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WESTERN
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W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT

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1952 FEB 15 AM 12 20

D.SAA410 PD NL=SAN ANTONIO TEX 14=

LANGSTON HUGHES=
20 EAST 127 ST NYK=

ADVISE IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE WILLING TO MAKE YOUR
APPEARANCE IN SAN ANTONIO FEB 24=1

HARRY V BURNS PRES NAACP 423 BELMONT ST SAN ANTONIO

TEXAS=

THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE

SAN ANTONIO BRANCH

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT

OF COLORED PEOPLE

OFFICE OF the President

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

423 Belmont Street

February 19, 1952

President William H. Jones
Tillegston College
Austin 22, Texas

Dear President Jones:

I am requesting that the enclosed letter be given to Mr. Langston Hughes immediately upon his arrival in Austin.

HVB/tmh
Encl.

SAN ANTONIO BRANCH

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

OFFICE OF the President

423 Belmont Street

February 19, 1952

Mr. Langston Hughes
Til l o s t o n  C o ll e g e
A u s t i n  2 2 ,  T exas

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The San Antonio Branch of the NAACP is very much concern about
the controversy, which has arisen over your proposed appearance in
San Antonio, February 24.

We would like to know your reaction to the situation, your
willingness to appear in San Antonio under these controversial con-
ditions on February 24, or at some future date and the terms.

It is requested that you will forward to me by the most ex-
peditious means your reply.

HVB/tmh

Greenwood Lake,

May 20, 1952.

Mr. Harry V. Burns,
N. A. A. C. P., Pres.,
423 Belmont Street,
San Antonio, Texas.

Dear Mr. Burns,

I've been intending for several weeks now, ever since my return to New York from my Southern tour, to write you and thank you most sincerely for your wires and letter received while still in Texas. But pressing literary deadlines to meet immediately on my return sort of bogged down my letter-writing until just this week when I've gotten to the peace and quiet of the country. I greatly admire the San Antonio branch of the NAACP for being willing to go to bat for freedom of speech—as did the Englewood, N.J. branch recently in the case of Mrs. Bethune. At the Garden Rally I was talking to Walter White about your stand with which he entirely agreed. As he knows I am not now and have never been a member of the CP, and certainly many of my poems and stories, particularly the poems in the moods of the Spirituals and stories like "Big Meeting", have been far from "party line"—which, of course, doesn't keep the loose use of the Communist labels from being used to keep any racially forward looking persons off public platforms, white or colored. In my case, out of some 28 engagements this past season, only the two in Texas were cancelled. I'm sorry it had to include S.A. where I'd been so cordially received before and had hoped to visit again. Of course, I will someday. And when I'm heading Texas way again, I'll let you know.

With my deepest gratitude to you, and all good wishes, Sincerely,

811

Margery Pogue
1181 Oak Street
San Francisco 17, California

RECEIVED-FRONT OFFICE
HOTEL CLARK
LOS ANGELES

1949 APR 10 AM | 53

AIRMAIL
SPECIAL DELIVERY

Mr. Langston Hughes
Clark Hotel
Los Angeles, California

AIR MAIL

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

SANTA MONICA BAY BRANCH

Phone: EX 4-8082

OFFICE: 1907 - 20th STREET

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA

February 6, 1961

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

My Dear Mr. Hughes:

At a meeting of the committee for your coming concert, the idea that we may not have enough was books discussed and as a result I was asked to write you and ask if it would be possible to have an additional forty books (40) on consignment. If they are not sold, they will be returned to the publisher. If this can be done, we will not need an answer, for we know that your time is limited. And I might add, if this cannot be done - do not bother to answer if you do not have the time. We will accept them if we can have them( on the above terms).

C O P Y

C O P Y

Dear Mr. Osby:

Walter White has very kindly sent me a copy of your wire to him, and also his reply. As I have often stated in my CHICAGO DEFENDER column and elsewhere in my published work, I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party. As you no doubt know, in recent years that charge has been leveled by the Hearst Press and the Un-American Committee against such conservative people as Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Rufus Clement, President of Atlanta University. Those who use the word "Communist" in this loose and irresponsible way are usually those who are not friends of democratic progress nor of the Negro people. They do not check on facts, nor do they listen to reason, or even have the courtesy to answer letters from those whom they so label.

