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The Augusta News-Review March 2,1985
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T.W.JOSEY BAND MEMBERS NAMED TO ALL-AMERICAN “HALL OF FAME’’.
Standing (left to right) are Col. Charles J. Smith, band director; Brian Lucas, Trumpet;
Rodney Johnson, Trombone, Clarence Grier, Trombone and Josey principal Marion E.
Barnes. Photo by: Jack Anderson
Band members make All- American
Eleven members of T.W. Josey
Comprehensive High School band
were recently selected for All-
American honors according to
Col. Charles Smith, director of
the band.
The All-American Hall of Fame
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Foundation is a national, non
profit organization created to iden
tify and recognize high
school musicians throughout the
United States.
Students selected were: Kenneth
Sanders, Trumpet; Rodeny John-
sonh, Trombone; Lonnie Bolton,
Susaphone; Clarence Grier,
Trombone; Brian Lucas, Trumpet;
Eric Beals, percussion; Linda
Childs, clarinet; Gladys Wright,
Alto saxophone; Anthony Davis,
percussion; and Karen Monique
Johnson, Flute.
DAR make effort to change image
In a move to alter its white
segregationist image, . the
Daughtgers of the American
Revolution (DAR), announced
they have published a new book on
Blacks who served in the American
Revolutionary War, written by
Robert Ewell Greene.
DAR, which sparked several
racial controversies in the past over
the denial of Blacks to join its
ranks has published “Black
Courage, 1775-1973”, a pictoral
history of military Blacks from the
Revolution to Vietnam.
In the midst of Black History
Month, Green’s book makes its
way to the shelves of bookstores.
Greene, who has written five other
books on military history, teaches
biology at Eastern High School in
Washington.
The publication of this book
marks a turn-around in DAR’s
outlook toward Blacks. “It is our
sincere hope that Mr. Greene and
others like him who have taken the
time to expand modern recognition
of Black Patriots, will inspire the
living descendants of those patriots
to discover their eligibility and
join the DAR,” said Sarah King,
president general of the 200,000*
member organization, at a book
signing reception last week.
Just last year a Black woman
named Lena Ferguson was rejected
membership in the area’s DAR
Blacks seek alternatives
By Joan Avis Ratteray
Black inner-city parents across
the Nation are challenging the
myth that they are incapable of
providing quality education for
their children. From Pennsylvania
to California, they have chosen to
send their children to private
schools under extreme financial
burdens.
Despite a current trend in urban
communities to reexamine public
Augustan’s
make
Dean’s List
at Alcorn
LORMAN, MlSS.—Three
students from Augusta have made
the 1984 fall semester honor roll at
Alcorn State University.
Honor students are classified in
to two categories: Dean’s List
Scholars and Presidential'
Scholars.
To be on the Dean’s List a
student must register for at least 12
semestser hours of academic credit
and maintain at least a “B” grade
point average. To be a Presidential
Scholar a student must register for
at least 12 semester hours of
academic credit and maintain a
stratight “A” grade point average.
Students from Augusta who
merited honors are Sharon
Stewart, a pre-engineering major;
Michael Tanksley, music; and
Chris Singleton, pre-engineering.
The students were on the Dean’s
List.
chapter. After a three-year battle,
Ferguson was admitted as a mem-'
mber-at-large to DAR in May of
last year. Eligibility into DAR
requires for one to trace their
lineage to a soldier in the American
Revolution. Until 1977 DAR, had
been all white.
Ferguson’s fight with DAR
sparked the passage of a
Congressional resolution calling
on the nation to honor forgotten
Black Revolutionary War Soldiers
during February’s celebration on
Black History Month.
DAR’s decision in April 1984 to
publish “Black Courage” conin
cides with the same month fifty
five years before, in April 1939
when Marion Anderson sang on
the steps of Constitution Hall to
protest racial discrimination after
DAR denied her the opportunity to
sing there.
DAR made the decision to
publish the book, since it was able
to prove the existance of Blacks
who served on the American
Revolution, alluded King.
Although nearly 5,000
revolutionary soldiers and
Area planning group
to hold
public hearing
The Central Savannah River
Area Planning and Development
Commission is planning three
public hearings on the Area
Ageancy on Aging Plan for Ser
vices renderd under Title 111 of the
Older Americans Act of 1965, as
amended, on March 5, at 3:30
p.m. at the Senior Center 535 15th
St.
All interested persons are invited
to attend this hearing.
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school systems, Black families con
tend that they cannot wait for the
results. Too many of their children
are trapped in a bureaucratic
machine that seems to guarantee
low achievement.
These families are selecting
schools that make a positive dif
ference in the lives of thier
children. More than 250 of these
independent schools have been
identified in a recent survey.
The total, most of which serve
Black children, is probably twice
this number. They are not elitist
institutions. Most have an “opeh
door” policy, although testing is
generally required for placement.
Many have long waiting lists and
operate in buildings that are
badly in need of repair or that
require new major systems like
heating.
Although most started in the
1970’s several are over 30-year
olds. For the most part, they were
started by parents and teachers
who are dissatisfied with what they
felt were inadequacies in the public
schools.
The curricula at these schools
include basic reading, math and
writing. But many of them in
troduce foreign languages, scien
ces, higher math, and computers at
a very early age.
