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Wrightsville leaders
to rally in Augusta
A rally will be held at Dyess
Park (comer of 9th and
D’Antignac Streets) 3 p.m.
Sept. 6 to encourage blacks in
Augusta to actively support
Wrightsville residents in a
national protest march of
conditions there September 20.
The local rally Sept. 6 will
be sponsored by the local
Black United Front,
chairperson Ernest Louis said.
Researcher hired to study
history of black Augusta
By Fannie Flono
An historical researcher has
been hired to conduct the first
comprehensive study of black
life and history in the Augusta
area. ,
Carl McCoy, a graduate of
Paine College with a bachelors
degree in social sciences, began
work recently in the new
position.
McCoy said the aim of the
research is to start with “day
one (of black life in the area)
and bring it all the way up to
the present.”
“A publication will come
out of my research to let
people know the significance
of blacks’ contribution to the
city,” he said.
The research is being made
possible by a Heritage
Recreation and Conservation
Service grant from the
Department of Interior. The
$17,000 grant will be matched
by $6,900 in cash and $9,000
Man, wife stabbed
in quarrel
Two persons have been
arrested and charged with
aggravated assault with intent
to murder in connection with
an apparent domestic quarrel
in which an Augusta man and
his wife were stabbed.
According to Augusta
Police, Beulah Marrow Sherlin,
48, and her husband, Gary Mike
Sherlin, 31, were both stabbed
with a hunting knife.
Sherlin allegedly stabbed his
wife in the side with the knife
and a man who allegedly came
to her aid stabbed Sherlin with
James Brown nominated
for Hall of Fame Award
Augusta’s James Brown has
been nominated for a Georgia
Music Week Hall of Fame
Award in a ceremony to be
televised live from the Atlanta
Hilton on Saturday, September
20 on Public Television.
The ceremony concludes
Georgia Music Week, a salute
to the state’s multi-million
dollar recording industry. The
program will air from 8 to 9
p.m.
Hall of Fame awards,
nicknamed “Georgies,” will be
given in three categories:
performer, non-performer, and
a memorial category new this
year. Awards will be presented
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Speakers include John
Martin, president of the
Johnson County Justice
League; Jerry Henderson,
coalition for Black Unity;
Teresa Wright, president of the
Hyde Park Save Our School
Committee, Wilbur Allen,
Georgia Coalition on Hunger
and Rev. E.J. Wilson.
Louis said the struggle by
blacks in Wrightsville have been
met with repeated attacks by
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in in-kind services from
Historic Augusta, Inc., the
organization administering the
grant, said Lee Swann, director
of Historic Augusta.
The project is being
instituted because there is so
much black history here, but
so little study of it, she said.
“One of the goals is to get
the Laney-Walker district
the same knife about 9:50 p.m.
Thursday.
Both were taken to
University Hospital where
Sherlin is listed in critical
condition and Mrs. Sherlin in
fair condition with a severe
stab wound.
Carl Albert Carter has been
charged with aggravated assault
with intent to murder in
connection with the stabbing
of Sherlin and Sherlin has been
charged with the same offense
in connection with the
stabbing of Mrs. Sherlin.
by Governor Busbee,
Lieutenant Governor Miller,
and House Speaker Murphy.
Nominated for the
performer’s award are Brown,
Bill Anderson, Harry James,
Gladys Knight, Brenda Lee,
Eva Mae Lefevre, Hovie Lister,
Little Richard, Willie
Perryman, Billy Joe Royal,
Jerry Reed, Joe South, and
Ray Stevens. Non-performers
nominated are Ilene Berns,
Buddy Buie, Cotton Carrier,
Albert Coleman, Alex Cooley,
Thomas C. Dorsey, Rich
Floyd, David Franklin, J. Lee
Friedman, Joel Katz, Babs
Richardson, Bob Richardson,
reused rapist,
retarded man free
on *IO,OOO bond
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racist local authorities and the
Ku Klux Klan.
