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APPENDIX B MANHATTANVILLE RESOLUTIONS WHEREAS: I am enjoying the privileges of a Catholic higher education, I recognize that I have certain duties and obligations toward my fellow man, among which I must consider my conduct and attitude toward the American Negro. I therefore resolve to carry out and adhere to the following resolutions: 1. To maintain that the Negro as a human being and as a citizen is entitled to the rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and to the essential opportunities of life and the full measure of social justice. 2. To be courteous and kind to every colored person, remembering the heavy yoke of injustice and discrimination he is bearing. To remember that no race or group in America has endured the many handicaps that are his today. 3. To speak a kind word for him on every occasion. 4. Not to speak slightly or use nick names which tend to humiliate, offend or discourage him. 5. To remember that the Catholic Church and the Catholic program of social justice have been called “The Greatest Hope of Colored People.” 6. To recognize that the Negro shares by membership in the Mystical Body of Christ and the privileges that flow therefrom and to conduct myself in accordance therewith. 7. To give liberally on Sundays of the year when the collections are devoted to the heroic missionaries laboring among the Negro group. 8. To become increasingly interested in the welfare of the Negro; to engage actively in some form of Catholic Action looking to the betterment of his condition, spiritually and materially. Appendixes  201 From the archives of the National Federation of Catholic College Students, Manhattanville College. Also found in John LaFarge, No Postponement: U.S. Moral Leadership and the Problem of Racial Minorities (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1950) 74–75. Anderson final pages 8/10/05 9:15 AM Page 201 ...

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