Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-28

NAACP Plans Biggest Mass Meeting In
Nations History; Truman To Deliver
Major Declaration On Racial Policy

Washington, D. C.-NAACP Of
ficials in Washington, New York
Nation, were moving ahead rapidly
with plans for the staging of what
promises to be the largest single
mass meeting in the Nations his
tory. Focal point of the gigantic
meeting will be the June 18th clos
ing session of the NAACP annual
convention at the Lincoln Mem
orial in Washington, d. c., where
100000 spectators are expected
to assemble to hear President Har-
~ S. Truman deliver a major dec
laration of government policy on
racial tensions, which have de-
veloped to the point where they
constitute matter of grave con-
Germ to the chief executive.
Simultaneous with the Lincoln
Memorial meeting, NAACP branch
es in practically every section of
the United States will assemble in
hundreds of meeting halls. These
meetings, with an expected 4 to
hundred thousand persons at
tending, will be joined to form one
gigantic mass meeting linked to-
gether by RADIO. All of the major
networks will broadcast the Presi-
dents speech and parts of the
meeting.
Walter White, NAACP executive
secretary, declared in New York
recently that the June 10Th meet
ing will be the most significant
in the Association s SO years. With
huge delegations of Negro and
white leaders arriving in Wash
ington for the meeting, the vet
eran association will be rededicat-
ed to the fight for full democray
for all people. Irrespective of race,
creed or color.
Mr.. White referred, during a
press interview, to have the wave
OF indignation in America and in
coesyevretnifos emf shr shrdlrdlta
every section of the globe, with
which the recent green light de-
cision" in Americas first lynching
trial had been received. THE
verdict of the South Carolina jury
which, in effect, told lynching mobs
in thesouth that Negroes were now
fair prey for therope and tortur-
ers' tools, has defiled the 100000
graves of America S young soldiers
who thought they were dying for
the security of all men, said Mr..
White.
"The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Poe
ple," he continued, will meet in
the fitting. shadow Of the Abra-
ham Lincoln Monument to rededi-
cate all of it's resources and ener-
gies to the people of all nations
who fought and are still. fighting
to secure the rights of all men.
Terrorism has always met with
resistance. Nazi terrorism met with
resistance and caused the destruc-
ton of nation. The Negro people
hope that their federal government
will make resistance to the ter
rorism now being directed against
them unnecessary"
AS plans for the historic NAA-
CP meeting were being developed,
reports from more than 1000
branches in the Nation indicated
excellent response to the current
NAACP membership drive. The
Associations director of branches
attributed the climbing member
ship roster to theanxiety of both
Negroes and whites over ominous
signs of increasing lynching-mob
spirit in many sections of the
South. A Southern field secretary
stated, They're joining NAACP
because of their great faith in its
program. The Lincoln Memorial
meeting should spur the drive even
more"