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Jesse Jackson To Lead
Rally In Edgefield
The Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson, president of
People United To Save
Humanity (PUSH), will
lead a march Sunday, June
28, in Edgefield, S.C. to
push for the extension of
the Voting Rights Act.
John R. Harper 11,
state coordinator of PUSH
said at a news conference
in Augusta the organization
has selected South Carolina
as the
beadquarters for a
“crusade to bring about the
extension of the 1965
MOSCOW- In a rare
interview with the press, a
ranking Russian official has
told the NNPA that the
Soviet Union will continue
to provide military
assistance to Black foreign
fighters in southern Africa.
Our principle is to
give assistance to those
who fight against
imperialistic aggression and
to tnose who fight for their
freedom and
independence,” said Y.N.
Chemiakov, chief of the'
press department erf the
USSR Ministry of Foreign
Affairs who almost never
grants personal interviews.
Throughout the 45-
mmute exclusive interview
in his office on June 1,
Chemiakov sent a clear
message that the Soviet
Union lives by its
Communist principles and
that Black freedom fighters
could continued to count on
Soviet support in the war
for the freedom of all of
Africa.
"We declared our
MOBILE, ALA- A
Mobile County grand jury
bas refused to indict three
white men who were
charged with killing a Black
teenager and hanging his
body from a tree.
The grand jury said in
its report that testimony
presented in a habeas
corpus hearing last month
indicated witnesses against
the suspects in an earlier
preliminary hearing had
lied.
Ralph Hayes and
brothers Johnny and Jimmy
Edgar were charged with
murder in Jie March 20
slaying of 19-year-old
Michael Donald, whose
beaten body was found
banging from an elm tree
in a racially mixed
neighborhood.
Lionel Hampton: Musician, Humanitarian, Housing Magnate
Lionel Hampton: Musician,
Humanitarian, Housing
Magnate
Lionel Hampton is
known to the world as one
of the greatest musicians
ever.
On this week’s edition
of Tony Brown’s Journal,
“The House With Music In
It,” Tony Brown profiles
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Voting Rights Act.”
Specifically, he said,
“We have targeted the
Strom Thurmond Federal
Building in Columbia and
Edgefield County.”
He said those sites had
been chosen because of the
vigorous opposition of Sen.
Strom Thurmond to the
Voting Rights Act and other
civil rights legislation, and
“because of the gross
oppression of Blacks in
Edgefield County, birth
place of the senator.”
Edgefield County is the
Moscow Reaffirms Commitment
To Black Liberation In Africa
position to support Angola
with any help,” said
Chemiakov, a tall, erect
nononsense man who
appears to be in his early
70s and speaks in a quiet
but serious voice. “So we
will help them. Our
assistance is up to
Angola.”
Chemiakov said the
Soviet Union would
continue to give the same
kind of assistance to Black
freedom fighters seeking to
win independence in South
Africa, in addition to
freedom fighters in
Namibia--the vast mineral-■
rich territory which is
illegally controlled by South
Africa.
Chemiakov’s remarks
refuted speculation in the
American press that the
Soviet Union has second
thoughts about its
involvement in the Black
liberation struggle in Africa
because of its heavy costs.
The Communist superpower
reportedly pass the bills
for keeping some 3,800
Soviet and Eastern
European military advisers,
in addition to 8,000 civilian
Mobile Lynch Suspects Released
An autopsy revealed
Donald had been beaten,
stabbed and strangled
before being banged from
the tree with the same
plastic rope used to
strangle him.
Local and national
civil rights leaders called
the Black youth’s slaying a
“lynching.”
Civil rights leaders
reacted with “anger and
frustration” to a mobile
grand jury’s refusal to
indict.
Police reported things
“quiet as usual” in the
port city Friday night and
say they have no plans to
beef up patrols.
Dr. Robert Gilliard,
President of the local
the man behind the music--
and the Gladys Hampton
Houses; a look at the
selfless concern of a true
human being for his
people.
In 1974, Lionel
Hampton completed a 355-
apartment bousing project
in Harlem. Not named by
him it was called the Lionel
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Released By
Mobile Grand Jury
Pagel
only majority Black county
in South Carolina which has
had no Black county
officials.
Harper said the County
Council is presently
operating in violation of the
Voting Rights Act.
The demonstration
June 28 will begin with a
prayer vigil at the Strom
Thurmond High School,
S.C. Highway 23, between
Johnston and Edgefield. At
3 p.m. demonstrators will
march from the High
School to the Edgefield
technicians in a number erf
African countries and
covers the costs of 37,000
Cuban troops in Angola and
Ethiopia.
