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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER JUNE 15, 1967 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 REGULAR MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING! SUNDAY - JUNE 18, 1967 CITY HALL - 8th and Avenue E 5:30 PM This is the last meeting before the annual National Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston - Sheraton Hotel, July 10 - 15. A discussion about delegates will take place during this meeting. The program for the National Convention promises to be most informative and will include workshops in the following areas: Labor and Industry, Education, Legal Action, Leadership Development, Branch Problems, Membership and Fund Raising, Political Action, Organizing the Ghetto, Consumer Education and Housing. In Wilcox County, Alabama, the body of a missing NAACP worker was found hung in a fishing line at a place named Peach Tree Ferry. Sherriff P.C. Lummie Jenkins insists that there was no foul play in connection with the 24 year old Bodell Williams death because there were no bruises on the body and the man was not a civil rights activist. However, Alabama Field Director of the NAACP, Reverend K. L. Buford, said the young man was very active in voter-registration and was one of the first Negro poll watchers in that county. Reverend Buford also commented that the body was so badly decomposed it would have been impossible to determine if there were bruises present and the autopsy hadn't been completed. At this point, the FBI has begun an investigation. In the last fourteen months, ten Negroes have been killed by Alabama lawmen. Still using their dual pattern of apprehending whites and shooting Negroes, these law officers defiantly refuse to extend equal opportunity to Negroes under any circumstances. "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." -John Donne 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 NEWSLETTER JUNE 15, 1967 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 REGULAR MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING! SUNDAY - JUNE 18, 1967 CITY HALL - 8th and Avenue E 5:30 PM This is the last meeting before the annual National Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston - Sheraton Hotel, July 10 - 15. A discussion about delegates will take place during this meeting. The program for the National Convention promises to be most informative and will include workshops in the following areas: Labor and Industry, Education, Legal Action, Leadership Development, Branch Problems, Membership and Fund Raising, Political Action, Organizing the Ghetto, Consumer Education and Housing. In Wilcox County, Alabama, the body of a missing NAACP worker was found hung in a fishing line at a place named Peach Tree Ferry. Sherriff P.C. Lummie Jenkins insists that there was no foul play in connection with the 24 year old Bodell Williams death because there were no bruises on the body and the man was not a civil rights activist. However, Alabama Field Director of the NAACP, Reverend K. L. Buford, said the young man was very active in voter-registration and was one of the first Negro poll watchers in that county. Reverend Buford also commented that the body was so badly decomposed it would have been impossible to determine if there were bruises present and the autopsy hadn't been completed. At this point, the FBI has begun an investigation. In the last fourteen months, ten Negroes have been killed by Alabama lawmen. Still using their dual pattern of apprehending whites and shooting Negroes, these law officers defiantly refuse to extend equal opportunity to Negroes under any circumstances. "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." -John Donne University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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