St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-03-25
The NAACP Asks Patronage
Withdrawal From Variety Store

Withdrawal From variety store
National Association for the Ad
People branches of the
withhold retail patronage from all units
major variety which policy their southern
refusing lunch
he other
The by withdrawal patronage
S Kresge w. all of which
the exception of the S H. Kress Co
withdrawal which actually boy
refusal of these
realistically the problem posed by Negro
which
been pracced for giant
The rightly powerful
brutality
southern police of peacefully demonstrating students to put down the
protest hurdy passed laws and ordn
designed deter the students who sick and tired Of the
had will halt
upon pub
March Is that they will continue their ndefense
policy Negroes lunch counters the south This
plus the steppedup policy of arrests of students made the NACP
point where
policy racial selfdefens policy could
cope with the determination Of the southern rass to crush the pro-
The association points out 1T is apparent that the full power
including through
the legislature well local and police forces being
support
policies and that at the height of this persecution the Federal
through Congress steadasy
refusing legisate adequate relief
points in campaign
equality dignity Negro
spiritual, political"
The NAACP this had other alternative
ued discriminatory policy the national chains management There
involved offered
conciae differences
that posed
possible exception may
ayers
Negro clergy plus
community haltng dscrmina
NAACP programs designed
patronage branch
bs but also to solicit the support Of other organizations including
organizations
relations agencies in support Of such campaign
In Minneapolis be
pceed the public the
pn and urge to indicate its support for decent treatment for
Negro protesting white
and black who have been going Jail for the principles which
this country founded-eedom justice and equality
In cities profess
to not understanding NAACP campaign.
will others who honestly will not comprehend the fairness
validity pcketng thousand miles from the of
the controversy and the student protest such persons Will DO
thinking that the local part of
national policy allows of its stores to
despcab praccehey the connection Those
community the necessity
for boycott might ask themselves how they would feel they hap
pend ancestry differ
entity when the shoe pinches them personally
NAACP a a day
Wooworths Kresge's loyal
population seriously
at their cash registers This seems to be the only satisfactory
people
Negro long
policies generally the Twin City stores of the chains
did humanitarian
either This
prove what regard
truth We would forget Of the incidents which
right here in the past
Of temper
ary the withdrawal patronage
southern Negro customers suffered the ndgns
discrimination while adding
offered countenanced
something about the dollars Negroes
variety unexpendable
the other counters in the
heartily the which the NAAC
launching regards aptly
designed
the place that
pocket book
white black,
justice the
this country will the picket line and withdraw the
the stores named here and the
If these waiting why
nationwide
and withdrawal trade will doubt give it to them
1t would the huge corporations
fected situation and called