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Thursday PM, January 2, 1968
From: Community Relations Commission
1203 City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
BENNY T. SMITH NAMED FIELD REPRESENTATIVE FOR
COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION
Benny T. Smith, widely known community leader, has been named field
representative for the Atlanta Community Relations Commission and will
assume his new duties immediately. It was announced today by Nat Welch,
executive director for the Commission,
As field representative, Smith will head up CRC's expanded Town Hall
Meeting Program for 1969 and will act as a communications link between
the Neighborhoods and the Commission,
"We have expanded the scope of this position and are delighted to have
secured the services of such an able and experienced leader as Benny T.
Smith," stated Welch.
Smith was raised in Vine City and educated at Booker T. Washington
High School, Morris Brown College and the Blayton School of Accounting.
With funds he won on the national TV show, "Strike It Rich,'' in the mid
fifties, Smith opened and operated a dry cleaning firm in Vine City. He
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Benny T. Smith ,
later was the proprietor of a neighborhood grocery store in the Poole Creek
Community. Smith was subsequently employed by the U.S. Postal Data
Center and the Georgia Department of Labor where he played a key role in
the Jobmobile Program in cooperation with the National Alliance of Businessmen.
Smith was a prime mover in the organization of the Community Relations
Commission ast two and a half years ago. He helped organize the Price
and the the Pittsburgh EOA centers and the Model Cities Program. He isa
former vice president of the All Citizens Registration Committee, former
president of the Metropolitan Atlanta Grassroots Council, president of the
Southeast Community Council, board member of the Metropolitan Atlanta
Summit Leadership Congress, and former vice president of the Fourth
Ward Improvement Council. He served as chairman of the transportation
committee for the Poor People's Campaign to Washington.
CRC's new field representative has received awards for community service
and leadership from the Peoplestown Civic League, the Atlanta branch of
the NAACP, the Excelsior Knight Civic and Social Club, the Southeast
Community Council and the Veterans' Administration Hospital.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Wheat Street Baptist Church and Prince Hall
Masons. He resides at 209 Archcrest Drive.
Thursday PM, January 2, 1968
From: Community Relations Commission
1203 City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
BENNY T. SMITH NAMED FIELD REPRESENTATIVE FOR
COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION
Benny T. Smith, widely known community leader, has been named field
representative for the Atlanta Community Relations Commission and will
assume his new duties immediately. It was announced today by Nat Welch,
executive director for the Commission,
As field representative, Smith will head up CRC's expanded Town Hall
Meeting Program for 1969 and will act as a communications link between
the Neighborhoods and the Commission,
"We have expanded the scope of this position and are delighted to have
secured the services of such an able and experienced leader as Benny T.
Smith," stated Welch.
Smith was raised in Vine City and educated at Booker T. Washington
High School, Morris Brown College and the Blayton School of Accounting.
With funds he won on the national TV show, "Strike It Rich,'' in the mid
fifties, Smith opened and operated a dry cleaning firm in Vine City. He
Page 2
Press Release January 2, 1968
Benny T. Smith ,
later was the proprietor of a neighborhood grocery store in the Poole Creek
Community. Smith was subsequently employed by the U.S. Postal Data
Center and the Georgia Department of Labor where he played a key role in
the Jobmobile Program in cooperation with the National Alliance of Businessmen.
Smith was a prime mover in the organization of the Community Relations
Commission ast two and a half years ago. He helped organize the Price
and the the Pittsburgh EOA centers and the Model Cities Program. He isa
former vice president of the All Citizens Registration Committee, former
president of the Metropolitan Atlanta Grassroots Council, president of the
Southeast Community Council, board member of the Metropolitan Atlanta
Summit Leadership Congress, and former vice president of the Fourth
Ward Improvement Council. He served as chairman of the transportation
committee for the Poor People's Campaign to Washington.
CRC's new field representative has received awards for community service
and leadership from the Peoplestown Civic League, the Atlanta branch of
the NAACP, the Excelsior Knight Civic and Social Club, the Southeast
Community Council and the Veterans' Administration Hospital.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Wheat Street Baptist Church and Prince Hall
Masons. He resides at 209 Archcrest Drive.