Opportunities in all fields of endeavor will be greater within the next decade for American youth who are members of minority groups, teen-age leaders of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization were told here today. The hospitable climate towards minorities will not be merely an advantage to young people, but will be America’s gain in this critical age,” Herman Edelberg, Washington director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith said in an address to the opening session of the three-day executive committee meeting of B’nai B’rith’s youth serving agency.
Mr. Edelberg pointed out that the 1960 Presidential election “is another evidence that prejudice is a declining force in America.” But, he said, this decline “is not a signal for relaxation of efforts since there is still far too much prejudice for healthy society to tolerate complacently.”
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