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f OPsIONAL FORM NO. 10 Tolson 3 Belmont Mohr —____ Casper Callahan Conrad > » . UNITED STATES “GOVERN DeLoach ANT Memorandu® TO > Mr. DeLoach DATE: May 21, 1963 sen ullivan Tavel Trotter “mou M. nd oBgs INTO TION CONTAINED Tele. Room = Ban LASSER ge //- / ES i suBjEcT: HOWARD ZINN aeueno” EP MON 1 / SPELMAN COLLEGE ne b ATLANTA; GEORGIA ~ { : Moura bP Tyre os pine ot cn y te J 4G j afm u iit fn On May 18, 1963, UPI, Washington, reported that soak ~~ Bernhard, Staff Director of the Commission on Civil Rights, predicted that the racial disturbance at Birmingham wo ld be followed by a greater conflict in other cities. He was one of three panelists who addressed the 20th anniversary meeting of the Capital Press Club, an organization of Negroes working in the communications industry, on the future of the Amsrican Negro., , Others included Pulitzer Prize Cartoonists Herbert th Block of ' The Washington Post ; ; Lerone 1 Bennétt Senior Editor of the "Ebony" magazine; and Professo®Howard Zinn," History, Department Chairman of Spelman College, Atlanta. Zinn was critic fal-off the Administration, the President and the Vice President concerning their“ position on civil rights. He also stated, " Our Attorney General is callous, and the: FBI incompetent to deal with civil rights problems.'"' Mr. Tolson noted, ''What do our files shotw’on Zinn?" = INFORMATION IN BUFILES: : L . ee REC 91 OO - FB y yf Doctor Howard /Zinn is Chairman of the Department of History and’ 7 Social Science at Spelman. College, Atlanta, Georgia. Zinn, who is white, was born August 24, 1922, at Brooklyn, New York, of Austrian and Russian born parents. He served in the United States? STi TFOM 1943 to 1945. He graduated from New York University with a ‘Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951, received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1952 and was awarded a Ph.D from that ae about 1956. Dr. Zinn was employed by Spel man... Colleges~a Negro institu ution, in 1956. A 1963 fs Zinn has been the subject of a security Sv Whigation by the Bureau, ner informants have reported that he was a member of the. Communist Party in & Re New York from 1949 to 1953, He was known to be associated with communist front groups in New York, including the International Workers Order, the American Peace Mobilization and the Committee of One Thousand. Zinn. was interviewed by Agents in New York in 1953 ane 19 ae He denied membership in the Communist 1- Mr. Tolson f : 1- Mr. Rosen y 143 of 1,~ 100-360217 eee °8 o\7 - ci “fied 0195 ce A