I have been lecturing now for some fifteen years before college, civic, and church groups all across America. I have spoken many times for N.A.A.C.P. and Urban League branches. Never has there been any kick-back from any of my lecture sponsors, nor have any of them tramed my utterances subversive. My books are in almost every public library for anyone to read, and have been in public libraries for many years, so my attitude toward Democracy should be plain to anyone now. My feeling is that the organizations and person who are opposing my scheduled talk in Springfield would not lift a hand to oppose segregation or even lynchings. All across our country today there is an organized and concerted effort to prevent the appearance of liberal speakers and to drive liberal commentators from the radio, as I am sure you know.

My feeling is that my talks, designed largely to be culturally informative and entertaining, are of little significance to to merit so much commotion. Certainly no one is obliged to sponsor me or to come to hear me who does not wish to do so. In relation to Springfield, it is my feeling that if the organizations sponsoring me there do not wish to carry through the program, they have a perfect right not to do so. I have a very heavy lecture schedule this season, being on the road almost continuously from now until the end of April. Since October I have appeared in cities from Montreal, Canada, to St. Petersburg, Florida, with most cordial audiences everywhere. I am sorry that you are having to undergo this unpleasant experience in Springfield.

Mr. Simeon B. Osby
Vice President
Springfield Branch N.A.A.C.P.
117 North 8th Street
Springfield, Illinois

January 18, 1960

Dear Mr. Gordon:

I am indeed grateful to the Spring Valley
NAACP for thinking of me as a possible
speaker. But I regret that my calendar
for the rest of the season is completely
filled, beginning with a February tour of
the Middle West (including the Joliet,
Illinois NAACP) then in March and up into
May Atlanta University, Chapel Hill, Ben-
nett, and other Southern colleges, clubs,
and churches. So sorry!

Spetmeber 26, 1960

Dear Mr. Gordon:

I am so sorry I cannot
accept any more engagements this season
than those I already have on my schedule,
but I am most grateful to the Spring
Valley NAACP for its invitation.

November 28, 1961

Dear Dr. Gordon:

I am sorry to have to again decline your kind invitation to give a program for the Spring Valley NAACP, but I am unable to put any speaking engagements on my calendar this season for several reasons: one being a very heavy writing schedule; another that I am hoping to go to California for several months to complete a book there, so probably won't be in the East this Spring. But I am deeply appreciative of your thinking of me. Next week I am off to Nigeria for the Lagos Arts Festival, but only for a week.

With cordial regards,

Williamsbridge Branch of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

OFFICERS
REV. WILLIAM P. JOHNSON, President
BERMA LOVELESS, 1st Vice President
LAURA VALDES, 2nd Vice President
LOUISE MARTIN, Secretary
LEONARD PRINGLETON, Treasurer
DOLLY JONES, Assistant Secretary

714 EAST 224th STREET
BRONX 66, N.Y.
Kingsbridge 7-8552

Benona Bradford
Public Relations Director

March 10, 1963

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The people here in Williamsbridge have read and enjoyed
your poems and books for many years, but we have not had the
opportunity to thrill to your reading of your peems.

I told this to our mutual friend Mr. Henry Lee Moon of
National Office who gave me your address with the hope that you
would come to us. On Sunday, April 28th our Williamsbridge Branch
is giving A Centennial Emancipation Musicale from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M.
at St. Valentine's Church Hall, 810 East 221 St. At which time
we would be honored to feature you as our beloved artist and at the
same time we would like for you to autograph your books "Fight
For Freedom".

In as much as we have had Freedom for one hundred years
without equal opportunity the Williamsbridge Branch NAACP is
determined to make 1963 the banner year in its contributions to the
Fight For Freedom with equal opportunity now. Your appearance here
will greatly enhance our chances of doing so.

Please come.

BB/lm

cc: Mr. Henry Lee Moon