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= EDIT: M NOTE: Recently, } me ankey of Rusjen wrote : lor George WeShannog of Ls The Jour#al, asking that in- S; formation be printed about the president of the NAACP. “He should be known to the public ; and not allowed to operate in secrecy against the public peace in Louisiana,” said Pankey, who wrote also that he had never seen a picture of the =. NAACP Icader. The following article deals not only wiih the president of the NAACP, but also with the background of some of that organization's other leaders. By CHARLES C, PHILLIP6 +. Journal Stall Writer The Nationa! Association for the ‘Advancement of Colored ake eqle| NA “was formed principally people and it’ has hd c a er whe NAA as president, is Arth a president ur *” B. Spingarp. New York afttPhey, x: ~ ticceeded his brother, Jl_E. mn, # Te. Spingarn,} tke ee et the NAACP Jeaders# has > been branded a left-winger. How-' ps, ever, be has been Li as having | 4 we, aad Wi ae tonly four Comraunist ont citations } ; pee ————oe al of 401, or |™ 5 Taare ih On March 18, 185, Spingarn's same appeared in the Comm oe ne wspaper, “The Daily Worker,” + as a signer of a slatement approv- “ing the War Depariment's order] = permitting commissioning of ' s Bers of the Communist ve Para HS IR fy. His name appeared as by paae e e paid up i congressional investigative ARTHUR SPINGARN <f NAACP Prosident ee Gen. Cook also dex ibed that or-| nization as “subve ive and Com munist."" Springafn's name appeared ar a sponsor of the Public Us« of Arts’ Committee in 1939. An investigation. by the Georgia Commission on Educstion in 1958 resulted in this committee's also being labeled a- Communist front orgagization. ~.- The best known or, at Jeast, the most often quoted official of the hach, for 10 RAACP is probabiy Roy Wilkins, ew York Negre. who is execu- tive secretary of the organization. He bas been listed. by the Georgia ‘Commission on Education as bev, ing seven Communist front cite. , 2s Wilkins ‘i paid $15,000 a year. last report shows that the rs in 1,4M chapters in D4 states. as a yearly budget of $750,000. »| Some of the NAACP directors are scene nationally known whites. At the time the Louisiang Joint Legislative _-____ See NANGP, Page tA From Page One «- °° * Se was _ te a8 THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL Mra po dvd | SHR“VEPORT, LA, ----:-- NEW ORLEANS OFFICE - . s - aed COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF Te a :\memiver of this committe bn the Committee, headed by then State New York Times March 14, 1946. |,Sen. William M. Rainach, beld Spingarn elegate Is the!) bearings on Communist activities ‘ouneul on*Airican Affairs, ecard. | in Baton Rouge in 1957, the NAACP 1 peeeeie Se _ ving to a booklet issued by. we ee on April Mu, a4. Atty. NOT RECO l way 21 ‘rectors included such names as : , Ts T Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Oscar, are