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Makin’ a DifferenceJournalistKenton Makin
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FEBRUARY 12 - 18, 2015 VOL. 4 NO. 22
Black History Edition IIAugusta Black History Timeline
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LANEY-WALKER BLVDDr. Charles T. Walker preached at the Tabernacle Baptist Church.
C. T. Walker School is named after Dr. Charles T. Walker.
Ms. Lucy Craft Laney started the first school in Augusta for black children.
The Laney-Walker Walk of Fame, pictured above, is named after Dr. Charles T. Walker and Lucy C. Laney.
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James Brown and the Civil Rights Movement
Honeymoon. What honeymoon?By Frederick Benjamin Sr.UrbanProWeekly Political Analyst
AUGUSTAThe Augusta media “honeymoon”
with mayor Hardie Davis lasted all the way until Black History Month. The new mayor’s first six weeks in office, though uneventful, has shown that it will be mostly uphill from here.
Several failed initiatives, mostly sur-rounding his requests for doubled resources and an expanded physical office footprint, reveal that commis-sioners are in no mood to play “follow the leader.”
And now, recent news articles, edi-torials, as well as social media com-mentary show that the public has jumped off of the Davis bandwagon.
Davis appeared to be all to ready to play the “fair-haired” boy to the city’s rich and powerful. He appeared to have earned at least a wait-and-see attitude from the local right-wingers. In fact, it is probably safe to say that Davis had more vocal detractors from within the African-American commu-nity than from without.
But Davis started rubbing some folks the wrong way even before he
took the oath of office.He was opposed to reopening the
process of hiring a new city adminis-trator until he took office. Many inter-preted that as an attempt to influence the process.
Then, after the new administrator had been safely installed, he object-ed to her starting prior to January 1, 2015. Why? That’s anyone’s guess.
Then, while still mayor-elect, Davis appeared to throw his support to those who were lobbying for more power for the mayor’s office.
Once he took office, the chatter about charter revisions and wholesale legislative changes emanating from Atlanta began to circulate.
Davis is faced with a delicate bal-ancing act. He has appeal for the city’s right-wingers. Local conservatives feel that, given the choices, Davis is the man for the job. They have sense enough to know that Davis is enough of a maverick to have the capacity to get in there and knock some liberals back on their heels.
But wait, isn’t Davis a liberal? Perhaps. He’s kind of like Obama — who conservatives think is ultra liberal — but who really is a moderate
with liberal tendencies.What right-wingers are going to
learn about Davis is that he’s as bright as he is ambitious. And if they think they’re above being snookered, they just haven’t been paying attention.
What Davis will find out about the right-wingers is that they will support him only insofar as they see him as a reliable ally — someone willing to uphold their core principles of fiscal conservatism, lower taxes and elitism.
Try as he might, Davis may not be able to carry that much water.
Consider, that the current adminis-tration is about as far from right-wing core principles as one could imagine. Augusta is a liberal oasis in a sea of thinning red. The mayor of Augusta is
a standard bearer. Liberal city — lib-eral standard bearer?
Davis has got to establish his iden-tity one way or the other and let the chips fall where they may.
Many are hoping he will champion liberal initiatives.
Right-wing conservatives who now don the Republican mantle really believe in the notion of “Southern Conservative Exceptionalism.” In fact, that’s their world-view. If they could, they would run the world and if they get the opportunity, they will attempt to run Augusta.
For now, Davis has to dial back his insistence for more dollars. It just doesn’t didn’t sit too well with right-wingers — or liberals.
Mayor Hardie Davis has to establish his identity as a liberal champion
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Brown vs. Bd. of Education Panel
DiscussionReese Library will host a dis-
cussion titled “Brown vs. Board of Education: A Panel on School Segregation and Integration” on Wednesday, February 25, at the JSAC Coffeehouse from 6:30 to 8 p.m. A little over 60 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was illegal in the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Join us as we listen to the stories of African Americans who experienced school segrega-tion and those whose lives were transformed by school integra-tion. Parking will be free. For more information about this event, please contact Erin Prentiss at 706-667-4912.
In honor of Black History Month, the Georgia Heritage Room of the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library will exhibit a collec-tion of rare and antique books on African-American history from the Elvin Thompson collection. The exhibit will run through the month of February.
The Georgia Heritage Room will present “Overcoming Roadblocks in African-American Genealogy” with Elvin Thompson, local author and historian, on Tuesday, February 17, at 2 p.m. in the main auditorium
of the headquarters library. The program is free and open to the public.
The Georgia Heritage Room will also present “Slave Songs of Augusta” on Saturday, February 28, at 11 a.m. at the Headquarters Auditorium. The program will be presented by Robert Hester with musical accompaniment by Creative Impressions.
