£9220 (Révy 1Oe15-62) * . 2 en Tolson a ee fe ° ee Ys 7 an : - Cc i. Callahan Conrad A 72-DeLoach oe Evans Gale Seen # Sullivan = , ere any Tavel —————___ test Trotter on we “\ ETS. Tele. Room oe oe oe Holmes : ogee es Oa ’ UPI -95 \ ADD 5 CIVIL RIGHTS COMMUNIST-INSPIPED, BARNETT DISPLAYED A POSTER-SIZED PHOTOGRAPH WHI HE CLAIMED SHOWED NEGRO LEADER DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING *AT A COMMUNIST: TRAINING SCHOOL,.* - HE SAID THE PICTURZ WAS TAKEN AT THE HIGHLANDER FOLK Seno ehs MT . WASHINGTON CHARGING THAT THE CURRENT WAVE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AGITATION WAS \ EAGLE, TENN,, BEFORE THE SCHOOL WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE STATE 0 TENNESSEE AS” SUBVERSIVE, HE SAID HE GOT THE PICTURE FROM THE GEORGIA STATE COMMISSION ON EDUCATION, oon 400 PERSONS, PRE DOMINANTLY WHITE YOUTHS, PACKED THE HEARING THURMOND RE PEATE DLY CALLED FOR ORDER AS THE AUDIENCE, OBVIOUSLY SVMPATHETIC TO THE THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION, MOANED OR TITTERED DURING THE TESTIMONY, ___ BARNETT SAID THE PRESIDENT AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD ENCOURAGED DEMONSTRATIONS SUCH AS FREEDOM RIDES AND THE LIKE. HE SAID THE ' PRESIDENT'S RECENT TELEVISED CIVIL RIGHTS ADDRESS TOLD THE NEGRO, IN SUBSTANCE, THAT HE HAD NOT BEEN TREATED FAIRLY AND “WHAT ELSE CAN HE DO BUT RESORT TO THE STREETS. HE SAID HE BELIEVED THERE HAD BEEN MORE SUCH ACTIVITY IN THE WEEKS SINCE THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, MONRONEY , WHO CALLED CN BARNETT TO aCe MENS HIS CHARGES, SAID HE DISAGREED “STRONGLY™ WITH THE GOVERNOR'S MONRONSY SAID HE DID NOT THINK THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS COULD BE \ READ AS ENCOURAGING DEMONSTRATIONS. HE SAID HE ALSO DISAGREED WITR . BARNETT®S CONSLUSICN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITY WAS COMMUNIST-INSPIRED. | BARNETT REPLIED BY PRODUCING THE PHOTOGRAPH. MONRONEY ASKED BARNETT WHETHER HE HAD EVER SOUGHT INFORMATION FROM * \ | FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER OR FROM OTHER AUTHORITIES SUCH AS THE HOUSE COMMT TTEE ON UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES ON THE BACKGROUND OF i CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS. BARNETT SAID THAT HE HAD *NO EVIDENCE® FROM I HOOVER, BUT SUGGESTED THAT THE COMMITTEE ASK HOOVER eee SQME OF THOSE PICTURED WITH KING WERE COMMUNISTS. BARNETT IDENTIFIED THOSE IN THE PICTURE WITH KING. AS AUR 4 Reel AES. DIRECTOR OF RY SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND CF ‘ ORE ANS 3 ABNER BER A NEGROJ AND MYLES HORTCN, ALI ORTON seabed Oasis DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL, , MONRONEY SAID CIVIL RIGHTs ACTIVITY COULD mor eoitaroett UNDER | THE | * AS COMMUNIST-INSPIREDS BARNETT AGREED T SOUE a THE DEMONSTRATORS WERE SINCERE, BUT HE Pe PATE D-RIS IS CLATMOTHAT. i CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITIES WERE INSPIRED BY THE GEREN ISTS ro i \7/12--GE154P Joos A ee Babe eed — JO 70. /. ‘ Aone Ve deroach MORI WasHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE bate parte 18° sure ENCLOSURE HW ny 4 Boold: 32989531 Page 97
a £. -_ Ss ra \ ~ q , a —— | (Geass yo 7 _ Friday, July 26, 1963 THE MIAMI HERALD 25-A \ Ps x @ hRichts Lead ‘Not hed,’ H'BI Say S = are S) AQIELS LO 9 AYS ~N WASHINGTON — (IPI) —| sissippi and George C. Wal- fers of the major civil rights natural and inevitable that!(CORE) -- the two zroups OS) Attorney General Robert F.| Iace of Alabama charge that |proups are Communists, or|Communists have made efforts; which have been in the fore. te Kennedy notified Congress| Communist influences were Communist-controhed. This islto infiltrate the civil rights front of the integration fight. Xo ical Thursday that an FBI check] back of much of the Negro | ~ an M: a Luther loit. th | _ Me CZ has shown no evidence that any} civil rights protes$ activity, | |ttue as to Dr. Martin Luther sroups and to-exploit the cur- Cc | 1 W . a . SOA of the leaders of the major _|King Jr., about whom particu-|rent racial'situation, In. view of COKE ar eroes . civil rights movements are| The senator wrote FBI Di- the real injustics that exist and lar accusations were made, as the resentment againai. them, May Get Medal well as other