The Florida regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith pledged today to assist the Dade County Community Relations Board in efforts to achieve end to discriminatory membership policies of civic and service clubs in the area. “The programmatic and informational resources of the League are available to the CRB as they always have been,” said William Alper, chairman of the ADL regional board. Alper complimented the CRB for its recent statement calling for the leadership of local civic and service clubs to act decisively to end discriminatory membership practices against Latins and Blacks.
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