AMERICA AND TREATMENT OF COLOURED PEOPLE
(Rec. 9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 12.
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People will submit to the United Nations a document charging discrimination against negroes in the United States. The document says that the United States fails to practice what it preaches. “While this nation is trying to carry on government by democratic methods, it is not succeeding, because of the premium which we put on the disfranchisement of the voters of the south. Eighty-two percent of the persons of voting age do not vote in the south as a whole.” The document states that discrimination against negroes is not simply against poverty and ignorance, but is practised against negroes, despite wealth, training or character. “In other words, our complaint is mainly against discrimination based mainly on the colour of the skin, and it is this that we denounce as not only indefensible but also barbaric.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1947, Page 5
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