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“WE’RE FIRED UP!” - The Rev. E.J. Martin, leader of the Johnson County Justice League (top left),
exhorts crowd in front of the court house. Richard Turner, Washington County organizer who was beaten
during a demonstration in April and hospitalized for 2'/? months, talks to reporter. He said he was beaten by
“white folk, the Klan, and wrong folk.”
Representatives of the Augusta Chapter of the Black United Front display banner. See related photos on
page 6. Photos by Mallory K. Millender
Wrightsville protest has
new opposition--SCLC
By Mallory K. Millender
WRIGHTSVILLE - More
than 500 demonstrators
marched through. Wrightsville
Saturday to protest “racist
conditions” in that city.
The march was staged
despite threats against the life
of local leaders John Wilson
and the Rev. E.T. Martin, and
letters from national SCLC
urging local citizens not to join
the march.
The Rev. Martin said he has
turned over to the FBI several
letters he received this week
threatening his life if the march
took place.
Addressing the
demonstrators in front of the
courthouse, he said he did not
fear for his life. “We want to
serve notice that we were bom
to die. We mean business. Your
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threats won’t stop us. If you
want to stop us give us
freedom. Give us justice. Give
us respect.”
Wilson said SCLC mailed
letters to all Wrightsville and
Johnson County residents
urging them not to support the
march. According to Wilson,
the letter, signed by SCLC
President Joseph Lowery, said
that civil rights organization
could not support the march
because its leaders did not
endorse nonviolence.
But Wilson charged that
Lowery and other civil rights
leaders refused to endorse the
march because “they weren’t
invited to run things. This
organization believes in
nonviolence and they know
that. They didn’t come because
they couldn’t call the shots.”
The two-hour march began
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at the Johnson County High
School and proceeded through
downtown Wrightsville past the
courthouse, through several
black neighborhoods, back to
the courthouse, where a rally
shortened by the threat of rain
was held, then back to the
school.
The marchers came from
obscure places like Lochapoka,
Ala. as well as from Chicago,
Philadelphia, New Orleans and
New York. They marched
according to states with
Wrightsville residents leading
the way.
A busload of Augustans
belonging to the Black United
Front and the Welfare Rights
Organization also participated.
As the demonstrators
marched, they chanted:
“We don’t want no Carter,
no Klan; Just want some
September 27,1980
freedom, some power and land.
“Over the hill in the old
cemetery, that’s where all the
scared niggers are buried.
“Tell die white folk and
these sorry preachers that time
is winding up.”
Since the demonstrations
began this year, 42
demonstrators have been
arrested and many reportedly
beaten.
The marchers’ demands
include the hiring of blacks in
the local post office and bank,
representation on the board of
education, and imput in city
and county government.
They also demand that local
officials negotiate with
'assertive blacks “We want
blacks who aren’t afraid to
march with us. We want blacks
who look black, talk black and
act black.”
City yields to
Sand Hill demand
for traffic light
P a 8 e 1 if <
Job bias costs Firestone
40 million dollars each year
Job discrimination lias cost
the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Co. about S4O million annually
in Federal contracts.
The Department of Labor’s
Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs
(OFCCP), headed by Weldon
Rougeau, announced that
Firestone has been debarred
from federal contracts for
failure to comply with
Executive Order 11246. That
order requires all companies
Auto dealer Gary Allen is
shot during argument
Car dealer Gary Allen was
shot Saturday at his place of
business in Augusta.
Alien, who operates Allen
and Raiford Car City at 916
Walton Way, told police that
he argued with a man, later
identified as Ronnie Glover,
25, of 125 Capitol St., about
City yields to Sand Hills
demand for traffic light
By Fannie Flono
The Augusta City Council’s
Public Safety Committee has
agreed to put a traffic light at
the intersection of Wheeler
Road and Boy Scout and
Peachtree Roads.
The action came at a
meeting last week following a
protest by area residents, the
Sand Hill Neighborhood
Association, of problems with
a park city officials had
constructed in the area.
Thousands expected in
D.C.for black colleges
NEW YORK, NY -
Thousands of people will
assemble in the nation’s capital
Sept. 24, to demonstrate their
support of Black College Day
’BO Coalition for Black
Colleges and will highlight a
two-day package themed - the
survival of Black Colleges.
Tony Brown, executive
producer of “Tony Brown’s
Journal,” a nationally
syndicated commercial
television program,
orchestrated the assemblage to
call national attention to the
significance of black colleges to
higher education for black
students.
