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The Augusta News-Review - June 22, 1978 -
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MISSION ARIES - The Rev. Dr. Maurice Cherry (center) makes point with Mrs.
Marguerite Albright of Savannah as Mrs. Nanomi Roberts ol Damascus, Ga. (right)
looks on. Dr. Cherry served as instructor in the Missionary Officers Training
Institute.
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PRESIDENT Julius S. Scott Jr. of Paine College welcomes leaders of the Georgia
Leadership Education School. From left are Dean L.R. Neal, Dr. Scott, Bishop
Joseph Coles, Mrs. M.D. Felton, director of the Missionary Institute and the Rev.
Mance Jackson, director of the Ministers’ Institute.
An analysis
Black officials: are
they under attack?
By Kenyon C. Burke
Are Black elected officials
under attack? Is it true that
they are the object of a
disproportionate amount of
harrassment? Although these
rumors have been circulating
throughout the country for the
past several months, we have
never really been able to get a
firm handle on them.
However, a disturbing report
just crossed my desk entitled,
“The Dilemma of Black
Politics: A Report on
Harrassment of Black Elected
“Officials” shed some light on
this subject upon the
completion of a two year study
by the National Association of
Human Rights Workers.
The report documents what
appears to be systematic and
nationwide harrassment of
Black elected officials along
with those who have been
appointed to high level local,
state and federal positions.
Indeed over 100 Black
Man kills
father
An Augusta man told
Richmond County deputies he
shot an killed his 78-year-old
father Saturday night.
The deputies said they
found Richard Briggs lying
face-down at 2333 New
Savannah Road.
Willie James Briggs. 27, said
he told his father, “I’m going
to take the baby for a walk.”
The elder Briggs reportedly
replied, “Hell no,” pulled a
knife and cut his son on the
right arm.
The younger Briggs told
authorities he then shot his
father two or three times with
a .32 caliber pistol.
Deputies said when they
turned the body over they
found a knife in the right hand
of the deceased.
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officials have been victims of
various forms of harrassment.
These officials represent all
regions of the U.S. and are
from both rural and urban
areas. This research study
advised that “the higher tire
level of office, or more
outspoken the officials, or the
greater the influence and
power, the higher the incidence
of harrassment.
The list of those Black
officials identified as having
been victims of such abuse
include the late U.S. Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell, U.S.
Rep. William Clay, Lt. Gov.
George Brown. Lt. Gov.
Mervyn Dymally, and
Secretary of State C. Delores
Tucker, Mayors Maynard
Jackson, Richard Hatcher,
Coleman Young, “Jay” Cooper
and Charles Evers, former May
or Carl Stokes, Clarence
Lightner and Charles Joseph,
State Senators Julian Bond and
Clarence Mitchell, former State
Senator Leroy Johnson, State
Rep. Alvin Holmes, Thomas
Reed and Hosea Williams and
Sheriff Lucius Amerson.
These attacks on Black
elected officials have been
spearheaded by: "1) the white
press; 2) the intelligence
community and enforcement
agencies; 3) the corporate
structure and 4) representatives
and allies of the corporated
structure positioned in
executive and legislative
branches of the U.S.
government.”
Although the research did
not confirm the existence of a
single national or international
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conspiracy it documented a
distinct pattern of harrassment.
The most prevalent tactics
employed to discredit Black
officials are lack of coverage,
biased coverage, investigations,
and unfounded < criminal
accusations by the white
dominated media, audits and
investigations by IRA,
surveillance, bugging, burglaries
and covert disruptive activity
by intelligence agencies, and
inquiries, grand jury
investigations and allegations
by law enforcement agencies.
These activities frequently
take the form of vicious,
vindictive witchhunts which
aim at damaging or destroying
the credibility of the officials
involved, though the
accusations of wrong - doing
are never proven.
The rough and tumble
nature of political life in this
country is marked many of
these unpleasantries. However,
the character, volume and
intensity of these tactics is far
in excess of what might be
normally and reasonably
expected to virtue of being
candidate for or holder of a
public office.
The report concludes that
“in nearly ever respect, Black
officals are judged by a double
standard. They are required to
be more scrupulous, more
above reproach. more
competent, more effective than
their white counterparts.”
As we enter the political
arena in large numbers we had
better prepare our people to
expect this uneven kind of
treatment and develop counter
action strategies that will
defuse such assaults.
Leadership Training School meets
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THE BISHOP - Sixth Episcopal Bishop Joseph C. Coles, flanked by Dean L.R. Neal (L) and the Rev. Mance Jackson, director of the Ministers’
Institute, greet ministers. photo by Mike can
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church leaders throughout the
state participating.
Also meeting at the college
are the Missionary Officers
Training Institute, The
Ministers’ Institute, the
Laymen’s Institute, and the
Georgia Youth Conference.
The school is under the
direction of the General Board
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