NATIONAL OFFICERS

PRESIDENT
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Dr. LOUIS T. WRIGHT

VICE-PRESIDENTS
MARY McLEOD BETHUNE
NANNIE H. BURROUGHS
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
HON. ARTHUR CAPPER
DR. WALTER GRAY CRUMP
BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
MANLEY O. HUDSON
HON. IRA W. JAYNE
HON. CAROLINE O'DAY
REV. A. CLAYTON POWELL
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

TREASURER
MARY WHITE OVINGTON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

**Atlanta**
Dr. N. C. McPherson
Eugene M. Martin

**Baltimore**
Carl Murphy

**Birmingham, Ala.**
Dr. E. W. Taggart

**Charleston, W. Va.**
T. G. Nutter

**Chicago**
Earl B. Dickerson

**Cleveland**
Hon. Harry E. Davis
L. Pearl Mitchell

**Des Moines, Ia.**
S. Joe Brown

**Detroit**
Louis C. Blount

**Falls Village, Conn.**
Dr. William Allan Nellson

**Ithaca, N. Y.**
Major Robert E. Treman

**Los Angeles**
Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.

**Newark, N. J.**
Grace B. Fenderson

**New York**
Lillian A. Alexander
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers
Marlon Cuthbert
Hubert T. Delany
Douglas P. Falconer
Lewis S. Gannett
John Hammond
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Dr. William Lloyd Imes
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell
Mary White Ovington
Hon. Charles Poletti
A. Philip Randolph
Rev. James H. Robinson
Col. Theodore Roosevelt
Arthur B. Spingarn
Hon. Charles E. Toney
Dr. Louis T. Wright

**Oklahoma City**
Roscoe Dunjee

**Peekskill, N. Y.**
Alfred Baker Lewis

**Philadelphia**
Isadore Martin

**Pittsburgh, Pa.**
Homer S. Brown

**Richmond, Va.**
Dr. W. L. Ransome

**St. Louis**
Sidney R. Redmond

**Talladega, Ala.**
Rev. Joseph W. Nicholson

**Topeka, Kans.**
Hon. Arthur Capper

**Washington**
William H. Hastle
Charles Edward Russell
Dr. Charles H. Thompson
Dr. Elizabeth Yates Webb

NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE

William H. Hastie, Washington, Chairman

**Atlanta**
A. T. Walden

**Berkeley, Calif.**
Walter A. Gordon

**Boston**
Irwin T. Dorch

**Chicago**
Irvin C. Mollison
Edward H. Morris

**Erie, Pa.**
William F. Illig

**Jacksonville**
S. D. McGill

**Louisville**
Charles W. Anderson

**Madison, Wis.**
Lloyd Garrison

**Muskogee, Okla.**
Charles A. Chandler

**Nashville, Tenn.**
Z. Alexander Looby

**New York**
Hubert T. Delany
Morris L. Ernst
Arthur Garfield Hays
Benjamin Kaplan
Karl N. Llewellyn
James Marshall
Walter Mendelson
Charles H. Studin

**Philadelphia**
Francis Biddle

**Pittsburgh**
Homer S. Brown

**Toledo, Ohio**
Jesse S. Heslip

**Washington**
William T. McKnight

**Wilmington, Del.**
Charles H. Houston
Edward P. Lovett
W. Robert Ming, Jr.
James N. Nabrit, Jr.
Leon A. Ransom
Stephen J. Spingarn
Louis L. Redding

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

WALTER WHITE SECRETARY

ROY WILKINS
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
EDITOR, THE CRISIS

THURGOOD MARSHALL
SPECIAL COUNSEL

WILLIAM PICKENS
DIRECTOR OF BRANCHES

DAISY E. LAMPKIN
FIELD SECRETARY

E. FREDERIC MORROW
BRANCH COORDINATOR

MADISON S. JONES, JR.
YOUTH DIRECTOR

Mr. Langston Hughes
Hollow Hills Farm
Monterey, California

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Thank you so much for the copy of
"America's Young Black Joe".

At the next meeting of one of our large
New York youth groups we are going to devote
part of the session to its performance.

It was very nice of you to think of us
and we appreciate it greatly. I am going to
take it with me on my various trips so that
our groups throughout the country may become
acquainted with it. Is it available in
quantity? If so, I should like you to quote
me a price on it.

With kindest best wishes and personal
regards, I remain,

MSJ:hb

ans. 6 copies sent
(To order: $3.00 dozen)
Theora- youth Branch

32nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, June 24-29, 1941

MADISON

STAT

UNITED STATES POSTAGE

Mr. Langston Hughes
Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

NATIONAL OFFICERS

PRESIDENT
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
DR. LOUIS T. WRIGHT

ACTING CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
HON. CHARLES E. TONEY

VICE-PRESIDENTS

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
NANNIE H. BURROUGHS
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
HON. ARTHUR CAPPER
DR. WALTER GRAY CRUMP
BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
MANLEY O. HUDSON
HON. IRA W. JAYNE
HON. CAROLINE O'DAY
REV. A. CLAYTON POWELL
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

TREASURER
MARY WHITE OVINGTON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Atlanta Dr. N. C. McPherson
Eugene M. Martin
Baltimore Carl Murphy
Birmingham, Ala. Dr. E. W. Taggart
Boston Dr. John B. Hall
Charleston, W. Va. T. G. Nutter
Chicago Earl B. Dickerson
Bishop W. J. Walls
Cleveland Hon. Harry E. Davis
L. Pearl Mitchell
Des Moines, Ia. S. Joe Brown
Detroit Louis C. Blount
Falls Village, Conn. Dr. William Allan Neilson
Ithaca, N. Y. Major Robert E. Treman
Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.
Newark, N. J. Grace B. Fenderson
New York Lillian A. Alexander
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers
Marion Cuthbert
Hubert I. Delany
Douglas P. Falconer
Lewis S. Gannett
John Hammond
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Dr. William Lloyd Imes
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell
Mary White Ovington
Hon. Charles Poleitti
A. Philip Kandoiph
Rev. James H. Robinson
Col. Theodore Koosevelt
Amy E. Spingarn
Arthur B. Spingarn
Hon. Charles E. Toney
Dr. Elizabeth Yates Webb
Dr. Louis I. Wright

