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State Archives of Florida, Collection N2015-1
Description
Objectives and slogans list for Citizens for Better Living.
Date
1964 (circa)
Format
Coverage
Subjects
Geographic Term
CITIZENS FOR BETTER LIVING
An Appeal To The People
OBJECTIVES
1. To promote better understanding among the people of the community.
2. To help to raise the standards of the people of the community.
3. To instill within the people of the Community the importance of behaving as ladies and Gentlemen at all times.
4. To prove to the world that we are entitled to the Civil Rights Bill which has just recently been passed.
5. To organize ourselves into groups to organize different Clubs in the Community to sponsor activities for the children and adults.
6. To print circulars to distribute to people who loiter on the streets.
7. To organize ourselves into groups to make House to House campaigns in order to get people to send their children to Sunday School and Church.
8. To keep ever in the minds of the people the importance of keeping their children in school.
Circulars
FOR A BETTER CITY
SLOGAN
1. Please do not loiter on the streets.
2. Standing on the streets makes the city look bad.
3. If you must wait for someone before you go home, please do not wait on the streets. Wait at the home of a relative or friend.
4. This is the capital, please move off the streets so that the laws can pass by.
Title
Citizens for Better Living - An Appeal to the People, ca. 1964
Subject
Civil rights--Political aspects
Civil rights--Social aspects
Civil rights movements--Moral and ethical aspects
Description
Objectives and slogans list for Citizens for Better Living.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Collection N2015-1
Date
1964 (circa)
Format
declaratory documents
Language
eng-US
Type
Text
Identifier
n2015-1_b001_f09_74
Coverage
Postwar Florida (1945-1968)
Geographic Term
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Leon County (Fla.)
Thumbnail
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Display Date
ca. 1964
ImageID
n2015-1_b001_f09_74_01
topic
Slavery And Race Relations
Transcript
CITIZENS FOR BETTER LIVING
An Appeal To The People
OBJECTIVES
1. To promote better understanding among the people of the community.
2. To help to raise the standards of the people of the community.
3. To instill within the people of the Community the importance of behaving as ladies and Gentlemen at all times.
4. To prove to the world that we are entitled to the Civil Rights Bill which has just recently been passed.
5. To organize ourselves into groups to organize different Clubs in the Community to sponsor activities for the children and adults.
6. To print circulars to distribute to people who loiter on the streets.
7. To organize ourselves into groups to make House to House campaigns in order to get people to send their children to Sunday School and Church.
8. To keep ever in the minds of the people the importance of keeping their children in school.
Circulars
FOR A BETTER CITY
SLOGAN
1. Please do not loiter on the streets.
2. Standing on the streets makes the city look bad.
3. If you must wait for someone before you go home, please do not wait on the streets. Wait at the home of a relative or friend.
4. This is the capital, please move off the streets so that the laws can pass by.
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Citizens for Better Living - An Appeal to the People, ca. 1964. 1964 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331529>, accessed 25 December 2024.
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Citizens for Better Living - An Appeal to the People, ca. 1964. 1964 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/331529>