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| 130 SELECTED CCfeaiONIST 5RONT ORG.-JTIZATIONS "Habakkuk 1:3-4, 2:6-9, 2:12 Zephaniah l:18a, 3:1-4, 3:18-19 Malachi 1:10, 3*5 Isaiah 3:14-15, 5:7-8, 5:11-15, 5:13, 10:1-3" The quotations from the above designated Books taken individually from the particular Book and combined with one another, reflect an opposition to wealth and the exploitation of the poor by the wealthy. SOJTHERN NK2RO YOUTH CONGRESS Room 526-28, Negro Masonic Temple Building, _______Birmingham, Alabama This organization has been in existence since 1938. At present the organization is .active priiaarily in Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. It was formerly active in liiami, Florida and in Atlanta, Georgia. The persons who are reliably reported to be the policy-making officers of this organization are Esther V« Cooper, Executive Secretary and Louis Burnham, Negro, Organizational Secretary. Generally, the organization is ostensibly interested in the advance- ment of the Negro in the United States, and particularly in the South. More specifically, the organization has interested itself in the problems of veterans and service personnel, economic security, education, community welfare, constitutional liberties and the franchise of voting. Officers President Rose Mae Catchings, Chicago Illinois Vice Presidents Kenneth C. Kennedy, U.S. Army Edgar Holt, U. S. Army Alton Adams, Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia Ernest VJright, New Orleans, Louisiana Barbara Oldwine, Fisk University Nashville, Tennessee Charles Rhodes Executive Secretary Esther V. Cooper, Birmingham, Alabama Organizational Secretary Louis E. Burnham, Birmingham, Alabama Educational Director James E. Jackson, Jr., Ul S. Army Acting Educational Director Alestine M. Robertson, Birmingham, Alabama Acting Administrative Secretary Ruth Jett, Birmingham, Alabama National Council The following list of officers represent the last elected National Council of the Southern Negro Youth Congress: |