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Willis Reed may quit as coach of N.Y. Knicks Page 6 Vol. 8, No. 18 Beauty of the Week Joan Renee Harrell wants to become an anchor-person for network television, and, to produce and direct films. Then, she says, “if the timing is right” she may branch off into the political scene. Joan is a junior at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. where she is majoring in communication arts and political science. A member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, she is the daughter of retired SFC and Mrs. Floyd Harrell. Dick Gregory tells radio broadcasters hise your power’ CHICAGO - Comedian and human rights activist, Dick Gregory, in a keynote address recently at the National Association of Broadcaster’s Radio Programming Conference, challenged radio broadcasters to “go back to your stations and know the power you have” and use that power for good. “You can’t do your job well without recognizing your power,” Gregory told over 800 attendees at the conference being held at the Hyatt Regency. i mML ' wW ET ...>i „>.,. / JbL\ wW* \ y\- - w* SHHHHRHHv/ Augusta Ar nts-jßftiim 4 SHIV wwp*.,: x tv Bb -. i ■ :* 1 flwflHßMMifewMF •» ; w® “You reach more people than the President of the United States... You have to be informed in areas you wouldn't even u5e...,” Gregory said. He went on to note that America is not one general public but “many communities strung together and these communities are the salvation of America.” He encouraged each broadcaster to use the power of radio in his or her communityy to solve some of the nation's problems. On minorities. Gregory Rosey Grier & to star in f ‘Roots’ part H _ ■•- **r C? Page 3 P.0.80x 953 cautioned that “you have a different ear listening now - more educated and affluent.” Broadcasters, he said, must continually resensitize themselves to their audiences. The conference, held through August 23 at Chicago’s downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel, was designed primarily to offer radio program directors the most up-to-date information on programming. NAB serves a membership of over 4,500 radio and 555 television stations, including all the major networks. August 29,1978 ACLU charges FBI provoked KKK to attack freedom riders DETROIT - The American Civil Liberties Union says the FBI “provoked” the Ku Klux Klan to attack Freedom Riders and other civil rights activists in the South during the 19605. The allegation is based on 3,000 pages of FBI letters, memos and teletype messages released to ACLU attorneys involved in a lawsuit against the FBI for allegedly failing to prevent Klan terrorism. Howard Simon, executive director of the Michigan, ACLU, said Sunday that the FBI papers show that the bureau in 1961 provided detailed information on tire movements of two busloads of Freedom Riders to a Dr. Lowery is re-elected BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The 21st annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which emphasized economic progress for Blacks and the poor, ended with the re-election of Joseph Lowery as president. “There is a new kind of polarization,” Lowery said Friday before the convention adjourned. “It’s not only of Blacks and whites, but of the haves and the have-nots. “Racism is still at the core of much of our problems and we shall witness this much more as the movement intensifies,” he said. The convention started Tuesday with a near confrontation with Ku Klux Klansmen at Decatur. Lowery led a group of SCLC delegates to the north of Alabama city after klansmen pitched tents on the City Hall lawn. A group of Blacks marched from the Newcomb Street Church of Christ to City Hall in protest. Deadline Wednesday. SCLC will fight against merger of Black colleges By Carole Ashkinaze The Southern Christian Leadership Conference will use “any and all means, whatever is necessary within the context of nonviolence” to block the “meaningless and unnecessary mergers” of traditionally Black state colleges with predominantly white schools, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery has vowed. Referring to a proposal under consideration by the State Board of Regents involving such traditionally Black colleges as Savannah State, Albany State and Fort Valley, Lowery said here recently that boycotts, mass SCLC to fight against merger of Black colleges Page 1 Birmingham, Ala., police sergeant who was a known Klan agent. “What we found in the documents was rather startling,” Simon said. “The ACLU is charging that the FBI provoked the Klan to carry out terrorist acts against civil rights workers. “We found that the FBI knew that the Brimingham police department was infiltrated by the Klan, that many members of the police department were Klan members, that they knew a person in intelligence was passing information directly to leaders of the Klan, and they also knew that their I r * W? /JI I if mHm ■ i. I wW/JI " ■ * A wVjMa- ■ Ji ■ k r ' " &■ f f’ k y, - C • jfl / jf- 1 / ** I \i j9b : ■ Jr BH I a W l -' M < * Tt PRESIDENT CARTER AND baseball great Henry “Hank” Aaron met recently to talk over old times and future challenges in a session at the White House. Aaron visited the President to discuss a coming visit to the Dominican Republic. President Carter appointed protests and lawsuits would be used to fight their “diminution” if necessary. The proposal is given little likelihood of approval. But Lowery said the SCLC, which voted at its 21st annual convention in Birmingham last week to oppose any such mergers, feels “that the future of higher education for Black students is imperiled by the diminution of institutions” under Black leadership. “In the name of integration,” he charged, “hundreds and thousands of Black principals, administrators and institutions” have been “lost” at the elementary and Less than 75% Advertising undercover agent had worked out an agreement with the police department to stay away from the terminals (where the buses were arriving),” Simon said. “They knew 11 that and yet they continued their relationship with the police department.” According to the documents, Thomas Jenkins, chief of the Birmingham FBI office, provided detailed information on the progress of two busloads of Freedom Riders to Sgt. Thomas Cook of the Birmingham police department’s intelligence branch. secondary levels “and we don’t intend to see that on the higher education level... “Where (would) Black youngsters get to look at a Black college president?” he asked. Lowery said that participation in the four-day convention in Birmingham last week was an emotional and nostalgic experience for many of the delegates, who received a key to the city and a warm welcome from city officials “in stark contrast to the Birmingham of 1968.” Among the resolutions approved the delegates were: Paine College Library 1235 15th St. 1 Augusta, GA 30901 w __ t opy political slavery Page 4 Simon said the documents showed that the FBI knew Cook was a Klan agent and that Cook and Birmingham Public Safety Director Eugene “Bull” Connor conspired with Klan leaders to permit Klansmen to attack Freedom Riders when their buses arrived at terminals in Birmingham. Cook, now a private investigator in Birmingham, denied the allegations and said he was neither a member of the Klan nor had he acted as a Klan agent. “The FBI didn't furnish me the information,” Cook said. “Everybody in the South knew where the buses were.” A former FBI informant Aaron as part of a delegation to represent the United States at the inauguration ceremonies for Silvestre Antonio Guzman Fernandez as President of that nation. (White House Photograph) ♦Unqualified support for the Humphrey-Hawkins “full employment” bill, including a call upon President Carter to place the “full effort, prestige and weigh.” of his administration on securing passage. ♦To seek meetings with Carter, civil rights leaders, labor representatives and “selected congresspersons” in search of an alternative what was described as the inadquate phase in the national health care program proposed by Carter. ♦To compile a list of “political prisoners” in support who was a proven “liar” provided the information contained in the FBI documents, Cook said. The FBI released the documents to ACLU attorneys representing Walter Bergmah, 80, a former Wayne State University professor and Detroit school official who has filed a $1 million suite against the FBI. Bergman, who lives in a Grand Rapids nursing home and is confined to a wheelchair, said he was partially paralyzed from the beating he suffered at the hands of Klansmen in an attack on a Freedom Riders’ bus at Anniston, Ala. of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, whom the delegates voted to “salute and support.” Young, the resolution stated, “spoke from a clear perception achieved through the civil rights movement and with the courageious honesty of a worthy representative of the government of the United Stages of America. ♦To support the efforts of native American Indians in the preservation and protection of their oil and mineral rights, and to “form new alliances (with American Indian organizations) for achieving social justice in the United States.” 25 e