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The Augusta-News Review . March 21, 1981
Black Population Grows 17 Percent
WASHINGTON- The
nation's black population
grew 0 percent in the last
decade arid the Hispanic
population increased 611
percent, but improved
counting methods account
for some of the hike, the
Census Bureau reports.
The Census Bureau
released provisional 1980
figures for minority groups
that show Blacks •• the
country's second largest
racial group - now account
for 11.7 percent of the
nation's population,
compared with 11.1 percent
in the 1970 census. Census
officials placed the Black
population at 26.4 millicm.
New Postal Rates In Effect
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The Postal Service said
that nonderiominated "B"
postage stamps are related
items of postal stationery
will be issued this week to
correspond with new rates
that went into effect at
12:01 March 22.
At that time, the cost
of mailing a First-Class
letter rose to 18 cents from
the current 15 cents and
increases took place in
other classes of mail. It was
the first domestic rate
increase since May, 1978.
The Governors of the
Postal Service voted March
10 to allow the new rates to
intfe effect under protest
and returned the case to
the independent Postal Rate
Commission for recon
sideration.
Atlanta. ....
1
* shred °* evidence h “
bein reported that would link the string of
slayings and disappearances of youm
black children in Atlanta to a racist plot or
to the demonic mind of a racially
motivated killer. No responsible leader
claims so.
But Atlanta's baffling tragedy has
developed during a period marked by
iifiexplainid assaults on black people
elsewhere, and at a time when blacks see
evidence of a rising level of tolerance for
the Ku Klux Klan’s violent presence.
In that context, said Southern
Christian Leadership Conference President
Joseph Lowery, no one can ignore the
racist possibilities in Atlanta and still hope
to exercise an influence in the black
community.
Lowery’s tightrope walk on this issue
already has identified him •• unfairly, he
said •• withose who cry "racist killings.*’
But only a thin slice of his message was
seen in the news accounts that created
that impression.
know who is killing our
children -• black or white, rich or poor,
young or old, male or female. We know
what is killing our children. Violence. How
do we respond?" Lowery said.
' ‘Trying to deal with 20 dead children
and the fear in the black community,
without rapping about that environment,
will make you a clown. I have tried in
every instance to point out that in Atlanta
we do not know who the killers are.
But you can’t go before these people
and say, "There’s no racial motive behind
this,' or, 'What's happening around the
country has nothing to with what’s
happening in Atlanta.' That’s not realistic.
I think that's more inflammatory.
"We have a national environment of
insensitivity, hostility and brutality toward
black people," Lowery said. "Buffalo, Salt
Lake City. Birmingham, New Orleans,
Indlahipolis. Fort Wayne, Rochester, New
’ VotkCity, Cincinnati •• I could go down
the list of what’s happening to black
people.
"If you didn't address the possibility
of racial motives, people would think you
were just shucking and jiving, that you
weren't real .... that you were a down,*’
he stud. "That's why we give these
x <jonat|fcclM means • of letting people
express tßeir outrage. That’s why we have
a dr a prayer pilgrimage or an
ecumenical worship service or a motor
cade.
"If you don’t do these things - if
people think somebody is speaking
out for them, that somebody is protesting,
then they are going to do it, and that
would be very negative and self-defeating.
is the problem, so violence
canhot be a part of the solution.
"I find a little racial overtone in the
assumption that blacks can't express rage
without resorting to violence,". Lowery
said. "Every time some black seems
angry, (there seems to be) a feeing to
crush him because that anger will lead to
violence. Can’t blacks be enraged without
turning to violence?
» Somebody better be enraged without
WX&W
think nonvkdence can achieve anymore,
because we haven't demonstrated teeently
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Hispanics make up at
least 6.4 percent of the
population, compared with
4.5. percent at decade ago,
the Census Bureau said.
It said a total 14.6
million people listed
themselves as Hispanic In
the census. There were an
estimated 5.8 million
Hispanics included in the
6.7 million people listed as
‘‘other.*’
The Hispanic
population statistic will be
rectified when final
population figures are
released, the Bureau said.
The final figures are due by
April 1.
American Indians.
The Board of Gover
nors has field with the Rate
Commission last April for a
20-cent First-Class rate and
a total rate package that
would-yield $3.75 billion m
new revenue. The Com
mission recomended an 18-
cent rate and a total
package that would prouce
some $1 billion less than
the Postal Service had
sought.
The nondenominated
postal items were produced
as a contigency and the
decision to issue them was
made to insure that there
will be an adequate supply
of the stamps to meet the
nation's needs, Postmaster
General William F. Bolger
said.
what it could achieve. We shifted into low
gear. We won some important battles, so
we slowed down the train. Now the issues
are very difficult.
The tendency exists outside Atlanta to
connect Atlanta’s string of crimes with
other crimes known to be white-on-black
assaults. Lowery said many people he
encounters want to make a link between
Atlanta and Buffalo, where a series of
shooting and stabbing attacks on black
men have occurred. In one gruesome
instance there, two black men were killed
and their hearts were cut out.
