memory Since Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, Jan. 15, many Black Augustans have been talking about the “nauseating” editorial, “Unjustified Holiday,” written in The Augusta Chronicle. We, too, found it sickening, but for a different reason. We are sickened by the thought that the Black community will let The Chronicle get away with it. First, we have to realize that the editorial was not just a put-down of Dr. King. It was a put-down of all Black people. Dr. King was, in our opinion, the most Rosa Louise Ross 1918-1976 MISS ROSA LOUISE ROSS Miss Rosa Louise Ross, the daughter of Mr. Anthony Ross and . the late Mrs. Cornelia Ross, was many things to many people: humanitarian, educator, counselor, untiring worker, true friend. For this reason, our town is experiencing a deep sense of loss. Although we are sad, we are also grateful for the many benefits we have derived from the beautiful life which has just gone from our midst. Louise left us a legacy as demonstrated by her many varied activities. She served her church well, giving of her time, her talents, and financial means. She took pleasure in gathering the children of the neighborhood who were not affiliated with other churches and taking them to Sunday school In addition to serving the Cumming Grove Baptist Church, she found time to engage in the activities of other churches, serving them whenever she could. Her service to all mankind extended to the elderly, whom she served by attending to their needs - writing letters, driving them, or just visiting to f j?e a word of cheer to relieve their loneliness. As a teacher and counselor to many students who passed her way, she lived and taught by the example set forth by the Great Teacher, that is, teaching by precept and example. The elementary schools of Richmond County should be pleased that they laid the background for such an excellent scholar. As a graduate of Paine High School and Paine College, she has become one of their most outstanding alumna. Teachers College, Columbia University, where she received the Master’s Degree in mathematics, is proud to have a successful graduate who also became a community leader. Most of her teaching years were spent at Lucy Laney (formerly A. R. Johnson). She was instrumental in organizing the Big Brothers at Lucy Laney and the R.O.T.C. unit. For her work in the educational field, she was selected as the first Teacher of the I Year for Richmond County, first woman president of the Richmond County Teacher Association and the first delegate from Richmond County to the National Education Association Convention in Denver. Louise was not just a card carrying member of the many | organizations in wnich she held membership, but an active member. She was a charter member of the Georgia Alumni of Pi Lambda Theta. She was instrumental in the organization of the Augusta Pan-Hellenic Council and served as its first president. She also was an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and ' served as Tamiochus and Basileus, and as director for its first Debutante Cotillion. In 1976, she was selected Woman of the Year by the National Association of College Women. The rich heritage we have from having known Louise intimately or casually will sustain our town despite its loss of her presence. Now the day is over, and Louise leaves all of us one of her favorite prayers COMMUNICATION I The private words I have with God Are never spoken lightly— I dwell upon each well-turned phrase Presented to Him nightly. But recently I had the thought That maybe I should trim A part of my fine flow of words, And listen more to Him. P. O. Box 953 outstanding human being, Black or white, living or dead, to live in this century. Dr. King lived the kind of i sacrificial life that most of us wish we were capable of living. Dr. King was the kind of person that most of us wish that we could be. If, then, The Chronicle places so little value on Dr. King, were does that place the rest of us? We shall not attempt to convince anyone of the Chronicle’s hate of Black people in general and of those who try to bring equality for Black people in particular. The Chronicle says that it is the oldest paper in the South- established in 1785. If it has not convinced Black people through its own pages for almost two hundred years, then there is nothing we can do or say to convince you. And we are sure that you have not forgotten that only ten years ago, The Chronicle-Herald still ran news of Blacks in a separate section of the newspaper, entitled “News of Interest to Our Colored Readers.” Was that intended to bring the races closer together? Was that intended to show respect for Blacks by giving us a section all of our own? Or was it to assure whites that they did not have to offend their eyes by looking on a Black face unless they chose to? Or was it just another subconscious manifestation of the segregated mind? Is The Chronicle so uninformed that it is not aware of the FBI and the ClA’s attempts to smear, if not literally kill, Dr. King? It has been said that there is none so blind as he who refuses to see. Such is the case with The Augusta Chronicle. But