Oklahoma City Roscoe Dunjee
Peekskill, N. Y. Alfred Baker Lewis
Philadelphia Isadore Martin
Pittsburgh, Pa. Homer S. Brown
Richmond, Va. Dr. J. M. Tinsley
St. Louis Sidney R. Redmond
Topeka, Kans. Hon. Arthur Copper
Washington William H. Hastie
Dr. Charles H. Thompson
Frances Harriet Williams

NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE

**Atlanta** A. T. Walden
**Berkeley, Calif.** Walter A. Gordon
**Boston** Irwin T. Dorch
**Charleston, W. Va.** T. G. Nutter
**Chicago** Irvin C. Mollison
Edward H. Morris
**Cincinnati** Theodore M. Berry
**Cleveland** William T. McKnight
**Erie, Pa.** William F. Illig
**Jacksonville** S. D. McGill
**Los Angeles** Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.
**Louisville** Charles W. Anderson
**Madison, Wis.** Lloyd Garrison
**Muskogee, Okla.** Charles A. Chandler
**Nashville, Tenn.** Z. Alexander Looby
**New York** Hubert I. Delany
Morris L. Ernst
Arthur Garfield Hays
Benjamin Kaplan
Karl N. Llewellyn
James Marshall
Walter Mendelsohn
Charles H. Studin

**Philadelphia** Francis Biddle
**Pittsburgh** Homer S. Brown
**Toledo, Ohio** Jesse S. Heslip
**Washington** Charles H. Houston
Edward P. Lovett
W. Robert Ming, Jr.
James N. Nabrit, Jr.
Leon A. Ransom
Stephen J. Spingarn
Louis L. Redding

Wilmington, Del.

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My dear Mr. Hughes:

Thank you so much for the copy of
"I'M Walking Down Freedom Road." I recall
your speaking to me about it when I saw you
in the office the first part of the Summer.

I am going to send it down to our
members at Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia,
to see if they can prepare themselves to sing
it at our fourth annual student conference
which will be held there October 30th through
November 1st.

Do you think you will be in the
South at that time, and especially around At-
lanta? If so, we would appreciate your being
present at our meeting.

Thanking you again I am,

MSJ:ELJ

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

WALTER WHITE SECRETARY

ELLA J. BAKER
E. FREDERIC MORROW
RANDALL L. TYUS
ASSISTANT FIELD SECRETARIES

CHARLOTTE B. CRUMP
PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION

FRANK D. REEVES
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT,
WASHINGTON BUREAU

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NATIONAL OFFICERS

PRESIDENT
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN

VICE-PRESIDENTS

MARY McLEOD BETHUNE
NANNIE H. BURROUGHS
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
HON. ARTHUR CAPPER
Dr. WALTER GRAY CRUMP
BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
MANLEY O. HUDSON
HON. IRA W. JAYNE
HON. CAROLINE O'DAY
REV. A. CLAYTON POWELL
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

TREASURER

MARY WHITE OVINGTON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Atlanta Dr. N. C. McPherson
Eugene M. Martin
Carl Murphy
Baltimore
Dr. E. W. Taggart
Birmingham, Ala.
Dr. John B. Hall
Boston
T. G. Nutter
Charleston, W. Va.
Earl B. Dickerson
Bishop W. J. Walls
Hon. Harry E. Davis
Cleveland
L. Pearl Mitchell
Des Moines, Ia.
S. Joe Brown
Detroit
Louis C. Blount
Falls Village, Conn. Dr. William Allan Neilson
Ithaca, N. Y. Major Robert E. Treman
Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.
Newark, N. J.
Grace B. Fenderson
Lillian A. Alexander
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers
Marion Cuthbert
Hubert T. Delany
Douglas P. Falconer
Lewis S. Gannett
John Hammond
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Dr. William Lloyd Imes
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell
Mary White Ovington
Hon. Charles Politti
A. Philip Randolph
Rev. James H. Robinson
Col. Theodore Roosevelt
Amy E. Spingarn
Arthur B. Spingarn
Hon. Charles E. Toney
Dr. Elizabeth Yates Webb
Dr. Louis T. Wright
Oklahoma City
Roscoe Dunjee
Peekskill, N. Y. Alfred Baker Lewis
Philadelphia
Isadore Martin
Pittsburgh, Pa. Homer S. Brown
Richmond, Va.
Dr. J. M. Tinsley
St. Louis
Sidney R. Redmond
Topeka, Kans.
Hon. Arthur Copper
Washington
William H. Hastie
Dr. Charles H. Thompson
Frances Harriet Williams

NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE

Atlanta A. T. Walden
Berkeley, Calif. Walter A. Gordon
Boston Irwin T. Dorch
Charleston, W. Va. T. G. Nutter
Chicago Irvin C. Mollison
Edward H. Morris
Cincinnati Theodore M. Berry
Cleveland William T. McKnight
Erie, Pa. William F. Illig
Jacksonville S. D. McGill
Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.
Louisville Charles W. Anderson
Madison, Wis. Lloyd Garrison
Muskogee, Okla. Charles A. Chandler
Nashville, Tenn. Z. Alexander Looby
New York Hubert T. Delany
Morris L. Ernst
Arthur Garfield Hays
Benjamin Kaplan
Karl N. Llewellyn
James Marshall
Walter Mendelsohn
Charles H. Studin
Francis Biddle
Philadelphia Homer S. Brown
Pittsburgh Jesse S. Heslip
Toledo, Ohio Charles H. Houston
Washington Edward P. Lovett
W. Robert Ming, Jr.
James N. Nobrit, Jr.
Leon A. Ransom
Stephen J. Spingarn
Wilmington, Del. Louis L. Redding

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My dear Mr. Hughes:

Thank you so much for your note of
October 12th.