"Black and white people outside of
Atlanta perceive this in the same context
as Buffalo," Lowery said. "But I say it
over and over: There is a difference. They
know in Buffalo 'that there are racist
motives behind the killings. They have a
white, blond suspect. We don’t know. The
police don't know....
"1 say that the black community’s
response here has been mature,
characterized by spiritual strength. We
have not jumped to conclusions. We have
not made this a racist thing."
Signs at a rally last Sunday that read
"Stop Racist Killings'* were not SCLC
signs, Lowery said. "Our signs said
"Turn To Each Other, Not On Each
Other.’"
Media coverage of the string of
tragedies has been overdone and possibly,
harmful, Lowery said. "But I hope a lot of
what can come out of this is a look at
poverty that a lot of whites don’t know
exists, and that some blacks may have
forgotten.”
It probably has been brought home
to many Atlanta'area citizens that what is
viewed sympathetically and even
prayerfully from the city's periphery is
experienced with chilling reality every
nightfall in the inner-city neighborhoods.
Each slam of the door by a departing
child can revive the fear, and every
missed arrival-time home can render a
heart with panic.
Generally, Lowery said, the black
community is confident in the pdice, and
in Mayor Maynard Jackson and Public
Safety Commissioner Lee Brown.
".The one argument I’ve had with the
pdice departent is about the intensity of
the campaign, the roadblocks, that sort of
thing. They've been too secretive, but
they’ve picked up on that since we met
with them two or three times.
"1 also encouraged Lee (Brown) to
pound on the table a few times, kick over
a chair," said Lowery.,"People think he’s
so nice That’s just not the image you have
of an effective police officer."
The poorest people, Lowery said, tend
' to fed the most critical of the pdice.
"Poor people are perhaps a little
more frightened. The children have come
from these families,” he said. "Society
needs to answer the question: Why are
'• these kids so vulnerable, so available?
1 Why’ is it so necessary for them to get out
1 and work and sell? Some d their homes...
>even or eight kids in two bedrooms ...
You can breathe easier out on the street.
“So you’ve got more than a notion of
matnrdy and 1 hope and pray to God that
continues.
Eskimos and Aleuts make
up 0.6. percent of the
population, up two-tenths of
a point from a decade ago,
and Asians and Pacific
Islanders account for 1.5
percent, up from 0.8
percent in the 1970 census.
Changed counting
methods, the Bureau said,
make it difficult to compare
some of the categories.
For Hispanics, the
agency said, the large gain
"is a result of im
provements in .ensus
taking and impro- i:>g public
relations which, in turn,
resulted in the inclusion of
a sizeable but unknown
number of persons in the
country in other than legal
status.”
The improved public
relations included a
moratorium on arrests of
1980 Black Vote
Reported At 51%
Fifty-one percent of
Blacks of voting age said
they took part in the 1980
Presidential election, ac
cording to survey results
released recently by the
U.S. Department of
Commerce’s Census
Bureau. By comparison, 61
percent of whites of voting
age and 30 percent of
voting age Hispanics
reported taking part.
The 1980 survey,
conducted two weeks after
the November election,
noted declines since 1964 in
illegal aliens during the
census to encourage
Hispanics to step forward
and be counted.
The ban. only recently
lifted. was praised by
Hispanic organizations but
it prompted complaints and
lawsuits from other groups.
The Bureau said
another reason it counted
14.605.883 Hispanics last
year was that more than 5
million Hispanics listed
themselves as "other" on
the 1970 census.
The 3.2 million citizens
living in Puerto Rico, a
U.S. commonwealth, are
counted in the census but
not included in the
national totals.
The agency said its
census of Blacks last year
was a "significant im-
reported voter turnout in
the Northeast, North
Central states and the
West. The voter par
ticipation rate declined 19
percentage points for
Blacks and 12 percentage
points for whites in these
regions as a whole between
1964 and 1980. However, in
the South there was
evidence of a slight in
crease in Black voter
participation, from 44
percent in 1964 to 48
percetn in 1980.
The reported voter
turnout in 1980 reflected
the pattern of registration,
the survey showed. In all,
67 percent of the voting
age population reported
having registered. For
Blacks, the rate was 60
percent.
Sorority To
Present
Workshop
The Augusta
Alumnae Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta, Inc. will
present three workshops on
test taking skills.
The workshops will be
conducted by Robert
Moidenhauser, director of
admissions. University of
South Carolina, Aiken.
The workshops will be
held at Paine College
March 28, April 4, and
April II from 9 to 11:30
a.m.
Prior to the first
workshop, a forum will be
sponsored concerning
(Competency Based
Education). The panelist
will be Faye Montgomery -
Director of Curriculum for
Richmond County Schools;
Joe Johnson, counselor -
Glenn Hills High and Leroy
James, Counselor, J.W.
Josey High.
