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Ad Hoc Conference focuses
on black community crime
By Fannie Flono
Nearly 80 persons, most of
them black, gathered at Paine
College Saturday to evaluate an
aspect of crime most said had
been neglected and appeared to
be on the rise - blacks
committing crimes against
blacks.
Spurred by information
from a special edition of
Ebony magazine, the
conference sought to examine
the causes, consequences and
cures for what is known as
“black on black crime.”
Sponsored by the Ad Hoc
Black Leadership Committee
of Augusta, the conference is
-* the first of its kind in Georgia
and one of the few in the
nation, said Phil Waring,
chairman of the committee and
initiator of the conference.
Patricia Brown, coordinator
of the sociology department at
Paine and co-chairperson of the
conference, presented findings
of the confeience at the Slate
Senate Anti-Crime hearings
Tuesday.
Four task force groups were
appointed following the
conference to develop plans of
action, Waring said.
Those groups included
research and fact-finding
chaired by Patricia Brown,
liaison with the criminal justice
system chaired by Mrs. Addie
Scott Powell, community
involvement chaired by William
Brown 111 and church and
religious activities chaired by
Rev. N.T. Young.
State Rep. R.A. Dent, who
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Ballet Hispanico to appear at A. C.
The Augusta Arts and
Cultural Association (A AC A)
and the Augusta Ballet
Company will present “Ballet
Hispanico” of New York City
Oct. 26 and 27.
The Saturday performance
will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the
Bell Auditorium Music Hall
and Sunday at 3 p.m. in the
Music Hall.
Ballet Hispanico of New
York, an exciting company of
young dancers, founded in
1970 by its Artistic Director,
Tina Ramirez, is a national
repertiore company reflecting
the traditions and experiences
Augusta
welcomed the participants, said
crime “because it is rampant.”
is not just the responsibility of
law enforcement officers, “it is
the responsibility of
everybody. Something has got
to be done. If not, I don’t
know what’s going to become
of Augusta and thycountry.”
For conference host, Julius
Scott, Paine College president,
a part of solution is
straightforward. “Black on
black crime has to be dealt
with by black people.”
Most persons called for a
reassessment of morals in
outlining cures for the black
crime phenomena.
A return to spiritual values,
better law enforcement, equal
dispensement of justice,
community involvement all
played a part in the solution,
conference participants said.
As for the causes of black
crime, racism and
discrimination were said to be
at the top of the list.
Newspaper editor and
publisher Mallory Millender
said racism and oppression
played a major role in
contributing to black on black
crime. “The jails are filled with
would-be good persons who
did not find a viable or socially
acceptable alternative.”
Black crime is a response to
a condition, said Randy
Gunter, social action
chairperson of the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People.
Crime and revolution are a
result of the racist nature of
Ballet Hispanico
of the Spanish speaking
Americans. The company has
performed to wide audiences
and critical acclaim throughout
the United States and in the
fall of 1978 made its first
European Tour. The
Company’s repertoire ranges
from classical flamenco to the
fun-filled folk dances of Latin
America and the Caribbean to
modem dance and jazz works
by leading contemporary
choreographers including
Geoffrey Holder, Louis
Johnson, Alvin Ailey, Talley
Beatty, Donald McKayle, Anna
Sokolow, Jose Coronado, Paco
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the system in which we live, he
said.
“We’re striking out, many
times aimed at ourselves.”
Job bias has also been a
contributing factor to crime,
Gunter said.
Even in Augusta, city
government, racial bias exists
in employment, Gunter said.
“We (blacks) are nearly 50
percent of the population, but
on hold 29.1 percent of city
jobs, most of them
lower-paying jobs.”
Discrimination also exists in
the criminal justice system,
from the arrest in which more
blacks are arrested
proportionately than whites to
sentencing and prison life,
participants said. Civil rights
lawyer Jack Ruffin, acting as a
special consultant for the
conference, said the main
motive for crime was
economic.
“Perhaps the biggest
criminal in the country is the
government, - ' he said.
