NAACP resolution adopted by the 24th. annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Resolution entitled "The Negro's Economic Status" listing a series of demands to ensure racial justice, adopted at the NAACP Annual Conference in Chicago: calling for a limit on profits of private business; the appointment of "qualified Negroes" to the Labor Advisory Board; the independence of the Industrial Recovery and Public Works Act from the American Federation of Labor; the provision of relief measures for "unemployed Negroes"; and developing formal statements on various issues in domestic and international affairs: "The Hitler government; Liberia; Haiti; Hawaii; The Virgin Islands; the Rights of Negroes as citizens; and the Vote."
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