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Southgate Baptist
White Church Insults Black Children
By Stan Raines
Dependent children of Ft.
Gordon’s Black military
personnel were denied
attendance at Southgate
Baptist Church’s Bible School
recently.
Southgate had arranged to
send buses on post to pick up
children who wanted to attend
their Bible school in order to
increase the attendance. These
children were told to bring
along friends. Many of them
responded bringing their
friends, some whom were
Black.
Southgate Baptist, being a
segregated church, immediately
gave those Blacks who rode the
buses a note stating the policy
of the church and urging them
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Death To
Be Investigated Again By Congress
DR. M.L. KING JR.
The House of
Representatives came around
to launch a new investigation
into the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King and
President John F. Kennedy. It
Congresswoman Chisholm
Retains Seat In Congress
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CONGRESSWOMAN SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
The vivacious Mrs. Shirley
Chisholm, by defeating New
York City Councilman Samuel
D. Wright in last week’s
Democratic Primary, retained
her seat in Congress.
The 4,000 vote victory
assures Congresswoman
P. O. Box 953
to attend Glendale Baptist
Church. A portion of the note
said, “Since we are not an
‘intergrated’ church, we
wanted you to come to Bible
school this week, but we have
made arrangements for you to
attend a church which is
prepared to help you and to
aid you in every possible way.”
The note also said, “We are
glad many of you have asked
Christ to be your savior, and
we want to urge you to go to
Glendale Baptist Church and
be with many other Black boys
and girls and teen-agers. 1 hope
your moms and dads
understand this and know that
we love you and love your
hearts and souls and want you
adopted a resolution 280 to 65
to set up a special investigating
committee. Sponsors said
“information never sifted,
thoroughly in the past
investigation, and what is
known points to a conspiracy
in the Kennedy case due to the
possible involvement of more
than one person in the King
shooting.
Rep. Thomas N. Downing
D-Va. told the House, ”In the
cases of Dr. King and President
Kennedy I am convinced there
were conspiracies involved in
these two cases. I do not know
the identity of the conspirators
or their motives, but there
should be an investigation in
depth.”
Downing is retiring at the
end of this year, and Gonzales
will presumably succeed him as
chairman if, as is expected, the
inquiry is renewed in the
Chisholm’s 12th Congressional
seat is hers for the next two
years.
She first won this seat in the
United States Congress in 1968
by defeating this same
councilman.
to know the Lord Jesus
better.”
When the children, who all
reside on the military
reservation, reached home with
the notes, the post Chaplain
received complaints that the
church was discriminating
against Black children.
Post chaplain CoL William L.
Fosmire and deputy chaplain
Lt. Col. Calvin Gamer, urged
the post commander, Major
General Charles R. Meyer, to
ban Southgate Baptist Church
buses from the installation.
Gamer told Southgate’s the
Rev. Edward Watke Jr. and
associate pastor, “We regret
being in an uncomfortable
position, but we cannot allow
Congress. Rep. Henry B.
Gonzales D-Tex. having long
been active in efforts to reopen
both of these assassination
cases.
Black delegate Walter
Fauntroy of the District of
Columbia said “new
information justifies this
investigation” of the great Civil
Rights leader. Mr. Fauntroy
served as Washington director
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference when
Dr. King headed the
organization. “The shameful
conduct of the FBI with
respect to Dr. King is enough
to convince us of the need for
additional investigation,” he
said. “The King assissination
has never been investigated
thoroughly. There was never a
trial.”
Many of the Congressmen
must have minds similar to Mr.
Fauntroy because there was
little opposition expressed in
debate on the resolution.
Rep. Downing said “much vital
information was withheld from
the Warren Commission. He
said the CIA also withheld
information about its
involvement in plots against
Cuban President Fidel Castro
and that the murder of two
persons he described as Mafia
figures recruited by the CIA
for its anti-Castro plots remain
unexplained.
“A threatening note by Lee
Harvey Oswald to the FBI was
tom up and flushed down a
toilet,” Downing said. He said
medical notes on the autopsy
were burned and information
about ties between Jack Ruby
and the Mafia and Cuban
factions was unexplored about
Kennedy’s death. Ruby killed
Oswald two days after that.
Both Downing and Fauntroy
said polls show a majority of
Americans are not satisfied
with the findings of the earlier
investigations. Fauntroy has
declined to disclose the new
information he says is available
on the King assassination, but
it is understood to include
allegations involving the
removal of a Black policeman
and two firemen from their
posts in Memphis shortly
before Dr. King’s death.
