The Omaha guide., 1946-01-19

Association Reports
100000 Members and
$442, 900 Income In '45


former Mayor Of New York, was
among the is persons elected to
the board OF directors Of the
NAACP at the annual meeting Of
the association January T.
Other new members chosen were
Norman 0. Houston, president Of
the Golden State Mutual Life In
surance Company, Los Angeles.
Calf. and Ike Smalls, Des Moin-
Is, Ia. business man and presi-
dent of the Iowa State conference
of NAACP branches
Members reelected include:
DR.. Buell. G. Gallagher. Berkeley.
Calf; 5 Ralph Harlow, North
ampton, Mass; Mrs. Grace H.
Henderson, Newark, ~. j.; Carl
Murphy, Baltimore, Md; Judge
William H. Hasrie, Washington.
D. c.; DR.. William Allan Nelson.
Falls Village. Conn; and Miss
Marion Cuthbert, Judge Hubert
+. DeLany, Lewis ; Gannett,
John Hammond, Rev. James HI
Robinson, Arthur B. Springarn,
and DR. Charming II Tobias, all
Of New York
Colored peoples throughout the
world, who constitute two-thirds
Of the earth's population, are de-
termined once and for all time
to end white exploitation and inn
perialism, declared Walter White
in his report to the meeting
The NAACP faces a new year
with undimmed determination, he
said. Its membership has reached
an aIl-time high Of both Negro
and write members totalling 500.
900. It's branches, youth councils
and college chapters now total
1129-more than twice the num-
Der in 1913. Significant victories
were won in 1e45 against housing
segregation, trade union discri-
mination and legal injustices. In
1916 the work of the NAACP
Veterans Bureau, established on
January i, 1945, viii be greatly
expanded to meet the needs Of
veterans, particularly Negro vet
Grams, who are facing in many in
stances unbelievable discrimina-
in finding jobs and places to live
We have added to our staff a
lawyer, himself a veteran, whose
duties viii be the handling Of our
courts martiaIs and blue discharge
certificate cases of Negro veter-
ans which are inordinately dis
proportioned because of race pre-
judice- We shah continue a Wig
0r0us legislation campaign both
in the national Congress and in
State Legislatures for needed
legislation dealing with employ
ment, voting, racial discrimina-
ton, segregation in armed ser
vices, the poll tax, lynching, hou-
sing and fair employment prac-
tice. An expanded and more spe-
cific program of activity against
MISREPRESENTATION of the Negro
in moving pictures, radio, news
reels. stage, fiction and newspa-
pers will be put into effect.
The NAACP, MI. White said,
will work also on international
phases Of the race question be-
cause the American situation IS
part and parcel Of the problems
Of other colored peoples in the
West Indies, South America, Afri-
ca, the Pacific and Asia.
A fight during 1916 for abso-
Lutte equality of educational IA
cilities and expenditures between
Negro and white students in the
southern states where segrega-
49, - razr,fr-d L-r lar ur1r alec
pledged by Thurgood Marshall.
Special Counsel, reporting for the
legal department The report fore
cast that the coming year will see
a large number Of cases filed in
states below the Mason-Dixon
line to compel equality in the To-
cal school systems
In voting cases the report also
pledged continued vigilance
against efforts of election offici-
ais in the southern states to EN-
force the white primary, out
lawed in the famous 1914 Texas
White Primary case decision.
brought to the US Supreme Court
by the NAACP. Discriminatory
registration practices and the poll
tax were attacked in the report.
Cases involving these principles
are already filed and others are
now ready for filing in a number
of southern states.
Charters were granted during
the past year to 10 new branches
of the association, located in 81
; states and the Territory Of Ha-
waii. The greatest expansion was
in Texas, where AZ new chapters
were chatered, according to the
report of Ella J- Baker, director
Of branches The NAACP has
branches in all states except New
Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Mon
tana, North Dakota, she said
, Membership in the Youth de-
partment increased by one-third
during 1915, said Mrs Ruby Hur-
ley, secretary for youth work The
present youth membership is p,
$50 with 5,485 Of these being in
college chapters. Incomplete Ia
bulations place the total member
ship for 1945 near the 500, QUO
mark, with many final reports
from many areas not yet re
ceived-
Gross income for the year was
$4,000, Of which approximately
S403,0 600 came in one form or an.
other from the rank and file
membership. This total include:
$4,000 sent in by men and woner
white and coIored, in the armec
services
The Crisis magazine. officia
monthly of the NAACP. reported
an average circulation during AZ
J OF $1,000 copies monthly. tt
gross income was SIG, 992. accor
/. ding to Row Wilkins, editor.
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