A Des Moines, Iowa Jewish leader, who is national vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has completed 30 years of service to the NAACP, the Association reported today.
He is like Smalls, president of the Beth Jacob Synagogue, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Midwestern States Region of the American Association for Jewish Education.
He is best known to NAACP members for the Ike Smalls a ward, presented annually at the NAACP convention to a chapter showing the largest percentage of membership increase for the year. While he has been a top NAACP officer since 1950, he worked his way up from a start with the Des Moines branch in 1930.
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