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The Tribune
Roanoke, Virginia
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Bills announce a political rally in Roanoke's Star City Auditorium on October 3, featuring Jean M. Capers, Cleveland's only Negro female city council member, speaking for congressional candidate Ernest Robertson. Details her career from teaching to law and politics.
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Jean M. Capers
Bills are out announcing a big political rally at Star City Auditorium, Sunday, October 3 at 5:00 p. m.
Jean Capers, the only Negro woman member of the City Council of Cleveland, Ohio and member of the National Democratic speakers bureau, will speak in the interest of Delegate Ernest Robertson, Democratic candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District.
Mrs. Capers, educated in the public schools of Cleveland and Western Reserve University; taught school in Cleveland from (Continued to page 2)
Jean Capers
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1932 to 1937; Graduated from Law school 1945; appointed assistant Police Prosecutor, Criminal Division, Law Department, City of Cleveland from 1946 to 1949; Elected to City Council of Cleveland in 1949 and is now serving her third time on the Council. She is a member of the Cuyahoga County and National Bar Associations; Member of the National Council of Negro Women; American Cancer Society; Society for Crippled and Retarded Children; a low cost housing development project named for her, Jean M. Capers Home. Fort Worth. Texas in 1953.
Mrs. Capers has been a close political associate of Congressman William L. Dawson of Chicago for the past eight years. She has been selected as a speaker on many occasions by the National Democratic Speakers Bureau.
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Roanoke, Star City Auditorium; Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Worth, Texas
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Sunday, October 3 At 5:00 P.M.
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Announcement of a political rally in Roanoke where Jean M. Capers, the only Negro woman on Cleveland's City Council, will speak for Democratic congressional candidate Ernest Robertson. Includes her educational and professional background: taught school 1932-1937, law degree 1945, assistant prosecutor 1946-1949, elected to council 1949 serving third term, various memberships, namesake housing project in 1953, and association with Congressman Dawson.