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Nonpartisan Groups Help Get [[folded over the end of the title, Floor styles 1899 Mission Street 15]]

By CLAIRE LEEDS

There was the grocery clerk who had last voted in 1952 and did not know he had to re-register to go to the polls in November.

There was the college coed who was going to reach her twenty-first birth-day between the close of registration and election day but did not know she was eligible to vote.

There was the timid grandmother who had come from a State where Negroes are prevented or discouraged from voting. "Who'll miss my vote?" she shrugged.

PEOPLE LIKE these- at least 1,500 of them did register and probably will vote in November, thanks to the efforts of [[underlined]]the San Francisco Council of Negro Women[[underlined]] and the National Urban League.

With funds provided by the Urban League, and volunteers mobilized [[underlined]]through the Council of Negro Women, San Francisco is[[underlined]] one of four major cities selected this year to conduct a non-partisan pilot project in citizenship education among Negroes.

During their voters' registration drive, the Negro women: 1) Formed a picket line along Fillmore Street carrying placards urging everyone to register. 2) Conducted street interviews, briefing potential voters on registration rules. 3) Personally escorted reluctant persons to registration points. 4) Organized a motorcade with loud speakers to canvas the Western Addition and Bayview districts.

NOW THEY have entered the second phase of the program-getting out the vote.

"We are not for or against any candidate, or any issue," explained Mrs. Floyd Green Allen, director of the project. "We want people to vote, and not vote blindly, but according to their own convictions."

Council members will set up a voting machine at the project's 1914 Fillmore Street headquarters and they will provide instruction in its use. They plan a series of evening programs at which speakers from the League of Women Voters and from Bay area [[covered by next clipping]]

THE PROJECT will climax on election day with house to house canvassing and distribution of buttonhole tags reading: "I Have Voted. Will You?" Teen-age members of the [[covered by next clipping]]
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EVEN THE YOUNGEST MEMBERS of the community lent support to the motorcade held last weekend as a reminder to all adult citizens to register and vote. The motorcade was sponsored by the [[underlined]]local chapter of the National Council of Negro Women to stimulate interest [[underlined]]
In this project. Some of the participants are left to right, Mrs. Ida Mae Hughes, Mrs. Gertrude Gumbs (who is receiving the wholehearted cooperation of her tiny granddaughter), Joan Blalock, an unidentified young worker, Gloria Mitchell and Yvette Hammond. The youngsters are little Dola S. Miller, III, Jovanah Williams, and Joan Miller. The Miller children are visiting from Paris. -Staff photo by Cox Studio.

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Council of Negro Women Kicks Off Citizenship Education Program [[written next to title, Sept 13 1956]]
By CONNIE DELGADO
The San Francisco chapter of the National Council of Negro Women who have been launching a "Register to Vote" campaign through their new Citizenship Education Project, Climaxed it with a motorcade through the city last Saturday. Cars were lead by a police escort from Page, over Fillmore, down Bush, over Kearney to Bayview district. This idea was dreamed up only Thursday night and the groups were contacted Friday so they had a right to be proud of the large turn-out. Among those organizations participating were: The Council, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, A.K.A. Sorority. Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Las Amigas, Bay View Crispus Attucks Club, The Junior Council and the Negro History Club.

As our bit, let us remind you that you have until Thursday midnight to register at the city hall. Your vote this year may be one of the most important one of your life, so if you haven't registered as yet, do so immediately.

This project is one similar to those set up in eight major cities over the nation. Mrs. Vivian Mason, national president, was in the city during the GOP Convention (she is a Democrat) and told of the grant that was given through the National Urban League to the Council for the purpose of keeping the women all over America informed on political action. This will be non-partisan and non-political.

Ruth Mueller, western regional director, came up from Los Angeles to get the plan started and she appointed Mrs. Floyd Green Allen as coordinator. The project, which will last for two months has for its slogan, "A voteless people is a hopeless people."

They are asking all the clubs, both social and civic, fraternal organizations and chruch groups to participate. Don't let your organization be left out of this plan which will go down in national records. For information on how you can help call Mrs. Allen at MO 4-4846, Mrs. Ruth March at FI 60-0627 or Eddye Mae Williams at EV 66569.

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