Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-07-06
crutie Coils Aflunfu
NAAcP Meet Most
Successful In Years

ItH NlN return III hllnCs
apolS Tuesday. William Il.
Cratic, president of the Mime.
apoliS NAACr branch, and
delegate "a the aud annual
convention at Atlanta, Ga,
June % to July |, said he con.
>idcrcd the meeting the most
successful and best organized
national session IN the recent
history Of the movement,
Cratic said his opinion was has.
cd on past conventions he had at.
tended and the observations of
other delegates who had attended
many meetings of the organiEa.
ton.
Named Committee Chairman
Tho Minneapolis man served as
chairman Of the powerful rules
committee ~ the convention lie
was also named n member Of the
CnnfRb'H steering committee.
John NJ Culver OF tho ~. Paul
branch who paid his own farc and
expenses 10 the meeting was a
member Of the resolutions com
mtttcc u & Simmons Of Duluth.
president nf tho Minnesota NAA-
Cp state conference served on tho
committee ON time and place
which aelccted the next convcn,
ton city,
Another MlnnraatRR attending
the Atlanta meeting was GcorEc
L. DoEicr. active member Of the
Duluth. Minnesota branch.
Cratic spoke on the panel on
Armed Services. To-day" Others
on that panel held Thursday.
June ~ were Jack Orccnbcrg.
NAACp legal department mem.
bCr James Evans. civilian aide to
the Department of Defense. Jos
eph Albright. Veterans AdminIS-
tratiun aide. Clarence NJ. Mitchell,
SAACP Washington Bureau and
James l. Hicks. of tho Afro
American newspapers Mitchell
and Albright are former Minnoso-
tanR.
Cratic was questioned Rt length
by Delegates because tho Mlnn".
apohs branch has speRThrRd"d the
RRtlsHwidn campaign against srK.
TrEation IN tho armed forces and
particularly the army. Ten ~ III"
IrRhInE daily papers ran special
articles on the bFanrh's activity On
this matter.
II WAS the opinion ~ tho Min
noapoIis NAACr leader that the
association In definitely once again
on the upgrade IN the minds ~
the people RcCcn, favorable do.
Ctsi0nR IN court cases involving
unequal school facilities and the
attack on the separate but equal
theory In chiefly roHponHibIe for
the new spirit evident In the
NAACP.
Membership Total Grows
In talks with dolegat"A from all
over the nation and the director
Of branC hes. Chester Current.
Cratic said membership totals are
Increasing all over the u. r.
An cffurt by the NAACP youth
group a. obtain complete indie
pcndrnco from the local senior
branches was killed A substitute
resolution setting up an interim
c0mmhttcc CnmpDsrd ~ both
members from both the branches
and the Youth branches 10 study
the relations between branches
and youth groups was passed
one feature ~ tho convention
aSld" from the speakers who are
reported On elsewhere In this
paper. Cratic said, was bus
slRhta"cinR tour sponsored and
paid for by Atlanta TAfe InHur,
ancc CO
The Eignificsnt f"Rtur" ~ this
tour waA tho reception ~ the II
bus loads ~ delegates by the Ne
Ero population In general
Whether II was In the heavily
populated ghetto or the Negro
"HllIiDnalrr'E" s"ctlOb. the psOple
waved greetings and showed their
pnds In the NAACP delegate
army and what they were doing.
IN one pD0rcr section q small boy
proudly waved = home made sign,
WELCOME HAACP." Cratic
SAID