Call 706-826-1511 for more details on the programs or exhibit. The library is located at 823 Telfair Street.
Watch What You are Reading
The Headquarters Library at 823 Telfair Street will host a book discussion and screening of “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry on Tuesday, February 17. The book discussion will be held at 10 a.m. and the movie will air at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. This is part of the Winter Reading Program 2015 to read, watch and discuss. For more information, please call 706-821-2600.
HAPPENINGSCOMMUNITY
FLAIR will host “Antonio Machin & the Cuban Golden Era” with music by Julio Avila from North Augusta High School on Thursday, February 19, from 5-5:30 p.m. at the Allgood Hall of GRU Summerville campus, room E-254. The program is free. For more information, please contact Dr. Jana Sandarg at [email protected].
Black History Month CalendarGeorgia Heritage Room Programs and Exhibit
Antonio Machin & the Cuban Golden Era
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is hosting “Say It Loud!: James Brown and the Civil Rights Movement” exhibition through the end of February. The exhibition reflects on the political impact of the Godfather of Soul and examines the influences of Brown’s music on
an entire generation. It also high-lights many of the events of the civil rights movement as it occurred in Augusta. The museum is located at 1116 Phillips St. Admission is $5. For more information, visit the museum web site atwww.lucycraftlaneymuse-um.com.
JAMP PerformanceGRU will host a musical performance
by the James Brown Academy of Musik Pupils on Friday, Feb. 13, at the Terrace Café dining area in the Georgia Regents Medical Center, at noon.
Laney Museum will host a spe-cial presentation featuring the Honorable Judge Herbert Phipps on Thursday, Feb. 19, 6-8 p.m. Cost will be $5. Judge Phipps graduat-ed from the University of Virginia Law School with a Master of Law.
He joined the general practice of C.B. King, a firm that empha-sized civil rights litigation includ-ing school desegregation, voting rights, jury discrimination, student rights, police brutality and dis-criminatory employment practices.
Laney Museum of Black History
James Brown and the Civil Rights Movement
An Evening with Judge Herbert Phipps
Laney Museum will host a free book signing event with some of Augusta’s most prominent black authors on Sat., Feb. 21, at 1 p.m. Local and regional authors will include Dr.
Janaka Bowman-Lewis, Tia Capers, Dr. Jean Embry, Malaika Favorite, Rev. Charles Goodman III, Karen Jenkins, Kandyce Mack, Crystal Neal and Dr. Arlecia Simmons.
Laney Museum will host it’s Annual Historian Awards program on Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 5-8 p.m. Dr. Mallory Millender, former French professor and campus historian for
Paine College, will be honored. He continues a quest to uplift and pre-serve the city’s history by researching the historic institution. This event is free and open to the public.
Book signing by local black authors
Annual Historian Awards Program
GA Regents University
Elim Baptist Church will celebrate the 44th Annual Paine College Day on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 11: 00 AM. Paine College Day at Elim is a special occasion where the church provides spiritual and financial sup-port for the College. The speaker for this year’s occasion is Dr. Samuel Sullivan, Interim President of Paine College., and the theme is “Elim and Paine: More Than Conquerors through God’s Love”.
Elim Baptist Church is located on 2359 Mount Auburn Street in the Sand Hills Community.
Show Me What You Got Hair Show
GRU’s Black Student Union will present a Show Me What You Got hair show on Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre. The show will run 4:30 to 8 p.m. Ticket prices are $7 pre-show, $10 on Feb. 22. For more information, please call the PAT box office at 706-667-4100.
Cooking DemoSodexo will host a cooking demo at
the Terrace Cafe’s Magnolia/Dogwood Room on Friday, Feb. 27, at noon. The Terrace Café is on the second floor of the Georgia Regents Medical Center.
Barnes & NobleStory Time with Davis
Barnes & Noble will host Black History Month Story Time with Mayor Hardie Davis on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. at Augusta Mall. There will be cookies, arts and crafts available for children.
Elim Baptist Church
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5Sketch of early local black history Courtesy of Lillian Wan, exclusively for Urban Pro Weekly
1853 – The Augusta Fire Dept. roster and manual has a Feb. 1 entry of $15 for five “colored members” who may have been among the first black men to work for the Augusta F.D. A July 9 entry noted four “colored members” were paid $9.
1859 - The first Sunday School (a.k.a. Sabbath School) for black children in Georgia was organized at Springfield Baptist Church by William Jefferson White, even though such a school was forbidden by the slave codes.
