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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, 1967-1970

1969-04-17 Newsletter, Fort Madison Branch of the NAACP Page 4

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quotations which have been used have fit a particular situation, but they have never been directed towards an individual. 

A short course in BLACK HISTORY will be conducted by Reverend Louis, W. Johnson, black rector of Saint Thomas Episcopal Church of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It will be held in the Junior High Auditorium, Keokuk, Iowa on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, April 22, 23 and 24th from 8 to 10PM.
The course is open to ALL Interested citizens of Keokuk and the surrounding area. There is no registration fee or other cost for this educational program. 
Plan to participate it promises to be be very interesting. 

Not listed among those bills which are concerned with Migrant Workers was the following:

House File 146 and Senate File 110 To regulate Migrant Child Labor

Write a letter to your Legislators, today! ! !

"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
-Edmund Burke

"THE DREAMER IS DEAD but the DREAM IS STILL ALIVE" (One year later)

...." he died not on some lofty mountain top, or in the court of some great ambassador. He died down south in Memphis, fighting for garbagemen. What a beautiful way to die. As a leader he has a vision. As a man he had that capacity to stand up. As an intellect he had that capacity to think and make us feel proud. As a preacher he had that power to take the Bible and interpret it. He began to add relevance to all that's black...
... Doctor King loved black people and he tried to make us stay true to the best in us despite our scars. But it is also true that he loved all people, and he tried to take the best in us, and hold it up to the world to show how the world really ought to be...
... I understand even clearer now not only what he meant to our people, but what he meant to our world as a symbol of hope. And I think that now we'll probably have a shift from the charismatic to the systematic. We don't have the one leader figure anymore. This means that many people at many levels will have to embody his spirit. So the dreamer is dead but the dream is still alive. When he was alive, only a few of us had his physical presence, Now everybody has the spirit."
-Reverend Jesse Jackson
Taken form the Chicago Tribune Magazine

" As much as I deplore violence, there is one evil that is worse than violence, and that is cowardice. It is still my basic article of faith that social justice can be achieved and democracy advanced only to the degree that there is firm adherence to nonviolent action and resistance in the pursuit of social justice. But America will be faced with the ever present threat of violence,

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-4- quotations which have been used have fit a particular situation, but they have never been directed towards an individual. A short course in BLACK HISTORY will be conducted by Reverend Louis, W. Johnson, black rector of Saint Thomas Episcopal Church of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It will be held in the Junior High Auditorium, Keokuk, Iowa on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, April 22, 23 and 24th from 8 to 10PM. The course is open to ALL Interested citizens of Keokuk and the surrounding area. There is no registration fee or other cost for this educational program. Plan to participate it promises to be be very interesting. Not listed among those bills which are concerned with Migrant Workers was the following: House File 146 and Senate File 110 To regulate Migrant Child Labor Write a letter to your Legislators, today! ! ! "All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" -Edmund Burke "THE DREAMER IS DEAD but the DREAM IS STILL ALIVE" (One year later) ...." he died not on some lofty mountain top, or in the court of some great ambassador. He died down south in Memphis, fighting for garbagemen. What a beautiful way to die. As a leader he has a vision. As a man he had that capacity to stand up. As an intellect he had that capacity to think and make us feel proud. As a preacher he had that power to take the Bible and interpret it. He began to add relevance to all that's black... ... Doctor King loved black people and he tried to make us stay true to the best in us despite our scars. But it is also true that he loved all people, and he tried to take the best in us, and hold it up to the world to show how the world really ought to be... ... I understand even clearer now not only what he meant to our people, but what he meant to our world as a symbol of hope. And I think that now we'll probably have a shift from the charismatic to the systematic. We don't have the one leader figure anymore. This means that many people at many levels will have to embody his spirit. So the dreamer is dead but the dream is still alive. When he was alive, only a few of us had his physical presence, Now everybody has the spirit." -Reverend Jesse Jackson Taken form the Chicago Tribune Magazine " As much as I deplore violence, there is one evil that is worse than violence, and that is cowardice. It is still my basic article of faith that social justice can be achieved and democracy advanced only to the degree that there is firm adherence to nonviolent action and resistance in the pursuit of social justice. But America will be faced with the ever present threat of violence,