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NAACP Asks Candidates To Put ‘ln Writing’ Their Stance On Minorities The Atlanta and State NAACP have asked all candidates for governor and lieutenant governor to state ‘‘in writing” their support for increased minority representation in the Georgia General Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives. In letters to announced and rumored candidates for the state’s two top elected positions, Atlanta NAACP President Julian Bond and Robert Flanagan, president of the Georgia Conference ot NAACP branches, asked for written statements supporting an increase in Black state senators and SCLC Says Blacks Must Initiate New Moral Movement To Save The Nation With the theme, “Toward A Positive Black Future: Countering The Assault On Black life,” the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) held its 24th Annual Convention in New Orleans in August. It was a homecoming for the veteran civil rights organization, which conducted its first organizational meeting there in 1957. The convention was the backdrop for serious discussions of domestic and international problems among well informed program participants and SCLC leaders, who collectively agreed that the time for movement is now and that "Black people as a race must be the leaders in redeeming the soul erf an America gone astray...if world peace is to be realized.” The Black movement is really a "coming together as a Black family,” SCLC leaders articulated throughout the convention, and as a family, conventioneers drafted a national agenda that includes preserving and maximizing the services of Black institutions like the church and educational institutions; protecting hard-earned rights like voting and the small measures of equality in opportunity realized through forceful affirmative action programs; and persistent demands to private businesses' and corporations for equitable A two day College Placement Service Workshop on test taking skills is scheduled for September 15-16, beginning at 9 a.m., in the Paine College odeum. The workshop is for Paine faculty and interested high school and junior high school counselors. Material Ceramic Show Scheduled The Richmond County Recreation and Parks Department will hold their Annual Ceramic Show, Sept. 26 at the Barbecue Building on Milledge Road, 11 a.nj. - 5 p.m. Registration will be held Friday, Sept. 25th from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. September is the month for Aerobic Dance and Jazz to begin at Bernie Ward Community Center. Registration is required for all programs. For more information contact the center at 790- 0468. 3k % The Able-Disabled will meet Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home, 1101 15th St. Donald Wargowski, Representatives, and the creaton of a majority Black Congressional District in the Metropolitan Atlanta area. “No response,” Bond and Flanagan said, “will be considered a rejection of this goal.” The letter comes as both houses of the state legislature move toward final approval of reapportionment plans for state and federal lawmakers. ‘‘Although the election is more than a year away,” Bond said, “We feel that Georgians have a right to know where the economic re-investment in Black communities that add to their profits. SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery said this emphasis on equitable reinvestment in the Black community will be the top priority of the organization throughout the rest of the decade. Efforts to achieve equitable re-investment will be carried out by the newly reinstated "Operation Breadbasket” project. Operated chiefly by Black clergy. Breadbasket will function on the local, regional and national levels and serve as watchdog and reporter of affirmative action practices by private businesses and corporations as they relate to economic prosperity and re investment in the Black community. In the world picture, SCLC finds that poor and oppressed people are assaulted politically, economically, socially and physically; and concludes that the victims of these assaults must be the initiators of change. In the most powerful nation on earth where military might is thought to be the solution to political, economic and social programs, world survival becomes increasingly critical, SCLC observes. U.S. Congressman William Gray, one of four members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) who addressed the convention, warned that “the United States has Workshop To Be Held At Paine to be covered includes ways to adequately prepare students for standardized tests, ways to alleviate student fear of tests and how to help students analyze test questions. Plans are being made to hold a student workshop and a communitywide workshop on the same material later this fall. All hobbyists are invited to participate. All professionals are invited to exhibit their work, but will not be judged. Call the Richmond County Recreation Department for additional information 798-3750. Dance And Jazz At Ward Center Fall programs include swimming lessons, aerobic belly dancing, small fry craft and fun-hour, junior golf, and much more fun. The following clubs will also be forming at the center amaterur wrestling club, Karate club, and table tennis club. Judge To Speak To Able-Disabled retired judge from Onto now residing in Aiken, will tell his story, “One