I am sorry that you will not be in
the vicinity of Atlanta, because we are really
going to try to have a swell time at the con-
ference. Thanks anyway for your good wishes,
and also for the copy of JIM CROW'S LAST STAND.

Enclosed please find a Call to our
conference which will give you some idea of our
program.

MSJ:ELJ
enclosure

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

WALTER WHITE SECRETARY

## Conference Officials

### PAULI MURRAY,

Howard University Law School, Student Chairman
Washington, D. C.

### OTIS WELLS,

Virginia Union University, First Vice-Chairman
Richmond, Va.

### HOWARD SAVAGE,

Talladega College, Second Vice-Chairman
Talladega, Ala.

### ETTA STANTON,

Secretary Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.

### MADISON S. JONES, Jr.,

Youth Director, N.A.A.C.P.
N. Y. C.

## Advisory Council

FOR COLLEGE CHAPTERS

### DR. A. W. DENT,

President, Dillard University
New Orleans, La.

### DR. BUELL G. GALLAGHER,

President, Talladega College
Talladega, Ala.

### DR. R. O'HARA LANIER,

Dean of Instruction, Hampton Institute
Hampton, Va.

### DR. MALCOLM S. MacLEAN,

President, Hampton Institute
Hampton, Va.

### DR. CHARLES H. THOMPSON,

Editor, Journal of Negro Education
Washington, D. C.

### REVEREND FRANK WILSON,

Dean of Men, Lincoln University
Chester, Pa.

## Application for Credentials

MADISON S. JONES, JR.,

Youth Director,

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,

69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, N. Y.

Name of Delegate

College Represented

Address

City

State

Panel discussion you prefer to attend. 1........ 2........ 3........ 4........ 5........ (check one).

Further information may be obtained upon request.

Registration Fee ... $1.00

Board and Lodging . $3.00

PHOTOS ON PAGE TWO FROM: National Youth Administration, Paul Parker, U. S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Institute

## Call to the

# FOURTH ANNUAL STUDENT CONFERENCE

October 30, 31 - November 1, 1942

CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA

British Combine

THEME: "War and Postwar Problems for Negro Youth"

In issuing the Call to the Fourth Annual Student Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People emphasizes the great importance of holding such an assembly of youth during times of war.

We all desire a better world. This can be insured only by adequate planning during the present struggle.

This conference, composed of youth of all races, which will assemble to deliberate on "War and Post War Problems of Negro Youth," issues this Call to all who want to aid in the struggle for a free world.

FOURTH ANNUAL STUDENT CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, CLARK COLLEGE, OCTOBER 30, 31 - NOVEMBER 1, 1942

## Program

### Friday, October 30th

12 M. Delegates arrive. Registration

2:30 P.M. Advisory Committee Meeting

5:30 P.M. Dinner

8:00 P.M. First Assembly
Address of Welcome—Dr. James P. Brawley
Keynote Address—Dr. Buell G. Gallagher

10:00 P.M. Reception for Delegates

### Saturday, October 31st

8:00 A.M. Breakfast

9:30 A.M. Plenary Session

10:30 A.M. Panel Discussions

1. Post War Problems for Negro Youth

2. Negro Youth and the Franchise

3. Minority Strategy in War Time

4. Negro Youth and Civil Liberties

5. Negro Youth and Jobs

1:30 P.M. Dinner

2:00-4:30 P.M. General Assembly of all panels

Reverend James H. Robinson, member of National Board N.A.A.C.P.

5:30 P.M. Supper

8:00 P.M. Verse Speaking Choir

9:30 P.M. Conference Dance

### Sunday, November 1st

7:30 A.M. Breakfast

8:30 A.M. Business Sessions

Reports—Resolutions

Time and Place

Election of Officers and Advisory Committee

11:00 A.M. Church Session—Reverend James H. Robinson

12:30 P.M. Radio Roundtable

1:30 P.M. Dinner

2:30 P.M. Closing Assembly—Radio time

Reading of Resolutions

Introduction of new officers

Address—Thurgood Marshall, Special Counsel, N.A.A.C.P.

Remarks—Madison S. Jones, Jr., Youth Director

## Speakers and Leaders

**DR. JAMES P. BRAWLEY**
President, Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia

**DR. BUELL G. GALLAGHER**
President, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama

**ROSE MAE WITHERS**
Secretary, Southern Division, National Student Conference, Y.W.C.A., Richmond, Virginia

**T. RUPERT BROADY**
Assistant in Research Department, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama

**ARTHUR D. SHORES**
Attorney, Birmingham, Alabama

**DR. J. W. NICHOLSON**
Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia

**FRANK MCCALLISTER**
Southern Workers' Defense League, Atlanta, Georgia

**THURGOOD MARSHALL**
Special Counsel, N.A.A.C.P., New York City

**DR. FORRESTER B. WASHINGTON**
Director, Atlanta School of Social Work, Atlanta, Georgia

**T. M. ALEXANDER**
Atlanta, Georgia

**CHARLES H. HOUSTON**
Attorney, Washington, D. C.

**REV. JAMES H. ROBINSON**
Church of the Master, New York City

**W. S. ALLEN**
Director, National Defense Training School, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama

**MADISON S. JONES, Jr.**
Youth Director, N.A.A.C.P., New York City

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NATIONAL OFFICERS

VICE-PRESIDENTS

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
NANNIE H. BURROUGHS
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
HON. ARTHUR CAPPER
DR. WALTER GRAY CRUMP
BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
MANLEY O. HUDSON
HON. IRA W. JAYNE
HON. CAROLINE O'DAY
REV. A. CLAYTON WELLIWELL
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

TREASURER
MARY WHITE OVINGTON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Baltimore Carl Murphy

