February, 1950
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KANSAS CITY "GREEKS" PREPARING FOR 1950 TRICONVENTION. . . . Kansas City "Greeks" who will entertain the National Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Kappa Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi simultaneously next Christmas are letting no "grass grow under their feet." Almost a year ahead of time, they have made preliminary plans for the tri-convention and are working hard to see that the 1950 meeting is even more successful than the still-talked about 1940 tri-convention when the Alphas, Kappas and AKA., all came together for their annual meeting in the same city for the first time.
35th General Convention (From Page 8 ) adjourned for the day and all brothers departed to assemble for the public meeting at Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church of which Rev. William Holmes Borders is the dynamic pastor. The outlined program was as follows: National Anthem, Audience; invocation, Brother W. W. Weatherspool, pastor Mt. Olive Baptist church; solo, Miss Faustina Hall; presenting of the General President, Brother G. H. Burney, General Convention Chairman; presiding, Attorney Belford V. Lawson, Jr., General President; greetings, local fraternities and sororities: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Mrs. Catherine Johnson; Delta Sigma Theta, Mrs. F. Eary McClendon; Iota Phi Lambda, Mrs. Louise P. Walker; Sigma Gamma Rho, Mrs. Gleana Atkins; Zeta Phi Beta, Mrs. Clara Lowe; Kappa Alpha Psi, Mr. W. E. Jnmon; Omega Psi Phi, Mr, John Wesley
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Shown here is the executive committee of the Tri-Convention Coordinating Organization. From left, Dr. Clyde W. Alexander, Kappa, proxy in the picture for Laurence P. Wilson, executive committee member; Mrs. Dorothy H. Davis, basileus of Beta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha; J. A. Bradford, Alpha, chairman of the executive committee; Girard T. Bryant, Kappa, general chairman of the coordinating organization; Mrs. Lillian T. Orme, basileus of Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, assistant secretary; Burt A. Mayberry, Alpha, general secretary of the coordinating group and Mrs. Marguiite Irish, Alpha Kappa Alpha, general treasurer and chairman of the finance committee.
Dobbs; Phi Beta Sigma, Dr. E. C. Mitchell; solo. Brother Curtis Holland; schools, Dr. Rufus E. Clement, President Atlanta University; ministers, Rev. B. J. Johnson, pastor, Mount Calvary Baptist Church; Mr. C. A. Scott, editor Atlanta Daily World; citizens, Rev. William Holmes Borders, pastor, Wheat Street Baptist Church; musical Selection, Alabama State Quartet; address, Honorable Aubrey Williams, publisher, Montgomery, Alabama; address, Mr. Elmer Henderson, Director of American Council on Human Rights; musical selection, Alabama State College Quartet; In memoriam, Brother Charles Wesley; benediction, Brother J. W. E. Bowen, resident bishop, Atlanta Coast Area, Methodist Church. "Convention Theme" "SEGREGATION MUST GO" was in strict evidence at the public meeting. "DOES GRADUALISM WORK?" or WILL WE BE ABLE by COMPROMISE
TO ERADICATE CERTAIN RACIAL PREJUDICES and the EVILS THEREOF?" In his straightforward and uncompromising fashion the Honorable Aubrey Williams, Publisher of Montgomery, Alabama delivered the most outstanding keynote address that an Alpha National Convention has ever heard. Using the subject listed above, Mr. Williams stirred the group with his virile attacks on the status quo of racial prejudice. The entire speech appears elsewhere in this issue. Don't fail to read it. It is "A must." Mr. Elmer W. Henderson, who was also scheduled for an address, had this to say, "Thank God for Aubrey Williams!" The American Council on Human Rights has dedicated itself to the complete eradication and extinction of the evils connected with segregation, etc. The time to do that is at hand. There must be no procrastination. The FEPC bill and Turn the Page