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The Augusta News-Review - January 27, 1979 ■ Blacks unite behind King holiday From the Atlanta Journal From the Ebenezer Baptist Church to the Georgia and U.S. Capitols, the call went up Monday to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a state and national holiday. Black leaders from the state, the nation and the world gathered first at the Auburn Avenue Church, then marched to the Capitol on the day that King would have turned 50 had he lived. It is past time, they all said, that Georgia recognize its only Nobel Peace Prize winner by declaring Jan. 15 an official holiday. “We come to the governor to petition him to make this a holiday,” Atlanta Mayor ■ ' 1 I ”Jp - A 1 OUv' AT GRAVE SITE - Members of the family of Dy. Martin Luther King Jr. attend services at Dr. King’s grave. Mrs. Coretta King is at left, Martin Luther King Cherokee Gun & Pawn Shop DONALD 722-2030 Finley 416 gTH STREET C. H. 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INSIDE GOSSIP February Issue—On Sale Now DON’T MISS IT K SUBSCRIBE E today K THE NEWS-REVIEW SUBC RIB E R MF | ADDRESS R[ji, CITY One Year in County SB.OO One. Year Out of County .... $9.00 Maynard Jackson said. “Not just because it is right, but because we have the political might. ...Let us keep on fighting, let us never stop.” U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young referred to this same theme of black political power as told an Ebenezer congregation, “You remember how it was. When we didn’t vote at all, we were niggers... Now, every politician in America is proud to be associated with his black brothers and sisters.” The Georgia General Assembly steadfastly has refused to make King’s birthday a holiday, even though it is observed as such in the Atlanta and Fulton County governments. MAXWELL HOUSE PHARMACY Low Priced Prescriptions Health Foods Free Delivery Page 2 Indeed; the powerful Legislative Services Committee has proposed a shuffle of state holidays that affects three traditional Confederate holidays but makes no provision for King’s birthday. The House and Senate leaders on the committee say they will introduce a bill eliminating Robert E. Lee’s birthday, Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis’ birthday as official state holidays. Instead, an American Heritage Day would be observed on the Friday after Thanksgiving. In addition, two extra holidays would be given at Christmas. Opponents of a holiday are now expected to argue that Sr. (center) and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young is at right Photo by Mike Carr "Happiness is activity." Aristotle JL FLOOR COVERING BY* flgrmstrong BEST QUALITY - BEST SERVICE Carpets, tile vinyl, linoleum, asphalt Floor Covering Contractors R. A. 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A & A inc. g Carter gets ‘poor 9 message ATLANTA - Nearly a thousand marchers carried a “Poor People’s Message” to President Carter on his visit to Atlanta for activities commemorating Martin Luther King J ’s Jan. 15, 50th birthday. Led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), local NAACP and other organizations, they were protesting the Carter Administration’s proposals to reduce the Federal budget deficit by cutting into domestic social programs. “Unless we get a more sensitive response from the Carter Administration and Congress, it may be time to seriously consider asking thousands of Americans to embark on a cavalcade of conscience,” SCLC president Dr. Joseph E. Lowery said, recalling that Augusta will mark the 16th anniversary of the march on Washington where Dr. King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech. <■ Dr. Lowery made his remarks to a rally of those who had marched through windy 30-degree weather from a downtown park to police barricades set up around Ebenezer Baptist Church. Carter was inside the church receiving the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change’s Non-violent Peace Award. Mr. Carter began his acceptance speech by adrritting that, “I accept this award not as an honor earned, but as an affirmation that 1 share the hopes and dreams of Martin Luther King Jr., and that 1 recognize the progress still left to be made.” More blacks moving South In an historic reversal of the Great Migration of Blacks from the South to the big northeastern and midwestern cities that began more than half a century ago, there are now more blacks returning south than are leaving. The outmigration of blacks from the big industrial cities has been a consistent trend of the 7O’s, but a census bureau study of geographical mobility from 1975-1978 shows that for the first time since World War I, thousands more blacks are heading “down home” than are leaving. The study also shows there are more blacks now going west as a migratory destination than to the northeast and midwest, and that there is an increase of Blacks now living in MSB nil mu downtown “xr BJIIT COMPLETE ■aSliUMSulaKStStMiiiUM home furnishings THE 1979 PONTIACSW OUR BEST GET BETTER PONTIAC MASTER 11th of TELFAIR I” 1 J T- . —r—* wf! - ' 11 kA A « 1.. J - -fl •*»w 1- ® d’ W * HUNDREDS OF MARCHERS head for Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to carry a “Poor People's Message” to