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—— eadoubtedly will attempt to anear me and dis eredit ary findings and conclusions that J would welcome the opportunity tw present the evidence | have im band for determination before a trial jury io a court of law. At the outset I wish to make it clear that the iasue involved is one not of race but rather of sub- version. None of the organizations which have exploited the race imue in this country has ever had the welfare of the negro people at heart. They have seized upon this issue as a convenient front for their more nefarious activities and as one with which they could dupe naive do-gooders, furry- minded intellectuals, misguided clergymen and rad- ica} journalists to be their pawns. The record shows that the National Amociation for the Advancement of Colored People was neither founded nor is presently directed by colored people. It was originated in New York City 46 year? ago as the brain child of a Southern scalla- wag journalist and Russian-trained revolutionary named William E. Walling. Its principal personali- ties during its early years were descendant of the rabble-rousing abolitionists who fomented the strife which precipitated the War Between the States, a conflict which could have been avoided but for the ~ activities of those aboliconists. Of its five founders only one was a negro—e Communist-sympathizing lawyer named W. EB DuBois whose record of participation in Com- munist, Communist-front and subversive organiza- tons and activities taken from the files of the euted Communist spies Julius and Ethy! Roecn- berg and the imprisoned leaders of the Communist Party of the United Statea In 1953-he was awarded the International Peace Prise by the dermine the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ‘DuBois was Director of Research for the t%) NAACP sntil 1949 and now is referred to by its officers and members as the organization's “Hon- orary Chairman” wan addition to Walling and DuBoia, the other NAACP founders-all white—were Dr. Henry ‘Moskowitz; Socialiss Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of Abolisionist William Lloyd Garrison; and Min Mary Ovington White, also a descend- ant of an old-time abolitionist. The first president of the Amocistion was & white Boston lawyer, Moorfield Storey, who was identified in bis youth with the abolitionist movernent and who served as secretary to the original race-baiter, Masachu- setts Senator Charlies Sumner. Frem that day to this, South-hating white people with long records of affinity for, affiliation with, and participation in Communist, Communist- front, fellow-traveling and subversive organiza- tioms, activities and causes have directed and sub- sidized the NAACP. Ics present president, Arthur B. Spingarn of New York City, = a white man as are a large sumber of the current officers, direc- tors and principal contributors. The files of the House Un-American Activites Committee reveal records of affiliation with or participation in Communist, Communist-front, fellow-traveling or subversive organizations or ac- tivities on the part of the following present offi- cials of the NAACP—the President, the Chairman of the Board, the “Honorary Chairman,” !1 of 28 Vice Presidents, the Treasurer, 28 of 47 Directors, the Chairman of the Nationa) Legal Committee, the Executive Secretary, the Special Counsel, the of the Washington Bureau, the Director of Public Relations and two Field Secretaries. The transcript of this evidence numbers 121 pages of single-spaced, typewritten copy and would require more than six hours to be read aloud. Time being a factor, it is impomible to present all of this material ;. but, t give you an idea of the back- grounds and ideologies of the policy-making of- ficials and personne) of the NAACP, I shall cite chapter and verse on the activities of this organize- tion's principal personalities, - (The designations which I shall use in describing the organizations and activities with which “uy, 19). . ‘ ’ (NS -—- ee