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Black Music Month Feature: The INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM

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MAY 27 - JUNE 9, 2021 • VOL. 9 NO. 19

America’s ‘Sweethearts’: An All-Girl Band That Broke Racial Boundaries

Trumpeter Clora Bryant “Gal With A Horn”

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Agriculture secretary visits SC to tout new loan payment program for minority farmers ROWESVILLE Agriculture secretary visits SC to tout new loan payment program for minority farmers The country’s top agriculture official visited a family farm in Orangeburg County as the federal government begins to roll out a new debt forgiveness program aimed at helping socially disadvantaged Black and minority farmers.

U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speak to Black farmers during a visit to Nathaniel Rhodes’ farm in Rowesville on Monday, May 24, 2021. Jamie Lovegrove/Staff As part of the $1.9 trillion economic relief package Congress passed in March, lawmakers approved a $4 billion initiative for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make debt relief payments for about 13,000 loans issued by the agency to minority farmers.

At the invitation of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D - Columbia, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack came to Rowesville May 24 to meet with Black farmers in the community and update them on the program, which is slated to begin doling out payments in early June.

Local farmers do not know how much they will get.

“This loan will help me for some of things I have already spent my personal money on and things I would like to do on the farm in the future to help my

U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speak to Black farmers during a visit to Nathaniel Rhodes’ farm in Rowesville on Monday, May 24, 2021. children to grow,” Rhodes said. bill Monday.

Vilsack explained the government Vilsack said the banks are getting relief will cover direct USDA loans or a prepayment penalty to reimburse loans from banks that guarantee the them for any loss they may experience USDA loans. from the loans being paid off early.

The money can be used to pay for “They will also be able to lend the farm operations and to pay down money out again,” Vilsack said. “The farm mortgages. interest rate may be higher this time In an op-ed piece published Friday than the loan they just got paid off.” in USA Today, Vilsack called the debt Vilsack also defended the bill against relief a “major civil rights victory,” say- those who would argue it represents ing it responds to systemic discrimina- reverse discrimination. tion perpetrated against farmers and “It is very targeted and it is very ranchers of color. specific,” Vilsack said. “It addresses White farmers have sued to stop the the disparity between white farmers initiative, claiming reverse discrimina- who received a tremendous amount tion, and three major banking groups of money during the COVID relief claim the effort will undercut their situation and socially disadvantaged profits and risk future loans, according producers who received, relatively to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. speaking, very, very little.”

Vilsack and Clyburn defended the He said socially disadvantaged farm-

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“This is really designed to begin the process of reducing that gap,” Vilsack said.

Clyburn said he served on bank boards for about 12 years.

“I know what this is all about,” he said. “I think it is more about headlines than what the real concerns are.”

He said, “The bankers I know don’t have any real problems with that.

Once they read the law and see that they are taken care of, I think they will be fine.”

“This is to right a wrong,” Clyburn continued. “The greatness of this county is not that we are more enlightened than any other nation, but because we have always been able to repair our faults. We are here today trying to demonstrate why this country is so great.”

Orangeburg farmer Leroy Richardson grows corn, soybeans and oats. He has been a farmer part-time for the last 30 years and full-time the last two years.

He got a loan from the USDA to buy a 2014 New Holland tractor for about $35,000. He says he has made his first payment in January, but he says the red tape is a burden.

“There is a lot of paperwork required,” he said. “There is a lot of history that is required and a lot of folks, before they do all the paperwork, they go elsewhere.”

The bill would mean a simple thing, he said. “This bill would probably mean that I would pay my loan back.”

“I would be able to reinvest in more equipment and grow,” he said.

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On this day (5/25/21) one-year ago, America and the entire world watched as George Floyd was murdered by a public servant who swore to serve and protect the community. Floyd, a father, son, brother, friend, and more importantly, a human being, despite repeatedly crying out for help, and in clear distress, was killed with a knee pressed into his neck for nine minutes and twenty-six seconds.

