Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-10
NAACP WORK IS
 HINDERED BY LACK OF COOPERATION
By Charlie Hubbard

It is incredible that people can read the papers, and listen to the radio every day, and still feel no urge to do what they can personal ly to help straighten out some of the problems confronting us all as Americans, or to support and work with any and all organizations,
 working for a unified nation at home, and a world of good will abroad.
 Is it not significant, that in a i matter of hours, literally, after that fgurehead of reaction in Georgia, Eugene Talmadge had been reseated in the governors chair through the medium of their
 undemocratic and un-American method of controlling the elections, that four Negroes, two of them innocent women, were lynched in Georgia? Can it be a coincidence that the first news from Missis- sippi after the returns assured the continued leadership of Bilbo, was the report that six southern gen tlemen had whipped a Negro to death? Is it so hard to trace the high incidence of -so-called "Ne- gro Crime" to the unavenged mur- ders of the Ferguson brothers in Freeport, L. l., the orgy of mob rule i'll Columbia, Tenn, the goug- ing out of eyes, by those very min ions of the law, sworn to defend us, the return to pre-war patterns in the Army, whereby they recruit our men, not as Americans, but as Negroes, to what is happening to the Poll-tax, National FEPC, and so on, ad infnitum
 The current issue of EBONY contains some important and per tinent factual information about the work, program, and personnel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on the National Level, and we highly recommend it to you. We also urge you to ask yourself, and answer, the following questions? ,? "Who has fought over the longest period of time, the battle of the Negro, the Jew, the Catholic, and other minority groups in Amer ica ?". ."What is the largest and strongest Interracial Organization in the world ?" "What organlza- tion is tacitly recognized by the world as being the voice of the American Negro ?"...." ."Who has carried on the fight for democracy in the Armed Forces, for elimlna- tion of Jim Crow in interstate tra- vel. for full integration of ALI groups in our industrial life, for equalization of education, hospital ization, and wages ?" There are many more, but these will serve to convince the most skeptical, that the answer to one, is the answer to all... The NAACP....You organ ization, and mine.
 Your local NAACP branch is an important unit in the nationwide chain of branches and college chapters, 1000 strong, all work ing for the same results........over 5OO,OOO members of all races and creeds believing in the same ideals, working together...!Do you not feel the tremendous power of this leavening mass? Locally, your NAACP branch works for and supports the overall program of the NAACP, and other organ izations doing similar work on a national level, for a unified and free America. Also the branch works in the local area, with your support, on education, job oppor- tunity, legislation, public relations, immigrant problems, housing, and the 1,001 things that contribute to better communal living~... Hay ing you contributed anything to this better New Haven, this more democratic America, this freer world?