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Highlander Folk School — Part 13

69 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 68 pages OCR'd
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(42) Southern Resident Labor Colleges—member of finance cam- paign committee—letterhead, Feb- ruary 10, 1937. (43) Statement Defending the Communist Party—signer— Daily Worker, March 6, 1941, page 2. (44) Win-the-Peace Conference —-sponsor—call, April 5-7, 1946. (45) World Peace Appeal—sign- er—lerflet, August 31, 1950. on Constitu- Liberties in America — r-—- program, June 7-9, 1940, , Continuations Committee of mnference on Peaceful Alter- ste the Atlantic Pact—sien- 5 Atlantic Pact—sign- open letter to Congress—let- ugust 21, 1949, | International Workers Or- lefender of—Fraternal Out- November 1948, page 6. international Workers Or- efender of —Daily Worker, 18, 1951, page 8. Methodist Federation for Acticn—nominated member- | Conference -HIGHLANDER EXECUUTIVES (Continued from page 1) DR, LEWIS JONES, Rura! Life . : : . ae Crunsil Tuskeeree Imetituéa re by national membership VOUNCII, «AUsatege aTiSviluLe, g, December 27-29, 1947— Alabama. Action — nominee—official tive Director, Southern Re- Cantamhae 8 1089 gional Council, dtlants fea SEPLeMoer «4, secu, e:ens: Gennci facile, We. Methodist Federation for, ] Vv. EUGENE SMATHERS, Cal- Service--nominated for na- | | RF. vary Presbyterian Church, Big committee—1945 ballot, p. 4. Lick, Tenn. National Citizens Political . Committee — member—of- DR. Pf. A. STEPHENS, Chatta- t, August 28, 1944, nooga, Tenn. Netional Committee to Re-| JORUON STOKES, Ill, Attorney we McCarran Aci—signer of at Law, Nashville, Tenn. etter to members of Con- 4 ici THORNBROUGH, As- letter. January 19, 1951. . : eee am sociate Editor, East Tennres- Nationa! Commitiee to Re- we McCarran Act-—signer of see Labor News, Knoxville, eligr to Senator Heanings : 1 November 14, 1955. TOM WHITE, Sec., Tennessee National Committee to Win State Legislative Board, Broth- erhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lexington, Tenn. AUBREY WILLIAMS, Publisher, Southern Farm and Ilome, Montgomery, Ala. CHARLES WILSON, Tennessee Representative, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelt- er Workers, Columbia, Tenn. MRS. GEORGE WOLFE, Takoma Park, Maryland. ty for the Smith Act Vic-! sponsor — letterhead, May bb. gg Nationai Conference to De-| he Bill of Righte—sponsor st, December 2-3, 1950. National Federation for utional Liberties—signer of ent opposing renewal of the ommittee—pamphliet, Janu- 3, National Negro Congress— -—H0th convention program, }, 1946. People’s Institute of Ap- Religion — sponsor — letter- Aprii uy, 1942. CITATIONS (Continued from page 1) gro worker, it has been a deterrent |to him.” teligion—member of South-;] SOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOR ommittee—letterhead, Janu- HUMAN WELFARE 1948. Cited as a Communist-front or- People’s Institute of Ap- Religion—member of South- ommittee—letterbead, April oa. Southern Conference Edu- a! Fand-—endorser of dezlar- fide WNavarskay Of 1048 aGIQ€F, vOVECE? aU, seat. | Southern Conference Edu- al Fund—director—program ference, April & 1950, | Southern Conference Edu- al Fund — director — letter J dics aks F ganization “which seeks to attract southern liberals on the basia of its seeming interest in the prob- lems of the South” although its “professed interest in southern welfare is simply an expedient for larger aims serving the Soviet Un- jon and its subservient Communist Party in the United States.” WINGDALE LODGE “The Committee is convinced i3cL. Lines Ree parame beatae tA — 4 | that Wingdale Lodge (incorpo- vm. been devised making special ap- peals in behalf‘ of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations are the . Emergency Civili Lib- erties Committee. When the Com- tmunist Party itself is under fire these fronts offer a bulwark of protection.” | ABRAHAM LINCOLN SCHOOL “Schools under patriotic and be- nevolent titles indoctrinate Com-1 mounists and outsiders in the the- ory and practice of communism, train organizers and operatives. recruit new party members and sympathizers * * * A school of this type has been the Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago * * * ” AMERICAN PEACE MOBILIZATION Cited as “one of the most sediti- ous organizations which ever op- erated in the United States” and Ce ae ‘instrunient oe or of the Communist Party line prior to Hitler’s attack on Russia.” AMERICAN YOUTH FOR DEMOCRACY Cited as the new name under which the Young Communist League operates and which alsc largely absorbed the American Youth Congress. COMMITTEE FOR PEACEFUL ALTEKNATIVES TO THE ATLANTIC PACT “As part of Soviet psychological! Communist fronta seek to paralyze America’s will to resist Communist aggression by idealizing Russia's aims and methods, discrediting the United States, spreading defeat- ism and demoralization . . . Spe- cializing in this field .. . have been such organizations as .. , the Committee for Peaceful Alterna- tives to the Atlantic Pact aoe COUNCIL ON AFRICAN ' .. AFFAIRS Cited as a Communist front “formed to provoke racial fric- tion.” IEYPYEPCON KCHONL OF Sr FP asst re an SR eres ee SOCIAL SCIENCE “Schools under patriotic and be- nevolent titles indoctrinate Com- munista and outsiders in the the- ory and practice of communism, train organizers and operatives, re- eruit new party members and sym- pathisers. . . . Schools of these type have been . . . Jefferson School of Socia) Science, New York. ...7 warfare against the United = a eR aa 7 te =. pe peerings tty “Political Affairs, formerly known as The Communist, ‘a maga- zine of the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism published month- ly by the Communist Party of the United States of America.” now calls itself ‘a magazine devoted to the theory and practice of Marz- ism-Leninism.' Its chief editor is Eugene Dennis, executive secretary of the party.” | NAACP Approval, Support, Participation Reverend Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Tharies C. Gomillion, Reverend David Brooks, Allen Mc- Swain, Conrad Browne and others who attended this session at High- lander Folk School provided major leadership in the following inci- dents of interracial strife: (1) the Montgomery Bus Boycott; (2) the Tuskegee Boycott; (3) the Talla- hassee Bus Boycott: (4) the Clin- ton School] Incident; (5) Kononia Farms Inter-racial Violence and the March on Washington. Each of the above-listed persons and incidents has received the na- tional acclaim and complete sup- port of the National Association for Advancement of Colored Peo- ple. In fact, these incidents and the operation of these individuals have provided a major portion of the active program of the NAACP, Those who conducted thin Labor Day seasion at Highlander inter- spersed their lectures and discus- sions with appeals to those present to secure new memberships for the NAACP and especially urged that teachers join and support the NAACP. The unqualified support by the NAACP of the above-named indi- viduals and incidents must be view- ed in light of the fact that ten of the directors including Benjamin E. Mays, President, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, have amassed the surprising total of over 400 instances mist 400 instances of Communist Front Affiliation; more than half the directors have public records of Communist Affiliation, The di- rectors of the NAACP both pres- ent and past have continually dem- onstrated an amazing propensity for affiliating themselves with pro-Communist causes. The Honorary Chairman of the Directors of the NAACP, W. E. B. DuBois has amassed a longer pub- lic record of Communist affilia- tions than any other person in the United States with the staggering total of literally hundreds of such poe? FS eee eee {Scustions.
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