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Vol. 6
Amy and Mary together again
The Carters are forever
committing the rare and
unusual, that keep the nation
in a perpetual dither of
expectancy. For a few
examples, carrying his luggage,
constant wearing of casuals,
entertaining his childhood
Black neighbors at his homei
in Plains. Now asking for and
getting the family’s former
“Black Nanny” from a Georgia
prison. Last Friday when little
Amy Carter came home from
school her former nurse and
friend was waiting for her. Mrs.
Mary Fitzpatrick, a trusty
inmate of a Georgia penal
institution had been released to
live in the White House and
care for little Amy Carter, as
she had for four years in
Atlanta when Carter was
governor of Georgia.
Mis. Fitzpatrick and Amy
had a quiet reunion without
the presence of Amy’s parents,
although they had seen each
other a couple of weeks ago
during the inauguration.
During the last Friday
afternoon flight from Atlanta
to the nation’s capital, Mrs.
Fitzpatrick talked about her
dream come true. “When I
Supreme Court Swears-In Seven Members
Os National Conference Os Black Lawyers
By Roy Betts
Seven members of the
National Conference of Black
Lawyers were swom-in by the
United States Supreme Court
Monday January 24, enabling
them to represent their clients
before the highest court in the
land.
The swearing-in was the first
time a national Black legal
organization had sponsored
any of its members to become
officially certified by the
Court, according to reports.
According to Lennox Hinds,
the National NCBL national
director, this effort will be
institutionalized annually. He
pointed out that a lawyer not
certified by the Court cannot
represent his client at the
highest judicial level.
ARC Chapter Sponsors Program
Mr. William “Sonny” Walker
will speak Wednesday,
February 16, at the Richmond
Academy Gym at 8:45 a.m.
This program is sponsored by
the ARC Chapter No. 04615 of
Future Business Leaders of
America.
In 1972, Walker was
appointed Director of the
Southeastern Region of the
Office of Economic
Opportunity, and has
continued in the same position
with OEO’s successor agency,
the Community Services
Law Office Is Opened
Kenneth R. Chance has
announced the opening of his
new offices for the general
practice of law at 611 Telfair
St.
It’ had been associated with
the law firm of Harris, Chance
& McCracken since 1964.
Chance received the
bachelor of law degree from
the University of South
Carolina Law School in 1964.
He was admitted to practice at
the South Carolina Bar in 1964
and the Georgia Bar in 1965.
He is a member of the
Augusta Bar Association, the
State Bar of Georgia, Georgia
Trial Lawyers Association,
Association of Trial Lawyers of
America and the South
Carolina Bar.
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Mrs. Mary Fitzpatrick
went before the parole board
last month, they asked me
what I’d like to do if I were
released,” she recounted, “and
I said I’d like to continue my
work with the Carters and take
care of Amy.” Although
President and Mrs. Carter
Among the NCBL members
who were swom-in were
lawyers Lennox S. Hinds, the
NCBL national director, of
New Jersey; Judith L. Bouren,
and NCBL co-chairperson of
South Carolina; Alvin O.
Chambliss, a Howard
University Law School
Alumnus of Louisiana; Gilbert
A. Holms of New York; Judge
Arthur C. McFarland of South
Carolina; Stanley E. Tolliver of
Ohio, and Derrick A.
Humphries of Michigan.
Hope R. Stevens, who is a
reputable lawyer and scholar
among law critics and an NCBL
co-chairperson, made the
motion for the admission of
each member of the group
before Chief Justice Warren
Administration. (The
Southeastern Region (Region
IV) includes the states of
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida,
Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky,
North Carolina and South
Carolina.) As Regional
Director he provides direction
to a federal staff of 100
persons in the CSA Regional
Office in Atlanta, which
supports the work of over 250
state and local agencies
employing more than 18,000
persons.
He is a member of many and
Vnfl
Kenneth R. Chance
signed the request asking for
her release, Mrs. Fitzpatrick
said she was “surprised” when
she was told about her new
job.
In Atlanta, parole officials
said Mrs. Fitzpatrick got the
reprieve from her work-release
Burger and the other eight
justices.
Stevens has been admitted
to practice before the Supreme
Court for 29 years, since
December 18, 1947. NCBL’s
decision to sponsor the
admittance of 7 of its members
to the Supreme Court bar
marked the first time the
international organization of
Black lawyers and law students
had engaged in such an effort,
According to Hinds, in some
cases, a defendant may seek to
appeal a lower court decision
to a higher court. If he is
granted an appeal on the
Supreme Court level but his
lawyer is not a member of the
high court’s bar, the defendant
has two choices; drop the
appeal or hope that his lawyer
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WILLIAM “SONNY” WALKER
varied interest organizations
including the NAACP, the
National Urban League, the
Southeastern Association of
Black Federal Officials, the
American Society for Public
Administration, and serves on
Augusta, Georgia
AMY CARTER
jail term because she was a
model prisoner with “a very
unusual employment
opportunity.” She had worked
for the Carters in the Georgia’s
governor mansion from 1971,
only one year after she
received a life sentence for
seeks a co-co unselor, who is
properly certified by the Court
and interested in the case.
He stated that many Black
lawyers, including himself,
have been forced to obtain
co-counselors at the Supreme
Court, Hinds said, “1 have
found a need to have more
Black lawyers argue before the
highest court of the land as
activists for the bettennent of
Black people.”
