634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York City

June 25, 1945

Dear Mrs. Krensky:

It was very nice to hear from you again. I am just back in New York after a nine-weeks tour of the South and Middle West.

At the moment I cannot myself say where I shall be next March, but as tentative plans now stand, I would be expected in California in January, and headed back through the South in February. I am sending your letter on to my agent so that he might write you. He is

William B. Feakins,
500 Fifth Avenue
New York City.

With very best regards to you, I am

Mrs. Milt on J. Krensky
American Jewish Congress
123 N. Madison Street
Chicago 2, Illinois

AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
CHICAGO DIVISION

Room 912, 8 S. Dearborn Street
RAndolph 7014
CHICAGO 3. ILLINOIS

President
MILTON J. KRENSKY

Chairman, Governing Council
WILLIAM JAY ROBINSON

Vice-Presidents
DAVID GILBERT
ETTA NIERMAN
HENRY J. WINEBERG

Treasurer
HARRY A. ELMAN

Secretary
MILTON J. SHAPIN

Executive Secretary
FREDERICK C. WHITE

Past Presidents
SIGMUND W. DAVID
LEO H. LOWITZ
MAX A. KOPSTEIN

March 6, 1944

Mr. Langston Hughes
5046 S. South Parkway
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Just a note to thank you for your participa-
tion in our meeting of February 24. Enclosed
is an honorarium for your efforts!

I am anticipating seeing you at the tea of
the Round Table, at which time I will speak
to you of the meeting on the North Shore
scheduled for May 2.

RK:fs
Enc.

For United Nations' Victory ... BUY MORE U. S. WAR BONDS

394

RAldolph 7014
CHICAGO 3, ILLINOIS

May 11, 1944

President
MILTON J. KRENSKY

Treasurer
HARRY A. ELMAN

Secretary
MILTON J. SHAPIN

Executive Director
FREDERICK C. WHITE

Post Presidents
SIGMUND W. DAVID
LEO H. LOWITZ
MAX A. KOPSTEIN

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Although a week and a half has passed since you addressed our group on the North Shore, I am still meeting people who were at the meeting and were greatly impressed by the message you brought to them.

Everyone who attended the meeting, felt that it was one of the most inspiring afternoons that they had spent for sometime and, of course, we owe this success to you.

Enclosed is a small check, which I can say is not adequate for the services rendered.

My daughter told me that the young people who heard you in the morning were also tremendously pleased.

Thank you so much for your gracious cooperation.

RK:sb
enc.,

384

WOMEN'S DIVISION
Room 912-8 S. Dearborn St.
Chicago 3, Illinois

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas
New York 30, New York

Chicago Women's Division

American Jewish Congress

123 West Madison Street
Chicago, 3, Illinois

President
MRS. MILTON J. KRENSKY

Vice Presidents
MRS. EVELYN HATTIS FOX
MRS. BEN GOLDFINGER
MRS. MAE C. TICKTIN

Recording Secretary
MRS. IRVING TATELBAME

Corresponding Secretary
MRS. JACK WEINBERG

Financial Secretary
MRS. ISADORE HARRIS

Past Presidents

*MRS. SAMUEL A. HOFFMAN
MRS. ROBERT J. SAMUELS
MRS. ROBERT L. ARONSON

July 10, 1945

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas
New York, 30, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We have received several communications from
Feakins, and our Program Chairman, Mrs.
Evelyn Hattis Fox, is currently trying to
work out plans so that we may have you with us
in March.

Thank you so very much for your personal note
and the enclosure of what I presume is one
of your recent poems.

We still look back with pleasure upon your
last trip to Chicago, and I hope that I may
have an opportunity of seeing you when you
are in the City in November.

All good wishes.

REK:MH

384

*Deceased

RANdolph 7013

123 West Madison Street
Chicago 2, Illinois

February 19, 1946

Past Presidents

* MRS. SAMUEL A. HOFFMAN
MRS. ROBERT J. SAMUELS
MRS. ROBERT L. ARONSON

District Presidents:

Albany Park
MRS. M. L. MINKUS

Business and Professional
MISS ADELE RABINO

Logan Square
MRS. SAM FIELD

North Shore
MRS. PHILIP BREGSTONE

North Side
MRS. HERMAN ROSEN

South Side
MRS. MEYER KAUFMAN

West Side
MRS. SOL FLICKER

Mr. Langston Hughes
834 St. Nicholas
New York 30, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We are looking forward with great expectation to your appearance on March 20, for the American Jewish Congress, Women's Division, at the Standard Club, 320 South Plymouth Court, Chicago, Illinois.

The meeting begins at 2:00 P. M. The business meeting takes approximately forty-five minutes.

We have heard excellent, heart warming reports of your appearance in South Shore, for which I was very happy to be advisory sponsor.