1859 – Before Dec. 7, Augusta passed an ordi-nance where “no balls, dancing parties, fairs, sing-ing meetings or meetings for any other purpose of Negroes, except sitting up with the dead and funer-als” would be allowed unless on white property or with permission of a white person and the City Council. Curfew was set at 11 p.m. (time of 10 p.m. during winter.)
1860 – In January, the City Council voted to tax free blacks $20.
1862 – Cedar Grove, the only cemetery for blacks in Augusta, began a “Colored Report” in June that finally listed, at times, the following data of the deceased: Date of death, name, disease, age, gen-der, ward of residence and names of any masters. Beginning in June 1865, the deceased were listed as freedmen.
1865 – The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally estab-lished on March 3 as The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was set up as a federal agency education, living and other condi-tions between the freed slaves and former owners. It lasted through 1872.
1865 – Rev. W.P. Russell opened a free African school at 9th and Ellis Streets, address later listed as 912 Ellis St. It later went back to wagon operations as Lowrey Wagon Works at that location in 1866.
1865 – On May 7, soldiers of the 33rd Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry marched through Augusta streets to the Arsenal on the Hill with “drums beating and colors flying.” This federal occupation enforced the end of slavery locally which had offi-cially ended in Georgia on April 30. The Civil War officially ended all over after Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas on June 19, almost two and a half years after the official Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. June 19 is celebrated ever since as Juneteenth.
1865 – For the first “free” July 4th in Augusta, Lt. Col. Charles T. Trowbridge and the 33rd Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry led 4,000 blacks through the city. After the march, Rev. James Lynch, a prominent black minister from Savannah, spoke to a crowd of over 10,000.
Negroes for sale. Article from Augusta Chronicle, 1863
BLACKPROFESSIONALSGroup of early Paine College grad-uates including a missionary, two senior YMCA offi-cials, a minister, an Atlanta busi-nessman, three professors and two teachers.
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eekly • FEBRUARY 12 - 18, 20151865 - The Colored American was
founded in Augusta in October. As the first black newspaper in Georgia, it was to be a “vehicle for the diffusion of religious, political, and general intel-ligence.” The first editor was John T. Shuften, later a barber and lawyer
1865 - Zeke Williams was listed in city directories as Dr. Zeke or Dr. Zeke Williams, colored dentist, with an office address at 38 Campbell St. Per Dr. James Carter III, Zeke Williams was a dental materials salesman who was unlicensed to practice medicine. He was considered a Robin Hood who was followed by the law trying to shut down his practice.
1867 – Federal troops supervised voter registration in Augusta in July. 1,478 black men were enrolled compared to 1,030 white men.
1868 – Walker Baptist Association formed in the fall in a rural area of Burke County from seven churches, six of them under 10 years old: Ways Grove B.C. of Stellaville; Franklin Covenant B.C. of Hephzibah; Smith Grove B.C. of Noah; McKinne Branch of McBean; Hopeful B.C. of Burke County; and Springfield B.C. of Jefferson County. Named for Rev. Joseph T. Walker, an uncle of Rev. C.T. Walker.
1871 – Richmond County began its first Board of Education in January. During the first year, it began four pri-mary schools for blacks (eight white primary), three intermediate schools for blacks (four for whites) and one black grammar school (two for whites). (BOE history)
1871 – Augustus Roberson (A.R) Johnson, became the first black teacher certified in Georgia (he may have been certified back in 1869 or 1870). He was also the first black to obtain a second level teaching certificate, possibly at the age of 16. He was often referred to as the father of Negro education in Augusta with the nickname of “Fessa,” for pro-fessor.
1872 – Frances M. Dugas was listed as a cabinetmaker with Platt Brothers Furniture, Upholsterers and Undertakers at 212 and 214 Broad St. Dugas goes on later to start his own funeral home, noted for years as the oldest black-owned funeral home even before the 1888 start of Dent’s Undertaking Establishment.
1873 – Douglass Infantry (colored), Company “D” organized.
1876 – In August, the first recorded
lynching in Augusta took place when a Robert Williams, held in jail on an accu-sation of raping a white woman, was taken out of the jail by a group of men and shot. This was considered a part of the increasing hostility and violence towards blacks of the time.
1879 – Dr. George Davis began prac-ticing medicine in an office off 13th Street behind what is now the Sacred Heart Cultural Center. He is credited in city directories of the time as being the first black physician in Augusta. A Howard University graduate, he remained six or seven years until his offices were destroyed by fire. That same year, Dr. Alonzo C. McClennan was supposedly noted as the first black doctor in the city in Ed Cashin’s book on Springfield Baptist Church.
