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Arizona Sun
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
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The Cairo, Illinois branch of the NAACP, led by Reverends E. G. Mayes and Blaine Ramsey, Jr., released a ten-point program to eliminate racial discrimination in employment, housing, education, law enforcement, and public accommodations, following desegregation incidents and arrests.
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CAIRO, Ill. - A ten-point program, designed to rid this southern Illinois city of racial discrimination, has been formulated by the Cairo branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In releasing the program, the Reverends E. G. Mayes and Blaine Ramsey, Jr., president and vice president, respectively, of the branch, expressed the conviction that these proposals will contribute to a happier and healthier community," and offered "to work towards these objectives as equal and responsible partners (with) our fellow citizens."
The NAACP statement was formulated after a series of incidents and arrests involving efforts of young people to desegregate the public swimming pool, lunch counters and other public accommodations.
Among issues raised by the NAACP statement were a demand for elimination of employment discrimination in federal agencies in the community; a call for white religious leaders to support civil rights; a rebuke to county and city officials for failure to provide equal law enforcement and administration of justice and for discriminatory hiring policies in the civil service; a charge that private industry limits Negro job opportunities; a call for an open market in housing; and a demand for "equalization of educational opportunities for all children."
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A ten-point program to rid the city of racial discrimination was formulated by the Cairo branch of the NAACP. The program addresses employment discrimination in federal agencies, support from white religious leaders for civil rights, equal law enforcement and justice, non-discriminatory hiring in civil service, Negro job opportunities in private industry, open housing market, and equalization of educational opportunities. It was released after incidents and arrests involving young people's efforts to desegregate public swimming pool, lunch counters, and other accommodations.