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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1967
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2 I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see. I sought my God, But my god eluded me. I sought my brother, And I found all three. Negroes across the country feel that the NAACP is the civil rights group "doing the most to help Negroes," according to the results of a recent survey. The opinion poll, conducted by the University of California Survey Center under a grant from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, showed that the NAACP received 79% of the vote in Metropolitan areas. "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." -Thomas Jefferson of Virginia discussing slavery in 1787. It has become increasingly evident too few people and an alarming number of the general membership of the NAACP are aware of the objectives of the organization. It is for that reason the following statement of its objectives is being printed again. "We recognize that there have been some charges, stimulated by the school desegregation controversy, which seek to label this Association as concerned with stirring up litigation and soliciting plaintiffs to file law suits. These charges are based upon ignorance of our function or hostility to our basic purpose. Nonetheless, to make certain there is no misapprehension, we set forth once again what has always been our basic and firmly-fixed operational procedure. 1. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a protest organization whose primary function is to remove barriers of racial discrimination through normal democratic processes, informing legislatures of the importance of enacting laws securing civil rights and the executives of their statutory, administrative or inherent authority to end discrimination. 2. We seek to inform the public of facts about discrimination, educate persons as to their rights, encourage their exercise of these, and aid in seeking to redress grievances as to racial discrimination before appropriate local, state and federal authorities. 3. We are ready, within the limits of our resources, to aid aggrieved persons, where all other avenues of redress are closed, to seek redress through court action, if requested by the real parties in interest, their attorney or legal representative, by furnishing financial assistance and authorizing our University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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2 I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see. I sought my God, But my god eluded me. I sought my brother, And I found all three. Negroes across the country feel that the NAACP is the civil rights group "doing the most to help Negroes," according to the results of a recent survey. The opinion poll, conducted by the University of California Survey Center under a grant from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, showed that the NAACP received 79% of the vote in Metropolitan areas. "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." -Thomas Jefferson of Virginia discussing slavery in 1787. It has become increasingly evident too few people and an alarming number of the general membership of the NAACP are aware of the objectives of the organization. It is for that reason the following statement of its objectives is being printed again. "We recognize that there have been some charges, stimulated by the school desegregation controversy, which seek to label this Association as concerned with stirring up litigation and soliciting plaintiffs to file law suits. These charges are based upon ignorance of our function or hostility to our basic purpose. Nonetheless, to make certain there is no misapprehension, we set forth once again what has always been our basic and firmly-fixed operational procedure. 1. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a protest organization whose primary function is to remove barriers of racial discrimination through normal democratic processes, informing legislatures of the importance of enacting laws securing civil rights and the executives of their statutory, administrative or inherent authority to end discrimination. 2. We seek to inform the public of facts about discrimination, educate persons as to their rights, encourage their exercise of these, and aid in seeking to redress grievances as to racial discrimination before appropriate local, state and federal authorities. 3. We are ready, within the limits of our resources, to aid aggrieved persons, where all other avenues of redress are closed, to seek redress through court action, if requested by the real parties in interest, their attorney or legal representative, by furnishing financial assistance and authorizing our University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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