1880 – Ware High School, 1109 Reynolds St., was built as the first public black high school not only for Augusta but also for Georgia. Plans for the school
began as early as 1872, with educator William J. White considered a moving force for the school. The school opened Oct. 9 under the name of “Colored High School” but was renamed E.A. Ware High School after Edmund Asa Ware, a former Atlanta University president and Freedman’s Bureau officer. First princi-pal was Richard Robert Wright Sr.
1880 - Georgia Baptist Newspaper, 633 Ellis St., was a weekly paper found-ed in October by Dr. William Jefferson White. Starting month was listed as October. Terms: $1.50 per year.
1881 – Booker T. Washington spoke in Augusta in the spring.
1881 – John Hope took on work as a wine steward at Lexius Henson’s then three-story restaurant on Broad St. Hope was to take on working the books and accounting for the business so that the following year, he was listed in the city directory as a clerk.
1882 - Paine Institute, established in honor of Bishop Robert Paine, was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South based on the proposal of Lucius Henry Holsey, a former slave and later bishop with the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Date was Nov. 1, 1882. The institute was incorporated on June 19, 1883. First classes were in rented rooms at 1002 Broad Street, beginning on Jan. 2, 1884. A plaque was set at that corner to commemorate Paine’s beginning.
1883 - “Miss Laney’s School” was founded by Miss Lucy Craft Laney on Jan. 6 with no official name, beginning with five students. Classes were set up in the lecture room in the basement of the local Christ Presbyterian Church at the corner of 10th and Telfair Streets. It relocated to 505 Calhoun St. and was referred to as a Negro boarding school.
1884 – Rev. C.T. Walker and Prof. R.R. Wright organized The Augusta Sentinel as a weekly newspaper. The paper evolved into The Weekly Sentinel in 1888. After Wright left in 1891, Rev. E.K. Love became editor until 1892, when Silas Xavier Floyd served as editor. The paper “died a natural death” in 1896.
1884 – Augusta’s first black lawyer was Judson Whitlocke Lyons. After graduat-ing from Howard University, he began his law practice in November 1884 until 1898. His office was located at 633 Ellis St. Lyons was commissioned a Notary Public before Oct. 27, 1885, when the information was published. He married Jane Hope in 1890. She was 17 years younger than he. Lyons formed a law firm with Henry Moses Porter in 1896.
1885 – Cora A. Freeman was the first teacher Miss Lucy Laney hired for her school. She served only a short time before she died in August 1888 at the age of 26, during a time of fire, flood and typhoid fever at Haines. She was buried in the Hill cemetery. Her headstone was stolen in 1986 after a fire at the Laney home (per Laney Museum) and mysteri-ously found in Columbia County in late 2009, then later reinterred in 2011 in the Colored Summerville Cemetery at Fitten Street.
1886 - Amanda America Dickson Toomer, mulatto daughter of planter David Dickson and his slave Julia, inherited the bulk of her father’s estate, about $500,000 in value ($309,543 and 15,000 acres of land) in 1885 and became known as Hancock County’s
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largest property owner of the time. In 1886, she bought a home at 452 Telfair Street (now 448 Telfair St.) that was originally built in 1851. She resided at the house until her death on June 11, 1893, at 5 p.m. She was described as “the richest colored woman in Georgia” in 1893.
1886 – Paine College graduated its first class.
1887 – A number of colored men and women were preparing to per-form “Passion Play” in Summerville on Aug. 31, the anniversary of the 1886 earthquakes. Before they could begin, they were stopped by the marshal of Summerville who warned them that if they were to impersonate the savior, he would stop the show immediately. The Negroes had worked hard for weeks on the show, with about 50 actors, some from surrounding cities. Handsome costumes had been ordered. The dis-appointed actors ended up giving a variety show.
1888 - Dent’s Undertaking
Establishment was founded on February 10. It was the second black-owned funeral business in Augusta, after F.M. Dugas & Son, and
the second oldest black funeral home in the state of Georgia. It was found-ed by John Henry and Julia Dent in a wooden building on the corner of Ninth and Barnes streets. Mr. Dent was trained by white W. Edward Platt at Platt’s Funeral Home.
1888 - First Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, 2040 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (formerly Milledgeville Rd.) was organized on the first Sunday of July, on July 1, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reid. Under Rev. W.D. Morman’s administra-tion, the church purchased the current property. In 1924, the church was destroyed completely by a fire and the present building was constructed.
1889 – Physician/pharmacist Dr. George Sanford Burruss founded and served as president of Burruss Sanitarium for Blacks in Augusta, built at the corner of Ninth and Gwinnett Streets (now James Brown Blvd. and Laney-Walker Blvd. respectively, at 1201 9th St.) until 1908.
