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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1964
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-2- All persons who sent pie pans, cake dishes, bowls or other utensils will have them returned, soon. Please be patient, and thank you! DON'T FORGET! YOU CANNOT VOTE IF YOU AREN'T REGISTERED! NOTICE!!! The first in a series of "Just for Fun" meetings will be held this Friday nite at 8PM at the Harper farm. These meetings will be for the purpose of discussing, informally, desired programs for the future. All interested members are welcome. Many persons still do not understand the meaning of the civil rights movement or the misinterpret the activities in which the workers engage. Such things as the protest against stereotypes is a very vital factor in the struggle for human rights. Psychological effects of such activities on Negro youth make it neccessary for us to take every step possible to prevent them. People who are not members of minority groups cannot be expected to know the 'why' and 'how' of such a reaction,...for it is something which cannot be known unless it has been experienced. However, it is not unreasonable to ask people to 'try' to understand. All persons wish to be judged as individuals...and as long as they have to overcome prejudicial stereotypes, this will not be possible. It is, therefore, our duty, if we are to be active as first - class citizens to work against all things which serve to undermine the dignity of man. All of the organizations involved in the peaceful struggle for the rights of all men are working together towards this end and do not condone the violence which has taken place by both Negro and white persons. The true goals of the movement need to be understood, for it shall not be terminated until they are attained. Until that time comes, the rights of all mankind are no more certain than the rights of those men who are being denied. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful road of its many waters. This struggle is a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will...Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. - Frederick Douglass DO YOU KNOW?...The contributions the following Negroes made to America? Estevanico, a Negro explorer, discovered Arizona and New Mexico. Crispus Attucks was first of five persons killed in the Boston Massacre. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable made the first permanent settlement in Chicago. Benjamin Banneker made the first American clock and served on the commission which surveyed the District of Columbia. University of Iowa, Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- All persons who sent pie pans, cake dishes, bowls or other utensils will have them returned, soon. Please be patient, and thank you! DON'T FORGET! YOU CANNOT VOTE IF YOU AREN'T REGISTERED! NOTICE!!! The first in a series of "Just for Fun" meetings will be held this Friday nite at 8PM at the Harper farm. These meetings will be for the purpose of discussing, informally, desired programs for the future. All interested members are welcome. Many persons still do not understand the meaning of the civil rights movement or the misinterpret the activities in which the workers engage. Such things as the protest against stereotypes is a very vital factor in the struggle for human rights. Psychological effects of such activities on Negro youth make it neccessary for us to take every step possible to prevent them. People who are not members of minority groups cannot be expected to know the 'why' and 'how' of such a reaction,...for it is something which cannot be known unless it has been experienced. However, it is not unreasonable to ask people to 'try' to understand. All persons wish to be judged as individuals...and as long as they have to overcome prejudicial stereotypes, this will not be possible. It is, therefore, our duty, if we are to be active as first - class citizens to work against all things which serve to undermine the dignity of man. All of the organizations involved in the peaceful struggle for the rights of all men are working together towards this end and do not condone the violence which has taken place by both Negro and white persons. The true goals of the movement need to be understood, for it shall not be terminated until they are attained. Until that time comes, the rights of all mankind are no more certain than the rights of those men who are being denied. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful road of its many waters. This struggle is a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will...Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. - Frederick Douglass DO YOU KNOW?...The contributions the following Negroes made to America? Estevanico, a Negro explorer, discovered Arizona and New Mexico. Crispus Attucks was first of five persons killed in the Boston Massacre. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable made the first permanent settlement in Chicago. Benjamin Banneker made the first American clock and served on the commission which surveyed the District of Columbia. University of Iowa, Iowa Women's Archives
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