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FEBRUARY 5 - 11, 2015 VOL. 4 NO. 21 Kindergarten at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta ca. 1900

Workers of Ely Construction Company paving Broad Street, ca. 1922.

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UPW will be paying homage to Auguta’s rich history during the month of Februay.

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Augusta’s Black history is rich and colorful. Some of the nation’s ablest civil servants, entrepreneurs, sports figures, professionals and educators haunted the streets and institutions of early Augusta.

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Augusta Black History

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Junk dealer in horse drawn camera on Gwinett Street, ca.

1925.

Georgia Baptist Convention group in front of Thankful Baptist Church, ca.

1927

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Haines Institute

School Life

The young ladies of Haines Institute, ca. 1925

Haines Institute Football team, ca. 1927.

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Haines Institute, ca. 1929.

The Del-Mar

Farrier shoeing a horse at his Reynolds Street shop, 1914 Interior of the Del-Mar Luncheonette and Casino, ca. 1920.

Wm. H.J. Mays Funeral Home, ca. 1928

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Del-Mar Luncheonette and Casino, ca. 1920.

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In the heart of the Black Community

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Black Business in Augusta

Crim’s Ice Cream Parlor

Crim’s Ice Cream Parlor and Crim’s Service Station, ca. 1925

Check from the Penny Savings Loan & Investment Company, ca.

1926

National Beneficial Life Insurance Company, ca.

1925

Black boatmen crewing a Petesburg boat on the Augusta Canal, 1894

Pilgrim Health & Insurance Company

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Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company office, ca. 1925. The historic building was located on Gwinett (Laney-Walker Blvd.) and 12th Street.

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ilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company was started in 1898 and became one of America’s to 10 black-owned companies in the 1980s. The company was founded by

Mr. Walter Hornsby, Sr., General Manager and Mr. Solomon Walker, Owner, Pilgrim Health and life Insurance Company, ca. 1950.

W.S. Hornsby Sr. and Solomon Walker.

Throughout its history, Pilgrim was able to succeed where other black-ownedf insurance companies failed. During the 1950s, the Pilgrm

had assets of more than $10 million, had 25 brance offices in four states and more than $60 million of insurance in force.

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Entertainment

The Big Shows

Advertisement for Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy Big Band appearing at the Del Mar Casino on

Musical band believed to be Wilson’s Swing Band, ca. 1926

(Above) Entire cast of a traveling road show on stage, ca.

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Unknown entertaining troupe performing in tent theatre, ca. 1925.

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The Lenox Theatre

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istorically one of the premiere entertainment spots in Augusta’;s black Community, The Lenox Theatre was located in the 1100 block of Ninth Street (now James Brown Blvd.), just off Gwinnttt Street (now Laney-Walker Blvd.), as as such was part of the famous Golden Blocks district (an entertainment and business corsridor that ran along Ninth in the 1920s). The Lenox Theatre was built in 1921 and had a seating capacity of 780. The theatre was founded by local leaders George N. Stoney, a respected physician; John P.’waring Sr.,

Cinema advertisements at the Lenox Theatre, ca. 1927.

The interior of the Lenox Theatre, ca. 1927.

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On 9th Street

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The Lenox Theatre, Augusta’s premiere entertainment center on 9th Street near Gwinett, ca. 1927

a restaurant and bakery owner, John A. Norfleet, a postal employee; and William H. Wilburn, also a postal employee.

The Lenox cost some $100,000 to construct and open. Big Bands such as those of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway played under its roof. At the time of its construction, it was known as the finest Black theater in the South.

A TRIBUTE TO FRANK YERBY

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One of the most prolific AfricanAmerican writers, Frank Yerby is also the first African American to become a millionaire writing fiction.

orn September 5, 1916, to Rufus Garvin and Wilhelmina Yerby, Augusta, GA native Frank Yerby began his literary career as a writer of fiction protesting the marginalization of African-Americans in American -- particularly Southern -- society and ended his career, living a self-imposed exile in Madrid, Spain, as a best-selling author of historical-fiction. Frank Yerby’s early life was marked by racial conflict, a theme which would dominate his fiction. Though he identified himself as black, Yerby was the son of a racially mixed couple and, as a young man, found acceptance by either white or black society difficult; he explained to People magazine: When I was young, a bunch of us black kids would get in a fight with white kids and then I’d have to fight with a black kid who got on me for being so light.

After obtaining a B.A. in English at Paine College in 1937 and an M.A. in English at Fisk University in 1938, Yerby began teaching English at Florida A. & M. College (now Florida A. & M. University) in Tallahassee, Florida; and then moved to Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, where he taught for another year. Yerby quickly tired of teaching and felt constrained by the demands of academia, so he gave up his teaching career and began work with the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit which gave the time needed to concentrate on writing.