In supporting Hinds’
statement. Derrick Humphries,
a Federal Communication
Commission lawyer and one of
the NCBL members swom-in,
stated, “Every Black lawyer in
the United States should be a
member of the Supreme
Court.”
During a reception preceding
the swearing-in ceremony,
Hope Stevens commented on
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the National Board of
Directors of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews.
He is married and the father
of two daughters and two sons.
murder, until the Carters left in
January, 1975. She bid goodby
to her fellow inmates and staff,
and they gave her red roses and
a white orchid corsage.
Describing her feelings for the
President’s daughter, she said,
“I guess you would call it
love ” During the past two
years, since she left her job
with the Carters in Atlanta,
Mrs. Fitzpatrick thought about
“alot”, she said. “And Amy
came to see me once in the
summer of 1975 and again last
year,” adding she also received
cards from Amy during that
time.
“She helped me get over a
lot of sad days,” Mrs.
Fitzpatrick said. “I would have
been in a bad mood without
her, I really don’t want to talk
about it, but that was when my
mother passed away (1972).
Amy stayed with me and
talked with me and helped me
that way. After dropping out
of high school in Lumpkin,
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The Morehouse College Glee
Club will perform in concert
under the direction of Dr.
Wendell P. Whalum, February
13, at 7 p.m. in the Tabernacle
Baptist Church on
Laney-Walker Boulevard.
Under the direction of
Robert Shaw, director and
conductor of the Atlanta
Out Os Town Meetings Help Local Situation
What are some of the
by-products of attending an
inauguration?... (1) It gives
each individual a sense of
worth and value at the great
national event... (2) Attendees
are able to meet their peers,
exchange information...
Examples: Ed Mclntyre, who
now heads several important
national political professional
associations, surely was able to
give and get information... Dr.
Scott went to Washington,
source of power, foundation
and Federal funding which
could help Paine College-
Rep. Dent, now leader of the
Augusta Delegation to the
Legislature, undoubtedly was
able to broaden experience and
exchange information on
matter which would help
Richmond County, etc....
Principal Earl Thurmond met
other educators, saw all of the
school marching bands, choral
groups, etc.... Furthermore,
February 10, 1977 No. 42
Ga., where she was bom, Mrs.
Fitzpatrick said she lived in
Freeport, N.Y. on Long Island,
for seven years. She didn’t
want to go into detail about
that time, but said she was not
in school and was “on my own
there”. Her fateful return to
Georgia led to her conviction
after she pleaded guilty to
murder of John Bynum with a
pistol in Lumpkin in 1970.
Georgia police officials said
she shot Bynum in the midst of
a lovers’ street quarrel between
Bynum and a girlfriend of Mrs.
Fitzpatrick. “I don’t want to
talk about that,” said Mrs.
Fitzpatrick, 31. “That’s all in
the past. 1 feel I’ve paid my
debt to society, and everything
that happened in the past
ought to stay in the past.” She
is the mother of two, Lonnie,
16 and David, 11. Mrs.
Fitzpatrick said she hopes her
sons will come visit her in
Washington in the spring and,
hopefully, stay in the summer.
Symphony Orchestra, the Glee
Club has performed
Beethovens Fidelis,
Stravinsky’s Odeipus Rex,
Gershwins Porgy and Bess, and
performed the premier
production of Scott Joplin’s
Treemonisha.
It also held command
performances for the late
hundreds of students at C.T.
Walker School will get a fifst
hand picture of what the
inaugural was all about... Yes,
Brother Thurmond, yours was
a wise civic and professional
investment... lleen Buchanan,
one of the top fashion and
beauty specialists in the nation,
probably got lots of leads
which will further enhance the
“Beauty of the Beautiful
Women of Augusta”... Sol
Walker could have gotten some
leads on business advancement
for Pilgrim Life... And I know
that Mrs. Bain and all of the
Augusta Delegation were proud
to see Raymone Bain in her
key position of responsibility...
(3) And all of the
Bicentennial Black female
members of the Augusta
Delegation were able to receive
compliments on their inaugural
attire and grooming... Right
on!
(4) And finally, by picking
Effete,
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PHOTO BY FRANK BOWMAN
Chief Scott of the Augusta Police Dept, and \l
Irby, editor of The Augusta News-Review, talks
about the future of Downtown Augusta.
president Franklin Roosevelt,
and has appeared in concert in
several foreign countries,
including a convocation for the
late Emperor Haile Selassie at
Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia.
In 1969, the Glee Club was
given a signal honor by being
selected as one of the three
choral groups in the United
up and going to Washington
members, helped to project a
stronger national image of
Augusta (which can always be
utilized)... Contacts were made
with old and new friends,
professional peers and
information gained should be
of value to the Augusta
Community... (Only another
time please share information
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States to participate in the
Second International Choral
Festival at Lincoln Center in
New York City.
Tickets for the Sunday
evening performance will be
available at the door. Students
tickets - SI.OO - Regular tickets
52.00
about attendance at national
and regional meetings so I
won’t have to try from a
thousand miles away to
reconstruct same for the
benefit of thousands of
residents who are indeed proud
of those in out-of-town
meetings “Helping Build
Augusta.”
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