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Volume 13 Number 16
March on Washington
Area citizens plan 10
bus loads from CSRA
The Augusta Chapter of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference is trying to mobilize
bps loads of citizens from Richmond,
Burke, Columbia and McDuffie
counties to attend a march on
Washington August 27.
Ms. Blondell Conley, president
of the local SCLC said that there
will be no cost for the trip except
that people are asked to bring their
own lunch and a pillow.
She said that more than a
million people are expected to at
tend the march for jobs, peace and
freedom, which is sponsored by a
coalition of some 500 national
organizations.
“We don’t have no jobs and we
definitely don’t have no freedom.
We’re in worse shape now than we
were 20 years ago,” she said.
“Twenty years ago, we had
federal programs to help us. Now
everything seems to have melted
before us. Everybody is in bad
shape Black and white. Everybody
is suffering from the same
problem. Things are critical.”
While emphasizing that
organizers of the march encourage
Lena Horne gets
NAACP’s highest award
NEW ORLEANS—Lena Home
received the NAACP’s 68th
Spingarn Medal on the final night
of the NAACP 74th Annual Con
vention.
Miss Horne recalled that her
grandmother, Cora Calhoun, was
an early pioneer of the NAACP.
She developed within the actress
“a continuing passion for Black
freedom and liberation” from her
earliest childhood years. Similarly,
her uncle, Dr. Frank Home, “in
stilled in me a pride in Black
history and literature.”
Later, as she embarked on her
professional career in Hollywood,
Ithen NAACP Executive Secretary
Walter White “became a trusted
jmentor” who advised her on her
professional career.
Another trusted friend from
within the NAACP was Gloster
Current, who, as director of bran
:h and field administration, in
roduced her to Mississippi Field
director Medgar Evers. Two mor
lings later, she received the news
hat Medgar Evers was
issassinated by a sniper’s bullet in
963.
Miss Home recalled occassions
n which she suffered indignities
•ecause of her race. Once while en
:rtaining soldiers at an army base
a Arkansas, she was presented
nth a situation of having to enter
iin Black Gls apart from their
'hite collegaues and who were also
jated in a hall well behind Italian
risoners of war. “Is outrage a
rong enough word to describe my
■elings at that time?” She asked.
She left the hall and asked the
lack soldier who was driving her
• take .her to the local NAACP.
The NAACP in that town” was
aisy Bates, herione of the 1957
ittle Rock., Ark., school
segregation battle.
Noting that Miss Bates herself
is a ' Spingam medalist, Miss
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Ms. Blondell Conley
people from all racial groups to
participate in the march, Ms.
Conley said that Blacks are still
treated as third class citizens.
“I don’t care how much we give,
how much we’ve built this country
and died for this country, we’re
still treated like third class citizens.
“We pay as much taxes, work
twice as hard and anybody that
comes from any foreign country
Horne said, “That’s what I mean
when I say this medal stands for
heroism above and beyond the call
of duty and that is why I am so
proud to receive it.”
Miss Horne’s Spingarn citation
reads:
“In recognition of her eminently
distinguished career in the enter
tainment world of theater, motion
pictures, television, radio and
recordings.
“For her continuous con
tribution to enhancement of the
self-image of Black citizens
throughout this nation and
elsewhere.
“For the elevation of her art
form from mere excellence to
magnificence, thereby inspiring
others;
“For her unfaltering dedication
and commitment to the principles
of equality and justice for all,
despite unnumerable obstacles.”
E ERR
Solomon W. Walker II
Walker pres.-elect
of insurance
association
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can get more than we get here.
“Black folk are tired of it. We’re
fired up, and we aren’t going to
take it no more.”
Ms. Conley said that because
volunteers going to the March will
pay no fare, SCLC is trying to
raise $20,000 to pay for the ten
buses.
She said that she is waiting on a
response from the mayor’s office
to SCLC’s request to use urban
renewal property on the comer of 9th
and Twiggs streets for a block
party where people can make
donations toward the con
tributions toward the trip.
Persons wishing to volunteer to
go to Washington should attend
one of the weekly SCLC meetings
Saturdays at 11 a.m. at Mount
Sinai Baptist Church, 1458 Tutts
Ave., and Wednesdays at Dell’s
Diner, 1136 9th Street, 722-9321 or
call Mrs. Rosa Robinson,
executive secretary at 724-6862.