Yerby’s first published short story, “Health Card” (Harper’s Magazine, 1944), garnered critical attention and the O. Henry Memorial Award for best first short story. In “Health Card”, Yerby explored the emotional and psychological impact of racism on a young African-American soldier, whose young wife is assumed to be a prostitute by a group of white Military Policemen. Yerby dealt with similar issues in two more of his early stories, “White Magnolias” (Phylon, 1944) and “The Homecoming”. In each of these three stories, Frank Yerby explores the difficulties faced by African-Americans who want to transcend the negative stereotypes of blacks held by whites. Drawing upon his own youthful experiences, Yerby crafts African-American characters who are strong and intelligent, yet still held at the margins of society by the inability of the white characters they encounter to see beyond the stereo-

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typical views of blacks as illiterates, prostitutes, or servants.

Though his early short fiction was received well critically, Yerby was dismayed by its lack of commercial success. He’d hoped to reach out to the public through his fiction and expose the follies of segregation and racial stereotyping, but the public, he felt, wasn’t interested in what he was trying to say.

Yerby expressed his frustration thusly in an interview with Harper’s Magazine: The idea dawned on me that to continue to follow the route I had mapped out for myself was roughly analogous to shouting one’s head off in Mammoth Cave.

Disillusioned by the public’s lack of interest in his work, Yerby took a new direction in his writing career: instead of dealing with racial problems directly in serious short fiction pieces, he would explore ideas of race and identity in the form of the historical novel, which, he felt, would be more appealing to a wide audience.

Yerby’s move to the historical novel format and away from serious short fiction was not without controversy. Some critics felt that he was abandoning the cause of racial equality in order to achieve personal fame and fortune, yet they did not see that Yerby was still dealing with the same issues he’d dealt with before in stories like “Health Card” and “White Magnolias”, but that he was dealing with those issues in a new, more subtle way.

While his first historical novel, The Foxes of the Harrow (New York: Dial Press, 1947), did not win the same type of critical praise that his short stories garnered, it did gain a wide audience, as it became one of the best-selling novels of the l950s by selling over 2 million copies worldwide. Yerby continued to publish best selling historical novels -- most set in the Antebellum South, but some set in ancient Greece, Spain, the Near East, and Africa - throughout the next three decades. While not all of these novels dealt with the racial problems of American society, he continued to explore ideas of identity, ambition, and marginalization.

Disillusioned by the racial problems in America, Frank Yerby chose to relocate to Spain in 1955. He passed away in Madrid in 1991.

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Pastor Tonya James poses for a photo in front of the new location for El-Shaddai Worship Center International in west Augusta. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

A mother’s love and ministry inspires a new generation of spiritual leadership

By Michele A. Douglass “God told me, ‘If you take care of your mother, your latter will be greater than your former,’” Tonya LaVette James says. James is the pastor of El Shaddai International Worship Center in Martinez, Georgia.

So in 1988, when her mother, the late Evangelist Susan F. James, was diagnosed with Lupus, a chronic, autoimmune disease, Pastor James was by her side. She was the oldest of five children.

“I would help her put on her clothes because she was in so much pain,” recounted Pastor T. James. Then, she would work at the altar, praying for other people to be healed.”

By 2004, the damage from the Lupus began to intensify. Evangelist S. James had developed a liver ulcer and became severely ill. Doctors further discovered that her lungs, kidneys and heart also were damaged. They performed emer-

gency surgery to repair her organs, and during a biopsy of her kidneys, they cut too deeply and she began to hemorrhage. Suddenly, her heart and breathing stopped and she had to be resuscitated. After being hospitalized for more than 100 days, she was finally discharged, but required dialysis three times per week.

“At first, she couldn’t walk and was bedridden, so we [my family and I] had to help her rehabilitate completely, and she soon began to minister again,” Pastor T. James recalled.

Later that year, after her recovery, Evangelist S. James responded to the call to become an apostle. She founded El Shaddai Worship Center International and held services in the conference room of a local hotel.

“During that time, for 10 years, she mentored me. She trained me. She poured into my life. I knew that I was there for her because she was imparting,” Pastor T. James said about her

mother.

Last year, the elder James began to bleed profusely from the catheter that was placed in her arm for dialysis.

Despite their best efforts, the medical

team at the hospital could not stop the hemorrhaging and she died.

After her mother passed, Pastor T. James faced the most difficult decision of her life: What would be done about the church her mother had founded?

Although she had prepared her for pastorship, initially, Tonya James did not have the desire to fulfill the role.

“I was getting ready to shut it down and go. I told my dad, ‘I’m out of here.”

Her father replied, “But Tonya, I won’t go to anyone else’s church.”

