Atlanta Daily World

ATLANTANS ON LIBERIA CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, D. C.--Congressman William L. Dawson, Perry W. Howard National Republican committee, and Frank L. Stanley, president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association, will head the newly formed National Committee for the sponsorship of the American celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Liberia to be observed this July 26.

More than two hundred persons consisting of the leaders of national organizations, chairman of state Liberian-American affairs have been invited to serve on the national organizations, chairman of state Liberian centennial committees, churchmen and persons interested in Liberian-American affairs have been invited to serve in the National Committee which will have headquarters in Washington.

Serving with Congressman Dawson, Mr. Howard and Mrs. Stanley, is a group of twelve persons who form the executive committee for the national committee. These persons are: Archie A. Alexander, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford W. Logan, Emmett J. Scott, John H. Sengstacke, Mrs. Christine S. Smith, Channing H. Tobias, Carter Wesley, J. Finney Wilson, William O. Walker and Walter H. Aiken.

Among those persons who have been invited to become members of the committee-at-large are: Charles S. Johnson, President-Elect Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; Walter H. Aiken, President Nat'l Builders Association, Nat'l Builders Association, 150 Auburn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta; W. Y. Bell, Bishop, CME Church, Bailey Institute, Cordele Georgia; B. R. Brazeal, president, National Association of Collegiate Deans and Registrars in Negro Schools, Morehouse College, Atlanta; Rufus E. Clement, president, Atlanta University, Atlanta; John Wesley Dobbs, Grand Master of Masons of Georgia, Auburn Avenue at Hilliard Street, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert Durr, Editor, The Birmingham Weekly Review, 1518 Fifth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Ala.; A. G. Gaston, President, National Negro Business League, Post Office Box 2621, Birmingham, Alabama; Charles W. Green, Chairman, Executive Committee, National Negro Insurance Association, 148 Auburn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta; D. V. Jemison, President, National Baptist Convention, U. S. A., Inc., 1605 Lapsley Street, Selma, Ala.; Georgie W. Lee, 390 Bean Street,
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Memphis, Tennessee,
James G. Lemon, Guaranty Life Insurance Company, Savannah, Ga
James H. Lewis, President, National Negro Insurance Association 101-105 East Union Street, Jacksonville, Florida.
John H. McCray, Editor, The Lighthouse and Informer, 1021/2 Washington Street, Columbia, S. C
L. D. Milton, President, Citizens Trust Company, 212 Auburn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta.
Jacob L. Reddix, President, Jackson College, Jackson, Mississippi.
S. D. Redmond, 1151/2 Farish St., Jackson, Miss.
C. A. Scott, Editor and General Manager, The Atlanta Daily World, 210 Auburn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta Georgia.
B. G. Shaw, Bishop, AME Zion Church, 1210 Charles Street, Birmingham, Alabama.
Robert Strather, President, Pacific Coast States Association, I. B. P. O. E. of W., 651 E. 45th Street, Los Angeles, California.
H. Council Trenholm, President, Alabama State Teachers College, Montgomery, Alabama.
Austin T. Walden, Attorney, 239 Auburn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta, Ga.