My heart goes out to Gianna and the entire Floyd family, and I will continue to pray for their strength and healing. I cannot begin to imagine the horror of watching your loved one summarily executed in front of the world.

This tragedy, recorded on video and shared

across multiple platforms, gave the world a glimpse into the enormity of what many Black Americans endure on an all too alarming basis at the hands of law enforcement. Americans, locked in their homes to avoid spreading a deadly virus, were forced to bear witness to Black America’s reality.

As we mark the one year anniversary of this devastating moment in American history, we have an obligation to ensure that the law enforcement practices and mentality that guide our law enforcement officers are better than the ones that contributed to George Floyd’s death. We have a duty as public servants to repair the broken relationship and build trust in communities that have historically been the

One more year before Juneteenth becomes official county holiday AUGUSTA Although June 19 is fast approaching, city workers will have to wait another year before they can take the day off. Last year, the Richmond County commissioners voted to approve June 19 as a county holiday beginning in June 2022.

Juneteeth is the oldest-known celebration that honors the end of slavery in the United

target of police injustice. We have a responsibility to remove and punish law enforcement officers who act as judge, jury, and executioner. That is why I urge congress to pass, and send to President Biden’s desk, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. America has come a long way for such a young nation, however, we cannot rest on our laurels. The linchpin to our very foundation is the idea of all Americans being created equal. Regardless of race, class, gender, religion, or profession, it is far past time that our actions reflect our ideals. ­­ — Mayor Hardie Davis Jr.

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States. On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

Last year, Juneteenth took on greater significance, amid a national reckoning about race, racism and police violence. However, it has not been designated as a federal holiday.

Paine to offer Free Math and Science Summer Enrichment Program for HS grads and Grades 9-12

Augusta Commission votes to hire Antonio Burden as Fire Chief

George Bailey retires after 22-year run as Richmond County Athletic Director

The Paine College Department of Mathematics, Sciences and Technology announced that it will offer the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) starting June 14, 2021 and ending July 13, 2021. The deadline to register is June 4, 2021. The Paine MSEIP is targeted for graduating high school seniors and students who are enrolled in grades 9-12. Interested participants may access the Application to Register by visiting www. paine.edu. Although registration is free, participants will receive a stipend of $1,000 upon successfully completing the four-week program that will be delivered in a virtual environment.

This summer enrichment program is

The Augusta Commission voted this week to hire Antonio Burden, a deputy chief in DeKalb County, as Augusta’s new fire chief.

On a motion from Commissioner Sammie Sias, the vote was 6-3-1 to authorize Administrator Odie Donald to negotiate a salar y, benefits and other details with Burden. Commissioners Catherine Smith McKnight, John Clarke and Brandon Garrett were opposed.

George Bailey began working in the Richmond County Board of Education in 1977.

Early in his coaching career in Richmond County, Bailey started at Sego Middle School and Hephzibah High School, coaching girls track at both schools, basketball at Sego and coaching the JV girls basketball team and tennis team at Hephzibah.

Before he became a coach, he went to college on a tennis scholarship.

made possible by the U.S. Department of Education. Students will gain training in mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and will be exposed to introductory concepts in chemistry and biology. The program will help to enhance students’ algebraic and technological skills while facilitating interaction with mathematics and science faculty. Participants will depart the summer program with heightened confidence and knowledge about STEM-related careers.

For more information, the public may contact the Office of Communications and Marketing at 706.821.8323, Hcarter@ paine.edu, or contact the Department of Mathematics, Sciences and Technology at Ssonne@paine.edu.

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Greater Augusta Arts Council to receive $20,000 from the NEA The Greater Augusta Arts Council has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support Second Saturday Art Walk.

This project will activate the Augusta Sculpture Trail and provide new and exciting public art activities in downtown Augusta. The Greater Augusta Arts Council’s project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America totaling nearly $27 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2021 funding.

“As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment for the Arts is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as The Greater Augusta Arts Council reengage fully with partners and audiences,” said NEA Acting Chairman Ann Eilers.

