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The Augusta News-Review February 11,1984
Program depicts tragic events
“All Niggers Are War
ned Out Os Town By
Monday, 12 p.m.
Sharp,” read the sign at
the railway station just
outside of Springfield,
Illinois, Abraham Lin
coln’s hometown, in
August of 1908.
The tragic events of the
subsequent riots in that
city and the statement it
made about racial
relations in America
ignited a fury among a
group of whites and
Blacks sworn to put an
end to racial injustice.
The second episode of
“The Longest Struggle,”
a Black History Month
docudrama on TONY
BROWN’S JOURNAL,
follows the creation of
the NAACP and its
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struggle to survive in the
face of violent adversity.
The rare fearlessness that
characterized the
Association’s founders is
brought to life through
dramatic re-enactments
on Part 11, “The Call.”
Seen on the nation’s
public television stations
(PBS), TONY
BROWN’S JOURNAL
will be seen in this area on
WCES-TV 20 at 7:30
Feb. 14.
“We nailed our banner
to the mast,” said Mary
White Ovington, a white
ex-social worker and the
first member of the
NAACP. Ovington,
along with 59 other Black
and white Americans,
issued a “call” for a con
ference on the status of
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Blacks on the 100th an
niversary of Lincoln’s
birthday.
Mary White
Ovington’s dedicated to
the Black cause and her
efforts to stop lynching
are skillfully interpreted
by actress Terria Joseph:
“I can think of no more
nauseating work for a
kindly set of people than
this task of setting forth
brutality.
“We felt that it was the
only way to end a method
of community life in
which a dark-skinned
group was denied
economic opportunity,
and a full cultural life,
while another group, the
poor whites, also
,illeducated, penniless
were encouraged to con
sider themselves inheren
tly superior to the Blacks
because their own skin
was white.”
Standing as the most
prominent Black figure in
the history of the
Association was one of its
founders, Dr. W.E.B.
Dußois, also founding
editor of The Crisis
magazine, the NAACP’s
official publication. Ac
tor Dennis Tate’s com
mand performance of Dr.
Dußois gives insight into
the great intellectual’s
personality.
Early founders, like
William English Walling,
portrayed by Daniel
Ahearn, and Oswald
Garrison Villard, played
by Samuel McMurray,
are given the voices of ac
tors who recapture the
energy and dedication of
these courageous
pioneers with all of the
force of Broadway.
The program will also
include scenes from the
1915 film, “Birth of a
Nation,” and the
NAACP’s motion picture
see Struggle page 7
INVITATION FOR MEAL
SERVICE BID
The Oconee Area Planning and Development
Commission - Area Agehcy on Aging is receiving
competitive sealed bids to provide Title 111
Nutrition Program meals for the elderly.
Sealed bids for preparing and delivering meals
will be received at the Office of the Oconee Area
Planning and Development Commission - Area
Agency on Aging, P.O. Box 707, Milledgeville,
Georgia 31601, until February 27, 1984 at 2:00
p.m.
All conditions, stipulations, and specifications
relevant to the Title 111 Nutrition Program may be
obtained by contacting:
Melinda Edwards, AAA Director
Oconee APDC - Area Agency on Aging
P.O. Box 707 Milledgeville, Ga. 31601
(912) 453-5327
This agency reserves the right to reject any and
all bids.
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“THE CALL” —The “call” for racial
justice for Blacks was issued by 1909 by a
small group of Black and White Americans.
The second episode of “The Longest
Struggle” will dramatically recreate the for
mation of the NAACP and its struggle to
survive in the face of widespread lynchings an
ADVERTISEMENTS FOR BIDS
Sealed bids from food service vendors will be
received by Slash Pinr Community Action Agen
cy, Inc., Elderly Services Program, until 4:00 p.m.
at the time legally prevailing in Waycross,
Georgia on March 1, 1984 for the preparation and
delivery of noon day meals for the project year
July 1, 1984 through June 30, 1985 for the
following programs:
1. Nutrition Program for the Elderly
2. Home Delivered Meals Program
3. Adult Day Rehabilitation Program
Specification for the above named programs
can be obtained from the Elderly Services
Program Director, Slash Pine Community Action
Agency, Inc., 201 State Street, P.O. Box 1965
Waycross, Georgia 31501, telephone (912) 285-
6088.
Public opening of sealed bids will be held at
4:00 p.m. on March 1, 1984 at the above address.
The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
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an indifferent federal government. An ex
citing, crusading Ida B. Wells-Barnett, por
trayed by Michele Shay (left), comes to life in
the television docudrama along with an astute
Dr. W.E.B. Dußois, portrayed by Dennis
Tate (right). They were among the founding
members of the Association.
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