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NAACP — Part 6

101 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Mar 1, 1956 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: NAACP · 100 pages OCR'd
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mis am : struggle for Negro rights. e the qrestion of what action should be taken was put in a resolution which indicated that even thcugh the NAACP has examined to sone extent the effectiveness of the passive non-violent resistance on a local level, the NAACP is not ready to take a position on this as a habtonel project. The convention action in tne decision on non-violent passive resistance registered the fact that, on this issue, the groupl hich make up the more resist upper hand 4 he - convention, 8 unlikely, however, according to the artic 7 “thet the Association will be able to maintain this posture o2 indecision for very bb ONE « . The prospects of effirmative action on the resolution will depend, among other factors, on the steady increase in the Association of the influence of the more militant forces merging in the Southern struggle and of the trade-union spokesmen of the working class, The article also treats "Labor and the NAACP" ; a8 8 title and the viewpoint of labor was most ~ Strikingly presented at the convention in an address by -” A,PHILIPMRANDOLPH, Vice President of AFL-CIO and President of the Sleé@pi iv porters. In the following teris; he pointed to the most urgent unfinished business on: labor's agenda: F a . . Phi bprlandel pl > te "Obviously, the development of a strong and aggressive movement in the South, embracing biack and white workers; is the key to the . transition of control of Southern economy, state and local politics and governments from the weak and palsied hands of a rural, semi-_ feudalistic sharecropper and tenant farming ied economy, the breeding ground of Ku Kluxisn, TT White Citizens Counclis, ractam, lJyneh-law hk bet ate ae BF fot We lle Bar ad ye aures
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