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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1967
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- 2 - The Annual Iowa State Conference of NAACP Branches was held in Sioux City, Iowa, October 6th through the 8th. The following persons were elected as officers for the coming year: President...Atty. Robert A. Wright, Des Moines, Iowa 1st Vice President...Father Francis Duncan, St. Ambrose College Davenport, Iowa 2nd Vice President...Mrs. Clifford Bayles, Des Moines, Iowa 3rd Vice President...Mr. Don Knapp, St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa Recording Secretary...Mrs. Warren Nash, Waterloo, Iowa Corresponding Secretary...Mrs. Guy Greene, Des Moines, Iowa Treasurer...Mr. William L. Bell, Des Moines, Iowa Members of the local Branch who were elected to serve on the Board of Directors, are: Mr. Wendell Carter, Mr. Clarence Beecham, Mr. Phillip Johnson and Miss Virginia Harper. Mr. W. V. Windsor was appointed State Chairman of the Labor and Industry Committees. Dr. Harry D. Harper, Sr. was elected to serve on the state board in his position as President of the Fort Madison, Branch. The world has no room for cowards. We mush all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat. --Robert Louis Stevenson The following is a copy of the Creed of BLACK PRIDE which was embodied in a resolution that was adopted at the Annual Conference of Iowa NAACP Branches. CREED OF BLACK PRIDE We are sick and tired of being exploited, coerced and intimidated by the white power structure, so we are uniting to achieve the rights due us under our Constitution as Americans: using our economic, political and educational opportunities to be recognized as full human beings entitled equally with our brothers of other colors to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for which we have fought and died and are fighting and dying, today. We proclaim with pride the great achievements of our forebearers from Estevanico in the 16th Century to Crispus Attucks, the first to die for American Independence, and Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth (champion of freedom and women's rights), Paul Lawrence Dunbar, W. C. Handy, Dr. Charles Ricahrd Drew, Langston Hughes, Robert C. Weaver, Dr. Percy Julian, William H. Hastie, Gwendolyn Brooks, Simon Estes, Justice Thurgood Marshalo and countless others. We need to take a back seat to no American when it comes to proclaiming our role in making this country great. From exploitation to make the white man rich, we have risen to great heights in science, education, music, athletics, government, religion and every other field of human endeavor. Where our contributions are not recognized, or are buried in archives, we will proudly proclaim them; where our rights are denied, we will zealously claim them; where we are discriminated against in employment, education, housing or in any other manner, we will use our economic power and our political power to force the bigot to see his foolishness and, in cooperation with all other Americans, we will unite tp show the world what the power of a truly united University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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- 2 - The Annual Iowa State Conference of NAACP Branches was held in Sioux City, Iowa, October 6th through the 8th. The following persons were elected as officers for the coming year: President...Atty. Robert A. Wright, Des Moines, Iowa 1st Vice President...Father Francis Duncan, St. Ambrose College Davenport, Iowa 2nd Vice President...Mrs. Clifford Bayles, Des Moines, Iowa 3rd Vice President...Mr. Don Knapp, St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa Recording Secretary...Mrs. Warren Nash, Waterloo, Iowa Corresponding Secretary...Mrs. Guy Greene, Des Moines, Iowa Treasurer...Mr. William L. Bell, Des Moines, Iowa Members of the local Branch who were elected to serve on the Board of Directors, are: Mr. Wendell Carter, Mr. Clarence Beecham, Mr. Phillip Johnson and Miss Virginia Harper. Mr. W. V. Windsor was appointed State Chairman of the Labor and Industry Committees. Dr. Harry D. Harper, Sr. was elected to serve on the state board in his position as President of the Fort Madison, Branch. The world has no room for cowards. We mush all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat. --Robert Louis Stevenson The following is a copy of the Creed of BLACK PRIDE which was embodied in a resolution that was adopted at the Annual Conference of Iowa NAACP Branches. CREED OF BLACK PRIDE We are sick and tired of being exploited, coerced and intimidated by the white power structure, so we are uniting to achieve the rights due us under our Constitution as Americans: using our economic, political and educational opportunities to be recognized as full human beings entitled equally with our brothers of other colors to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for which we have fought and died and are fighting and dying, today. We proclaim with pride the great achievements of our forebearers from Estevanico in the 16th Century to Crispus Attucks, the first to die for American Independence, and Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth (champion of freedom and women's rights), Paul Lawrence Dunbar, W. C. Handy, Dr. Charles Ricahrd Drew, Langston Hughes, Robert C. Weaver, Dr. Percy Julian, William H. Hastie, Gwendolyn Brooks, Simon Estes, Justice Thurgood Marshalo and countless others. We need to take a back seat to no American when it comes to proclaiming our role in making this country great. From exploitation to make the white man rich, we have risen to great heights in science, education, music, athletics, government, religion and every other field of human endeavor. Where our contributions are not recognized, or are buried in archives, we will proudly proclaim them; where our rights are denied, we will zealously claim them; where we are discriminated against in employment, education, housing or in any other manner, we will use our economic power and our political power to force the bigot to see his foolishness and, in cooperation with all other Americans, we will unite tp show the world what the power of a truly united University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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