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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 45
Brooks says Jackson
will win Georgia, Ala.
Presidential candidate Jesse
Jackson flew from New Ham
pshire where he came in fourth in
the primary to Augusta for a rally
Tuesday night at the Augusta-
Richmond County Civic Center
where his state coordinator Tyrone
Brooks predicted that Jackson will
win the Georgia and Alabama
primaries.
Brooks, who is Georgia State
legislator, said he would not make
predictions beyond that point.
“We were the last to enter the race
and we have the least money,” he
said.
Jackson told a crowd estimated
between three and four thousand
that he is running a “poor cam
paign with a rich message.” He
said that he did not have the
money to buy a single newspaper
ad or TV commercial in New
Hampshire.
Stephanie Diggs is
first Miss NA A CP
by Theresa Minor
It is being billed “the most daz
zling event of the season” and
despite the simultaneous rally for
presidential candidate Jesse
Jackson held just a few blocks
away, the first annual Miss
NAACP Pageant was received by a
standing-room-only crowd of en
thusiastic Augustans on Tuesday
night.
“If we had 200 more tickets to
sell we could have sold them. It
was fantastic,’’ said Dianne
Gilliard, co-chairperson of the
pageant.
Stephanie Diggs, a 16-year old
student at A.R. Johnson Health
Professional High School, became
the first to don the crown of Miss
NAACP. She raised more than
$2,900 for the civil rights
Supreme Court judge cautions
students on ‘wrong crowd’
Born and raised in Columbia
County, Judge Murray attended
Johnson school and
jraduated from Paine College
before studying law.
“Another 10 years when I come
here you will be in college, another
10 years or five years, you’ll be
running the city. And whatever
kind of city it is will depend upon
you.”
He cautioned the students on
following “the wrong crowds.”
“When somebody tells you,
’Come on, let’s do this or that’,
think about the result of it. If that
person is doing something (worth
while) think about it. If that per
son is going nowhere, is getting in
trouble or his grades are bad, there
is nothing he can tell me.
“I trust that when I return,” he
said, “we can share the good
things of life. And I hope that
none of you will have to stand
before a judge in court.”
He said that in this campaign he
has already won. “Winning, he
said, is more young voters getting
on the rolls.”
“Winning is not just one man
running for president, but it’s a
thousand people holding different
offices, from the out-house to the
poor house.”
“Winning is the shift from
charity to parity.”
Speaking of Black progress, he
said, “We’re of age now, we’re
going forward. We’re going
through...
“We are going to rise high,
strike fire, and move on to higher
ground....
“When they roll the stone away,
when they search for our bodies,
they’ll find that the ressurection
has taken place.
“Joy is coming in the morning. ”
Jesse Jackson said that it would
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Miss Diggs is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Diggs,
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Judge Albert R. Murray
“I was not born a judge....At
your age I didn’t know what the
word lawyer meant. I didn’t know
I was going to be a lawyer. But I
did know that whatever I was, I
wanted to be the best.” Judee
not be appropriate for him to
comment on the FBl’s role in the
indictment of Mayor Edward M.
Mclntyre, but he added, “I have
respect for his integrity. I embrace
him as a friend and as a public ser
vant....l’m just glad that he stands
tall and his spirit has not been
broken.
“We have not heard the last of
attacks on public servants.”
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Be Heard!!!
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The funds collected by the con
testants will be used for various
NAACP projects, including a
scholarship fund according to
Beverly Grant Johnson, pageant
chairperson.
“Stephanie will play a big part
in helping us to formulate a youth
group,” explained Johnson,
“There were a number of young
people at the pageant that makes
the youth group seem possible
now.”
Miss Diggs will be representing
the local branch of the
organization at both the regional
and national NAACP meetings
this year.
Other finalists include Dedra
Tuff, first runner up, and Sandra
Harrell, second-runner-up.
Albert R. Murray, the fourth
hightest ranking person on the
bench of the New York State
Superior Court, recently told
students at Houghton Elementary
School.
Lowery, Ford
to speak at
Mclntyre rally
The Rev. Josepn Lowery,
president of SCLC and Johnny
Ford, mayor of Tuskegee and
president of the National Con
ference of Black Mayors will speak
at the third rally in support of
Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre and
City Councilman Joseph C. Jones.
Jones and Mclntyre were
arrested Dec. 21 and later indicted
on charges of extortion and
bribery.
The rally will be held March 8 at
Bethel A.M.E. Church at 7:30
p.m.
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Jackson at rally here Tuesday night. Others (from left) are school board President A.K.
Hasan, Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre, and city councilwoman Margaret Armstrong, coor
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Hooks denies quotes
on Jackson and Reagan
NEW YORK-USA Today
carried a story which was picked
up from West Virginia’s
Charleston Daily Mail quoting
Benjamin L. Hooks, NAACP
executive director, as saying
“Ronald Reagan is dangerous to
the well-being of Black people
across the USA. It will be difficult
to beat him but it can be done.”
The emphasis in the interview, he
said, “was on the difficulty of
beating Ronald Reagan, not that it
was impossible.”
Hooks was also quoted as saying
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Butterfly McQueen scorned by Lena Horne
Butterfly McQueen, the former
Augustan who played the role of
Prissy in the movie “Gone with the
Wind,” said Tuesday that she
believes that she has survived to
“warn people not to touch the
disease of hatred.”
She spoke to the assembly at
Levi White Elementary School. In
an interview, she said that her
greatest joy is being in America
“where I can make my own
religion, which is good people.
When one says “God,” they say
good.”
Mrs. Queen, who was Baptized
Less than 75 percent Advertising
“Ronald Reagan is dangerous to
the well-being of Black people
across the U.S.A, but will win the
1984 presidential election
nonetheless.”
The Charleston Daily Mail was
again in error. This error too was
picked up by USA Today,” hooks
said. Hooks said the statement “it
would be fruitless for his
organization to push Jesse
Jackson’s presidential bid because
Jackson has no chance of win
ning.”
“In no wav could I have said
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN in Levi White school library.
Augusta, says that she is “an
atheist who needs a church.” She
said that the church for her now is
“a social group, the cleanest of the
clubs.”
While sne nas suffered much
hatred from whites, she said that
“most of them are decent,” and
many Blacks have copied white
hatred.
Among them, she said, are
“colored people” like Lena Horne
and Ethel Waters. She said that
Ethel Waters referred to her as
"manure," ana mat Lena Horne
"is a “colored woman who would
rather be in the white race. Whites
that,” Hooks said. “I pointed out
that for legal and traditional
reasons, we cannot and will not
endorse a political candidate or
party.”
Since the Rev. Jackson announ
ced his candidacy, Hooks said, the
NAACP’s position has been that:
“We wish him well. We will do
nothing to impede his campaign to
win the Democratic Party’s
nomination for president. He is
bringing people together and has
been immensely valuable in in
spiring Black citizens to register
and vote.”
called me dog and turned up their
noses at me. And she copied
them.”
Asked how she responds to
young Blacks who hate the movie
“Gone with the Wind.”
“I hated it too,” she said, “I
was the only miserable one on the
set. I can’t blame young people for
hating it. I hated it myself.”
Ms. McQueen said that she
cleared about $5,000 from “Gone
With the Wind.”
She is now 73 and lives in New
York. Asked if she has ever been
married, she replied, “Not yet.”
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