“A call has gone out for
black and progressive people
from all over the country to
come to Wrightsville Sept. 20.”
Louis said women and
children in Wrightsville have
been shot down, church doors
have been kicked in and
occupants arrested and black
homes raided.
nominated for the National
Historic Register,” McCoy said.
Already, McCoy has dug up
some interesting tidbits about
black life in Augusta.
The first black lawyer in
Augusta, Judson W. Lyons,
became the first black man to
sign the dollar bill when he
became register of the U.S.
Treasury in the 1890 s.
One of the first conspiracies
to massacre the white
population was hatched in
Augusta by a black man named
Coot or CoCo in 1819 several
years before the Nat Turner
uprising.
Also, A.R. Johnson back in
the 19th century was the first
black person to teach in
Augusta.
McCoy will be conducting
oral interviews, looking
through works already
published which may mention
some black history, pursuing
old newspapers, real estate
deeds and wills.
He admits the job will be a
challenge. “But that’s what’s
going to make it interesting.
I’m very optimistic.”
McCoy will be getting aid
from local history professors
and the Historic Augusta
group.
1 f anyone has any
information or material that is
historically significant, they
should give him a call, he said.
“If you have anything
pertinent to my objective, old
newspapers, letters, anything,
let me know and I’ll be the
judge of whether it’s
significant,” he said.
McCoy can be reached at
Historic Augusta, Inc., 629’
Greene St., (404) 724-2324.
The research will not be
limited to Augusta, but will
include the surrounding area.
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James Brown
Zenas Sears, Allen Walden, and
Phil Walden. Nominated for
the memorial award are Duane
Allman, Johnny Mercer, Otis
Redding, and Chuck Willis.
September 6,1980
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Mrs. Rosa Ixmise Parks, “The Mother of the Civil
Rights Movement” (seated) shares a joyous moment
with finalists of the SCLC/WOMEN’S First National
Oratorical Contest during the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) 23rd Annual Convention
Awards Banquet in Cleveland recently. Ambassador
Andrew Young uiade the keynote address at the
banquet. SCLC President Dr. Joseph E. Lowery stands
next to the winner, Demetrius L. Kennedy, sponsored
by the Birmingham Chapter of SCLC. Lisa Williams (Ist
SCLC hails Rosa Parks
Atlanta-The Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) 23rd
Annual Convention Awards
Banquet Honoring Mrs. Rosa
Louise Parks, “The Mother of
the Civil Rights Movement,”
was a major highlight of the
SCLC convention.
More than 1,000 persons
attended the gala affair in
Cleveland, Ohio, at the
Cleveland Plaza Hotel,
Saturday, August 9th.
1980, is the 25th
Anniversary Year of the
historic movement sparked by
Mrs. Parks when she was
arrested and prosecuted by The
City of Montgomery, for her
refusal to give up her bus seat
to a white passenger.
Subsequently, the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, lead by SCLC’s
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TANQUERAY AWARD TO STRAWBERRY - Darryl Strawberry, 2nd left, shown above during a recent
gathering of sports buffs at Gallagher’s Restaurant in Manhattan, accepts the 1980 Tanqueray Achievement
Award for excellence in the field of amatuer sports from John Heilmann, left, president and chief executive
officer of Somersetimporters, Ltd. Looking on are Darryl’s mother, Mrs. Ruby Strawberry, and Joe
McDonald,Mets: vice president. Strawberry, now playing for the Mets’ Kingsport, Tenn., team in the rookie
Appalachian league, was honored for his outstanding career as star at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles.
As the number one choice in baseball's summer free agent draft, he was signed by the Mets recently for a
near-record bonus,
Augustan among
opera’s top stars
of past 25 years
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founder and first president,
The late Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.-lasting some
381 days, altered the destiny
of Black Americans in the
State of Alabama.
SCLC President, the Rev.
Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, pastor
of Atlanta’s Central United
Methodist Church, presented
Mrs. Parks with a special
Award, and SI,OOO from
SCLC. An additional SI,OOO
was given to her by Lowery
from the National Dental
Association, composed of
predominantly-Black dentists.
