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Augustan studies
under sportscaster
Howard Cosell
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Vol 8 No. 11
Reconciled
Abernathy, Jesse Jackson
see eye-to-eye on Bakke
ATLANTA - The Rev. Jesse
Jackson called on Blacks to
return to the picket lines of the
19605, to boycott firms that
discriminate against Blacks and
to use the vote to fight the
effects of the Supreme Court’s
recent Bakke decision. “We
must meet employers who
Beauty of
the Week
When Kim Brown is not
working part-time in a local
department store, she enjoys
swimming, bowling, softball,
embrodiery, and travel
Born under the sign of
ancer, the Hampton, Va. native
measures 33-25-38.
She and her husband, Roger,
have been married for two
years.
She says she looks forward
to children and having a
successful family life.
Augustan takes course
from Howard Cosell
News-Review reporter Tracy
Williams 111 was one of a select
number of Yale University
students who had the
opportunity to study last
semester under ABC sports
commentator Howard Cosell.
Williams, who is sports
editor of the school newspaper,
the Yale Daily News, said
Cosell came across “pretty
rough” and wanted to prove to
everyone that he was a rought,
stem teacher. “Everything had
to be backed up by facts,”
Williams said.
He had to write an essay
stating why he wanted to be in
Cosell’s course, Big Time
Sports in Contemporary
America. More than 300
students submitted essays.
Only 18 were selected for the
course which had such guest
lecturers as tennis-pro Arthur
Ashe, baseball commissioner
Bowie Kuhn and New York
Yankee owner George
Steinbrenner.
Williams said he basically
sees Cosell as an “entertainer
who wants to be heard.”
Cosell, he said, feels that he has
something to say outside the
sports world, but people won’t
listen to him.
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won’t hire us at the plant
gates,” he said.
Jackson was Men’s Day
speaker at Dr. Ralph David
Abernathy’s 97-year-old West
Hunter Street Baptist Church
Sunday.
In a telephone interview
with The News-Review,
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“He would like to make
social commentary on
American Society. He wants
people to hear more than the
box score.
“He would teU us about he
sided with John Carlos and
Tommy Smith following their
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viefory stand during the 1968
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Abernathy amplified Jackson’s
call. He said the Bakke decision
should be viewed by Blacks
and poor people as a mandate
“that we better get together
and start demonstrating and
protesting and doing anything
peaceful to keep the clock
from being turned back where
Olympic games in Mixico, and
how people didn’t believe he
was sincere about his stand.”
Williams said Cosell Eked to
say “funny things and be
laughed at. And in class we
boosted him up. He feld that
he was heard, which relaxed
him.”
WiUiam was not awed by
Cosell. And neither was he
awed when he got an offer to
spend the summer writing for
the Boston Globe newspaper.
He turned it down.
Instead is working for a local
bank and writing for The
News-Reivew. “Actually,” he
said, “the editor who gave me
the offer was impressed by the
fact that I did write some for
The News-Review.” Williams
said he turned down the job
for ‘personal reasons.”
Tracy was valedictorian at
Glenn Hills High School here in
1975, as was his brother, Peter,
(also at Yale), in 1976, and his
sister, Serena, in 1977.
Serena won an SB,OOO
scholarship from Georgia
Pacific to attend Smith
College.
They are the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Tracy Williams Jr. of
Fir Court in Augusta.
it was 100 years ago.”
Abernathy’s having Jackson
as his Men’s Day speaker was
evidence of their
reconciliation, which
Abernathy said actually took
place some time ago. Jackson
left the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference where
he was director of its
Operation Breadbasket and
organized People United to
Save Humanity (PUSH) in
1973 following widely
publicized differences with
Abernathy.
Commenting on Jackson’s
Sermon Sunday, Abernathy
said, “I agree with everything
he said.”
Jackson said the Bakke
decision represents the legal
end of the second
reconstruction,” adding that
American public opinion had
shifted to the right, from
“redemption to punishment,”
after eight years of “benign
neglect” at the hands to two
Republican presidents.
He cited the approval of
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By Nathaniel Sheppard Jr.
From The New York Times
CHICAGO - There is a rising
debate within the civil rights
movement over whether its
leaders face a potential conflict
of interest when they serve on
the boards of major
corporations.
“Any civil rights figure who
purports to represent the
interest of the massess of Black
people but who serves on the
board of a corporation whose
interest is diametrically
opposed to the interests of
Blacks is in conflict of
interest,” said Thomas N.
Todd, a Chicago lawyer who
specializes in civil rights
litigation.
But those who favor the
practice say that it would be
self-defeating for Blacks to cut
themselves off from the power
they have gained through the
movement and that they can,
in fact, speak effectively for
Black advancement in board
rooms.
Representative Shirley
Chisholm, Democrat of
Brooklyn, said the issue “is a
very important matter which
must be resolved quickly so we
don’t have the integrity of
these organizations eroded by
skepticism.”
The debate became general
earlier this year when the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People made public its position
on energy, which was widely
interpreted as favoring
deregulation of fuel prices.
Margaret Bush Wilson, the
NAACP board chairman, and
some members of the
organization’s energy
committee are employed by
energy interests, which favor
deregulation.
Mrs. Wilson is a paid
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Proposition 13 in California,
the court order approving a
march by Nazis in Chicago and
Ku Klux Klan marches as signs
of that shift to conservatism.
In the Bakke decision the
Supreme Court, he said, made
it necessary to prove intent to
discriminate as well as the
actual discrimination, likening
the situation to a basketball
game in which a player could
commit a foul, then say
“Excuse me” and be pardoned
for the foul.
