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1966-06-16 NAACP Newsletter, Fort Madison Branch, Page 1

Fort Madison, Branch
OF THE
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

NEWSLETTER  JUNE 16, 1966

Fort Madison, Iowa 52627

BRANCH MEETING!!
SUNDAY, June, 19, 1966
5:30 Pm
CITY HALL
Make an effort to attend this meeting!

There will be a special meeting for members of the State Conference Planning Committee, on Sunday at 2PM. Mr. Julius Williams, Regional Director of Region IV, Mr. Louis Garland, President ofthe Iowa State Conference of Branches, Mrs. J.B. Morris, Sr. of Des Moines, and Mr. George Cooper of Council Bluffs will be in attendance. The State Conference will meet in Fort Madison on October 15, 1966.

DYKES OF COURAGE
Courage and cowardice are antithetical.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of
obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is
a submissive surrender to circumstance.
Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice
produces destructive self-abnegation.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice
represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though
their life situation is zestless; cowardly men,
overwhelmed by the uncertainty of life, lose the
will to live.
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back
the flood of fear.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Despite the despicable fact that James Meredith was shot as he walked along a Mississippi highway, there are still those who feel there is no reason to commit themselves in the fight for the rights of all men.., in fact, to save our country

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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER JUNE 16, 1966 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 BRANCH MEETING!! SUNDAY, June, 19, 1966 5:30 Pm CITY HALL Make an effort to attend this meeting! There will be a special meeting for members of the State Conference Planning Committee, on Sunday at 2PM. Mr. Julius Williams, Regional Director of Region IV, Mr. Louis Garland, President ofthe Iowa State Conference of Branches, Mrs. J.B. Morris, Sr. of Des Moines, and Mr. George Cooper of Council Bluffs will be in attendance. The State Conference will meet in Fort Madison on October 15, 1966. DYKES OF COURAGE Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainty of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite the despicable fact that James Meredith was shot as he walked along a Mississippi highway, there are still those who feel there is no reason to commit themselves in the fight for the rights of all men.., in fact, to save our country