MRS. J. WATIES WARING
61 MEETING STREET
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

To our disgust last June at the Judicial Conference in Asheville
where Frank Graham was asked to speak as a guest speaker, Judge
parker (yes none other than John Parker) said confidentially to
us, -"Frank Graham has made just one big mistake and that was
serving on the President's CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE and speaking out
for Negro Rights." I was furious and replied, -"Judge Parker after
you and I are dead and completely forgotten Frank Graham will be
remembered for JUST ONE THING AND THAT WAS THE PART HE PLAYED IN
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM AND COMMITTEE."

Judge Parker will never forget that, nor do I intend he shall,
remebering his own real error against the Negroes and labor he is
always trying to justify it. Judge Parker and the rest of Graham's
advisers have told Graham to keep still about the Negroes' rights
and Graham is following their instructions. Graham, I understand
from Negro friends, tells the Negroes' he must not be known as
a "NIGGER LOVER" (Christ would have been a lover of the NEGRO)
but he tells the negores when he gets elected he will work for them.
Dont believe it for no one can trust him now, neither side.
We, you two and Waties and I, stand for full Negro Rights.

Against Segregation in every form. Against Regional schools and
colleges. All forms of appeasement or sops that will set back
real equality. GRADUALISM we unmask and show for what it is- a means
of sustaining WHITE SULREMACY. You have won out Walter. You marrying
a White woman have proved you live what you preach.

Your victory in the NAACP is a moral victory far reaching no matter
what seeming appeasements came within the victory nor how filthy
the campaign against you.

Love,

May 26, 1950.

Dear Walter and Poppy,-

But this is for Walter as the enclosed letter
from my daughter Ann Hyde is all about you Walter, she too
has a terrific crush on you Walter. My two children, David
(the lawyer in Detroit) and Ann (married to a professor of
English to teach at Andover next year, I mean starting this
coming September) both children of mine are great admirers
of yours Walter as is their mother.

When they know you Poppy they will feel as I do about you too.
They feel they know Walter through his book and editorial
writing.

Love to you two dearest of friends,

October 2, 1950

Dearest Poppy,

Your lovely letter touched me deeply. Good of you to express the intangibles of our very loving relationship- the four of us- that has to be strained by the stress of our busy lives - all four of us- and the separateness of the distance between us in body though never in spirit. Thank you for missing us for we do miss you most dreadfully and wish also we could have seen more of you on this trip. We too were away much of the time visiting my daughter .February and March, when Waties will go earlier this year to hold court in New York on the first instead of the fifteenth as has been his custom, we should be able to see more of you as we really settle down on those trips to New York each year.

Things are popping down here as you may be realizing from my telephone conversation with you and Walter.

In much haste as domesticity is really uppermost inspite of my plugging into the "FIERY FURNACE" so shortly after our arrival with the latest shooting of a Negro. This happens often but so seldom gets out into the open. God must be on our side even if Congress is not.

I deeply appreciate your kind references to me in your truly magnificent article about "MOLLY" - "The Eleanor Roosevelt of the Caribbean ". Your analysis of Mrs Roosevelt is a masterpiece and should please her. I like "HER DEEP SENSE OF HUMAN TRAGEDY, HER HUMILITY." About her depth and breadth I would not go so far. She scatters her thoughts and activities too thin to be deep.

EVER R SO MUCH LOVE,

October 27, 1950.

Dearest Poppy,-

You have been ill far too often this past year for one who appears always shining, radiantly happy and healthy and ever so beautiful. Walter told me on the phone this morning that you had had the "Flu". You were so sweet to call Long Distance last week when Kitty was here inquiring about our safety and well being. Thinking and caring enough for us to have dreamed of us the night previous is tender and touching. We thank you for yours and Walter's loving friendship and do hope in February and March while we are in New York to see more of you.

Our mail has increased to such enormous proportions since the recent attack of an aroused people all over the country that I can scarcely keep up with mine. Waties through his secretary taking dictation replies to all the joint letters as well as his own but I tackle the ones to me alone. His share of course by far the largest. All good news for the CAUSE of Negro Rights if these people will make themselves felt by the administration or if we can get it to them through our leaders.

Walter has been magnificent as usual and ever.

Waties joins me in love and good wishes for a speedy return to good health,

Affectionately,

P.S.

Hurran for you Walter
your speech reported in
N.Y TIMES comparing the
Southern FILLIBUSTERERS
WITH RUSSIANS. KEEP ON

MRS. J. WATIES WARING

SAYING THE THINGS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SAID,* THEREIN LIES GREATNESS
AND POWER THAT IS WHY IT IS STOPPED BY OUR ENEMIES WITH FALSE REASONS
ALL GREAT LEADERS KNOW THIS AND NEVER PLAY THE GAME ACCORDING TO
RULES LAID BY THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH "APPLE-CARTOON" KEEPING THINGS
AS THEY ARE FOR THOSE IN CONTROL IRRESPECTIVE OF RIGHTS OF CITIZENS.
WE ADMIRE AND SALUTE YOU.

October 4, 1951

Dear Walter,

Waties asked me to write and thank you for your
note from Washington and the interesting clipping from the
Herald Tribune in New York on the Supreme Court convening
and cases coming up. Better article than the N.Y. Times on
same subject.

Enclosed letter from Catholic prelate here in
Charleston that is heart warming indeed. Also the enclosed
copy of an article in the Catholic Interracial Review from
an Editorial in the "Michigan Catholic" of June 28 that
should interest you.

