Activities Among Negroes
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has launched a drive to raise money to be used as a memorial to the late Hon. Morefield-Story, the organizations first president, and the late Attorney Louis Marshall, for many years the head of the organization's legal defense department. These two men, while distinguished members of another race, united and used their knowledge to win for the organization its greatest legal victories. Their services can never be too highly valued by the Negro peoples of the world.
FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED
According to a special news item from Atlanta, great effort is being made in the heart of the South to create a better race relation and cooperation. This news item states: "Announcement of the awarding of 26 graduate fellowships in the social sciences, five of them being to Negro students was made here today by Dr. W. W. Alexander, director of the Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation and chairman of the Southern Fellowship committee. The awards were made possible by a grant of $50,000 from the Julius Rosenwald fund for the encouragement among Southern students of graduate studies in social science. "The colored students awarded fellowship are: Elijah H. Fitchett, A.B. and M.A., Howard University; John Hope II, Morehouse College: Alice L. Johnson, A.B., Fisk University; Henry J. McGuinn, A.B. Virginia Union, M.A. Columbia; Phyllis A. Stancil, Shaw University."
All were chosen on a competitive basis and will spend the next academic year at some accredited graduate school working on social science problems of special interest to the South. The major purpose behind these fellowships is to attract higher scientifically trained personnel to work on important social problems facing the Southern section of the country, said the committee's announcement.
Fields represented by the fellowships include sociology, economics, government, history, psychology and social work. It is hoped that these fellowships will help build up a more enlightened social and economic leadership in the South.
LOCAL ITEMS
Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity of colored university students during the past week have conducted an annual educational campaign on "Go to high school - go to college." This morning at the 11 AM service in the Fifteenth street A. M. E. church, Rev. Scott will address this fraternity and friends in an educational mass meeting. This is a national event by this fraternity to stimulate colored boys to higher education.
WAR MOTHERS MEET
The California chapter of American War Mothers will meet this week in Sacramento in annual convention. Oakland has the distinction of having the historian of the organization, Mrs. Hettie B. Tilghman, founder and past president of the Maria Baldwin chapter of War Mothers, who together with Mrs. Carrie Bluett, president, and Mrs. Julia Mitchell, past president, will attend the convention as delegates.
SPANISH OPERETTA
Miss Ida Jackson, teacher in the Oakland public schools, will direct the Spanish opera on May 9 in the auditorium of University High school. The cast will be composed of high and junior high school boys and girls of Oakland and Berkeley. The music director and teachers of the various schools are giving support, especially the teachers of Prescott Junior High and University High. An orchestra composed of boys from McClymonds High school with Fred Altman, violinist, as leader, will furnish the music. Arnold Baranco, tenor; Edna Lancaster, soprano, of Technical High; Alice Pollock, soprano, of Oakland high, and John Dean of Sommercial high {Commercial} of San Francisco are among those that are taking leading parts, while Isobel Valanewve and Clara Catalan, of Prescott school, will render two Spanish dance numbers. The proceeds go for the benefit of a scholarship fund.
N. A. A.C. P. WORK
The local branch of N. A. A.C. P. will be addressed on the evening of May 7, by Dean William Pickens, field secretary from national headquarters in New York who is making his annual official visit to the Pacific Coast. He is a graduate of Yale and his daughter Harriett very recently won honors as a student in Smith's Girls College in Northampton, Mass. He will also address San Francisco branch of the N. A. A. C. P. on the evening of May 5.
SERVE SOUTHERN DINNER
Cooper A. M. E. Zion church will serve a southern cooked dinner, Tuesday in the Business and Professional Women's clubhouse on Webster street. The public will be welcomed. The proceeds to go for the trustees' fund.
The First (Fifteenth street) A. M. E. church will open their annual May Fair on May 5 and will continue throughout the week. The proceeds will go to the trustees' fund.
Park's Chapel in nearing completion, the church being newly roofed, painted outside and inside, together with other necessary improvements, and also the parsonage. Upon completion they will hold a special all-day service.
Activities Among Negroes/Sun, Apr 27, 1930 27 Apr 1930, Sun Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Newspapers.com
