Brotherhood Week, sponsored annually by the National Conference of Christians and Jews will start this week-end all over the country with more than 6,000 communities participating in special programs dedicated to the brotherhood of man.
Schools, churches, synagogues, civic clubs, community centers, women’s organizations, farm, labor, veteran and youth groups have scheduled events for the observance. Newspapers, magazines, radio, television and motion picture theatres will also participate.
Two cities, Cleveland and Perth Amboy, New Jersey, will receive the congratulations of the nation as the winners of the 1952 Community Human Relations Award. This award is presented by the National Conference to American cities “for outstanding improvement in relations among its religious and racial groups.” Cleveland was selected in the classification of cities over 50,000 population, and Perth Amboy for cities under that figure.
Abroad in the free nations of Europe, World Brotherhood Week will be simultaneously celebrated under the auspices of World Brotherhood, an organization formed in 1950 to lessen frictions created by national, religious and cultural differences.
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