Cripple’s Life” He will also provide musical entertainment. candidates stand on this important question.” The letter was sent to gubernatorial candidate Joe Frank Harris, Bo Ginn, Jack Watson, Bob Bell, Ben Blackburn, Roscoe Dean, Billy Lovett, Buck Melton, J. Roy Rowland, Norman Underwood, and Joe Smith Smith is the only announced candidate for lieutenant governor. “Their answers - or lack of answers - will be made public in time for voters to determine if these candidates support fair representation or not,” Bond said eliminated human rights from its foreign policy,” and he advised that the CBC is beginning to establish its own contacts with world leaders, particularly in the Middle East. Also joining Cong. Gary in denouncing current U.S. policies were Congressmen Charles Rangel, Harold Washington and CBC Chairperson Walter E. Fauntroy. Fauntroy, who is also chairman of the board for SCLC, talked about what he views as an attempt “by the powers that be, to neutralize the voting power” now enjoyed by Blacks and other minorities, either by elimination erf the ■ Seagram's fl fl Extra fl ■>■ WKw H Bp’ *9!-- tram’s Extra Png B Gin |k-, -»/««• r», >§y,. -■• h •• ■. h- tW's-' ' 4 -. •* A*<tM / .Traptarr 4 .4c*a ' ; *««>*•, . _ . s £ ■- <g u - :..■»• .s ' jywT^nrmi4nflr»uH% | ’ : 5’..>: r OQM 4MF « 1-. OA •• HB 1■!•&•• R .. ,?|SR|^^So:■ 7 ■•'..< ■• '^''’*®L Vr' * •- ' ■■••.•"•• • . . ;*:k, ■ ;•: ■ y y M-'.x • . ■..— ■< *’’■-■ '' r, flßjfe'- 7 :- . -' --<w' : •‘i-< • > • - ••’• • • ' • - •• . .'■ ^ r S<. DRYGIN WSTIUID FROM GRAIN . I / wMI Sen. Julian Bond 1965 Voting Rights Act, or its weakening. It was the consensus of the convention that the Act must be extended beyond its expiration date in August of 1982 to ensure that Black and poor people continue to elect public officials who are representative of their interests and needs. Another high-ranking concern of the SCLC during the decade of the 1980 s is involving youth in the movement and training them for leadership roles in world affairs as well as in domestic matters. Uniting with SCLC in expressing the importance erf youth involvement in the movement and immediate implementation of the agenda drafted was the King Family. Mrs. Coretta Scott King and son Martin Luther King HI addressed the convention. Marty King, who addressed the youth rally on the final day of the convention, focused on youth participation and stated with certainty that "youth can make a difference.” He cited the important role youths played in the civil rights movement during the 19605. As demonstrators, youths accounted for large numbers of Blacks participating in marches and rallies that often led to jailings and nationwide attention. Shirley Chisholm Condemns Reagan On Affirmative Action Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-New York) condemned the Reagan Administration’s attack on Affirmative action requirements for companies doing work for the federal government. "Unfortunately for millions erf minority and women workers still experiencing employment discrimination in this country,” she asserted, “President Reagan has called for the elimination of key components of the affirmative action program run by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance. New proposed regulations would exempt all but the largest federal contractors from affirmative action requirements, and would weaken hiring, promoting and reporting requirements for those which remain covered. “With a jackhammer repetition of the ‘quot’ buzzword, the JA Mi ■ ■ ...maybe you don't realize you have cash ■ on hand in your attic J Aw or garage! Turn unwanted storages into money with a... CLASSIFIED AD irji CALL 722-4555 Augusta Ntuiß-Rtuieiu AqptgtaNeflMtevtew-StpteniKr 12,1981 Administration is pounding ouf the familiar arguments against government efforts to advance minorities and women into careers that have traditionally been reserved for white men. However, they wrongly, in my view, equate the terms ‘quotas' and ‘goals,’ and ca.. apparently discern no difference between the former, which establishes an inflexible ceiling on applicants, and the latter which seeks to create a floor for those who have been held down by discriminatory attitudes among employers. “Nobody, I am sure, wants to mandate a ceiling to hold down career advancement. Everybody, I hope, would support a floor to further the attainment of equality of opportunity in our society,” she said. “The ‘floors,’ the 'goals,' is the language and the intent of the existing Labor Department regulations. It is ironic that. Page 3 as effective enforcement of these regulations is being seen, and as increasing numbers of women and minorities are finding employment for the first time in various skilled and professional occupations, a major is being proposed. This is not fair to the victims of continuing employment discrimination, nor is it fair to taxpayers whose money would flow to federal contractors hiring and promoting only white males.” “Nowhere from this Administration,’' Representative Chisholm concluded, “have I heard any new suggestions for bringing equal access to America's workplaces. It has been obvious since before the Civil War that racism and sexism will not fade away unassisted. Until someone can bring forward a better alternative, we should stay with the affirmative action plan that is in place and is working '