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III. BACKGROUND MATERIAL ORGANIZATIONS 1. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a New York corporation organized in 1911. Daisy Bates of Little Rock, Arkansas, has been president of the Arkansas Conference of Branches of this organization for approximately. 10 years, The NAACP received contributions in Arkansas of $182.00 in 1957, yet it spent over $50,000.00 in this State during that year on litigation and other integration endeavors, It is a well known fact that the NAACP has been the moving factor in filing integration suits in this State, designed not only to integrate the schools, but the public parks, swimming pools and golf courses, and has the ultimate goal of invalidating the statutes forbidding intermarriage among the races. Many of the officials - of this organization, both local and national, have an almost — incredible tie-in with communist and communist front organizations. 2. FUND FOR THE REPUBLIC, The Fund for the Republic received a grant of fifteen million dollars from the Ford Foundation several years ago, but the Ford Foundation subsequently decided not to make further grants, The Fund for the Republic has made grants totaling $497,000.00 to the Southern Regional Council, which in turn has made grants. to the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, ' Harry Ashmore is one of the directors of the Fund for the Republic, and was one of the three incorporators of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, and as such, made two direct grants from the Fund for the Republic to the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, which was organized for the purpose of instigating and pushing integration in Arkansas, 3. SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL, This organization .is .based at Atlanta, Georgia, and Jin fckson, a notorious Negro communist, participated in its organization. Many of its officers and