Nothing Fails Like Success

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
107 WEST 43 STREET + NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

ARTHUR B. SPINGARN oa THURGOOD MARSHALL 
President Director and Counsel 

WALTER WHITE ROBERT L. CARTER 
Secretary Assistant Counsel 

ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS ARNOLD De MILLE 
Treasurer Press Relations 

FOR RELEASE: APRIL 29, 1955 

NOTE TO EDITOR: This is the fourth in a series of weekly 
articles written by outstanding leaders in 
the fields of education, religion, labor, 
business and the professions in support of 
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 
Fund special fund-raising campaign now be- 
ing conducted in cooperation with National 
Newspaper Publishers Association member 
newspapers. 

NOTHING FAILS LIKE SUCCESS 

By Amos T, Hall 
President, Grand Masters! Conference 

Why should Prince Hall Masons of America support the NAACP Legal 

Defense and Educational Fund? 

The answer is obvious. Masonry is founded upon the principles of 

brotherly love and justice, It sanctions no barriers, It is no 

respecter of creed or color, 

The May 17, 195) Supreme Court decision was a momentous victory 

for the NAACP Legal Defense and Negro Americans, and already we have 

reports which show that integration in the public schools of this 

country is workable. 

There is good news of desegregation from West Virginia to Arizona 

and from Washington to California, The record even shows that two 

communities of the Deep South have moved ahead of the Court's decree, 

In spite of the widespread bemoaning of the fate of the Negro 

teacher in the South, there has been no wholesale firing of Negro 

teachers in desegregated public school systems. 

Certainly, the May 17th Supreme Court decision was a momentous 

victory for the Negro - for, because of this decision, great strides 

toward full freedom and first-class citizenship have been made, 

But nothing fails like success, 

Wetve come a long way, but we've still a long way to go. And we 

cannot afford to let the victory thus far push aside the dreams that 

gave birth to the fight for freedom, 



We haven't marched off the map yet. Complete desegregation and 

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total integration are not realities. Until we remove every badge of 

inferiority, the fight is still on. 

So, we still need NAACP Legal Defense and NAACP Legal Defense 

needs you. 

Through the years the Legal Defense attorneys have championed the 

rights of the Negro in America, Poor schools, police brutality, job 

and housing bias, violence and bombings, Jim Crow travel and injustice 

in the courts have been their special concern, 

The efforts and ingenuity of Legal Defense lawyers have been 

rewarded with the right of Negroes to vote in the white primaries in 

the South; the equalization of salaries for Negro teachers; the 

establishment of the right of Negroes to travel in interstate commerce 

free from state discrimination laws; the outlawing of restrictive cov- 

enants barring Negroes from white neighborhoods; the securing of fair 

and equal trials for Negroes in criminal cases. 

Any. organization that has done all of this deserves the support 

of the people for whom the gains were made, 

The truth of the matter is - Prince Hall Masons of America are 

morally obligated to support NAACP Legal Defense and to contribute to 

the Legal Defense Fund, 

We know now that the walls of hate and préjudice will not fall 

without a battle, We know now that no group surrenders power volun- 

tarily. We know now that justice is never granted - it must be 

exacted, We know now that freedom is never given ~ it must be won, 

When you contribute to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund you get in 

the fight for freedom; you support the crusade for complete emancipa-~ 

tion; you heed the warning - Nothing fails like success. 

To succeed and not to fail, send your contributions today--any 

amount=-to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 107 West 3rd St., 

New York 36, N. Y, You can deduct it from your income tax. 

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