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Show page 2 NAACP Holds 52nd Annual Life Membership Banquet - Roy Wilkins Guest Speaker Salt Lake Branch NAACP. New fully | paid life members receiving engraced plaques were Mr. Danny W. Burnett, Mr. James E. Dooley and Mr. J. B. | Stewart. Subscribing life members who received certificates were Henry Adams, Joseph Breeze, Jewell welcome was given by Mrs. Alberta Henry and the Honorable Calvin L. Rampton, Governor of the State of Utah presented greetings to the more then 700 people in attendance. Mr. Albert Fritz presented the annual Civil Rights Worker Award | Brown, Augusta J. Burnett, Albert given in his honor to Mrs. Alberta . B. Fritz, John W. Gallivan, George ) Hatch, K. E. Kefauver, Arch Madsen, =O. C. Madsen. William E. McKenzie, » J. P. O'Keefe, James E. Petersen, Donna W. Pinder, Lori D. Pinder, ieee Pamela Mignon The Salt Lake branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) celebrated its 52nd anniversary with a Life Membership Banquet at the Terrace Ballroom on May 16, 1971. On February 10, 1919, a few dedicated Lake Blacks branch formed to K. Pinder, Richmond, John Price, J. M. Saxton, ~ Dee Smith, Willie Stewart, S. S. Waldron, Maurice Warshaw, Merrill Weech, Marlene Marie Young, and C. Arthur Zeldin. Mrs. Geraldine Johnson, Field Director, Life Memberships presented the certificates and recognition to the life members. Mr. Dooley served as Master of Ceremonies for the event. A » the Salt C alleviate the . ' deplorable conditions in public accomodations, housing and employment for minorities. Today, » = discrimination still exists and the local NAACP is still working to achieve equality for all people. The 1971 banquet spotlighted local Henry. Earlene V. Hopkins received the President’s Award for her dedication to the NAACP and Marsha Boyd, a senior at West High School, received a $300.00° scholarship. Highlight of the evening was the guest speaker, the Honorable Roy Wilkins, National Executive Director, NAACP. He expressed concern about the many problem areas for minorities in Utah. In a quiet but strong voice he probed education, housing, law enforcement, employment and Mormon feelings regarding Blacks. He was particularly concerned with education and the lack of well-trained Negro teachers and critical of textbooks that had one sentence about Blacks, ‘Black people wre slaves, brought to America by slave ships.” ‘‘They should”’, he said, ‘‘reflect a wholesome respect for the dignity “You simply conclude, if you are white, that the Negro never had amounted to anything - or else they'd be in the book.” people who had purchased $500.00 Life Memberships or were subscribing by making annual pavments toward a life membership. Fully paid life members include Mr. Robert E. Freed, Mr. David Stanley, Jr., Civic and Study Club, and the rky - 4 oom 8 He ap Alberta Henry is selected by Albert Fritz While the NAACP and Mr. Wilkins have often been tagged as moderate and conservative, thousands of dollars have been spent in the fight for equality, in legal fees, bail, supporting boycotts and sending NAACP representives to trouble spots all over the world. He advised that so-called militants are ‘‘really not militants, they're truth-sayers.” “WORDPOWER” Wordpower is published every other Thursday by Wordpower, Inc. a non-profit organization. JOURNALISM MARLENE Editor M. YOUNG, CENTER STATEMENT OF PURPOSE WORDPOWER Newspaper is independent, owing alligence to no one political party or established institution. It- is published by Wordpower, Inc., a non-profit community dedicated organization to eliminating and is racism, STAFF poverty and injustice. ‘Rhoda Werner, Education Editor it will serve as a medium of communication for the poor, the Minority and the oppressed. This newspaper will attempt to establish Shirley Shields, Fashion Editor Mary Jones a@ continuing Clifford Williams Julie Fox, Typographical Design dialogue between these people and other segments of society in an effort to avoid more Scott Clawson violent Marie Darling confrontation, and toward solutions problems. Wilbert M. Mason, Photography Editor for © education for Black children. as the Civil Rights Worker for 1971. WORDPOWER URBAN 327 E. 6th So. Salt Lake City, Utah busing desegregation and to provide quality . Editorial Office 975 E. 3300 South Suite 1 Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Telephone: 486-9371 recommended destructive while to working community The Editor and Staff “The only way we will change the world is for all people to work together. advised Mr. Wilkins shown above with James Dooley and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond He told a press conference at the Hotel Utah that it’s “‘kind. of difficult for the rest of the country to understand how the Mormons could build asocial order that would discriminate against any other segment of the population in view of their own perscution and hardships.”’ Uno. He urged all people to work together to bring about change in this community and in the world. Musical entertainment during the evening was provided by George W. Henry, Jr., Miss Shallimar Carter, Mrs. Marilyn Owens and the Youth Choir, NAACP. The banquet closed with everyone joining hands and singing ‘‘We Shall Overcome”’. BUSINESS-MEN AND MERCHANTS! 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