A spokesman for Rep.
Downing estimated the inquiry
would cost from $200,000 to
$250,000 for the rest of the
year. The House must approve
the money for the investigation
separately. Downing said it
would be kept rigorously
nonpartisan, that there would
be “no witch hunts” and no
efforts to blame those who
conducted earlier investigations
without the benefit of
information available to us.
Give To
NAACP Today
Augusta, Georgia
buses to come on post and
have Black children of post
personnel be turned away
when they reach the church.’’
The post commander issued a
directive banning of buses from
post.
The News-Review spoke
with a parent of a child
involved. This parent stated
that no personal explanation
from post authorities was sent,
however, most parents involved
had confidence that Fort
Gordon would take action to
ban from post any organization
which would discriminate
against minorities.
Southgate protested recently
against “Jesus Christ
Superstar”, a rock musical
performed by the base’s
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Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter
(left) and vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale
receives first NEA’s endorsement.
Black Reporter Requested
On All-White Ford-Carter
Debate Panel
The Board of Directors of
the National Newspaper
Publishers Association (Black
Press of America) has
dispatched an urgent appeal to
the League of Women Voters
that it assign a Black reporter
to the media debate panel
assigned to ask questions in the
Ford-Carter debates. The board
noted that the League has
already selected an all-white
panel and that more than 25
million, a majority of the
nation’s minority groups will
be deprived of “a Black
viewpoint” at the presidential
debate beginning in
Philadelphia next week
In firing off a letter to the
League, Dr. Goodlett, NNPA
president, said he was acting
after a unanimous vote on a
resolution of the board that “A
Howard University President
Dr. Mordecai Wyatt
Johnson, Howard University’s
beloved president, is dead at
age 86.
Dr. Johnson turned Howard
from a cast and strictly class
college that catered only to
light-skined, so-called
theatre group. In this protest a
federal regulation was cited.
The regulation was against
doing anything that would be
“degrading” to a person’s
religion.
Post deputy chapbin Gamer
said that the sell-out rock
musical was in no way
associated with the chapbin’s
office. He further stated “No
one was forced to see the
play”
The News-Review was
unsuccessful in reaching
Southgate’s Rev. Watke or the
pastor of Glendale Baptist
Church for comments.
Southgate Baptist Church is
located at 2226 Peach Orchard
Rd. Glendale Baptist is located
at 2013 Randall Rd.
distinguished Black reporter sit
in the press panel to assure a
complete coverage of
America’s Civil Rights and the
candidates’ viewpoints
regarding Black Africa which at
the moment is the focal point
of world politics.”
The directors met at the
Summit Hotel in New York
City recently to project a
wide-ranging program for the
1977 Sesquicentennial year of
the founding of the Black
Press. The group stressed that
the vast Black market is
reached by NNPA editors of
more than 200 newspapers and
magazines read by more than
6.000,000 subscribers. “This is
not a too miniscule an
audience,” Dr. Goodlett
pointed ouL
Dead At 86
“Bouigeoisie” Blacks to a great
center of learning for all Black
youths.
Dr. Johnson, who passed
away last Friday at his
residence, was a controversial
figure in those days when
whites stood on the bias
premise that Blacks were not
suited for higher learning. He
seemed to be thrust forward by
“Divine Providence” to be a
beacon in the night for Blacks
in the North and East
Booker T. Washington was in
the deep South.
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Carter-Mondale Receives NEA’s
First Presidential-Level Endorsement
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
National Education
Association Friday announced
its endorsement of Governor
Jimmy Carter and Senator
Walter Mondale for President
and Vice-President of the
United States, the
Association’s first such
endorsement in its 119-year
history.
Carter and Mondale were
present as NEA President John
Ryor made the announcement
at a news conference in the
NEA Headquarters here. NEA,
with 1.8 million members, is
the nation’s largest public
employe group.
Ryor reported that the
Democratic ticket was chosen
by more than four-to-one over
the Republican alternative. Os
some 7,000 ballots from the
NEA representatives certified
to make the selection, 81
percent were for Carter and
Mondale and 19 per cent for
President Gerald Ford and
Senator Robert Dole. Earlier,
the NEA Political Action
Committee, the Association’s
political action arm,
unanimously recommended
Carter and Mondaie for
endorsement.
