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August, 1936  253                   

to date, they have wrestled with them – they have made stepping stones of the barriers put in their way; they have shown that young white men and women can be won as sympathetic friends and militant allies, if need be.  (Did not even West Point cadets applaud the graduating Benjamin O. Davis long and fervently?); they have revealed that White America is perhaps as much maligned by those who speak for it as is Black America.  They have not only stuck through to graduation but they have also won their share of the coveted honers open to American university men and women.

Negro As Citizen
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and more dependent upon the kind of government we have and the way it works, it comes increasingly important for the government to have in its service the best talent that is available and to insist that that talent make the best possible use of the country's resources, both natural and human.  And our resources will not be put to their best use unless it is in the direction of achieving the greatest good for the greatest number of our citizens, regardless of race or creed or color.  Nor can this be done unless we remember always that, regardless of diversity of religion, or customs, or origin or race, we are one people under one flag.

New Youth Spirit
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outmoded dogmas that cloak student life of Negro schools.  Among the most significant resolutions passed by the body were those setting up trade union committees on Negro campuses to function as a sector of the local National Negro Congress Committee, the support of the N.A.A.C.P.'s court struggle for equal educational opportunities and the expression of a willingness to lend that organization mass support in obtaining favorable decisions, the support of the American Youth Act formulated by the American Youth Congress and now pending in Congress, which is the only piece of legislation which adequately provides for the five to seven million youth now unemployed.  But most significant of all, is the resolution which reads: "Though Negro students, our problems are not peculiar to Negroes. Throughout America we see our fellow white students become socially conscious and aware of their economic insecurity. In the American Student Union we see

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