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he served as class president all four years. After graduating from high school in 1952, he was drafted to the United States Army while working at Vulcan Furniture in June 1953. Serving his country for two years during the Korean War, Brother Dickson received an Hon- orable Discharge and returned to his na- tive Alabama. He then attended Miles College and became a charter member of the Miles College Chapter, the Delta Tau of Kappa Alpha Psi ® in 1957. Due to the leadership of Miles Col- lege president Lucius Pitts, Dickson became active in the Civil Rights Movement. Pitts employed a “selec- tive buying campaign” which targeted downtown Birmingham businesses. He also participated in Civil Rights demon- strations and marches led by civil rights luminaries the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy (Beta Zeta 1948) and he was also arrested multiple times during those demonstrations. After graduating from Miles, he became one of Blue Cross Blue Shield's ® first African American employees. Dickson subsequently went to work for Birming- ham's leading African American busi- ness man and community leader, Dr. A.G. Gaston. Dickson sold insurance for Gaston's Washington Insurance Company and later was a real estate salesman and property developer for Gaston's Vulcan Realty and Investment Co. He also worked with the Birming- ham Urban League and served as the deputy director for an experimental project at Miles College which trained African Americans for jobs within the Birmingham community. He continued his education earning a J.D. degree in 1973 from Howard University Law School. He returned to Alabama and formed his own real estate and construction company. In 1976, he founded the Alabama Republican Council to represent Black Republicans. In 1977, Dickson was the first Black real estate agent to own a Century 21 franchise in Birmingham which man- age prior to returning to work for Dr. Gaston.
David Chube 1923–2018 Gary, IN Physician
Joe Nathan Dickson 1933–2018 Birmingham, AL Newspaper Owner Civil Rights Activist and one great-great grandchild Ketia Marie Moore. Chube is survived by his former wife, Claire Lynne Chube and a host of relatives, colleagues, friends and former patients. Chube Sr.; brothers Frank Elton, Charlie, Preston, Oneal II and Willie Henry Chube; sisters, Ernestine Chube, Mrs. Mary Alice Clay, Mrs. Irene Davis, and Mrs. Annette Chube Reid; and niece Bernadine Chube Jenkins. He is survived by sons, David Demaret II, Charles Randall (Kelleye), Gordon One- al (Alpha 1992), Dale Arthur Chube; eight daughters, Robin Carol Chube Smith (Ronald), Ramona Chube, Elder Meta “Bonnie” Moore, Julie Chube- Sanchez (Radames), Daphne Chube, Shirley Chube- Burdine (Darryl), Mary Elizabeth Hawkins (Kemuel), and Ellen-Blair Chube; seventeen grand- children, John David Wilson, Steven Jourdon Wilson, Brittany Dior Wilson, Luv Ever Johnson (James), TaMe Moore (Cynthia), Lewis Chube, Violet Chube, Corbin Chube, Kendall Chube, Gabri- elle Sanchez, Hilton Sanchez, Taylor Burdine, D.J. Burdine, Haleigh Chube, Langston Chube, Landon Chube, Julian Chube; five great-grandchildren, Alexis Wilson, Mercedes Moore, Makayla Moore, Andrew Johnson, Lydia Johnson;
Serving the Gary, IN community for over 60 years, Dr. David D. Chube, Sr. M.D. (Alpha Sigma 1941) en- tered the Chapter Invisible on Sep- tember 23, 2018 at
the age of 95. Born on August 15, 1923 to Oneal and Mary (Rucker) Chube, Sr. Chube grew up in Baton Rouge, LA. He attended both Southern University in Baton Rouge and Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr. Chube served in the United States Army Air Force during World War II and following his military service, he became the first in his family to attend medical school graduating from Meharry Medi- cal College located in Nashville, TN in 1955. In 1956, he established Chube Medical Corporation, located in Gary, IN where he served the community until 2015. During that time, he was on staff at The Methodist Hospitals and St. Mary Medical Centers. Then Indiana Governor Evan Bayh ap- pointed Dr. Chube to the Indiana Com- mission for Higher Education where he served from 1989-2005. In 2013, the Gary Frontiers Service Club honored him with the prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major Award. He is also a member of the Southern University Football Hall of Fame. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi®, he also supported Indiana University, Culver Academies, Morgan Park Academy, the National Medical Association and the Elder Watson Diggs Memorial Fund. A lifelong supporter of Meharry, Dr. Chube was a member of the Guardians of Our Legacy—Meharry alumni who’ve donated over $100,000 to the institu- tion. Brother Chube is preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley Chube; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oneal (Mary Rucker)
Brother Joe Nathan Dickson entered the Chapter Invisible on July 21, 2018 at the age of 85. Brother Dickson was born in Mont- gomery, AL on March 5, 1933 to the late Robert and
Mary Rachel Dickson. His father passed away when Dickson was five years old and his family moved to Fairfield, AL. He attended Loveless School in Mont- gomery then Sixty-First Street School in Fairfield, which is now Robinson Elementary School. He then attended Fairfield Industrial High School where
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