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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1970
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-2- believe that only his judgement is valid on such a matter? Even more revealing is his inadvertant misstatement regarding the Constitutional Provision bearing on the issue, namely, the Senate's duty of "advise and consent. "Mr. Nixon says: "under the Constitution it is the duty of the President to appoint and the Senate to advise and to decide whether it will consent. In Mr. Nixon's choice of language, he has, wittingly or not, claimed that the Senate has "duty" to consent, which is manifestly absurd, however much it may betray the President's innermost thoughts." -THE CRUSADER, APRIL 11,1970 The Region IV Leadership Training Conference will be held,April 24-26 at the Rochester - Sherton Hotel in Rochester Minnesota. Our Branch President, Dr. Harry Harper, Sr. was honored by his fraternity, in Peoria, Illinois at the meeting of the North Central Province of Kappa Alpha Psi. Dr. Harper received awards from his own Springfield Alumni Chapter as well as the outstanding Achievement Award of the North Central Province. All Americans, regardles of race ,color or creed,must watch and pray for the safe return of the astronaus.However,there are many who cannot ,honestly, be interested in the space program ,because it is hard to justify spending billions of dollars to reach the moon while there are people who are starving,in our own country. JUSTICE "That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise; Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes." -Langston Hughes "I believe in invoilence, but I believe a man should be a man. I won't turn the other cheek, but I won't hit you first." -Charles Evers DID YOU KNOW... For the first time, since the Washington, D.C. Cherry Blossom Pageant began in 1934, there will be a Black Cherry Blossom Princess! Her name is Linda Smythe.Linda is a medical cardiac technician at George Washington University Hospital. Judge Gerald Chargin was forced to resign his seat on the Juvenile Court bench in San Jose,California,because of radical slurs against Mexican-American. John M. Burgress, son of a dining car porter, became the first Black man to become a Bishop in the Episcopal Church in United States.This year he was installed as the 12th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- believe that only his judgement is valid on such a matter? Even more revealing is his inadvertant misstatement regarding the Constitutional Provision bearing on the issue, namely, the Senate's duty of "advise and consent. "Mr. Nixon says: "under the Constitution it is the duty of the President to appoint and the Senate to advise and to decide whether it will consent. In Mr. Nixon's choice of language, he has, wittingly or not, claimed that the Senate has "duty" to consent, which is manifestly absurd, however much it may betray the President's innermost thoughts." -THE CRUSADER, APRIL 11,1970 The Region IV Leadership Training Conference will be held,April 24-26 at the Rochester - Sherton Hotel in Rochester Minnesota. Our Branch President, Dr. Harry Harper, Sr. was honored by his fraternity, in Peoria, Illinois at the meeting of the North Central Province of Kappa Alpha Psi. Dr. Harper received awards from his own Springfield Alumni Chapter as well as the outstanding Achievement Award of the North Central Province. All Americans, regardles of race ,color or creed,must watch and pray for the safe return of the astronaus.However,there are many who cannot ,honestly, be interested in the space program ,because it is hard to justify spending billions of dollars to reach the moon while there are people who are starving,in our own country. JUSTICE "That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise; Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes." -Langston Hughes "I believe in invoilence, but I believe a man should be a man. I won't turn the other cheek, but I won't hit you first." -Charles Evers DID YOU KNOW... For the first time, since the Washington, D.C. Cherry Blossom Pageant began in 1934, there will be a Black Cherry Blossom Princess! Her name is Linda Smythe.Linda is a medical cardiac technician at George Washington University Hospital. Judge Gerald Chargin was forced to resign his seat on the Juvenile Court bench in San Jose,California,because of radical slurs against Mexican-American. John M. Burgress, son of a dining car porter, became the first Black man to become a Bishop in the Episcopal Church in United States.This year he was installed as the 12th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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