Boston Dr. John B. Hall

Des Moines, Ia. S. Joe Brown

Detroit Louis C. Blount

New York Lillian A. Alexander
Dr. Anton Knight Chalmers
Marlon Cuthbert
Hubert T. Delany
Douglas P. Falconer
Lewis S. Gannett
John Hammond
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Dr. William Lloyd Imes
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell
Mary White Ovington
Hon. Charles Foletti
A. Philip Kandolph
Rev. James H. Robinson
Col. Theodore Koosevelt
Amy E. Spingarn
Arthur B. Spingarn
Hon. Charles E. Ioney
Dr. Elizabeth Yates Webb
Dr. Louis I. Wright

Oklahoma City Roscoe Dunjee
Peekskill, N. Y. Alfred Baker Lewis
Philadelphia Isadore Martin
Pittsburgh, Pa. Homer S. Brown
Richmond, Va. Dr. J. M. Tinsley
St. Louis Sidney R. Redmond
Topeka, Kans. Hon. Arthur Capper
Washington William H. Hostie
Dr. Frances H. Thompson
Frances Harriet Williams

NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE

William H. Hostie, Washington, Chairman

**Atlanta** A. T. Walden

**Boston** Irwin T. Dorch

**Chicago** Irwin C. Morrison

**Jacksonville** S. D. McGill

**New York** Hubert T. Delany

**Philadelphia** Morris L. Ernst

**Pittsburgh** Arthur Garfield Hays

**Toledo, Ohio** Benjamin Kaplan

**Washington** Karl N. Llewellyn

**Wilmington, Del.** James Marshall

**Wilmington, Del.** Walter Mendelsohn

**Wilmington, Del.** Charles H. Studin

**Wilmington, Del.** Francis Biddle

**Wilmington, Del.** Homer S. Brown

**Wilmington, Del.** Jesse S. Heslip

**Wilmington, Del.** Edward P. Lovett

**Wilmington, Del.** W. Robert Ming, Jr.

**Wilmington, Del.** James N. Nabrit, Jr.

**Wilmington, Del.** Leon A. Ransom

**Wilmington, Del.** Stephen J. Spingarn

**Wilmington, Del.** Louis L. Redding

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

WALTER WHITE SECRETARY

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Mrs. Montagu Burghley, or so Fifth Avenue, New York City, has been in to see me several times regarding some literary work she is doing.

She has had a great deal of influence in the writing field having once edited and published her own magazine. She had a number of her stories published and also made into films. Her agents are people who handle work for Somerset Maugham, Gertrude Atherton, Willa Cathner, etc.

She has just written a story, the details of which I will not go into at the present time, but it has to do with the Negro and his struggle against the great odds which beset him at every turn. Before it is made into a play, she wants to have the advantage of having a Negro collaborator work with her on it.

I immediately thought of you as a person whom I believe would be interested in this sort of thing. I told Mrs. Burghley about you, and she will be more than glad to hear from you about it if you are interested. I don't know anything about the financial arrangements. We didn't discuss that but I feel that if you wrote to her and inquired further that the thing may be of some interest to you.

She is an English woman, but now a naturalized American citizen. She has a great deal of contact all over the country, and throughout the United States and she impresses me as being a very sincere person.

Won't you let me know if you decide to write to her and if you do come down to New York, perhaps the

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TREASURER
MARY WHITE OVINGTON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Atlanta Dr. N. C. McPherson
Eugene M. Martin
Baltimore Carl Murphy
Birmingham, Ala. Dr. E. W. Taggart
Boston Dr. John B. Hall
Charleston, W. Va. T. G. Nutter
Chicago Earl B. Dickerson
Bishop W. J. Walls
Cleveland Hon. Harry E. Davis
L. Pearl Mitchell
Des Moines, Ia. S. Joe Brown
Detroit Louis C. Blount
Falls Village, Conn. Dr. William Allan Neilson
Ithaca, N. Y. Major Robert E. Treman
Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.
Newark, N. J. Grace B. Fenderson
Lillian A. Alexander
Marion Cuthbert
Hubert T. Delany
Douglas P. Falconer
Lewis S. Gannett
John Hammond
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Dr. William Lloyd Imes
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell
Mary White Ovington
Hon. Charles Foletti
A. Philip Randolph
Rev. James H. Robinson
Col. Theodore Roosevelt
Amy E. Spingarn
Arthur B. Spingarn
Hon. Charles E. Toney
Dr. Elizabeth Yates Webb
Dr. Louis I. Wright
Oklahoma City Roscoe Dunjee
Peekskill, N. Y. Alfred Baker Lewis
Philadelphia Isadore Martin
Pittsburgh, Pa. Homer S. Brown
Richmond, Va. Dr. J. M. Tinsley
St. Louis Sidney R. Redmond
Topeka, Kans. Hon. Arthur Copper
Washington William H. Hastie
Dr. Charles H. Thompson
Frances Horriet Williams

NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE

William H. Hastie, Washington, Chairman
Atlanta A. T. Walden
Berkeley, Calif. Walter A. Gordon
Boston Irwin T. Dorch
Charleston, W. Va. T. G. Nutter
Chicago Irvin C. Mollison
Edward H. Morris
Cincinnati Theodore M. Berry
Cleveland William T. McKnight
Erie, Pa. William F. Illig
Jacksonville S. D. McGill
Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.
Louisville Charles W. Anderson
Madison, Wis. Lloyd Garrison
Muskogee, Okla. Charles A. Chandler
Nashville, Tenn. Z. Alexander Looby
New York Hubert T. Delany
Morris L. Ernst
Arthur Garfield Hays
Benjamin Kaplan
Karl N. Llewellyn
James Marshall
Walter Mendelsohn
Charles H. Studin
Philadelphia Francis Biddle
Pittsburgh Homer S. Brown
Toledo, Ohio Jesse S. Heslip
Washington Charles H. Houston
Edward P. Lovett
W. Robert Ming, Jr.
James N. Nabrit, Jr.
Leon A. Ransom
Stephen J. Spingarn
Wilmington, Del. Louis L. Redding

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Mr. Langston Hughes
Yaddo
Baratoga Springs, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Hughes:

Thank you for your letter of October 24th.

I can see that you certainly have your hands
full with your lecture tour and with the draft
proposition coming into the scene.

