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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1964
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-2- The State Penetentiary of Iowa has hired another Negro guard! WANTED!!! More participants in the Home Visits program! Interracial 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 impulse 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. by Georgia Douglas Johnson May 14, 1964 is the date for the Closed circuit Nationwide NAACP telecast. The show will be viewed at the KRNT Theatre in Des Moines, as well as in other large cities around the country. Steve Allen, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Sammy Davis and many others will lend their talents for the show. The purpose of the show is to commemorate the 10th anniversary of that precedent-setting Supreme Court decision in 1954 on school desegregation. Details concerning reservations will be given at the next meeting. From NOW…until May 24,…the membership campaign committee will be hard ‘at it’, trying to reach the membership goal which they have set for themselves! If you are not a member…and have considered joining…but have questions to ask, any of the persons serving on the campaign committee will be glad to talk to you! Altho’ two organized teams will be working,…EVERY member is expected to solicit new members! The captains of the membership campaign teams are: Mr. Wendell Carter and Mrs. Norma Woods. JOIN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM...TODAY! If you aren't a member,...join in '64! Members of the executive committee of the Iowa State Conference of Branches met in Des Moines this past weekend. Mr. Joseph Dulin and Mr. Wendell Carter, members of the committee, will give a report at the next regular meeting! University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women’s Archives
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-2- The State Penetentiary of Iowa has hired another Negro guard! WANTED!!! More participants in the Home Visits program! Interracial 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 impulse 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. by Georgia Douglas Johnson May 14, 1964 is the date for the Closed circuit Nationwide NAACP telecast. The show will be viewed at the KRNT Theatre in Des Moines, as well as in other large cities around the country. Steve Allen, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Sammy Davis and many others will lend their talents for the show. The purpose of the show is to commemorate the 10th anniversary of that precedent-setting Supreme Court decision in 1954 on school desegregation. Details concerning reservations will be given at the next meeting. From NOW…until May 24,…the membership campaign committee will be hard ‘at it’, trying to reach the membership goal which they have set for themselves! If you are not a member…and have considered joining…but have questions to ask, any of the persons serving on the campaign committee will be glad to talk to you! Altho’ two organized teams will be working,…EVERY member is expected to solicit new members! The captains of the membership campaign teams are: Mr. Wendell Carter and Mrs. Norma Woods. JOIN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM...TODAY! If you aren't a member,...join in '64! Members of the executive committee of the Iowa State Conference of Branches met in Des Moines this past weekend. Mr. Joseph Dulin and Mr. Wendell Carter, members of the committee, will give a report at the next regular meeting! University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women’s Archives
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