Ministers Arrested in Montgomery Bus Boycott Leads Black Protest
Twenty four ministers and about fifty other Negroes were arrested in Montgomery Alabama on charges of violating the anti boycott law. Rev Martin Luther King Jr 27 year old Dexter Ave Baptist Church pastor among those held. Rosa Parks also arrested for appealing a fine after refusing to move to the back of a bus. The wave of arrests followed a large grand jury indictment related to the boycott. Powell seeks White House protection for those indicted describing the actions as new law in American barbarism.
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Montgomery
Ala
Martin Luther King
Dexter Ave. Baptist Church
Alabama
Washington
Adam C. Powell, Jr
New York
White House
Powell
Rosa Parks
Eugene Carter
Winter Golf Tourney Opens Monday at Miami Springs
The $1000 North-South Florida winter golf tour begins Monday at the Miami Springs Golf Course near Hialeah. Ray Mitchell sponsors the fourth annual event, a four day affair through March 1, welcoming professionals, amateurs and women from California and other regions to compete on the famed Miami Open course. Notable participants include Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Junior Gilliam, Joe Black, Don Hall of the Treniers, Earl Jackson, Don Newcombe, Arthur Prysock, Dinah Washington, Nat Cole, and John Holman.
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Florida
Miami Springs
Hialeah
Ray Mitchell
California
Jackie Robinson
Larry Doby
Junior Gilliam
Joe Black
Don Hall
The
Treniers
Earl Jackson
Don Newcombe
Arthur Prysock
Marie Murphy
Dinah Washington
Nat (Kinz) Cole
John Holman
Mitchell
Club Fiesta
Harlem Square Club
Two Miami killers die in electric chair
George Anderson and Percy Ambrister were executed in the electric chair at Ryford prison early Monday after more than a year in the death house. Limpy, age 34, and Wassie Blue, 25, were pronounced dead six minutes after the current. Bodies were to be returned to Miami for burial with families arranging final disposition through a funeral home in Starke.
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Miami
Ryiford
George Anderson
Percy Ambrister
Lim
Wassie Blue
Ambrister
Anderson
Starke
King of Clubs Forum Ends Sunday
The King of Clubs conclude a forum series titled The Forward Look in Human Relations with Mrs. Lullelia W. Harrison as Day speaker. The 3:30 p.m. event occurs Sunday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church auditorium. Harrison, Supreme Grammateus Syntakus of Zeta Phi Beta, has held regional directorships and was grand basileus from 1943 to 1948. She was Houston’s 1950 Woman of the Year and serves on the Bi racial Board of Negro Child Center.
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King of Clubs
Lullelia W. Harrison
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Reynolds engagement announced in Dade County notice
Mr and Mrs F W Reynolds announce the engagement of their daughter Sylvia Yvonne to Corporal Alvin Espy of the U S Air Force. Sylvia is a Dorsey High School and Bethune Cookman College graduate now employed in the Dade County school system. Espy, son of Mrs Elizabeth Espy, is with the Guided Missiles division of the Army at Fort Hancock New Jersey awaiting a September discharge. He is a Carver High School and Morehouse College alumnus.
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F. W. Reynolds
68Th St
Sylvia Yvonne
Alvin Espy
U. S. Air Force
Miss Reynolds
Dorsey High School
Bethune-Cookman College
Dade County
Espy
Elizabeth Espy
Pierce St
Richmond Heights
Army
Ft. Hancock
N. J
Mrs Etta Walker Sentenced to 10 Years for Manslaughter
Mrs Etta Mae Walker a 25 year old of 2162 NW Fifth Ave was sentenced to 10 years in Raiford prison for manslaughter in the December 23 fatal stabbing of her common law husband Robert 30 by Circuit Judge Harold R Vann. Convicted of the lesser charge a week earlier she claimed she only meant to slash him after he visited a girlfriend instead of keeping a Christmas shopping date.
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Etta Mae Walker
Fifth Ave
Raiford
Robert
Walker
Fla A and M sophomore earns feature at campus banquet
Attractive Ermalene D. Cooper, a sophomore music major at Fla A and M University, was the featured artist at the recent banquet honoring students elected to Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. Miss Cooper is a native of Miami. staff photo by H. Jones, Jr.
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Ermalene D. Cooper
Fla. A and M University
Miss Cooper
Miami
H. Jones, Jr
Court to Hear Lucy Alabama Suit Wednesday
Birmingham Alabama federal court halted immediate exploration into riots at the University of Alabama and the barring of a black coed from campus. The court left all elements for development February 29 when university officials must show cause why they should not be cited for contempt. Attorneys for Autherine Lucy claim unrest was used as a tactic to remove her, violating a federal order guaranteeing admission regardless of race.
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Birmingham
Ala
University of Alabama
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Blue
Limpy
Wassie Blue Ambrister
Limpy Anderson
Sulelia W. Harrison
Hubby
Harold R. Vann
Lucy -Ala
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