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First Black West Pointer
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VALDOSTA, Ga. - The
Bicentennial Year will be the
year of justice for West Point’s
first Black graduate, according
to Ray Mac Coll, who is
confident that the three years
of dogged research he has
invested to dear Lt Henry
Flipper of 1882 court martial
charges are not wasted effort.
“My brief in Flipper’s behalf
is currently being evaluated by
the U.S. Army Board of
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Life Style
In Cuba
By Carlton B. Goodlett
The recent two-week tour of
Cuba by a delegation of 18
Black Press representatives,
educators, physicians, religious
leaders, and others was the first
by such a group since shortly
after Fidel Castro came to
power there 17 years ago.
The National Newspaper
Publishers Association (NNPA)
initiated its first international
trip of visitation, in response to
an invitation extended them by
the Minister of Tourism
representing the revolutionary
government of Cuba.
At the Washington, D.C.
Midwinter Workshop in 1960,
both the Black Press and Cuba
showed interest in the
development of tourism
between Black Americans and
the newtv formed government
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Review at the Pentagon,”
Mac Coll said.
Normally, a court martial
cannot be appealed after three
years, the Valdosta State
College graduate student was
told. But when Mac Coll
happened upon an account of
Flipper’s case while writing a
research paper for a Black
history course at Valdosta
State, he was intrigued by the
incongruities in the story.
“Here was a man from a
unusually prominent Black
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The Black Press delegation are shown in the Museum of the Revolution in Havana accompanied by Cubans.
of Cuba which at that early
date exhibited broad socialist
directions. Twenty-one Black
newspaper publishers and
editors spent two weeks as
guests of the Minister for
External Affairs and Tourism,
family in Georgia, who had
graduated from the U.S.
Military Academy at West
Point in 1877 and established a
reputation for being honest,
trustworthy, and considerate
of others, now suddenly
charged with embezzlement of
commissary funds while
stationed as a second
lieutenant at Ft. Davis, Texas,
in 1881,” Mac Coll said.
“In the five years between
his West Point graduation and
his court martial, he had
received numerous
commendations and was held
in high esteem for his
engineering ability. His courage
has also been tested many
times in Indian fighting on the
?rontier.”
“Reading what little bit
there was published on this
man’s life, I wanted to learn
more. As I have stated in my
brief, ’the court martial trial
highlighted a struggle of
personalities and racial
prejudices. The circumstances
surrounding this case imply
that something lay behind the
charges against Lt. Flipper
other than mere
misappropriation of funds.’”
It is because of the
touring the entire country.
Following the visit, a budget
was allocated by the Cuban
government for an intensive
tourism advertising and
promotional campaign which
was begun immediately.
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Augusta, Georgia
Exclusive Interview
Shirley Chisolm Spends 4th Os
July In Augusta, Attends Church
Congresswoman Shirley
Chisolm was a surprise guest in
Augusta during the July
Fourth Bicentennial
celebration.
She said she deliberately
avoided publicizing her visit
here although she did attend
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Sunday. A “very religious”
Methodist, she said she just felt
like going to a good old Baptist
Church.
“What a welcoming! 1 don’t
know that I have ever signed so
many autographs at one time.
She apologized for her
unannounced visit explaining
that she has hay fever and
hates to be around crowds
stuffed up, sneezing and going
on. “I was not feeling up to my
usual effervescent self,” she
said, bubbling away at 9 a.m.
Monday morning in her suite at
the Executive House where she
granted The News-Review an
exclusive interview. She said
she was here “just visiting
friends.” But she declined to
name them.
She said she promised Paine
College President Dr. Julius S.
Scott Jr. she’ll be back “real
soon.”
She says that she gets over
800 requests per month for
speaking engagements. She is
already booked through April
1977.
Her visit to Augusta was
really a stopover prior to a
speaking engagement in Fort
Valley Monday evening. She
Heart Attack Fells
Mrs. Felicia Abney
Mrs. Felicia Abney died of a heart attack Saturday. She
was 71.
The funeral was held Tuesday at Trinity C.M.E. Church
where she was a member and Sunday School teacher and
served on other auxiliaries.