“Although the arts have sustained many during the pandemic, the chance to gather with one another and share arts experiences is its own necessity and pleasure.”

“The Greater Augusta Arts Council is pleased to have won this very competitive grant. As our Community emerges from the Pandemic, we are happy to have programmed the City of Augusta’s outdoor celebration of Public Art,” said the Arts Council’s Executive Director, Brenda Durant.

“The NEA-funded monthly Sculpture Trail activations programmed by Coco Rubio are a perfect addition to the virtual guide from Otocast with scavenger hunts designed bring the arts to everyone in our City.”

The purpose of the Second Saturday Art Walk is to support a series of public art events and music performances at Augusta Sculpture Trail sites throughout downtown Augusta, Georgia. The first concert will be held Saturday June 12th at the Augusta Riverwalk “River Stage” near the 8th Street bulkhead where two of the Sculpture Trail sculptures are located.

For more information on the projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/ news.

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Black Music Month Feature: The INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM

An All-Girl Orchestra that broke racial boundaries ANNA MAE WINBURN

By John McDonough In the 1940s, when war and the draft dealt a crippling blow to many of the best big bands, there was one the draft couldn’t touch: the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. But few critics could bring themselves to take an all-female band seriously, so they were largely overlooked by the press.

In the 1940s, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm fought a two-front war: gender on one side, Jim Crow on the other.

When they were rediscovered by academics in the ‘70s and ‘80s, it was not in music programs but Women’s Studies departments, where they were more important as political symbols than working musicians.

To the Sweethearts, however, it was always about the music. For nearly a decade, these 17 ladies crisscrossed America by sleeper bus, generating excitement and often breaking records set by the big name man-bands.

vocational school there primarily for young black children and teens and wanted to raise money by forming a student swing band.

Jones’ daughter, Helen Jones Woods, She was not only was a member of the band and remema member of one bers the beginning. “My father was very of the rare allinterested in music,” recalls Woods, female jazz bands who says the idea for the Sweethearts in the genre’s was sparked by Phil Spitalny and His history, she was All-Girl Orchestra, a white ensemble the leader of the working at the time. “My father heard outfit as well -the band over the radio one time and said, ‘I’ve got a lot of girls here. Maybe promoting her to the incredibly rare I could start myself an all-girl band.’ “ One of the original members was status of a female Willie Mae Wong, whose Chinese jazz bandleader. ancestry helped give the band an “interThe International national” look, along with two young Sweethearts of women from Hawaii and Mexico. Seen Rhythm was through the peculiar lens of 1940s formed as a result Mississippi law, Wong wasn’t out of and became a place in a largely black orchestra — popular group, her Chinese face was as nonwhite as a boasting excellent black one. For the moment, then, the Sweethearts were able to evade the charts by Jesse social consequences of race mixing Stone and Eddie and the arm of Jim Crow.

Durham.

In 1941, however, the Sweethearts But sex cut two ways: Audiences saw ful of recordings survive, most from turned pro. New talent was brought women and expected a novelty, not a Armed Forces radio broadcasts. in, including two white players. One jazz band. Today the Sweethearts’ The Sweethearts began in the rural of them, saxophonist Rosalind Cron, footprint in music history is as petite junction of Piney Woods, Miss., in says she was hardly noticed in cities as Snow White’s slipper. Just a hand- 1937. Lawrence Jones had founded a like New York and Chicago — but in the Deep South her presence was criminal.

“We got to Baltimore and I asked Millie Jones, who was part American Indian, part black, if she’d like to go downtown on a bus with me to window shop,” recalls Cron. The two stopped into Woolworth’s for a soda, and found they couldn’t get service. “ I said to Millie, ‘I’m just going to stop this waitress and find out why she’s ignoring us,’ “ says Cron. “She got very excited and jumped up and ran up those stairs. She was really frightened.”

