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Rev. C.S. Hamilton
Black Lt. Gov. of Colorado
to speak to local NAACP
Colorado Lt. Gov. George
Brown will speak at the
Augusta NAACP Freedom
Fund program on May 11 at 8
p.m. at Tabernacle Baptist
Church, according to Atty.
John Ruffin, branch president.
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FT. GORDON, Ga. - The
King Brothers’ Three Ring
Circus is coming to Ft. Gordon
on April 22.
Ft. Gordon’s Dependent
Youth Activities is sponsoring
the circus, which will offer
performances at 4:30 and 8
p.m. on Barton Field. Three
acts will be presented
simultaneously during most of
the nearly two-hour
performances.
In one act two girls will
perform aerial acrobatics on
the Spanish web in each end
ring, while in the center ring
aerial star Maria del Campo will
make a dangerous and daring
upside-down aerial walk
suspended by only her toes.
Some special feature acts
will appear solo in the center
ring. One of the most popular
of these is Shenna and her
trained chimpanzees.
Twenty displays are
included in the King Brothers
Circus, which has delighted
hundreds of audiences from
coast to coast. Tickets for the
circus may be purchased in
front of the main Post
Exchange from 2:30 to 5 p.m.
on weekdays or from 1 to 4
p.m. on Saturday, April 15.
Tickets may be purchased for
slightly higher prices at the
gate.
Waynesboro Blacks provide
important, civic leadership
WAYNESBORO - A field
visit to Waynesboro recently
by News-Review staff reveals
that significant number of
Black men are giving important
and influential leadership in
advancing civic betterment and
race reiatidns in the Burke
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Rev. Hamilton expected
to announce for mayor
The Rev. C.S. Hamilton will
run for mayor in October,
according to sources close to
the Tabernacle Baptist Church
pastor.
Dr. Hamilton said
Wednesday that he will
“probably” run and that he
Brown, a former state
senator and newspaper
publisher, is a charter member
of the National Association of
Black Elected Officials. Special
emphasis of the May 11
meeting will be placed on the
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• FOUR CIRCUS BEAUTIES shown above are among
the many skilled young athletes who will demonstrate
their aerial and acrobatic abilities in the KING BROS.
Three Ring Circus when it appears here for one day only
on Saturday, April 22 at Ft. Gordon. Performances are
scheduled for 4:30 and 8 p.m.
County city.
A partial roster of those
persons include: J.C. Griggs, a
retired school principal and
member of New Springfield
Baptist Church. He is
Waynesboro’s first Black City
Councilman... Civic leader
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ex-Wallace aide
governor of Carolina
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expects to make an
announcement within the next
two weeks.
He has been mentioned as a
likely candidate for several
months.
Dr. Hamilton is chairman of
the Civil Service Commission
1954 U.S. Supreme Court
decision on public school
education and how far the
nation has moved in race
relations.
NAACP members and the
public are invited to attend.
James Striggles is the first
deputy dieriff, and Levi
Crawford has made great
strides as Commander of the
Scott-Mcßride Post No. 270 of
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and a former councilman.
Joseph Taylor, a former
chairman of the Civil Service
Commission, has announced
his intentions to oppose Mayor
Lewis A. Newman.
The mayor is expected to
seek re-election.
Paine chairman
named director
Dr. Daniel A. Collins,
chairman of the Paine College
Board of Trustees and
president of the division of
urban education of Haracourt
Brace and Janovich, Inc., has
been named to the board of
directors of the Natomas
Company in San Francisco.
Savannah
native
wins
Pulitzer
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James Alan McPherson
James Alan McPherson, a
Savannah native who displayed
a decided talent for fictional
forms while still a student at
Morris Brown College in the
mid-19605, was awarded the
Pultizer Prize for fiction
Monday.
The 34-year-old author, now
an associate professor of
English at the University of
Virginia, won the prestigious
award for “Elbow Room," a
volume of short stories on
various aspects of the Black
experience. The work carries
on the themes of the
perviously published “Hue and
Cry” - also a collection of
short stories.
The Pulitzer Prize,
administered by the trustees of
Columbia University amounts
to SI,OOO in each category and
is perhaps the most coveted
American award in the arts and
journalism.
Reached at his
Charlottesville, Va., home,
McPherson admitted that he
had just about given up hoping
that he would win the prize
after the book failed to capture
a National Book Award last
week.
The author said that he grew
up in Savannah reading Guy de
Maupassant - an early
influence. He then came to
Atlanta and Morris Brown,
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Black from Georgia
wins Pulitzer prize
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April 20,1978
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BLACK FESTIVAL CONTESTANTS - The
coronation of Miss Augusta Black Festival ‘7B-79 will be
held on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Augusta College
Performing Arts Theatre.
The contestants will be judged by their
communicative skills, general appearance, talent
presentation, and community involvement.
