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to leave a single soul behind.

African-Americans will soon no longer be the nation's largest minority. But by the year 2050 black and Hispanics together will constitute 40% of the nation's population. Where there are others who share our condition, even if they may not share our history, we intend to make common cause with them.

An early attempt at eliminating illiteracy in the South developed a slogan that was also their method - "Each One Teach One" until all could read.

Today our slogan and method should be "Each One Reach One."

Each one reach one until all are registered and voting.

Each one reach one until all productive citizens of our country and our world.

Each one reach one until the weak are strong and the sick are healed.

Each one reach one until your problem is mine, until mine is yours.

Look at what we have accomplished in a relatively brief time.

Although Americans have always been preoccupied with race, it is only in the recent past, and then, only at the insistence of the victims, that the nation began to take aggressive steps to inhibit and diminish the white supremacist impulse in the American character.

The NAACP's first efforts were aimed at ending racial profiling in the media - Negro Steals Clock or Negro Robs Bank. We convinced some newspapers to drop racial designations in their stories. We began a decades long campaign against lynching. Almost from our inception, we embarked on a strategy of litigation, aimed at striking down racial restrictions enshrined in law. We won the right for blacks to go to New Jersey's Palisades Park. Our first major case, Buchanan v. Warley, was won in 1917. It attacked a Louisville ordinance that kept an NAACP member from living in his own house in a white neighborhood. NAACP pressure integrated the officer corps in the First World

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