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aed SMe 6 Coomera oa € Y... Can estiate Cae sate) bon. The *herney-Ger ral’s office - ol US. Attorney Vrierou’s whose heme on Columbia for infomation. Fricreon, a southerner, notified | the Attorney-General’s office that there was no evidence of any viola- tion of civil rights in the affair. The Association continued to insist on a thorough investigation. Frierson finally received word from Attorney- General Clark expressing his decp concern over possible violations of civil rights and other laws. The Columbia aificial was instructed to ask fora grand jury “at the earliest possible Gime’. In the meantime a total ‘of 28 Negrocs, 18 of whom are under bond and 12 of whom were not named. were charged with attempted murder in the first degree, and three others were charged with “attempt te commit a felony”. It ap- pears that four white men are ulso to be indicted although their names were not disclosed because they have not yet been arrested. The indict- ment of unknown, unapprehended. white men at this late date is much too transparent an attempt to whitewash the bungling officials. BEHIND THE FACTS The events described in this booklet must seem almost unbelievable today. For this is an America only fresh from a terrible and long war in which Negro and white Americans fought side by side, with white men, brown men, yellow, and black men from all the world, for de- mocracy and the rights of minorities. In Columbia, Tennessee, and all over the south, men who dogeedly continue to believe in the MASTER RACE preachments are marshal- ing their forces in a desperate attempt to halt the flow of the true American ideal. They are deeply entrenched in the local police, they serve as sheriffs and magistrates, they are the law enforcement officers. And so, when the State Highway Patrolmen and State Guardsmen had finished their job of wrecking, machine-gunning, and terrorizing peaceful citizens who only defended their homes and families, they left their emblem for afl to sce. That emblem was a bold and proud KKK scrawled across the side of a hacked coffin in the Morton Funcral Home. Today the klan rides again but it isn’t the klan of cowardly hood, shooting and burning from night-flying horse. Today it rides in arm- ored cars. It wears cap and visor, and shining badge. It spews forth death from machine-gun and tommy-gun. Jts face wears the expres- sion of the Nazi storm trooper, terror of helpless Jews. It is the LAW. It arrests its stunned victims, unlisted. It indicts them for “attempted ome eee = - cane 2 a er ee Te cn Lye Lota mu.doo’. Mon dike 3 sear an. Blair, undertaker Jamies Morton, Reverend Galvin Lockridge, and ig-yeat-old | Navy hero. James Ste- ph nson. ‘The NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE IX COLUM- BIA, TENNESSEE was formed by a group of prominent, liberal Amer- icans to mobilize public opinion and to raisc funds necessary for the legal defense of the 31 ‘framed’ Negro victims of Dixie lynch law. These citizens believe that America has a conscience and, given the facts, will repudiate the klan and other fascist race-haters, and thus demonstrate that there MUST BE NO FUTURE COLUMBIAS. The Committee is uncompromisingly pledged to restore faith in America and American demoéracy in the hearts of Columbia's terror- ized Negro citizens by lifting out of the shambles the materials for a new start, another chance. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. Channing H. Tobias are co- chairmen of the exccutive committee, John Hammond serves as treasurer and Arthur B. Spingarn as chairman. Others on the execu- tive committee are Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles G. Bolte, Clark Foreman. Philip Murray, George Marshall, William L. Green, Bishop G. Bromicy Oxnam, Frank P. Stanley and Walter White, who serves as secretary. Membcrs of the national committee include, : j h win, Edward L. Bernays, Mary McLeod Bethune, he Austin, Roses illen, Hon. ane M. Bolin, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Oscar C. Brown, James B. Carey, Colonel Evans F. Carlson, Rev. Allan Knight Chalmers Leo M. Cherne, Dr. Nathan K. Christopher, Norman Corwin, Bart- lev Crum, Russell W. Davenport, Jo Davidson, Bette Davis, Hon. William L. Dawson Judge Hubert Delany, Earl B. Dickerson, Hon. Melen Gahagan Doug- las. Meleyn Douglas, Roscoe Dunjee, Albert L. Einstein, Edwin R. Embree, Dr. w. j Faulkner, Justin Feldman, Marshall Field, Mrs. Marshall Field, Lewis S. ‘Gannett, Frank P. Graham, David M. Grant, Thomas L. Griffith, Jr., Oscar Hammerstein, 11, Hon. William H, Hastie, George E. C. Hayes, Helen }layes Dr. George E. Haynes, Rev. Charles (:. Hill, Sydney Hillman, Rev, John Haynes Holmes, Langston Hughes, Robert M. Hutchins, Harold L. Ickes, Lillie M Jackson “Dr. D. V. emison, John Johnson, Rev, John H. obnson, Fr da Kirchwey Fiorella H. LaGuardia, Hon Charles M. LaFollette, Hon. Herb rt I, Lehman, Leo A. Lerner, Max Lerner, Ira F. Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, ae i Rev A A. Lucas, Henry R. Luce, Newbold Morris, Hon. Wayne L. “ se, Carl Murphy T. G. Nutter, James G. Patton, Clarence E. Pickett, Charles Poletti, Hon. Adam C. Powell, Jr, Dr. E. I. Robinson, A. Philip Ran- Gti’ Bishop William Scarlett, William Jay Schieffelin, David O. Selenick, br Sengstackle, Artie Shaw, Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, Hilda Simms, Lillian Ep 5 the Edward J. Sparling, Mabe! K. Staupers, Nathan Straus, Herbert Fant wope, Dr. J, M. Tinsley, Mrs. Robert L. Vann, Bishop W. J; Wally Leon H Weshington, Palmer Webber, Carter W. Wesley, Beulah T. Whitby, Jane White, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, P. B. Young, Sr.