<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a5f47abb-4047-4abf-ac6e-61dc8ecc156a/DFD9BD7A-D66C-43BF-90F1-296F58A9B0BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html" href="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.projo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html">NAACP roots in Rhode Island</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html"><DIV>By Thomas J. Morgan</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html">“Locally, we started in 1913, so this is our 96th year. We were very early in the mix.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html">“The first issue they focused on besides lynchings was the integration of the YMCA,” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html">“The Rhode Island black community was very active through Beneficent on Weybosset Street. At that point, they also had some very active Masonic organizations. A lot of the Masons were very active in social issues and problems. They were like the protectors of the black community. They were a unified, strong group.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.projo.com/news/content/NAACP_HISTORY_02-15-09_5TDALL4_v13.29afc50.html"><P>In the 1950s, when Montiero was “just a kid,” a man named B. Albert Ford was president of both the Masonic order and the NAACP. “They were worried about reprisals,” he said of the Masons and the NAACP members.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DFD9BD7A-D66C-43BF-90F1-296F58A9B0BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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