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NAACP — Part 4
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"Security and peace, snd which re-emphasizes the Asscocia-
tion's great potentiel for helping to consolidse te the
Negro-Labor Alliance in « program of independent politicel
actions...-.
"To the end of implementing the 'Free by '63!
Slogan, the Convention defined nine specific civil rights
objectives to be fought for in the péerioc eshcad, They
include; (1) ‘'eovrlity of job ooportunity! through
pacvcage and enforcement of federal anc stete FVE.P. laws;
(2) abolition of the poll tax end protection of the right
to register for voting; (3) © stronger Civil Rights
Section of the Denartment cof Justice; (1) an end to
discrimination enc segresgetion in publie end nrivate
housing; (5) ‘Speedy enc diligent implementrtion of the
recent supreme Court rulins cutlawing segregation in
public schools, end intergrstion of tenchers on the basis
of aquelifications!'; (¢€) 'legislstion to fucrantes com-
slete secess to public accommodations, trensportation
and recreational facilities on an unsegresntec 3esis';
(7) unsegresated hospital and health service; (2) tpro-
tection of the s:ifety end sceurity cf cll nursons without
Giscriminetion'; snd (9) 'tinitietion of © ora rem of
educetion in race relations by federal, stetc tue local
government asencics.!
"The civil rights iscus which dominated the
Convention Prom beginning to ond wee, of course, ihe
problum of imnlementins the Supreme Court proline rceinst
sceregoted schools, Next in imvortance wer. tie Pigsht
for the vote in the South and tne strugpele eeteinst Jim
Crow housingecees
" ...Morshell outlined the ‘assoc
ictionts pro-
gram for implomenting the Supreme Court ruling, Each
loesl brench in s segregated sohoo] arcr is to file a
petition with the school bosrd imncdiately rcquesting
that it act to implement the Court decision, with periodic
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