Further, Chemiakov’s
pro-Black liberation remarks
were consistent with those
delivered by Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev
in connection with those
delivered by Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev
in connection with the
celebration of African
Liberation Day in Moscow
late last month. Brezhnev
said “the USSR
undeviatingly supports the
African peoples’ struggle
for their national
liberation.”
He further criticized
the West for “shamelessly”
equating the African
liberation movement with
terrorism while the West
openly supports the
terrorism of South Africa
and encourages its "direct
aggression against
neighboring sovereign
African countries.”
Chemiakov said Soviet
presence in Africa was
necessary to counter white
chapter of the NAACP, said
be and other black leaders
were shocked the men were
not indicted for the March
murder of Michael Donald,
a quiet, 19-year-old
masonry student.
Gilliard said be didn’t
anticipate racial violence
“but I will not say it would
be unexpected.
“There’s a peculiar
emotion and that emotion is
one of depression, anger
and frustration,” said the
Mobile dentist. “I would
say it’s an explosive
combination.”
The 3 men charged
were ordered released by a
Mobile County grand jury,
which decided that
prosecution witnesses had
Hampton House. This past
summer, hundreds gathered
in Harlem along with New
York City politicians,
community leaders and
government official
including the future vice
president, to honor the
opening of Lionel
Hampton's latest
humanitarian effort: the
if
County Courthouse Square
in Edgefield, a distance of
about 4 miles.
On May 17, the
racism and imperialistic
exploitation in Africa.
Otherwise, he suggested,
the Black liberation
movement would have little
chance for success against
Western aggression led by
South Africa and the United
States with their superior
weaponry.
Chemiakov began the
interview speaking in
Russian, but on several
occasions interrupted his
interpreter to speak English
in an obvious effort to
make certain that he was
accurately understood and
or to accentuate a point.
He became visibly
annoyed when he was
questioned about charges of
Soviet terrorism that have
appeared in the American
press. “First of all,” he
responded, “this . is
nonsense. Not only
nonsense but it is meant to
cover the aggression ofthe
West and the United States
against the liberation
movement in Africa.”
While Soviet-supported
Angola struggles to hold on
to power as Western
backed guerrilla forces
lied.
One of the witnesses
was indicted on perjury
charges, but District
Attorney chris Galanos
refused to identify the
suspect because the
indictment remained sealed.
"We are going to our
knees for these three and
the persons who let them
go.” Cynthia Donald
Koger, the victim’s sister
and spokeswoman for the
Donald family, said after
the grand jury’s decision.
A 17-year-old
Waynesboro, Miss. girl
testified in a March
bearingthat she heard the
three suspects say they had
"whipped a n—’s ass.”
But she Inter recanted her
Gladys Hampton Houses, a
205-unit complex name
after his late wife Gladys.
Among the many
V.I.Ps in attendance
including Rep. Charles
Rangel (Dem.-N.Y.) and
singer Arthur Prysock, was
a speaker who is of Lionel
Hampton’s oldest friends,
Vice President George
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Black-White Justice
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June 27,1981
REV JESSE L JACKSON
anniversary of the Brown
vs. Board of Education
decision, Jesse Jackson led
more than 3,000 people in a
conduct attacks out of
South Africa, SWAPO
(South-West Africa People’s
Organization) fights for
Black freedom in Namibia
and the ANC (African
National Congress) battles
to unshackle Black people
in South Africa. SWAPO
and ANC receive military
assistance from the Soviet
Union and other Eastern
bloc supporters, with the
blessings of the
Organization of African
Unity.
Chemiakov came down
hard on the West for failing
to support a 1978 United
Nations Security Council
resolution which called for
the withdrawal of South
African military troops from
Namibia and national
elections administered by
the UN. South Africa
indicated last December
that it would honor the
resolution, but a month
later reneged on its
promise in typical fashion.
Since then the Reagan
Administration has
embraced racist South
Africa, refusing to support
economic sanctions against
testimony.
Another witness,
J obnny Ray Kelly, testified
he was in a parked taxi cab
that had run out of gas the
night of the slaying. He
said the defendants walked
by and told him they bad
jumped on a black youth
who owed Hayes "money
for pills.”
But the cab driver,
Norman Jarman, later
testified the cab did not run
out of gas where Kelly said
it did. Jarman said he
never saw the suspects that
night.
Galanos said he and
police chief Winston Orr
“have been maintaining an
ongoing talk with the Black
community” to head off
Bush.
