The Saint Paul Sun

Mill City Gets First-Hand Report on South's Schools

Wiley A. Branton, chief counsel for the nine Negro children in the Little Rock School Case, will speak at the public meeting of the Minneapolis Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Sunday, April 19th, at 4 P. M. at St. Peter's A.M.E. Church, 401 East 41st Street, Minneapolis.

This meeting marks the beginning of the 1959 membership drive for the branch. Branton will give the facts on school de-segregation in the south and review the present picture nationally on Civil and Human Rights.

Branton received additional national prominence last May when he won the reversal of the death sentence of Frank Payne in the Supreme Court of the United States.

The National Bar Association presented him their Francis Stradford Award in August. In December 1958 he was awarded "The Outstanding Man of the Year Award" by his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi.

He is a member of Prince Hall Masons and presently

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Deputy Grand Master Jurisdiction Arkansas. He also belongs to the American Bar Association, the Southwest Bar Association, Wonder State Bar Association and American Judicature Society. Branton received his Law Degree from the University of Arkansas. He is a veteran of World War II Eastern Theatre of War. He now practices law in his birthplace, Pine Bluff Arkansas, where he lives with his wife, and their six children.

Mildred Moore, chairman of the Minneapolis Branch's 1959 membership drive plans will report at this meeting. The branch has a membership quota of fifteen hundred members. More than fifty workers will be soliciting NAACP membership throughout Minneapolis in the next sixty days in order to meet the quota according to Doug Hall, president of the Minneapolis Branch.