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We should have learned also that social revolutions — and
that is what we have — that social revolutions do not necessarily
proceed on the basis of some predetermined comfortable timetable.
I am quite sure that George III thought our founding
fathers quite unreasonable. I can imagine what he thought of
Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams and John Hancock and a few others.
I suppose he thought them even blatantly irresponsible as they
pressed their demands to their necessary conclusion far beyond what
the English must surely have felt were the bounds of good taste and
the dictates of knowing one's place in life.
Well, today, my friends, there are Americans, many of them
law enforcement officials, who quite properly see a danger to law
and order in the flaring of anger and the release of tightly coiled
tensions by the Americans who live in our squalid ghettoes.
But these Americans would compound the danger by responding,
not with even-handed justice to the few, but to the heavy-handed
indiscriminate retaliation against the many.
And today there are other Americans who see in the struggle
for freedom and equality a license for irresponsibility and violence.
They are both wrong — tragically, explosively wrong. And
they must realize they are wrong and realize it now, while there is
still time to seek racial harmony and justice in America.
There is, in short, an urgent need to build a new climate
of mutual respect among all elements of society, for it is this
32
Object Description
| Title | Hugh McColl and White House conference speeches |
| Series | Series 1, Addresses and Statements |
| Digital Collection | Kelly Alexander, Sr. papers concerning the NAACP, 1948-1998 |
| Creator | Alexander, Kelly M. |
| Date Created | 1966, 1991 |
| Series Description | Addresses and speeches by figures in the NAACP organization, including Kelly Alexander, Sr. and Jr., Clarence Mitchell and Roy Wilkins. There are also speeches by Charlotte leaders, including Hugh McColl and Stanford Brookshire. |
| Collection Description | This collection documents the activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), with an emphasis on the work and correspondence of Kelly Alexander, Sr. and his sons Kelly Alexander, Jr. and Alfred Alexander in Charlotte, North Carolina. The collection contains minutes, correspondence, reports, speeches, press releases, membership records, and a few photographs. Topics covered include school segregation, housing and employment discrimination, police misconduct, and the Charlotte Area Fund. |
| Subjects--Names |
Alexander, Kelly M. Alexander, Kelly M., Jr., 1948- Alexander, Alfred L., 1952- |
| Subjects--Organizations |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charlotte Branch. |
| Subjects--Topics |
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina African Americans--Political activity--North Carolina--Charlotte Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Charlotte Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Charlotte African Americans--Housing--North Carolina--Charlotte Racism--Political aspects--North Carolina--Charlotte Race discrimination--North Carolina--Charlotte Police brutality--North Carolina--Charlotte Police misconduct--North Carolina--Charlotte |
| Subjects--Locations |
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century Charlotte (N.C.)--Politics and government--20th century |
| Coverage--Place |
Charlotte (N.C.) Mecklenburg County (N.C.) |
| Box Number | 1 |
| Folder Number | 19 |
| Language | eng |
| Object Type | Text |
| Digital Format | Displayed as .jp2, uploaded as .tif |
| Genre | manuscripts (document genre) |
| Finding Aid | https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/701 |
| Original Collection | Kelly Alexander, Sr. papers concerning the NAACP |
| Digital Collection Home Page | http://digitalcollections.uncc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16033coll20 |
| Repository | J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
| Digital Publisher | J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
| Rights | These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. The digital reproductions have been made available through an evaluation of public domain status, permissions from the rights' holders, and authorization under the law including fair use as codified in 17 U.S.C. section 107. Although these materials are publicly accessible for these limited purposes, they may not all be in the public domain. Users are responsible for determining if permission for re-use is necessary and for obtaining such permission. Individuals who have concerns about online access to specific content should contact J. Murrey Atkins Library. |
| Location of Original | J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
| Grant Information | Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. |
| Identifier | naacp-ms508-0101019 |
| Date Digitized | 2016-02-02 |
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| Title | naacp-ms508-0101019-040 |
| OCR Transcript | We should have learned also that social revolutions — and that is what we have — that social revolutions do not necessarily proceed on the basis of some predetermined comfortable timetable. I am quite sure that George III thought our founding fathers quite unreasonable. I can imagine what he thought of Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams and John Hancock and a few others. I suppose he thought them even blatantly irresponsible as they pressed their demands to their necessary conclusion far beyond what the English must surely have felt were the bounds of good taste and the dictates of knowing one's place in life. Well, today, my friends, there are Americans, many of them law enforcement officials, who quite properly see a danger to law and order in the flaring of anger and the release of tightly coiled tensions by the Americans who live in our squalid ghettoes. But these Americans would compound the danger by responding, not with even-handed justice to the few, but to the heavy-handed indiscriminate retaliation against the many. And today there are other Americans who see in the struggle for freedom and equality a license for irresponsibility and violence. They are both wrong — tragically, explosively wrong. And they must realize they are wrong and realize it now, while there is still time to seek racial harmony and justice in America. There is, in short, an urgent need to build a new climate of mutual respect among all elements of society, for it is this 32 |
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