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American Friends Service Committee — Part 10
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W.E.B. DU BOIS CLUES OF AMERICA (DCA);
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A source has advised that on October 26-27, 1963, a
conference of members of the Communist Party (CP}, including
national functionaries, met in Chicago,Illinois,for the purpose
of setting in motion forces for the establishment of a new
national Marxist-oriented youth organization which would hunt
for the most peaceful transition to socialism, The delegates
to this meeting were cautioned against the germ of anti-Soviet
and anti-CP ideologies. These delegates were also told that it
would be reasonable to assume that the young socialisis attracted
into this new organization would eventually pass into the cP
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A second conference of over 20 persons met in Chicago
on December 28-29, 1963, for the purpose of initiating a "call".
to the new youth organization and planning for a founding con-
vention to be held in June, 1964,
A second source has advised that the founding convention
for the new youth organization was held from June 19-21, 1964,
at 150 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California, at which
time the name W.E.B, DuBois Clubs of America (DCA) was adopted.
Approximately 500 delegates from throughout the United States
attended this convention. The aims of this organization, as set
forth in the preamble to the constitution, are,“It is our belief
that this nation can best solve its problems in an atmosphere of
peaceful coexistence, complete disarmament and true freedom for
all peoples of "the world, and that these solutions will be
reached mainly through the united efforts of all democratic
elements in our country, composed essentially of the working
people allied in the unity of Negroes and other minorities with
whites. We further fully recognize that the greatest threat to
American democracy comes from the racist and right wing forces
in coalition with the most reactionary sections of the economic
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destroy the unified struggle of the working people. As young
people in the forces struggling for democracy, we ehall actively
strive to defeat these reactionary and neo-fascist elements and
to achieve complete freedom and democracy for all Americans,
thus enabling each individual to freely choose and build the
society he would wish to live in. Through these struggles we
feel the American people will realize the viability of the
socialist alternative."
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