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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 17, 1966 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 REGULAR MEETING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1966 5:30 PM CITY HALL A representative of the Chamber of Commerce will be present at this meeting to discuss the Bond issue with us. Please try to be present! BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER "Some of us are like ink, and some like paper; And if it were not for the blackness of some of us, Some of us would be Dumb. And if it were not for the whiteness of some of us, Some of us would be blind." -Gibran Dr. Samuel P. Massie, Negro president of North Carolina College, recently resigned and became the first colored professor at Annapolis Naval Academy. This would seem to be the first step in fulfillment of the president's promise of integration at the Academy. Roy Wilkens, NAACP executive director, on the metality of the Klu Klux Klan: "For the time is about 1840. The Negroes are in rebellion, but this present uprising is worse than an 1840 slave insurrection because 'white collaborators' aid it and the national government in Washington supports it." "We who are concerned with interracial justice must be careful not to solve one social and religious problem by introducing another which is equally pernicious. Concretely, we must not work only for the rights of the respectable, hard - working, ambitious Negro. If we are to be true to our religious principles, we must extend our concern to the really deprived and even depraved part of society. Otherwise we are building our house on the unstable sand of Class discrimination." -CIC Newsletter - Oct. 1964 IMPORTANT: The regular meeting, scheduled to be held on March 20, 1965, will be combined with a POT-LUCK Dinner. This will be at 5:30 PM at Sacred Heart Hall. University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 17, 1966 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 REGULAR MEETING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1966 5:30 PM CITY HALL A representative of the Chamber of Commerce will be present at this meeting to discuss the Bond issue with us. Please try to be present! BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER "Some of us are like ink, and some like paper; And if it were not for the blackness of some of us, Some of us would be Dumb. And if it were not for the whiteness of some of us, Some of us would be blind." -Gibran Dr. Samuel P. Massie, Negro president of North Carolina College, recently resigned and became the first colored professor at Annapolis Naval Academy. This would seem to be the first step in fulfillment of the president's promise of integration at the Academy. Roy Wilkens, NAACP executive director, on the metality of the Klu Klux Klan: "For the time is about 1840. The Negroes are in rebellion, but this present uprising is worse than an 1840 slave insurrection because 'white collaborators' aid it and the national government in Washington supports it." "We who are concerned with interracial justice must be careful not to solve one social and religious problem by introducing another which is equally pernicious. Concretely, we must not work only for the rights of the respectable, hard - working, ambitious Negro. If we are to be true to our religious principles, we must extend our concern to the really deprived and even depraved part of society. Otherwise we are building our house on the unstable sand of Class discrimination." -CIC Newsletter - Oct. 1964 IMPORTANT: The regular meeting, scheduled to be held on March 20, 1965, will be combined with a POT-LUCK Dinner. This will be at 5:30 PM at Sacred Heart Hall. University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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