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Cecile Cooper newspaper clippings, 1964-1998
Article: ""Friends honor Cecile Cooper""
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Friends Honor Cecil Cooper Friends of Cecile Cooper honored her at potluck dinner Nov. 12 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sal- strom, Rock Island. Cecile is planning to move from Davenport, where she has resided for over 30 years, to a Coralville, Iowa housing facility for the elderly. Cecil has been active in many projects to further the spread of Black History, Black pride and inter-racial harmony. Her colleagues from the Quad-City council on Human rights presented her with a "money tree," a shrub with dollar and 5 dollar bills folded to look like flowers. The shrub was from the yard of the late Amanda Anders, who had been the pianist for the choir of Cecile's church, Bethel AME in Davenport. Cecile was well known fir organizing annual Inter-Faith-Inter Racial Ice cream socials for the benefit of the Delta Ministry in Mississippi. She has also organized fund- raising projects for her church, for the Negro Heritage Society and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Cecile dresses like a model, and she has expressed her love of fashion by organizing style shows such as the annual Lilac Time. She is a professional hairdresser. Some of her other community activities include being on the board of the Lend-a-Hand Senior Citizen Center, the board of plus 60, and on the Davenport Citizens Advisory Committee. She has worked on the Afro-American room for the Bettendorffor many years, and has been a reporter for the Iowa By-stander.
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Friends Honor Cecil Cooper Friends of Cecile Cooper honored her at potluck dinner Nov. 12 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sal- strom, Rock Island. Cecile is planning to move from Davenport, where she has resided for over 30 years, to a Coralville, Iowa housing facility for the elderly. Cecil has been active in many projects to further the spread of Black History, Black pride and inter-racial harmony. Her colleagues from the Quad-City council on Human rights presented her with a "money tree," a shrub with dollar and 5 dollar bills folded to look like flowers. The shrub was from the yard of the late Amanda Anders, who had been the pianist for the choir of Cecile's church, Bethel AME in Davenport. Cecile was well known fir organizing annual Inter-Faith-Inter Racial Ice cream socials for the benefit of the Delta Ministry in Mississippi. She has also organized fund- raising projects for her church, for the Negro Heritage Society and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Cecile dresses like a model, and she has expressed her love of fashion by organizing style shows such as the annual Lilac Time. She is a professional hairdresser. Some of her other community activities include being on the board of the Lend-a-Hand Senior Citizen Center, the board of plus 60, and on the Davenport Citizens Advisory Committee. She has worked on the Afro-American room for the Bettendorffor many years, and has been a reporter for the Iowa By-stander.
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