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Claudia Jones — Part 3
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second article in a’ series of three appeared on "Un-dreridan Committee and: i” rae
. . the Negro People.* In this article the subject stated that "It is more than a
“| @ passing coincidence that at the Un-American Committee loyalty heart re
“.-. "Comminism and the Negro! the Negro reformist leaders—-such as LES Nome, ae
CHARLES 3 HNSON (to say nothing of the miserable stoolpigeons such az. he ee :
ON) were not powerful enough or convincing enough in their views 3:
on this Subject. This, despite the American bourgeoisie's all out efforts to” *
control the Negro press through ads, or to meagerly give crumbs from ites -
protien tables for the support of such institutions as the terme
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aN = fe She atated “The ‘ever-present’ virus ‘of twintte emda s ‘Antensified |
national oppression, | and the a facond class _ citizenship, plus intellectual Vike
a integrity compelled Rev. Sandprnay, one of the leading Ragro religious leaders,’ St.
. the chairman of the Social Service Commission of the National Baptist. Convention, e,
to boldly declare, without apology, of the Jimcrow lynch system in the United ~
States: ‘Wa do, however, seek to overthrow an intangible empire which exists ©
within our government and many of our institutions throughout the land. Tt .:
is that empire which shelters injustice, oppressions, exploitation, segregation, ~
- discrimination, illwill and all of the inconsistencies which make for aeparettene
‘\. tension and strife. It is against that empire that we wage onr war. Ib- ie 00.23,
* that empire that must be subdued if we are to have donestie _Peace and give os
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; In the eDaily Torker of P uguat 7s 1949 there appeared the third - ;
of the series of articles by CLAUDIA JONES. {n this article the subject stated
that the Un-American Activities Committee hearings were unsuccessful and boomer~ _
anged. She said, “They boomeranged, first, because the Negro question is.
itself ‘the Achilles hsel of American imperialism! in the words of the national
chairman of the Communist Party, William Z, Foster. And because, the more
they touch it, the more the imperialists are exposed for what they are: the .
_ oppressors of the Negro people, of the working class, the organizerg of force “y,
and violence against the Negrdé people, the financiers of exploitation of six.
million Negroes and four million whites in the South, from which exploitation”
they wring the profita to stuff their coffers for the @ Financing of an saperialiat
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| "The hearings booneranged, for : a ‘second reason. And that is because
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