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F . oof ee we orch was given an honorarium by that Committee, roth has j\__.. ; Vv a of directors of the Southern Regional Council. One several hundred thousand dollars from The Fund for the Republic as a grant; the Fund has been lavish in its contributions to communist and near communist organizations. Harry Ashmore is on the Board of Directors of the Fund for the Republic, and one of the three incorporators of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee is closely affiliated with the Southern Conference Educational Fund; Grace been discharged from several universities for his alleged communist party affiliation, and has invoked the Fifth Amendment many times, At least 50 high officials and leaders of the Southern Regional Council have been affiliated in one capacity or another with the Southern Conference on Human Welfare and Southern Conference Educational Fund, Among those named were Daisy Bates of Little Rock, Arkansas, a member of Clana oreman, who was Henry Wallace's campaign manager, has been a member of the board of directors of the Southern wee — - we ee Oe Regional Council and Southern Conference Educational Fund, Sn enentl and has headed the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. He has been identified as a member of the Communist Party in sworn testimony before a Committee of the Senate of the United States, M, Lafayette “Marris has been on the board of directors of the Southern Regional Council and on the board of directors ee ee of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, ‘The Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tennessee, has been used for communist and communist front purposes for the past 25 years. Dr. Matthews further testified that the Southern Conference Educational Fund has penetrated 94 white colleges and universities of the South. He defined the term "penetration" as meaning that these institutions had at least one employee who belonged to the Southern Conference Educational Fund. He further stated ~21~