Charles Mobley to headline Carver YMCA musical soiree
Pianist Charles Mobley will serve as musical consultant for the Carver Branch YMCA Second Annual Musical Soiree featuring Irving Berlin works. He will join Lelia Williams and a lineup including Carl Yaeger Jr and Leila Storr for a Sunday Aug 4 performance at 4 p.m. in Mrs. Pearsall's shaded garden 2250 NW 60th St. Refreshments and a one dollar donation expected.
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Charles Mobley
Carver Branch
Arlington Sands
Irving Berlin
Mobley
Kemper Herrold
Leila R. Williams
Carl Yaeger Jr
Harold L. Storr
Lillie M. Doles
C. C. Miller
Ulysses Morris
Herbert Wimberley
Clara M. Pearsall
60Th St
Mrs Sarah Rolle Dies in Miami Community Leader and Tailor’s Widow
Mrs. Sarah W. Rolle longtime Miami resident and wife of Daniel Rolle former Afro American Life Insurance clerk and Atlanta Life employee died Saturday after being stricken 45 minutes earlier. She was a charter member of The La Cheerios Zeta Phi Beta Sorority affiliate and active Gardenia Circle officer. Funeral at Greater Bethel AME Church with burial Saturday in Wadley under James Davis Funeral Home direction.
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Sarah W. Rolle
Miami
Daniel Rolle
2Nd Ave
Rolle
Afro-American Life Insurance Co
Atlanta Life
la Cheerios
Zeta Phi Betz
Gardenia Circle
Lula Smith
Wadley
New York City
Greater Bethel Ame Church
J. B. Blackwell
Richardson Mortuary
Leonard Jackson
James Davis
Alabama Targets Bus Boycotters in Tuskegee
Atty Gen Patterson and Chief Asst Gallion warned Tuskegee residents they may trade with any merchant, asserting state law against boycotts. They broadcast assurances of protection for those who choose to trade with White merchants as Negroes protest a bill redrawing city limits that would shrink Black voting power.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Thn Patterson
Montgomery
McDonald Gallion
Drowning Victim Davie Aged 14 At New Smyrna Beach
A 14 year old girl, Mecielte Davie, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hyder Davie of 2351 NW 63rd St, drowned Sunday at Bethune Volusia Beach New Smyrna. She was swept out by a strong current while swimming with relatives. The body was recovered Monday. Funeral services will be Friday Aug 2 at St James AME Church Range Funeral Home directing.
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Mecielte Davie
Hyder Davie
Prof Sponsors Back to Africa Move at Alcorn Miss
Professor Clennen King promoted a Back to Africa movement at Alcorn A&M college asserting voluntary migration to Africa as civil rights progress. He linked the bill to Senator William Langer and noted NAACP opposition and protests delaying a hearing date.
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Africa
Alcorn
Miss
ANP
Movement For
Clennen King
Alcorn A&m College
King
Sen
William Langer
R-Nd
NAACP
11 Year Old Boy Drowns At Virginia Beach
Eleven year old Daniel Woods of 2793 NW 43rd terrace drowned at Virginia Beach Sunday. His body was found in the bay Monday afternoon south of Government Cut after a Coast Guard helicopter sighted him at 5 30 pm and a Harbor Patrol boat brought him ashore. His mother Bertha Me Woods said Daniel stayed behind when the others were called to the car and went to the surf to go home. He wandered too far and was pulled under by the undertow.
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Daniel Woods
Virginia Beach
Government Cut
Coast Guard
County Harbor
Bertha
Me Woods
Daniel
Mrs. Woods
White Man Gets Life For Killing Negro in Ga
In Zebulon Georgia an elderly White farmer B T Dukes aged 71 was found guilty of the December fifth 1956 shotgun killing of Maybelle Mahone a 30 year old Negro mother. A Pike County jury recommended mercy and Judge John H McGee sentenced Dukes to life in prison. Sheriff J A Riggins reported Dukes said Mahone sassed him prompting the shooting at her home near the town about 50 miles south of Atlanta.
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Zebulon
B. T. Dukes
Maybelle Mahone
Pike County
John H. McGee
Dukes
J. A. Riggins
Funeral services set at Antioch Baptist Church Brownsville
Funeral services under the direction of Range Funeral Home will be conducted at Antioch Baptist Church in Brownsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Range Funeral Home
Antioch Baptist Church
Brownsville
Baptists Hold Annual Conventions at Mt Zion Miami
The District Sunday School and Baptist Training Union held their 52nd and 57th annual conventions at Mt. Zion Church in Miami. Rev. Edward T. Graham led the pastor and congregation plus nearby Baptist churches in hosting visitors. The theme was The Church Fostering Personal Christian Living in the World. The theme song was If Jesus Goes With Me I’ll Go Anywhere.
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Baptist Training Union Convention
Mt. Zion Church
Miami
Edward T. Graham
Jesus
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Louisville Ky
Tenu
Iago
Thall
Memphis
Tenn
J. H. Jackson
America
Olivet Baptist
Chicago
Sarah Rolle
Alabama
Luther King
National Baptist Laymen’s Movement
National Baptist Convention
Allan Jordan
Louisville
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Sandy F. Ray
New York State Baptists
Christine King
Dr. King
Columbia University
Baptists
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