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[[image - N.N.P.A. Logo]] NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Black Press of America [[image - drawing of an arm holding a newspaper with the headline BLACK PRESS, surrounded by flames]] [[caption]] Lighting the Road to Freedom [[/caption]] 35th ANNUAL CONVENTION June 11-14, 1975 St. Francis Hotel San Francisco, Calif. OFFICERS President CARLTON B. GOODLETT, M.D. San Francisco Sun Reporter Vice President HOWARD B. WOODS St. Louis Sentinel Secretary MRS. LENORA CARTER Houston Forward Times Treasurer HOWARD H. MURPHY Afro-American Newspapers DIRECTORS EARL DAVIS, JR. San Diego Voice News and Viewpoint D.L. INMAN Inman Publications EMORY O. JACKSON Birmingham World JERREL JONES Milwaukee Courier MRS. MARJORIE B. PARHAM Cincinnati Herald LONGWORTH M. QUINN Michigan Chronicle GARTH C. REEVES Miami Times JOHN H. SENGSTACKE Sengstacke Newspapers JOHN B. SMITH Atlanta Inquirer MARCUS C. STEWART Indianapolis Recorder N. A. SWEETS St. Louis American ROBERT J. THOMAS Milwaukee Sun-Times [[dashed line]] Executive Director SHERMAN BRISCOE [[dashed line]] CREDO OF THE BLACK PRESS The Black 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 Black Press strives to help every man in the firm belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back. [[images - eight black & white photographs of scenes from the convention]] 53