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Annual National Convention
here this week.
A heavy schedule of events IS
planned for the weeks activities
with major emphasis being placed
on the continuing drive for regis
tered Negro voters, breaking down
the barriers in. employment, in.
creased school desegregation, hous-
ing and urban renewal, and the.
role of direct action in gaining
complete equality.
Principal speakers for the mass
meetings during tho week long
convention include: Bishop Ste1
phen G. Spottswood, Mrs. Charles
E. White, u. S. Attorney Merle
McCurdy, William T. Patrick, .Jr.
DR.. James M. Nabrit. the Rev. DR.
Martin Luther King. Jr., DR.. Ralph
]. Bunche, Earl B. Schwulst, DR..
Robert c. Weaver and Roy Will.
kins.
Convention delegates will be
welcomed at the opening meeting
Monday evening at Atlanta's MUM
cipal Auditorium by Mayor Ivan
Allen, Jr., and Wesley w. Law
president of the NAACP Georgia
State Conference.
The keynote address will be de-
livered blythe Right Rev. Stephen
Gill Spottswood, Bishop of the A.
NJ r. Zion Church and Chairman
of the NAACP Board of Directors.
The Tuesday morning, July 3,
workshop will consider the prob
lens of securing the right to vote.
Clarence Mitchell, director of the
NAACP Washington Bureau, will
open the session with talk on
you and Your Vote" Consul
tantS for this session include Guy
r. Brewer, Secretary of the 30
rou I of Queens New York City,
and two unsuccessful Negro can
didateS for Congress from MiSSis-
sippi, the first in that state since
Observation-Disclosures Rcvercnds R.
L. T. Smith Of Jackson and Merrill
w Lindsey of Holly Springs.
The Tuesday afternoon session
will be devoted to a study of ways
and means of overcoming the job
barrier with NAACP Labor Secre-
.ary Herbert Hill leading the dis
cussion. ConSultantS on the panel
include George Fowler, chairman
of the New York State Commission
on Human Rights; John Wheeler
member of the Presidents Com
mittee on Equal Employment OPP
portunity; and trade union lead!
Nelson Edwards of De
troit.
A symposium on 1.-THE Rewards
of Political Action" is scheduled
for Tuesday evening Kelly Alex
ander, president of the North Ca
roma NAACP State Conference
and a member of the NAACP
Board of Directors, presiding.
Members of the symposium will
include Mrs. Charles E. White,
member of Houston, Texas. Board
of Education; Merle McCurdy. u.
S. Attorney for Northern Ohio;
and William T. Patrick, Jr., men,
Der of the Detroit, Mich, City
Council.
On the morning of July 4th,
NAACP General Counsel Robert L.
Carter will confer with lawyers
and state conference presidents
at a special meeting to map the
Associations legal program for
1928.
That afternoon an outdoor In
dependence Day rally will be held
on the Atlanta University-More
house College campus with Mrs
Daisy Bates, member of the ma
tional Board of Directors presid.
ing. President of Atlanta Univer-
eity, DR.. Rufus Clement, and More.
house College President Benjamin
F.. MAYS, will welcome the guests.
The rally will he hiehlighted by
Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr. presi
dent of Howard University.
The vital issue of school deseg
resation will be the topic o. dis
cussion at workshop sessions
scheduled for Thursday afternoon
Iulv 5. The delegates will be di
vided into two groups-cNe south
erri and the other non-southern-
for discussion OF Ways and means
of accelerating school desegrega
ton in their respective areas.
General Counsel Carter will lead
the review Of southern sCt,ool de.
SEGREGATION with the following con
sultants: DR.. Aaron Henry, Clarks
dale. Miss: S. w. Tucker Empo