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PRESIDENT
J. E. SPINGARN

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
DR. LOUIS T. WRIGHT

VICE-PRESIDENTS
NANNIE H. BURROUGHS
HON. ARTHUR CAPPER
CLARENCE DARROW
BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
REV. A. CLAYTON POWELL
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD

TREASURER
MARY WHITE OVINGTON

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

WALTER WHITE
SECRETARY

ROY WILKINS
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
EDITOR, THE CRISIS

WILLIAM PICKENS
DIRECTOR OF BRANCHES

DAISY E. LAMPKIN
FIELD SECRETARY

CHARLES H. HOUSTON
SPECIAL COUNSEL

THURGOOD MARSHALL
ASSISTANT SPECIAL COUNSEL

JUANITA E. JACKSON
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE
SECRETARY

November 4, 1937

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

**Amenia, N. Y.**
J. E. Spingarn

**Atlanta**
A. T. Walden

**Baltimore**
Carl Murphy

**Cambridge, Mass.**
Prof. Manley O. Hudson

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

**Chicago**
Rev. Joseph W. Nicholson

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

**Denver**
L. H. Lightner

**Detroit**
Hon. Ira W. Jayne
Hon. Frank Murphy

**Emporia, Ks.**
William Allen White

**Nashville, Tenn.**
Dr. N. C. McPherson
James Weldon Johnson

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

**New York**
Lillian A. Alexander
Dr. Walter Gray Crump
Marlon Cuthbert
Hubert T. Delany
Rachel Davis Du Bois
Lawin S. Gannett
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Dr. William Lloyd Ime
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman
James Marshall
Hon. Caroline O'Day
Mary White Ovington
James H. Robinson
Arthur B. Spingarn
Charles H. Studin
Hon. Charles E. Toney
Frances Williams
Dr. Louis T. Wright

**Northampton, Mass.**
Dr. William Allan Nellison

**Oklahoma City**
Roscoe Dunjee

**Philadelphia**
Isadore Martin

**St. Louis**
Sidney R. Redmond

**Topeka, Ks.**
Hon. Arthur Capper

**Waco, Texas**
R. D. Evans

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

NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE

Arthur B. Spingarn, New York, Chairman

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

**Cambridge, Mass.**
Felix Frankfurter

**Columbia, S. C.**
N. J. Frederick

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

**New York**
Morris L. Ernst
Arthur Garfield Hays
Charles H. Houston
Karl N. Llewellyn
James Marshall
Herbert K. Stockton
Charles H. Studin

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

**Toledo, Ohio**
Jesse S. Heslip

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

Dear Jim:

Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education, has sent me tentative request to serve Forums again in 1938. If matter is finally settled, I want to know where I can still get "God's Trombones". I have a copy given me by the author, but that is sacred - not to be risked on the road.

You see, when I speak to Forum audiences on Negro Poetry and Literature, I want to be able to give samples of your work, as I do of Dunbar, or Phyllis Wheatley, - and a selection of lines from God's Trombones" would fit in often where other material could not be used, - and would be impressed on the memory of the hearer.

I would like to get an extra copy in any case, although I will not receive the final word from Dr. Studebaker's office until a few days later, maybe next week.

Best wishes.

Mr. James Weldon Johnson
413 West 148th Street
New York City

WP/RR

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