At the Paige Academy in
Boston, young Blacks learn
Chinese and Spanish. New York’s
Lower East Ǥide International
Communhity School boasts in
struction in French, Spanish and
Arabic to complement its basic
program.
militamen were Black, Greene was
able to compile the names of many
of those soldiers. He also uncoverd
crucial information about their
lives, their social and economic
backgrounds; their length of ser
vice and their fortunes after the
war.
Greene has uncovered and
brought Black companies such as,
the Massoit Guards, the Attucks
Company, the Rhode Island Black
Regiment and many others alive.
Greene said that he chooses to
DAR publish this book, “because
they are the hierarchy on the
American Revolution. I could not
ask for a better publisher that is
knowledgeable as to what it
(American Revolution) is all
about.”
During the reinactment of
Revolutionary battles, Blacks were
not show, said Greene. However,
‘Black Courage, is going to be
used to educate many individuals
about the Black presence, but my
greatest desire is for youngsters to
recaoture thier military heritage.”
Lymon widows - 3
Do Fools Fall in Love.”
“Morris Levy claims to be a co
author as farback as 1964,” Ber
stein said. “He says he is (co
writer). He says he can prove it.”
Attorney Andy Feinman,
representing Big Seven and BMI,
speaking from his office in New
York, said, “She (Emira) has no
standing at all. She is not Mr.
Lymon’s legal widow. There is a
lawsuit pending in the U.S. District
Court on a motion to dismiss the
complaint Emira Lymon is not Mr.
Lymon’s legal widow. Mr Levy
had known Mr. Lymon for some
time, and had written parts of the
song.”
Both Borstein and Feinman con
firmed that, acting on their clients
behalf, they have reached an
agreement between Elizabeth
Waters, Big Seven and Roulette
Records for a sum of $15,000. The
agreement, they said, enables the
companies to control part of her
royalty rights to the song.
“She has sold the rights to pur
sue those copyrights in exchange
for publishing rights,” Borstein
Business women to host Spring enrollment
The Essence Chapter of the
American Business Women’s
Association will be holding its
Spring Enrollment Event, March
6, at the Western Sizzlin on the
Gordon Highway. The theme of
the enrollment event will be “We
'Testwiseness' workshop to be held
Zeta Xi Omega Chapter of Alp
ha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the
Shiloh Comprehensive Com
munity Center, a United Way
Agency,w ill hold “Testwiseness
Workshops” for seniors in high
school.
Many of the schools seem to
place their academic instruction in
the larger context of either cultural
or religious teachings.
Some of the Sister Clara
Muhammad schools, operated by
the American Muslim Mission,
and several Catholic schools, are
outstanding examples of this ap
proach.
National House Watoto School
in Washington, D.C., is one of the
many that present a Pan-African
framework for learning to instill a
strong sense of pride and self
worth.
The W.E.B. Dußois School and
the reknowned Marcus Garvey
School, the later in Los Angeles,
are typical of independent schools
that offer strong foundations in
analytical and expository skills
for oral and written presentations.
All of thfese independent schools
challenge public schools to be
competitive. They pride themselves
on the results they have achieved
in turning around underachieving
children. Some have been labeled
miracle workers, having taken
many special students from below
grade level and graduating them
several grade levels higher than
their public school counterparts.
These schools represent the
power of parental choice, for
quality education is no longer a
luxury for the well-to-do. This new
educational agenda is liberating
many minority and poor children
from mediocrity and hoplessness,
leading them instead to
educational excellence.
So schools were started with
very little money. Others maintain
a precarious financial existence
from day to day. They survive
almost entirely from tuition that
may be as low as $855 per year to
as high as $2,500 per year.
Schools that are supported by
religious or other groups can af
ford even lower tuition fees. None
of the schools has a large en
dowment, and all are hampered
by a continual lack of funding op
portunties.
In spite of this unstable financial
base, however, these schools con
tinue to grow. As one principal
declared, “Our growth will never
end. We compete with ourselves,
always adding, subtracting and
evaluating.”
Minority communities across the
United States have the leadership,
the professional expertise, the
willing constituency of determined
parents and students, and minority
businesses capable of providing the
necessary support for the exciting
phenomenon of independent
education.
The challenge that lies ahead foi
the 1980’s is to bring these resour
ces together and produce what one
educator called “a moving agen
da.”
said. “She gets writer’s
royalties.” He said Waters
received SIO,OOO (being held in
escrow), and will get an additional
$5,000 if she can prove that she is
Lymon’s legal widow.
Dwight Peterson, representing
Walter’s, confirmed that she had
struck a deal with the companies
for a sum of money.
“It has always been her im
pression that she was the legal
widow of Frankie Lymon,” he
said. “Now, because of a change
in the copyright law that all prior
agrements are null and void,
everybody is coming forth.
He added, “She did give some
rights back to the record company
for X amount of dollars. I prefer
not to comment on the terms.”
The new copyright law, accor :
ding to Peterson, states that after
28 years all rights revert back to
the original author or heir.
The change has given rise to the
battle over who is the legal widow,
since Lymon apparently never
bothered to file for a divorce from
any of the three.
Love ABWA.”
The American Business
Women’s Association is an
organization dedicated to
professional, educational, cultural
and social advancement of women
in business.
The workshops will be held at
the Shiloh Comprehensive Center
at 1635 15th St. each Monday
night from 7:15 until 8:15 for six
weeks.
The workshops began Feb. 11
and will run through March 11.