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This summer will witness a massive, daring, probably bloody, assault on the racial barriers of Mississippi. The nation's chief civil rights organizations from the NAACP to SNCC, are Supporting the Mississippi Summer Project--an ambitious battleplan which breaks most of the precedents of the rights movement...
Last week, the NAACP went before the Mercantile Affairs Committee of the Massachusetts House with well-documented evidence on what amounts to an up-dated slave trade. Working with Southern affiliates, Boston agencies advertise in Dixie newspapers, offering feminine domestic jobs at $35 to $60 a week. Upon arriving in the North, the girls find their work much heavier, and their salary much lower, than promised. Suddenly they owe the agency a large, mysterious, unitemized "fee." If work is not immediately available, the agency holds their luggage and threatens them with "the law." Many girls spend months working themselves...
...NAACP is urging the passage of House Bill No. 2662, which would firmly regulate the state's employment agencies. The bill ensures accurate advertising by the agencies and guarantees the girls proper treatment upon arrival in the Home of Abolition. It is fair to all parties involved and should be speedily passed...
Beached in Jackson yesterday, Weaver said he did not know why only he was not indicted. He said he planned to confer with a lawyer from the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund last night...
...Hicks so concerned with legal equality for all Boston's citizens. Yet there are obligations more pressing than equal opportunity for prosecution. If the Committee were really devoted to principles of equality, it should not have defeated Arthur J. Gartland's motion directing the group to cooperate with the NAACP in forming a commission to work with the Harvard School of Education to devise a "Boston Plan" for school integration...