1890 – The first kindergarten class in Augusta, white or black, was held at Haines Institute. The kindergarten department was presided over by Miss Irene Smallwood of Canada.
1891 – The Lincoln League formed to sponsor the celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation every Jan. 1. Henry Stokes was treasurer from the time of founding until his death in October 1907
1891 - John Wesley Gilbert, emi-nent Greek scholar who was the first black student and first black graduate of Paine, was the first Black appoint-ed to the faculty at Paine College in 1891. Before his service as faculty, he had furthered his education at Brown University and at the American School of Classics in Athens, Greece.
1892 - Ten girls from Haines Institute became the city’s first nursing students in a building that had been a pest house, where people with contagious diseases were treated. The first teach-er was a Miss Virginia Bowden (or Borden?), a Canadian nurse sent for by Miss Laney.
1892 - Dr. Alice Woodby (later McKane), b. 1865, d. 1948, was the first Black female doctor in Augusta and the state of Georgia.
1896-97 – Teacher Mary McLeod Bethune taught at Haines Normal
and Industrial. She began a Sunday Mission School or Mission Rally and Temperance Meeting with children to teach them moral values. Bethune carried this Sunday community out-reach program to other cities she moved to.
1898 - James Edward Carter Sr. (1875-1955) became the first Black licensed dentist to practice in Augusta. He com-pleted his basic science classes at Paine College and was taught by two local dentists. Carter passed his Georgia Board examination and served two years as an apprentice
1898 – Judson W. Lyons was appoint-ed Register of the U.S. Treasury in March. He was only the second Negro person to hold that position and was succeeded by another Negro on June 14, 1906
1898 – Dr. Geo. S. Burruss applied to the Medical College of Georgia for per-mission to practice in Lamar Hospital when wanted by pay patients. The request was granted by Dr. Thos. D. Coleman, chairman of the hospital committee making Dr. Burruss the first colored physician to practice and per-form operations. (Afro-American, 4/9)
Blount’s Funeral Home, ca. 1929 A member of a local militia group
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Association organized on May 2 for $25 by Solomon W. Walker, the Rev. Thomas Jefferson Hornsby (uncle of Solomon Walker), Thomas J. Walker, Walter S. “Spurgeon” Hornsby, and J.C. Collier (later Dr. Collier).
1898 – National civil rights lead-er W.E.B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) appeared in Augusta on May 13 to speak on European civiliza-tion at Thankful Baptist Church.
1898 – Dr. W.T. Pritchett was practicing medicine in Augusta by this time. He may have become the city physician in 1899. (T)
1899 – The state adjutant general’s office disbanded all African-American military companies in Augusta on April 24.
1899 – Prof. Booker T. Washington of Tuskeegee, Ala. spoke at Thankful Baptist Church on Thurs., April 27. Rev. Charles T. Walker introduced him as the Moses of the colored race.
1899 – State Adjutant General’s office disbanded all African-American mili-tary companies in Augusta on April 24. There were at least six such com-panies in existence, including the 10th Infantry.
1901 – Atlanta hosted a civil service examination for mail carriers and clerks in the Atlanta Post Office in November. Graduates listed include Miss Lucy Laney, H.O. Flipper of Miss. (is this possibly Henry Ossian Flipper who was the first black graduate of West Point?) and several other graduates of Atlanta University.
1901 - The Augusta Echo, 427 Ninth St., was a weekly Black newspaper orga-nized in 1901. Edited by S.D. Walton.
1905 - Shiloh Orphanage was estab-lished at Calhoun St. (now Walton Way) by Rev. Gad S. Johnson under Shiloh Baptist Association as the then Shiloh Home for Children.
1905 – Miss Lucy Laney’s efforts resulted in Augusta’s city council pass-ing an ordinance against the dance halls, noted as dens of crime, in Nov.
1905 – Floyd’s Flowers by Rev. Dr. Silas Floyd was the rare first children’s book for African Americans.
1906 - Boggs Academy, a private academy for Blacks in Burke County,
south of Augusta near Keysville and Waynesboro, Ga., was established by John Phelps. It was the only school for African Americans in Burke County.
1906 - John McClinton “The Professor” Tutt began teaching at Haines in math-ematics and coached four sports. He also taught at Lucy Laney and Boggs Academy for a total 55-year teaching career. He was recognized as an out-standing figure in athletics and one of the best “officials.”
