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Re ~ ‘APPENDIX 0 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. (SCEF); “THE SOUTHERN PATRIOT" (SP) An article in the December, 1967, issue of "The Southern Patriot" (SP) commemorating the twenty~- fifth anniversary of the publication with that issue recites the followirg: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was organized in 1938; SP, started in 1942 as the publication of SCHW, was taken over by the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., (SCEF), in the late 1940s when SCHW went out of existence. SCEF, originally the “educational wing" of SCHW, continued as an indepen- dent organization. For almost two decades, concern of SCHW and SCEF was with racial segregation and oppression of black people. In 1964, SCEF recognized that the legal back of segregation had been broken and econcmic and political gains were necessary if Southern life was to change. In the past few years, SCEF a2s also supported battles for academic freedom and the Southern movement for world peace. The Southern Conference for Human Welfar (SCHW) was cited as a Communist front sy the House Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 592, June 12, 1947. In the same House report, “The Southern Patriot" was cited as an “crgan" of the SCHW. The September, 1967, issue of the SP refers to SCEF as a “community of Organizers and Writers," stating its work is centered in organizing the poor in Appalachia for political and economic power, helping white people in the Deep South find a common cause with black people, helping local groups organize action for peace and working for abclition of the “House Un- American Activities Committee." The masthead of SP, in its April, 1969, issue, siates "The Southern Conference is dedicated to ending racisn, poverty, and other injustices in the South; it opposes war as an instru- ment of national policy.™ ° Carl and Anne Braden are listed in the mastnead of the April, 1969, issue of SP as Executive Director and Associate Executive Director respectively of SCEF. , ee a re < Fe ~ ar a a Ae eet ees ae ret ae, adm = Mee Raed o re: ee oe oa ic ™, t: cae et ae ow ane Ses eRe or Posy whe Race the bo "2 ae ie eel “ir iG te” oe,