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stabbed in quarrel Page 3 VoL 10 No. 16 Martin, Wilson Wrightsville leaders to rally in Augusta A rally will be held at Dyess Park (comer of 9th and D’Antignac Streets) 3 p.m. Sept. 6 to encourage blacks in Augusta to actively support Wrightsville residents in a national protest march of conditions there September 20. The local rally Sept. 6 will be sponsored by the local Black United Front, chairperson Ernest Louis said. Researcher hired to study history of black Augusta By Fannie Flono An historical researcher has been hired to conduct the first comprehensive study of black life and history in the Augusta area. , Carl McCoy, a graduate of Paine College with a bachelors degree in social sciences, began work recently in the new position. McCoy said the aim of the research is to start with “day one (of black life in the area) and bring it all the way up to the present.” “A publication will come out of my research to let people know the significance of blacks’ contribution to the city,” he said. The research is being made possible by a Heritage Recreation and Conservation Service grant from the Department of Interior. The $17,000 grant will be matched by $6,900 in cash and $9,000 Man, wife stabbed in quarrel Two persons have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault with intent to murder in connection with an apparent domestic quarrel in which an Augusta man and his wife were stabbed. According to Augusta Police, Beulah Marrow Sherlin, 48, and her husband, Gary Mike Sherlin, 31, were both stabbed with a hunting knife. Sherlin allegedly stabbed his wife in the side with the knife and a man who allegedly came to her aid stabbed Sherlin with James Brown nominated for Hall of Fame Award Augusta’s James Brown has been nominated for a Georgia Music Week Hall of Fame Award in a ceremony to be televised live from the Atlanta Hilton on Saturday, September 20 on Public Television. The ceremony concludes Georgia Music Week, a salute to the state’s multi-million dollar recording industry. The program will air from 8 to 9 p.m. Hall of Fame awards, nicknamed “Georgies,” will be given in three categories: performer, non-performer, and a memorial category new this year. Awards will be presented Augusta Nms-%rujew Speakers include John Martin, president of the Johnson County Justice League; Jerry Henderson, coalition for Black Unity; Teresa Wright, president of the Hyde Park Save Our School Committee, Wilbur Allen, Georgia Coalition on Hunger and Rev. E.J. Wilson. Louis said the struggle by blacks in Wrightsville have been met with repeated attacks by is 1,1 Carl McCoy in in-kind services from Historic Augusta, Inc., the organization administering the grant, said Lee Swann, director of Historic Augusta. The project is being instituted because there is so much black history here, but so little study of it, she said. “One of the goals is to get the Laney-Walker district the same knife about 9:50 p.m. Thursday. Both were taken to University Hospital where Sherlin is listed in critical condition and Mrs. Sherlin in fair condition with a severe stab wound. Carl Albert Carter has been charged with aggravated assault with intent to murder in connection with the stabbing of Sherlin and Sherlin has been charged with the same offense in connection with the stabbing of Mrs. Sherlin. by Governor Busbee, Lieutenant Governor Miller, and House Speaker Murphy. Nominated for the performer’s award are Brown, Bill Anderson, Harry James, Gladys Knight, Brenda Lee, Eva Mae Lefevre, Hovie Lister, Little Richard, Willie Perryman, Billy Joe Royal, Jerry Reed, Joe South, and Ray Stevens. Non-performers nominated are Ilene Berns, Buddy Buie, Cotton Carrier, Albert Coleman, Alex Cooley, Thomas C. Dorsey, Rich Floyd, David Franklin, J. Lee Friedman, Joel Katz, Babs Richardson, Bob Richardson, reused rapist, retarded man free on *IO,OOO bond Page 1 racist local authorities and the Ku Klux Klan. “A call has gone out for black and progressive people from all over the country to come to Wrightsville Sept. 20.” Louis said women and children in Wrightsville have been shot down, church doors have been kicked in and occupants arrested and black homes raided. nominated for the National Historic Register,” McCoy said. Already, McCoy has dug up some interesting tidbits about black life in Augusta. The first black lawyer in Augusta, Judson W. Lyons, became the first black man to sign the dollar bill when he became register of the U.S. Treasury in the 1890 s. One of the first conspiracies to massacre the white population was hatched in Augusta by a black man named Coot or CoCo in 1819 several years before the Nat Turner uprising. Also, A.R. Johnson back in the 19th century was the first black person to teach in Augusta. McCoy will be conducting oral interviews, looking through works already published which may mention some black history, pursuing old newspapers, real estate deeds and wills. He admits the job will be a challenge. “But that’s what’s going to make it interesting. I’m very optimistic.” McCoy will be getting aid from local history professors and the Historic Augusta group. 