NAEB Newsletter (March 1, 1941)

Urbana, Illinois March 1, 1941 WHERE AND WHEN THE CONVENTION? With this News Letter there is a brief questionnaire on which you are kindly requested to indicate your preferences as to time and place. Please fill out and return to the Executive Secretary. AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL QN WNYC WNYC, New York Municipal Station, for the second year, pre¬ sented the American Music Festival, with five or more daily broadcasts between the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. The series featuring music by American composers, both modern and of the past, was presented by the WNYC Concert Orchestra in cooperation with such organizations as the League of Composers, Museum of Modern Art, and the Munici¬ pal Opera. RADIO SERIES TO DEPICT NEGRO CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN LIFE A series of educational radio programs planned by the U. S. Office of Education and financed by a Rosenwald Foundation grant will dramatize Negro contributions to American life. The programs,to be broadcast nationally, will portray the role Negroes have played in American education, art, science, industry, and other fields of endeavor, U. S. Commissioner of Education John W # Studebaker,reports. The radio series is being prepared under the general direction of Ambrose Caliver, U. S. Office of Education Specialist in the Edu¬ cation of Negroes and William D„ Boutwell, Chief, Division of Radio, Publications, and Exhibits. Plais for the project call for transcriptions of the programs for use in schools, colleges and by local radio stations. The transcriptions, and radio soripts revised as lesson units and study guides, are expected to be used by both white and Negro schools in courses or units of instruction abjut Negroes in the United States. The U. S n Office of Education will have the assistance of a technical advisory committee in developing the series of radio