Said Dr. Lowery: “God
looked down in Montgomery
Alabama and saw an unusual
set of circumstances; he saw a
Baptist preacher-who had a
Ph.D. in his head, and a Ph.D.
in his heart; he saw a people
runner-up) sponsored by the Tallahassee, Florida
Chapter. Atlanta’s Shelby Thruman (2nd runner-up),
Mrs. Evelyn Lowery, Convenor-Coordinator of the
SCLC/WOMEN, and Dr. Claud Young, Vice-Chairman
of the SCLC Board. Young Kennedy gave a stirring talk
on the theme of the contest: “What The Civil Rights
Movement Means To Youth Today Their Role: Their
Future.” He received a SI,OOO scholarship. Photo by
Elaine Tomlin
who were tired of abuse from a
system of transportation and
he saw a site that was known as
the ‘C ■'die of the
Confederacy’, and decided
what better place could be the
cradle of a new kind of
democracy.”
Dr. Lowery continued, “But
he saw Rosa Parks-humble and
courageous, beautiful and
plain, and God in his own time
and way...with one stroke,
carved into history a woman
who sat down for dignity and
inspired millions to stand up
for justice.”
“Now I know the civil rights
movement is not dead, “Mrs.
Parks said, upon acceptance of
the various awards of
appreciation she had received,
“and it will not die,” she told
the banquet guests. “I tried to
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do what I could-at the place
and time 1 was.” Mrs. Parks
explained that she was tired of
the way Blacks were being
treated under the “yoke of
legally-enforced segregation,
the agony, suffering, and all
kinds of oppressive conditions”
that were peculiar to that era
of American history.
“I shall remember this very
beautiful moment.” she said.
Sharing the dais with
honoree Mrs. Parks,
Ambassador Andrew Young
gave a stirring address, that was
prefaced with remarks from
Congressman Walter Fauntroy,
who sang one of the songs on
his recently released album:
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford
presided during the banquet.
Lowery at
peace
meet in
Italy
Atlanta-Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)
President, Dr. Joseph E.
Lowery and his wife, Evelyn,
wfl] journey to Rimini, Italy
(on the Adriatic coast) August
25th through the 30th for the
1980 international Meeting of
Friendship Among the People,
sponsored by 11 Sabato
Magazine.
Dr. Lowery has been invited
by II Sabato Chief Editor,
Fiorenzo Tagliabue, to address
the gathering about his
experiences in the civil rights
movement.
The international meeting
will include musical
performances, sporting events,
concerts, a film festival and
more, all of which will focus
on peace and the rights of man.
Also expected to attend the
meeting are Mother Theresc of
Calcutta, East European and
Latin America"dissidents” and
a host of other “advocates of
peace.”
Augustan in
opera’s ‘best’
in 25 years
The Internationa] Record
and Tape Club of New York
has just released its list of the
“Best Opera of the Past 25
Years.”
Jessye Norman. the
Augusta-born soprano, ranked
prominently in the list. Miss
Norman who records
exclusively for Philips is on six
recordings. They include II
Corsaro by Verdi, Euryanthe
by Weber, Un Giorno di Regno
by Verdi, Marriage of Figaro
by Mozart, Schoenberg’s
Gurrelieder, and Haydn’s La
Vera Constanza.
The August issue of Opera
News magazine mentions Miss
Norman’s soon to be released
Brahms album.
Miss Norman’s schedule for
this fall includes appearances in
Belgium, England, Austria,
Germany, France,
Czechoslavakia, Denmark, and
Switzerland. In North America
Jessye Norman
she will sing in Cincinnati,
Novermber 14th and 15th; a
recital debut in Carnegie Hall,
New York on November 26th;
at the Kennedy Center in
Washington on November
29th; in Montreal on
November 30th; and three
appearances in Brooklyn, New
York December 5-7.
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