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Ragsdale, James

Aberdeen Daily World

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Fletcher~ Ghetto Raised 
Male.es Political History 
By J~l\IES RAGSDALE knowhow to hel . 
Associated Press Writer the world mark~t t~em get mt 
SEATTLE (AP) - Arthur Fletc~er spent· most of hi 
Fletcher-former professional youth m Kansas as the son 0 
footb.all player, shoe shine boy an Arm~ enlisted man wh 
and ice man who calls himself earned $\>O per month 
the "product of the ghetto'·' - He .b~lieves his idea~ for "not 
:ruesday made political history promismg pie-in-the-sky pro-
~ Washington's primary elec- gra.ms, but rather implementing 
tion. action ~lans" are being strong-
The 6-foot-4, 43-year-0ld ly "co~s1~ered by Nixon. 
Fletcher, now a city councilman . Thi,~ is t?e new politics," he 
and advisor to presidential can- s~1~. Talking .to t;he problem 
didate Richard M. Nixon be- 0 impl~mentation is what the 
~ame the first Negro in Wash- k:O~~. m the ghetto want to 
mgton to win a bid for high Fl · h . . state office . etc er said he considers 
· himself a "practical militant," 
OUT·VOTED MUNCEY forging the gap between the 
He out-raced hydroplane driv- white and black communities. 
er Bill Muncey of Seattle to win 'PRACTICAL' 
the Republican nomination for In a state where there are 
lieutenant governor. And he fewer than 100,000 Negroes, 
said he did it by promoting Fletcher considers his nomina-
" action politics for the whites, tion the fruits of "what can be 
blacks, Indians and pinks." done from a practical p<>int of 
Along the way he also bas view." 
gained national attention for He added that "my campaign 
, suggestions to adjusting prob. should free the white communi-
Iems of depressed neighborhoods ty of fears of the Negro." And 
through self-help programs. he said his was an "individual 
He was invited to explain to ach~evement - not a gr~up 
the Republican National Con- ach1e".ement - but one wb1c~ 
ention last July how he can give other Ne~roes hope. 
v d ~5 ooo to buy stocks . "I want everything . that c~n scrape up . .., '. ed be done from a practical pomt 
to ol?en a ~oig~borihood·~ of view," he said. "They used 
gasoln~e station in Pasco s Ne- to say that if a Negro got him-
gro neighborhood. . " self qualified, he could enter 
He calls for applying a for- the mainstream of society. That 
eid'n aid program to our o~n wasn't true. I was a college 
de'Pressed neighborhoods, which graduate and when I left pro-
are nothing b~t underdevelop~d fessional footJ?all I ret!11'ne.d t!!i 
countries witbm our countrY · Kansas to a J.ob ~arrying ice .. 
LOW-COST LOANS His nommmat1on, he sa1 
This includes he said Wednes- i"speaks well for th~ s~stemt 1~ 
d "sending' low-cost loans has a lot of holes lD it, .?u 
ay' 
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'th skills and proves change can com 
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English

Fletcher, Ghetto Raised, Makes Political History

Union contract between the Teamsters and the California Soft Drink Bottlers Association

Bay Area Soft Drink Bottlers Association

Teamsters Joint Local Executive Board of California

Agreement

Notificationof a meeting at a Wenatchee church to discuss housing needs. Invites attendees to bring sleeping bags and stay at the church for free

Hackett, Paul

Woods, Verree

All the concerned in Washington State about housing for low-income persons

Nixon televised speech on domestic policy includes a statement that welfare recipients need to get jobs or training

White House

Press Release

Fletcher

Internet Printouts

Paul orders his UW transcript be sent to AF at UNCF

Transcript Order Form

Bremerton Sun

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Fletcher Asl{s Church 
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Aid To End Violence 
SEATTLE (AP)-Art Fletch- the Pasco City Council and the 
er, Republican candidate for first Negro nominated for a 
lieutenant governor, called on 
church members Wednesday to high state office in Washington, 
help end racial violence. appeared at a ne\vs conference 
He said there is an a ttitude · \Vith Secretary of State Lud 
of violence in the black com- Kramer and said Kramer will 
munit , which, if left un- be the full-time coordinator f 
check , would result in ''race his ca n1paign against Lt. 
wars dwarfing anything we John Cherberg. 
have experienced to date." 
He urg d church members to 
' 'establish an n ironm nt in 
·v.,hich nonviolence o Id pre-
vail." 
The church, he said, is a "tre-
mendous untapped resource," 
and its retired business e ecu-
ti res, craftsmen and others 
could help bu iness projects 
ba ed in ghettos. 
"All we have gotten from he 
church so far is token mvolve-
ment and a lot of interracial 
dialogue," said. '' people 
want action.'' 
Fletcher, who is a m ......,K;;i.&. 


Fletcher Asks Church Aid to End Violence

Local flight instructor Pat McGee is flying Gorton and Af around the state

Watson, Emmett

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Weekend Pilot

Accessing mental health services is a long-standing challenge for members of racially marginalized communities. Previous research suggests these concerns exist for Black people in the U.S. regardless of their location (Picco et al., 2016). The current investigation examined the interrelationships between cultural mistrust, oppression, acculturation, and mental health seeking behaviors.Psychology Departmen

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