NEA Exclusive Black Dialogue Covers Racial Tensions
Ossie Davis Dionne Warwick and Pigmeat Markham recount personal experiences with discrimination from Waycross to Washington reflect on violence. Davis argues nonviolence, white extremism, and leadership by example, while Warwick and Markham stress education and economic change as paths forward for Black Americans.
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Ossie Davis
Purlie
Dionne Warwick
Alfie
San Jose
Pigmeat Markham
NEA
Ne Crosby
Joan Crosby
Davis
Washington
Lincoln Memorial
Markham
America
Contest Draws 200 Communities In West Virginia Betterment Drive
At the halfway point of the 1968 West Virginia Community Betterment Contest, 200 communities across 55 counties compete for 12000 dollars in prizes. First place in five population classes earns 1000 dollars. Raleigh and Fayette counties field multiple organizations including the Beckley-Raleigh Chamber and Fayetteville clubs.
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West Virginia
Raleigh County
Fayette County
Richmond District
Better Citizens Committee
F. W. Meadows
Trap Hill Country Life Group
Gerald Miller
Citizens For Slab Fork District Association
Guy Hunt
Orchard Valley Women’s Club
James Wickline
Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce
John W. Shumate
Mount Hope Kiwanis Club
Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce
Fayetteville
Deeds On File Real Estate Transfers In Mabscott Beckley
Deeds on file record real estate transfers from the county clerk. Emmett Davis and others sell to Fred Davis for $20 a Mabscott lot and block. Edward M Kirk and Ruby Kirk sell to Martha V Rakes for $12,000 in Beckley fairlawn subdivision. W H File Jr sells parcels to Oral Farley and Mable Farley for $285 in Sullivan Shady Spring District. Mary J Morton sells to John and Queenie Hunt with no consideration for a Towns District lot.
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Emmett Davis
Ruby Davis
George Davis Jr
Lillian Davis
Fred Davis
Mabscott
Edward M. Kirk
Ruby L. Kirk
Martha V. Rakes
Fairlawn
Beckley
W. H. File Jr
Oral A. Farley
Mable A
Choreographer Attends Ballet Seminar In New York
Jerry Rose leaves Beckley for New York City to join a week of dance seminars directed by Roni Mahler and Tania Karina. He will study kinesiology applied to ballet, attend technique sessions, and watch classics like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. Performances by the American Ballet Theatre are on the Lincoln Center program, with plans to recruit adjudicators for the West Virginia Ballet Festival.
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Jerry Rose
Beckley
New York City
Roni Mahler
National Ballet
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Tania Karina
New York
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Rose
Harkness House Dance and Research Center
American Ballet Theatre At
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W. Va
Dance Department
W. Va. Federation of Music Clubs
Mrs. Rose
Raleigh County YDC Delegates to Conven tion Meeting Tonight
Raleigh County Young Democrats vote on delegates at a 7 30 p m meeting in the courthouse Raleigh County YDC president Roy Harless says candidates for November election and local executive committee members are invited to help plan. State convention is set for Wheeling August 26.
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YDC
Young Democrats
Raleigh County Club
Raleigh County Ydc
Roy Harless
Wheeling
Progress highlights West Virginia’s Fair Honey and The Tent
The magazine PROGRESS notes West Virginia’s State Fair in Fairlea near Lewis Aug 16, the Honey in the Rock show and The Tent at Greenbrier Repertory Theater. It praises the fair’s agricultural emphasis, high caliber exhibits, and noncommercial stance while crediting tourism and economy boosts from exhibitors and visitors.
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West Virginia
Emily Keyser
Chicago
Rock
Greenbrier
Courier tied to Lebanese gold smuggling plot faked kidnapping
Beirut police said Abu Shabki, a courier for a gold smuggling ring, arranged his own capture after being abducted en route to Beirut airport with about $50,000 in gold bars. He was bound for the Far East with the consignment.
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Beirut
UPI
Abu Shabki
Lebanes
Shabki
Far East
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