Newsroom Notes on Integration and Recent Events
By Henry E. McKinney, pinch-hitting for Garth Reeves, reflects on integration in public schools, race tensions, and economic education. Highlights arson at Dorsey High portable classrooms, a fiery Ku Klux Klan cross burned in Richmond, and past civil rights figures cited by the NAACP attorney Oliver Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry E. (Mack) McKinney
Garth C. Reeves
Richmond
Ku KI Klan
Oliver W. Hill
NAACP
Hill
Virginia
Supreme Court
Free Teen Age Dance Sets Saturday Night
The second Free Teen Agers Dance will be at Liberty Square Auditorium on Saturday night August 13 from 8 to 11. Kiah Brown and his seven piece band provide music. Admission is free. Parents may attend. Admittance limited to teens aged 13 to 20 inclusive.
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Liberty Square Auditorium
Kiah Brown
Man Called Peter to Play at Capitol Theatre
Capitol Theatre announces the booking of A Man Called Peter a Twentieth Century Fox Cinemascope De Luxe color production. The Catherine Marshall biographical novel adaptation has been on the best seller list since 1951 and is billed as a standout Hollywood picture.
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Capitol Theatre
Peter
Twentieth Century-Fox
Miami Times Briefs Aimed at Saturday Readership
Local items from Miami Times dated Saturday August 13 1955 summarize short notices and community updates for Page 3 readers. The clipping highlights civic notices and society notes common to mid century urban newspapers.
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Garth
Nassau
North Carolina
Miami Herald
Association of Manufacturers
NEA
Busi
Ness
Dorsey High School
Harry Moore
Florida
George W. Lee
Belzoni
Miss
Georgia
Lord of
Bay street-by-the-Sea
Ea Ao
Bridge Town
Barbados
Sonvivental Peatcags
Man
Miami Times
Miami, Florida
C. M. Jollivette
Gina
Russ
Cleo
Texas
Dr. Jollivette
Alamo
Marsalis Motel
New Orleans
Chevrolet
Norman Pascarella
Lord Calvert
Pimgren
N.W
6Th Street
Fleischmann’s
America
Fleischmann Distilling
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