that’s their problem. Our responsibility is to see to it that we don’t allow them to trample on us and our leaders as they blindly seek to register their hate. The Chronicle is willfully blind, but it is still quite capable of feeling. And we believe that it should be made to feel the indignation of the Black community and of those who value the principles for which Martin Luther King lived and died. i Senate Bill One Encourages Police State Southern civil rights leaders have issued a warning to the Black community and to civil rights advocates across the country concerning > legislation pending in this session of Congress which they say could turn the U.S. into a police state. The legislation is titled Senate Bill 1. Issuing the joint statement were veteran civil rights figures Julian Bond, John Lewis, The Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Bernard Lee. Abernathy and Lee are President and Vice-President, respectively, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Dr. C.E. Wells Returns From South Africa Tour £ BSi' - <uL SkHH J Photo by Stan Raines Family and friends greet Dr. Wells at airport on his return to Augusta. The Rev. Dr. C. E. Wells, pastor of Bethel A.M.E. church recently returned from a two week tour of the work of the African Methodist Episcopal Augusta, Georgia Bond, Lewis, Abernathy and Lee were active figures in the civil rights movements of the South in the 1960’5. They said that if passed, S. 1 “would be a monumental set-back to the civil rights gains of the last 20 years.” They called it the most dangerous legislative threat to the rights of all Americans ever to come before the Congress, and said it would strike hardest at Blacks and minorities. S. 1 is a reworking of the entire U.S. criminal code that was introduced in its original form into the Congress by former President Nixon. It is pending before the Senate church in South and West Africa. His travels took him to the Republic of Senegal where he visited the capital city of Dakar. To Lagos Nigeria; We feel that at least three steps should be taken immediately. 1. Black leaders should call a news conference and make their feelings known in no uncertain terms. 2. There should be a collective boycott of the Augusta daily newspapers. 3. There should be a general boycott of the merchants who keep The Chronicle in business. This last point needs to be elaborated upon. Newspapers exist off advertising, not by the sale of newspapers. By boycotting the merchants, one boycotts The Chronicle. If the merchants don’t have money with which to advertise, The Chronicle folds up. It should also be remembered that many merchants share The Chronicle’s point of view. Consequently, even if the Black community cancels its subscriptions with The Chronicle, the merchants will continue to support the paper just to keep the voice of oppression alive. So the merchants and the Chronicle must be boycotted for their hiring policies alone, not to mention the various other ways in which they discriminate against the Black community. Why does The Chronicle take such a dim view of Dr. King? It’s nothing personal. They will try to destroy anybody Black or white who tries to bring justice and equality to Black people. Remember their editorial on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, entitled, “Without Tears”, in which they castigated him as badly as they did King? Yet they find nothing wrong with endorsing Lester Maddox, naming an expressway after the likes of John C. Calhoun, defending the most prominent crook in the twentieth century, Richard Milhouse Nixon. Dr. King died for us. What are we willing to do for him and his memory? We believe that people willing to watch the Chronicle decide who our heroes ought to be, who sits by and watches Dr. King’s detractors pour slime over his memory, deserves the kind of treatment that it is getting from The Chronicle. And the thought is sickening. Judiciary Committee. Its suDDorters include President Ford, Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, and Republican leader Hugh Scott. The civil rights leaders said, “S. 1 would outlaw many of the methods of mass, nonviolent protest of the 1960’5. It would encourage government harassment such as that directed against the late Dr. Martin Luther King by the FBI. S. 1 would silence press exposure of government secrets, and would turn concepts of criminal justice upside down.” They said Blacks would “face an ominous Monrovia Liveria; Capetown S. Africa, MeSeru Lesoto, and Johannesburg, South Most of his time was spent © the 15th and 18th Episcopal series of repressive laws in today’s struggles for justice if S. 1 is passed. According to the statement, S. 1 protects government employees who commit illegal acts, calls for widespread wiretapping, provides a man datory death penalty and harsher prison sentences with less parole or probation. The four said S. 1, a 753-page bill, “is so filled with the repressive taint of the Nixon policies that amendments cannot save it.” They called for immediate efforts by people concerned with justice to defeat the measure. Districts (S. Africa and S.E. Africa) of