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KEV'TO JUSTICE - SCLC President Dr. Josepl
Lowery removes key to the city of Birmingham,
from around his neck, vowing never to wear the
until it opens the doors of justice, love, and econo
Black women achieving
Dr. Neal only black woman
on Medical College faculty
By Joan Harrell
(Fourth part of a series)
Dr. Ruth Reid Neal is the
only black female on the
faculty of the Medical College
of Georgia. She is a specialist in
nuclear medicine.
Life seems to be
uncomplicated for the New
Orleans native. She sets goals
and achieves them. “When I
was four years old I dreamed
of becoming a doctor and I
never changed my mind,” she
said.
Black children should
determine goals with the aid of
black adults, she said. “Once
the goal is decided, the child
must be determined to achieve
that goal no matter what it
takes.”
One' obstacle for her has
been men who believe that
women “don’t belong” as
medical doctors, she said,
Governor to be asked
to investigate
slow rape prosecutions
By Rob Green
Gov. George Busbee will be
asked by the Bethlehem Area
Community Association to
investigate the preliminary
hearing of a recent rape case
here in Augusta.
Mrs. Addie Scott Powell, a
okesperson for the
Association, said the group will
have Rep. R.A. Dent take the
matter to Gov. Busbee. “The
problem is the procedure of
the state,” which, through the
office of district attorney
Richard E. Allen,
recommended that the grand
jury not prosecute an alledged
rapist.
Mrs. Powell said that the
district attorney made his
recommendation “since she
(the victim) was not sure on
the day or three days later” of
the identity of the rapist.
Allen said the victim stated
positively that the man she had
been shown pictured was not
the rapist.
Mrs. Powell said that the
Augtwia
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Dr. Ruth Reid Neal
woman did not make a positive
identification of the rapist on
either of the two earlier
occasions because she did not
want to make a false
accusation. But weeks later she
was sure, Mrs. Powell said.
The victim was sitting on her
front porch when she saw the
man walk by her home,
according to Mrs. Powell. The
suspect was then picked up and
booked on five charges;
breaking and entering, robbery,
assault, violent rape, and auto
theft, Mrs. Powell said. “In the
preliminary hearing, she did
not quaver, she did not
hesitate” to identify the man
positively, Mrs. Powell said.
But with the district
attorney’s recommendation,
the jury released the man
“without a trial” which is also
an injustice to him, she said.
See “INVESTIGATIONS”
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Black professor
beaten unconscious
by white youths
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th E. progress. Lowery made the remarks before 4,000
Aj a demonstrators who were protesting the shooting death
k ev of an unarmed black woman by a Birmingham police
omic officer. (SCLC photo by Elaine Tomlin)
adding that males with that
attitude are in the minority.
While Dr. Neal’s career is
important to her, it takes a
back seat to her family. And
her goal of being a wife and
mother ultimately dictated her
concentration in radiology.
“I knew that I wanted to get
married and have a family,
eventually. I wanted to be able
to do both well. And 1 knew
that if I went into surgery or
gynecology that I wouldn’t
have been able to be a good
wife, mother and physician,”
she said.
Dr. Neal studied at Xavier
- and Howard universities where
she did her internship and
residency. And in 1969-70, she
reigned as “Miss Howard
University College of
Medicine.”
During her residency she
met and married Dr. Alimand
Butler Neal. He is a major in
Muhammad Ali,
Jesse Jackson
avoid clash
A spokesperson for
Muhammad Ali has confirmed
that Ali has assured Jersey
City’s People United to Save
Humanity (PUSH) .. his
June 29 benefit match with
Mayor Thomas F.X. Smith was
not an endorsement of Smith’s
NJ. gubernoatorial bid.
The champ, who announced
his retirement while in Jersey
City for the match, pledged
that he would lend his attorney
to PUSH in drawing up an
injunction that would further
prohibit the Smith political
machine from using its
association with Ali as part of
Smith’s campaign tactic.
PUSH charged that a week
before the bout, people close
to. Ali released statements to
Hudson County’s Herald
Dispatch that Ali was
supporting Smith for governor.