1907 – The Georgia-Carolina Fair Association asked the “leading colored men of Augusta” to sponsor Negro Day at the Fall Fair on Saturday, Nov. 9. The amount of $400 was assigned to the committee on Sept. 19 to use as prize awards and expenses for the day. The committee was to prepare and execute a program for the day. A crowd was predicted to number 10,000. Initial plans included an oration by Rev. C.T. Walker, a football game, a foot race, a horse race, a bicycle race and a mule race.
1908 – The first annual Negro Fair was held. The Georgia Negro Association filed a petition on Thurs., Aug. 6 with the clerk of the Richmond County Superior Court for charter. It formed officially as the Negro Fair Association which spon-sors an annual fair in November just after the city’s Georgia-Carolina Fair. Rev. Dr. C.T. Walker was president, Silas Floyd was secretary.
1908 – Judge/president-elect William Howard Taft wintered in Augusta for six weeks before his 1909 inauguration. He pleased black Augustans by making his first public appearance of his stay at Tabernacle Baptist Church on Jan. 17, 1909. The colored YMCA made plans
for that day. Taft also toured Haines Institute (on Jan. 19, 1909) and Shiloh Orphanage. Lucy Laney was called “Lion of the Day.”
1910 – Judson W. Lyons, former reg-istrar, was credited with influencing President William Howard Taft for urg-ing Congress for the passage of the bill to reimburse depositors of the ill-fated Freedman’s Bank.
1910 – Lucy Laney’s work had received commendation of President William Howard Taft.
1911 – Booker T. Washington was the honored speaker at Walker Baptist Institute on Monday, Feb. 6. Rev. Dr. C.T. Walker called him the “Moses of the Negro race.” His speech was reported in an article by Silas Floyd. After his speech, Washington ate at the home of Uriah Carr Sr. on Carrie Street before taking a 4 o’clock train to N.Y.
1912 - The Bethlehem Community Center, now at 1336 Conklin Ave., was founded by Mary De Bardeleben and the Methodist Episcopal South Church in December in a rented beer saloon on Campbell St. It became the first social settlement for Blacks sponsored by the Women of the Southern Methodist Church but was non-denominational for all activities.
1913 - Immaculate Conception, 1016 Laney-Walker Blvd. (formerly Gwinnett St.), began in Sept. when the African Mission Society, an order of priests who worked with poor black people, built and dedicated the school. A high school was set up in 1918. (School history) See entry under 1923. The school moved to 811 Telfair Street in 2009. The original building at Laney-Walker was torn down
in 2012 despite the historic significance.
1914 – The Augusta Echo opens in August with Rev. J.N Clay as editor. Nothing is found about previous history of paper by the same name that opened in 1901. Still surviving as of August 1917. Later data found: E.L. Simmons was list-ed as editor for 19 years as of 1933.
1915 - University Hospital, 1350 Walton Way, was established as a replacement for the City and Lamar Hospitals. It con-tained separate, but identical, wings for black (Lamar Wing) and white (Barrett Wing) patients. As the clinical extension of the University of Georgia Medical Department, the structure was named University Hospital. Dr. George Stoney was the first black doctor accorded hos-pital privileges.
1916 – The Plaindealer was announced as a new newspaper for African Americans, a successor for The Augusta Union. A.W. Wimberly was edi-tor and manager. Other office members were Dr. G.S. Burruss, Dr. A.N. Gordon, Dr. S.S. Johnson and Capt. J.W. Lyons.
1916 - The original building named as the Lenox Theatre was located at 1120 9th St., next to the Penny Savings Bank. As the only moving picture place for colored people, it was run by white owner Dudley C. Smith for three years to the fall of 1916, with a nickname of Air Dome, until the murder of an African-American boy near the theatre. After business fell off, Mr. Smith sold the theatre on Oct. 12 to the following black men: Dr. George N. Stoney, a well respected physician; John A. Norfleet, a postal employee; William H. Willborn, a postal employee; and R. Blark of Atlanta, owner and proprietor of the Auditorium Theater in Atlanta. Grand opening by the African-American owners took place on Oct. 16, Monday. Silas Floyd noted that the new owners cleared expenses during the first two weeks of owner-ship. Later, another owner included John P. Waring Sr., a restaurant and bak-ery owner.
1917 - The Augusta branch of the NAACP was founded in 1917. Lucy Laney’s home was the site of the first meeting to establish the Augusta chap-ter on February 9, Friday. The national office issued an executive authorization on March 12, 1917 and noted that when the group was “fully organized and actively engaged in the work of the NAACP,” then their application for char-ter would be considered by the Board of Directors. The group achieved offi-cial charter in 1918.
Backyard area of houses in 1200 block of Telfair St. ca. 1940
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Interview by Vincent Hobbs
Where did you attend school and what was your major? Tell us about your educational back-ground.
