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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1968
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-3- memberships have expired. ATTENTION!!! REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING JANUARY 21, 1968 5:30 PM CITY HALL DID YOU KNOW??? Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz- A north Carolina, negro teacher with thirty years of teaching experience, who has already served as NEA president of the Classroom Teachers Association, was elected president of the million member National Education Association and will take office in July of 1968. Robert Clark- Is the first negro legislator to sit in the legislature of the state of Mississippi in 74 years. Gwendolyn Brooks- negro Pulitzer prize winning poet of Chicago was named Poet Laureate of Illinois in an Executive Order by Governor Kerner. Carl Sandburg held the title for many years, before his death. MAJOR Robert Lawrence- First Negro astronaut who was killed less than five months after he began training, is the only one of the American astronauts who had a PH.D. degree. This, he earned at Ohio State. Not only is our society built on violence, but it is also, for those purposes it seams to be in the white interests, tolerates violence. - Bayard Rustin The tentative date which has been set for the first meeting of the Human Rights Commission of Fort Madison, is January 25, 1968 at 7:30 PM. The Commission is made up of persons who are aware and concerned with the problems of the rights of human beings who reside in this community. This includes everyone, regardless of their race color or creed. Our community has all of the problems which are found in other cities and towns whether they are recognized, or not. One of the major areas which is a problem all over the country is that of housing. Fort madison is no exception. Our organization hopes that this will be an effective and working commission and feel certain that they will accomplish much and be a definite credit to the town. They are still finding Negro bodies in the south, (although the white press deems it best not to print it)...and very near here, in the state of Missouri there are schools which are still segregated. With conditions such as these existing, no-one can honestly say that there is nothing to fight for!!! Although things may be better for many of us,... the civil rights revolution must continue until things are alright for all of us who live in the United States. and it WILL! University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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-3- memberships have expired. ATTENTION!!! REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING JANUARY 21, 1968 5:30 PM CITY HALL DID YOU KNOW??? Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz- A north Carolina, negro teacher with thirty years of teaching experience, who has already served as NEA president of the Classroom Teachers Association, was elected president of the million member National Education Association and will take office in July of 1968. Robert Clark- Is the first negro legislator to sit in the legislature of the state of Mississippi in 74 years. Gwendolyn Brooks- negro Pulitzer prize winning poet of Chicago was named Poet Laureate of Illinois in an Executive Order by Governor Kerner. Carl Sandburg held the title for many years, before his death. MAJOR Robert Lawrence- First Negro astronaut who was killed less than five months after he began training, is the only one of the American astronauts who had a PH.D. degree. This, he earned at Ohio State. Not only is our society built on violence, but it is also, for those purposes it seams to be in the white interests, tolerates violence. - Bayard Rustin The tentative date which has been set for the first meeting of the Human Rights Commission of Fort Madison, is January 25, 1968 at 7:30 PM. The Commission is made up of persons who are aware and concerned with the problems of the rights of human beings who reside in this community. This includes everyone, regardless of their race color or creed. Our community has all of the problems which are found in other cities and towns whether they are recognized, or not. One of the major areas which is a problem all over the country is that of housing. Fort madison is no exception. Our organization hopes that this will be an effective and working commission and feel certain that they will accomplish much and be a definite credit to the town. They are still finding Negro bodies in the south, (although the white press deems it best not to print it)...and very near here, in the state of Missouri there are schools which are still segregated. With conditions such as these existing, no-one can honestly say that there is nothing to fight for!!! Although things may be better for many of us,... the civil rights revolution must continue until things are alright for all of us who live in the United States. and it WILL! University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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