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Oclahona registration Lew discriminsting agrinst Nesroes wes invalid Mr. dustioe SnANXFUE TSR, speaking for the court about the Fifteenth Amendment steted: 'The auendnent nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded nodes of discrimination.’ a Ee ' : , 3. It wes the firet national organization to raise % aoe tn ett ws the ai va > ~ ‘an sé ry oi the right of Negroes to sit on aur ies in the ars ease, 1919-1923. 4. With a group of other national organizations, the NAACP is a member of the joint national ¥eott sboro Defense Committee wnich is carrying on the :ight to free the world's most famous defendants. i of lily-white Democratic primaries in the South. The association believes that free and independent use of the ballot is the right of every citizen in Anerica. 5. It launched and has continued the fight to abolish the system | . ‘ * , . id . 6. In 1932 it twice investigsted slave labor conditions on the Mississippi levees and won increases of $100,000 weekly for 25,000 Necro workers, shorter hours and better conditions. Similar efforts |! were sade in connection with other great public works such es Boulder t Dam and TVA. TVA vas investigsted in 1938 ana the evicence of dis- ; (v ericination against Negroes was presentea to tne joint comnittee ) of the U. S. Congress investigating TVA. in the allotment of educational monies to Negro schools, Lzawyers for the association secured a ruling by the Meryland court of Appeals: in January, 1935, which opened the doors of the University of Mary- | land law school to Negro students. This fight is being continued t in Maryland where the. third Negro was acmitted in 1939. Similar caseg are to be filed in Tennessee and lissouri. i 7. j%XIt has everywhere fought school segregation and discrimination i } + matam th acialice the enlarttee nf Maren an wih The campaign to equalize the salaries of Negro and whi teachers has spread to Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Alabama and Kentucky. As the result of two court cases, salaries have been : equalized in nine out of twenty-three counties in Maryland, which fh means an additional $100,000 a year on the pay checks of Maryland school teachers. One additioml case is penaing in the Circuit Cvurt a of Prince George's County, Maryland, and another in the federal i court in lcryland. Y a s—_OREAPATIN we a. o Keer, oR ee