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Cong. Shirley Chisholm
Black Festival didn’t apply
Agencies get $146,000
in revenue sharing funds
The Richmond County
Board of Commissioners have
approved more than $146,000
in revenue sharing money to
local agencies. None of the
money went to the Augusta
Black Festival, an
appropriation that caused
much controversy last year.
The Richmond County
Property Owners Association
protested the appropriation
and the Ku KJux Klan
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Left to Right: Eulie B. Johnson, president; George Drake, “Man of the Year” and Joseph Greene, 1973
“Man of the Year.”
George Drake ‘Man of the Year 9
The Thomson Progressive
Civic Club of Thomson, Ga.
has named George Drake as its
1977 “Man of the Year.”
The Club, in observance of
its fifteenth anniversary as a
civil rights organization in the
Thomson community last week
heard Augusta’s Human
Relations Director Charles
Walker in the keynote address,
challenge them to launch a
fight for economic rreeaom.
The Thomson Progressive
Civic Club has a long list of
successful voter registration
drives that increased die Black
voter registration from 240 in
1963 to more than 2,500.
The organization built a
recreational complex in the
Black community including an
olympio-size swimming pool
with combined value in excess
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3 Black Congresswomen ranked tops by peers
Representatives Barbara
Jordan (D., Tex.), Yvonne
Burke (D., Calif.) and Shirley
Chisholm (D., N.Y.), three of
the four Black women in
Congress were ranked first,
second and third among all 18
Congresswomen in a poll of the
members of Congress.
Cardiss Collins (D., Ill.), the
fourth Black woman currently
serving in Congress, ranked
18th, according to Redbook
magazine, which conducted the
poll and published the results
in its current (March) issue.
Asked to speculate as to
demanded money for a White
Festival.
Almost half of the $146,000
Went to the Richmond County
Board of Health for the
following agencies.
A.I.D. of Augusta, $3,500;
Planned Parenthood of East
Central Georgia, $15,000;
Paine College Summer Youth
Program, $25,000; The
Augusta Association for
of $50,000.
The organization was also
instrumental in supporting the
successful election of Joseph
Greene as the first Black
elected official in McDuffie
county.
In selecting George Drake as
ATLANTA - Department of
Human Resources health
officials are concerned that a
measles epidemic may be on its
, way to Georgia.
While there have been no
confirmed cases in the state so
far this year, more than 200
cases of seven-day or large red
measles have been reported in
P.O. Box 953
why the Blacks were on top,
Barbara Jordan said, “One
really doesn’t know what the
congresspeople had in mind
when they answered the
Redbook survey, but certainly
the feeling in the country is
that it is time for a Black and
time for a woman, though not
necessarily the same person, to
be a candidate for higher
office.” (One of the ways the
poll rated the congresswomen
was on ability to serve in
higher office.)
Yvonne Burke agreed with
Jordan and also noted that
Retarded Citizens, $22,500;
and die Mental Health
Association of Greater
Augusta, Inc. received $6,000.
An additional $48,100
to the Georgia Arts Council.
That money went to the
following agencies. Augusta
Symphony League, Inc.
$10,000; The Augusta Opera
Association, Inc., $15,000; The
Augusta Players, Inc. $10,000;
The Augusta Mini Theatre,
its 1977 “Man of The Year,”
the club noted Mr. Drake as an
active worker in the
community. He is a deacon of
the Springfield Baptist Church
where he serves as treasurer,
member of the senior choir,
Sunday School teacher and
Measle epidemic may hit
states bordering Georgia.
During die first 20 days in
February Alabama reported 60
cases,
“We are urging all parents
who have not had their
children immunized against
measles to do so,” says Huel
Keown, coordinator of DHR’s
immunization program.
Cong. Barbara Jordan
Inc., $7,000; The
Children’s Theatre, Inc.,
$3,600; and the Georgia Dance
Theatre, Inc., $2,500.
H.O.P.E. of Augusta
received SIO,OOO, Augusta
Magazine SBOO and the CSRA
Squadron Civil Air Patrol
received SSOO.
Another $15,000 went
direcdy to the Senior Citizens
Council of Richmond County.
director of the visitation
committee.