I attended Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Fla., to become, of all things, an engineer. In the early
going, I enjoyed it thoroughly and even had a chance to do an intern-ship at NASA in Langley, Va. As I got deeper into my major of computer engineering, I ultimately found that it wasn’t the career choice for me. That led me to journalism.
How did you become interested
“I want the show to inspire a sense of community. I always tell my listen-ers that I love them. I always say that ‘your problems are my problems, and vice-versa.’ That’s the definition of unity and togetherness.”
Kenton J. Makin is a familiar face and voice to many CSRA residents,
recently launching a new WKZK talk show centered on social and political issues, providing fresh insight into current events on the local and national level. Having previously worked as an associate editor at The Metro Courier weekly newspaper and as a sports writer for The Aiken Standard, Makin is now engaging the public on his own terms. His weekday talk show, “Makin’ A Difference”, is a two-hour host-listener-guest conversation on news, politics, sports, health and other interesting tidbits for the CSRA. UPW interviewed Makin to get some insight into his journalistic beginnings and to see how his
in journalism? I’ve always loved writing and other
general forms of expression. Long before I got into the realm of jour-nalism, I wrote a lot of poetry. As far as my professional start, I began as a freelance sports writer at The Aiken Standard and I parlayed that into a full-time position.
You are known as an avid sports fan and created a few sports blogs, and you have also contributed your writing skills to national forums such as “The Bleacher Report”, which is a Turner Sports property. What was the origin of your interest in writing about sports?
I really got into sports during the tail-end of middle school and the beginning of high school. Growing up, I played basketball around the neighborhood and in recreational
leagues. I always found sports to be a great way to network, fellowship, and ultimately to express myself. Not to mention, some of the most influ-ential figures in my adolescence were sports heroes such as Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
Did you always know that you wanted to be a radio host?
No, but during the time that I did the five-minute spots for WKZK (known as “The Gordon Report”), people in the community came up to me often and said they really enjoyed the information I provided, as well as my opinion. People encourage me by saying that I have a “great radio voice.” Taking all of these things into account, I really saw radio as a way to not only share my views in a dif-ferent medium, but also interact with
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Kenton Makin: Making Moves Photo by Vincent Hobbs
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the community in a new way.
What inspires you? Personal devotion, which expands
to my spirituality (believing in God and Christ). I’m getting married in May to my beautiful fiancée, Lauren Johnson, so the idea of starting a family is very inspiring to me as well. I love my family and communi-ty dearly. More recently, I have com-mitted myself to taking advantage of every opportunity that comes my way. As an individual in the media, I’m blessed with a great deal of ver-satility as a talk show host, a writer and a photographer. I don’t want to limit myself in any way, shape or form. I love the idea of being able to say something on the air that might change a person’s life.
What is one social issue that
you feel is priority for change in this country?
People really don’t talk enough about socioeconomics—the social science(s) that study how economics are affected and shaped by society. We often look at social issues solely from the viewpoint of race and we do ourselves a grave disservice. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. transitioned in his fight for social justice to directly attacking poverty and the factors that led to those conditions. We have to be honest with our-selves in regards to how poverty has shaped this country. We have to be honest about the racial wealth gap.
What is one community issue that should be priority in the CSRA?
There is a generation gap. I believe there are people my age—18 to
MAKIN from page 10 35—who have great ideas to “move Augusta forward”, but we don’t always have the resources to make our dreams a reality. Conversely, you have older Augustans with wealth and resources, but they don’t have innovative ideas. There needs to be a mix of both—21st-century ideas supported by funding and tempered by experience.
Now, about city government — I respect the Augusta Commission overall. Yet there are many people who have grown weary of them. Why? Because they are bound by decades-long tensions that are com-
pounded with a general lack of ideas.
What do you hope to achieve with “Makin’ A Difference”?
The show is versatile in its delivery - I talk about a lot of issues that peo-ple in the community care about. Yet I always encourage people to listen to the show. Why? Because life isn’t all about politics. Life isn’t all about health and wellness. Life isn’t all about sports. We are best served as balanced and spiritual people. What else can I say? That’s just my way to try to make a difference in the community.
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The question is as old as time itself. Cain’s indignant reply to God regarding the whereabouts of his brother, Abel, has become one of the most debated philosophical queries of mankind. In modern terms, it’s a question of social responsibility. How much individual culpability do you own in the overall success of our society? Does it truly take an entire village to raise one child? Or is it every man for himself?