I wrote Mrs. Burghley explaining the entire
situation to her.

Please be assured that if our youth councils
wish to take advantage of your appearing before
them, I shall get in touch with you immediately.

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WALTER WHITE SECRETARY

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April 16, 1951

Mr. Henry Lee Moon,
N. A. A. C. P.,
20 West 40th Street,
New York 18, N. Y.

Dear Henry,

Thank you for advising me of the current N.A.A.C.P. member-
ship campaign in your letter of April 7th. At the moment I
am four weeks ahead with my columns, but I will certainly
get a lick in about your drive before June.

You perhaps noted that in a column a couple of weeks ago,
I said all Negroes ought to be long to the N.A.A.C.P., and
that I frequently mention the organization and suggest
membership.

I've had a note from Mrs. Clark and will phone her shortly.
This past week I had two show auditions in one week! Now
that they're over, I'm attacking a mountain of mail that has
piled up. But I'll be a bit clear in a few days---I hope!
At the moment I haven't got a secretary, which makes things
move a bit less smoothly.

Best regards, as usual, comme toujours,

Sincerely,

3 Shenandoah Road
Alexandria, Virginia

February 2, 1956

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Thank you most heartily for your cordial interest in the project of the Virginia
Conference, NAACP, to publish information about Negroes now prominent, and for
your generous response to our request for pictures and biographical data. They
have all arrived in good order.

It is especially helpful to have the suggestions of books about Negroes, not only
in connection with the compilation of biographies but also for another undertaking
in which we are engaged, the making of a bibliography of unstereotyped Negro
literature. This we hope to offer to schools and libraries, perhaps not only in
Virginia but wherever the NAACP can use it. I look forward especially, now, to
locating and enjoying The Big Sea. We will examine also your other books, and
use them in the bibliography or the biographies, or both. And I will, write
Mr. Bolte to make inquiry about the TV interview.

May I mention my special enjoyment of Simple Speaks His Mind? I read it a long time
ago, and it remains in my mind as the clearest and best refutation of prejudice
that I have seen.

Work is moving ahead on these undertakings, but progress will not be rapid. Our
first statewide committee meeting is scheduled for February 4, and I hope that will
bring me some assistance.

Because you have already been so generous with time for us, I dare ask you to send
any further suggestions which occur to you.

WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM

W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT

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LECTURES. OF COURSE OKEH TO USE MY POEMS. DELIGHTED. N. L. H.

20 WEST 40th STREET, NEW YORK 18, N. Y.
LONGacre 3-6890

December 18th, 1958.

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 E. 127th Street
New York 35, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I was so impressed with your Christmas
poems which appeared in the Crisis Magazine, that
en route to Florida the other day I set two of them
to music for a Youth Choir which I direct at my
Church - St. Paul Methodist Church.

I am writing for permission to use the
poems "Carol of the Brown King" and "On a Pallet of
Straw" in our Christmas services, December 24th.

The music is not for publication or use
other than in our church.

May I have your permission to use your
poems in this fashion?

GBC/pt

September 24, 1960

National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
20 West 40th Street
New York 18, New York

ATTENTION: Chairman of the Freedom
Fund Dinner Committee

Dear Sir:

I am returning herewith the five tickets sent
to Langston Hughes for your Fourth Freedom
Fund Dinner. Mr. Hughes is presently away
working on his play, TAMBOURINES TO GLORY,
which is to open on Broadway this fall. The
contractual responsibilities imposed by the
play's broadway production will keep Mr.
Hughes tied up until late December or early
January, therefore, I am taking liberty to
return the tickets to you.

Best wishes for a successful campaign.

TWENTY WEST FORTIETH STREET • NEW YORK 18, N. Y. • BRYANT 9-1400

November 7, 1961

Dear Langston Hughes:

Thank you very much indeed for your recent note and I hope you will
forgive the delay in my reply but I have been working on an NAACP
project in Georgia and Louisiana and this is the first opportunity
I have had to write to you.

I am sure you will be interested to know that work is coming along
quite well though slowly on the anthology of contemporary American
Negro writing I am doing for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Most of the
major pieces are in although I am experiencing some painful delays
regarding some last minute selections. My agreement with Knopf
requires that I deliver the final manuscript in March and the
book will appear approximately nine months thereafter. As it is
now shaping up I feel most optimistic and I believe this will
really be a big and an important collection.

As things now stand I plan to use virtually all of the poetry
you submitted and although there may be one or two of the shorter
pieces that I will not be able to use in the final selection I
should like to request that you permit me to keep them a little
while longer.

You have been extremely helpful and I am deeply appreciative for
your suggestions and advice. I have one final important request.
As you know I shall be doing a long introductory essay for the
anthology and I should like very much to have the opportunity to
interview you so that I may have your ideas regarding Negro writing
in America today. I should also like to be able to quote you and
also to refer to some of your opinions regarding developments
among Negro writers and intellectuals during the past twenty years.
I am prepared to do this at your convenience and I hope you will
find it possible to set a date in the very near future. Once
again many thanks.

Warmest personal regards.

HH:mso

TWENTY WEST FORTIETH STREET • NEW YORK 18, N. Y. • BRyant 9-1400

September 11, 1961

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Mr. Wilkins, in the June 30, 1958 notation from
NAACP chronology, commented on the Supreme Court
opinion that cited Alabama's $100,000 fine against
NAACP as illegal. The decision was written by Justice
John Marshall Harlan.

The specific issue stated in the text of the high-
court ruling follows:

"The question presented is whether Alabama, consistently with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, can compel petitioner (NAACP) to reveal to the state's Attorney General the names and addresses of all its Alabama members and agents, without regard to their positions or functions in the association."

Under separate cover, we have forwarded half dozen
copies of the current Crisis with your work on page 397.

JD:cs

March 12, 1962

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

It's possible some of those who worked on the 1960 NAACP $100-a-couple Freedom Fund Dinner were a little tired when it was all over. An awful lot of really hard work had gone into it, and if you were there, you know that it paid off. It was truly a brilliant November evening.

