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Our Town
Warning: Living here may be hazardous to your health.

You'll probably live longer if you don't live in "Our Town." Because people in "inner cities" have a higher incidence of tuberculosis, cancer, respiratory diseases, high blood pressure, and...you name it. And even though health care in America has improved in general, health in Black communities, specifically, is steadily on the decline. So the chances of a kid in Our Town going through life without a chronic health problem, like malnutrition, asthma...even mental illness, are slim.

Our kids. When you see dying cities, you know the people living there are dying too. The children are the first to go. The little ones. Kids who play in rat-infested garbage dumps, and "fish" in stagnant puddles. The ones exposed to the vermin that rotting garbage and neglect breed. We're all concerned about conservation. Clean air, forests and rivers...the natural resources of our country. But we've got to save our cities too. Because that's where our people are - our most precious resource. Our Town...it ain't like it used to be.

Human Energy - America's Greatest Resource. 
People are America's greatest untapped resource. They provide the real energy that runs this country. We have to work together to solve our problems...to utilize the potential of every person in this country. It beings with us. Our families, our communities. Join your local church, community and political groups. Band together and make your voices heard. There's strength in numbers. We've got to stop wasting Human Energy. It's America's greatest resource.


CONCERNED BLACK AMERICANS

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Dr. Carlton Goodlett
National President, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)

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Benjamin Hooks
Executive Director, National Association for the Advancement if Colored People (NAACP)

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Dorothy Height
National President, National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)

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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
National President, People United to Save Humanity (PUSH)

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John H. Johnson
President and Publisher, Johnson Publishing Company

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Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Executive Director, National Urban League

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Coretta Scott King
President, The Martin Luther King Center for Social Change

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Rev. Leon H. Sullivan
Founder & Board Chairman, Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OIC)

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THIS MESSAGE COURTESY OF THE GULF OIL CORPORATION. HUMAN ENERGY: AMERICA'S GREATEST RESOURCE

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