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[[image - NNPA logo]] NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Black Press of America [[image - drawing of an outstretched hand holding a newspaper titled BLACK PRESS, with torchlight coming from the top]] [[caption]] Lighting The Road To Freedom... [[/caption]] OFFICERS President CARLTON B. GOODLETT, M.D. San Francisco Sun Reporter Vice President HOWARD B. WOODS St. Louis Sentinel Secretary MRS. LEONORA CARTER Houston Forward Times Treasurer HOWARD H. MURPHY Afro-American Newspapers DIRECTORS EARL DAVIS, JR. San Diego Voice and Viewpoint News JESSE HILL Atlanta Inquirer D. L. INMAN Inman Publications EMORY O. JACKSON Birmingham World JERREL JONES Milwaukee Courier LONGWORTH M. QUINN Michigan Chronicle GARTH C. REEVES, SR. Miami Times JOHN H. SENGSTACKE Sengstacke Newspapers FRANK L. STANLEY Louisville Defender MARCUS C. STEWART Indianapolis Recorder N. A. SWEETS St. Louis American ROBERT J. THOMAS Milwaukee Star-Times Executive Director SHERMAN BRISCOE CREDO OF THE NEGRO PRESS The Negro Press believes that America can best lead the world away from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every man, regardless of race, color or creed, his human and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing no man, the Negro Press strives to help every man in the firm belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back. 34th ANNUAL CONVENTION Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel - June 19-23, 1974 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 2-5:30 p.m. - Registration 8:00 p.m. - Reception THURSDAY, JUNE 20 9-10:50 a.m. - Executive Session 11:00 a.m. - First General Session - *Publishers and Economic Change" 12:50 p.m. - Luncheon - Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, OIC and Economic Change 2:30-6:00 p.m. - Free Time 6:00 p.m. - Cash Bar 6:30 p.m. - President's Address - Dr. C. B. Goodlett 8:30 p.m. - World Premiere "Amazing Grace," Starring Moms Mabley FRIDAY, JUNE 21 9:00 a.m. - Second General Session - *Increased Advertising Revenue *Panel Discussions FRIDAY, JUNE 21 (continued) 11:00 a.m. - Third General Session - *Government Services and Economic Change 12:50 p.m. - Luncheon - Ms. Beulah Sanders, National Welfare Rights Organization - the Economics of Welfare Rights 2:30-6:30 p.m. - Free Time 6:30 p.m. - Cash Bar 7:00 p.m. - Merit Awards Banquet - Judge Damon J. Keith of Detroit, NNPA Distinguished Service Awardee SATURDAY, JUNE 22 6:00 p.m. - New Pittsburgh Courier Day - Sightseeing, etc. 7:00 p.m. - Reception Courier's Annual Awards Banquet - Senator Edward W. Brooke [[image - black and white photograph of three men and a woman in business dress]] Theme: THE BLACK PRESS - CATALYST FOR ECONOMIC CHANGE