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Vol. 7, No. 45 ■ niWt .* 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 ■ V ■- ■; 1 • - ‘f" : Z ■ -4 a: iw- iirwvi fe J If 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 Paine College Library 1235 15th St. Augusta, GA 30901 Aitmwta swniMtfttpm 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” Page 6 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 • jss^v, : -’7* /*" ’ik Lk- . ’ I f **••• v 3 W ' \ 1 < a • JI I WIBk JBf I JM.fllS ’wilw mHI 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 Less Than 75% Advertising \ JI 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” Page 6 25 e