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State senator:
Blacks still don 9 t
have it made
State Sen. Horace Tate,
Men’s Day speaker at Williams
Memorial C.M.E. Church
Sunday said that Blacks still
don’t have it made, even
though political progress has
been made.
“We have more freedom,
more and better jobs, more
city councilmen, more county
commissioners than ever
before. But that doesn’t mean
that we have it made.
“There are people standing
on the side waiting for us to
make a mistake, waiting to
destroy our credibility.
“The people who have had
the power all along don’t want
us to achieve that kind of
power.”
He used former Atlanta
Public Safety Commissioner
Reginald Eaves as an example.
Noting that Eaves was accused
of providing answers to Black
officers to help them do better
on police examinations, Tate
said, “If he (Eaves) had done it
Boggs Academy
president’s wife
dies unexpectedly
Mrs. Muriel Eleanor Johnson
Whitney, wife of Dr. Yenwith
K. Whitney, president of Boggs
Academy, died unexpectedly
August 16. She was 49.
Mrs. Whitney had recently
been appointed academic dean
at Boggs Academy. She started
working in that capacity just
27 days before her death.
She was a graduate of
Hunter College where she
earned the bachelor of arts in
pre-social work. She also did
advance studies at the New
York School of Social Woik.
Later, she acquired the master
of science in education from
City College, New York., and a
premanent New York State
Certificate for Teaching
French.
Mrs. Whitney has worked
with the New York City
Department of Welfare helping
immigrants who had moved in
the Bowery area of New York
City. She served with her
husband_ for eight years
at the Cameroun Christian
College at Libamba. There she
served as teacher of English,
house parent, school cashier,
assistant with college choir,
Augusta man and
woman are raped
Augusta police Sunday
reported the sexual assault of a
North Augusta woman and a
19-year-old Augusta man in
separate incidents early Sunday
morning.
According to police, the
23-year-old woman was
walking down Laney-Walker
Boulevard at around 4 a.m.
Sunday when two men stopped
in a car. The woman went
home with them and was raped
by three men, she told police.
The wopian said she escaped
and ran to a house next .door
where she telephoned police.
The -Augusta man told police
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for the next 15 years, he could
not have made up for the white
people who got promoted with
no test at all.”
He recalled that for years in
Atlanta Black policemen could
not change their clothes at the
police station. They had to go
to the YMCA instead. “They
couldn’t carry guns. And when
they did get guns, they
couldn’t arrest white people.
“I’m not condoning wrong,
but you’ve got to know that no
matter what you’ve achieved, if
you make one mistake, they’re
ready to pull you down.”
He pointed out that during
Reginald Eaves’ administration,
“For 12 months nobody was
shot in the back. For the first
time Black people respected
the police and the police
respected them. Eaves was
doing a tremendous job.”
Speaking on the subject “Ye
Shall Know the Truth and the
Truth Shall Make You Free,”
recreation adviser and student
counselor.
When she and her husband
returned to the United States
in 1966, she continued her
teaching career in her home
city of New York. She taught
French at several schools in
Manhattan including IS 52 and
finally IS 88 where she taught
until the end of the 1977-78
school year.
She was a member of
longstanding in the United
Presbyterian “Church of The
Master” in New York. She was
a very active member of her
church. She served as president
of the Women’s Association;
was a member of the Master
Activist and the Chancel Choir.
At the time of her death she
was completing her fifth year
as an Elder of die church.
Her funeral was held
Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the
Church of The Master.
She is survived by husband,
Whitney, Keysville, Ga.; two
daughters, Saundra Ellen Curry
of New York, and Karen Leslie
Whitney of Teneck, NJ.; her
father, Gilbert Johnson, and
one sister, Sylvia Yearwood.
he was at a party and went
outside to talk to a friend, he
told police. A man forced him
to the back of the house where
he was joined by another man,
who took him to the 900 block
of Bennetts Lane, according to
police.
There the two men sexually
assaulted him, police said.
Two men, Gene Jefferson,
17, of 945 Talcott St., and
Gene Gordon, 28, of 1109A
Cedar St, have been arrested
and charged with aggravated
sodomy in connection with the
incident
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Dr. Tate warned that people
who insist on telling the truth
will be avoided, frowned upon,
and sometimes Tired from their
jobs. But he urged the
congregation to “Fling yourself
down upon the truth and cling
to it as a dying man clings to a
straw, knowing that it is all
that he has.”