We passed up 1961 in order to shift the time of the next Dinner from Fall to Spring. Now we have the date we want -- May 20, 1962; the hotel we want -- the Waldorf Astoria; and if everyone who gets this letter says "Yes", we'll have the Committee we want.

The Keynote of this year's Dinner, naturally, will be the eighth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools. No matter how gala or festive it is, an NAACP affair is incomplete without the serious overtones which testify to the Association's high purpose. But there will be no speeches and there _will_ be something extra special in the way of entertainment.

If we weren't pretty certain that you will give us a hand, we probably wouldn't have written you this letter. Please don't do anything to weaken our confidence in our good judgment. Return the enclosed card right away and be on the alert for the next communication. And many thanks.

Freedom Fund Dinner, Sunday, May 20, 1962 — Grand Ballroom, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, N. Y.

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Hello, this is Langston Hughes. I enjoyed writing my latest book, FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, the story of the NAACP. It's based on the exciting drama of Negro struggle and accomplishment in this country. It's a glorious history! You know, we Negroes have a lot to be proud of and should be familiar with every little bit of OUR STORY. That's why FIGHT FOR FREEDOM is based on the NAACP, the largest, oldest and strongest fighter in the Negro freedom army. Get your copy today. Costs only 50 cents. Available through your local NAACP branch. Do it now!

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Hello, this is Langston Hughes. I enjoyed writing my latest book, *FIGHT FOR FREEDOM*, the story of the NAACP. It's based on the exciting drama of Negro struggle and accomplishment in this country.

*ours is a glorious history! You know, we, Negroes have a lot to be proud of and should be familiar with every bit of OUR STORY. That's why* *FIGHT FOR FREEDOM* *is based on the NAACP, the largest, oldest and strongest fighter in the Negro freedom army. Get your copy today. Costs only 50 cents. Available through your local NAACP branch.* *Do it now!*

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from the

30 Seconds:

Hello, this is Langston Hughes. I enjoyed writing my latest book, FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, the story of the NAACP. It is based on the exciting drama of Negro struggle and accomplishment, in this country. Ours is a glorious history! Colored people have a lot to be proud of and we should be familiar with every bit of OUR STORY. That's why my FIGHT FOR FREEDOM concerns us, and the largest, oldest, and strongest organized fighter in the Negro freedom army. Get your copy today. Costs only 50 cents, and is available through your local NAACP branch. Ask for it now!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

from the
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

One Minute:

This is Langston Hughes. I have lived with the NAACP all
my life. Its struggles have been my struggles, its problems my
problems, its victories, my victories. Its history is my history
and every Negro's history. That is why I wrote FIGHT FOR FREEDOM:
The Story of the NAACP. It is a book about the past plight and
present achievements of the Negro people who have given me the
materials out of which my poems and stories, plays and lyrics,
have come; and who, over the years, have moulded the history of
our times that I have tried to make graphic in this book. FIGHT
FOR FREEDOM takes you behind the scenes during the Detroit, Michigan,
riot in 1943; the Columbia, Tennessee, disturbance in 1946 and
others; FIGHT FOR FREEDOM reports on the first sit ins; and
chronicles the rising tide against lynching, from the early days
of this century when a lynching happened to or three times a week,
to today when lynchings are almost unknown. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
tells these things and more--much more about us. It is condensed
reading, written for busy people who want to know. Costs only
fifty cents through your local NAACP branch. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
written for you--about us. I hope you will read it.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

from the

30 Seconds:

Hello, this is Langston Hughes. I enjoyed writing my latest book, FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, the story of the NAACP. It is based on the exciting drama of Negro struggle and accomplishment in this country. Ours is a glorious history! Colored people have a lot to be proud of and we should be familiar with every bit of OUR STORY. That's why my FIGHT FOR FREEDOM is based on the NAACP, the largest, oldest and strongest organized fighter in the Negro freedom army. Get your copy today. Costs only 50 cents. Available through your local NAACP branch. Ask for it now!

August 25, 1962

Dear Jess:

It would sound a bit conceited for an author to be speaking too highly of his own book, so I have toned down your spot announcements a bit---since I am to deliver them myself. See if the enclosed copy is O. K.

Whenever you come, I'll tape them. Just let me know.

September 13, 1962

Mr. Jesse DeVore
NAACP
20 West 40 Street
New York 18, New York

Dear Jesse:

Mr. Hughes agrees to appear on the
Evelyn Cunningham Show, September 26th
and the Ruth Hall Show, October 18th.
Will you please advise him of place
and time of the interviews. As to the
"Blue Prints for Living" program, he
suggests that you arrange for him to
appear during the week of Thursday,
November 4th through Wednesday, November
10th. I suppose you wonder what kind of
a week is the one mentioned above--any
consecutive days make up a week for us,
so forget it.

September 15, 1962

Mr. Jesse DeVore,
N. A. A. C. P.,
New York City.

Dear Jesse:

Enclosed is the schedule of appearances for me in relation to FIGHT FOR FREEDOM as garnered from your letters. Because of pending play rehearsals for both TAMBOURINES TO GLORY and the GOSPEL GLORY, also the National Poetry Festival in Washington and other commitments, I cannot accept anything more, so please do not schedule to any further dates, than those listed on the days indicated herein.

Kindly tell me where and at what time the Ruth K. Hall WEVD interview will be on October 18th.

Who will the theatrical attraction be for the TWIST FOR FREEDOM party? I am sending you in a few days my Greater New York address list for mailing purposes---on loan. Please return it.

September 24, 1962

Miss Ruth K. Hill
49 East 96th Street, Apt. 16D
New York, New York

Dear Miss Hill:

This is to confirm the appearance of Mr. Langston Hughes on your WEVD program on Thursday evening November 1.

We understand that Mr. Hughes is to be in the studio at 117 West 46th Street, 6th Floor at 5.20 P.M.

I shall have Mrs. Anne Gorman of Norton Publishing send you a review copy of "Fight For Freedom."

