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Vol 9 No. 3
Woman president breathes
new life into local NAACP
By Rob Green
Editor’s Note: This is the
first of a series of articles
featuring black women in
non-traditional leadership
roles.
Since the election of its first
woman president five months
ago, the Augusta Chapter of
the NAACP has become visible
and vocal.
Meetings of the city council,
county commission and board
of education arc monitored by
the NAACP.
The group recently
challenged the City of Augusta
on the low percentage of
blacks in its work force and got
the Human Relations
Commission to launch a
full-scale investigation into city
hiring practices.
But President Georgene
Hatcher Seabrook refuses to
accept a male-female
comparison. She insists that
“blacks can’t afford to divide
along sexual lines. We’ve got to
be solidly black people.”
“You can’t put all the burden
on the poor black man,” she
said. “The black man is a tired
and beaten species. He’s out
there struggling, he’s
confronted with discrimination
NAACP seeks million members
Benjamin L. Hooks,
executive director of the
NAACP, says his organization
will launch an intensive
membership campaign, in an
effort to reach an announced
goal of one million members
by 1980.
The campaign is expected to
be launched in over 100 key
cities in the United States, and
in more than 500 smaller
communities, towns and
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ENTERTAINER AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST Dick
Gregory (1) chats with Paine College alumnus and Clark
College President Elias Blake (2nd left), ACTION
Associate Director John Lewis and ACTION Director
Sam Brown at a colloquium for educators from
historically black colleges in Atlanta.
Gregory led off the meeting, which was held to urge
the support of college presidents, career counselors and
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in jobs, and then he has to be
out there in the political arena
too,” she said.
Mrs. Seabrook believes the
black woman is “as much
obligated” to the total black
community as the black man.
“There is nothing that says
that black women can’t make
their concerns known,” she
said.
The NAACP has not had the
support of blacks in Augusta,
she said, adding that some
people fear that if they are
publicly associated with the
NAACP it can be used against
them. Such fears, she said, have
led to a local membership that
is “embarrassingly low.”
According to Mrs. Seabrook,
the membership of the NAACP
has always been a “closely
guarded thing” and it will
continue to be, simply because
“we don’t want our members
to feel they are in jeopardy.”
The Augusta branch has
survived because of a “faithful
few,” she said. “Since I have
been president, people have
said that the NAACP did not
do anything. You can’t do
anything if you don’t have
people out there helping you
to do things.
“I sometimes think that the
counties.
Hooks has called an urgent
meeting of all state and area
leaders of his organization, for
a session to explore training
techniques for reaching their
goal.
Although branches have not
yet made final reports on their
spring campaigns, Hooks
pointed out that the
association registered at least
20 percent increase in
Crime suspects
caught following
two-state spree
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Mrs. Georgene Seabrook
community doesn’t realize that
all of the NAACP staff is
voluntary and that we are out
there trying to make a living
everyday just like they are, and
if we can sacrifice the time,
then surely they can, too. The
memberships over a six-month
period in 1978, based upon
reports received in the National
Office.
The fall membership
campaign will begin on
September 10, and culminate
on Dec. 20. Hooks said, “the
issues we face are too great, the
challenges vexing and the stakes
too high -for black Americans
to take the progress we have
faculty in assisting the federal volunteer service agency
to recruit more minority volunteers.
Another purpose of the meeting which was hosted by
Clark College, was to provide information to the college
officials about ACTION’S contracts activities for the
recruitment and training of VISTA and Peace Corps
volunteers. More than 50 representatives of historically
black colleges attended the colloquium.
overall effort is for the
community, and Augusta has
slept,” she said.
Whites, she said, are no
longer sensitive to black.needs.
“They feel they have given us
enough and that we have riot
effectively utilized what they
have given us, black people
have not continued to push
and black politicians have not
been assertive enough,” she
said.
“If you look at our political
leaders, you will find that they
are old, that they are very
secure economically, and that
they are retired. They really do
not have the pulse of the
community. Augusta has failed
to prepare young blacks to
take active roles in community
and city government,”she said
Mrs. Seabrook said many
blacks have “stopped caring for
each other, lost their identity
and have allowed themselves to
be divided.”