Jackson said the court’s
decision that race may
continue to be a determinant
in hiring and school admissions
policies was “no victory. They
should have said it must be
considered.
“When whites first brought
Blacks to this country three
hundred years ago, they didn’t
say Black may be enslaved,”
Jackson said. “Race cannot
become a relative factor in
closing the gap created by
three hundred years of
enslavement by race.”
member of the board of the
Monsanto Company, which has
significant petroleum interests.
Denton Watson, an NAACP
spokesman, said that she was
allowed to serve on
corporation boards because she
received no salary from the
NAACP and was not in charge
of its staff.
On the other hand.
Banjamin L. Hooks, the
NAACP executive director, is
prohibited from serving on
corporate boards because he is
a full-time paid employe,
Watson said. Hooks said, “it is
important that Blacks have an
organization they can believe
in and control. 1 would not
want to give the impression of
a conflict of interest.”
Mrs. Wilson said that she was
“offended that people think
that because 1 received
$20,000 or whatever Monsanto
pays me, I can be bought.”
“It is important that we
have advocates for Black
interest on corporate boards,”
she said. “It is what we have
fought for for years. For
example, Monsanto reported
that its investments in Black
businesses increased from $5
million to $lO million during
the past year.”
The issue previously came
up when Vernon Jordan, the
executive director of the
National Urban League and a
paid member of the director of
the National Urban League and
a paid member of the board of
the Xerox Corporation, visited
South Africa and concluded
that its Blacks would be best
served if Xerox continued its
operations there. There has
been much clamor in civil
rights circles for American
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headed back
for Masters
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Staying
By Tracy Williams 111
If the exit of the larger
downtown stores from Broad
Street to the soon-to-open
shopping malls, means death
for Broad Street, merchants
remaining on Broad Street
don’t believe it.
Milton Ruben, whose
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clothing store has been on
Broad Street since before
1900, said calmly, “Don’t
worry. I’m not panic stricken,”
as he glanced outside his office
toward the recent renovation
and expansion as evidence of
his confidence in the vitality of
Broad Street.
“One reason we’re staying
downtown is that we’ve shown
increase. Broad Street has been
good to us. And we think it is
prudent to stay.”
Ruben said the race to the
malls would ease the
John Swint should
withdraw from race
After much thought and soul
searching we feel compelled to ask
County Commission candidate
John Swint to withdraw from the
race- not because of personal short
comings--but in the interest of the
Black community.
When the race was between
Swint and Edward Mclntyre, that
was one thing. Now that a serious
white candidate has entered the
race, the picture has changed
altogether.
The reality of the situation is
that most people still vote along
racial Lines. And with whites having
three to four times as many
registered voters in Richmond
County as Blacks, any Black hoping
to win against a white opponent
must have a solid Black vote in
addition to whatever white support
he can get.
The more support Swint gets, the
greater the chance that the Black
vote will be evenly split, and the
greater the chance that neither he
nor Mclntyre will win. And the
Black community will be the loser,
for we will then have no
representation at all on the
Commission.
It should be emphasized that our
cal) for Swint’s withdrawal is not
intended as an attack on John
Swint in any way. He is a very
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decent man who has made many
valuable contributions to this
community. Our request is aimed at
insuring that we will have a
reasonable chance of keeping an
effective voice on the County
Commission to articulate the needs
and desires of the Black
community.
We, as a people, have too long
been the victims of
divide-and-conquor politics. And
we should not tolerate it now.
The more money, time and
energy Swint puts into his
campaign, the harder it will be for
him to withdraw. So we think he
should withdraw now. Withdrawal
would in no way denote defeat It
would be a selfless act on Swint’s
part, and one for which the total of
Richmond County would be
indebted to him and would benefit
from.
By withdrawing Swint would
make a contribution to Richmond
County in general and to the Black
community in particular. We realize
that having committed himself to
run that it would be a great
sacrifice for him to withdraw. But
we hope that he will make that
sacrifice, and, in so doing, make an
even greater contribution to the
Black community and Richmond
County.
competition already on Broad
Street.
Henry Howard, the owner of
the only Black owned store on
Broad Street, Supreme
Fashions, went even further.
“The competition (from the
malls) will be an incentive for
people to shop on Broad
Street. It will give people a
choice.”
The departure of the larger
stores from Broad Street “gives
us a larger share of the
market.” And the recent free
parking in the certain areas of
downtown has helped too, he
said.
“When they get rid of the
parking meters altogether more
people will be inclined to shop.
It’s really going to help Broad
Street.”
Jack Levine’s Men’s Shop
has been on Broad Street for
eight years. He said he won’t
leave because he has
established regular customers.
But there is another reason he
will not join the flight to the
malls - it’s expensive for small
independent businesses.
“Ninety five percent of the
stores in the malls will have to
work for the landlord for the
first three or four years. There
is a very small percentage of
small independent stores that
can make it in the malls. I have
been working in this block for
25 to 30 years. I believe in
Broad Street,” he said. “If you
treat people right and have
good merchandise, the will
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Al Rosenthal Jr. of
Rosenthal’s Shoe store agreed.
“The main thing for good
merchants to do is what they
do best, carry the right
merchandise and let the people
know. If merchants advertise
and merchandise, they can be
any place and still do business.
Henry Howard
But the person who does not
advertise is asking for defeat.”
Rosenthal discounted the
notion that crime in the
downtown area makes it an
undesireable place to shop.
“Crime here is not that great,”
he said. “Crime in the
downtown area has only been
more dramatically played up.
There is five times more crime
outside the downtown area,”
he said.
“Downtown may have a
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