The forum will be held
at Bethel A.M.E. Church,
March 26, 9th and
D'Antignac Streets at 7:30
p.m.
Annette Miller
bi Top Ten
Annette Miller recently
ranked number two out of
1,582 hair stylists for J.B.
White Beauty Salons.
A regional instructor
for the company she has
traveled to several states
and has studied under
Cecelia Johnson of the
International School of Hair
Design of Canada.
She holds the title of
master artisian and has
participated in siminars
given by Dr. Hichois
DeMarco of the University
of Missouri. ■
AsMtti Miler
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A native of Spar
tanburg, S.C., she is the
mother of two children.
provement" over 1970.. with
the undercount rate of 4.5
percent to 5.5. percent
better than the "missed
rate" estimate for 1970 of
7.7 percent.
Like Hispanic
organization, black groups
have protested that census
takers have traditionally
under represented their
numbers. Several cities
with a high black and
minority population, such
as Detroit, have already
begun legal action to
challenge estimated un
dercounts.
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GAMMETTES--The Gammettes are preparing to become
members of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.
.... The Gammettee Club is under the leadership of
Miss Wendy Oliphant. Additional officers and members
(left to right) are Miss Gloria Plumber, secretary; Miss
Wendy Oliphant, president; Miss Dianee Jenkins, vice
president; Miss Sonia Hawthorne, Miss Jackie Nobles,
Paine College 3rd Annual Sickle Cell Program
The Paine College
Sickle Cell Education
Program recently held its
third annual College
Faculty Workshop on Sickle
Cell Disease on the Paine
College campus.
Guest speakers coming
to Augusta for the event
included Ms. Eve E. Blake,
chief of the Biochemistry
Section of the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources in Atlanta; Dr.
James E. Bowman, director
Black Conservative - Con’t*
Continued from page 4
the right to believe
whatever one chooses or to
belong to whatever political
group one chooses.
But we deplore anyone
who thinks that their new
found and trendish
“Reagan philosophy” is
more representative of the
black community than such
venerable groups as the
NAACP and the Urban
League, for example.
And we think it is
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Upward Bound Accepting Applications
The Upward Bound
Project at Paine College is
accepting applications for
the 1981 summer session
now through March 25.
High s chool
sophomores, juniors and
seniors who have academic
protential and are from
economically deprived
backgrounds can join
Upward Bound. The
of the Comprehensive
Sickle Cell Center at the
University of Chicago.
Dr. Emmet G. Cooper,
clinical director for the
Central Community Health
Board in Cincinnati; John
Daniels, project director of
the Westside Association’s
Sickle Cell Education
Program in Chicago.
Dr. Donald R.
Harkness, formerly Director
of the Comprehensive
Sickle Cell Center in Miami
absolutely disgusting for
any "upstart” to publicly
claim that the black
community does not
support - in fact, is
"diametrically opposed to”
acknowledged black
leaders such as Benjamin
Hooks and Vernon Jordan.
This king of sabotage
is exactly what whites
would like to hear -
especially those who want
to rationalize their attacks
program is designed to
generate the skills and
motivation necessary for
success in education beyond
high school.
Upward Bound
students are provided,
instruction in basic skills,!
tutoring, a summer)
residential program and
varied summer activities, as
well as assistance with
treasurer; Miss Cheryl Ivey, reporter; and Miss Victoria
Turner. Members are not pictures are Miss Linda
Echols, Miss Melvina Roberts, and Miss Jadde
McClendon.
....Mrs. Janis Daniel, Miss Bessie Flono, Mrs. Ruby
Harris, Mrs. Lillian Myles, and Miss Sheila Roberson are
advisers.
and presently Chairman of
the Department of Medicine
at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison; Dr.
John K. Haynes, director of
the Officer of Health
Professions at Morehouse
College in Atlanta; arid Dr.
John Phillips, assistant
professor of Medicine at
John Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
Sickle Cell Anemia is a
condition that results when
a person has two genes for
on affirmative action, social
welfare, job training and
desegregation.
To take such highly
emotional issues as
dissatisfaction with current
programs in these areas
and interpret this as
tviucuce (uai most blacks
are against such federal
intervention, is conscious
and traitorous deception.
post-secondary school
planning.
To enroll in summer
session, from June 15
through J uly 29, contact the
Upward Bound Office at
Paine College at 722-4471,
ext. 210.
Upward Bound is
sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Education.
sickle hemoglobin. This
disease may vary widely in
severity. Some individuals
have very few problems,
while others have painful
crises, severe anemia and
much greater risk of in-'
section.
A person who has
sickle cell trait has only one
gene for sickle hemoglobin
and has no medical
problems related to this
train under most normal
conditions.
There is nothing new
in conservatism. And il
black people start following
the so-called new blacl
conservatives (whoever the)
are) it will be just one mor<
time we will have let the
white media appoint so
called "leaders” for us.
(Reprinted from the
Afro-American)