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ipor*.itim-{re*-nr.**thehooapro- » oy#dMrti-Fan-tins,^hit -andpea,**ot-amlner,ck)ANGIE MAYFIELDWhen the NAACP launched its 40th local campaign last week there was evidence hi* job ahead. This time thev are seeking 6000in,cmhers in this area and as much overas can be realized. The clubs, organizations, churches, volunteer workers who willinterest in this great campaign are innumerable no one could be more aware of the terrific taskMiss L.is a challenging one.. Nationalithistherel-nal-IS.952orK h i aek13.iveiRepresentative and Campaign he excelled.The campaign director of the NAACP is perhaps a litfJc new to Pearl Mitchell but as a volunteer w-orker, and a possessor of a lifetime membership in the organization, she is seasoned and has spent many hours, days, months working in and for the NAACP. She has not worked for selfish or financial gains but because she believed that through the organization there was an opportunity to participate in the advancement of a progressive race—a means of actively bringing a courageous people to their rightful place In the American community.Director of the NAACP whose enthusiasm can certainly not• V •CollegePearl Mitchell was born andto | spent her enrly life on the cam-di-)e-iu-rillDO,ngsohehee-pus of Wilberforce University where her father was president. She remembers the so called old Wilberforce when there was a mixed faculty and she says then it was not considered a segregated school. For a moment. Miss Mitchell elaborated* to her Interviewer why she approved of the school as it was then because s!*-says, some believe that there Is a conflict in her ideal by fightingfor equality and yet having gone to a segregated school.Wilberforce was not it segregated school then.” she said. It, had an interracial faculty and the setup was almost entirely different from what it is today.The enthusiasm which Mitchell brings to this drive reflects the full life which she has lived. In college her major inler-physical education and studied music nt Ober-first job was teaching the Edward Waters Col-Jacksonville, Fla. Al-taught music there j was always that attraction to t?*e j field of athletics and she participated in tennis matches and othersports.est was athletics, lin. Her music at lege in thoughMarries Ii. ColumbusIMISS L. PEARILLShe became the wife of Delbert Curtis in Columbus. Ohio, a man who had equnl interest in athletics and sports as she.« h|K l,fc'rea21 place of nslcem ond honor In the Mitchell’s roster of interest is 1her .sorority, the Alpha Kappa sorority. As evidence of this ahaAlpha. She was nt one time has been asked to participate In supreme basileus of that national dedicatory service of a new four-organizntion. She vet holds a apartment building of AKA whichIrill b«* opened in Chicago .-n Oct. 12. Hi ft work with the NAACP will pnbably (Wn too ntorli of her lime to allow her to take part in the dedication Kalamazoo, Miclttgan knew MissMitchell as the director of theDouglass Community House: Des Moines. It., knew her as a Girl’s Camp Community worker and when she first came to Cleveland 1 ihe worked as Girl’s supervisor of the Play House Settlement which is now Kgramti House Most Clevelanders know her as Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court where she worked for several year*. yDid Play ActingWoman of the Week Mitchell has nlso done a bit of play acting, The part of Mother in the Cleveland Play House production of the Lone Moment” made her a first to appear in an interracial play produced by the Cleveland Play House.Versatile Pearl Mitchell has a head for business. This la seen in her management of the Oak-wood Apartments located on 93rdand Cedar. She recalls that when she first came to Cleveland, herstrenuous attempt at establishingapartments on cooperative basis failed. :-Thut was before Cleveland became cooperative conscious,” says Miss Mitchell, But of course now, that sort of thing fc? booming.Pearl Mitchell’s contribution to I ho success of the NAACP drivewill be immeasurable as was the case when she directed the campaign last April and May in Birmingham, Ala. In fact, her work with the organization this year ha.s been so brilliant and enthusiastic that she has been crowned Miss NAACP of 1952,” an honor which she talks about as though it means a million dollars in her hank account.IHtiloracisvlMrltrgult;coiPhPhMiPO|Itogivperco*ofchaof ]puJarFsmi107(eaca pUPardonthistheitlzerCilecticoneThthis
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Call and Post
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 11, 1952
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