Founder Fulfills Promise at Sand Springs Home
LAND SPRINGS Okla AP Charles Page promised to care for his widowed mother and other mothers and poor children. He founded the Widows Colony and Sand Springs Home in 1908. Today 80 families live in rent free houses with milk, groceries, medical help, and support. The facility houses mostly working mothers and their children, with education and care continuing until children are grown.
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Land Springs
Okla
Charles Page
Widows Colony
Sand Springs
Tulsa
Mary Johnson
Pentacostal
Page
Mammoth Cave Catalogs 165 Miles of Explored Tunnels
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the world’s longest cave system, has 165 miles of explored tunnels. The site drew 1,922,000 visitors in 1976, while National Geographic notes that about 59 percent of the 2.8 million farm workers that year were aged 14 to 25.
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Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
National Geographic
Amistad Center Preserves Minorities History at Dillard
In New Orleans, the Amistad Research Center at Dillard University preserves eight million pieces in 4,000 acid free boxes. The collection, the nation’s largest for minority history, stems from papers on the 1830 Amistad defense and includes works by Countee Cullen and Frederick Douglass. Archivist Florence Borders notes half are processed. The center, moving in 1970, seeks $1.8 million for a permanent home and ongoing fundraising.
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New Orleans
Dillard University
U.S
Amistad
Fisk University
Nashville
Johnson
Griffin
Missionary Association
South
Fisk and
Dillard
LeMoyne-Owen College
Memphis
Countee Cullen
Frederick Douglass
Crossroads Africa
James Robinson
Mary McLeod Bethune
Franklin Roosevelt
Ernest Morial
National Committee Against Discrimination In Housing
B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League
Florence Borders
Alex Haley
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Board of Trustees
Billy
Winston
Chiropractic Bulletin
Mary Lepien
Aaragon Clinic
the Lawton Constitution
Sun
Lawton Morning Press
THE
Sunday Constitution Lawton Publishing Co., Inc
3Rd & A Ave
Lawton, Okla
Oklahoma
APOS
Press and
Sungay
New York
Big Bird
Snuffle Upagus
Hawaii
Honolulu
Carroll Spinney
G. Ave
Lawton
Fort Sill
Constitution
Press & Su
Ray
Conway & Hale
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