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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1964
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-2- Committee chairmen are asked to remember that summary reports of their years work should be ready to hand in so that everything might be compiled and sent to the Blackhawk County Branch for the Conference Souvenir program. SELECTIVE BUYING! LEVER BROTHERS PRODUCTS Soaps: Dove, Lux, Lifebuoy, Swan Detergents: All, Breeze, Rinso, Surf, Wisk Toothpaste: Pepsodent, Stripe Margarines: Imperial, Good Luck Shortening; Spry Foods: Lipton Tea and Soups All Voice of Music Products All Modern Plastics Products With new programs being set in motion.... new and more workers will be needed! Anyone interested in lending their active and personal support is asked to come to the meeting, Sunday nights, or to contact the president, Mrs. Woods. We do need YOU! It is interesting to listen to the comments about the different branch projects ... especially by members who don't attend the meetings. All ideas are wanted...., needed... and welcome, but it would be much nicer if they were brought to and presented to the branch. Has anyone wondered what has happened to the Mayor's Human Rights Commission. We do know there are vacancies that have not been filled..and also that no meetings have been called for several months. These commissions have been quite effective in most communities where they are active and involved in constructive work. The area of communication between groups (not necessarily racial) in Fort Madison is far from being perfect, and such a commission could serve to ease the barriers which do exist. NEGRO MAKERS OF HISTORY PHYLLIS WHEATLEY... a poet, her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first volume by a Negro woman and the second book by an American woman. JOHN B. RUSSWURM... first Negro college graduate, (Bowdoin - 1826), was co-founder of the first Negro newspaper which was called Freedom's Journal., in 1827. Four of the most outstanding regiments in World War I were made up entirely of Negroes. They were the 369th, 370th, 371st and the 372nd. The first three were recipients of the Croix de Guerre which is awarded for valor while the fourth was distinctive in battles which took place in Argonne Forest. New York's old 15th Regiment, the 369th, was the first of the Allied units to reach the Rhine. Under fire for a total of 191 days, not one foot of ground was lost. Nor was on trench or one soldier lost by way of being captured. The 376th of Illinois was equally as gallant and the last battle of World War I was fought by them! University of Iowa Libraries Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- Committee chairmen are asked to remember that summary reports of their years work should be ready to hand in so that everything might be compiled and sent to the Blackhawk County Branch for the Conference Souvenir program. SELECTIVE BUYING! LEVER BROTHERS PRODUCTS Soaps: Dove, Lux, Lifebuoy, Swan Detergents: All, Breeze, Rinso, Surf, Wisk Toothpaste: Pepsodent, Stripe Margarines: Imperial, Good Luck Shortening; Spry Foods: Lipton Tea and Soups All Voice of Music Products All Modern Plastics Products With new programs being set in motion.... new and more workers will be needed! Anyone interested in lending their active and personal support is asked to come to the meeting, Sunday nights, or to contact the president, Mrs. Woods. We do need YOU! It is interesting to listen to the comments about the different branch projects ... especially by members who don't attend the meetings. All ideas are wanted...., needed... and welcome, but it would be much nicer if they were brought to and presented to the branch. Has anyone wondered what has happened to the Mayor's Human Rights Commission. We do know there are vacancies that have not been filled..and also that no meetings have been called for several months. These commissions have been quite effective in most communities where they are active and involved in constructive work. The area of communication between groups (not necessarily racial) in Fort Madison is far from being perfect, and such a commission could serve to ease the barriers which do exist. NEGRO MAKERS OF HISTORY PHYLLIS WHEATLEY... a poet, her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first volume by a Negro woman and the second book by an American woman. JOHN B. RUSSWURM... first Negro college graduate, (Bowdoin - 1826), was co-founder of the first Negro newspaper which was called Freedom's Journal., in 1827. Four of the most outstanding regiments in World War I were made up entirely of Negroes. They were the 369th, 370th, 371st and the 372nd. The first three were recipients of the Croix de Guerre which is awarded for valor while the fourth was distinctive in battles which took place in Argonne Forest. New York's old 15th Regiment, the 369th, was the first of the Allied units to reach the Rhine. Under fire for a total of 191 days, not one foot of ground was lost. Nor was on trench or one soldier lost by way of being captured. The 376th of Illinois was equally as gallant and the last battle of World War I was fought by them! University of Iowa Libraries Iowa Women's Archives
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