Later. the road manager explained the facts of life in the South. “They called me in and explained that Jim Crow was a series of rules and laws, and explained what life was going to be like from now on,” says Cron.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm band, including Tiny Davis on trum- The crew offered her the option of pet and Vi Birdside on tenor saxophone, on stage in Hill City Auditorium going home, but she resolved to stay the course. “After that Baltimore epi(Savoy Ballroom). Photo by “Teenie” Harris; Date:c. 1942-1946

sode, I made up my mind then and there,” she says. “I wasn’t going to back down.”

White women enjoyed a privileged place in Southern values — to choose to work with blacks was to reject that privilege and the values it represented.

In the code of Jim Crow, Cron was a traitor to her race. She survived the sheriff by keeping a low profile, and occasionally using makeup to pass as black. “I would either know, understand and learn how to live as a black girl, or I could go home,” says Cron.

“Everybody knew this was dangerous territory.”

There was no need for makeup in the summer of 1945. The Sweethearts played to cheering audiences, white and black, in Paris and occupied Germany — the high mark of their history. The original band broke up in 1949. Years later, another great bandleader, Earl Hines, called the International Sweethearts of Rhythm “the first freedom riders.”

Clora Bryant, trumpeter — Dizzy Gillespie

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I auditioned on piano and was accepted to the high school of music and art in NYC ( Now known as the Fiorello LaGuardia school of the arts) . Back then they transitioned pianists to a band or orchestra instrument.

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Clora Bryant, a trumpeter who was widely considered one of the finest jazz musicians on the West Coast — but who ran into gender-based limitations on how famous she could become. She died in Los Angeles in 2019. She was 92.

A self-described “trumpetiste,” Ms. Bryant came of age in the 1940s, aligning herself with the emerging bebop movement. But she never lost the brawny elocution and gregarious air of a classic big-band player, even as she became a fixture of Los Angeles’s modern jazz scene.

In 1946 Ms. Bryant joined the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the country’s leading all-female swing ensemble, where she was a featured soloist. (Jazz bands led by women had become popular during World War II, and many of these ensembles continued to thrive for years afterward.)

Soon after, she joined the Queens of Rhythm, another large group. When its drummer left, she learned drums to fill the role. A crowd-pleaser, she sometimes played trumpet with one hand while drumming with the other.

Throughout much of the 1950s she regularly led jam sessions around Los Angeles. She also played in the house band at the Alabam, where she backed up visiting stars like Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker. She moved to New York for a brief time but soon returned to Los Angeles, where she would stay for the rest of her life, remaining a well-known performer and a mentor to younger musicians.

Often faced with sexist discrimination, without support from a major record label or an agent, Ms. Bryant did not come forth as a bandleader until middle age. By that point the jazz mainstream had moved on to fusion, a style she never embraced.

And even when jazz history became a subject of major academic concern in the late 1970s and ’80s, she was rarely celebrated at the level of her male counterparts, who had enjoyed greater support throughout their careers.

But among themselves, those same

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“If you close your eyes, you’ll say it’s a man playing,” ­

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musicians often recognized her virtuosity, and she played with many of them. Dizzy Gillespie, an inventor of bebop, found himself dazzled upon first hearing her in the mid1950s, and took to calling her his protégé.

“If you close your eyes, you’ll say it’s a man playing,” Gillespie said in an interview for “Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant,” a documentary directed by Zeinabu Davis. (He apparently intended it as a compliment.) “She has the feeling of the trumpet. The feeling, not just the notes.”

Ms. Bryant retired from playing trumpet in the 1990s after suffering a heart attack and undergoing quadruple bypass surgery. She committed herself to preserving and passing on jazz’s legacy, giving lectures at colleges and universities, working with children in grade schools around Los Angeles and coediting a book on Los Angeles jazz history.

