Oconee County, GA Politics

To reply, please use richrusk@charter.net Please Attend April 26 Moore's Ford Scholarship Banquet Dear folks,    Final call for attending our April 26 banquet. We've got at least 45 finalists and their guests coming, but we could use more Moore's Ford people to bear witness. We had 47 applications this year, a record number.    My apologies for running late with invitations. Have been busy with rentals this Spring and working on global climate change - a new focus for me.    But please know...the Moore's Ford Memorial Committee still lives. Our scholarship program is alive and growing.       In addition, at our May 12 meeting, we will review a proposal to co-host, with others, "The Gathering," yet another meeting of grass roots, memorial groups from around the country that have successfully revisited and memorialized their own histories of racial violence. This meeting will occur in Georgia. ...

Always been a big supporter of Moore's Ford Memorial Scholarships, and I believe you should be as well. Please consider sending them a sizable or small donation to continue to educate and support their efforts to show our recent history, warts and all. Oconee County is on the border of the infamous Walton County bridge where four African-American people were lynched by a white mob sixty some odd years ago. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Subject: support Moore's Ford scholarships Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:13:30 -0400 Please reply to richrusk@charter.net April 15, 2010 Dear Friends, Springtime has arrived and we are fundraising again - for our 11th Annual Moore's Ford Memorial Scholarship program. With our banquet only two weeks away, and dealing also with hard economic times and growth in our program, we send this annual appeal for donations. If you have already given what you can, please accept our thanks! The respected Moore's Ford Memorial ...

I am thankful for the many friends, and having my family here in Oconee County. I am thankful for the freedom to write what I want in this blog. I am thankful for a chance to raise my son in such a wonderful and safe place. I am thankful for the freedom to pedal bicycles on our streets. I am thankful for the police patrolling our neighborhoods. I am thankful for the waves and nods hello from the people in my subdivision and on the soccer fields and basketball courts. I am thankful for Krimson Kafe, Jittery Joe's and Publix. I am thankful for the excellent public schools like North Oconee and Oconee County High Schools, as well as private schools such as Athens Academy and Prince Avenue Christian schools. I am thankful for parents involved with their children's lives in a positive way. I am thankful for the people who read this blog. I am thankful for the folks who respond to my writing in an honest manner. I am thankful for the opportunity to present news, opinion, commen...

Son of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Rich Rusk just sent this letter collection of articles from the Walton Tribune newspaper: Dear Moore's Ford friends, In an April 5, page one story, the Walton Tribune published news that a letter from Walton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Kevin Little has "called for justice in the Moore's Ford lynching." "The proclamation is believed to be the first such action for any governing body in the county," wrote the Tribune. Managing Editor Brian Arrington also wrote a column calling upon other Walton County leaders to step up, and thanking Mr. Little for having done so. Both stories are attached below. This action came one week after our March 28 film screening/public forum in Monroe. Remember the name of our event? "When justice rolls down..." Folks, I am thinking of the hundreds of phone calls and emails over the years, personal visits and pleas, urging ...

This will be big - lots of press coverage and out-of-town guests, now including Alvin Sykes, who led the effort to secure congressional passage of the Emmett Till Bill. He is now seeking funding for the bill, which provides for investigating civil rights cold cases. The Walton County Dem’s are coming – hope you can make it too. Nice flier attached! – Cathi Watkins Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee FBI, Justice Dept. Officials, Ex-Klansman Seek Public Support in Solving Moore’s Ford Lynching of 1946 Feds, Locals Head for Monroe, GA to Re-invigorate Investigation On Saturday, March 28, key Justice Department and FBI officials are headed for Monroe, GA to meet with civic leaders and local residents and build public support for a 62 year old murder investigation. Beginning at 2 p.m. at the historic Monroe Community Center, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp will screen his one hour documentary, Murders in Black and White, on the Moore's Ford Lynching of July 25, 1946. On that day, a wh...

Rich Rusk has worked hard for Moore's Ford Memorial Committee. Go see his movies, if you can, even though they are being shown in Monroe in Walton County. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. From: richrusk@bellsouth.net To: ; Subject: SAVE THESE DATES - March 27-28 film screening/public forum Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:37:28 -0500 SAVE THESE DATES - MARCH 27 & 28   Dear folks,    This press release for our March 28 film screening/public forum in Monroe went to local news media today.    The Obama administration's Justice Dept. and FBI are going public with the Moore's Ford investigation.    Open attachment for better formatting.     Rich   P.S. Please do attend the March 27-28 events. On Friday, March 27, we host a "Meet and Greet" for our guests at the Monroe Community Center. Let's turn out and support this investigation.        Moore's Ford Memorial Committ...

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: best of the best on Obama's election Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:03:56 -0500 From: Rich Rusk <richrusk@bellsouth.net> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>   Dear Moores Ford friends...and special friends,    Janice and I continue to marvel over the impact that Barack Obama's election has had on our lives. We simply cannot get over it.    I have been reading voraciously since November 5 and have enclosed three articles and one cartoon - sent by my brother Dave - that had a special impact. The impact of Obama's election on Kenyans is especially fascinating.    To quote Garrison Keilor (see more below),   "The French junior minister for human rights said, 'On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes.'"    Our nex...