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Volume 13 Number 10
Jesse Jackson says new forms
of oppression hamper Black vote
by Fannie Flono
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson
says that new forms of “oppression”
have emerged across the South to
keep Blacks from voting.
“They no longer use the gran
dfather clause, poll tax, property
tax, literacy tests or terror at the
ballot box. The new tools are gerry
mandering, annexation, at-large
elections, single-shot balloting,
primary run-offs and dual
registration,” he said last week.
Jackson was in Louisville, Ky.
recently to speak at a two-day
regional conference of the
National Association of Black
Journalists.
A possible candidate for the
1984 Democratic presidential
nomination, Jackson, head of
Operation PUSH, cites Mississippi
as a prime example of states’ use of
ways to restrict Black voter par
ticipation.
“In Mississippi, if you live in the
upper counties, you may have to
drive 100 miles or more just to
register to vote. Voters have to
Holloway is first Laney
athlete to be valedictorian
Travis Holloway
Sam Jackson to
run for sheriff
by Wanda Johnson
A minority businessman announ
ced his candidancy for sheriff of
the Richmond County Sheriffs
Department on Monday.
Sam Jackson, 38, president of
Garden City Insurance, said that
ic refuses to think negatively about
th* >984 sheriff’s race.
“I feel shat I have the
qualifications and that I’m just as
qualified if not far more so than the
present sheriff,” he added.
A native of Augusta and a for
ner police officer, Jackson, said
hat he is still certified by the state.
Jackson said that he and Sheriff
LB. Dykes are friends and plan to
ontinue their friendship after the
ace is over. Jackson also said that
le has no desire for this race to be
nything other than political.
“I’m running as a people’s can
didate. I’m not running as a Black
lan’s candidate nor as a white
tan’s candidate.
“The Richmond County
heriffs Department needs more
professionalism. Officers need to
op all the boy, girl stuff like ‘shut
p’ and ‘get over here.’ ”
When questioned about the
ossibility of additional Black op-
register twice—at the courthouse
and at city hall.
“What Mississippi has is dual
registration. No other state in the
union has it.
“What it amounts to is a defacto
poll tax or gas tax, and we’re going
to court to get relief or a remedy.”
In response to Jackson’s
allegations, a top Justice Depar
tment official has agreed to go to
Mississippi to investigate.
According to reports, Assistant
Attorney General William Brad
ford Reynolds, who heads the
Justice Department’s civil-rights
division, will go to Mississippi per
sonally to look into the allegations.
But Jackson says Mississippi is
not alone.
“The second primary or run-off
is essentially Southern. The
Democratic primary uses the
second primary system with the
realization that it is away to keep
us (Blacks) out of the general elec
tion.”
Jackson, who is travelling across
the South urging more voter par
ticipation, says the nation must
Lucy Laney High School Coach
David Dupree saw one of his
dreams realized last week when
Travis Holloway became the first
athlete to graduate from the school
as valedictorian.
He had a 93.65 average.
Dupree said that one of his
dreams each football season is to
see an athlete graduate as valedic
torian. “I get more thrill out of
that than winning a game,” he
said. ‘‘We stress winning, but I
also stress academics.”
“The first thing professional
scouts ask about in a prospect is at
titude,” Dupree said. “The second
thing is grades.”
Os Holloway, Dupree said, “He
is one of the quietest boys I have
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Sam Jackson
position during the sheriff’s race,
Jackson said that he doesn’t feel
that there’s another Black man
in the county qualified to run for
sheriff.
Jackson is married to the former
Thelma Stokes, and they have two
children.
Man is shot
to death on
Old Savannah Rd.
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engage in “institutional voter
registration.
“100,000 high school seniors
with a diploma in one hand and a
voter registration card in the other
can turn this country around,” he
said.
“The critical factor in Chicago
(where a Black was elected mayor)
was the revived interest of youth.
Over 20,000 voted.”
Jackson says the power of voter
registration is exemplified in
statistics.
“In the last election, Reagan won
South Carolina by less than 20,000
votes,” he said. There are more than
200,000 unregistered voters in
South Carolina, he added.
“In North Carolina where there
are more than 500,000 unregistered
voters, Reagan won by 39,000.
In South Carolina, an increase
in voter registration and par
ticipation could mean that a “Dick
Riley (governor of South Carolina)
could beat a Strom Thurmond in
the next Senate race.
“If we are able to remove the
impediments, we can have the
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STILL HELPING PAINE—Dr. Julius S. Scott Jr., for
mer president of Paine College and presently an executive of
the United Methodist Church presents President William H.
