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’ ow ~ : : ale 7 - Lo eo eT preg t e P eae eee 2 RS as tam "eatin er - a = . “se-13 WEST 291m STREET (NEW YORK 4. NY: April 20, 1951 - ‘Dear Friend: a -_ oe a = With ‘Andecent heetes” “the “Papartment of Justice ‘is pushing the prosecution of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois and his eascoiates of the former Peace Information Center. Defense ee are scheduled in Washington on Avril eT, and trial hes been set — we are seeking ; you end your - organization to take action tnmedtately to stop this effort to convict these advocates of pesca as "foreign acents”, , " guppress and ourteil free circulation of ideas among the peoples of the world is As Dr. Du Bois hee ete stetedT "Kny success ful attempt on the vart of the Government €0 ‘monstrous end aimed Bt making all edvocacy of peace end all socia} reform impossible? A roster of the “defendonte gives sicnificant evidence of tha scope and importance of “the case; _ 7 woman's voice for pecees ABIOTT Si: “OF, como.t vetercn World War II and organl rer DR. w.0-B. DU BOIS, internationelly-kmown scholer, dean of American letters, ond beloved Shenoron. ef the struceles of the Negro end colonial peoples for freedom for over fifty yeors; LLIZARETE "008, writor, educator end an eloquent * for pasoe; EYERLE _é LEI, husitoss_men_pndTretsurer_ef the—Peace—Info SYLVIA SOLOFr Fr, militent trede unionist end clerical worker in the offiee of the FIC, Indicted “tonether with the officars of the orzoni zations wR “The defense of” those. ~ five kmoricans ia a defense of the right to speak ‘for _penoee i : “We urge you to Get Anrediataly! . Upon receipt of this letter 7 2 an (1) - WRITE ‘02 WIRE PROSIDE'T TROVE AYD ATT'Y GEN. J. HOWARD McGRATH - ~ DEVANDING BHa “DISVISS/.L OF THE INDICTICNT AGLINST DR. DU BOIS sD. = . a “HIS A8socates IN THs FOXER PEACE DIPORMA TION CRITER. = Sa eres: Sere he 4a), HAVE YOR _OrouaT ZANE inp Faraups take SIMs LOTION. “wee ao) CONT REpyRE EUDs 70 THE ‘peraisz CAuP/TON. ° “Jas 000 i's nosded to wit Ehis ¢ gose for ocaell Mieke ohecks speyabie | to eat } an en Se Son vito, HanganTono. ‘Leon stTRAUS = Tesune SHIRLEY “eRaHAN cial ‘pee ——