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Awarded the 35th annual Spingarn Medal posthumously (for outstanding achievement by a U.S. Negro): the late Charles H. Houston, a onetime dean of the law school at Howard University, and special counsel (1935-40) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...collection and use of blood plasma, chief surgeon for Washington's Freedman Hospital; in an automobile accident; near Burlington, N.C. For supervising New York's blood donations to bombed Britain and directing the first Red Cross collection unit for the U.S. armed forces, he won the 1943 Spingarn Award "for the highest achievement by an American Negro...
...Palestine Mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche won the Spingarn Medal (from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) for 1948-3 highest achievement by a U.S. Negro...
Engaged. Elizabeth Gray Morison, dark, pretty, seafaring daughter of HaVard's Sailor-Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (Second Voyage of Columbus); and Edward D. W. Spingarn, Trinity College economics instructor and son of the late great Critic-Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn; in Boston...
Died. Colonel Joel Elias Spingarn, 64, lifelong champion of the U. S. Negro, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; after long illness; in Manhattan. Other Spingarn interests: a club for "Professors [like himself] Who Were Fired or Resigned Under Pressure from Columbia University," recreation centres for rural areas, boosting of the once-popular clematis* vine...