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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 9

46 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Dec 26, 1940 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 46 pages OCR'd
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i; ; = pe | Meaning lopal ci 2 ce o a i" to a] 3 a io dnuspired Red revolution which already is in an advanced stage in the South, Mr. Kamp says. ; joint advertisement publishes pealed for money, and,says Kemp: “[llustrated with the usual ‘ailing baby’ pictures, the “advertisement features a statement by Vice Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace who once wrote praise of Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler. The quotation ronds: “'T have never sven ancng any poasantry of Europe poverty so abject as that which extats from Arkansas on to the east coast.** The American Legion, Mr. Kemp writes, “has been fighting Highlander as a subversive enterarise since 1935; Gerald Foley, president of the Tennessee Federation of Labor, has publicly brandi- edit as 'Comiunistic',* . Further concaming Mrs. Roosevelt the author writes: - "'T an greatly interested tn what you are doing, for it is «4 much needed work,’ said Mrs. Roosevelt when she net with the stu- dents and steff nenbers of Highlander at a supper they tendered her at Chattanooga's Ross Hotel last April. She was accompanied by Dr. Frank Grahan, once a board nenber of Soviet Russia's State Tini- versity of Moscow Summer School for Training American Studants in Comnunism. Also in the party were Gardner Jackson, former govern- ment official lately involved in a plot to smear the Dies Connittee and previously exposed as having been a regular contributor to a Communist organization; and Kathryn Lewia, davgnter of Jonn L. Lewis, who recently sided openly with the Conrunist faction in the New York CIO sonvention.” , A photogreph in the booklet shows Mrs. Roosevelt in confer- graduate and one of the founders of Highlander. Mr. Kanp quotes Horton as saying that the school affords “an opportunity to direct the Arerican revolutionary tradition towards cooperative society operated by and for the workers", Horton ia the present Director ” ~ _ er te a : - . ; . . ~ ie mo.
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