He is Principal of the Laura
Jones Elementary School,
member and secretary in voter
registration drives.
He is married and has two
children.
“Seven-day measles is a serious
childhood disease which can
lead to brain damage, loss of
sight or hearing. A ‘one-shot’
vaccine is now available for
immunization against
seven-day measles, mumps and
See “MEASLES”
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March 9,1978
Black women in politics have
two groups - Blacks and
women - as constituencies on
which to build a power base.
“The name of the game in
politics is to have as many
constituencies as possible,”
Burke commented.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Citing the “double jeopardy
of being Black and female,”
Shirley Chisholm said that to
become a member of Congress,
a Black woman “must have
been able to bring with her
more-than-average attributes.”
One hundred and seven
Black Press to enshrine
5 distinguished publishers
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THESE FIVE WERE ELECTED this yea: io the
Black Press Gallery of Distinguished Newspaper
Publishers at Howard University by the members of
the National Newspaper Publishers Association. They
will be enshrined on Friday, March 17 during Black
Press Week ceremonies at the National Press Club in
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Five
distinguished Black newspaper publishers,
whose journals were launched during the
1866-97 era, will be enshrined here in the
Black Press Archives and Gallery at
Howard University by the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
(NNPA) on Friday, March 17.
The ceremony enshrining the
distinguished publishers will be held in
the National Press Club Ballroom during a
Black Press Week luncheon. The speaker
will be William 0. Walker, editor and
publisher of the Cleveland Call and Post
and dean of the Black Press.
During the ceremony at the National
Press Club, NNPA President Carlton B.
Goodlett, editor-publisher, San Francisco
Sun Reporter, and First Vice President
Jerrel W. Jones, Milwaukee Courier, will
present for enshrinement plaques of the
honorees to Dr. Michael R. Winston,
director of the Moorland-Springam
Research Center at Howard where the
archives have been established. Frank
Aukofer of the Milwaukee Journal,
president of the National Press Club, will
preside; and Dr. James A. Cheek,
president of Howard University, will
bring greetings. Following the ceremony
at the Press Club, a reception will be held,
3-5 p.m. at the archives.
The five elected by the NNPA
membership for enshrinement this year
are:
Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, publisher of
the Memphis Free Speech whose plant
NAACP backs Carter reorganization
NEW YORK - The NAACP
gave its full support to
President Carter’s equal
employment opportunity
reorganization plan, which was
sent to Congress on Thursday,
Feb. 23.
Participating in the White
House ceremony at which Mr.
Carter signed the plan were
Mrs. Margaret Bush Wilson,
chairman of the Board of
Directors; William H. Oliver,
vice president;Dr. Aaron Henry,
a third member of the Board;
Nathaniel R. Jones, general
counsel; and Clarence Mitchell.
Washington Bureau director.
Mr. Carter said the plan
“represents a major effort to
improve the effectiveness and
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Cong. Yvonne B. Burke
was burned bj a white mob in 1892
because she protested the unjust
treatment of Bl; - • She barely escaped
with her lite and joined T. Thomas
Fortune, Editor-Publisher of the New
York Age. She -vas a Chicago journalist
and activist agair lynching during the
last 30 years of her life which ended in
1931. She was bo in Holly Springs,
Miss., in 1869.
Timothy Thomas I ortune, outstanding
printer and journalist, joined the New
York Age in 1892 and developed it into a
major voice for Blacks throughout
America. Previously, he had worked for
the New York Evening Sun both as a
printer and a journalist. He had also
been part owner of several Black
weeklies, including the Rumor, the
Globe, and the New York Freeman. After
selling the Age to Fred R. Moore in 1905,
he joined the staff of Booker T.
Washington’s National Business League at
Tuskegee where he remained until his
death in 1928. He was bom in Marianna,
Fla., in 1856.
John Mitchell, Jr., was editor-publisher
of the Richmond Planet which he took
over in 1884 and made into a powerful
force in the southeastern part of the
United States. Although threatened many
times, he crusaded vigorously against
lynching. He was vice president of the
National Black Press Association and was
elected to the Richmond City Council in
1888. His paper merged with the
efficiency and enforcement of
equal employment opportunity
laws.” The NAACP leaders
called on NAACP members and
branches to urge their
congressmen and senators to
vote for the plan.