“American public education
is in desperate need of
competent and compassionate
federal leadership,” Ryor
declared.
The NEA official pointed
out that the position of Carter
and the Democratic platform
on educational issues is largely
harmonious with that of the
NEA. Among top legislative
goals of the Association are
increased federal aid to
education, a federal collective
bargaining law for teachers and
Policeman Indicted For Death Os Youth
A former Scottsville,
Kentucky, policeman was
indicted by a federal grand jury
recently on a charge of causing
the death of a 20-year-old
youth he struck on the head.
Attorney General Edward H.
Levi said the indictment was
returned in U.S. District Court
in Louisville, Ky., against
Marvis R. Hogan.
The indictment said Hogan,
while a member of the
Scottsville Police Department,
struck Larry W. Blankenship
on September 28, 1974,
resulting in the youth’s death
six months later.
Hogan’s action violated
Blankenship’s constitutional
right not to be deprived of
liberty without due process of
law, the indictment said.
Blankendlip was struck on
the head in front of his house
trailer after Hogan responded
to a call that die youth had
been racing his car.
Blankenship was taken to a
other public employees, a
separate U.S. education
department with a cabinet-level
Secretary of Education, and
mobile teacher retirement
legislation to protect
retirement benefits when
teachers move to positions in
other states.
Senator Mondale’s voting
record on educational issues
has been “one of the very
best,” Ryor said.
Concerning the Republican
record, Ryor said: “For the
past seven and one-half years,
the men in the White House
have told America's students
and teachers, ‘You are
inflationary. You’ll have to
wait.’ ” The Republicans do
not promise anything better
for the future, he asserted.
He emphasized that NEA’s
endorsement of the
Carter-Mondale team is not just
a formality or empty gesture,
nor just a media event. NEA,
he said, already has
demonstrated its effectiveness
in putting the “action” into
political action.
Although many teachers
take leading campaign roles,
they have demonstrated
willingness on the hustings “to
do whatever needs to be
done-from ringing doorbells to
answering telephones to
stuffing envelopes,” the former
Michigan teacher explained.
Ryor said the majority of
teachers have enthusiastically
approved NEA’s entry into
presidential politics. Especially
during the Nixon and Ford
Administrations, he added, it
has become clear that it is not
enough to have friends of
education on Capitol Hill. The
White House has critically
hospital where he went into a
coma and never regained
consciousness.
The maximum penalty upon
Benedict College Faces
Highest Enrollment Ever
Benedict College in
Columbia, S.C. now has the
largest student body in its 107
year history.
For the fall semester, 1978
students have enrolled. Os the
1978 students, 671 are
freshmen which is also a record
breaking figure for Benedict.
In addition to the 671
freshmen are 106 advanced
freshmen, 538 sophomores,
294 juniors, 268 seniors and
101 special and unclassified
students.
Benedict’s student
affected the course of
American education through
presidential vetoes, court
appointments, and other
actions that signal federal
priorities.
Ryor noted that NEA
cannot hope for a teachers’
bloc vote for the endorsed
candidates. However, in a
recent informal poll, many
teachers indicated they would
be influenced by their
Association's choice.
Ryor described his
organization’s presidential
endorsement procedure as
“probably the most
comprehensive and most
democratic ever designed by a
membership organization.” It
included input from local
associations in the 50 states,
Puerto Rico, the District of
Columbia, and overseas;
published responses on
educational issues by viable
presidential candidates;
videotape interviews with
President Ford and Governor
Carter; and, finally, the mail
poll of certified delegates to
NEA’s 1976 national
convention.
The Association also has
been active in the major
national political conventions.
A total of 265 teacher
delegates and alternates-the
largest bloc of any single
organization in the
nation-participated in the
Democratic National
Convention, where NEA took
an active role with eight other
unions in the Labor Coalition
Clearinghouse. The Republican
National Convention was
attendedby 55 teacher-delegates
and alternates, also the largest
single labor group.
conviction of deprivation of
rights resulting in death (Title
18 U.S. Code Section 242) is
life imprisonment.
enrollment last year was 1667
with 633 freshmen.
At opening convocation
Friday, 25 new faculty
members and 17 staff additions
were presented. Dr. Henry
Ponder, president of Benedict,
was the principal speaker.
Because of the record
enrollment, Benedict has
purchased and remodelled the
Evans Apartments and Four
Seasons Apartments. Forty
males have been assigned to
Evans and 150 to Four
Seasons.
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