The Script
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"Brevard County's Only Colored Newspaper" containing church, social, and news of general interest. Circulation in Cocoa, Merritt Island, and Mims every Saturday. The Script Collection includes volume I, number 1 from July 13, 1946, through February 8, 1947 totally twenty-nine issues with contributions from Harry T. Moore. Moore (1905-1951) was the founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida.
Subject
Brevard County (Fla.) -- Newspapers; Brevard (Fla.) -- Newspapers; Colored people -- Newspapers; African Americans -- Newspapers; African Americans -- Brevard County (Fla.) -- 1940s; African American Newspapers; Black Newspapers; Civil Rights Movement; People; Places; Social Life.
Subject - Personal Names
Austell, Reginald; Pace, Harold D.
Date
10-12-1946
Publisher
Elmer Silas (Cocoa, Fla.)
Description-TOC
Veterans Sponsor Membership Drive Will Entertain With Smoker Here; Walter's Store Opened Thursday Many Shoppers Crowd The Store; Woman's Club Will Hold Harvest Festival October 18; Scout Official Was Here Friday; Melbourne Youth Succumbs to Lingering Illness; An Apology; Watchtower Society Holds Weekly Study; Newsboys Contest In The Making; Laugh A Little Bit; School Closed Here Two Days; THE CHURCH; COMMENT; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; ZION ORTHODOX P. B. CHURCH; City Briefs and Social News [Column]; Card Of Thanks; From the Editor's Notes; Photo of ALL-AMERICAN LEGAL AID... Byron R. "Whizzer" White; NO MEAT! EAT POTATOES... photo of Virginia Sullivan holding a monster 2.5 pound Chippewa potato and an average size Chippewa. MT. MORIAH A. M. E. CHURCH; [Comic strip]; Photo of Elmer Layden Jr., Freddie Lindstrom Jr., Elmer Layden Sr., Freddie Lindstrom Sr.; Business Is 23% More Active Over Previous Year: Florida Business Gains For Period Are Among Best In Country; Power Company Starts Post Card 'Mail-Away' Plan: Cards Will Be Given To Company's Customers Throughout October; Notes From The Trojans; From The Police Department [Column]; CHURCH NEWS [Column]; SPORTS NEWS [Column]; SCHOOL NEWS [Column].
Number Of Pages
8 p.
Size
23 cm x 30 cm
Repository
Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex
Coverage-Spatial
Brevard (Fla.)
Document Type
Newspaper
STARS Citation
The Script, "The Script, Vol. 01 No. 14, October 12, 1946" (1946). The Script. 14.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-thescript/14