Atlanta Daily World

Tobias Urges Support Of Africa House

BY GLADYS P. GRAHAM

NEW YORK - (A N P) - The spacious stone mansion purchased by the African Academy of Arts and Research of which K. C. Mbadiwe is president, opened here Sunday with an open house. Dr. Channing H. Tobias who spent several months touring various parts of West and Central Africa and is at present director of the Phelps-Stokes fund, was the guest of honor and principal speaker and made a stirring plea that the community get behind the academy.

Rev. Charles Y. Trigg, master of ceremonies presented along with the other dignitaries Daniel Chapman, area specialist at the U. N. a former instructor of education in Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa, Chapman told of the contributions being made in America by the individuals who come here.

Secretary of State Gabriel L. Dennis, chairman of the Liberian delegation to the UN extended greetings from Liberia for the success of the organization. Antonio Viex, vice president of the Haitian delegation to the UN brought greetings from Haiti along with Henri Ch. Rosemond, editor of the Haitian Tribune. An announcement was also made at the time of a personal gift of $100 from the ambassador, Joseph D. Charles.
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program was Mrs. A. B. Xuma. the wife of Dr. Alfred Xuma of Johannesburg. South Africa. The assembly were told of her husband's sacrifice in coming some 12,000 miles at his own expense to appear before the UN on behalf of the natives of South Africa.

Mrs. Xuma, who is a native American, stated that when she went to South Africa in 1940 there were no women's organizations. Now there are some eight or nine. The most powerful was given as the African National congress which Mrs Xuma said was a dynamic political organization somewhat similar to the NAACP in America.

STICK TOGETHER

'Women are sticking together and breaking down discrimination in South Africa. This is an extremely unique occasion and means more than just the opening of a house here .It is the realization of a long cherished dream and soon we in South Africa hope to erect a similar Africa house,' said Mrs, Xuma.

Two students, Milton Aciodun Macauley and Felix Akin Olunloyo of Nigeria. both of whom are enrolled in the modern photography school in New York and at -the Brooklyn Museum of Art, had displays of their color and portrait work. and were later introduced by Mbadiwe.