It was then that Pastor T. James knew that her calling was bigger than herself. After prayerful consideration, she assumed the role of pastor and moved El Shaddai from the conference room of the hotel, to a church located on Oak Drive in Martinez, Ga. Within 15 months, the congregation had grown so much that the pastor’s office had to be used for the children on Sundays. “It was crowded. I knew it was time,” Pastor T. James said. During the first week of December of 2014, she moved El Shaddai again, to its more spacious location at 4015 F Washington Road in Martinez, Ga. While sitting in the new sanctuary of El Shaddai Worship Center International, Pastor T. James remembered her mother’s last words to her: “Tonya, hold my hand,” her mother said.

“While I was holding her hand, she looked at me. Her eyes looked tired and weary and seemed to speak to me saying: ‘let me go.’ I knew that she was dying and that she was passing the mantle on to me.”

Tonya L. James, took care of her mother, as God instructed. Going forward, she draws comfort from His promise to her, that the latter days will be better than the former.

El Shaddai Worship Center’s new sanctuary has allowed the ministry to continue growing. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

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The Zeta Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated launched their youth enrichment program, called A.S.C.E.N.D., Saturday. The program will serve as a mentoring program for high-school students in the Augusta area.

“We’re now launching new programs, but still centered in the same areas of education, family, health culture and the arts,” said Ella Springs Jones, the 16th South Atlantic Regional Director and Zeta Xi Omega member. “When each new International President comes into office, she brings her own program.”

A.S.C.E.N.D. is a part of a larger international program for AKA started by new International President, Dorothy Buckhanon Wilson. The theme of the four year program is “Launching New Dimensions of Service”. The program has five target areas. These areas are educational enrichment, health promotion, family strengthening, environmental ownership and global impact.

Other initiatives in the program are “Think HBCU” and “One Million Backpacks”.

“One of the things we have found in our community is that with African American students a lot of times they get lost in the shuffle,” said Sibea Lewis President of the Zeta Xi Omega Chapter. “Even if they’re students who have the potential, if they don’t have the right information, then they can take one path or the other. So our intention is to get the information to the kids, expose them to what their options are in the world and then prepare them for where they’re trying to get whatever their goals are.”

A.S.C.E.N.D. stands for Achievement, Self-Awareness, Communication, Engagement, Networking and Developmental skills. The goal of A.S.C.E.N.D. is to provide academic enrichment and life skills to local youth, said A.S.C.E.N.D. committee chair

Deneshia McClendon. The program homes, Jones said. The students Theatre and the Morris Museum also hopes to build a legacy through will be taking trips to the Lucy C. of Art during the year, McClendon Laney Museum, the Augusta Mini said. its students.

“I’m looking forward to the program,” parent Michael Sweeper said.

“I think it’s something very good for the community itself and for the high-school students. I think that’s Accredited and State Approved going to give them exposure and opportunities to do some things they normally wouldn’t see in their peer group. It’s a good opportunity (CNA) to get a foundation for moving forward to adult life.”

The A.S.C.E.N.D. program will 1755 Gordon Hwy, Suite E • Augusta, GA 30904 run through June of this year. The next cycle will begin in August and For Enrollment Information, end in May of 2016. There will be two more cycles before the end of Fax: (706) 736-0995 the “Launching New Dimensions of Visit www.tendercareschool.comcastbiz.net Service” theme in 2018. Each cycle will have a new group of students.

A.S.C.E.N.D. will have the option of being continued by the next International President that will be named at that time in 2018.

The kickoff event featured an introduction of the students to the A.S.C.E.N.D. program and each other. Members of the Zeta Xi Omega chapter were present to Patterson-Brown & Associates describe their various parts of the program and give students a preview of what to expect. Students and parents were also told what would be expected of them.

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Support Kayla’s Kidney Fund Timeless Events of Augusta, in partnership with local sponsors within the community, will host a Charity Bachelor / Bachelorette Auction on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at The Boathouse in Augusta, GA. The auction fundraiser goal is to provide funding for a kidney transplant for Kayla Waltower.

Kayla, who was diagnosed with chronic renal failure at the age of 13 and is in peritoneal dialysis at the age of 22, needs a kidney transplant.

Timeless Events hopes to raise $5,000 for Kayla’s Kidney Fund.

Sponsors are needed to help with donations and/ or items for the auction date packages. Sponsors will receive recognition at the event and throughout event promotions (i.e.: social media, press releases and the closing

Kayla Waltower ceremony program.)

The event will be emceed by iHeart Media’s Ms. Monique, and Atlanta’s Jason Carey. The Pre Valentine Bachelor / Bachelorette Auction taking place from 6 pm – 11 pm features a live auction where attendees can bid on dates and couples can bid on date packages donated by area businesses.

Packages may include

the following, ballroom dance lessons, dinner for two, spa services, theater / symphony experiences, golf, concert tickets, trolley/museum tours, and/or Augusta Aviation Aerial sunset tours.

