UN Race Equality Report Calls End To Prejudice In World
Lake Success New York ANP reports that a UN scientific panel concludes race has no biological basis and suggests dropping the word race in favor of ethnic groups. The 2000 word document, including E Franklin Frazier among others, also finds three races and supports intermarriage across ethnic lines.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Brazil
South America
Paris
E. Franklin Frazier
New York Pythians Debate Break With Supreme Lodge
Delegates at the New York Grand Lodge convention in Saratoga Springs discuss a probable break with the Supreme Lodge over a policy restricting membership to white males. Prof. Ephraim Cross of City College, past chancellor commander, leads the denunciation of the racist policy.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
ANP
Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
New York Grand Lodge
Ephraim Cross
City College
Third Negro Accepted by Arkansas Univ Medical School
Little Rock, Ark ANP reports Truman Bruce Tollette of Little Rock became the third Black student admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical School. He joins 90 students approved for September, after Talladega College graduate, the school’s history notes its 1848 opening to a Black student and last year’s male enrollment.
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Little Rock, Ark
ANP
Truman Bruce Tollette
Little Rock
University of Arkansas Medical School
Tollette
Talladega College
Talladega
Ala
Selassie Seeks Personal Doctor in Sweden Ad
An advertisement in the Swedish Medical Journal seeks a private surgeon for Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian legation says candidates must be Swedish subjects and the initial appointment would be for three years. Selassie currently lacks a personal physician and uses a Greek doctor for court matters.
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Stockholm
Sweden
ANP
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Selassie
Air Force
Wheel Chair Evangelist Campaign in Dover Del
Rev Brough Leroy McQueen of the Nazarene Church of Christ Pentecostal travels with his wife Mrs Alice McQueen to Dover Delaware for an evangelistic campaign. She has been confined to a wheelchair as a cripple for 10 years and will deliver the Holy Word from her chair. The couple wed when she was an invalid and the minister hopes the Master’s spirit will redeem her and make her whole again.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
ANP
Brough
Leroy McQueen
The
Nazarene Church of Christ (Pentecostal
Alice McQueen
Dover
Del
McQueen
Hypnotized Youth Robbed of $800 in Philadelphia
Two men with hypnotic powers duped 22 year old William Clifton last week. They put him in a daze then sent him to the bank to withdraw $800 and sent him home on the El with only paper in place of money. Clifton cannot describe the suspects or the method.
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Philadelphia
ANP
William Clifton
American Teachers Association Joins World Teaching Body
The American Teachers Association, mainly comprising teachers in Negro schools, was admitted to the World Organization of the Teaching Profession at its fourth annual Ottawa assembly hosted by the Canada Federation of Teachers. ATA President Dr. George W. Gore and Secretary Dr. H Councill Trenholm attended and were seated. The organization now connects with twenty seven national bodies and over two million teachers.
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Ottawa
Canada
ANP
American Teachers Association
United States
World Organization of the Teaching Profession
Canada Federation of Teachers
Famc Prexy
ATA
George W. Gore
Florida A & M College
H. Councill Trenholm
Alabama State College
The
Southern Authors Award To Smith
Lillian Smith received the Southern Authors award for 1949 for Killers of the Dream. Irita Van Doren, chair of the award committee, said the honor recognized the most outstanding book about the South by a southerner.
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New York
ANP
Lillian Smith
Irita van Doren
Pearl Primus to Broadway Soon
New York reports Pearl Primus dancer exotica will star on Broadway this fall in a new production inspired by her studies in West and Central Africa funded by the Julius Rosenwald fund. The Great White Way show will be supported by patrons including Pearl S Buck. Primus is currently on the fourth Jacob's Pillow Dance festival program at the Pillow's theatre near Lee Massachusetts.
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NEW York
ANP
Pearl Primus
Exotica
West
Central
Africa
Julius Rosenwald
Pearl S. Buck
Pillow’s Theatre
Lee, Mass
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1St Street
Mendaco
Holsum
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Charles Davie
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