leaders.” , these efforts have been re- Barnett in his apnearance:markahbly unsuccessful.” WASHINGTON » (AP) — before the Senate Commillee! Monroney said he inquired}Cold War heroes will be eligi- offered a photograph showinglabout the Jeadership of the!ble for the nation's top mili- "Communists or Communist-|rector J. Edgar Hoover for his controlled. views and the Jatter turned the Kennedy also wrote Sen, letter over to Kenned alA. S. (Mike) Monroney, (D., y: Okla.), that Communist efforts The attorney general re- ENCLOSU feo - to infiltrate integration groups|Plied: "Based on all available|King at a school which the|National Association for the'tary decoration -- the Medal ‘Thave been “remarkably unsuc-|information from the FBI andjfovernor said was Coramunist-/Advancement of Colored Peo-lof Honor —- under a bill Presi- * leessful.” other sources, we have no evi-| dominated. « {ple (NAACP) and the Con-/dent Kennedy signed into law IKkennedy also wrote: “It is]gress of Monroney is 2 member of the Senate Commerce Coni- ©@ mittee which recently heard Govs. Ross Barnett of Mis- | N . ? a . son a ‘ : \ z t + 1 Nw 35074 Docld: 329595351 Page 95
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' & + * are a . QUUONAL FORM NO, 10 5010106 - MAY 1962 EQIUON . . GSA GEN, REG. NO, 27 be Tolson - -f {. Belmont ———_.- 4 _UNITED STATES GOV MENT oo. y Meh } xe We 1 - Belmont Gaileen—— Memorandum _0°. xé jel a | Ae “4 yw iL - Mohr fReleach t ame L = Deloach > — at TO ‘We. C. Sulliv=: Si" DATE: 7/18/63 a gi ee 7 , . . p@ L - Zvans Teter i A} iN an Ne , L:- Sullivan Tele. Room. i, ‘O} trme We 33 4 fi ? Ve ; . ~“ Holmes ——— F FROM R. W Smith i? t “ ; 1 - Jones ; Gan J a 1 - Baunga rdnexy Bye -SUBJECT: REQUESTS FROM SENATOR WARREN G. MécyusoN i - Blandoy yf’ a rs ~/; fh. AND CONGRESSMAN JEFFERY COHELAN 1 - Section Tickles, | i. Wf¢ CONCERNING CURRENT RACIAL AGITATION L- Garner Oy, “us ye t By letter dated 7/16/63, Senator Magnuson enclosed a teaflet Ir y Af containing the photograph of Martin Luther "King and others at what was™~ ‘eS describe das a "Communist Training School,'- Senator Magnuson requested ac information concerning the authenticity of.the photograph, information = bas to the Highlander # re, School where the photograph was allegedly taken b and “the “status” of tl 2 reia-Comnission on Education Juhich printed - the H Fide Mi caiehcin od beteahenal ania YF 23 aa abetiyy ag S Bars qUaUNo0D Sv J - » pense rnennaemn te OG Nhat leaflet, i. a “ fe we ee See yan h, : Rohe oye wren vee on 4 (es i “8d &. 735 =. DY wed ce eerns ww nore tees meeenee: By letter dated 7/15/63, with a similar e Blosure, Congréessma Cohelan requested information regarding King and the school. ddo sseudxa NMUUEDT) E700, id palpate 3 eae ZU0d OY2 PUN, 2. dy it is believed that these requests, which are similar in nat ne the previous request of Senator Monroney, should be handled in the 4 ; § 4 02 ii tn dsa be asuo anner by advising the correspondents that because of Departmental poli their Zeques sts are being forwarded to the Department for its considerat ‘Enclosed for that purpose are separate letters to Senator Magnuson and Congressman Cohelan. Senator Magnuson is on Special Correspondents’ Li Butiles indicate that Cohelean was listed as a sponsor and visiting lect in 1944 by the California Labor School, an organization designated as subversive pursuant to Executive Order 10450. He is also known in the past te have favored the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, e a ot os ok &f Obi S wnok*oy % ee ee aN nusenneadtiheemamedaneaiosthdhamhetomaeinininidddansacdhstenchedtbiahtscisakeddtidthihcasinealshidietiinethe Sc Rete ee e Y a dep a 6 a over acer ancy furnished one ne copy each « of eter, ee letters, » enclosures, and our. replies. We are also furnishing pertinent information and calling attention to the data previously submitted to. him régarding, this matter icontained in the Director's letter to the Attorney General dated’’7/16/63 RECOMMENDATION: oo" : | OS— 72, 72{20-~ \ / See , NOT RECORDED! + JUL 25 1963 That the enclosed letters bdWellll 26 WEhator Magriuson and "\- Congressman Cohelane / vb SS t i, \ <As . Enclosures“ “Vp 4 eat . , 5 fi cay, Lo f , Brbere & i gh ‘oh OG sessonpnioun 03 paso] yosiad pa UuLpaaa ~wmagsip 0, fiq 86