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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1965
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- 2 - NAACP...Nationwide...! - According to Miss Althea Simmons, coordinator of the NAACP's Summer project, 16,804 Negroes became registered voters in the state of Mississippi by August 26, 1965. - In District Court, last week, the Board of Education of Oklahoma City, was ordered to end school segregation. The decision, which was in favor of the NAACP, by whom the suit was filed, calls for the transfer of Negro students and teachers from predominantly Negro schools to white schools and vice-versa. - In Los Angeles, the NAACP has gone to the aid of Negro residents of the Watts area who were innocent victims of the recent riots of that city. Norman B. Houston, Branch President, stressed the fact that while the NAACP is firmly opposed to lawless looting, sniping, burning and other forms of vandalism, the legal assistance of the NAACP would be available to all persons whom the NAACP felt had been wrongfully arrested and/or prosecuted. - In Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the United Hatters, Cap and Willinery Workers, International Union, AFL-CIO, the NAACP is assisting the union in its efforts to prevent the use of Negroes as strike-breakers in a long and bitter strike by the union against the M & B Headwear, Co. In the words of Herbert Hill, NAACP director for Labor programs, "...Strikebreakers are themselves victims of discrimination and their anti-social actions only lead to further abuses of Negro workers by employers." - From a memorandum to all NAACP units from Roy Wilkins, - "...the riot in the Watts district of Los Angeles has confirmed in trggic fashion what the NAACP has been telling the nation, namely, that crowded ghetto life with employment discrimination at a high rate plus mistreatment by police is a dangerous combination likely to produce an upheaval. We must condemn rioting and destruction of property and we have done so. But we condemn, also, the 'hard' and we believe, anti-Negro attitude of Chief William H. Parker and of many members of his Los Angeles Police Department." "The next stage of the civil rights struggle is going to be tougher than that of the past. It will require more skill and more discipline. Instead of concentrating all our energies on the relatively simple task of denouncing discrimination and of and of beating down barriers, we are faced with strengthening our group from within, with preparing it to use the new laws and opportunities. We must wipe out the remaining barriers and the discriminations, both crude and smooth, but we must add a new emphasis." - Roy Wilkins Observations from the 'Little NAACP Convention' in Birmingham, Alabama! Delegates from 32 states, including Hawaii, were impressed with the fully integrated accommodations and the courtesy with which they were greeted, in the heart of Dixie. Inter-racial audiences were present in all of the workshop sessions. The inter-racial delegations came from the eastern and southern states. the 'so - called' liberal mid-western states were poorly represented. There were 600 Negroes and 100 whites in attendance at the Human Rights Banquet which was held at the City Auditorium on Saturday night. This figure was 700 more than many thought would have the courage to gather in such a conspicuous place for any period of time. Over 200 youth attended the convention and they were honored at a separate dinner University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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- 2 - NAACP...Nationwide...! - According to Miss Althea Simmons, coordinator of the NAACP's Summer project, 16,804 Negroes became registered voters in the state of Mississippi by August 26, 1965. - In District Court, last week, the Board of Education of Oklahoma City, was ordered to end school segregation. The decision, which was in favor of the NAACP, by whom the suit was filed, calls for the transfer of Negro students and teachers from predominantly Negro schools to white schools and vice-versa. - In Los Angeles, the NAACP has gone to the aid of Negro residents of the Watts area who were innocent victims of the recent riots of that city. Norman B. Houston, Branch President, stressed the fact that while the NAACP is firmly opposed to lawless looting, sniping, burning and other forms of vandalism, the legal assistance of the NAACP would be available to all persons whom the NAACP felt had been wrongfully arrested and/or prosecuted. - In Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the United Hatters, Cap and Willinery Workers, International Union, AFL-CIO, the NAACP is assisting the union in its efforts to prevent the use of Negroes as strike-breakers in a long and bitter strike by the union against the M & B Headwear, Co. In the words of Herbert Hill, NAACP director for Labor programs, "...Strikebreakers are themselves victims of discrimination and their anti-social actions only lead to further abuses of Negro workers by employers." - From a memorandum to all NAACP units from Roy Wilkins, - "...the riot in the Watts district of Los Angeles has confirmed in trggic fashion what the NAACP has been telling the nation, namely, that crowded ghetto life with employment discrimination at a high rate plus mistreatment by police is a dangerous combination likely to produce an upheaval. We must condemn rioting and destruction of property and we have done so. But we condemn, also, the 'hard' and we believe, anti-Negro attitude of Chief William H. Parker and of many members of his Los Angeles Police Department." "The next stage of the civil rights struggle is going to be tougher than that of the past. It will require more skill and more discipline. Instead of concentrating all our energies on the relatively simple task of denouncing discrimination and of and of beating down barriers, we are faced with strengthening our group from within, with preparing it to use the new laws and opportunities. We must wipe out the remaining barriers and the discriminations, both crude and smooth, but we must add a new emphasis." - Roy Wilkins Observations from the 'Little NAACP Convention' in Birmingham, Alabama! Delegates from 32 states, including Hawaii, were impressed with the fully integrated accommodations and the courtesy with which they were greeted, in the heart of Dixie. Inter-racial audiences were present in all of the workshop sessions. The inter-racial delegations came from the eastern and southern states. the 'so - called' liberal mid-western states were poorly represented. There were 600 Negroes and 100 whites in attendance at the Human Rights Banquet which was held at the City Auditorium on Saturday night. This figure was 700 more than many thought would have the courage to gather in such a conspicuous place for any period of time. Over 200 youth attended the convention and they were honored at a separate dinner University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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