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Negro School Has Health Week ProgramLast wwk, the local school joined the other Negro schools in America in observance of the twenty-sixth annual National Negro Health Week.Monday, Miss Ruth Musgrove, a white missionary to Belgian Congo, spoke to the group on “Life in General.Other high points on our program during the week were: A lecture by Dr. C. U. Franklin, practicing Negro physician of Sherman, and a book review, “Up From Slavery, an autobiography of Booker T. Washington, by Mrs. D. S. Boyd.Winners of the health essay contest held Friday were as follows: Eighth grade, James Smith; seventh grade, Joe H. Conley; sixth grade, Evelyn Dellis; fifth grade, Collene Hamilton; fourth grade, Cathron Freeman.The likeness of Booker T. Washington, along with thirty-five other famous Americans appeared on a ten-cent postage stamp April 7, at all postoffices in America.This is the first time that a Negro has ever been honored in this way.It should be remembered that Washington was the originator of Negro Health Week and the Founder ! and president for many years of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.— M. D. Boyd, teacher.
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Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1940
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