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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1969
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-2- being dead,...it is a new and very critical phase. The statement is made by those who have long ago given up the struggle, as well as those who hope that, somehow, it will go away. No amount of hoping, will make "it" go away...nor will the fact that some have decided to "cop-out" now that "being involved", is not fashionable. This movement for freedom is here to stay,...there is no going back! It is a world-wide struggle and everywhere, it is gaining momentum among men who are oppressed. America can stand as a leader among nations, if her citizens choose the course which will eliminate the gross inequities which exist in our country, today! Unfortunately, there are too many things which are so deeply ingrained...that their eradication will be difficult. It is only because of years of tears, blood, sweat, battered dreams and volumes of legal battles. These gains have only given people what was rightfully theirs, as citizens of this country. Yet, with all of the gains, conditions are generally worse than before. More Black children are in segregated schools than before the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and there are more segregated neighborhoods than there were in the 1960's. In other words, despite the many advances which many people consider to be adequate, Negroes are hardly better off than they were fiftee years ago. Time is running out, for patience is wearing thin and we still have time to work together to rid the social structure of this country of the conditions which breed the racism which is "eating" away at it, internally. No, the civil rights movement is not dead...it is here to stay...and we shall have to choose if we are going to make this country the land it was meant to be, with the justice and freedom for all men, regardless of race, color or creed. In the words of JFK, " The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." "THE SUPPLANT" "Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door, Praying the patient, little prayer my fathers prayed before, Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word. Soft o'er the threshold of the years there comes when this counsel cool: The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool!" -Georgia Douglas Johnson "There is a sleeper in the President's latest statement on "Tax Reform" sent down to Wilbur Mills' Committee. The sleeper would remove from foundations the capacity to grant money for voter registration. This, of course, would not prevent the American Legion on the one hand or the League of Women Voters on the other hand from doing their voter registration. But effectively it would prevent foundations from funding all voter registration projects that have been done in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina trhough grants from the New York Foundation, the Stern Family Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Field Foundation and the Taconic Foundation. No one other than foundations like this will finance non-partisan voter registration campaigns in the big city ghettos. Without the ballot a man is less than a man in our society. With regard to the restrictions on foundations: this is found in: Committee on Ways and Means, U. S. House of Representatives, Tax Reform Proposals, Contained in the Message from the President of April 21, 1969, printed in the United States Government Printing Office, and it states on page 38, #4: "Prohibit private foundations from engaging in activities which directly affect political campaigns, such as voter registration drives." University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- being dead,...it is a new and very critical phase. The statement is made by those who have long ago given up the struggle, as well as those who hope that, somehow, it will go away. No amount of hoping, will make "it" go away...nor will the fact that some have decided to "cop-out" now that "being involved", is not fashionable. This movement for freedom is here to stay,...there is no going back! It is a world-wide struggle and everywhere, it is gaining momentum among men who are oppressed. America can stand as a leader among nations, if her citizens choose the course which will eliminate the gross inequities which exist in our country, today! Unfortunately, there are too many things which are so deeply ingrained...that their eradication will be difficult. It is only because of years of tears, blood, sweat, battered dreams and volumes of legal battles. These gains have only given people what was rightfully theirs, as citizens of this country. Yet, with all of the gains, conditions are generally worse than before. More Black children are in segregated schools than before the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and there are more segregated neighborhoods than there were in the 1960's. In other words, despite the many advances which many people consider to be adequate, Negroes are hardly better off than they were fiftee years ago. Time is running out, for patience is wearing thin and we still have time to work together to rid the social structure of this country of the conditions which breed the racism which is "eating" away at it, internally. No, the civil rights movement is not dead...it is here to stay...and we shall have to choose if we are going to make this country the land it was meant to be, with the justice and freedom for all men, regardless of race, color or creed. In the words of JFK, " The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." "THE SUPPLANT" "Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door, Praying the patient, little prayer my fathers prayed before, Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word. Soft o'er the threshold of the years there comes when this counsel cool: The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool!" -Georgia Douglas Johnson "There is a sleeper in the President's latest statement on "Tax Reform" sent down to Wilbur Mills' Committee. The sleeper would remove from foundations the capacity to grant money for voter registration. This, of course, would not prevent the American Legion on the one hand or the League of Women Voters on the other hand from doing their voter registration. But effectively it would prevent foundations from funding all voter registration projects that have been done in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina trhough grants from the New York Foundation, the Stern Family Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Field Foundation and the Taconic Foundation. No one other than foundations like this will finance non-partisan voter registration campaigns in the big city ghettos. Without the ballot a man is less than a man in our society. With regard to the restrictions on foundations: this is found in: Committee on Ways and Means, U. S. House of Representatives, Tax Reform Proposals, Contained in the Message from the President of April 21, 1969, printed in the United States Government Printing Office, and it states on page 38, #4: "Prohibit private foundations from engaging in activities which directly affect political campaigns, such as voter registration drives." University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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