Gladys Hampton was
the cornerstone in Lionel
Hampton’s career and life.
When they met in
California in 1932, Gladys
was a designer to such
celebrities as Joan
Crawford and Rosalind
Russell. She helped
organized some of
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demonstration at the Strom
Thurmond Building in
Columbia.
the illegal landlords and
Offering a controversial
independence plan that
favors South Africa.
"We condemn the'
policy of the U.S. and other
Western countries toward
Namibia- and that is our
constant line,” said
Chemiakov, reminding that
the the Soviet Union
supports all UN resolutions
on freedom for Namibia.
The American
pampering erf South Africa,
including the latest by
President 'Reagan, has
drawn fire not only from
the Soviet Union-but also
Black Africa which sees
America as continuing its
long-standing policy of
being buddy-buddy with
colonial rulers.
South African Prime
Minister Pieter W. Botha
has told President Reagan
and other Western leaders
that they should be more
concerned about Soviet and
Cuban presence in Africa
than about Black liberation.
Reagan, ignoring the
lessons erf history, is
apparently following the
advice of the white racist.
any possible violence.
Orr said even though
the men would be freed
“for the present,” they
were not being excluded as
suspects. He also said
there were no plans to
increase police presence in
Black neighborhoods in the
aftermath of the grand jury
action.
“First and foremost,
the investigation goes on
with the same intensity it
has been for months,” said
Galanos. "We will go on
with the same as we did on
the sick morning."
The NAACP southern
regional official again called
for a federal civil rights
investigation of the youth’s
death.
Hampton’s first bands and
stood as the main source
of his encourgement
throughout their years
together.
Later when he was
invited to join Benny
Goodman and his band in
1936, she dropped her
career and dedicated her
entire life to managing his.
Walter Payton
Marches Toward
Jim Brown’s Record
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Ex Congressman Diggs
May Run Again
Former Congressman
Charles C. Diggs has not
ruled out another run for
the House of
Representatives.
Home after completing
a 10- month prison stay as
a result of a 1979 conviction
on charges of pay roll
fraud and misue of federal
funds, Diggs did say that
he would not run against
his successor, Rep. George
Crockett.
Some political
observers believe that when
the time comes, Crockett, a
retired judge whom Diggs
supported in the last
election, will step aside and
open the door for Diggs.
Now working for ii>e
Congressional Black
Caucus, a body be helped
organized during his 26
years in the House, Diggs
said he might opt fcr some
other kind erf public service,
one opportunity being that
erf joining others in an
international consultation
enterprise dealing with
Africa and other Third*
Lester Pollard
Awarded Ph. D.
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LESTER O. POLLARD
Lester O. Pollard,
assistant professor of
languages and literature at
Augusta College, was
awarded the Ph. D. degree
in comparative literature at
the June commencement of
the University of South
Carolina.
A 1965 graduate of
Paine College, he earned
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Rev. H.P. Harvey
funeral services were
held Wednesday in Atlanta
for the Rev. Henry Paul
Harvey at the Nortbside
Entertainers and musicians
from around the world
gathered at her funeral in
1971 to pay last respects.
Hampton likes to be
quoted as saying "God
gave me the talent, but
Gladys gave the
inspiration.” That
statement along with his
wife were so dear to him
World nations.
Asked to comment on
the recent outbursts at
large Michigan prison,
Diggs warned. “There's
gonig to be a lot mere.
“With overcrowded
conditions that prevail in
these institutions, there's
not a penologist in this
world worth a nickel who
isn't aghast at even the
existence erf a Jackson
prison that herfds 6.000
people.
"You can't put 6,000
people in that kind erf
environment and not expect
the kind erf explosions
you’re getting now."
Diggs said he was not
bitter at having been jailed
despite having lost appeals
all the way to the Supreme
Court.
He said he was
president of one of two
inmate organizations at
Maxwell prison and on the
board of the other. He also
was editor of the prison
paper and unofficial
umbudsman for the camp.
the masters degree from
Atlanta University in 1975.
He did further study at the
Ecole d’Ete francaise at
McGill University and at
Washington and Lee
University.
He is married to the
former Brently McCladdie.
They have two children,
Sabrina and Lester Jr.
Death Takes
Henry P. Harvey
Baptist Church.
A 1965 graduate of
Paine College, he, later
graduated from the
Interdemoninational
Theological Center. He
joined the U.S. Army where
he served as chaplain
stationed at Fort Benning.
He is survived by his
wife, the former Doris
Leary; their son, Trenis and
daughter, Sevena.
that the inscription is
engraved on the
cornerstone of the building.
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