Harris with a check for Paine from monies he “picked up
around the office” before coming to Paine. The check was for
$200,000.00 (two hundred thousand.)
The Richmond County
Sheriffs Department has issued a
warrant for the arrest of a Rich
mond County man in connection
with a shooting death on Old
Savannah Road late Sunday night.
Officials said Wednesday that
the warrant was issued on James
Edward Crawford, 37, of 1028
Prep Street.
Witnesses said they saw
Man murdered on
Old Savannah Road
Football player
is valedictorian
at Lucy Laney
June 18.1983
most radical turn around for the
good. The numbers are there.”
But Jackson adds that in the
South, Blacks must “renegotiate
their contract with the
Democrats.”
He says that the Republican par
ty is still “so anti-black and anti
poor that (voting Republican) is
not a realistic option.”
But Jackson says that a Black
person running for president would
“open up the political process.
“I am really convinced that
Blacks should be on the stage in a
chair.”
Jackson is still undecided about
his bid for the democratic
nomination. He says that he will
decide in late summer or early fall.
But he adds that there are a
“whole pool of Blacks who have been
dismissed from consideration.
Among those he says are viable
as Black candidates are former
Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson,
pixsent Mayor Andrew Young,
Congressman Walter Fauntroy
and former congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm.
Crawford talking with James Pat
trick in front of Krepps Paint and
Body Shop at 1949 Old Savannah
Road. They then heard a noise and
saw a person running away.
Pattrick, 27, of Sunset Villa Ap
partments, died shortly after being
admitted to the Trauma Unit at
Talmadge Memorial Hospital, ac
cording to investigators.
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The News-Review reported in
the May 23 issue that Joyce
Diggs, a former Bethlehem Cen
ter employee was suspended
following an altercation with
another employee.
According to the center’s
Editor’s note: Due to
numerous requests, we are
reprinting our Father’s Day
column from last year.
About a month ago
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10-year-old
son was
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pointed that I would not
be home for his birthday.
Frankly I was rejoicing
that he still had a father.
I write this column in
hope that at least one
father will benefit from
my experience without
paying the price I paid. I
also write it in the hope
that you will help me to
practice what I preach.
Obviously when you
survive an accident in
which you total your car,
break down a telegram
pole, have the imprint of
your head molded in the
windshield, and the gear
shift wind up in the back
seat, you realize that
Somebody is trying to tell
you something. The
challenge is to hear it and
to heed it.
Actually I learned
nothing new from my ex
perience. But a lot of
things that I’ve always
known took on new
meaning. More than
anything else, I realized
that my plans for my life
mean nothing, that God’s
plan may be a lot shorter
than mine. Most of us plan
our lives for the long run
and we should give a lot
more thought to the short
run.
I became especially
aware of the time that I
don’t spend with my wife
and children.
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A thought for busy fathers
by Mallory K. Millender
16-year-old
is raped on
DR. BENJAMIN E.
MAVS —president emeritus
of Morehouse College,
waves to graduation audien
ce at Paine College Sunday
where he was awarded his
53rd honorary doctorate.
Correction
director, Edythe Dimond, Ms.
Diggs was not suspended but
placed on probation with full
pay. Ms. Diggs and her
representative, the Rev. Robert
Oliver, said she was suspended.
I realize that I owe more
to them than to anyone
else, and I owe them at
least as much of my time
as to any one else. And I
resolve that I am going to
spend time with them, at
the expense of everything
else. Children were not in
tended to be reared by
mothers and friends.
Fathers have just as much
of a role to play in their
day-to-day development.
While many of us work
two and three jobs, we
should not; we need not,
and we ought not. Life
goes on just as well —if not
better —without us.
Ostensibly, we do it to
help to “provide” for our
families. What we too of
ten miss is that our
families need us and our
presence much more than
the things that we are
trying to provide. We, nor
they, will be here always.
We must enjoy each other
while we can.
Some of us, whether we
accept it or not are getting
older, and our bodies will
take only so much stress.
Based on the schedule that
I keep, I could have just as
easily had a heart attack as
going to sleep at the wheel.
So my auto accident was a
blessing.
I got rest that I never
would have gotten other
wise. Lying in my hospital
bed, I got a chance to talk
to people at length,
something that I rarely
have the time to do.
As we observe Father’s
Day this year, let us renew
our commitment to be the
best fathers that we can
be. Fatherhood is a
blessing as well as a
responsibility. Let’s strive
to take full advantage of
that blessing, and live up
to that responsibility.
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