Bom in Hartwell, Ga., she was a kindergarten teacher at
Bethlehem Community here for more than 40 years.
She attended Paine College, Columbia University,
Catholic University, and Tuskegee Institute.
She is survived by her husband, Isiah; one brother,
Eugene Pratt; and two sisters, Mrs. Bunice Blocker and Mrs.
Ruth Hefling.
incongruities he at first merely
sensed and later thoroughly
researched that Mac Coll
declared a reconsideration of
the case was due in the interest
of justice, since “as a result of
the prejudice climate of the
period proper judicial
procedures were not adhered
to.”
Born in 1856 at
Thomasville, Flipper was the
son of Festus Flipper, a
carriage trimmer, and Isabella
However, the internal
security agencies of the United
States sent representatives to
visit both John Sengstacke,
publisher of the Chicago Daily
Defender, and the Louis &
Rowe Advertising Agency (
is campaigning for Black State
Public Service Commission
candidate D.L. Inman, who is
D. L. INMAN
president of the Georgia Black
Press Association, and her
Florida campaign manager
when she ran for president in
1972.
Mrs. Chisolm was front page
news in New York last week
when the Amsterdam News
announced that she is divorcing
her husband of 26 years.
She was calm and
matter-of-fact as she talked
about her divorce with the
News-Review. It will be an
“amicable” divorce, she said.
“For people in political life
marriage can be very strained.
Stress and demands preclude
any private life, particularly
when you have become a
symbol.
“But my marriage had been
Burkhalter of Buena Vista,
both slaves.
“Shortly after Henry’s birth,
their owner, Ephraim G.
Ponder, a well-known slave
dealer in Georgia, moved to
Atlanta, taking the Flippers
with him. At about the same
time Gen. Sherman marched
on Atlanta, the Ponders took
their slaves to Macon for
protection. But at the end of
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composed of Joe Louis, former
heavyweight champion, and
William L. “Billy” Rowe, first
Black police commissioner of
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deteriorating for some time.
Politics didn’t destroy my
marriage.
“The most important thing
that each of us wants is to be
understood.”
She is running again for
re-election and says she may be
in line for the chairmanship of
the House subcommittee on
Education and Labor, a
position formerly held by
Adam Clayton Powell. She and
Powell were bom on the same
day, Nov. 29.
The first Black woman to
run for president is staying out
of the national elections this
year. “I learned a lot in 1972.1
never want to put myself in the
position to be so violently
misunderstood by my own
people.” She ran without the
support of many Black leaders
including the Congressional
Black Caucus.
She says that she is grateful
for the 155 delegates she
received from a cross section of
Dr. W. Clyde Williams Awarded Ph.D.
Dr. W. Clyde Williams, a
native of Cordele, Georgia, and
currently president of Miles
College, Birmingham, Ala., was
awarded the Doctor of
Philosophy degree from The
University of Alabama
(Tuscaloosa) on May 16.
Dr. Williams is the son of the
late M.R. and Annie C.
Williams Sr. His brother,
Detective M. R. Williams Jr., is
a member of the Cordele Police
Department
Upon graduating from the
Holsey-Cobb Institute,
Cordele, Ga., in 1951, he
entered Paine College in
Augusta, Ga., and received the
A.B. degree in 1955. He was
awarded the B.D. degree from
Howard University, School of
Religion at Washington, D.C. in
1959.
Dr. Williams’ quest for
academic par excellence led
him to continue studies at the
Interdenominational
Theological Center in Atlanta,
Ga. He was awarded the
MJLE. degree in 1961. In
1969 he received the MA.
degree in educational
psychology from Atlanta
University.
In addition to numerous
other awards and recognitions,
Paine College of Augusta, Ga.,
conferred upon him the Doctor
of Divinity degree in 1972.
From 1954-56 he served as
director of boy’s work at the
Bethlehem Center, Augusta,
Ga. He worked as a student
missionary to Cuba, Chaplain,
Migrant Ministry, New York
State Council of Churches,
Assistant Director of Student
Activities at Howard
University, Washington, D.C. in
1959.
