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LEST WE FORGET... [[collage of newspaper clippings]] [[newspaper clipping]] Hale Woodruff, distinguished artist, dead at 80 By JOHN HEWITT Hale A. Woodruff, distinguished Black American painter, muralist and art educator, died early Saturday morning, September 6, in New York Hospital, at age 80. Active professionally almost until his terminal hospitalization, Woodruff will be remembered for a long list of accomplishments and awards, and for his use of African themes in his works. Born in Cairo, Illinois, on August 26, 1900, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Woodruff decided early on a career in art [[text cut off]] at the John Herron [[text cut off]] Later, the [[text cut off]] greater [[text cut off]] before or since. The Metropolitan Museum of A[[text cut off]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] Judge Henry Slaughter Dies in New York City Judge Henry Anton Slaughter of Long Island and Oak Bluffs - the latter his principal address in recent years - died Monday, Dec. 8, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. During the months of his illness, whether in or out of hospital, his patience, his concern [[text cut off]] the comfort of others never diminis[[text cut off]] resolute spirit never fal[[text cut off]]gth. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] L.C. Bates, Black Publisher, 79; Led in Little Rock Desegregation By DAVID BYRD L.C. Bates, the newspaper publisher who was a key black leader in the historic 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., died there last Friday. He was 79 years old. Along with his wife Daisy, Mr. Bates helped nine black students make the difficult way into the all-white school after Orval C. Faubus, then Governor of Arkansa, ordered out the National Guard in a last-ditch stand against integration. It was not until President Eisenhower ordered Federal troops to protect the students that they were able to enter the school through a mob of angry whites who wanted to keep the school integrated. Most of the planning for the students' entry took place in the Bates home. Mrs. Bates was the leader of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Bates home became the target of segregationists, who threw stones, bottles and bombs at it and burned crosses in front of it. The attacks came almost nightly, forcing the Bateses to install thick wire mesh to protect the windows and put up floodlights that burned all night. Sympathetic neighbors who took turns to help guard the house were arrested on charges of carrying [[text cut off]] weapons. [[text cut off]]lars worth of advertising. Crippled by th[[text cut off]] boycott, the paper went out of existen[[text cut off]] in 1959. Mr. Bates later [[text cut off]] come field secret[[text cut off]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] EARL BROWN IS DEAD; FORMER COUNCILMAN Headed City's Human Rights Panel - Harlem Leader Had Been Reporter and Editor, Too By GLENN FOWLER Earl Brown, a journalist and Harlem political leader who served for 11 years on the New York City Council, died Sunday night at Mount Sinai Hospital after a long illness. He was 77 years old and lived at 706 Riverside Drive in Manhattan. He was appointed the first paid chairman of the city's Commission on Human Rights in 1965. Before his political career, Mr. Brown was a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune, managing editor of The Amsterdam News and a reporter and editor for Life Magazine. Earlier, he had worked his way through Harvard College as a janitor and waiter and had pitched on the Harvard baseball team. Mr. Brown retired in the mid-1960's and had been in poor health for some time. He entered the hospital for treatment of emphysema six weeks ago. [[text cut off]]ment Maverick [[text cut off]] manner, [[text cut off]]cessfu [[text cut off]] ell wh[[text cut off]] cided [[text cut off]] suppo[[text cut off]] candi[[text cut off]] pected[[text cut off]]
