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First black graduate of UTC speaking at tonight’s annual NAACP Ruby Hurley banquet

Dr. Horace Traylor (second from right) is seen in this historic photo from a mass meeting here at the Memorial Auditoriam on December 31, 1963. Also in the from photo, from left are, Dr. Major Jones of Stanley Memorial Methodist Church, Rev. Dogan Williams of Wiley Memorial Methodist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Traylor President of the Council for Cooperative Action, and James R. Mapp of the NAACP.
Dr. Horace Traylor (second from right) is seen in this historic photo from a mass meeting here at the Memorial Auditoriam on December 31, 1963. Also in the from photo, from left are, Dr. Major Jones of Stanley Memorial Methodist Church, Rev. Dogan Williams of Wiley Memorial Methodist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Traylor President of the Council for Cooperative Action, and James R. Mapp of the NAACP.

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Ruby Hurley Image Awards

Ruby Hurley HumanitarianDejuan S. Jordan, executive director of Stop the Madness National Inc.James R. Mapp “Citizen of the Year” AwardRonald Harris, vice-president of diversity and inclusion at BlueCross BlueShieldEducator of the YearDr. Elaine Swafford, executive director of Chattanooga Girls Leadership AcademyRalph Cothran Police Civil ServicePedro Bacon, Chattanooga Police DepartmentRalph Cothran Fire-Fighter Civil ServiceCecil Barber, Chattanooga Fire DepartmentViola Mapp Membership AwardDwight Smith, Chattanooga Hamilton NAACP Membership CommitteeHannah Martin “Through the Storm”Ruth Auls, Tennessee Social Service

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For more information call George Calhoun at 423-645-1140.

Dr. Horace Traylor, the first black graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and president of the now-defunct Zion College, will speak at the NAACP’s 29th Annual Ruby Hurley Image Awards banquet at 6 p.m. today at Stratton Hall.

“Black Power Reloaded Through the Vote,” is the theme of the event, said George Calhoun, third vice president of the local NAACP and chairman of the Ruby Hurley committee.

“This is election time, and we thought we needed to bring in some big guns to talk about the importance of voting in terms of getting out to vote and all of the sacrifices that have been made,” Calhoun said.