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AN APPEAL
Sirs:
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N egroes in Mississippi are
starving, a team of distinguished
doctors declared recently--starv–
ing in the sense that acute mal–
nutrition shortens their life-span,
d)ing )Ioung from an accumula–
tion of hunger-induced diseases
that go untreated for years.
. . .
This is a quotation from a news
item in the
New York Post
for July
10th, 1967. A later account, in the
same paper, tells of Negroes in
rural Mississippi areas subsisting
partially on grass, and begging for
food and/or money at Civil Rights
headquarters in their various local–
ities.
This is happening not in impov–
erished, overpopulated India or
China; it is happening not in some
economically backward country; it
is happening in the United States
of America, the richest country on
earth.
Boston CORE is naturally con–
cerned with alleviating this terrible
situation. Recently, in answer to
our letter of inquiry, we received a
letter from the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare ad–
vising us of a new issue of Food
Stamps, with greater purchasing
power than the old, which the De–
partment is about to launch. Yet
such is the poverty of the Negroes
in these rural Mississippi areas that
they will not be able to buy the
new Stamps, cheap though they
may be. Therefore, Boston CORE
is sponsoring a fund drive, the
proceeds of which will go to pur–
chase the new Stamps, for these
needy Negroes.
Weare calling on your readers
to help these poor victims of a
grossly unfair and tragic situation.
Anyone desiring to help may do so
by sending a check to Boston
CORE at the following address:
373 Blue Hill Avenue, Roxbury,
Mass. 02121.
The situation of these poor peo–
ple is as terrible as it is undeserved.
Will you help?
John Young
Chairman, Boston CORE
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