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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 16, 1965 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 ANNUAL MEETING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1965 5:30 P M City Hall - Council Rooms 8th St. & Avenue E Dear Member: Please take notice that the Annual Meeting of the Fort Madison, Iowa, Branch will be held along with the regularly held monthly meeting, for the purpose of voting for candidates to the Board of Directors of the National Association. This meeting will take place on Sunday, December 19, 1965 at 5:30 PM in the Council Room of City Hall. Cordially yours, [actual signature] Norma L. Woods President All members in good standing and who are present at the meeting will be eligible to vote. This election, though only for national candidates, is important to us for we must work to see that those persons who are familiar to the problems which exist in Region IV and are placed on the Board. "Till Victory Is Won" 'Let no one be lulled into the false belief that the Fight for Freedom has been won - that the struggle is over - because of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. These new laws, together with the aid-to-education and anti-poverty legislation, represent giant strides toward President Johnson's Great Society. But by no means do they presage an early end to the struggle for equality or a diminution too massive to permit any lessening of the drive to eradicate racism in the United States. ...There is every likelihood that in the years ahead the struggle will be more di ficult than in the era of head-on conflict with an unabashed foe. The enemy, that is, racism, becomes more subtle, elusive and difficult to detect and combat. A more sophisticated guise replaces the simpleton's hood of the Ku Klux Klan. To meet the challenge of this new period we need a stronger, bigger and better financed NAACP. It is of the utmost importance that the organization be strengthened. This is no time for relaxation in the belief that the fight has been won. This is the time to press forward on a wide range of problems, many of them old, some of them new, all of them urgently in need of a solution. 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 DECEMBER 16, 1965 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 ANNUAL MEETING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1965 5:30 P M City Hall - Council Rooms 8th St. & Avenue E Dear Member: Please take notice that the Annual Meeting of the Fort Madison, Iowa, Branch will be held along with the regularly held monthly meeting, for the purpose of voting for candidates to the Board of Directors of the National Association. This meeting will take place on Sunday, December 19, 1965 at 5:30 PM in the Council Room of City Hall. Cordially yours, [actual signature] Norma L. Woods President All members in good standing and who are present at the meeting will be eligible to vote. This election, though only for national candidates, is important to us for we must work to see that those persons who are familiar to the problems which exist in Region IV and are placed on the Board. "Till Victory Is Won" 'Let no one be lulled into the false belief that the Fight for Freedom has been won - that the struggle is over - because of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. These new laws, together with the aid-to-education and anti-poverty legislation, represent giant strides toward President Johnson's Great Society. But by no means do they presage an early end to the struggle for equality or a diminution too massive to permit any lessening of the drive to eradicate racism in the United States. ...There is every likelihood that in the years ahead the struggle will be more di ficult than in the era of head-on conflict with an unabashed foe. The enemy, that is, racism, becomes more subtle, elusive and difficult to detect and combat. A more sophisticated guise replaces the simpleton's hood of the Ku Klux Klan. To meet the challenge of this new period we need a stronger, bigger and better financed NAACP. It is of the utmost importance that the organization be strengthened. This is no time for relaxation in the belief that the fight has been won. This is the time to press forward on a wide range of problems, many of them old, some of them new, all of them urgently in need of a solution. University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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