Survey of Southern Colleges Aims to Gauge Desegregation
CHICAGO ANP reports three groups launch a survey of southern white colleges now admitting or planning to admit Negro students. Sponsored by the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students with NAACP and YWCA YMCA aid, staff will visit over 100 public and private colleges in 11 states and DC to assess segregation barriers and attitudes. The study seeks to determine admission patterns for Negro and White students and to identify colleges for referrals.
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Chicago
ANP
National Scholarship Service and Fund For
NAACP
YWCA
YMCA
District of Columbia
Nssfns
New $1,400,000 joint school opened in Virginia
The Charlottesville city county Jackson P. Burley High School was dedicated with Governor John S. Battle and officials present. The $1.4 million facility billed as among the finest for its kind, serves Albemarle County and Charlottesville students. School Board Chairman Heman W. Wals praised the combined efforts and accepted the building from contractor John W. Daniel of Danville.
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Charlottesville
Heman W. Wals
John W. Daniel
Danville
Pearl Bailey Divorces Husband Over Career Interference
Las Vegas Nevada ANP reports stage actress Pearl Bailey, 35, obtained a divorce from John Randolph Pinkett Jr., 37, her husband of four years on three counts. She accused him of interfering with her career, striking her with a telephone, and hitting her with a pistol.
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Las Vegas
Nev
ANP
Pearl Bailey
John Randolph Pinkett Jr
Miss Bailey
Palm Sunday in Union of South Africa Prefigures Struggle
Palm Sunday, April 6, 1946, is described as a crucial day in South Africa as whites honor the early settlement of the country while non whites see it as the start of a renewed fight for human freedoms. The piece contrasts reverence among white leaders with anticipated protest by Africans, coloreds, and Italians.
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Capetown
Union of South Africa
ANP
Fifty-Five Percent of Birmingham Teachers Qualified to Vote
A Birmingham Public School report by H. J. Williams shows 55.1 percent of 599 Negro teachers are qualified voters, a net gain of 81 from 1951. Scott School leads at 78.5 percent with only three nonvoters. Davis School rises from 3 of 33 in 1951 to 16 of 27 in 1952.
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Birmingham
Ala
ANP
H. J. Williams
Birmingham Teachers Association
Scott
Davis School
The Best Known Mystic in the U S A in Miami
An advertisement extols a famed mystic now based at 2118 NW 2nd Street Miami inviting people from all walks to seek guidance. It urges action, urging readers to form a party share expenses and travel by any means, warning delays are dangerous and this may be the last chance to seek the truth.
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Miami
2Nd Street
Florida
Funeral held for Bishop Riley Felman Williams in Cleveland
About 3000 attendees including more than 100 Church of God in Christ dignitaries filled the Cleveland church last week for the funeral of Bishop Riley Felman Williams 54 top prelate and overseer. The service was led by Heeman and Williams Funeral home founders. Bishop O T Jones preached the sermon while Bishop Charles H Mason delivered the eulogy and Rev Louis H Ford offered the closing prayer. Williams lay in state in the church he built and about 6000 attended views of his remains. Williams led Williams Temple Cleveland and Smithfield church Birmingham and oversaw Alabama and Ohio and chaired the National council of the church.
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Cleveland, D
ANP
Church of God In Christ
Riley Felman Williams
Heeman and Williams
O. T. Jones
Philadelphia
Charles H. Mason
Memphis
Tenn
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