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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1968
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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 HOME VISITS will start again around mid-October. Anyone interested in participating, should contact the Branch administrative Secretary, Miss Harper at 372-3542 or 372-3072. Remember, that one of the biggest barriers existing in the area of race relations is the lack of communication. Join us, these visits are interesting, stimulating and informative. We need white and black homes, as well as black and white participants. INTERRACIAL by Georgia Douglas Johnson Let's build bridges here and there Or sometimes, just a spiral stair That we may come somewhat abreast And sense what cannot be exprest, And by these measures can be found A meeting place - a common ground Nearer the reaches of the heart Where truth revealed, stands clear, apart; With understanding come to know What laughing lips will never show: How tears and torturing distress May masquerade as happiness: Then you will know when my heart's aching And I when yours is slowly breaking. Commune...the altars will reveal... We then shall be impulsed to kneel And send a prayer upon its way For those who wear the thorns today. Oh, let's build bridges everywhere And span the gulf of challenge there "Come, my friend, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world." -Alfred Lord Tennyson JOIN THE NAACP or RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP, TODAY! ! ! REMEMBER, FREEDOM IS NOT FREE AND NONE OF US WILL BE SECURELY FREE...UNTIL ALL MEN ARE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE COLOR OR CREED! University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 HOME VISITS will start again around mid-October. Anyone interested in participating, should contact the Branch administrative Secretary, Miss Harper at 372-3542 or 372-3072. Remember, that one of the biggest barriers existing in the area of race relations is the lack of communication. Join us, these visits are interesting, stimulating and informative. We need white and black homes, as well as black and white participants. INTERRACIAL by Georgia Douglas Johnson Let's build bridges here and there Or sometimes, just a spiral stair That we may come somewhat abreast And sense what cannot be exprest, And by these measures can be found A meeting place - a common ground Nearer the reaches of the heart Where truth revealed, stands clear, apart; With understanding come to know What laughing lips will never show: How tears and torturing distress May masquerade as happiness: Then you will know when my heart's aching And I when yours is slowly breaking. Commune...the altars will reveal... We then shall be impulsed to kneel And send a prayer upon its way For those who wear the thorns today. Oh, let's build bridges everywhere And span the gulf of challenge there "Come, my friend, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world." -Alfred Lord Tennyson JOIN THE NAACP or RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP, TODAY! ! ! REMEMBER, FREEDOM IS NOT FREE AND NONE OF US WILL BE SECURELY FREE...UNTIL ALL MEN ARE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE COLOR OR CREED! University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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