Elizabeth Pittman First Colored Woman Elected to Episcopal Deputies
Omaha ANP reports Elizabeth Davis Pittman a Nebraska Diocese laywoman has been elected to the General Convention in San Francisco September 26 to October 7. The 1946 Philadelphia convention first seated a woman in the House of Deputies. Pittman is the first Negro woman to hold the honor. Pittman a practicing Omaha lawyer admitted last year partners with her father Charles F. Davis.
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Omaha
ANP
Elizabeth Davis Pittman
Episcopal
Nebraska
Episcopalians
San Francisco
Calif
Philadelphia
Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
Pittman
Atty
Charles F. Davis
Atwood Begins 21st Year Leading Kentucky State College
FRANKFORT Kentucky ANP President Rufus Ballard Atwood 52 will start his 21st year as head of Kentucky State College the Negro college. Under his leadership the campus grew from a neglected plant worth under 500000 to a class A school valued over 2500000 in the Southern Association and has potential to expand after a federal court ruling requiring equal facilities for Negroes. The ruling allowed 30 students to enroll at the University of Kentucky for graduate study this summer.
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Frankfort
ANP
Kentucky State College
Rufus Ballard Atwood
University of Kentucky
Massachusetts Senate Passes Fair Education Bill
The Massachusetts Senate approved by a voice vote a bill to prohibit discrimination in education based on race creed color or national origin. The House had endorsed it earlier and an amendment moved administration to the State Department of Education removing enactment powers from the original bill and penalties for infringement.
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Boston
Mass
ANP
Massachusetts Senate
House of Representatives
State Department of Education
FEPC
Liberian attaches to study in United States
Three Liberian State Department attaches Dudley Lawrence Lloyd Whisonant and David Thomas will study three to six months at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington DC run by the U.S. State Department. They will gain training at the institute and return with enhanced diplomatic skills for Liberia.
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United States
Monrovia
ANP
State Department
Foreign Service Institute
Washington, D. C
U. S. State Department
Dudley Lawrence
Lloyd Whisonant
David Thomas
Youngest Ph D to Address British Group
SILER CITY N C The nations youngest Negro Ph D Dr Celment Paige 19 will fly to Great Britain this week to address the British Association for the Advancement of Science He will be the first Negro ever to speak to this learned group Paige is a native of Siler City and the youngest Negro in the nations history to attain a doctors degree He earned his degree in physiological psychology.
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Siler City
N. C
ANP
Celment Paige
Great Britain
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Paige
Watch The One You Aid Watch The One You Aid
Poem by William Henry Huff reflects on a helper who faces ingratitude and hardship from those he aided. The speaker notes how kindness fades, feet bleed, and sorrow is drunk as the benefactor endures a ban and abject horror while remaining steadfast on his postern seat.
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William Henry Huff
ANP
Urban League and USES to join for better jobs plan
Denver delegates at the National Urban League opening hear a joint program by the Urban League and the United States Employment Service. The plan partners USES with state controlled local employment services to provide information and industry production statistics on Negro workers nationwide.
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Urban League
Denver
Colo
ANP
United States Employment Service
National Urban League
Thomasina Johnson Norford
USEL
Lester Granger
University of Denver
USES
League
Veterans And Adults Evening Classes Held At Bethune
President Richard Moore of Bethune-Cookman college announced a successful opening of the Veterans and Adult school in Daytona Beach Florida. The program serves veterans, non veterans and adult learners with courses in auto mechanics carpentry electricity institutional cookery masonry radio shoe repair and tailoring.
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ANP
Richard ¥. Moore
Bethune-Cookman College
Veterans and Adult School
Mississippi State Fair to hold Negro Day
Jackson Mississippi October 17 will be designated Negro day at the Mississippi State Fair with colored attendees admitted but no exhibits. The announcement by J M Dean of the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Exposition notes Oct 10 17 as the fair dates and says the regular Negro State Fair will continue at the Pocahontas road grounds after the White fair ends.
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Dean
Pickens On Air Tour Reaches Albuquerque
William Pickens, official of the bond section of the U S Treasury, arrived in Albuquerque by TWA plane on Wednesday. His itinerary includes stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Kansas City, St Louis and Columbus before returning to Washington.
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Alberquerque, N. Mex
ANP
William Pickens
Bond
U.S. Treasury
TWA
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Houston
Denver
Kansas City
St. Louis
Columbus
Washington
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Mississippi
Pickens On Air
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Negro Theatre
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Greene County
N.W
Berean School of Philadelphia
New York
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Certified Housing For Women
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MacKenzie
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3Rd Ave
William Pinder
Miami
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