Memorial to Honor Birthday of Branch

Camden Negro Physician and Civic Leader Will Be Praised Tomorrow Memorial exercises honoring the birthday of Dr. Clement T. Branch, Camden's Negro civic leader, who died in 1933, will be held at the Union American M. E. Church, Chestnut street near Seventh, tomorrow at 8 p. m. The ceremonies are sponsored by the Citizens' Civil Liberties League of Camden City, of which James L. Johnson, Jr., is president and Carl A. Egerton, secretary. Members of the committee include William B. Adams, chairman; Elsie Egerton, Agnes Brown, Alice Davis, Mrs. Hannah K. Forsten, Mrs. L. B. Redden, Alfred A. Jackson, Raymond Johnson, Egerton, William Melton. Adams and V R. L. Johnson will be co-masters of ceremonies. Dr. John Quincy McDougald, member of the Board of Trustees at Shaw University and a classmate of Dr. Branch, will be guest speaker. Other features will be a musical revue and a symphonic orchestra. Dr. Branch was born in Virginia in 1870. He came to Camden in 1904 as a physician. He launched civic and political rights for his people and fought a successful fight to keep Negro students in the high schools. He later became a member of the Board of Education.