The Script
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Description
"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
Nesbitt, W. R.; Davis, William Penn
Date
10-19-1946
Publisher
Elmer Silas (Cocoa, Fla.)
Description-TOC
Health Clinic Will Open In County: Ofiices [Offices?] To Be In Melbourne, Cocoa; Will Gardner Is Cut By His Wife; Aged Resident Found Dead On Merritt Island Sunday; Two Brothers Die In Same Week; Watchtower Speaker To Appear Here Sunday; Elder W. R. Nesbitt Here; From The Editor's Notes; From The Police Department [Column]; Send News In Early; Living With One's Self; If I Had a Million Dollars; Church News [Column]; City Briefs and Social News [Column]; Local Veteran Progressive In Jax Business; P.T. A. NEWS [Column]; Fire Destroys Local Home; Airmail Parcels Can Be Shipped Overseas Now: Soldiers Overseas may Be Sent Packages Up To 70 Pounds; State Farm News; The Trojans News; Geo. P. Hinton Unit Meets; Big Wedding At Macedonia, Mr. H. T. Moore Adresses [Addresses?] Local NAACP Branch; Cocoa Junior High 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. 15, October 19, 1946" (1946). The Script. 15.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-thescript/15