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[[Invitation mounted sideways at top of page above picture]] THE NATIONAL OFFICERS of the UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND CAMPAIGN cordially invite you to attend a meeting of one hour's duration TO MARK THE FORMAL OPENING OF THE SECOND ANNUAL NATIONWIDE APPEAL on behalf of 32 PRIVATE NEGRO COLLEGES Wednesday, April 18, 1945 at 4:30 P.M. IN THE Rainbow Room 65th Floor 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N.Y. Pleae Reply on the Enclosed Card [[photograph in the center left of the page]] [[article to the right of invitation at top of page]] UNITED NEGROES "Those Begging Joints...Some folks with their mouths full of flattery call them normal schools, colleges, and even universities. The 'puhfessahs'... will tell you without you even asking that these are 'great works'... They have builded this g-r-e-a-t institution! The mouthspread would take in the mighty expanse of Columbia University, but you look around and see ... nothing to speak of in this day and year of our Lord. The next thing you know, the talk has gotten around to funds..." These hard words were written, in a recent American Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.S., Litt, D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S. Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory repuration of such institutions, combined with their fund-raising efforts two years ago unter the sponsor- ship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive , for $1,550,000. The Fund may not in- clude every good Negro college. But its 32 member are all intelligent, imagina- tive schools urgently devoted to racial uplift and interracial understanding. *for other news of Mr. Rockefeller, see RELIGION. TIME, APRIL 23, 1945