The original cry of the
NAACP was to have all
believers in democracy to join
in a national conference for the
discussion of the present evils,
the voicing of protests and the
renewal of the struggle for civil
and political liberties, she said.
“And that’s still our cry.”
made for granted.”
“The NAACP has a proven
record of results not rhetoric,
performances not promises -a
legacy that is unsurpassed by
any civil rights group in the
world,” Hooks added. “We are
now calling upon those who
have benefitted from our work,
to help forge the opening of
new opportunities for those
generations yet unborn.”
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URBAN RENEWAL has just about wiped out most
buildings on 9th Street. Shown above are the last
remnants of Augusta’s famous “block”. This area is
known all over the world because of the large number of
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PUSH gets $500,000 grant
Operation PUSH has
received a labor grant of
$500,000 for a Career
Exploration Demonstration
Project, President Jesse
Jackson announced last week.
The demonstration project is
to provide an alternative
approach to combatting the
problem of structural
unemployment among
economically disadvantaged
Two Augusta men who are
suspects in a crime spree early
Saturday morning have been
caught by county authorities.
Police have connected Fesse
Lee Laney, 19, and Roosevelt
Bryant, 23, both of the 1400
block of Brow Street, to a
murder.rape, two kidnappings,
black press
Crime suspects caught
after two-state spree
Less than 75% Advertising
CHICAGO (NNPA) -
Ronald Regan, former
governor of California, and a
leading Republican contender
for the Presidential
nomination, will address the
39th Annual Convention of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association - the Black Press
of America.
Announcement of Regan’s
speech was made here this
week by John H. Sengstacke,
NNPA president and
editor-publisher of the
youth, and to aid in their
transition from school to the
world of work, Jackson said.
The Labor Department is
interested in the potential of
the PUSH for EXCELLENCE
model in providing a new
approach for combatting youth
unemployment.
This grant, effective for a
13-month period (Sept. 1,
1979 to Sept. 30,1980) will be
several armed robberies and a
shooting.
Laney is also charged with
the armed robbery of the Capri
Theatre May 28, and die
abduction and stabbing of an
Augusta Hilton employee
Thursday, police said.
The 24-year-old woman the
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military transients passing through Augusta. The
proprietors of the remaining establishments say they
will stay until the last brick falls. Photo by Stan Raines
convention
Sengstacke newspaper chain,
including the Chicago Daily
Defender.
Regan’s address will be
delivered Thursday evening,
June 14, on the second day of
the three-day convention, the
NNPA head said. “We want to
hear from all the candidates,
Republican and Democrat
alike,” Sengstacke explained.
“We don’t propose to be in
anybody’s pocket,” he
declared.
Other speakers at the
used to provide a model for:
1) Developing skills and
exposing high school seniors to
career opportunities;
2) Using the total
community approach
developed by the PUSH for
EXCELLENCE program, to
provide linkages between the
schools and the broader
community, in this case,
between the business and labor
two men abducted at 1 a.m.
Saturday from the Georgia
Moon bar on Walton Way
contacted the sheriff’s
department after getting out of
the trunk of her car. The pair
raped the woman before
putting her in the car, she said.
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convention will be Benjamin L.
Hooks, executive director of
the NAACP; Charles L. Brown,
chairman of the board of
AT&T; W. Wilson Goode,
chairman of the Pennsylvania
Public Utility Commission;
Robert W. Morrow, vice
president of ITT Continental
Baking Company; Robert
Sellers, chairman of the board
of Cities Services; Ms. Alexis
Herman, director of the
Women’s Bureau of the U.S.
Department of Labor.
community.
3) To utilize the
motivational techniques
developed in the PUSH for
EXCELLENCE program to
inspire students to become
productive workers.
It is explicitly not the
See “PUSH”
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The Richmond County
Sheriffs office is investigating
the rape. South Carolina
authorities have also charged
both men with murder, rape
and armed robbery, Augusta
Police Department Capt. M.D.
Philpot said.