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Four days later, 22 miles southeast of Pell City in Talladega, a molder and sometime Methodist minister named Roy Heath tore up his Klan membership papers, said to his wife, "Maude, pray for me," kissed her, and then, after she left for church took down his shotgun and killed himself. His three sons and his two nephews told state investigators a bizarre and helpful story. One of the nephews, at Heath's urging, had replaced a broken glass window in a maroon Chevrolet the night of the Hurst murder. Heath had confessed to his sons that he took part...
...famed for his solemn, racially conscious murals as for his teaching, Woodruff has decorated the walls of several Atlanta schools. His best-known work is a large (6½ by 80 ft.) double set of murals in the newly completed Savery Library at Talladega (Ala.) College. Painted in broad, Rivera-like brush strokes and crowded with writhing figures of whites and Negroes, these murals record two historical subjects associated with the story of the U.S. Negro: 1) the history of the 1839 mutiny on the slave ship Amistad, the subsequent trial of the Negro mutineers in New Haven, Conn...
Gertrude Michael is a Talladega, Ala. girl who used to run a radio station in her hometown, giving household hints and calisthenics in the morning, economic lectures and piano recitals in the afternoon and in the evening singing ballads and playing the violin. She had equipped herself for this career by studies at University of Alabama and Converse College. Later she got into enough Broadway plays to inter est M-G-M in testing her and arrived in Hollywood with two suitcases, expecting to stay a fortnight. She has never been back, either to Broadway or Talladega...
...known as a clever postprandial speaker. He has delivered several sermons in Philadelphia churches. He possesses an excellent bass-baritone, has gone on tours singing Negro songs, lecturing. His father was General Wager Swayne, Military Governor of Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president of General Motors Corp. Mr. Swayne became president of Burns Bros, less than two years ago. Since his election there has been warm strife between the company and certain stockholders seeking a receiver. Last week this group...
...Frederick Reed, Harvard '82, has been appointed instructor in Talladega college, Talladega...