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Silver Beaver Award Presented Negro Scouter

December 23, 1955

Describes that George O. McCalep received the Silver Beaver Award from the Negro Division of the Tennessee Valley Council. He was a member of the American Teachers Association, the Alabama Teachers Association, APAS Fraternity, Missionary Baptist Church, and taught First Aid Classes for the Red Cross

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Meat Lectures Scheduled At Negro Schools

September 27, 1955

Describes that students at Burrell-Slater High School in Florence and at Sterling High School in Sheffield would be receiving information about how to prepare and serve meat

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Committee Meets: Tuscumbia Negro Citizens Discuss Teacher Dismissal, School Matters

March 31, 1955

Describes that Black citizens in Tuscumbia held a meeting to discuss the dismissalof a Black teacher and depicts a letter written to the Board of Education

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In Tuscumbia: Negro Group Petitions Removal Of Principal

February 1, 1955

Describes that Black residents in Tuscumbia had requested the removal of Professor P.H. Wesley as principal of Trenholm High School for the unethical arrest of a faculty member named Mrs. Delores Swoopes Jones

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