Brown’s involvement in the
future of black colleges began
several years ago when he
produced a documentary
entitled, “Slow Fade To
White.” The program’s topic
was the desegregation of black
colleges. It centered around the
impact of the Adams vs.
that do business with the
Federal government to take
affirmative action to hire and
promote women and
minorities.
The debarrment grew out of
a complaint filed against
Firestone’s facility in Orange,
Texas, but applied to all
Firestone operations and
facilities. An administrative law
judge found that Firestone’s
affirmative action program was
deficient because, among other
tilings, it:
some business they transacted
earlier when Glover pulled a
pistol from a brown shoulder
bag. He pointed the gun at
Allen, and pulled the trigger,
but the gun misfired.
When the gun failed to fire,
Glover slapped him, Allen said.
According to Allen, he thought
The residents said the park
does not have enough facilities
for older youths in the area.
They also contended that a
stop light, water fountains,
bathrooms, and picnic facilities
were needed. Signs to let
motorists know to slow down
since children would be at play
in the area were also necessary.
Though city officials had
indicated earlier that changes
in the park were remote, the
traffic light was a concession to
Califano case, which
questioned the dual system of
higher education.
“Racism solely on the part
of the whites is not what I’m
talking about,” argues Brown.
“Many blacks also believe that
black colleges are inferior and
that their integration with
white universities will provide
better opportunities for
blacks.” Brown went on to
explain that, conversely, black
colleges have traditionally
played a vital role in higher
education for blacks. These
desegregation programs often
hurt black schools, diminish
the number of blacks attending
them and most importantly,
substantially reduce the
number of black college
graduates.
Continues Brown, “Today,
90 traditionally black colleges
graduate as many black
students as 1,500 white
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* failed to acknowledge that
minorities and women were
underrepresented in various job
groups;
* failed to establish goals
and timetables to remedy the
underrepresentation in
accordance with Labor
Department regulations; and
* failed to include adequate
action-oriented programs for
minorities and women to
correct problem areas.
The debarrment signed by
the gun was empty and turned
to take off his glasses and
confront Glover. Glover then
fired a shot striking Allen in
the left side of the neck.
Allen was taken to
university Hospital by a
witness.
A brown male shoulder bag
residents’ requests.
State officials are now
looking at the park to see if all
the projects included in the
redevelopment proposal
submitted by the city have
been undertaken.
Sand Hill Neighborhood
Association President Dorothea
Smith said the community
organization is continuing to
meet to see that changes in the
park are made to fit the
resisdents’ needed.
colleges. Overall, only 30
percent of all black college
students attend a
predominantly black college,
but more than 50 percent of
the black college graduates
come from them. About seven
out of ten blacks at white
colleges never graduate.”
Workships are scheduled for
Sunday, September 28 at
Blackbum Center, Howard
University beginning at 11 aun.
Topics include the role of
black colleges, recruitment,
retention, corporate and public
relations and the relationship
of the church to colleges. The
National Association of black
Journalists and black Collegian
Magazine also plan a workshop
for college campus editors.
Black College Day ’BO, Sept.
29, kicks off at 9:30 a.m.
Pundits on the historical value
of black colleges, the
desegregation plan and
governmental spending will
Labor Secretary Ray Marshall
orders that Firestone’s present
Federal contracts and
subcontracts be canceled,
terminated, or suspended and
that the company be declared
ineligible for future contracts.
The debarrment will remain in
effect until Firestone can
satisfy the Director of the
OFCCP that it is in compliance
with Federal
anti-discrimination and
affirmative action standards.
was found at the scene with
Glover’s drivers license in it.
Police said the bag also
contained what appeared to be
11 brown bags of marijauna,
which were turned over to Det.
Sgt. Claude Wiggleton.
Glover was last seen running
west on the 900 block of
Walton Way.
The park, which in the
original plans included a
swimming pool and other
recreation facilities, was
downgraded to a passive park
for various reasons, including
financial, city officials have
said.
The Sand Hill Neighborhood
Association was formed as a
result of the controversy over
the park, but members plan to
undertake other problems
within the community, Ms.
Smith said.
address the mass assemblage at
the Ellipse. There, college
bands will perform and Miss
Black College Day ’BO will be
crowned by a representative of
Pepsi-Cola Company, a sponsor
of the event.
The march begins at 12
noon. Traveling down “E”
Street Pennsylvania Avenue,
the precession will reconvene
at the west front of the U.S.
Capitol Building where
presidential candidates have
been invited to speak, followed
by an address from Tony
Brown and closing activities.
The timely dates tie into the
Annual Congressional Black
Caucus legislative weekend,
September 26-28 and the
National Association of Black
Journalists convention
beginning September 29. The
dates also mark the
culmination of Black College
Month.
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