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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1969
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-2- Planed as a model for the State of Iowa, the 1969 POLICE - COMMUNITY RELATIONS Conferenc will meet October 24, 25 at Goldthorp Science Hall at the University of Dubuque. Sponsored by the Iowa Human Rights Coalition, the conference will include panels on the following subjects: Youth and Dubuque Law Enforcement; Police - community Relations in other Iowa Cities; Results of an Attitude Survey and Law, Order and Justice in Today's Urban Community. The Saturday, luncheon address will be given by Harold L. Adler, Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B 'nai B'rith. His topic will be, "New Models of Police-Community Responsibility." The conferenc is open to interested members of the law enforcement professions and the general public. WORDS WORT REPEATING... "The same people that administered segregation are the people who administer integration. Those same ones. Now until you people through your media start changing the hearts of those people then you are going to have more riots." - Henry Raiford, Miami Model Cities executive and an organizer of Black Brothers, on how to avoid Riots "I dislike the fact that I'm still asked to side with people who think if we (Negroes) went a little slower or if we didn't express our anger so, we might accomplish more. That bugs me. I guess all the cliches bother me, like 'we did it, why can't you?' or, 'what do you want?' That really drives me up the pole." -Lena Horne, on the hypocrisy of people's racial views. "In withholding our own enforcement of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, in segregating the Negro, we also segregated ourselves. Much of the black extremism is due to this separation." - The late Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution Publisher "Train Porters To Renew Job Bias Test Ten Negro train porters who sued the Missouri Pacific Railroad on charges of racial discrimination in wages and conditions of employment have been granted another opportunity to challenge the railroad in court on violation of Title V11 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. An opinion handed down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eigth Circuit in St. Louis, July 16, vacated the District Court judgement which dismissed the porter's suit on the ground that the 1964 Act was not applicable in the light of the Railway Labor Act which does not prohibit racial discrimination. The train porters, an all black corps of railway workers, have long complained that, wlthough they perform essentially the same tasks as the brakemen, a lily-white contingent of railway employees, they receive less pay, enjoy less favorable working conditions and are denied equal promotion and opportunities. Litigation initiated by the porters to correct this discrimination by the railroads and the unions dates back to 1946. The present case was originally filed Dec. 30, 1966, in the U. S. District Court sitting in Little Rock, Ark. Following dismissal of the complaint by the lower court on June 27, 1968, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, the NAACP filed notice of appeal. the appeal was argued in the Circuit Court in St. Louis, last April 16. University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- Planed as a model for the State of Iowa, the 1969 POLICE - COMMUNITY RELATIONS Conferenc will meet October 24, 25 at Goldthorp Science Hall at the University of Dubuque. Sponsored by the Iowa Human Rights Coalition, the conference will include panels on the following subjects: Youth and Dubuque Law Enforcement; Police - community Relations in other Iowa Cities; Results of an Attitude Survey and Law, Order and Justice in Today's Urban Community. The Saturday, luncheon address will be given by Harold L. Adler, Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B 'nai B'rith. His topic will be, "New Models of Police-Community Responsibility." The conferenc is open to interested members of the law enforcement professions and the general public. WORDS WORT REPEATING... "The same people that administered segregation are the people who administer integration. Those same ones. Now until you people through your media start changing the hearts of those people then you are going to have more riots." - Henry Raiford, Miami Model Cities executive and an organizer of Black Brothers, on how to avoid Riots "I dislike the fact that I'm still asked to side with people who think if we (Negroes) went a little slower or if we didn't express our anger so, we might accomplish more. That bugs me. I guess all the cliches bother me, like 'we did it, why can't you?' or, 'what do you want?' That really drives me up the pole." -Lena Horne, on the hypocrisy of people's racial views. "In withholding our own enforcement of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, in segregating the Negro, we also segregated ourselves. Much of the black extremism is due to this separation." - The late Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution Publisher "Train Porters To Renew Job Bias Test Ten Negro train porters who sued the Missouri Pacific Railroad on charges of racial discrimination in wages and conditions of employment have been granted another opportunity to challenge the railroad in court on violation of Title V11 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. An opinion handed down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eigth Circuit in St. Louis, July 16, vacated the District Court judgement which dismissed the porter's suit on the ground that the 1964 Act was not applicable in the light of the Railway Labor Act which does not prohibit racial discrimination. The train porters, an all black corps of railway workers, have long complained that, wlthough they perform essentially the same tasks as the brakemen, a lily-white contingent of railway employees, they receive less pay, enjoy less favorable working conditions and are denied equal promotion and opportunities. Litigation initiated by the porters to correct this discrimination by the railroads and the unions dates back to 1946. The present case was originally filed Dec. 30, 1966, in the U. S. District Court sitting in Little Rock, Ark. Following dismissal of the complaint by the lower court on June 27, 1968, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, the NAACP filed notice of appeal. the appeal was argued in the Circuit Court in St. Louis, last April 16. University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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