1 f anyone has any information or material that is historically significant, they should give him a call, he said. “If you have anything pertinent to my objective, old newspapers, letters, anything, let me know and I’ll be the judge of whether it’s significant,” he said. McCoy can be reached at Historic Augusta, Inc., 629’ Greene St., (404) 724-2324. The research will not be limited to Augusta, but will include the surrounding area. eH * James Brown Zenas Sears, Allen Walden, and Phil Walden. Nominated for the memorial award are Duane Allman, Johnny Mercer, Otis Redding, and Chuck Willis. September 6,1980 fig WOW? ' z ’ BHI i r H s m I S IV. "■ C \ * f Mrs. Rosa Ixmise Parks, “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” (seated) shares a joyous moment with finalists of the SCLC/WOMEN’S First National Oratorical Contest during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 23rd Annual Convention Awards Banquet in Cleveland recently. Ambassador Andrew Young uiade the keynote address at the banquet. SCLC President Dr. Joseph E. Lowery stands next to the winner, Demetrius L. Kennedy, sponsored by the Birmingham Chapter of SCLC. Lisa Williams (Ist SCLC hails Rosa Parks Atlanta-The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 23rd Annual Convention Awards Banquet Honoring Mrs. Rosa Louise Parks, “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” was a major highlight of the SCLC convention. More than 1,000 persons attended the gala affair in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Cleveland Plaza Hotel, Saturday, August 9th. 1980, is the 25th Anniversary Year of the historic movement sparked by Mrs. Parks when she was arrested and prosecuted by The City of Montgomery, for her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Subsequently, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, lead by SCLC’s IwirJHpi ? a' - ■ I Ja aßil I ‘ 31®. > 'hSrwte-' wwH I / -; **'S s 1 TANQUERAY AWARD TO STRAWBERRY - Darryl Strawberry, 2nd left, shown above during a recent gathering of sports buffs at Gallagher’s Restaurant in Manhattan, accepts the 1980 Tanqueray Achievement Award for excellence in the field of amatuer sports from John Heilmann, left, president and chief executive officer of Somersetimporters, Ltd. Looking on are Darryl’s mother, Mrs. Ruby Strawberry, and Joe McDonald,Mets: vice president. Strawberry, now playing for the Mets’ Kingsport, Tenn., team in the rookie Appalachian league, was honored for his outstanding career as star at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles. As the number one choice in baseball's summer free agent draft, he was signed by the Mets recently for a near-record bonus, Augustan among opera’s top stars of past 25 years Page 1 founder and first president, The late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-lasting some 381 days, altered the destiny of Black Americans in the State of Alabama. SCLC President, the Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, pastor of Atlanta’s Central United Methodist Church, presented Mrs. Parks with a special Award, and SI,OOO from SCLC. An additional SI,OOO was given to her by Lowery from the National Dental Association, composed of predominantly-Black dentists. Said Dr. Lowery: “God looked down in Montgomery Alabama and saw an unusual set of circumstances; he saw a Baptist preacher-who had a Ph.D. in his head, and a Ph.D. in his heart; he saw a people runner-up) sponsored by the Tallahassee, Florida Chapter. Atlanta’s Shelby Thruman (2nd runner-up), Mrs. Evelyn Lowery, Convenor-Coordinator of the SCLC/WOMEN, and Dr. Claud Young, Vice-Chairman of the SCLC Board. Young Kennedy gave a stirring talk on the theme of the contest: “What The Civil Rights Movement Means To Youth Today Their Role: Their Future.” He received a SI,OOO scholarship. Photo by Elaine Tomlin who were tired of abuse from a system of transportation and he saw a site that was known as the ‘C ■'die of the Confederacy’, and decided what better place could be the cradle of a new kind of democracy.” Dr. Lowery continued, “But he saw Rosa Parks-humble and courageous, beautiful and plain, and God in his own time and way...with one stroke, carved into history a woman who sat down for dignity and inspired millions to stand up for justice.” “Now I know the civil rights movement is not dead, “Mrs. Parks said, upon acceptance of the various awards of appreciation she had received, “and it will not die,” she told the banquet guests. “I tried to James Brown proposed for award by Hall of Fame Page 1 Less Than 75% Advertising do what I could-at the place and time 1 was.” Mrs. Parks explained that she was tired of the way Blacks were being treated under the “yoke of legally-enforced segregation, the agony, suffering, and all kinds of oppressive conditions” that were peculiar to that era of American history. “I shall remember this very beautiful moment.” she said. Sharing the dais with honoree Mrs. Parks, Ambassador Andrew Young gave a stirring address, that was prefaced with remarks from Congressman Walter Fauntroy, who sang one of the songs on his recently released album: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford presided during the banquet. Lowery at peace meet in Italy Atlanta-Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery and his wife, Evelyn, wfl] journey to Rimini, Italy (on the Adriatic coast) August 25th through the 30th for the 1980 international Meeting of Friendship Among the People, sponsored by 11 Sabato Magazine. Dr. Lowery has been invited by II Sabato Chief Editor, Fiorenzo Tagliabue, to address the gathering about his experiences in the civil rights movement. The international meeting will include musical performances, sporting events, concerts, a film festival and more, all of which will focus on peace and the rights of man. Also expected to attend the meeting are Mother Theresc of Calcutta, East European and Latin America"dissidents” and a host of other “advocates of peace.” Augustan in opera’s ‘best’ in 25 years The Internationa] Record and Tape Club of New York has just released its list of the “Best Opera of the Past 25 Years.” Jessye Norman. the Augusta-born soprano, ranked prominently in the list. Miss Norman who records exclusively for Philips is on six recordings. They include II Corsaro by Verdi, Euryanthe by Weber, Un Giorno di Regno by Verdi, Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, and Haydn’s La Vera Constanza. The August issue of Opera News magazine mentions Miss Norman’s soon to be released Brahms album. Miss Norman’s schedule for this fall includes appearances in Belgium, England, Austria, Germany, France, Czechoslavakia, Denmark, and Switzerland. In North America Jessye Norman she will sing in Cincinnati, Novermber 14th and 15th; a recital debut in Carnegie Hall, New York on November 26th; at the Kennedy Center in Washington on November 29th; in Montreal on November 30th; and three appearances in Brooklyn, New York December 5-7. 25 e