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Julian Bond moves
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Rhodesia sanctions
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Award winning actress
Cicely Tyson to appear
at Albany State College
ALBANY, Ga. -- Actress
Cicely Tyson will be presented
on the Albany State College
campus, Sunday, May 6.
Ms. Tyson, who won two
Emmy Awards for her role in
“The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman,” will appear in
Sanford Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Admssion is free, and the
public is invited to attend.
Raised in East Harlem, Miss
Tyson’s first role was in a
Harlem YMCA production of
Vinette Canoil’s “Dark of the
Moon.” The success which led
to her current status as one of
the most respected actresses in
film began in 1972 with her
role as Rebecca in the movie
“Sounder,” which won her an
Academy Award nomination
for Best Actress.
About role in the
remarkable television drama,
“The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman,” Rex Reed of
the New York Daily News said,
“Miss Tyson make the drama a
personal triumph so that it
becomes a tribute to a great
woman and a great actress as
we 11... Hers is one of the most
brilliant performances I have
ever seen by a woman of any
color, any age, any season.”
Her colleagues concurred,
awarding her two Emmies.
The last three years have
also been makred by
exceptional roles - first in
“Roots,” soon followed by
“Wilma” (as the mother of
Olympic tract star Wilma
Rudolph), and the part of
Coretta Scott King in the TV
drama “King.”
As the mother of Kunte
Kinte in “Roots,” Miss Tyson
received an Emmy nomination
for Best Actress. Prior to her
1972 portrayal as Rebecca
Morgan in “Sounder,” her
career all but came to a halt
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Women urged to swap
gossip for social change
“It is time for women to
turn gossip sessions and fashion
shows into sessions for social
change,” Dr. Maryemma
Graham told the congregation
at Williams Memorial C.M.E.
Church last Sunday.
She said a “wave of
reaction” has swept the
country. “In school it’s called
Bakke. In the factory it’s called
Weber. It means defeat for
black people.”
An Augusta native who grew
up in Williams Memorial, Dr.
Graham was the Women’s Day
speaker at the church where
she also conducted a workshop
on the black woman last
Friday night.
Having warned her audience
that she might not be invited
back after she gave her talk,
Dr. Graham recalled that she
was a student during the 60s
generation of college students
which she described as “bright,
very inquisitive, very
middle-class, and filled with
illusions that you taught us.
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gossip sessions
for social change
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May 5, 1979
“We attended schools like
Cornell, Harvard and Stanford
which .expected us to be
grateful that they let us in and
just be good niggers. But we
turned on them.
“We reached for .those of
African descent who had
liberated their people from
oppression. We established
more relevant curricula, black
studies, urban studies, and
made the universities view their
missions in a different way.”
Dr. Graham attended Paine
College prior to attending the
University of North Carolina,
Northwestern and Cornell
where she earned the 8.A.,
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees,
respectively.
Noting the high rate of
unemployment for blacks and
black youths in particular, Dr.
Graham cited a study showing
that 16 percent of black high
See “GOSSIP”
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Open letter to President Carter
Integrity needed
in judgeships
Editorial
Dear Mr. President:
Many Georgians share my
outrage that Senators Sam
Nunn and Herman Talmadge
have made a mockery of the
Merit Panel process of selecting
candidates for the new federal
judgeships.
The Georgia Senators have
recommended Dudley Bowen, a
white attorney, whose name did
not appear on the original list
submitted by the State Merit
Panel. And the Senators
continued to ask the panel for
more names until they got the
one they wanted. Obviously,
merit didn't matter.
Not only is Bowen poorly
qualified, but the Senators
overlooked a well-qualified
black to get their choice.
Black Augusta Attorney
John H. Ruffin Jr. has practiced
as a trial lawyer for 18 years.
He has won cases before the
U.S. Supreme Court and has
distinguished himself among his
peers both black and white. He
is presently serving his third
consecutive term as President of
the Georgia Conference of
Black Lawyers. He is at the
same time president of the
Georgia Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers, which has
only four blacks among its 508
members.
Bowen's career has been
distinguished only by the fact
that he served for three and a
half years as a Juvenile Court
Referee (the title was later
changed to judge), which does
not help in his qualifications for
District Court.
He and his father-in-law were
major fund-raisers in the 1978
campaign for Senator Nunn.
Bowen and his family are
reportedly responsible for
raising more than half of the
money contributed in Augusta.
Bowen has little, if any, trial
experience. This factor is
significant in that it has
historically been used as a
reason to disqualify blacks from
consideration for federal
district judgeships. It is also
significant that Tommy
Burnside, who served on the
State Merit Panel, was at the
same time a member of
Bowen's law firm.
With the Senators having
disregarded the recommenda
tions of the Merit Panel, it
Women told to issue
warrants for each other
Officers advised two
Augusta women to take out
warrants on each other-after
an incident in which one of the
women shot the other April
22.
Officers report answering a
call to the residence of Mary
Eva Watson who stated that at
9:20 p.m. Sunday evening,
Mrs. Julia Shine, 49, came to
her home and “halfway tore
year-old arrested
for shoplifting
in 3 Augusta stores
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off the screen door.”
The woman said that she
opened the wooden door of
her home and asked Mrs. Shine
to leave. Mrs. Shine then
picked up a metal box from
the door and began poking it at
her, accusing her of being with
her husband, she said.
Ms. . Watson said she fired
six times at Mrs. Shine with a
.22 caliber pistol, wounding
becomes clear that the process
of having Senators nominate
candidates is working as it
always did -- on the basis of
patronage.
What disturbs me most is
that merit matters little in the
selection process, and your
stated desire to have more black
and women judges matters even
less.
I and many other
Americans voted for you in
1976 because you convinced us
that you were committed to
doing what is right, and that
your own sense of morality set
you apart from those who
operated on the basis of politics
as usual.
One of the blights on the
record of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy is the large number of
Southern judges he appointed
to the federal bench. ! hope
that you will not continue to
perpetuate Old South justice on
a black populace that has never
truly known justice. I
interpreted your effort to get
more blacks and women
appointed to judgeships as
recognition of the adverse
discrimination that has
necessarily resulted from a
federal judiciary whose
perspective has historically been
white and male.
Ultimately you make the
recommendations to the Senate
for these judgeships. You are
the last hope that these
appointments will be made with
integrity.
You are aware that black
Americans have had enough of
having our hopes raised by
promises, only to see them killed
by politicians who are more
committed to politics than our
welfare. I hope that you will
take personal responsibility the
selection of these judges. Only
you can avert the travesty that
the Senators from Georgia have
tried to impose. I trust that
you will not disappoint those of
us who see you as one of our
few sources of hope in an age
where white is still right and
blacks must still get back.
Mallory K. Millender,
Editor-publisher
Augusta News-Review
P.O. Box 953
Augusta, Ga. 30903
her in the left wrist and grazing
her under the nose. Mrs. Shine
went to University Hospital
emergency room on her own,
police report. >
Hie women told the police
that they have been “fighting”
for over a year. Since the
incident was a domestic affair
police did not arrest either
party.
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