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The Augusta News-Review February 25,1984
The third episode of
“The Longest Struggle,”
the Black History Month
docudrama on Tony
Brown’s Journal,
followed the struggle for
Black rights into WWII.
The “Double V” cam
paign—victory against
facism abroad and racism
at home—was a recurring
symbol during the war
years. But by the war’s
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When Grandma used to sit you down
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includes all of us. The future rests on people
of all races working together to make our
common reality one we can all be proud of.
Building a future in partnership
with the community.
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NAACP’s 75-year march: ‘the longest struggle’
end in 1945, racism at
home had not been stam
ped out.
The concluding episode
of the four-part series,
“The 75 Year March,”
moves from the mid-40s
into the second half of
the 20th century.
This exciting saga of
the struggle of Black
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America will be see on the
nation’s public television
station (PBS). Tony
Brown’s Journal,
America’s longest
running and top ranked
Black affairs television
series, has been spon
sored by Pepsi-Cola
Company for nine con
secutive years. It will be
seen in this area on
WCES TV-20 at 7:30
p.m. on Tues., Feb. 28.
The NAACP’s cam
paign against segregation
in the armed forces
culminates in the signing
of a Presidential
executive order ending
discrimination in the
military.
And the viewers ex
perience one of the
NAACP’s finest hours
when it knocks down
school segregation in the
landmark Brown decision
in 1954. Two years earlier
a Tuskegee report showed
that for the first time in
71 years no lynchings oc
curred in the United
States, thanks to the
NAACP’s campaign.
“The 75 Year March”
examines the unfinished
business in the NAACP’s
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long struggle for Black
equality, including the
murder-bombing of
Florida NAACP leaders
Harriet and Harry T.
Moore in 1951, the
assassination of Medgar
Evers and the Ku Klux
Klan lynching of Michael
Donald in 1981.
Also on the program,
actress Janice Nelson
sings “Lif Ev’ry Voice
and Sing” as she leads the
symbolic reenactment of
the NAACP’s 75 Year
March for justice.
Social Studies
conference Feb. 25
The CSRA Council for
the Social Studies will
have its annual conferen
ce at Hephzibah Middle
School on Feb. 25.
The conference fee will
be $3 and registration will
begin at 8:30 a.m.
The presentations have
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in spelling bee
Students in grades 4-8
participated in the written
pFOtien of the Richmond
County Spelling Bee Feb.
17. Those students who
have qualified for the
oral Spelling Bee, to be
held at Regency Mall on
March 2 at 1:30 p.m. are
as follows: Barton
Chapel, Monica Mosley;
Collins, Chris Connor;
Davidson, Terrilyn
Wallace; East Augusta,
Ricardo Foster; Garrett,
Stephanie Barger;
Gracewood, Victoria
Clemente; Griggs, Gerald
Meriweather; Hephzibah
Middle, Patricia Hoover;
Concert series
to be held at Paine
The Paine College
Lyceum Committee has
announced a chamber
musei- mini-series that will
take place during the
months of February and
March. The series will
present four varied
regional ensembles in
concerts that are open to
the public without an
admission charge.
On Feb. 22, The
Augusta Symphony
String Trio will appear in
concert. Members of the
Trio are Larry Bran
dolino, violin, Jeff Wat
son, viola, and Lori Bar
net, cello. The trio was
formed three years ago by
the three contract string
players employed by the
symphony. Brandolio is
the concert master of the
orchestra while Watson
and Ms. Barnet are the
principal players of their
respective sections. In
addition to their chamber
music concert series
through the auspices of
the symphony, the trio
performs throughout the
Augusta area. Their con
cert at Paine will include
the music of Beethoven
and Kodaly.
The Atlanta Chamber
Players will appear in
concert on Mar. 1. This
ensemble is made up of
Melanie Crafer, flute,
Robert Brown, clarinet,
Mowry Pearson, violin,
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been designed to appeal
to all educators from the
elementary through the
secondary level working
in social studies
education. Dr. John
Strelec, the Richmond
County superintendent of
schools, will be the guest
speaker.
Jenkins, Carlton Holden;
Lake Forest, Jennifer
Wilds; Langford Middle,
Bart Miller; Merry,
Laura Wallace; Monte
Sano, Eva Evans;
Morgan Road Middle,
Dwane Brengettsy; Mur
phey Middle, Angela
Stockton;Sego Middle,
Noel Hitchcock; Tubman
Middle, Kelly Lewis; Tutt
Junior High, India
LaValle; Walker, David
Franqui; Warren Road,
Katy Quattlebaum;
Wheeless Road, Helene
Schrank; Levi White,
Lashella Samuels.
Pamela Askew, viola,
Paul Cohen, cello, and
Paula Peace, piano. In
addition to a regular con
cert series in Atlanta, this
full-time chamber group
performs extensively
throughout the
southeastern United
States. Included in this
performance will be the
Bach Trio Sanata, the
Hoover Divertimento and
Trios by Glink and
Dvorak.
The final concert will
be given by the Augusta
Symphony Trombone
Quartet on Mar. 6. The
quartet was formed last
year by Arved Larsen,
David Pitman, Al Lud
wick and Gary Bain, all
members of the sym
phony’s trombone sec
tion. The group will be
assisted by William
Christmas, organist at the
college.
One of the primary
aims of the quartet is to
showcase the wide variety
of styles of music the in
strument is capable of
performing. In keeping
with this aim, the concert
will include pieces from
such diverse composers as
Charles Ives, Raymond
Premru, Scott Joplin and
John Philip Sousa.
All four concerts will
be in the Gilbert-
Lambuth Memorial
Chapel at 8 p.m.