the A.M.E. church where he was the guest of Bishop Fredrick Calhoun James. Dr. Wells served as workshop leader for the laymen and youth segments of the 15th Episcopal Districts Annual Leadership Congress held in Capetown S. Africa Dec. 27-Jan.2. He also had the honor of preaching the annual Watchnight sermon Dec. 31 at Bethel Memorial, the largest African Methodist Episcopal church in South Africa. For ms services, Dr. Wells was awarded an A.M.E. leadership pin by Bishop James. Dr. Wells said the watchnight rededication service was impressive in its ardor, sincerity, and level of full participation on the part of each worshipper. “It made me reassess the meaningfullness of our worship and the apparent nebulousness of many of our worship encounters in America.” From Capetown, he traveled to Blomfontein, S. Africa and on to Meseru, Lesoto. In Meseru he assisted in the dedication of a rural school in Malte Phaneng which is jointly See “S. AFRICAN TOUR” Page 5 January 22, 1976 No. 42 2(Xt Unjustified Holiday Reprinted from The Augusta Chronicle - January IS, 1976 Memorial services are scheduled to be held today throughout the Nation in honor of the birthday of slain Black leader Martin Luther King. This is quite understandable in light of the national following Dr. King had as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, but we look askance at demands by some lawmakers in the Georgia and South Carolina legislatures, in the legislatures of the other 48 states, and in the U.S. Congress to designate today a state and national holiday in remembrance of King. In the “buildup” which the late Black leader has received from large segments of the media, uninformed Americans have been told that Martin Luther King was an apostle of peace who went into many an American community to promote bonds of understanding between the white and Black races. Dr. King’s record, however, was just the opposite. Before he was assassinated in 1968, he increased tensions, hate, suspicion and bitterness that are still taking the people of the South- both white and Black - years to wipe out In Albany, Ga., in the early 1960’5, the Nobel Peaee Prize winner showed the same callous disregard for peace where the net result of hundreds of law violalfons by King-incited “civil rights” workers was hate hate between the races where it had not existed before. In hundreds of other American cities, King’s influence often stirred up singing, shouting mobs of “voter registration applicants” who were, of course, denied admission as a body into the registration office. And, as usual, a false charge of “discrimination” was spread - and the net effect was more hate. Although Dr. King was a Baptist minister, he seemed to surround himself with such men as Hunter Pitts O’Dell, a former top King aide, and Carl Braden - both men having been identified with the Communist Party, USA. His close association with such enemies of freedom further made a mockery of his claim to be a “Christian leader.” We can appreciate the desire of many Blacks to look up to heroes of their race, but surely there are deserving Blacks more worthy of remembrance than the late Martin Luther King. Shirley Chisholm Calls For Disclosure Os U.S. Angolan Involvement After learning of reports that a United States carrier was spotted off the shore of Angola, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm sent telegrams to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfled demanding “full disclosure” of UJS. involvement in Angola. Citing a recent Senate vote which blocked further aid to political factions in Angola, the Congresswoman warned that continued “surreptitious military activity will further jeopardize relations between Congress and the Administration.” The House is CSRA Arts Calendar January 24 7:00 p.m. “Jacques is Alive & Living in Thunderbh9t*n Paris" - T-Bird Dinner Theater January 29 6:00 p.m. & Movie - “Sundays & Cybele” Augusta College 8:15 p.m. Augusta College Film Performing Arts Center Arts 8:30 p.m. Fred Waring Bell Auditorium Famous Artist Series January 30 7:00 p.m. “Jacques Berl” - Musical Thunderbird Inn T-Bird Dinner Theater January 31 8:30 p.m. Atlanta Ballet Augusta College Performing Arts Center February 1 3:00 p.m. Atlanta Ballet Augusta Coßege Performing Arts Center February 6 Movie - “Catch 22" Augusta Coßege Augusta College Film Performing Arts Center Arts February 13 Movie - “Lady Sings the Augusta Coßege Blues” - Augusta Performing Arts Center College Film Arts February 14 “Love” Thunderbird Inn T-Bird Dinner Theater Please send all program announcements to Mrs. J.M. Hinton, 1318 Wallace St., Augusta, Ga. 30901. scheduled to vote on a measure similar to the Senate ban on aid when the House resumes on Jan. 19. Mrs. Chisholm, an outspoken critic of past military involvement in Vietnam, characterized the State Department’s activities in Africa as reminiscent of “the steps which led us into Indochina.” She added: “The fact that the official position of the State Department aligns itself with the government of South Africa, a nation which promulgates apartheid, is an insult to every Black in America.”