College Head Calls For Rights Battle, p.5
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College Head Calls For Rights Battle, p.5
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"ATLANTA--Speaking at in Independence Day rally of the NAACP, holding its annual meeting here, Dr. James M. Narbit jr., president of Howard university in Washington, D.C., and calling for “an all-out, renewed and relentless struggle” by Negroes for full rights as U.S. citizens,said , “I want my rights today-now-all of them.”
Shortly before Narbit’s call for “freedom in our time.” to the rally at Morehouse college, 200 NAACP leaders approved an intensified program for civil rights in large non-Southern cities.
TASK FORCE PLAN
Chicago, Washington, New York, San Francisco and Detroit were named as the first five target areas for the “task force” program.
“ We are here committing ourselves to an all-out, renewed and relentless struggle for all of our rights as American citizens. What the Western world fought and died for is now unfashionable to even asser--that is, for colored people to assert,” Narbit said.
Voting was synonymous with liberty in 1776. And I tell you it is liberty in 1962. The white man offers us gratuities when we seek dividends…contempt when we seek equality… violence when we seek the right to vote… privileges when we seek rights.
“We are sick of evasions, weary of excuses, fed up with promises and want action now, liberty now, equality now.”
The task force plan, offered by NAACP general counsel Robert L. Carter, calls for national NAACP officials to work with regional and local groups in concentrated city-by-city campaigns."
Shortly before Narbit’s call for “freedom in our time.” to the rally at Morehouse college, 200 NAACP leaders approved an intensified program for civil rights in large non-Southern cities.
TASK FORCE PLAN
Chicago, Washington, New York, San Francisco and Detroit were named as the first five target areas for the “task force” program.
“ We are here committing ourselves to an all-out, renewed and relentless struggle for all of our rights as American citizens. What the Western world fought and died for is now unfashionable to even asser--that is, for colored people to assert,” Narbit said.
Voting was synonymous with liberty in 1776. And I tell you it is liberty in 1962. The white man offers us gratuities when we seek dividends…contempt when we seek equality… violence when we seek the right to vote… privileges when we seek rights.
“We are sick of evasions, weary of excuses, fed up with promises and want action now, liberty now, equality now.”
The task force plan, offered by NAACP general counsel Robert L. Carter, calls for national NAACP officials to work with regional and local groups in concentrated city-by-city campaigns."
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The Chicago Defender
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1962-7-7
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N/A, “College Head Calls For Rights Battle, p.5,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 28, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/218.