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Organization looks to create community gardens

Community Guardians is an ing their community to be better. organization dedicated to creating An investor, Vetted Investments, has socially responsible youth commu- agreed to match donations dollar nity leaders, ages 8-22, by helping for dollar to purchase and clear them to find their voice, use their the land and to purchase materials gifts and develop skills that they and equipment to start the garden. can utilize for things they find Whether $1 or $1000, every dollar counts. All donors at $500 and above interest in around Augusta.

Under the leadership of District will be listed as a founding member.

1 School Board Trustee Shawnda To get involved or to get your youth Kettles, Community Guardians’ involved, email communityguardinitial project is purchasing land iansaug@gmail.com.

To donate, visit https://gofund. and creating a community garden co-op in the East Augusta commu- me/6a0895b1 nity.

The East Augusta community has a very limited availability of healthy, affordable fruits, vegetables and flowers. There are no grocery stores, but there is an abundance of convenience stores, dollar stores and fast-food restaurants.

Blight is also a problem, with abanAUGUSTA doned buildings, vacant and overThe Friedman Branch Library, locat•Advisory Board for Augusta African grown lots a common sight. ed at 1447 Jackson Road, Augusta, GA American Society This community garden proj•Board of Zoning Appeals ect is a 2-n-1 solution that will will be closed to the public starting •Talented Tenth create three experiences for Monday, June 7, 2021 for renovations •Board Member, Greater Augusta Arts our youth ages 8-22: (1) grow- to the building. The renovations will Council ing their own food, (2) running consist of updated restrooms with •Agent Advisory Board for eXp Realty their own business and (3) help- new finish, lighting and signage, a children’s area, new carpet and paint, LED lighting panels and an updated meeting space. The Friedman Branch Library will remain closed through Saturday, October 30, 2021, when they are expected to tentatively reopen.

BUILDING AN EQUITABLE AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY Please do not return items in the . . . THROUGH HEALING, RECONCILIATION, AND UNITY book drop while the Friedman Branch Michael J. Gallucci, a retired act as a two-way conduit between to building a way that seeks a mean- Library is closed. No staff will be in the Command Sergeants Major and the public and the Commissioners. ingful and thoughtful way to heal the building to process your items. You Veteran of 35 years, is calling on the It further recommends membership wounds of our past, reconcile the may drop off materials at any of our Commission to pass and adopt his in the Government Alliance on Race differences of our present, and unify other five Augusta-Richmond County resolution which calls for acknowl- and Equity — a national network that around the path forward toward a Public Library System (ARCPLS) locaedging the struggles faced daily by assists communities in their efforts to future hope for all our residents and tions. The nearest locations to the the African American community move closer to racial equity. for future generations. They see this Friedman Branch are the Appleby and other communities of people of At the time, the commission chose resolution as not just a s a statement, Branch Library (2260 Walton Way, color. The resolution would have the to simply “accept the resolution as but a declaration of the Commissions’ Augusta, GA) and Maxwell Branch (1927 Lumpkin Rd, Augusta, GA).

Commissioners commit to a position information.” Gallucci vowed that commitment to racial equity.

Don’t forget!

The Augusta insuring equity now and into the he would return with a coalition of Gallucci and supporters of this future. Not only a statement of action individuals and organizations which resolution will be holding a press Richmond County Library System but a declaration of who and what worked to “refine” the resolution conference on June 1, 2021 In offers many digital services including: Augusta will strive to be- in support and to garner support. He, and his the Beazley Room located at the access to downloadable e-Books and of One Augusta. Gallucci presented supporters hope to present the reso- Augusta-Richmond County Municipal Audiobooks, the Augusta Chronicle the resolution to the commission ear- lution once again at the commissions Building, 535 Telfair Street, at 1230. Archives, GALILEO databases, Gale lier this year. first June meeting.

This will be just their appearance at Testing and Education Center, and The resolution provides for the Gallucci and his supporters see the Commissioners public meeting more! Access these at www.arcpls. org. creation of a “council” that would this resolution as a key component on the same date.

Veteran to offer a resolution which asks city to ensure “equity for communities of color”

Friedman Branch Library closing for renovations

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