But it is the poor who lack
the power to enforce their
riglits who are often victims of
the legal system, he said.
“Obviously racism and
oppression contribute to crime,
but that is an oversimplifica
tion. Anytime you have an
economic system that preys on
the poor like ours does, there is
going to be crime. The
economic system is
oppressive."
Discussion also centered on
rape, drug addiction, housing
and education as they are
affected by crime.
Fernandez and Tina Ramirez.
These works are set to lively
jazz, captivating rhythms of
the Caribbean, fiery guitar,
exciting Latin beats,
symphonic works as well as
popular blues. Die dance and
music of Ballet Hispanico is
electric. The performances are
electrifying.
Tickets may be purchased at
the door on the dates of the
performances or in advance by
contacting AACA, 360 Bay
Street, Suite 315, 724-9712 or
the Augusta Civic Ballet, 2941
Walton Way, 736-2561.
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Sepia Fashion Fair
to be presented here
“Sepia Fashion Fair”.. High
Chic 79”, featuring the Shaped
Look and spotlighting the
Hamilton Vogue-Esquire
Models of Chicago is coming to
Augusta, Nov. 3, at the
Performing Arts Theatre at
Augusta College at 7 p.m.
This affair will be sponsored
by the AKA Sorority. During
the 1979 Tour of Sepia
Fashion Fair, the
Vogue-Esquire Models will
feature Fashion Togetherness,
as once again the hemlines fall
just at knee level, or even
below, as this is milady’s
choice. The major emphasis
this year will be towards the
“Shaped Look”. This is the
fashion cursade for the 1979
Fashion Season.
The lx>ok of High Chic;
Head to toe dressing will be the
mania this season. Colors this
3 incumbents returned
Three incumbents were
returned to office following
Augusta City Council elections
last week.
Incumbents M.L. “Slick”
DeWitt (6th Ward), Bernard
Mulherin (7th Ward) and W.
Penland Mayson will be joined
by newcomers Willie Mays
(2nd Ward), Joseph Neal (3rd
Ward), Joseph Jones (4th
Ward) and Inez Wylds (Ist
Wilma Randolph
womanhood speaker
at Paine College
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season vary from Fashion
house to fashion house,
however, once again black
continues to remain a strong
color.
Every ensemble has been
personally selected and
coordinated. There are no
gimmicks in this year’s show,
just pure fashion excitement,
and an abundance of
outstanding designer creations,
that will delight the fashion
minded. Fashions for the man
will also be a rare treat, as the
ladies will enjoy these beautiful
male fashions expertly shown
by three top selected male
models.
The 1979 premiere showing
of “Sepia Fashion Fair”,
opened in Chicago on Sunday
Sept. 30, and will close in Los
Angeles on Dec. 10.
Ward) and former city
councilman K.Z. Johnson, also
elected to council last week.
The council members will
take office in January. Neal
defeated incumbent Y.N.
Myers, and Jones, defeated
incumbent Sebron Butler to
win their seats. Mayson was
unopposed.
There were no incumbents
in two of the races.
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For black plaintiffs
Panel to submit
3 districting plans
By Fannie Flono
In a meeting peppered with
charges that Richmond
County’s present voting system
has led to discrimination and
underrepresentation of blacks
in county government, a
committee developing
redistricting plans agreed last
week to submit three plans to
plaintiffs in a pending federal
suit against the county’s voting
system.
The plans, developed
primarily by individual
members of the committee,
seek to satisfy the plaintiffs
contention that voting lines be
redrawn to insure accessibility,
accountability and
participation in the
decison-making process by
blacks.
The plans are based on
changing the present at-large
voting system to district
voting.
The plaintiffs don’t have to
accept the plans.
The citizen’s committee,
sponsored by the League of
Women V ters, consists of five
persons recommended by the
plaintiffs attorney and five by
the county attorney in the suit
attacking the at-large voting
system.
The committee, composed
of blacks and whites, split
Track star Wilma Randolph
Black womanhood speaker
symbol of achievement
By Fannie Flono
Wilma Rudolph, who won
fame racing across finish lines
as one of America’s top female
athletes, trotted into Augusta
this week as part of Paine
College’s Black Womanhood
Week.
