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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1940
Page
4
The Kiwanis minstrel enters peak production as rehearsals intensify for two final nights. The annual event, built on community faith, funds a Kiwanis Dental Clinic aiding scores of schoolchildren and offering crucial checkups for those who can pay, enhancing health and preventing costly issues.
An obituary notes that Perry Brown known as Uncle Perry served as janitor at Rosemary school for about ten years. The gracious man loved the children and was beloved by the community, where he stood as a generous, guiding figure who swept his hat and bowed in respect.
An elderly Black man known as Uncle Perry, who embodied plantation era gentility and refused work in Washington, lived among his folks and died after being struck by a truck last Monday night. He was about eighty years old and carried the aura of bygone days.
Greensboro Daily News editorial cites W C Ezell report showing hundreds of North Carolina children under 16 jailed unlawfully from 1936 to 1939. It notes 137 under age 10 placed in quarters with criminals, criticizing local officials and state agencies for violating law and humanitarian standards.
Welfare division chief Ezell notes that up to 80 000 county jail inmates yearly may exceed state prison infections in venereal disease. He cites 1936 data showing only 16 of 100 jails required medical exams within 48 hours of commitment, implying widespread disease and illegal confinement of children in substandard jails.
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