RACIAL JUSTICE

(1)"NAACP? Who me? But why? I'm doing OK."

[NAACP Pamphlet, 1954 Freedom House, Inc. Records. (M 16) University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Department Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Box 59.]

(2)"...brothers and sisters from struggling black communities can no longer see themselves or their dreams through the eyes of their more successful peers. And those successful peers...too often run away and sometimes even disassociate their circumstance from that of the people with whom they were raised."

(Allen, Tony. "The Black Middle Class Is Leaving Its Brothers And Sisters Behind." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 02 May 2017. Web. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/much-is-required_us_5908a07ee4b0bb2d0871ff81)

(3)"...the truth is that - as of this year - the civil rights movement is very much alive."

[Remarks of Roy Wilkins, 1969 Freedom House, Inc. Records. (M 16) University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Department Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Box 59.]

(4)"'This isn’t new - it’s always been relevant,'" said Sade Moonsammy, a marcher and friend of Ms. Jacob’s. 'We aren’t asking for anything that our parents haven’t already asked for. We’re still in the fight.'”

(Baumgaertner, Emily. "Marches for Racial Justice and Black Women Converge in Washington." The New York Times. The New York Times, 30 Sept. 2017. Web. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/politics/washington-dc-racism-protests.html)

EDUCATION

(1)"A federal district court judge has decided that Gardendale—a predominantly white city in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama—can move forward in its effort to secede from the school district that serves the larger county. The district Gardendale is leaving is 48 percent black and 44 percent white. The new district would be almost all white."

(Black, Derek. "Why Segregation in American Schools Is the Problem That Just Won't Go Away." Newsweek. N.p., 10 June 2017. Web. http://www.newsweek.com/why-schools-still-cant-put-segregation-behind-them-622278)

(2)"The NAACP's major concern is for the education of our children in such a way that these children - whether white or black - will know how to live together in peace, without racial or color bias ruining their lives. Unfortunately, today's parents did not learn this lesson in school, or the Birminghams and Selmas, the Roxburys and Harlems would not be as they are today."

[NAACP Education, 1974 Freedom House, Inc. Records. (M 16) University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Department Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Box 59.

(3)"Black students were more than three times as likely to attend schools where fewer than 60 percent of teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements.”

(Hsieh, Steven. "14 Disturbing Stats About Racial Inequality in American Public Schools." The Nation. N.p., 29 June 2015. Web. https://www.thenation.com/article/14-disturbing-stats-about-racial-inequality-american-public-schools/)

(4)"[We are] rooted in the firm conviction that blacks can succeed in the classroom at the superior levels of achievement displayed by blacks in the athletic arenas of this nation."

[NAACP Pamphlet, 1954 Freedom House, Inc. Records. (M 16) University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Department Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Box 59.]

BIRTH CONTROL

(1)"The non-Catholic people in a free country should not be bound by the prejudice of a religious minority. Catholics have a right to condemn birth control for themselves, but they should not permit their clergy to interfere with the sexual habits of non-Catholics."

[Planned Parenthood Newsletter, 1948 Freedom House, Inc. Records. (M 16) University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Department Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Box 59.]

(2)"Religious freedom is the right to believe and worship as you see fit. It’s never the right to use government to impose costs, burdens or harms on other people. You can’t use the government to make other people pay the price for your religious beliefs or practices."

(Tribune, Chicago. "Quickly." Post-Tribune. N.p., 09 Oct. 2017. Web. http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/quickly/ct-ptb-quickly-tuesday-st-1010-20171009-story.html)

(3)"Massachusetts is one of 17 states where abortions are taxpayer-funded — with money from the state.”

(Greenhouse, Pat. "In Mass., an Effort to Ban Public Funding of Abortion - The Boston Globe." BostonGlobe.com. N.p., 16 July 2017. Web. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/16/mass-effort-ban-public-funding-abortion/xuXMFMC0SuC1Vlu1GpDsiI/story.html)

(4)Every poll taken shows a majority of the people in this country and in Massachusetts favor the right to contraception and abortion.