Promoter Murah Muhammad
was quoted in the June 12
article, “The heavyweight
the Army and is chief of
anesthesiology at Ft. Gordon.
In spite of the relatively few
black female doctors, Dr. Neal
said she believes the field of
medicine is “wide-open,
especially for black women” as
long as there is “positive
feedback” from affirmative
action programs.
She advises: “You have to
find something that is going to
make you feel that you’re
giving your life some meaning.
Set some goals. Be determined.
And don’t think in terms of
short-range gratification. Think
in terms of something that will
give you gratification in the
long-run.”
Four months ago, Dr. Neal
achieved yet another goal --
motherhood. Alimand Butler
Neal Jr. brought his parents
immediate gratification, and
gave birth to a host of
long-range goals.
champ Muhammad Ali says if
Smith runs in 1981 he would
walk the streets with Smjth
because of Smith’s close
relationship with the city’s
minority residents.” PUSH
threatened to picket the bout.
It has been at odds with the
Smith machine and its
association with Ali as a
campaign trick to defeat
candidates supported by
PUSH. The pickets were called
off in lieu of the meeting that
the agreement was reached
between Ali and PUSH that Ali
agreed to lend the use of his
legal staff to prevent Smith
from using his name in
campaigns.
Hillary Knight, an aide to
Ali who arranged the meeting
says the retired champ was
doing the benefit for the
hospital and as a personal favor
for promoter Murad
Muhammad.
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Kape-area w<
to ask governor’s
help in prosecutions
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August 4, 1979
Reidsville
A broad-based coalition of
civil and human rights
organizations and leaders have
called for a march on Georgia’s
Reidsville State Prison. They
seek to close down the nearly
50-year-old prison and to end
the death penalty.
The march will leave
Savannah, Ga. on Monday,
August 6 at 10 a an. and end
with a rally in Reidsville at
noon, August 11.
The dates of the march
coincide with the next trial of
one of six black prisoners
facing death penalty
indictments for their alleged
roles in a rebellion at the
prison July 23, 1978.
The prisoners, known as the
Reidsville Brothers, are charged
in the death of a white guard
Two Augusta men, one a
32-year-old and the other a
52-year-old, are believed to
have committed suicide four
days apart, according to police.
Paul Eugene Giddens, 32,
2164 B St., Olmstead Homes,
A black 31-year-old Harvard
University professor was
beaten unconscious by a group
of white youths Friday night,
July 13, while jogging around
the school’s football stadium in
Boston.
The professor, Floyd
Jackson, a recently appointed
clinical psychologist at the
university’s medical school,
sustained a hairline fracture
from the incident when an
undetermined number of white
youths struck the 5’10”, 150
pound man from behind,
kicking and stomping him,
according to Boston police.
University officials initially
insisted that Jackson’s assault
did not occur on Harvard
property, therefore they could
not be held responsible.
Jackson claims that he was
running on Harvard property.
The professor said the incident
is “complicated” because of
the university’s location -- most
of Harvard is in Cambridge,
Mass, with parts of the school
in Boston.
Trans-Urban News learned
that Harvard officials were
meeting Tuesday afternoon to
discuss the incident?//y
Just released from
hospital, in a telephone
interview from his Boston
home, Jackson said he was hit
from behind with a hard object
while jogging, either a “bottle
or metal pipe,” he said. Before
losing consciousness, Jackson
said he remembered members
of the mob calling him “a
black mother —
Jackson was taken to St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston
by several Harvard students,
where he was treated and
released Monday. Jackson said
he will have to rest a week
before continuing his research
in Juvenile Delinquency
Adolescent Psychology at the
medical school, under the
supervision of black
psychologist, Dr. Alvin
Hosea Williams, Julian Bond
to march to close prison
2 Augusta men commit suicide
Black prof beaten
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and two white inmates.
The rebellion followed years
of violence and murders of
black prisoners in which few
whites were ever indicted and
none have faced a capital
felony charge of murder.
Coalition founder, the Rev.