A $40 VIP Package is available. It includes a private reception from 6 pm-7 pm, an open bar cocktail hour with bachelors & bachelorettes, and reserved seating for the auction. General admission tickets are $25 and can be purchased at all Maryland Fried Chicken locations, LaV’s Boutique, both locations of Pyramid Music, and online at kaylaskidney. eventbrite.com.

Please contact Charlotte Hill at (706) 267-6712 or Vontice Davis at 706-339-9618 for more information. Also, visit Timeless Events of Augusta on Facebook.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF RICHMOND COUNTY

INVITATION TO BID

Sealed proposals from contractors will be received for the Modifications and Renovations to T.W. Josey High School Project B-14-020-3756 by the County Board of Education of Richmond County at the address below until 3:00 p.m. local time, Thursday, February 26, 2015, at which time the bids will be publicly opened and read. No extension of the bidding period will be made.

A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. local time in the Media Center, T.W. Josey High School, 1701 15th Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901.

Drawings and project manual on this work may be examined at the Department of Maintenance and Facilities, Richmond County Board of Education, 1781 15th Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901.

Bidding documents may be obtained through the office of the architect: Holroyd & Associates, Architects, 929 Broad Street, Suite 200A, Augusta, Georgia 30901, (706) 724-6180. Applications for documents together with a refundable deposit of $400.00 per set should be filed promptly with the architect. Bidding material will be forwarded (shipping charges collect) as soon as possible. The full amount of deposit for one set will be refunded to each prime contractor who submits a bona fide bid upon return of such set in good condition within ten (10) days after date of opening bids. All other deposits will be refunded with deductions approximating cost of reproduction of documents upon return of same in good condition within ten (10) days after date of opening bid.

Contract, if awarded, will be on the low base bid or the low adjusted base bid should the Richmond County Board of Education (Owner) accept any or all additive alternates number one (1) through three (3). Alternates may be taken in any order by the Owner. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty-five (35) days after time has been called on the date of opening.

Bid must be accompanied by a bid bond in an amount not less than 5% of the base bid. Personal checks, certified checks, letters of credit, etc., are not acceptable. The successful bidder will be required to furnish performance and payment bonds in an amount equal to 100% of the contract price.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive technicalities and informalities.

BID LIST: The Richmond County Board of Education maintains a bid list for many categories that are let for bid each year. Contact Amy Bauman in the Business Office (706) 826-1298 or at baumaam@boe.richmond.k12.ga.us for additional information concerning the bid list.

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Black History Month Calendar Georgia Heritage Room Programs and Exhibit In honor of Black History Month, the Georgia Heritage Room of the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library will exhibit a collection of rare and antique books on AfricanAmerican 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.

Brown vs. Bd. of Education Panel Discussion Reese Library will host a discussion 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 segregation and those whose lives were transformed by school integration.

Parking will be free. For more information about this event, please contact Erin Prentiss at 706667-4912.

Antonio Machin & the Cuban Golden Era 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 jsandarg@ gru.edu.

9th Annual Heritage Gala and Silent Auction Saturday, February 7, 2015 • 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Augusta Marriott at The Convention Center Two Tenth Street Dinner Silent Auction Formal Attire/Black Tie Reservations are required.

Tickets must be purchased by January 23, 2015.

Tickets are $75/person or $550/Table of 8.

Gala Keynote Speaker: Reverend Herman “Skip” Mason, Jr., historian, author, PBS film consultant, and former Dean at both Morris Brown and Morehouse Colleges.

Rev. Herman “Skip” Mason, Jr. is the Senior Pastor of Historic” Mother” Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Augusta, Georgia. He is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, a graduate of Morris

Brown College, Atlanta University with a master’s degree in Library and Information Science concentrating in African American History.

He is currently enrolled at the Phillips School of Theology in the Master’s of Divinity program at the Interdenominational Theological Center and will graduate in May of 2015.

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SHERO awards seek nominatins The 9th Annual Shero Awards will be hosted by Cher’s Sisters Only Club on Sat. March 28 at Augusta’s Legends Club during Women’s History Month.

This annual recognition seeks to honor the outstanding accomplishments and selfless acts of women from throughout the CSRA. A Shero is a woman who recognizes a need and uses her time, talents and resources to do something about it. This year SOC has added a new category the “Young Shero.” This category will recognize a high school teenage girl who has overcome an obstacle, hardship or difficulty and triumphed.

Deadline for nominations is February 28th. The Shero Awards are sponsored in part by Nicholson Revell LLP. Women from across the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) will be honored in the following categories: Arts Business Community Service Faith & Spirituality Health & Social Services Law & Government Young Shero President’s Awards The Quincy Murphy Woman of Vision Award Woman of the Year

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