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The Augusta News-Review September 15.1984
Tony ’.v Brown Journal
How I escaped lynching,
author recalls horror
“They came back and untangled
Tommy from the jailhouse win
dows and dragged him like a dead
horse with a rope around his neck
up to the tree where Abe was
hanging and hung him alongside of
Abe, and then they came back and
got me,” recalls James Cameron,
the only survivor of the last lyn
ching north of the Mason-Dixon
line, on the next edition of TONY
BROWN’S JOURNAL, “How I
Escaped Lynching.”
As the only man to experience a
lynching and live, Cameron vividly
relives the horror and pain of that
night in 1930 when thousands
screamed for his death. His grip
ping story of terror and murder is
told for the first time on national
television.
In August of 1930, 16-year-old
James Cameron and two other
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fighting the suit. She added she is
“anxious to see it settled” and is
willing to compromise.
♦Pressuring the countyschool
board to keep inner-city schools
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Black youths were accused of
murdering a white male and raping
his girlfriend. A mob of more than
10,000 people stormed the jailand
lynched Abram Smith and Thomas
Shipp. Despite Cameron’s plea of
innocence, the mob came back for
him. “Then the mob closed in,”
Cameron remembers.
That’s when they grabbed me,
and beat me all the way down the
steps, all the way up to the cour
thouse lawn, then put the rope
aroudn my neck.”
How he escaped is still a mystery
to the members of the lynch mob.
But Cameron, as sure today as on
that night 54 years ago, gives the
answer for the first time on
television. The program will be
seen in this area on WCES-20 at
7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18.
DeVaney, Wylds respond to Mays
open.
DeVaney said a neighborhood
cannot be revitalized without
schools, but that “as far as undue
pressure, no, I wouldn’t do that.”
Mrs. Wylds said she “would not
so much as put pressure on the
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James Cameron
Board of Education,” but that
there’s always a need for inner-city
schools.
♦Dealing with politics in city
departments, which Mays said has
caused many to leave in spite of
their pay.
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Deltas sponsor
test taking
workshop
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“I think our turnover is much
lower than it used to be,”
DeVaney said.
Mrs. Wylds said that “we are
going to have to address politics
and personalities” in the depar
tments.
In an effort to help 10th grade
students prepare for the statewide
CBE Test (Competency Based
Education) that will be ad
ministered in Richmond County
Schools the week of Sept. 17, the
Augusta Alumnae Chapter of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc.will sponsor a Test Taking
Skills Workshop.
The workshop will be given at
Lucy Laney Comprehensive High
School in the lunchroom, Sept 15
from 9 a.m. until Noon. Refresh
ments will be provided at mid
session.
Dr. Robetta McKenzie, director
of guidance, counseling, and
testing, and Mrs. Sandra Bowman,
testing consultant in the Richmond
County school system, will be the
presenters. They will present and
demonstrate the latest materials in
test taking skills.
Patricia Williams is
Employee of the year
Patricia Elam Williams was
recently nominated Employee of
the Year at the Annual Employees
Awards Luncheon of The Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance Co.
For this honor, she received
various awards including an all ex
pense paid trip to Freeport, Grand,
Bahamas.
A graduate of Berkeley Business
College, Paterson, N.J., Mrs.
Williams has been employed at
Pilgrim for 10 years and has
worked in several clerical positions
in the Accounting Department
where she presently serves as ad
ministrative assistant in charge of
payroll and secretary to the chief
accountant.
She also serves as assistant
secretary to the Board of Directors
of the Credit Union.
Mrs. Williams is a member of
the Cumming Grove Baptist Chur
ch and serves with the Roy Elam
Chior. She also seves on the Board
Program quells
adult fears
Last fall, 102 Augusta area
adults discovered a new program
at Augusta College that banished
their fears about entering college
for the first time.
The Life Enrichment Program,
coordinated by the AC Office of
Admissions, is for adults who have
been out of high school for at least
eight years and who have never at
tended college.
The program’s main attraction
is that participants don’t have to
take the often-dreaded Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT) to eain en
trance to AC.
A total of 246 persons have
taken advantage of the program
since it was initiated on campus,
according to Dr. Donald Smith,
AC director of admissions.
“It’s a boon for students who
are entering college for the first
time and who are nervous about
it,” Dr. Smith said, adding that
many adults hesitate to enroll
because they fear failing tests such
as the SAT.
Life Enrichment is an optional
program available to colleges in
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Patricia Williams
of Directors of the Augusta Chap
ter Gospel Music Workshop of
America.
She is the daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. Roy T. E.am and the mother
of two daughters, Nichole and
Shaunna.
the University System of Georgia.
Fees are the same for all students.
The program also limits the
number of credit hours which can
be earned without setting an
educational goal. x After 30 hours
(six courses), the students must
decide whether he or she wants to
request admission to a degre
seeking status. If the student has
achieved a “C” average or higher
on all credit work, he will be gran
ted full admission to a degree
seeking status, he said.
Although an entrance
examination is not required for
admission, a placement test is
given during the first quarter of
enrollment in order to assist the
student and college counselors in
making appropriate course selec
tions.
Though the deadline to apply
for the fall quarter has already
passed, the admissions director
said he would be willing to con
sider late applications for in
terested persons if they would con
tact his office immediately.
Fall quarter classes begin Sept.
19 and continue through Dec. 6.