NAACP Backed In Anti ■ Stereotype Drive
MARION ANDERSON
TO BE HERE
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Marion Anderson, celebrated,
f contralto, is being presented in
f concert on Tuesday, April 15, at
the University of Nebraska Coli
seum, by the Lincoln Newspapers.
; Proceeds from the program will
I' go to*a worthy civic enterprise.
Miss Anderson/* who is now
making her twelfth consecutive
tour of this country under the
direction of S. Hurok, stands as
the most honored musical artist
in America. Critics still rave
about the richness and brilliance
1 £ of her voice.
The Philadelphia INQUIRER
stated recently: “More so than
ever, the only one who can equal
or excel the great contralto is
Marion Anderson herself.” Other
papers acclaim her continued
sucess.
Tickets can be ordered for the
concert from the Lincoln News
papers, Box 1547, Lincoln, 1, Ne
braska. A public depot will be
open about April 1st.
BIRTH
* Mr and Mrs. Joseph W. Adams,
nfee Helen Green, has announced
the birth of a daughter, Jean
nette Lucille, eight pounds, 15
ounces born Sunday, March 9 at
Nebraska City
HEAR DR. AARON M. McMILLIAN
Missionary for 18 years to West Africa
Tuesday, March 18, 11:00 A. M.—East Christian Church, 27th and Y
Wednesday, March 19, 8:00 P. M.—Men's Meeting, Urban League
Thursday, 2:00 P. M.—Mrs. McMillian—Mary Bethune Club
Urban League
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
NEBRASKA CITY NEWS
Mr. Warren Adams of Milan,
Missouri is visiting at the home
of his brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs Alonzo Adams.
Mr. Herman Tapp is now work
ing in Lincoln.
Mrs. Lucy Miller, Mrs. Pauline
Tapp and Mr. Luther Givehand
motored to Lincoln recently.
Mr. Joseph Adams spent the
week end visiting relatives and
greeting his new daughter, Jean
nette Lucille. Mother and daugh
ter are resting nicely.
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SURVEY REPORT DELAYED
The report of the employment
status survey of minority groups
in Lincoln that was to have been
given at the last regular monthly
meeting of the Social Action
Council was postponed until their
next meeting. All the reports
had not been completed.
The purpose of the survey is
to get a picture of the employ
ment situation existing in Lincoln
and its effect upon the minority
groups. When completed, the in
formation secured will be used
as a basis for the working out of
difficulties existing.
Prof. Marion Lowe of the grad
uate school of social work at the
University of Nebraska explained
the system of the survey ques
tionaires and stressed the import
ance of uniformity of symbols
used in recording answers. She
helped set up the questionaire.
A committee to study LB 421,
introduced in the State Legisla
ture by Sen. Harry Foster dealing
with discrimination in employ
ment, was set up. Members se
lected were: Charles Washington,
chairman, Pat Hamburg and Ted
Sorensen.
The committee held a luncheon
meeting Thursday at the Wilkins
and Robinson Lunch Room. Plans
for a later meeting with the in
troducer of the bill were made.
Hats Off to Senator Seaton l
by Frank W. Hale, Jr.
On Monday, March 10, the leg
islature passed the anti-subversive
organization law unanimously.
Senator Seaton introduced the
law as a safeguard against pos
sible Ku Klux Klan insurrection.
This law requires organizations
which require oaths of their mem
bers to file with the Secretary of
State membership and officer
lists and plans affecting legisla
ture or political candidates. In
realizing the necessity for such
an act, based on the assumption
that organizations of hatred, in
tolerance, violence, and insidious
group division, thrive under cam
ouflage, this law is a secure main
stay. In taking account of such
outfits that have contaminated
and corrupted other parts of our
country, we may be happy to
know that under this law, the
State of Nebraska will be equip
ped to take immediate and effec
tive action to bring them out into
the light of mortification. Hats
off to Senator Seaton and the
Nebraska legislature.
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Southernaires Coming
Mr. Clyde W. Malone has just
announced that the Southernaires
will be at the Lincoln Urban Lea
gue April 8th. You will want to
hear this outstanding quartet.
HOLLYWOOD (ANP)— Fifty
minority-group organizations are
ready to support the NAACP’s
drive to banish stereotypes from
the stage, screen, radio and the
printed page.
Closely collaborating with the
NAACP are the American Jewish
committee and the Council for
Democracy. Already an organiz
ing committee has been working
on the project for the past three
months to secure the active sup
port of at least 40,000,000 Ameri
cans in the drive against stereo
types and plans have been com
pleted for the NAACP to finance
a full-time permanent organizer.
Invitations have been extended
to the organizations that partici
pated on the Committee against
Lynching, namely the CIO, the
AFL, B’nai B’rith, the Federal
Council of Churches, the Ameri
can Jewish Congress, Catholic
Interracial Council, American
Veterans’ committee, Council
Against Intolerance, YMCA, YW
CA, National Lawyers’ Guild,
Freedom House and the Progres
sive Citizens of America.
The initial move will be in
radio, where all programs will be
monitored with the aim of de
veloping a technique to be ap
plied later to pictures, the stage,
and the printed page. The groups
also will be concerned about re
search and program creation,
through which the case of min
orities can be presented.
“Since people of other nations
depend, for the most part, on
radio and films for their evalua
tion of our people and traditions
and consequently, our ideals, it is
imperative these media provide
a truthful reaction of the funda
mental democracy of the Ameri
can people,” the group’s preamble
reads. _
The Voice, 2225 S, Lincoln, Neb, Sec. 562, P. L. 8c R.
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