The buses will leave Augusta at
11 p.m. August 26. They will leave
Washington, late Saturday night,
arriving in Augusta, Sunday mor
ning.
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Walker
to head
insurance
association
LOS ANGELES—SoIomon W.
Walker 11, chief executive officer
of the Pilgrim Health and Life In
surance Co., was elected president
elect of the National Insurance
Association at the group’s conven
tion July 19.
He was also the keynote speaker
at the opening general session of
the convention.
A graduate of Morehouse
College, Walker did further study
at Stanford University.
July 30,1983
Lena Horne
NAACP plans
Black dollar day
in September
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SILVER HAIRED LEGISLATURE —Tessie Blount points to tabulation board as she and
Clara West watch election returns being posted at Peabody Apartments last thursday.
Tessie Blount elected
‘legislator ’ at 83
“If I had died yesterday, I
wouldn’t have gotten this oppor
tunity,” said 83-year-old Mrs.
Tessie Blount last Thursday night
after winning a seat in the Silver
Haired Legislature (SHL).
Mrs. Blount, who ran unop
posed, said, “I think that it is the
greatest priviledge of my life to be
recognized at the age that I am to
start with the Silver Haired
Legislature.
“I’m doing this because I see the
need. I feel that my life is needed.”
Speaking of senior citizens, she
said, “They say that we are living
too long. But thank God we are
not living it by ourselves, and we
want to give somebody else some
Tom McCain, John Bradley
earn doctorates degrees
Two Augusta-area men have
recently received their Ph.D.
degrees.
Dr. Thomas C. McCain received
the doctorate in educational ad
ministration from Ohio State
University.
A native of Edgefield, S.C., he
graduated from Paine College and
received the master’s degree in
mathematics education in 1962.
He has taught in the Richmond
County public school system as
well as in Atlanta.
He taught at Fort Valley State
College and at Paine College where
he also served as coordinator for
computer operations and director
of management Information
Systems and Institutional Resear
ch.
He served as president of the
faculty at Paine College and as
faculty representative to the board
of trustees, and as president of the
local chapter of the American
Association of University
professors.
Active in Edgefield County
politics, his district has three time
elected him to the Edgefield Coun
ty Council, but each time he was
defeated by the at-large voting
system.
McCain has served as chairman
of the Edgefield County
Democratic Party since 1976, and
was a delegate to the Democratic
Less than 75 percent Advertising
life with us.”
Mrs. Clara West of Thomson
won re-election to the Senate in
District 11. However, Augustan’s
Bennie Mae Williams was not suc
cessful in her bid for re-election.
Mrs. Williams, who made history
as the youngest person ever elected
to the Silver Haired legislature and
was voted the Top Senior Citizen
of the Year, pledged to continue to
work on behalf of senior citizens.
Other winners were:
The Silver Haired Legislature is
a model legislature comprised of
102 delegates, 60 years of age and
older, elected statewide by their
fears for a two-year term.
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Dr. Thomas C. McCain
National Convention in 1980. He
is also a member of the South
Carolina Convention’s Credentials
Committee.
He and his wife, Annette, have
two children, LaSonya and Carol
Jean.
John D. Bradley, director of
bands and choral music at Lincoln
County High School, leceived the
Ph.D. degree in music education
from Southeastern Unversity in
New Orleans. He was recently elec
ted president of the Georgia
Association of Jazz Musicians.
A native of Beaumont Texas, he
graduated from Texas Southern
University; he earned the master’s
degree from Vander Cook College,
Man charged with
attempted rape
and two burglaries
The SHL is designed to
familiarize groups and individuals
with the legislative process, to
identify issues of the aging that
may be addressed through the
legislative process and to provide
greater understanding between
legislators and the elderly
population.
Eula Evans, one of the four
Black candidates, lost the House
District 50 race to Don Joiner by
five votes, 277 to 282.
Other winners House seats were
Lura Avret, Sara Alvey, and Ruth
Burks.
Walker Jacobson elected in
Senate District 10.
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Dr. John D. Bradley
and has done further study at the
University of South Carolina and
the University of New Mexico.
He came to the CSRA via
Burgess Landrum High School in
Millen, in 1965. He taught at
Westside High School from 1972-
1980 and taught part-time at Paine
College from 1973-1977.
He is national student member
ship chairman for the National
Association of Jazz Educators.
He is the first and only Black
member of the American School
Band Directors’ Association in the
state of Georgia.
He is married to the former
Winnette Wesley, principal of
Murphy Middle School.