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Parren Mitdi ell to Speak
U.S. Congressman
Parren J. Miteh-jH,
speaker here in the
iecture room of Butler
Hall at Augusta College.
Mitchell, who just
finished a two-year term
McCann, Thomas
File $350,000 Suit
Charles McCann and
George Thom as last week
filed a liable suit ga r .
Dr. Roger M. Smith
asking $350,000 in
damages.
McCann and Thomas
are stockholders in New-
Grow, Inc., owners of the
Augusta News-Review
The suits, which were
filed separately but read
identiacally, state that
Smith letter was written
in a malicious and
unlawful manner,
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as chairman of the
Congressional Black
Caucus, is Maryland's
Seventh District member
of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
He has served on
designed to bring
disgrace, ridicule and
harm ” to the plaintiffs.
Smith’s letter said
the men .commi 11 e d
perjury The suit alleges
that the claim is ‘‘totally
untrue.”
McCann and
Thomas, who are
represented by Chris G.
Nicholson, are each
asking SIOO,OOO in actual
damages and $250,000 in
punitive dam ages.
Charles McCann,
George Thomas File $350,000
Suit Agajnst Doctor
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many major committees,
inducting' committees on
Banking, Finance and
Urban Affairs and on
Small Business, and the
J oint E c onom ic
Com m ittee.
In addition, he has
served as chairman of
numerous
subcommittees,
including those of
Domestic Monetary
Policy, Minority
Economic Development
and Housing, and the
Task Force on Minority
Enterprise.
The House
Democratic Caucus last
year elected him whip at
large, making him the
first black to be included
in the official House
leadership structure.
His talk on
"American Politics in the
Eighties” will be followed
by a question and answer
session. The talk is
sponsored by the
Augusta College Lyceum
series.
The public is invited.
elephant herd in the 110th Edition of Ringling Bros,
and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Circus will be at
the Civic ( enter F eb, 6-X.
January 31, 1981
Strom Thurmond's birthplace is
fc ■ S.C.’s last majority-black county
P j operating under all-white rule
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Willie Bright Says Os Strom Thurmond's (inset) County: ‘l’ve Worn Out Several Cars Trying To Get People To Vote.’
Blacks Pin 7 Years
Os Hopes On U.S.
Voting Rights Act
Atlanta Constitution
EDGEFIELD, S.C. - While U.S. Sen.
Strom Thurmond uses his new position
as chairman of the powerful Senate Ju
diciary Committee to condemn the Vot
ing Rights Act of 1965, blacks here in the
county where Thurmond was born and
launched his political career are count
ing on the voting law to help them end
the perenniel all-white rule of the Edge
field County Council.
This rural county, 15 miles north of
Augusta, Ga., has a majority-black popu
lation, but a black has not served on its
governing council in more than 100
years.
A survey by The Atlanta Constitution
of county councils throughout South Ca-
Edgefield County
has Black Majority,
But no Elected Officials
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The promise of the Voting Rights Act
still is unfulfilled for many South Ca
rolina blacks.
rolina showed that Edgefield is the only
one of the state’s 13 majority-black
counties with no blacks on its elected
governing body.
Since 1974, a group of blacks here has
been waging a court fight to overturn
the county’s at-large voting system. They
charge that the system helps keep blacks
out of office.
After almost seven years, the bitterly
fought court battle now centers on the
question of whether the county complied
with provisions of the Voting Rights Act
requiring state and local governments in
See EDGEFIELD, Page 4-A
Thornton Raps Government
Programs Supporting the Rich
Cal Thornton, aide to
Congressman Boug
Bernard, lashed out at
government subsidies for
the rich, in a speech at
Fort Gordon.
Pitch hitting for
Congressman Walter
Fauntroy, Thornton was
the speaker at Fort
Gordon’s observance of
Martin Luther King's
birthday celebration.
“When we make a
public investment in the
poor we call it welfare.
But when we make a
public investment with
your tax dollars in the
rich and the majority
race, we call it something
else.
“When we gave land
away over a hundred
years ago to
disadvantaged white
peasants from Europe,
we didn't call it welfare,
we called it the
Hom estead Act.
“When we give
billions of dollars each y
ear to oil-rich
Less than 75 percent advertising
millionanes we don’t call
it welfare, we call it oil
depletion allowances.
“When we give
guaranteed minimum to
farmers like Sen. James
Eastland, who received a
federal subsidy of $131,00
a year, we didn’t call it
welfare, we called aland
bank program.
Loney-Walker Group to Organize
'Political Arm’
A mass meeting of
the Laney-Walker area
community toorganizea
“political arm” to help
people in the community
that cannot help
themselv es.
The Rev. Charlie
Moore, a spokesman for
tut opuscu group, said,
the organization u ill
reach into the ver, sea’s
of the mayor's office and
the chamber of the mcitv
Richmond County Woman
Says She Was Raped,
Choked, & Robbed
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Martin Luther King
understood that and
organized all of the poor--
black, white, indian,
P uerto Rican, id
Mexican Am erican--into
a new populist
m ovem ent.
King was much like
Christ, Thornton said.
King and Christ were
Council, and togive legal
aid where and whenever
needed. No organization
at present is a doing this,
he said.
NEXT WEEK
Look For Special Edition
On Blacks In The Military
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committed to religious
teachings and actions.
They preached and
practiced brotherhood
and nonviolence. Both
were preoccupied with
helping the poor and the
oppressed. And both died
in their 30’s because of
their unselfish doctrines
and deeds.
The meeting will be
held J anuary 29 at 7 p.m.
at the Crawford Baptist
Church, 955FlorensSt.