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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Premier of Eastern Nigeria, will address the closing session of the 50th NAACP annual convention at the Polo Grounds in New York on July 19, following the week-long event opening July 13 at the New York Coliseum. Other speakers include Roy Wilkins, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, and Rabbi Max Davidson, with performances by Mahalia Jackson and local choirs and corps.
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NEW YORK Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe the dynamic West African leader and Premier of Eastern Nigeria, will address the closing session of the 50th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People here at the Polo Grounds, Sunday afternoon, July 19. The week-long convention opens July 13 at the New York Coliseum.
Others programmed for the huge rally in the Polo Grounds include NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins; Jackie Robinson, former Star Dodger infielder; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of the National Council of Churches of Christ; and Rabbi Max Davidson, president of the Synagogue Council of America.
Mahalia Jackson, the famed gospel singer, will participate. There will also be music by the combined choirs of Greater New York and vicinity under direction of Coleridge Taylor Perkinson and by the Charles Dickens Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps of Yonkers, N. Y.
Educated at Howard; Lincoln and Pennsylvania universities, Dr. Azikiwe returned to his native land where he founded the continent's largest all-African political party established a chain of newspapers, became a banker, and plunged into politics emerging, in the words of John Gunther, as "the best known and most powerful Nigerian".
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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe will address the closing session of the 50th annual NAACP convention at the Polo Grounds. The convention opens July 13 at the New York Coliseum. Other participants include Roy Wilkins, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rabbi Max Davidson, Mahalia Jackson, combined choirs under Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, and Charles Dickens Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. Background: Dr. Azikiwe educated at Howard, Lincoln, and Pennsylvania universities; founded political party, newspapers, became banker and politician.