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ifY 100-7629 cor Ni and authoritative center of Negro militant protest, organized mass strugele, and democratic unity of Negro anA uhttja | Amant a te €he eterno t sa Fan aniisat Gehl PLL ve fie 1 LGans ati vos ove “MEBo+ hk witha constitutional rights, LA. Board Chairman CHANNING T, “PoBIAS “in his - greetings to the ecnvention, noted that the membership had increased as well as the income to the organization, Most significant was 480 of the Association's branches lena more than fifty per cent of its membership remain on| «the front line of battle in the South. 1o | . Under a subtitle of "Increased Militancy,"™ the article states that the convention adopted what appears to be a more militant posvure in the fight for Negro rights than at any time in the recent past. - The convention speechea were eshoed inthe first substantive resolution of the convention, the preamble of which equated the popular ocncept of moderetion with stagnation and declared: N "Action is what we seek.,...action to demolish the whole jim crow structure, Action to assure forever the equality of rights and human dignity proclaimed in all the great ethical political documents of humanity. Action to end forever inequality of rights ere manicind of whatever race, of whatever “+ *Aeaording to’ the ‘aytiole, this was a prime evidence of the militant character of the NAACP convention which was unanimous and resounding in its rejection of the dectrines of gradualicm and moderation. - 13 - ~ — CONFIREN LAL