President Carter. Leading the line are (L-R) NAACP presidents John Evans (DeKalb) and Julian Bond (Atlanta); Rev. Ivery Simmons, who brought a delegation to the march from South Carolina; SCLC president Dr. Joseph E. Lowery; Dr. Ralph 1). Abernathy, SCLC president-emeritus; and Atlanta civil rights activist Rev. Ted Clark. (Harold Moon/scLC photo) in mi 1 ■* * > v "11 iIwIWW 4 11 ■>' 'r I R AWARD WINNERS - The National Association of University Women celebrated National Day Sunday al Williams Memorial C.M.E. Church. Awards were presented to (from left) Mrs. Juanita B. Hunt, scholarship recipient; Miss Myrtle Turner, Student of the Year; Mrs. Ruth Crawford, Woman of the Year; and Mrs. Gwendolyn Roundtree, Citizen of the Year. Mrs. Willie B. Polk is president oi the local chapter. Photo by Mike Carr suburbia, as compared to the 6O’s when blacks Hocked to the inner cities. Beginning with the first World War, blacks fled the vigilantism of the racist whites and the economic discrimination of the south for the promise of jobs, public aid and social equality of the Northern industrial cities. The pattern slowed with the Great Depression and following tight economic times of the thirties, then the black exodus from the south greatly increased with World War 11 and continued on through the 1960’5. But with the advent of the 70’s, there was a trend of more Blacks leaving the northeast than coming in. And as the decade wore on, there were more Blacks migrating back to the southern states than going north According to Larry H. Long, a sociologist with the U.S. Bureau of Census and an author of the recent study on geographical mobility, between 1975 and 1978, for the first time in more than 50 years, there were more blacks leaving the northeast for the south, about 270,000, than left the South for the north and west, which were a out 240,000. He said that the regions’s big drawing card is jobs and that many industrial giants are expanding southward, creating greater economic advantages, many blacks have a natural affinity for the region and that two out of three blacks moving south are returning “down home ” The south also has a better public image, inspiring references to a “New South,” which is coping better than other regions with racial antagonisms, school desegregation, while it has many professional positions, careers in corporate management and possibility of winning public election for blacks that was previously denied. Long said that the educational level of blacks moving South is higher than those remaining in the northeast, and that young, college-educated immigrants to the region can better take advantage of employment opportunities. Long, who said he “gew” up in Texas, moved to Philadelphia then relocated to Washington,” pointed out that although black migratory trends are reversing, the percentage of blacks in thyinner city will be higher in the 1980 census, while the number of blacks in urban populations appears to have stabilized. Census figures show that the black urban population increased about six percent between 1970 and 1974, but shows no change from 1974 to 1977, which is a reversal in trends for the past several decades. The study covering 1975 to DIXIE FINANCE CO. LOANS ON SIGNATURE FURNITURE - AUTO 402 NINTH STREET PHONE: 724-0312 OFFICE HOURS: 8:30 TO 600 CITIZENS LOAN 9UM» COMPANY. inc. 412 Ninth Strict Sionaturs - Auto • loans Phons 724-7487 1978 also showed that only 61,000 blacks came to die northeast and 177,000 left. Immigration to the North Central states was 154,000 with 161,000 blacks moving out. There were about 180,000 blacks going west for the period, compared to 85,000 leaving. Dr. Pierre DeVise, an urban sciences professor at Chicago’s Circle Campus, said that true to relocation trends, more Blacks are leaving Chicago than coming north to live. He cautioned however, like Long, that this does not indicate a dwindling of the black population of Chicago, but that decreasing job opportunities, high crime and unemployment rates, and faltering educational systems are driving blacks, and whites, to the south and west. ‘Blacks come of Chicago originally because it was a good place to get a job, said DeVise, adding that now, there are very few jobs. He said also that economic calamity threatening big cities like Chicago forces many residents to seek lives in the south and the southwest where their incomes will go a bit farther. De Vise said also that a great proportion of Blacks leaving the city are families with school-age children who go to other regions seeking educational environments, if not better schooling. “School is a dangerous place,” said DeVise of educational institutions in Chicago. “Parents figure their children may not learn more in other regions, but at least their kids will be safe.” It is the flight from urban pressures, according to DeVise that has caused an increase in the nunber of Blacks in suburbia. Since more blacks have reached the middle-class and can afford to leave the teeming inner city, they are moving out. Census figures show a 34 percent increase in the suburban black population across the country between 1970 and 1977. WALLACE’S REAL ESTATE 1132 Laney-Walker Blvd. 722 - 8838 Augusta Gallery OFFICE FURNITURE 1009 Broad St: Phone 722-8107