Willie Coffee Apprentice Masseur and Family Details
A profile of Willie V Coffee a blind Jacksonville native turned apprentice masseur training under Mrs Susan Harris at the Reactivation Center He studied central nervous system lessons and uses recordings from Jack Ray and Mrs Harris His family relocated to Miami in 1952 and now includes six children and a wife Evelyn Coffee aims to prove blindness need not hinder a productive life The piece notes his membership at the 14th Street Church of Christ and his plans for his sons Marvin and Samuel at college and engineering tracks
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Willie V. Coffee
Station “B
Susan Harris
Reactivization Center
Jack Ray
Our Gang
Lindsay Hopkins Vocational School
Rhine
Florida
Jacksonville
Coffee
Naval Air Station
Evelyn
Marvin
Samuel Austin
Clarence
Miami
Florida Council For the Blind
Tampa
Spring Revella
Japan
Sew
Lois Hill
Children’s Service Bureau
Buell Dodrill
South Florida
Florida Council For Blind
Harris
R.N
Bertha Hamilton Perry
Reactivation Health Center
Northwestern Senior High School
FAMU
School of Engineering
Samuel
Northwestern
14Th Street Church of Christ
65Th St
Delegates Tour Havana After International Youth Congress
Twenty five delegates from the International Youth Congress attended a post convention tour to Havana from June 27 to July 3 led by Bishop O T Jones and Mrs Jones. They enjoyed a reception at the Church of God in Christ in Havana hosted by Elder Richard Fidler, with travel and cruise arrangements handled by North's Travel Bureau. The Miami Times notes the group posing with listed members and others, including Bishop Jones and Mrs Jones, during the trip documented in a July 27 1957 issue.
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International Youth Congress
Havana
O. T. Jones
Church of God In Christ
Richard Fidler
Florida
North
Crescent City Welcomes Beauticians Institute and Convention
New Orleans hosts the National Beauty Culturists' League Institute of Cosmetology July 28 to August 2 and convention August 4 to 8. Rev. Martin Luther King will speak August 5, with other leaders from NAACP, NCNW, and international cosmetology figures attending. Sessions at Booker T. Washington High School with galas and trips planned. expected crowd above 1,000.
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New Orleans
ANP
Katie L. Whickham
New Oleans
National Beauty Culturists’ League, Inc
Eaders
National Institute of Cosmetology
Martin Luther King
Montgomery
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
Vivian Carter Mason
National Council of Negro Women
Paul Johnson
Kansas City
Clarence Bynum
National Committee On
Willie Mae Saunders
Nassau
Bahamas
Maude Jackson
Bermuda Beauticians Association
Ethel Adams
Miami
Rose Clark
Philadelphia
Dazelle Detroit
Mabel Sanford Lewis
Brooklyn
Yersie Lee Bailey
Omaha
Odell Evans
Los Angeles
Marie Edwards
Seattle
Minnie D. Hurley
N. Y. City
Louise Reeves Shapman
St. Louis
Ella Martin
Atlanta
Mae Maldrow
Newark
Elks Rest
Booker T. Washington High School
Baton Rouge
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Willie Coffee
Masseur
Dorothy L. Sanford
Bishop O. T. Jones
J. V. Hearne
Harriett Jones
Marion Jones
Elsie Grees
Naomi Lundy
Catherine Brown
Milo Robinson
Edna Wilkerson
M. C. Bratcher
Clara Cantrell
Arlene Butler
Doris Staton
Dallas Bryant
Vera Boykins
Lucille Mundy
Lonnie White
THE
Miami Times
Peoples’ Newspaper
Crescent City
Beauticians
By O. C. W. Taylor
Dorothea V. Johnson
Elnora
N.W
27Th Ave
Brownsville Way
J. Fincher, Mor
3Rd Ave
Materia
Girie
Fleischmann’s
Americas
Fleischmann
Fleischmann Distilling Corporation
New York