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The Augusta News-Review - November 3, 1977 -
Mrs. Horton, Millsaps
Blacks who helped
to build Augusta
Linchpin and cement which keeps
modem business, industry, government,
etc. functioning properly and efficiently
on an ongoing basis is the typist, the
clerk, secretary, stenographer and office
administrative assistant. For many years,
training for these fields were closed to
Blacks.
Realizing that there are and were other
Sle who helped to build Augusta, we
that it is quite fitting to mention
and pay tribute to a deceased, but
congenial, and dedicated personality, in
the person of Mrs. Julia Smith Horton,
W’ho was one of the first to have a
business school for the purpose of
training Black secretaries, clerk-typists
and clerical workers.
Mrs. Horton, being a graduate of
Walker Baptist Institute, Augusta,
Georgia, with honors, and in later years
graduating from the Arnold School of
Business with honors (that was housed in
the old Haines Building) began her school
at her home.
She named it in memory of her father,
Rev. John T. Smith, who was once an
outstanding minister of Wrens, Georgia.
She was determined to provide an
opportunity for Blacks to learn secretarial
studies, which was not offered in the
public schools of Richmond County at
that time. She taught secretarial subjects
including typewriting, shorthand,
business spelling and letter writing. She
began her school around 1934. Some of
her former students are Mrs. Robbie
Blount Jones and Mrs. Maxie Irving
Young; both are retirees from the Pilgrim
Insurance Company and presently reside
in Augusta, Georgia.
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protests against oppression in
South Africa.
Lowery also announced that
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uncommonly amount to
vicious, vindictive withchhunts
which have the effect of
damaging or destroying the
credibility of the officials
involved, though there is never
any finding of wrong-doing,
the research shows.
Smear campaigns,
intimidation of voters and
constituents, recall efforts,
charges of “reverse
discrimination, suits that
impose economic hardship
through necessitating payment
of attorney fees, legislative
censure, defamation of family
members, friends, and
associates; and threats of
personal injury or death also
are used, according to the
findings.
The character, volume and
intensity of these tactics is far
in excess of what might be
normally and reasonably
expected by virtue of being a
candidate for or holder of a
public office, many officials
say.
In fact, “in nearly every
respect, Black officials are
judged by a double standard.
They are required to be more
scrupulous, more above
reproach, more competent,
more effective than their white
counterparts,” the research
revealed.
The harassment is not a new
phenomenon. Black officials
were harassed throughout the
sixties when Black militant
organizations were being
attacked and destroyed.
Harassment was occurring
throughout the Nixon era,
when Black officials were
included on the “enemies list”
and targeted for IRS
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The fatal illness of Mrs. Horton
brought to a close the first period of the
school’s existence. However, her
daughter, now Mrs. Janie Horton
Millsaps, vowed to continue the school as
soon as she was able to do so. She
remembered that when she saw her
mother’s typewriters and other
equipment being moved out of the
one-room school in her mother’s home,
she was determined to carry out her
mother’s dream.
Because of a lengthy illness, Mrs.
Millsaps was unable to immediately
re-establish the school. In time, however,
she found employment, and by carefully
saving, managed to re-open the school.
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given to the widow and
children of Steve Biko through
Ambassador Andrew Young’s
office and the Ambassador to
South Africa.
investigation, according to the
findings.
The harassment has not
ceased, however, since Nixon
left office. On the contrary, it
has continued to mount as
increasing numbers of Blacks
are elected to public office and
achieve positions of influence
newspaper reports indicate.
Nor is the harassment
merely a product of the “new
post-Watergate morality” that
currently prevails. Rather, the
cry of “corruption” has
become a smokescreen for
conducting racist and
discriminatory attacks on
Black officials, much as the
accusation of “Communism”
was used in the past to
discredit civil rights leaders and
organizations, die research
shows.
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Work began on a small scale,
however, with six students studying
secretarial work in the dining room of her
home. It was only through the aid of
interested friends who loaned their
typewriters that this beginning could be
made. Later the school was housed in a
well equipped concrete brick building at
1409 Forest Street maintaining an
enrollment of about 50 students during
each school year.
Mrs. Millsaps conducted the school in
the same name of her grandfather, John
T. Smith, for about 15 years. During
these years, students from her school
were employed at the Pilgrim Insurance
Company, Civil Service, Washington, D.C.
Paine College, and other local businesses
across the country. She, like her mother,
taught secretarial subjects such as
typewriting, shorthand, spelling, letter
writing, and office procedures.
Mrs. Millsaps discontinued the school
when technical schools availed themselves
to Blacks, furnishing them with excellent
training and equipment.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Presently, Mrs. Millsaps is chairman of
the Business Education Department, at
Augusta Area Technical School -
White-Road Branch, and has been there
for over 13 years. During her
chairmanship, students have been
employed at Fort Gordon, Pilgrim, FBI,
Southern Bell Telephone, Georgia Power
Company, Atomic Energy, DuPont,
Columbia Nitrogen, Kimberly Clark,
GM AC, Lily Division, Medical Center and
numerous other business forms
throughout the country.
Mrs. Millsaps education consists of a
BS degree, Allen University, Columbia,
S.C.; MA Degree in the “Teaching of
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Business Education” from Columbia
University, N.Y., and further study
through extension work from University
of Georgia.
She is actively involved at her church,
Tabernacle Baptist Church, Les
Mademoiselles Business and Professional
Club, Y.W.C.A., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
and other civic and religious
organizations.
Mrs. Millsaps credits much of her
success to her husband, Mr. Elijah J.
Millsaps Jr., a teacher at Charles T.
Walker Elementary School.
Because of her outstanding work in the
training of secretaries, Mrs. Millsaps was
honored in May, 1972, with a luncheon
fiven in her honor by the Supportive
taff of Paine College. She has also been '
“Teacher of the Year” at the school sh
presently teaches - Augusta Tech - White
Road Branch.
Besides her devoted husband, site
two lovely children, Arnold Wayne
Millsaps, an honor graduate of Lucy
Laney High School, Class of 1977 and a
daughter, Janie Victoria Millsaps, a •
junior at Paine College.
Mrs. Millsaps still loves her work, as a
secretary shaper, and says she always will
get a joy out of the field as long as she
can see where efficient workers for the
business world are being trained and
developed.