Hosea Williams of the Metro
Atlanta Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, said,
“The state’s attempts to
execute these six black
prisoners while the prison
officials promote and set-up
attacks and killings of black
prisoners is symptomatic of
the hypocrisy and inequity of
prison and the death penalty
itself.
“Both prisons and capital
punishment are used against
only the poor and particularly
died by a “self-inflicted”
hanging, according to County
Coroner Marvin T. Woodward.
Giddens was found Saturday
afternoon hanging in a closet
of his home with clothesline
wire around his neck,
Poussaint.
Jackson said he was not sure
whether the attackers were
Harvard students. “While
running I did notice a group of
people were watching me, but I
wasn’t paying attention. They
looked like high school
students, not the “Harvard
type,” he said. The professor
Donahue
retires
A courtroom usually
provides a setting for
allegations, confrontations and
deliberations but on
Wednesday, the state
courtroom was the place for a
party.
Magnolia Donahue was given
a retirement party by some
250 of her friends and
co-workers. Mrs. Donahue,
who joined the Department of
Family and Children Services
in September of 1943 as a case
worker in public welfare and
“only handled black clients,”
she said. “I’ve seen the
'department change several
times and grow from the times
when it was the size of some
families. I am leaving at the
peak of my career,” she said.
For her, retirement is not
because she can’t go any
further, nor because she has
given all she can give, she said,
but “because I have an
obligation to myself to do
some of the things that I want
to do. I am not retiring from
life.”
The ruling elder of the
Christ United Presbyterian
Church, Mrs. Donahue said she
will remain active in church
and civil functions. A member
of the Human Relations
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black and minority people,”
Williams continued. “Instead
of providing jobs, adequate
welfare, and other social and
economic necessities, the
system scapegoats all the
problems of poverty and crime
onto the victims
themselves-the poor and black.
Only they are forced into
hellhole prisons like Reidsville
and into that ghastly
murderer-the electric chair.”
The Rev. Williams, speaking
for the Coalition said, “If a law
is so unjust and immoral as the
death penalty law, and totally
useless in effecting the crime
rate, and is applied in such a
discriminatory fashion that 82
percent of all those executed in
Georgia have been black, then it
clearly should be abolished.
according to police.
John Milton Hatcher, 52,
2120 Crestwood Drive, was
found by Sgt. L.E. Sims
Tuesday morning with a
shotgun wound to the upper
right side of his forehead and a
said the attackers may have
been part of a crowd that
attended a rock concert that
night, adjacent to the
university.
According to Boston police
group of white teenagers are
being questioned in connection
with the beating.
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Mrs. Magnolia Donahue (left) receives gift from
Department of Family and Children Services Director
Pat Fitzgerald.
Photo by Frank Bowman
Commission, she said she may
also do some volunteer work.
She graduated summa cum
laude from Paine College in
1942, and “earned” an MA.
degree in social work at
Atlanta University in 1967.
“And, if a prison doe
nothing to rehabilitate bu
only seeks to destroy humar
dignity, to turn race agains
race and religion agains
religion, to promote violenci
and brutality as a daily routine
and to soak up the taxpayers
money for no good purpose i
should be eliminated. Am
that’s why we say - Clos<
Down Reidsville,” conclude.
Williams.
March organizers say the)
are asking for symbols
representation from differen
groups, churches and town:
and towns to participate in th<
march from Savannah t<
Reidsville. Rallies are planner
in several of the towns aioni
the route.
.38 caliber pistol ‘clutched i
his right hand, Sims said. On
shot had been fired from th
gun, according to Sims, an
three bullets were still in i
Hatcher was found lying on th
couch in the den of his home
last March, Jackson, a native <
the Bronx, said “a lot of racisi
exists” in Boston and th
Harvard Campus in Cambridge
He said the school
administration is attempting t
dismantle the Afro-America
Studies Department, to th
dismay of the black campu
community.
Her sorors of Tau Gamma
Delta, Kappa Alpha Kappa
chapter presented her with a
plaque, and her department
director, Pat Fitzgerald,
presented her a gift from the
staff.
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