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Black history program highlights influential Black figures
A B T U sponsored program at Lonoke Baptist Church presented Negro spirituals by the senior choir and a panel titled Negroes in religion and achievements in music, sports, education, and public life. Speakers cited leaders from Duke Ellington to Jackie Robinson and Mary McLeod Bethune, stressing faith and community uplift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.T.U
Lonoke Baptist Church
Harvey Washington
Leon Sullivan
Richard Allen
African Methoddist Church
Nannie Helen Burrow
Nannie Helen
Washington, D.C
W.D. Isaac
Baptist Young Peoples Union
The
Baptist Training Union
E.C. Morris
Joseph Booker
Arkansas Baptist College
Martin Luther King
Edna S. Conway
Dukellington
Louis’ Armstrong
Arrion Anderson
Shalia Jackson
Nat King
Ole
Montgomery Labome
Ethelaters
Cayce B. Smith
Am Malinal
Hall of Fame
Ack Johnson
Joe Lewis
Jackie Robinson
Roy Panella
Willie Mays
Larry Kie
Will Chamberlin
Bill Russell
Dr. Jay
Jessie Owens
Bob Hayes
O.J. Simpson
Jim Brown
Ophelia Gibson
Ash
Lee Evert
Ophelia Williams
Sean T. Washington
Lof
Tuskegee Institute
Alabama
Mary McCloud Bethune
School For Blacks
Robert Cliftoneaver
Charles Sohnson
Mary F. Berry
T.J. Lowe
Pineluff
Pine
Lowe
Howell, Wesson, Young
J.E. Coby
Walter White
P.R. Neal
B.T.U. Committee
C.G. Carmichael