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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1967
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- - 6 - - Youth delegates to the Iowa State Conference of Branches met, for the first time, recently appointed Regional Youth Field Director, Mr. Earl May. At last, we are confident that there will be an adequate and well directed program for NAACP Youth Councils, Young Adult Chapters and College Chapters. As has often been stated before, they will need the support and encouragement of the Branches, even though they are no longer subordinate units of the Organization. Former President of the State Youth and College Division of the NAACP, Don Knapp, is now the 3rd Vice President of the State Conference of Branches. His position was taken by James Grayson, a student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa. Fort Madison Youth Council members who were elected to State Youth Conference Offices are: Homer Brooks - Vice President; Cynthia Murray - - Recording Secretary and Karen Murray - Treasurer. Mrs. Dixie Orr has been selected to serve as State Youth Advisor. WHAT IS THE NEGRO DOING? As we pass along life's highway, Day by Day, Thousands daily ask the question, What, I pray, Tell me what's the Negro doing? And what course is he pursuing? What achievements is he strewing By the way? Many say he's retrograding Very fast; Others say his glory's fading, Cannot last: That his prospects are now blighted, That his chances have been slighted, That his wrongs cannot be righted, That the time has passed. Friends, lift up your eyes look higher higher still. There's the vanguard of our army On the hill. You've been looking at the rear guard. Lift your eyes, look farther forward; Thousands are still pressing starward Ever will! --W. Clarence Jordan Far from being over,...or, at a standstill, the fight for the rights of all men of minority groups, in America, is gaining momentum. The methods of attack are and will continue to change. After all, nothing that is changing can remain the same,...and we are more determined than ever before...that there will be lasting and far-reaching programs which will be effective in cahnging the present American way of life. It has become more and more evident that those members of the white majority whose noses turn up in disgust at the term "Black Power"....(although they formerly professed unwavering alignment)...., have found only that 'out' for which they had been searching all along. Power, no matter what its color, is frightening, but if University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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- - 6 - - Youth delegates to the Iowa State Conference of Branches met, for the first time, recently appointed Regional Youth Field Director, Mr. Earl May. At last, we are confident that there will be an adequate and well directed program for NAACP Youth Councils, Young Adult Chapters and College Chapters. As has often been stated before, they will need the support and encouragement of the Branches, even though they are no longer subordinate units of the Organization. Former President of the State Youth and College Division of the NAACP, Don Knapp, is now the 3rd Vice President of the State Conference of Branches. His position was taken by James Grayson, a student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa. Fort Madison Youth Council members who were elected to State Youth Conference Offices are: Homer Brooks - Vice President; Cynthia Murray - - Recording Secretary and Karen Murray - Treasurer. Mrs. Dixie Orr has been selected to serve as State Youth Advisor. WHAT IS THE NEGRO DOING? As we pass along life's highway, Day by Day, Thousands daily ask the question, What, I pray, Tell me what's the Negro doing? And what course is he pursuing? What achievements is he strewing By the way? Many say he's retrograding Very fast; Others say his glory's fading, Cannot last: That his prospects are now blighted, That his chances have been slighted, That his wrongs cannot be righted, That the time has passed. Friends, lift up your eyes look higher higher still. There's the vanguard of our army On the hill. You've been looking at the rear guard. Lift your eyes, look farther forward; Thousands are still pressing starward Ever will! --W. Clarence Jordan Far from being over,...or, at a standstill, the fight for the rights of all men of minority groups, in America, is gaining momentum. The methods of attack are and will continue to change. After all, nothing that is changing can remain the same,...and we are more determined than ever before...that there will be lasting and far-reaching programs which will be effective in cahnging the present American way of life. It has become more and more evident that those members of the white majority whose noses turn up in disgust at the term "Black Power"....(although they formerly professed unwavering alignment)...., have found only that 'out' for which they had been searching all along. Power, no matter what its color, is frightening, but if University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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