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* Your committee should study differences in wages and working conditions, then take action to achieve equal pay and equal working conditions.
* Your committee should promote opportunities for minority participation and leadership in the nursing profession.
* Your committee should sponsor admission to nursing schools on the basis of individual merit alone, regardless of race, color or creed. Where cases of discrimination or intergroup tension are brought to your attention, have your committee investigate. Do everything to correct unfair conditions, then notify your state nurses association and the ANA. 
* If your committee cannot meet at the headquarters of a nurses group, you may find that the representatives of business interests serving on your committee are generally glad to make a meeting place available.
Before scheduling meetings, workshops or other activities, determine whether the meeting place is open to all. If you encounter objections, you may find that rather than lose your association's patronage, the management will yield to gentle persuasion. 
Non-segregated meetings may also be held in
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federal and public structures, such as YWCA's churches, school buildings, particularly in university communities, hospital auditoriums and buildings used by medical societies.
These activities should be implemented with a public relations program. For public relations suggestions, see pages 16 through 19. 
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YOUR ACTION PROGRAM
In states which have not yet achieved equal membership rights...
PERHAPS YOU BELONG to a state nurses association which still bars membership to all professional, registered nurses. There are many things you can do to hasten adoption of national policy. In addition to many of the suggestions on the preceding pages, these will apply:
* With the cooperation of local nursing groups, set up an Intergroup Relations Committee.
* The problem to be solved affects not only nurses but the whole community. It is therefore essential for your Intergroup Relations Committee to cooperate with non-nursing organizations, such as civic and religious groups, women's clubs, universities, etc. By cooperating with other organizations whose chief objective is to eliminate discrimination, your Intergroup Relations Committee can achieve its aims more easily.
* Do not hesitate to seek the aid of your local YWCA, American Friends Society, Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith, the Urban league, state and city interracial committees for civic unity, and the United Nations Subcommission on Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. 
Your Intergroup Relations Committee should:
(1) Invite representatives of minority groups to state and district meetings of your Committee on Structure. This will establish a sound basis in the future structure of national nursing. It will also make it easier for organizational programming and services to meet the needs of all nurses.
(2) Collect and analyze information on the nursing needs of your state.
(3) Collect and analyze information showing to what extent nursing service is available in your state. 
(4) Find out how many Negro nurses there are in your state.
(5) Find out how your state or district nurses association would react to accepting minority groups as members.
(6) Do everything you can to persuade your district and state nurses associations to invite Negro nurses to serve as members of standing committees.
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