JDeV:eb

January 15, 1963

Dear Mr. Hughes:

This is to confirm our telephone conversation in
which we spoke about your "last NAACP appearance" ---
"Sing for Freedom" as proposed in your August letter to
Henry Lee Moon.

Our Brooklyn branch has secured Mt. Lebanon Baptist
Church (2700 seats) for Friday evening, February 8. They
have the choirs of that church and Concord Baptist. They
expect specific support from the two congregations involved
and the regular branch membership. Other appeals will be
made to the public at large.

I plan to coordinate the program. It will be simpler
than the one we did with the Church of the Master --- no
voice over and dove tailing etc. Thus, we will be able to
eliminate rehearsals.

It is our wish that you will add your personal com-
mentary before the selected poems. I think things would be
less taxing on you if the evening is mostly music.

Each person coming into the church will receive a copy
of Fight for Freedom and we plan to marshall our publicity
forces as we did for the "Twist for Freedom."

I told the Brooklyn branch that an honorarium might
well be involved and they are open to that. However, if
terms are to be negotiated, they will be done through this
office, thereby relieving you of any contact with the branch.

JDeV:eb

January 25, 1963

Mr. Robert C. Lovejoy
2187 West Grand Boulevard
Detroit 8, Michigan

Dear Mr. Lovejoy:

Your request of the "Black Nativity" and other work
by Langston Hughes has been referred to Mr. Hughes' as-
sistant, George Bass.

I am certain you will be hearing from Mr. Bass
shortly.

JDeV:eb

cc: Mr. George Bass

January 28, 1963

Dear Mr. Lovejoy:

The recording of music from BLACK NATIVITY
by Langston Hughes is on the Vee Jay label:
LP 5022(catalogue number) and may be ordered
directly from Vee Jay Records, 1449 South
Michigan, Chicago, Illinois. The text of
BLACK NATIVITY has not been published as
yet, but I will place your name on Mr. Hughes'
mailing list so that you will be advised of
its publication--if it is ever published.

Enclosed is a brief biog sketch of Mr. Hughes
and a listing of his works currently
available which might be of interest to you.

January 28, 1963

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Our New York chapter is having a cocktail party Sunday afternoon, February 10 in honor of Negro authors. They will display the books of John O. Killens, James Baldwin, Daisy Bates, and of course LANGSTON HUGHES and others.

Brock Peters will read excerpts from the various writers and sing. William Branch will be master of ceremonies, and they expect the support of the Harlem Writer's Guild and the Harlem Book Club. Can you tell them how to secure a cross section of your books, which will be for sale that afternoon?

Will you also consider dropping by for a drink -- the
place doesn't hold more than 200 people, so there should be
no mob, etc.

JDeV:eb

cc: Mr. Colin Cromwell
New York Branch

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Co-Chairmen

MRS. JOHN W. DAVIS

MRS. DOUGLAS HASKELL

COMMITTEE

MRS. FARROW R. ALLEN

MRS. DERRICK A. BELL

MRS. ANNA J. BERNARD

MRS. JOHN T. BOOTH

MRS. MARIE T. BURRELL

MRS. J. E. CAREY

MRS. RICHARD M. CAREY

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MRS. LISLE C. CARTER

MR. JOHN L. CASEY, JR.

MRS. CLARENCE COLEMAN

MRS. THORNBURG COWLES

MR. & MRS. EDWARD CROSS

MRS. MORRIS DOSWELL

MRS. MILTON EHRLICH

MRS. WILLIAM FALENCKI

MRS. EVA FLANDERS

MRS. WILTON R. FLIPPIN

MRS. E. L. GAY

MRS. JACK GREENBERG

MRS. LOUIS HARRIS

MRS. BERNARD HEINEMAN, JR.

MRS. MARSHALL A. JACOBS

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MISS OLIVIA KAHN

MRS. R. O'HARA LANIER

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MISS GWENDOLYN LEAPHEART

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MRS. LOUISE FISHER MORRIS

MRS. CONSTANCE B. MOTLEY

MRS. ARTHUR MURPHY

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MRS. ELIOT D. PRATT

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N.A.A.C.P. LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND

10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NEW YORK 19, NEW YORK

For ticket information call JUdson 6-8397

March 12, 1964

Miss Adele E. Hamerschlag
Department of Welfare
Queens Welfare Center
32-20 Northern Boulevard
Long Island City 1, New York

Dear Miss Hamerschlag,

Because he is constantly moving in and out of town on a lecture tour, Mr. Hughes has asked me to thank you for your kind note inviting him to speak to your group on behalf of your 1964 Membership Drive for the N.A.A.C.P.

I am afraid that Mr. Hughes will not be able to address your group because he has a very heavy schedule of lectures at this time which will take him as far as the West Indies.

Mr. Hughes appreciates very much that you thought of him, however.

May 6, 1964

Mr. Laplois Ashford,
National Youth Secretary,
N. A. A. C. P.,
20 West 40th Street,
New York 18, New York.

Dear Mr. Ashford:

I very greatly regret that I cannot accept
the kind invitation of the Youth Division of the
N. A. A. C. P. to be the banquet speaker at the
55th National Convention in Washington in June.
There is a strong likelihood that I may be in
Europe, so I am keeping my calendar free this
summer for travel, and am turning down all re-
quests for engagements. But I am most grateful
to the young people for thinking of me.

With cordial regards and all good wishes,

I am

Received of

Address

City & State

Junior
Adult

Amount $................... for NAACP Life Membership

Solicitor

(Temporary Receipt)

Date

LIFE MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIBERS CARD

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
20 West 40th Street
New York 18, New York

I wish to invest in democracy by becoming a Life Member of the NAACP. Hereunder, my name is printed exactly as I wish it to appear on all life membership records.

