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STA:GLARD Fomas WO. 64 Office Memorandum - yi TO Mr. Rosey 44 DATE: 2/13, 56 nS a ; FROM ! : Mr. me Reel suByect: THURGOOD C AROHALL 7 GENERAL COUNSEL oo . NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR. ‘fe eHee | Gandy’ "Laer c€ UNITED: STATES GOVERNMENT cage oF od mont Harbo Mohr Parsons — Rosen ‘Famm’ * Sizoo Winterrowd Tele. Room Holioman —? ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ‘nace The Director had inquired if. we. , éould™ “identify the -ease which had’ been’ mentioned by Mr.. Thurgood Marshall while he was talking to Mr. Nichols. and Mr. Rosen at the Bureau on : February 9, 1956. Marshall had-stated that Ruby Hurley, a , staff employee for the National Association for the. Advancement, of Th Colored People in Birmingham, Alabama, had made some. complaints © % which Marshall thought were unjustified but mentioned that the. : case had occurred in Florida, south of Miami,’ and a Negro «- woman had been beaten up by the ‘police. - An Agent reportedly an went to find the witness and asked a police officer if -he ; & YY knew the witness» and the officer offered to point out where oY the witness lived. According to Marshall this officer was in . °**\ \) the minds of the colored people.a, ite officer and the.” + A nS colored people clammed ORs Al og CONTAINED BG ACTION: HEREIN lish? ibé ” DATE pc : i an supervisor Alpaugh of. the wed onriae was! telephonically = ‘3 contacted by Mr. Rosen at 12:34 p.m.5. on February 13, 1956,. and asked to. identify, if possible, such a case. Supervisor ae Albaugh of the Miami Office telephonically. advised on the 3 g afternoon of February 13, 1956, that he had talked with the egy Agents handling Civil Rights matters*and had reviewed files gi ‘but had been unable to identify such case -in the Miami area és G during, the past year. SA Albaugh advised that.5A John Bills. , O90 is presently on extended sick leave and that-he would: chéck sas with SA Bills in a. further. effort: +0 ‘identify the matter.” “yy as Supervisors in the Civil Rights: Unit: ‘are unable to. recall | _ we “F personally any case in the Maem 3 area’ eee as. mentioned’ So fe by Mr. Marshall. a _ \ oa ECORDED.39 7 ae Lb a : af And all other “agente, a 3 ith see. ee’ FEB ay ee