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OC NOwAL POtm HO. te sore tee tee 198) EDITION Fi a. FFG MQ OF UNITED STATES GO “3NMENT ca M. emorandum | | i ro : Mr. We Ce Sullivan: | DAIE: Qctober 25, 1965 : i Ve - r 1 = Mr, Belmont FROM - Fe. de meee ; - ee Aer ach 1 = Mr, Sullivan me suwECI: HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN~AMERICAN ACTIVITIES 1 = Mr. Baumgardner 4 RACIAL MATT 403) (KLAN) Information has been furni j event the Committee forces him to submit Klan membership records, such irecords will show thet former President Harry 8, Truma is Klan membership be sent m . n to the - we {' smithsonlan Inst itution, —_ tn | ay Bureau files indicate that according to "The Man from Independence," by Jonathan Daniels, former President Truman paid a $10 membership fee to the Klan in 1924 when he was running for county judge. On this occasion Truman was asked to pledge that he would not hire Catholics, He replied that he would not make such a pledge and was reported to have taken his $10 membership fee back. Truman is depicted lu lan the book as having taken the initial action in an effort to garner "y _as oe hoe al Ge Ae eR votes, Truman on October 26, 1944, publicly denied the charge that he A once was a klansman, ™,. ~ \ The September, 1941, issue of "Current Biography" indicates Justice Black was a member of the Robert B. Lee Klan Number 1, Invisible ¢j Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, from September 11, 1923, "until f July 9, 1925. This is based on a series of articles which had appeared int the Pittsburgh "Post-Gazette," Black reportedly resigned on the eve of his campaign for the democratic nomination ‘oS United States senator, He was reportedly welcomed back into the Klan and made a life member on September 2, 1926, Black has publicly admitted Klan membership, There is no information in Bureau files to indicate that hief Justice Warren was a member of any Klan <p aT spear sereerereerere Chief Justice Warren was the leader o ; Smail, 1 ocal Klan group for several : ears but cou rnish no additional Sad t ah ‘7 4 i oa Fo} hes —— Enclosure A2<<% /6-~ 26-45— SENEEIES 0 ee = TPR: jmw (7) eT uate Ree Sa Pe ght pall Fae fa wt ne amie a * iano Sen onan ane ss at Le AE ae eA a Pa NG ae OP ty SEP ate een ee i.