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posed legislation to outlaw the Communist Party held before the House Un-American Activities Committee on May 3, 1950. Aithough he stoucly denied being a Communist, he was quoted as say- ing that such a question was “unfair” because it “immediately precludes from appearing before this Committee many of the people who would be on tria) under a bill of this kind.” The transcript fur- ther quoted him as saying that: “Presumably there are people who may, for sincere and personal reas- ona, wish to be members of the Communist Party, They may want to come bere and object to this bill, but. I suppose, if they had w answer that question. they very likely would not come.” Director of Public Relations Henry Lee Moon, the Association’s propaganda chief, is listed as a member of the “subversive and Communist” Wash- ingwon Book Shop and the likewise-designated Na- ional Negro Congress which is “the Communist- front movement in the United States among ne- groes.” His book, “‘Baiance of Power: The Negro Vote,” was praised by the Daily Worker and he was listed in 1949 as a nominee to be commentator for the “subversive and Communist” Voice of Free- dom Committee. Of the NAACP’s 28 Vice Presidents, the follow- ing 11 have records of Un-American activities: John Haynes Holmes, 23 citations; A. Philip Randoiph, 20 citations; the late Mary McLeod Bethune (who still is Listed as a vice president) and William Llovd Imes, 16 citations each; Oscar Hammersin, II, the composer, and Bishop W. j. Walls, seven citations each; Ira W. Jayne and L. Pear! Mitchell, nwo citations each; and Willard S. Townsend, T. G. Nutter and Grace B. Fenderson, one citation each. Of the 47 members comprising the Amociation's Board of Directors, the following 28 have records of the Un-American activities: Earl B. Dickerson, 25 citations; Algernon D. Biack, 18 citations; Lewis Gannett, i5 citations; Roscoe Dunjee, 13 citations; §. Ralph Harlow and Chairman Channing H. Tobias, 10 citations each; William H. Hastie. nine citations; Hubert T. De- laney. eight citations; Benjamin E. Mays, president of Atlanta's Morehouse College, six citations; Rob- ert G. Weaver. five citations: Buell G. Gallagher, four citauons: President Arthur B. Spingarn, Earl [8) G. Harrison, James J. MeClendon, Ralph Bunche, Allen Knight Chalmers and W. Montague Cobb, three citations each; J. M. Tinsley, Wesley W. Law of Savannah, Ga, Norman Cousins, Z. Alexander Looby, Harry J. Greene and Alfred Baker Lewis, two citations each; and H. Claude Hudson, Cari R. Johnson, A. Maceo Smith, James Hinton and Theodore M. Berry, one citation each. Two other Vice Presidents and three other Di- rectors are well-known apologists for left-wing causes. The two Vice Presidenu are Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Eric Johnston of the Motion Picture Industry. The three Directors Mr. Eleanor R ident euther and Senator Herbert an of Other officers of the NAACP with Un-Ameri- can activity records are: Lioyd Garrison, chairman, National Legal Com- mittee, five citations; Treasurer Allan Knight Chalmers and Branch Department Director Glos- ter B. Current, three citations each; Southeast Re~ gional Secretary Ruby Huriey, West Coan Region- al Secretary Franklin H. Williams, Field Secretary Madison S. Jones and Assistant Special Counsel Robert L. Carter, two citations each; and Field Secretary Tarea Hall Pittman, one citation. But of ali the NAACP officials and policy- makers listed in the files of the House Un-Ameri. can Activities Committee, none has a record as nowrious as that of W. E. B. DuBois wo whom I have previously referred as one of the founders and present “Honorary Chairman” of the Association. No less than 72 citations of Communist, Commun- ist-front and subversive activity are entered against his name-—the latest of which was the statement he issued upon the death of Joseph Stalin reading: “Let all negroes, Jews and foreign-born who have suffered in America from prejudice and intoler- ance, remember Joseph Stalin.” Yet this same W. E. B, DuBois was one of the “modern scientific authorities” whose writings were accepted by the United States Supreme Court as the basis for its decision of May 17, 1954, pro- hibiting segregacion in the public schools. DuBois contributed to 62 different portions of the book, “an American Dilemma.” which was cited in ita { =