New Orleans Negro joins AFL Executive Board
George Snowden, a Black member, is elected to the eleven member Executive Board of the New Orleans Central Trades and Labor Council. The vote was unanimous by the predominantly White council, representing about 55,000 AFL trade unionists in the area. The move follows a 1948 pattern of Black representation across AFL policy bodies in Louisiana.
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AFL
New Orleans Central Trades and Labor Council
George Snowden
Louisiana State Conference For Labor Education
Louisiana Division of Employment Security
Federation of Labor
Snowden
Federation
Louisiana
Central Trades Councils
Baton Rogue
Shreveport
Monroe
Louisiana State Federation of Labor
Booker Washington Birthplace Plans Fourth Observance
Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial in Virginia announces a four day program starting April 2 to mark the birth anniversary of Booker T. Washington. Activities include a Recreational Institute, Religious Institute, Farm Home and Food Institutes, and a Leadership Institute from April 2 to April 5 with leaders from across the nation participating.
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Booker Washington
Booker T. Washington
S. J. Phillips
Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial
Farm, Home
An& Food Institutes
Elks Oratorical and Musical Contest Hosted at Booker T High
On Monday evening March 28 local Elks clubs sponsor an all day oration and musical contest at Booker T Washington High School. Coral City Lodge Greater Miami Lodge Liberty Lodge and Atlas Lodge will be represented. Parents are urged to attend. An Educational Dance follows at the Rockland Palace.
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Elks
Booker T. Washington High School
Elkdom
South
Coral City Lodge
Temple
Greater Miami Lodge
Liberty, Lodge
Atlas Lodge
Rockland Alace
Then And Now by John Henrick Carke
Poem reflecting on a child’s view of a peaceful world and a grown era of conflict. The narrator recalls a garden like childhood innocence as bombs fall and cries of babies arise, conveying a loss of illusion amid chaos and war.
White Georgian Writes Story About Harlem
CHICAGO ANP Harlem Story by John Hewlett depicts a blond girl from Harlem who joins the White race yet lives in Harlem. The novel traces her color related maladjustment and eventual marriage to a kind White man, while noting Hewlett’s Harlem idiom and Georgia roots.
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Harlem
Chicago
ANP
John Hewlett
Prentice- Hall, Inc
Georgia
Atlanta
New York
Anti Negro Prejudice Film To Be Released
Hollywood report on United Artists releasing a film based on anti prejudice toward Negroes. The adaptation titled Home of the Brave comes from Arthur Laurents play and stars James Edwards as a Negro soldier facing postwar prejudice. Other studios pursue similar anti prejudice projects including Lost Boundaries Pinky and No Way Out with Ethel Waters cast in Pinky.
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ANP
United Artists
Sreenplays, Inc
Laurents
James Edwards
Roots
East
Twentieth Century-Fox
Cyd Ricketts Sumners
Quality
Pinky
Samuels
Ethel Waters
William Faulkner
MGM to film in Mississippi on lynching drama
The page reports MGM purchased a screen adaptation last summer and will shoot on location in Mississippi. Juane Hernandez, a Puerto Rican actor, is signed to play the near lynching victim in the production.
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MGM
Mississippi
Juane Hernandez
No White Civilization, No Christian Nation Says Cape Town Bishop
Most Rev. Francis Henneman, Bishop of Capetown, Africa, argues that Christian civilization cannot be White civilization, stating that if it is White exclusive, it fails Christian principles, and if it is Christian it cannot be White, in commentary on South Africa's race segregation policy.
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Francis Henneman
Capetown
Africa
South Africa
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