Ex-Wallace chairman seeks
governor’s seat with Black help
By John Norton
Pacific News Service
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Tom
Turnipseed, national
presidential campaign director
for George Wallace in 1968, is
today forging a broad political
coalition of Blacks, labor,
liberals, retirees and
middle-class suburbanites that
many other Southern
politicians can only dream
about.
Politicial observers in the
state have said that the
Democratic gubernatorial
candidate and self-proclaimed
populist is crazy, or cunning,
or both.
One Republician declared,
“He’s crazy as a damn bedbug,
but crazy in a smart way.”
A NATIONAL DISGRACE
There seems to be
ambivalence among Black
leaders about the former
Wallace aide and segregated
school organizer. “It would be
a national disgrace and
embarrassment for a former
Wallace segregationist to come
from Alabama and be elected
governor of South Carolina by
Blacks,” the senior member of
the Black Legislative Caucus
said. But Isaac Williams, state
field representative for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People, said, “No one is
capable of examining a man’s
heart, so you have to look at
his actions. We have been able
to get Tom’s support on many
isses of interest to Blacks... I
think people aren’t discrediting
Tom’s new convictions.”
Political polls indicate
Tumipseed is better known
and more respected among
voters than any of the
candidates being mentioned as
contendors in the June 1978
Democratic primary.
Supporters believe and
detractors fear Turnipseed
might be able to organize the
most broadly-based political
coalition in state history.
“He has a certain low-class
charisma,” a political
consultant grudgingly
admitted.
And a veteran political
writer conceded that
Turnipseed “may be crazy, but
he’s right on the issues. And
he’s the only candidate in the
race right now who’s speaking
out on them. He could win.”
BLACKS NOT ‘PEOPLE’
In the context of his rise to
prominence, Turnipseed is
both a phenomenon and an
enigma. Born in Mobile, Ala.,
in 1936, he says he was
educated in the “forget, hell”
school of Southern sociology.
“We were taught in the public
schools that Black people were
not really ‘people’ people. It
was the worst kind of
insulation and isolation,” he
said.
Turnipseed was also exposed
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Tickets will be available at the door. Admission is sl.
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to Alabama’s populist
tradition, and he said he
developed a general resentment
toward arbitrary power and
privilege at an early age.
At 16, Turnipseed
experienced the first of three
emotional breakdowns and was
hospitalized for treatment of
mental depression. (Details of
his psychiatric treatment were
released after opponents leaked
the information to the press.)
In 1958 and again in 1959,
after going to college, joining
the military and re-enrolling in
college, he was hospitalized for
depression. He recalled, “It was
a terrible experience but I
think I’m stronger today
because of it. I found out what
I have to do to be happy is to
become totally involved in
society and absolutely totally
involved in helping people.”
In the early 19605,
Turnipseed set out to help
white Southerners. He finished
law school at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and accepted a post in
Barnwell, S.C., as director of
the struggling South Carolina
Independent Schools
Association, a loose-knit
coalition of segregated private
schools organized in
anticipation of court-ordered
desegregation. “I just felt like
it was another example of the
South being set upon,” he said.
1 WAS A RACIST
“I was a racist, no doubt
about that. And I’m sorry for
it. I felt instinctively that the
South was being done wrong,
but I didn’t really understand
the reason. Now I understand
and totally believe that the
biggest problem we had was
being an economic colony.
And the thing that has helped
perpetuate it has been the
racial thing - keeping people
divided on race, teaching white
people to be poor and proud
and hate Black people.”
Tumipseed left South
Carolina in 1967 and joined
the Wallace presidential
campaign. He served as
Wallace’s national campaign
director in 1968 and was
instrumental in organizing the
petition drives that helped
place Wallace on the
presidential ballot in 50 states.
After the defeat Turnipseed
organized Wallace’s successful
bid for governor and laid
groundwork for the 1972
presidential race.
He left Wallace in 1971 for
reasons that remain cloudy.
Turnipseed said he was turned
off by the political intriguers
who surrounded the governor.
Some accounts say Turnipseed
was fired after he told Parade
magazine he would “make
Cornelia the Jackie Kennedy of
the rednecks,” but Wallace has
always insisted they parted on
good terms.
Shortly after his return to
South Carolina, Turnipseed
organized the South Carolina
Taxpayers Association. In press
releases he described the group
as the foundation of a
grassroots movement to return
control of government to
taxpayers.
The taxpayers association
served as Turnipseed’s first
forum for attacks on the
political and economic
establishment.
ATTITUDE CHANGES
Turnipseed said the
formation of the taxpayers
association marked the turning
point in his attitude toward
Blacks. “I’d never really known
any Black people. When I got
to know them through my
work with the taxpayers, I just
said, my God, what have we
done? 1 started thinking how it.
would be to be Black. To
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