A major feature of
reorganization is the transfer of
powers for policing federal
employment discrimination
from the Civil Service
Commission to the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commision. This proposal has
aroused the most opposition.
EEO will also assume the
enforcement powers of several
other agencies. Some powers
will also be transferred by
presidential executive order to
congresspersons participated in
the poll, which invited all 435
members to rate each of its 18
women members as excellent,
good, average or poor on her
effectiveness as a legislator, her
ability to serve in higher office
and her effectiveness in repre
senting women.
Jordan ranked first as a
legislator and candidate for
higher office, but eighth in
representing women. Following
is the over-all standing of all
18:
1. Barbara Jordan (D„ Tex.),
2. Yvonne Burke (D., Calif.) 3.
Washington.
Pictured above (L-R) John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond
Planet; T Thomas Fortune, New York Age; Mrs. Ida
B. Well Barnett, Memphis Free Speech; Christopher
J. Perry, Sr., Philadelphia Tribune; John H. Murphy,
Sr., Baltimore Afro-American.
the Office of Federal Contract ,
Compliance in the Department I
of Labor. <
Another feature of the I
plan includes a transfer to
EEOC of the Department of i
Labor’s power to enforce laws
that require equal pay for
women and men doing similar i
work and banning age
discrimination in employment.
The Department of Justice
will retain its authority to file i
employment discrimination
suits against state and local
governments and public school
systems. Funding agencies will
still be responsible for
enforcing employment
discrimination regulations in
their respective federal
Shirley Chisholm (D..N.Y.), 4.
Elizabeth Holtzman (D., N.Y.),
5. Patricia Schroeder (D.,
Colo.), 6. Lindy Boggs (D..
La.), 7. Barbara N’ikulski (D ,
Md.), 8. Gladys Spellman (D.,
Md.), 9. Millicent Fenwick (R.,
N.J.), 10. Martha Keys (D.
Kan.), 11. Margaret Heckler
(R., Mass.), -12. Marjorie Holt
(R., Md.), 13. Helen Meyner
(D., N.J.), 14. Mary Rose Dakar
(D., Ohio), 15. Marilvn Lloyd
(D., Tenn.), 16. Shirley Pettis
(R., Calif.) 17. Virginia Smith
(R., Neb.), and 18. Cardiss
Collins (D., Ill.)
Richmond Afro-American in 1938. He
was bom near Richmond in 1863.
John H. Murphy, Sr., bought a Sunday
School journal with a S2OO loan from his
wife in 1892 and converted it into the
Baltimore Afro-American which has
developed a chain that dominates the
Atlantic Seaboard from New Jersey to
the Carolinas. Even during his lifetime,
the Afro became the major P.lack
newspaper east of the Appalachian and
had a staff of 138. He was bom a slave in
1840 and died in 1922.
Christopher J. Perry, Sr., created the
oldest continuously published
commercial Black newspaper in America,
the Philadelphia Tribune which he
founded in 1884 and served as its
editor-publisher until his death in 1921.
The 94-year-old Tribune continues to be
one of the most widely circulated Black
newspapers in the East, and is one of six
Black semi-weeklies in the country. Perry
was bom in Baltimore in 1854.
Last year the first five publishers were
enshrined in the Black Press Gallery for
the 1827-65 era. They were: The Rev.
Samuel E. Cornish and John B.
Russwurum, Freedom’s Journal, the first
Black newspaper in the U.S.; Philip A.
Bell, the Colored American; Dr. Martin T.
Delany, the Pittsburgh Mystery; and
Frederick Douglass, the North Star.
Next year’s election to the gallery will
be for publishers who launched their
papers between 1897 and 1920.
programs. To be abolished will
be the Equal Employment
Opportunity Coordinating
Council, which has been
viewed as ineffective. This
council is composed of heads
of the Labor and Justice
Departments, the EEOC, the
Civil Service Commission and
the US. Commission on Civil
Rights.
The Office of Federal
Contract Compliance will
retain its power to enforce
discrmination statues in federal
programs for rehabilitation and
Vietnam-era veterans covered
See “NAACP”
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