Name/Title
Beshears: NAACP FliersEntry/Object ID
2022.40.60Scope and Content
Five copies of NAACP fliers dated Feb. 1954 'Don't Be A Free Rider!' Campaign. The flier is double sided. On the front is a drawing of a heavy man (The Rest Of US.) being carried by a smaller man (N.A.A.C.P. Member). He is walking on a plank (Road To Freedom) that is laid over a cliff. The back side contains the message.Context
Front: Below the drawing
National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
20 West 40 Street, New York 18, N.Y.
Back:
PLEASE!
Get off our back!
This is your fight too.
Climb down and join the
ranks of NAACP members
Fighting for Freedom.
Carry your own share
and help speed the day
of full Emancipation.
REMEMBER:
If you want to be free
by Sixty-three
You've got to do more
in Fifty-four.
Don't be a free rider. You
need the NAACP and
the NAACP needs you.
Clip The Coupon and JOIN TODAY!
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N.A.A.C.P.
20 West 40th Street, New York 18, N.Y.
or your local branch
I wish to become a member and
enclose $ . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I enclose $ . . . . . . . . . . . as a Fight for Freedom
contribution.
Name ......................................
Address ..................................
City and State .........................
Annual Membership $2.00. #3.50, $5.00, S10.00 & up. Youth
Membership (under 17) $.50; (17-21), $1.00. Life Membership
$500. Memberships of $3.50 and up include a year's subscription
to the Crisis magazine at $1.50.
Feb. 1954Collection
Beshears, Kelsey