NAME

ADDRESS

CITY

STATE

DATE OF BIRTH (Jr. L. M. only)

☐ $500.00 full payment

☐ $100.00 a year

☐ $250.00 a year

☐ $ 50.00 a year

☐ $100.00 junior membership, full payment (1-13 Years)

Date First payment of $ attached

National
NAACP
Life Membership Committee

Kivie Kaplan, Chairman
Dr. George D. Cannon, Vice-Chairman
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Vice-Chairman
Jackie Robinson, Vice-Chairman

Kelly Alexander
George A. Beavers, Jr.
Dr. W. Montague Cobb
Nathaniel Colley, Esq.
Dr. Walter T. Darden
Hubert T. Delany, Esq.
Earl B. Dickerson, Esq.
Mrs. Katherine W. Frederick
Dr. S. Ralph Harlow
Bishop E. C. Hatcher
George K. Hunton
Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin
Dr. J. Leonidas Leach

Bishop Edgar A. Love
Dr. James J. McClendon
Hon. Wade H. McCree, Jr.
Cornelius McDougald, Esq.
Allan Morrison
Dr. Maurice Rabb
A. Philip Randolph
Dr. Eugene T. Reed
Walter Reuther
Dr. P. T. Robinson
Mrs. Nellie Roulhac
Dr. Christopher L. Taylor
Mrs. Pauline Weeden

a
life
membership
in the

NAACP

pays

high dividends

for democracy

Honor
Guard
of
Americans

20 West 40th Street
New York 18, N. Y.

N.A.A.C.P.
20 West 40th Street
New York 18, N. Y.

I wish to invest in democracy by becoming
a life member of the NAACP.

☐ I enclose a check for $500.

☐ I enclose a check for $........ as first payment toward a life membership:

☐ Adult

☐ Junior (1-13 years)

☐ Please credit this membership to my local branch.

Name

Address

City and State

AUGUST 1964

THE Life Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People constitute an Honor Guard of Americans who have determined to give their fullest support, morally and financially, to the NAACP's vital work for a more democratic American society.

NAACP Life Members have enlisted permanently in the Association and in so doing have contributed the sum of Five Hundred Dollars to help support the Association's program.

Each Life Member receives an individual plaque attesting to his "Faith in the Cause and Future of the Negro in the United States and in the Foundation Principles of the American Republic."

Occupying a prominent position in the lobby of the Association's National Office is a huge bronze wall plaque upon which are inscribed the names of fully paid-up NAACP Life Members, now numbering more than 3,000. Among these are such notables as Jawaharlal Nehru, Ralph J. Bunche, Jackie Robinson, Harry Golden, Miss Marian Anderson, Adam C. Powell, Nelson Rockefeller, Averell Harriman, Duke Ellington, Alan Paton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aga Khan IV, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harry Belafonte, Floyd Patterson, Stephen Gill Spottswood, Miss Lena Horne, Robert C. Weaver, Nat "King" Cole, Richard Rodgers, Edward R. Dudley, Louis Jordan, Dore Schary, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Sir Alexander Bustamante and many others.

## Active Support Is Needed

As it accelerates its program to secure full citizenship rights for Negroes, the NAACP needs active support from every American who believes in freedom and equality. Positive, intensive, unceasing action on many fronts is essential if the battle against bigotry is to be

won in this generation. The NAACP has a dedicated staff and a far-flung corps of hard-working volunteers, but it must have greater financial support for its ever-increasing workload. As the NAACP is not an endowed organization its budget must be raised entirely by voluntary contributions.

The Association's record of achievement is impressive. Largely because of NAACP efforts, lynching is now obsolete; fair employment practices laws against employment bias have been passed in 22 states; statutes against racial discrimination in publicly-aided housing have been enacted in 17 states and the Virgin Islands; discrimination in private housing has been banned in 12 states and the Virgin Islands; Jim Crow in the armed services is diminishing; the South's "white primary" and segregated public schools have been declared unconstitutional; great progress has been made in securing the right of every citizen to a fair trial; legal segregation on trains and buses is a dead letter, as it is in public parks and swimming pools.

The Association's 500,000 members — North and South — are determined to persist in their drive to reach the goal of full citizenship rights for Negroes on a nationwide basis.

## A Relentless Struggle

The present upheaval began in 1954 with the U. S. Supreme Court ruling which held segregation in public education to be unconstitutional. Since that historic decision, the NAACP has been subjected to increasingly vicious attacks from its enemies, including attempts to ban the organization and the persecution of its members in various southern states.

Northerners and southerners have been accusing each other of harsh treatment of the

Negro — the former citing oppressive laws and customs against Negroes in the South, the latter pointing to subtle anti-Negro discriminations prevalent in the North. Both accusations are true, although the degree of discrimination and intimidation is greater in the South than in the North.

The sharp struggle between advocates of citizenship equality and supporters of racial bigotry in America has focused international attention on the United States, which boasts proudly of its democratic way of life but which, nevertheless, is distrusted deeply by many peoples in foreign countries because of the mistreatment of Negroes.

## New Life Members Sought

During this critical period, the NAACP is seeking new Life Members: persons and organizations who wish to help the Fight for Freedom. The Association is convinced that there are thousands of Americans who believe that decency and democracy should embrace Negroes as well as whites and who would be gratified for an opportunity to express their beliefs in a concrete manner by becoming NAACP Life Members.

Payment for an NAACP Life Membership may be made in a lump sum or in annual installments of $50 or $100.

You may also enroll a child under thirteen years as a Junior Life Member. The cost is only $100, payable in a lump sum or yearly installments of $50 or $25. Completion of payments must be accomplished prior to the child's thirteenth birthday.

The Association hopes that you will be challenged to enlist in the Honor Guard of the NAACP by becoming a Life Member, or enrolling your child as a Junior Life Member.

July 12th 1965

Miss Mildred Bond
Administrative Assistant
NAACP
20 West 40 Street
New York 18, N. Y.

Dear Miss Bond:

I have just returned from Europe to find
your letter of June 4th on my desk in
which you ask if I would autograph another
100 copies of FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. I shall
be glad to do so. Would you please send
the books to my home (address above) any
afternoon after 3p.m. to make sure someone
is here to receive them.