In September 2014, President Obama unveiled the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Community Challenge. It is an initiative designed to encourage cities and municipalities to take a greater, more active role in ensuring success-ful outcomes for their youngest, often most vulnerable citizens. According to WhiteHouse.gov, the six stated goals of the MBK Challenge are as follows: (1) ensuring all children enter school cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally ready; (2) ensuring that all children read at grade level by third grade; (3) ensuring all youth graduate from high school; (4) ensuring all youth complete post-secondary educa-tion or training; (5) ensuring all youth out of school are employed; (6) ensur-
ing all youth remain safe from violent crime. To meet these ambitious goals will undoubtedly take some heavy lifting and several communities have already accepted the challenge.
Mayor Hardie Davis, Jr. and several concerned citizens accepted the MBK Challenge for Augusta on Thursday, January 29, 2015. Mayor Davis hosted a My Brother’s Keepers Summit to introduce the community to the MBK concept and begin the hard work of meeting the tasks at hand. The meet-ing was held at the Technical Career Magnet High School. Participants were divided up into six separate working groups (a group for each stated goal of MBK) to have roundtable discussions and make recommendations that will ultimately be a part of a larger action plan for the community. Critical con-versations began on January 29th; but the key question is will they continue?
The MBK initiative has no short-age of skeptics, critics, and naysayers. There are those who say that the task is simply too large and the goals are too lofty. There are those who will crit-icize the idea simply because it came from Obama. And there are those who
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The movie American Sniper is a box office phenomenon. Since its release, it has grossed over $200 million dollars. For a segment of America, it’s the right movie, at the right time, for the wrong reason. It’s the right movie for far right conserva-tives because it glorifies white violence against the followers of Islam.
Movie director Clint Eastwood has provided the ideal release for frustrated far right conservatives who have stored up anger against President Obama and the followers of Islam. For con-servatives, watching American Sniper is like a having a glorious one night stand.
Chris Kyle represents the hope every war-mongering far right conservative. For over two hours angry, Islam-phobic conservatives live vicariously through the character of Chris Kyle who they believe has the righteous authority to kill Islamic terrorists. They imagine themselves, not Kyle, pulling the trig-ger killing one Islamic terrorist after another. After two hours the thrill is gone and it’s back to the far right, impotent rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh.
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GRU’s Mallory Ferguson catches a fast pitch during the second game of a non-confer-ence double-header against Newberry College at Jaguar Field. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
GRU’s Hannah Wilson covers the infield during the second game of
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against Newberry College at Jaguar
Field. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
GRU’s Kristen Mills takes a swing during the second game of a double-header against Newberry College at Jaguar Field. Mills suffered a practice injury last year that caused the loss of her vision in her left eye. Following surgery and recovery, Mills was able to play in the season-open-ing game, facing her challenge of vision loss in the eye. The Diamond Jags defeat-ed the Lady Wolves 8-2 in the first game and 11-3 after five innings in the second game. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
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Local entrepreneurs Ramon and Bianca Brown along with their partner Allen Walker celebrated the grand opening of their newest retail business, De La Pop Gourmet Popcorn, in the Augusta Exchange Shopping Center.
De La Pop sells gourmet pop-corn, gourmet sodas, candies, and custom gifts. With more than 125 different flavors of popcorn available, De La Pop is truly a unique experience of fun, tasting, and bright colors. Flavors include Cookies-n-Cream, Red Velvet, Strawberry Cheesecake, and Spicy Buffalo. The gourmet sodas come in glass bottles and are just as diverse as the popcorn. These bot-tles are not available at any other location in the CSRA.
“My wife and I both love pop-corn” said Ramon Brown. “We came up with De La Pop as a way to build a vibrant business in Augusta
and at the same time share our love of popcorn with the community.”
The owners hosted a ribbon-cut-ting ceremony on Thursday, February 5, 2015. The new store is located at 1141 Agerton Lane (across from Regal Cinemas 20). Several members of the City Council, the Augusta Metro Chamber, the Columbia County Chamber and other special invited guests will be on hand for the ribbon cutting.
All of De La Pop’s popcorn is manufactured on-site. In addition to the retail operation, De La Pop also provides Corporate Gifting, Fundraising Programs, Online Ordering, Special Event Catering, and Personalized Promotional Items. De La Pop ships orders nationwide.
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The CSRA Business League will cel-ebrate 45 years of providing service to the CSRA, on Friday, March 27, 2015 at the Augusta Marriott Hotel at the Convention Center.
The Honorable Hardie Davis, Jr., will be the keynote speaker. Small
business owners and individuals around the CSRA will be presented with various awards and recognitions
The League will present the Harvey L. Johnson Small Business of the Year, the Henry H. Howard, a Women Entrepreneur of the Year award and
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