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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 35

112 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 23, 1948 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 110 pages OCR'd
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JF 100- 8878 MISCELLANEOUS RACIAL LATTERS. “tioward Lniversity ree It was reported in the Pittsburgh Courier on March 29, 19h7,° that Dr. L..WOHNSON, President of Noward University, speaking at North Po Carolina Colleze, had” declared that lr. TRUAAN's proposal +o aid Greece - and Turkey with money and military aid exhibits "& declaration of war acainst Russia." It was-:stated that JOHNSON predicted that Russia would not declare war against the United States since Russia knows that there toa are certain reactionary groups in America who believe that war with the : Soviets is inevitable. JOHNSON stated in part, “Unless we remedy tho uisease in Democracy which Communism has put her finger on and which we are reluctant to relieve, there is no fight which we can undertaxe against Communism which will keep her from defeating us in the open field in . the time of peace." It was reported that JOHNSON was in faver of helping : Greece and Turxey but that we should mend "our own disease in ifississippi ar: Georgia.* > Me A, The Larch 29 edition of the Vashington-Afro American reported * at Dre Ry RUGCIZS GATES, the Zoology Professor at Howard University would in all probability not return to Howard next September. -It was stated ‘sa+ DrawiLLINCER had been exonerated. The above refers to the allegation that the professors mentioned, labeled colored people as being members of arn inferior race, according to the Afro-American for April 12, 97, Lrs. FRANKLIN D. oe ALa-o7 “F ROCSEVELT spoke to an overflow audience at the andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel arccii 3, 1947, and declared in substance that Democracy in the United States folic far short cf what it ought to be,. It was stated that 'rs. R.OSEVELT is Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the Social and Economic Council of the United Nations. according to Confidential Informant T-5, LAZ“ScRIZR, a writer for 7 I! Newspaper, spoke on April 16 at the Andrew Rankin ‘‘emorial Chapel to a--roxirately four-hundred persons, tro-hundred and fifty of whom were Ts aa ot wer, he atatenA tarnenen that thn went aA LP orcas. _according to informant, he stated in substance that the world ir +90 large to be ruled by one country -= it cannot be ruled by American Capitalism, British Imperialism, or Russian Communism. He stated, "The Cornunist Party that presently exists in arerica constitutes more of a ni.cance than a threat to our democratic form of Government." - He pointed aie 00 -(35 -S3-OSF a - * ¥ r = ye * es nn er “7 "2. > “ * v ~ Se ae = he .'™ ae An yee én e : re a Toe Ne! , Meo. ee EN Se Any we fo "« IAS AO i har re - ™ “ne wale . Poe on me oa wen Swe lt
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