Rosa Parks #220: NAACP Jan 13 1956 school-aid desegregation clause

On NAACP letterhead to branch and youth officers, bearing Roy Wilkins’s typed name/title, the circular asks members of Congress to tie eligibility for school-construction funds to a promise to take steps to comply with the Supreme Court’s school-desegregation ruling. It argues the condition need not kill the aid bill or deny funds to law-abiding states, and points to 1954/1955 convention resolutions targeting such a clause.

• Date correction: OCR read “January 15”; enlarged archive image plainly reads January 13, 1956.
• LOC Rosa Parks Papers item mss859430227, leaf 10. Image SHA-256 161e051f… byte-verified HTTP 200.
• Craft limits held: documents advocacy instructions, not enactment, branch action, bill number, votes, or proof Parks lobbied on it. Survival in her papers is provenance, not authorship or receipt-by-date proof. Signature-like mark not authenticated as Wilkins autograph here.
• Distinct from Finding #219 (same week’s NAACP note on the ICC interstate≠intrastate transportation ruling).

Repo: naacp-1956-school-construction-aid-desegregation-clause.