Dr. Tate, who is also
executive secretary of the
Georgia Education Association,
said that one of the major
problems with Blacks is that
“we, as a group, don’t have any
money.”
He said that when he started
teaching, he was making only
$53,50 a month .and $540 a
year.
But he quickly added that
“It isn’t what you make, it’s
what you save. Pay yourself
first. Put whatever you can in
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August 22,1978
Paine graduates
urged to fill
leadership vacuum
Paine College students fill the leadership vacuum. And
graduating at the summer you have an obligation to your
commencement Thursday were state and country and to your
challenged by Augusta College community,” he said.
President Dr. George Noting that during the last
Christenberry to put their 10 to 15 years there has been
idealism to work in their own an increase in the number of
communities. clubs and organizations
“I challenge you not to lose “binding together to rid the
this idealism and I challenge world” of social ills, Dr.
you to put it to work,” he said. Christenberry told the
r, , ~ ~ graduates, “There is a need for
Dr. Omstenberry sard the J ou other like you to work
need for humanitarian f nr-
leadership will be unapralleled 0 Bn P rove .■ ,
in the years to come. And he in y° ur immunity and in the
urged the graduates to be “ever WO J. in ra tn unil t
mfridful of the needs of others ’ su^ est X*™ a *
and the role you can play in t can be , come m 0 * ar ®
helping your fellowman.” tbr .°^ h “T* * otbe . r ’
He told the graduates that added ’ UI B ,n B he
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they were qualified to help nob]est and P and
others than they might realize exceed that „
You are more aware and Top academic honors - went
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We can’t afford
to lose August 29
We urge all of our readers to go
to the polls August 29 and vote for
Commissioner Edward M.
Mclntyre. The Black community is
just beginning to realize how vital
Mclntyre’s presence on the
Commission is to the interests of
the Black community.
We hope that we, as a
community, will not have to learn
from experience what his absence
from the commision would mean.
We, hasten to add, however, that by
voting for Mclntyre, we will be
Transportation
For transportation to the
polls Tuesday, call 724-3299,
722-1677, or 724-6997.
Senator says it’s time for
a ‘little power of our own’
New Jersey State Sen.
Wynona Lipman told a C.S.
Hamilton for mayor rally at
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Sunday night, “It’s time to put
a man in office with whom we
can identify.”
“Who will answer your
needs, if not Rev. Hamilton?”
She asked. But she cautioned
that Blacks must register and
vote. “It’s time to rise up, it’s
time to change the quality of
leadership, it’s time we got a
little power of our own.”
Dr. Lipman is the only Black
woman state senator in the
Hamilton boosters
told ‘it’s time for
power of our own’
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CONGRATULATIONS - Ricky Daggett and Gary
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commencement ceremonies Thursday.
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United States. She was born in
LaGrange, Ga. and her mother
attended Haines Institute in
Augusta.
Dr. Lipman attended
Talladega College and earned a
in French from Columbia
University. He taught French
at Morehouse College where
Dr. Hamilton attended and
served as dean of the School of
Religion.
The Rev. N.T. Young told
the rally that the Baptist
Ministers’ Conference had
endorsed Rev. Hamilton. “We,
really voting to protect the
well-being of Richmond County
and the Black community in
particular.
We wish to commend John Swint
for endorsing Mclntyre. We think
the Swint endorsement will help.
But ultimately, no endorsement can
re-elect Mclntyre. Only you can.
Your vote is desperately needed.
We urge you to go to the polls
Tuesday and take at least two
people with you. This is an election
where we can not afford to lose.
Community Center, 1635 15th
Street.
Ruth B. Crawford is
president
as ministers of the Gospel,
whould not lead our people
wrong,” he said. Alluding to
Augusta’s longtime problem
with railroad tracks that
stretch across the city, the Rev.
Young said, “If Rev. Hamilton
is elected, the tracks will lead
in a new direction.”
The Rev. Young and State
Rep. R.A. Dent were again the
only two Blacks elected
officials attending the rally.
Hamilton will face Mayor
Lewis A. Newman and Joe
Taylor in the election to be
held Oct. 11.
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