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ALL INFORMAQON BBNTAINED HEREIN 1S UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT FEDERAL BUREAY) OFMINVESTIGATION * INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 6/10 OFFICE OF ORIGIN DALLAS _, COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE ONATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OP COLORED PEOPLE - (DALLAS DIVISION) INTERNAL SECURITY - C SYNOPSIS: A permanent injunction was issued against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) by a State District Court, Tyler, Texas, on 5/8/57. This injunction did not outlaw the NAACP, but enjoined this organization from the practice of 7 law, engaging in political activities, lobbying, soliciting law suitSand hiring litigants to maintain and prosecute law suits. The NAACP was ordered to pay all accrued frachise taxes, plus interest and penalties within 30 days after t am he Btate is determined. me ane ba (2g hs pe o ion eo | ssified un [Ghee b IC. — ” \ ay DETAILS: parlassity on: OADR The "Dallas Star Post," a Negro newspaper published in Dallas, Texas, in the issue of May 9, 1957, reflected that on September 20, 1956, JOHN BEN SHEPPERD, Texas Attorney General, filed a suit against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 7th Judicial District Court at Tyler, Texas, to prohibit e NAACP from further engaging in its legal business affairs Texas. Acting upon these claims this ormer Attorney General, JOHN BEN SHEPPERD, SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE BO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW SS llas Dallas (RM as (100-5257) —+—- i wel v= 5 PROPERTY OF FBI.—This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to de distributed outside the agency to which loaned. a)