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NEW YORK
Herald Tribune
Thursday, May 21, 1953

For the Benefit of All

President Eisenhower, addressing a luncheon of the United Negro College Fund, made a penetrating comment on second-class citizens. "I believe," he said, "that as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens." This is simple logic. To deny equal opportunity to Negroes means degradation for all. As the President put it, "the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others."

It is one of the most forceful arguments that could be made for helping the United Negro College Fund, which is now conducting its tenth annual campaign on behalf of thirty-one private colleges and universities. The amount asked is only $1,500,000, which seems rather small in view of the great contributions which these institution (thirty of them in the South) have made to inter-racial co-operation and growth of all the American people. This sum represents only one-tenth of the total requirements. For the rest of their budgets, the fund's members manage to be self-sufficient through tuition, endowments and church board grants. But help is needed from everybody for the remaining 10 per cent.

This $1,500,000 will directly benefit some 16,000,000 Negro citizens in their constantly accelerated struggle for a better life and the right to equal opportunities. More than 38,000 graduates have come from the Negro colleges in the last decade. Here are the leaders of their people - in education, religion, medicine and all the professions.

But these are gains not only for Negroes; they are for the whole nation. The advancement is for the benefit of every American. Every dollar given to this cause will help produce the kind of leadership that brings the Negroes nearer the day of full participation on equal terms in every community and over the entire country. Contributions should be sent to the United Negro College Fund, 22 E. 54th St., New York 22, N.Y.

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TENTH ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON
OF THE
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
TO HONOR THE 
GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD

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TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1953

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
WASHINGTON, D.C.

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