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tte ee tn BY 100-8275 10. Miscellaneous The March 21, 1950 issue of the New York "Daily Cempass® sets out s letter to the editor Signed WILLIAM L. PATTERSON, National Executive Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, in which PATTERSON discusses the request of _ GORGE CRAWFORD, a Negro prisoner in the state of Virginia. PATTERSON requested contributions for CRAWFORD and other prisoners to be forwarded to the Prisoners’ Relief Fund of the Civil Rights Congress where it would be used in the Funds - general work of “helping labor and Negro victims of past frame-ups.*® The March 21, 1950 issue of the “New York Times" reported that the newly formed Brotherhood Comittee of the Unitarian Church of the Savior, Momroe Place and Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, was holding a public meeting om civil rights, at that church, and was to be addressed by WILLIAM L. PATTERSON, of the Civil Rights Congress, on the subject, "A Negro Looks at Civil Rights." The March 25, 1950 issue of the "Pittsburgh Courier®, a Negro daily newspaper, in reporting events concerning the banning of PAUL ROBESON from a television program with Mrs. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT in March, 1950, set out a statemsnt of rRATIEBSON concerning the action, im which he tried to interpret tie RO ban as an affront to the Negro people as a whole as follows: ®The cancellation of PAUL ROB '1§ appearance. on Mrs. ROOSEVELT'S Program is further evidence of perilous danger to the civil liberties of the American people. The censorship of Mr. ROBESON'S appearance on television is a crude attempt to silence the outstanding spokesman for the Negro people im the fight for civil and human rights." ge ati om! 4 Confidential Informant 7-2 advised that, on 21, 1950, WILLIAM gt L. PATTERSON directed a communicatica to Mrs. FRANKLIN D Jecosimt, Chairman, -- 2° Fo ( Numan ‘Rights Commission, United Nations, Lake Success, ork, in which he } ed attention to the imprisonment of NAZIM HUIXMET, the. greatest living poet