Looking forward to meeting you personally, I remain

EHF:RM

384

*Deceased

AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS

STEPHEN WISE CONGRESS HOUSE • 15 EAST 84TH STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 • TRAFALGAR 9-4500

November 30, 1964

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Last week you received an invitation from the Metropolitan Council of the American Jewish Congress to attend, on Saturday, December 19th, at the Waldorf-Astoria, a champagne dinner-dance on the occasion of the presentation of the first David W. Petegorsky Awards for Civic Achievement.

The recipients will be R. Peter Straus, for his fight against legislative malapportionment; Frederick D. O'Neal, president of Actors Equity Association and leader in the campaign for equal rights in the American theatre; Howard Squadron, New York attorney, who has helped to make the American Jewish Congress a dynamic force in New York civic affairs.

Your presence at this dinner-dance will of course provide an opportunity to express public appreciation to these three men who have made such significant contributions to the cause of equality in our city. But your participation will also help support the work of the American Jewish Congress, and it is in this regard that I write to you today.

As you are aware, the American Jewish Congress is a national organization dedicated to strengthening Jewish life and advancing the frontiers of freedom for all Americans. Our definition of freedom has never been a parochial one; the American Jewish Congress was the first national Jewish agency to recognize that the creative survival of the Jewish people could not be achieved in isolation, but only by working with other groups and winning for each individual his right to a full measure of equality and freedom.

In fulfilling this role, the Congress has made many important contributions. The first fair housing, fair employment and fair education laws enacted in the United States were drafted by our Commission on Law and Social Action, which pioneered in the use of local and legislative techniques as the most effective weapon against discrimination.

NATIONAL OFFICERS

JOACHIM PRINZ, President

SHAD POLIER, Chairman Governing Council

MORRIS MICHELSON, Co-Chairman Governing Council

FRANK ABRAMS, Treasurer

JACOB LEICHTMAN, Co-Treasurer

C. IRVING DWORK, Secretary

WILL MASLOW, Executive Director

Vice-Presidents:

PAUL G. ANNES, Chicago

THEODORE BIKEL, New York

WILLIAM S. COHEN, St. Louis

BENJAMIN EPSTEIN, Newark

MARCUS GINSBURG, Fort Worth

THEODORE J. KOLISH, New York

MAX A. KOPSTEIN, Chicago

RABBI LEON KRONISH, Miami Beach

STANLEY H. LOWELL, New York

THEODORE R. MANN, Philadelphia

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio

I. H. PRINZMETAL, Beverly Hills

HARRY E. SCHACTER, Yonkers

MILTON J. SHAPP, Philadelphia

VIRGINIA SNITOW, Scarsdale

GUS J. SOLOMON, Portland

HOWARD M. SQUADRON, New York

LILLIAN STEINBERG, Brooklyn

Honorary President

ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, Jerusalem

Honorary Vice-Presidents:

SAMUEL H. DAROFF, Philadelphia

SIGMUND W. DAVID, Chicago

MAX DOFT, Lawrence

SIDNEY HOLLANDER, Baltimore

HORACE M. KALLEN, New York

JAMES N. ROSENBERG, New York

ISIDOR TEITELBAUM, New York

PAGE II.

The research findings of our Commission on Community Interrelations on the harmful effects of racial segregation were cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1954 desegregation decision. Our work in the field of *de facto* segregation in New York City public schools, dating back to 1955, has played an important role in calling the attention of the community to this critical problem.

Most recently, AJCongress established together with the Urban League of Greater New York, a new agency called the Interracial Council for Business Opportunity, a unique counseling program designed to translate into economic terms the promise of full equality guaranteed to every citizen. This project, which has already assisted hundreds of Negro businessmen in New York City, is now being expanded to many other cities around the country.

The list of AJCongress achievements is a long one. We have led in the campaign to eliminate the quota system in our immigration laws; our staff attorneys have literally "made the law" in the struggle to preserve religious liberty and the separation of church and state; we have taken the lead in a nationwide effort to win ratification of the genocide convention, and we have launched an intensive drive to counter the growing challenge posed by the merchants of bigotry, smear and intimidation who comprise the Radical Right.

On the international scene, the Congress has played a key role in documenting Soviet anti-Semitism and calling for an end to the religious and cultural oppression under which the Jews of the USSR live. We have been active in alerting public opinion to the dangers of neo-Nazism in Germany; we have prepared material aimed at creating a deeper understanding of Israel as a bulwark of democracy in the Middle East.

For all these reasons, we sincerely hope that you will join us on the evening of December 19 and -- by so doing -- honor our guests and help make possible new achievements in meeting the many unfinished tasks that lie ahead.

Won't you please indicate that you will be with us by sending your check for dinner reservations in the enclosed envelope. The dinner-dance promises to be a most pleasant evening. There will be no solicitations of funds and your reservation at $50 per person is, of course, tax deductible.