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‘ay bs] OB RA J rh ODO Naomustic scencs which profoundly effect the welfr re of our country es 7 whole cnd of the Nvgro cvople in perticuler. In whet woys wor. theses developments reflected in the Atlentic City Convention? How shell we apor ise the NAACP -s a foresee in the importrnt politicel struggles which lie irmedictely choad? What tresks cre entailed ror the iebor- progrussive movenent :s a whole? "In the first place, it is clecr thet N.AwA.C.P. is detemiincd to press the fight for Negro dumoerstic rights in « big wey, ospecially csround the schools qucstica, jobs, housing, end the right to vote in the South. Morcover, while continuint to rcly hervily upon its telcnted lawyers cnd the courts, the Association is giving important new emphasis to orgmnized icaisl tive ction Pocuscd on Congress and to mess pcoplets strugtl:s in the locel communitics, The further developmint of its progrem rlong these lines will surcly cn- henee the -ffeoetiveness of N.A.A.C.P. os, without question, the foremost civil rights omgrnization cf the Negro people, "Sccond, th. growth of N.A.A.C.F. memburship seems te lag consiccrcdly behind its potenticlitice and necds, cspccinily when one considurs the @yncmie oreeran, the mounting prestige mid the difficult trshns rif] oe st this Convention. The current mauborcin of eyound £50,099 is very substentinal; bat it is little more then neir th. “tee lof ea Geendu ago, end the decline is only prrtintly cxplrined by the inerense of tre membershin Puc, "It would seom to be quite possible to build an NAACP. of 9,002,000 or more maibers under th. cobjcetive conditions of this period; but to do so will recuirce ec more thoroughly democirtic police; in ths ecnduct of thu Assoeta- tionts afYreirs then was vofieted at the Convention. The rules of proccdurc, for cxenele, scriousl, limitcd prerticipe- tion from the floor, with but little of thet full rnd rounded discusston ené cebste csscntisl for ieximum undore ‘tending of Bae ~Ssocietionts progrem snd cnthusicsm for tuildins the org :nization, This Conrention, like its produces tors, wes tightly controlled from the top. "In this connuction, there wor. man cviadenecs at ne Convention thet the develooment of youth work is being aad