Senator Benton is becoming a great leader if he only
keeps up the high course of action he has started on.
His suggestion of financial sanctions or retaliation to
the Southern Fillibusters is sound and schrewd. The terror
in the Southern press convincing of its effectiveness. When
Truman suggested the same the White Supremacist were terrified
and started toying and cringing to My Judge after Truman's
success in 1948 election. Money as bribes or depriving is
the only method outside court action or Force to affect the
South. When Truman began trying to win the South by
conciliatory methods they no longer feared or respected him
and hence no longer feared my Judge. Too bad Benton backed
water on his statement saying he would not advise retaliation.
All good wishes to you and Poppy,

THE FRIENDS OF THE
**NATIONAL COMMITTEE for RURAL SCHOOLS, inc.**

SUITE 7-334 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, NEW YORK-RI 9-1069

JUDGE J. WATIES WARING
President

ARTHUR A. ELDER
Vice-President

RAE BRANDSTEIN
Executive Secretary

SHELLEY APPLETON
Treasurer

BENJAMIN F. McLAURIN
Chairman Board of Directors

CO-CHAIRMEN:

MRS. RUTH ELLINGTON JAMES
MRS. NUFFIE M. CALLOWAY

SECRETARY:

ALBERT B. JENNINGS

CHAIRMAN OF
SPONSORS COMMITTEE:

MRS. ELIZABETH WARING

COMMITTEE:

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MRS. YVONE HAYNES
MRS. BEATRICE HENDERSON
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(Committee Incomplete)

February 14, 1956

Dear Friend:

None walk a path so fanned by human suffering as those frightened children living under deplorable conditions in Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and other southern states. God gives life — please help us preserve it — regard it as your duty.

You are known to us as a person of culture and understanding. We are therefore certain of your cooperation to help us carry out our meaningful undertaking to alleviate this suffering. Your contribution of ten dollars ($10.) or more, if you will give more, will further our efforts, and you will become a sponsor on this committee, known as the Friends of the National Committee for Rural Schools.

The committee is giving a Sunday Afternoon Spring Dansant in the Crystal Suite of the Savoy Plaza, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, New York City, on SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1956, from 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.

We urge you to favor us with an early reply, thereby making it possible to add your name to the growing group of outstanding citizens whose names will appear on our program.

We ask that you give moral and financial assistance to those of us who are now serving on the firing line in the Battle for Democracy.

Elizabeth Waring

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Atlanta Theological Seminary

Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn.

My dear Mrs. Waring:

I have just received a copy of the text of your recent address at the Negro YWCA in Charleston, and I must write - even if briefly-to express to you my profound appreciation for your courageous stand. I use the word 'courageous', because it is the adjective most frequently mentioned in comments I have heard among my friends here.

It is unfortunate, thoufg certainly not surprising, that your words have encountered vehement protestation. The important matter, however, is that they needed to be said. As I read some of the letters which appeared in the News and Courier (newspaper), some familiar words came immediately to mind: "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."

Surely the blessing of God is upon all who, like Judge Waring and yourself, are actively engaged in this crusade to realize His kingdom of peace and brotherhood.

I hope you will express my warmest wishes to Judge Waring. And, again, my sincere congratulations for your unflinching stand.

This man comes from an old Charleston family.

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Port Tampa, Florida.

January, 1955--18, 1950

Dear Mrs. Waring,

The account of your recent clash with the Southern people
has reached this prejudice - blighted town with the same impact it had
in Charleston and Columbia- and the same general effect.

There are some of us, however, to whom God has given average intelligence
Whether or not you receive other acknowledgements of your sublime
attack on the poisoned South, be assured that there are many of us
who see the issue as you do, but lack your splendid courage and
initiative. As for your Northern origination, Mrs Waring, I was born
here, and you may quote me in saying the attitude of the South is as
un-American as Naziism was.

PARLOR TOWN TRADITION

A former Litchfield, Conn. lady has drawn the fire of the white supremacy defenders of Charleston, S. C. And of course is by no means the first time that the South has heard from Litchfield on the racial question.

Shades of Harriet Beecher Stowe! Wouldn't you know that the peppery Mrs. J. Waties Waring, currently being cussed as "a damn Yankee" by the enraged inhabitants of the Julep Belt would hail from Connecticut's Parlor Town?

Some historians say that two Connecticut Yankees started the Civil War. One of them was Eli Whitney whose famous invention made cotton raising and slave importation newly profitable just in time to have this economic trend collide with the a bolition sentiment powerfully stirred by Mrs. Stowe's famous play, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

And now another Litchfield lady has stirred a Carolina uproar by telling a Negro audience that the white population of the South is morally weak and decadent whereas the Negro population is "building and creating" - or, in other words, in the course of passing the whites on the way up.

That seems an interesting and thought-provoking conception here in Waterbury. It is the history of races and societies that they wax and wane, flourish and decay. And undeniable the Negro race is at the threshold of long denied opportunity and the white civilization of the South is by many tokens shuffling toward the rear exit.

But you had better not only smile when you say that south of the Mason-Dixon line where a particular racial theory prevails- you had better not even say it unless you are well endowed with the kind of spunk for which the women-fold of Litchfield are distinguished.

RELEASE TO ASSOCIATED PRESS

I understand that the petition attacks my fitness as a Judge because I do not believe in WHITE SUPREMACY. I welcome that explanation. I think that any Judge or other Federal or State official who attempts to pass upon the rights of American Citizens blinded by color prejudice is an unfit public servant. The fact that petitions are being circulated in Colleton County attacking me and the Democratic and American sentiments expressed in statements made recently by my wife, fit in unerringly with the two Cross Burnings this weekend in the same area. I welcome the comparison between these views of mine and those of the Pro-Slavery or White Supremacy group as voiced by their spokesmen of the Ku Klux Klan. The more light shed on this campaign of prejudice, the better.