St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-07-06
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NAAcP Meet Most
Successful In Years

= pNh MS .iNAhih W Mlililt-
apolis Tuesday, William Il.
Cratic, president of the Mime
apolis NAACP branch, and
delegate to the And annual
convention at Atlanta, Ca,
June 26 to July /, said he con.
sidered the meeting the most
successful and best organized
national session in the recent
history of the movement.
Cratic said his opinion was bas-
ed on past conventions he had at
tended and the observations of
other delegates who had attended
many meetings of the organiza-
ton.
Named Committee Chairman
The Minneapolis man served as
chairman Of the powerful rules
committee Of the convention. He
was also named a member Of the
confab's steering committee.
John M. Culver Of the st. Paul
branch who paid his own fare and
expenses to the meeting was a
member Of the resolutions COM
mittee. r. s. Simmons Of Duluth,
president of the Minnesota NAA-
CP state conference served on the
committee on time and place
which selected the next conven-
ton city.
Another Minnesotan attending
the Atlanta meeting was George
l.. DOzier. active member Of the
Duluth, Minnesota branch.
Cratic spoke on the panel on
Armed Services, Today. Others
on that panel held Thursday,
June % were: Jack Greenberg,
NAACP legal department men,
Der; James Evans, civilian aide to
the Department of Defense; JOS
eph Albright, Veterans Admins
tration aide; Clarence M. Mitchell.
NAACP Washington Bureau and
James l.. Hicks, OF the Afro
American newspapers. Mitchell
and Albright are former Minneso-
tans.
Cratic was questioned Mt length
by delegates because the Mime
apolIs branch has spearheaded the
nationwide campaign against seq
regatiOn in the armed forces and
particularly the army. Ten Of the
leading daily papers ran special
articles on the branch's activity on
this matter.
It was the opinion of the Min
neapolis NAACP leader that the
association is definitely once again
on the upgrade in the minds of
the people. Recent favorable de-
cisions in court cases involving
unequal school facilities and the
attack on the separate but equal
theory is chiefly responsible for
the new spirit evident in the
NAACP.
Membership Total Grows
In talks with delegates from all
over the nation and the director
of branches, Gloster Current,
Cratic said membership totals are
increasing all over the u. s.
An effort by the NAACP youth
group to obtain complete indie
pendenCe from the local senior
branches was killed. A substitute
resolution setting up an interim
commattee composed of both
members from both the branches
and the Youth branches to study
the relations between branches
and youth groups was passed.
One feature OF the convention
aside from the speakers who are
reported on elsewhere in this
paper, Cratic said, was a bus
sightseeing tour sponsored and
paid for by Atlanta Life Insur-
snce Co.
The significant feature Of this
tour was the reception of the IA
bus loads of delegates by the Ne
gro population in general.
Whether II was In the heavily
populated ghetto or the Negro
"Millionaire's" section, the people
waved greetings and showed their
pride in the NAACP delegate
army and what they were doing.
In one poorer section a small boy
proudly waved a homemade sign,
WELCOME NAACP," Cratic
said.