Augustan To Make Film With Brando
By Tracy Williams
What is it like to be an actor
who has made a major motion
picture and is about to make
another one with Marlon
Brando? “Well, it’s the easiest
job in the world, to tell you
the truth. None of it’s hard. It
can get tiresome, but it’s all
fun.” These were the words of
former Augustan Lawrence
Fishbume HI.
Fishbume, who will be 15
the month, is in town this
week visiting relatives before
leaving for San Francisco to
make the movie “Apocalypse
Now,” starring himself and
Brando, along with Robert
Duvall “I think he’s a hip
dude,” said Fishburne of
Brando. “It’ll be an honor to
get a chance to work with
him.”
In “Apocalypse Now,” he
will play the part of a young
American soldier in the Viet
Nam War. “I always wanted to
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Black and white Americans.
“I’ve always been a
trailblazer, a catalyst for
change; a person with the guts
to do what others fear to do,
for whatever their reasons may
be.
“Since I’ve been subjected
to so much abuse and
misinterpretation, I decided to
watch in 1976.” She is a
delegate at large, however.
The 52-year-old
Congresswoman said that
Presidential Candidate Jimmy
Carter is the product of
“uncertain and troubling”
times. He is a little fuzzy on
the issues but the American
people are saying we don’t
care, she said. “The American
people are looking for a person
who is sincere, with a sense of
morality.”
Things are going to get
better “when Jimmy Carter
becomes President,” she said,
adding that we must think
positively. But Blacks must be
He served as: director of
youth work and adult
education, Sixth Episcopal
District, comprising the state
of Georgia, in the Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church
from 1960-1963; director of
recru i t i n g
Interdenominational
Theological Center, Atlanta,
Ga., from 1963-1967; Staff
Associate, Association for
Christian Training and Service,
Memphis, Tenn., in 1969 and
associate General Secretary,
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do a war picture.” noted
Fishbume, expressing himself
in the manner of a Hollywood
veteran. “I hope this movie
takes me some place.” He
hopes to make a career of
acting.
Fishbume played the leading
role in “Combread, Earl, and
Me.” In this film,
pro-basketball star Jamaal
(Keith) Wilkes made his debut
in the movie industry and
Fishbume said, “Yeah, we
hung out together a lot He’s a
nice guy, but doesn’t talk too
much. But man, does he love
to sleep!”
He is the son of Lawrence
Fishbume Jr. and the former
Miss Hattie Anderson, both
originally from here. His
grandmother Mrs. Classic
Anderson and three other
aunts still live in Augusta.
Fishbume, who resides in
New York, should also be
remembered for his part in the
planning to benefit by the time
he get’s in in January.
She criticized the National
Black Caucus that met in
North Carolina in April for bad
“timing” and putting “the cart
before the horse.”
“Many of the Black
candidates went to the meeting
already committed. The Black
agenda should have been given
to every candidate to respond
to by December of 1975 if
they wanted a solid Black
force. Timing is one of the
great weaknesses of the Black
political structure.
‘Tm not saying that they
are not committed or sincere,
but their timing was off. We
don’t chart off before hand
basic strategies for the Black
community.
“Well-known Black figures
tend to move ahead developing
their own agendas, hoping
political lightning will strike in
their direction, hoping to
become the force to be
reckoned with in the Black
community.”
Princeton, New Jersey from
1969-1971.
He has enjoyed successful
tenures in the parish ministry.
These charges include:
Mountville-Greenville Circuit,
Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church, Greenville, Ga., 1959;
Trinity Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church,
Milledgeville, Ga., 1962-1963;
and St. John Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church,
Atlanta, Ga., 1966-1970.
He is involved in civic and
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television production “If You
Give A Dance, You Gotta Pay
The Band (1972).” This past
spring, he performed m an
off-Broadway play called,
“Eden”, winner of a 1976
Drama Critic Award.
Being so busy in such a
glamorous industry, Fishburne
must receive a portion of his
education through a private
tutor. “I don’t really care for
it,” he said. “School is much
more fun. I just like to hangout
and socialize like the usualy
student”
Speaking about his fame, “It
feels real nice, very nice. I like
to be different, but then again
I don’t wanna be too different
I just like to be like the other
boys.”
Frank Capola of “Godfather
I and D” fame will direct
“Apocalypse Now”, which ■
scheduled to be released in
April, 1977.