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'IT CAN BE DONE' Racial Gai In· Atlanta \ · ,, § -~- "Now there is an atmosphere of freedom. You fe.el more

··like an individual . . . a man." This statement by Dr .. Benja• min Mays, president emeritus of. Morehouse College, reflects

Atlanta's progress in achieving racial · equality-the subject of '. a penetrating ABC :\ews documentary, " It Can Be Done." The 'special hour program in the network's Time for Americans series t will be broadcast on Thursday, July 3, at 10 p.m., in coil•r on .- ·WQXI-TV, Channel 11. Filmed entirely in Atlanta Allen in his discussion ·of a · during a ten week period this black mayor in Atlanta. ~ past spring, "It Can Be Done" is a candid examination of the But, " It Can Be Done" con-I city's gradually changing atti- firms that there is still much to tudes - the change in image be achieved. Cameras show the from one of the Confederacy to conditions existing in Vine City that of the liberal new South. as Rep. Julian Bond assesses Paul Jones is on vacation the problems of the members of his constituency. Bond takes his ' ABC cameras c o n t r a s t a own man on the street poll ask_ sparsely attended Ku Klux Klan ing people what they think of At,- parade in downtown Atlanta lanta. One citizen stated, "I , with the futuristic skyline of the think it"s one of the greatest cit- ; - city. ies on earth." BLACK AND WHITE , ., ABC news correspondent Mal Black leaders, in a round ··, Goode interviews A t I a n t a 's table discussion, provide a problack and white business, civic, vocative look at America's . and religious leaders on their white society and the problems ' efforts to break down social inherent in racial equality. Par. and economic barriers. Heard ticipating are the Rev. Samuel ! :are Mayor I v an Allen Jr.; Williams, professor of philosoState Rep. Julian Bond; Opie phy at Iorehouse College; Dr. Shelton, executive vice presi- Otis T. Smith, ·president of the dent of the Atlanta Chamber of Summit Leadership Conference; .:Commerce ; Richard Rich, pres- State Sen. Leroy Johnson, and ~ident of Rich's; A. H. Sterne, Lyndon Wade, executive direc;'president of the Trust Company to,r of the Atlanta Urban ~of Georgia ; Lonnie C. King, League. J head of the Atlanta chapter of , the NAACP; Bob Waymer, forNarrator Mal Goode, t~e mer director of Sum-Mee, an grandson of slaves, traces the - EOA ce,gt_~r,,; Herbert J enkins, Atlanta he has visited for the r1.rrnfuath1ef of Police; and the past 30 years, and attributes the -:c. .~Rev.. William Holmes Borders, city's evolution to former Mayor -:pastor of the Wheat Street Bap- William Hartsfield, journalist

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Ralph McGill, and Mayor Allen. ~ The differences which have 1 '.'.',fepeatedly distinguished Atlanta Lastly, Martin Luther King !"are appraised as well as the fu- Jr. is seen at a banquet honor• t u•re direction of the city. Chief ing his receiving of the Nobel ~Jenkins explai ns the workings I Prize, at which time he quoted of the Crime Pr~venti~n Bu- the words of an elderly Negro a-eau, a program m which all

Atlanta policemen train as preacher . . . "Lord, we ain't

+'community service officers" in what we ought to be. We ain't

. the black community. Opie Shel- what we want to be. We ain't \ ton dliscusses the total commit- what we gonna be. But, thank ~ment of the Atlanta business God, we ain't what we was." .community, and ABC points out ABC's material was partly the strong personal involvement based on WQXI-TV's award-winof Mayor Allen and the special ning summer series, "Atlanta pride that characterizes At- Responds," produced by assignlanta. ments editor Van Redmond. · - Particularly frank statements · are made by Calvin Craig, for- "It Can Be Done" was written •_µier United Klan Grand Dragon and produced for ABC New by · of the United 1.::lans of America, Arthur Holch. Photographer ~ho explains why he turned in was Chuck Pharris. Executive tis robes to work for the Model producer for Time for AmeriCities Program, and Mayor cans !s Stei:hen Fleischman . . '

'-......___ �. critical of the board's ability to communicate adequately with residents of economica!lly deprived neighborhoods. commumca uou a:; ui vc ,.uui,J to silence their critics, was p r e. pared by a citizens committee ~~mmumty s~hools, an ;frly being used this summer to staffed by EOA officials. I Joint venture, 1s one of the few prepare 44,000 snacks served to projects carried on by local SEEK_ UNDERSTA.l\"'DING .. · agencies after OEO (the federal economically deprived children tbe Special Summer Feeding . «n 1s EO!\'s role_iD staff c_iti- government's Office of Econom- in · 1 zens commrtt.e.. <>S without telling ic Opportw1ity) fundincr was re- Program. them what to think but to move moved." b There has been "good interthem toward more complete agency cooperation en a school· understand ing and consider aPar ham pointed out that the absente:eism project in the . tion of alternatives of action city school system has partici- Northwest P erry area," Par- _ open to them," Parham said. pated in the establishment of the ham said. He said tlhe school system has Details of t he report, com- Parent-Child Center a nd th e At, piled by the education subcom- lant'a Concentrated Employment always operated the Summer mittee of EOA's C"rtizens Cen- Program Training Cente r . Head Start program on a large · tral Advisory Cmmcil, wer_e He said the schools have con- scale and has made facilities published in the J ane 18 ~ 1- t.ributed to the summer r ecrea- available for VISTA tu torial . tions of The Atlanta Constitu- tion program and the Atlanta projects. tion.

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· "Only recently, space in the Wilen he released the report · Parham said 12 schools are old Pryor Street School was Tuesday, J"'ohn .'ff Calhoun, , who is a paid . official of E~A, made available to house the commented. that be has tried unsuccessfully for almost three Southside Child Development months to obtain permission to Center," P arham stated. present the subcommittee's rec- , He said it was his intention to olillJlendations to the s chool " r emove any implication from board. the J une 18 article that EOACalhoun, EOA's coordinator city school relationships were fotr community development, , negative." said residents of Mechanicsville Parham added that he was have- been waiting three years not " in any sense r epudiating . f.or a response to the Mechanicsthe honest work and feelings of ville ·Improvement Committee's our citizens commi ttee." J proposal for de.alirW with absenHe commented that "only as teeism in their schools. the community is aware of their Parham aid recommenda(the citizens of Atlanta) thoughts ti.an.s in the report were dis· and feelings can it make the cussed in May when subcomnut=' appropriate responses and actee members met with two commodations when necessary. members of the school board ' and "three top school administrators." ·The EOA executi.ve adminis- trator said the wu~ of the sub- I committee is supposed to "expand communication from rep- · ·resentatives of poor neighborhoods to sdlool officials and to increase mutual understanding." RESIGNED Parham, who resigned his post .with EOA Iast week, said the Atlanta chool syst6Il works •-v.ery positively and cooperatively with EOA 111 m a n y . areas." He said the development of �