The three-time Olympic gold
medal winner no longer runs
the 100 and 200 meter races
that catapulted her to fame
nearly two decades ago.
Today, she runs back and
forth between speaking
engagements.
In Augusta at Paine’s Gilbert
Lambuth Chapel Tuesday, she
talked about the Olympics,
how they are run, how coaches
are selected and how young
athletes become involved.
Previously Ms. Rudolph has
had both lauds and laments
about Olympic training
programs for American
athletes.
The praise goes to the U.S.
government which she has said
is getting more involved in
developing facilities for
American Olympic athletes.
The American Olympic
program also offers young
athletes the choice of
participating in sports where in
Barnard is Business League speaker
Congressman D. Douglas
Barnard will be the speaker at
the CSRA Business Leagie
annual Awards Banquet Nov. 9
at the Augusta Hilton
Convention Center.
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along racial lines in supporting
the various plans.
Most whites favored a plan
submitted by member Mike
Peary, who is also white.
That plan divides the county
into five districts with one
predominantly black district
and one with a potentially
large black voting populace.
Blacks favored the two plans
submitted by the black
members, Mallory K. Millender
and Roscoe Williams.
Millender’s plan was not
presented in its final form
because of an error Millender
said he discovered in his
calculations of black/white
percentages in one of the
districts.
The plan has two
predominantly black voting
districts, he said.
The plan concentrated on
sure black districts rather than
districts of equal size.
Williams' plan is a
modification of a previous
plan, he said.
The plan, insures “maximum
representation” for blacks,
Williams said.
The plan also has two
predominantly black voting
districts, but the committee
was unsure of the figures used
to compute black
representation in the 4th
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some other countries,
youngsters are forced to
participate, she noted.
But there still needs to be
more attention on developing
track programs, not just
focusing on American athletes
every four years when the
Olympics comes around, she
said.
The 37-year-old mother of
four looks back on her life as
the United States’ top female
track star as among the most
The banquet will begin
promptly at 8 p.m. with
dinner, and the evening will
conclude with an after-affair at
the Garden Center on Telfair
Street.
district, one of the two
predominantly black wards.
One plan, which the
committee reviewed, did not
consider black/white voting
percentages in development of
a plan.
That plan simply considered
total numbers of voters,
divided nearly evenly among
the five districts.
To most black members of
the committee, this plan was
unacceptable.
“If you draw a plan that is
so-called color-blind, it would
be difficult to achieve what the
plaintiffs had in mind,”
Williams said. “That is,
maximum representation,
representation for as many
blacks as possible.”
Millender said calculations
based on the number of county
commissioners and the number
of years the commission has
existed show that in the “360
commission years”, there has
only been one black.
“That doesn’t seem like a
fair score to me. Up until Ed
Mclntyre (was appointed to a
county board in 1968), no
blacks were appointed to
boards. And since he has been
off the County Commission,
no blacks have been appointed.
We have a gross inequity to be
addressed here.”
gratifying period of her life.
But there were also hard
times, she has said.
Financial adjustments had to
be made after those glory years
Ms. Rudolph said.
Ms. Rudolph, who has seen
her autobiography made into a
movie, credits dedication and
discipline for her successful
track career.
A victim of polio, she did
not walk without braces until
she was nine years old.
But by die time she was 15
she had qualified for the 1956
Olympics. Four years later, the
Clarksville, Tenn, youth won
three gold medals at the
Olympics.
She has been named United
States Woman Athlete of the
Year, Sports Woman of the
year by European Sports
Writers, and was one of only
three women in 41 years to
receive the James E. Sullivan
Award, presented annually to
the year’s most outstanding
amateur athlete by the
American Athletic Union.
Ms. Rudolph also served as
America’s Goodwill
Ambassador to French West
Africa and toured world-wide
for the United States Track
and Field in 1970;
Persons interested in
attending should contact the
CSRA Business League at
722-0994 for tickets and
additional information.