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‘The NAACF today states its aims: oo aura n 1. The end of lynching 2. The ending of disfranchisement 3. The abolition of injustice in legal procedure based solely upo color or race. 4. Equitable distribution of funds for public education, 5, Abolition of segregation and discrimination, imsuliand 7 - hurniliation based upon race or color. 6. Ecuality of opportunity to work in all fields with equal pay for equal work. 97. Abolition of discriminetion against negroes in the right of collective bargaining through membership in organized labor Hed calor o- ype, + Ly 1 Pre eter wee 6 unions. . 8. The ending of peonage and the debt slavery of southern share- ; croppers and tenant f: rmers. Ne ; 9, Abolition of segregation in the Arm: and Navy. (Tt-will-be- ann noted that. this isa .new-eim-whigh aus-onty-recentiy appeared as one-ot the statett ends-ef -the IAACP; ) Accorcing to its ovn statecent the orincipal achieve+ ments of the NA‘CF nave been: oe. tl. A continuous war on lynching by writing, lecturing ; mass aenon- \ strations and the fights for the passage of the, Dyer anti—-lynching | “bill in 1922 and the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill 3 in 1934 and 1935, The ca paign Led by the NAACP resulted in the passage of the Gavagan anti-lynching bill in the House on Aprii 1s, 1937, by a vote of 277-119. The bill was taken up Novenber 15, 1937, at the special session and debatec for six days, when it was aisplaced | by the farm bill. By agreement, it came up for debate January 6, i . 1938, and from that date to February 21, southern senators enrineered | é a lengthy filibuster which resulted in the bill's being laidaside. | \- The filibuster cost American taxpayers $460,000. The bill was oh f reintroduced in the 76th Congress in January, 1539, being sponsored ae in the House by Representative JOSEFH A. GAVAGAN, and in the Senate by Senators ROBEIT F. WAGNER, FREDERICK VAN NUYS and A<THUR CAPPan. . rs ee ee ee ee, 2. Tne NAACE hes won twelve out of trirteen cases before the highest, court of the land. It has won the following U.S. supreme court — decisions aiding colored people; Grandfather Clause oisfrancaising ( ow eae? ~ f=