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Clement T. Branch
Clement T. Branch (1869-1933), Camden physician and civil rights leader, was the first Black member of the city's Board of Education.
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Biographical Sketch of Dr. Clement T. Branch
The biographical sketch of Dr. Clement T. Branch (1869-1933) printed in the program for the September 27, 1941 dedication of Clement T. Branch Village, the Camden housing project named for him.
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Mrs. Bean Names Committees Heads For 'Y' Activities
Mrs. Albert M. Bean, president of the Camden Y. W. C. A. board of directors, named the 1938 chairmen of its standing committees; the notice also announced a Fireside Group talk by Joseph Sickler and a health education department meeting.
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WOMEN — AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING
M. Irene Frost's column on the Camden Y. W. C. A. race relations committee's Negro History Week program, including WCAM broadcasts by Mrs. Harold W. Bennett and Mrs. Wilda Townsend and the new 1938 officers of the Frances Harper Branch committee of management.
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Memorial to Honor Birthday of Branch
Memorial exercises honoring the birthday of Dr. Clement T. Branch, Camden's Negro civic leader who died in 1933, were set for the Union American M. E. Church on Chestnut Street, sponsored by the Citizens' Civil Liberties League of Camden City.
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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
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7 Democrats Rallies in County Tonight
Democratic speakers, urging suffrage in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and the local Democratic ticket, will invade seven political clubs in the city and county tonight.
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Street is Ordered Closed by City to Save Woman's Life
At the request of Dr. Clement T. Branch, the City of Camden roped off Ninth Street between Walnut and Cherry Streets so that traffic noise on the cobblestones would not endanger his critically ill patient, Mrs. Hattie Jones of 954 South Ninth Street.
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Former Detective Murry Drops Dead In Street
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
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Negro on Camden Education Board
Dr. Clement T. Branch was appointed to the Camden Board of Education by Mayor Ellis in January 1920, its first negro member; board president E. E. Read and member Harry C. Dole resigned within days.