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aS. MARCI . 2nd--9th 1941 * y= 7 WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN Da. FRANK GRAHAM, National Chetrman ; February 27, 1941. Poa . N REV. HOWARD KESTER . yee KATE BUBBELL, Se. e Natienal Trpasurer Dear Friend: i 2 138th Sereer, N. BAe TO NSORS ‘Washington, D. ¢ a ey Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt fwo million shareoroppers stand today asa living rebuke Pypont 0033 — *» Roger Baldwin the rest of us, They are a tragio monument to inequalities which ~ Senator Arthur Capper we have not yet swept from Amerioa. They neither need nor aak the > John Cumberain charity of city-folks. What they do need is the help of city-peo; 2 David Dubineky when they, themselves, with their meager resources, struggle to “. Rebbi Edward L. Israci build new lives and to expand their freedoms, = __ Dr. Frank Kingdon ney_pAve_bee duces tm = Sk PhilipRandolph i<ttfarners’ Union, which has growa to @ menbership o1 Senator Elbeft D. Thomfis *. uy gn gix states and which has become the keystene of agricul. Norman fhomas - tural unionian in the Southe Waller White Bach year, the Southern Tenant Farmers* Union, through National & y Dr. Mary E. Wooley f . | WASHINGTON sbowsors STOppers Week, appeals for understanding and for finanoial help. — year Mational Sharecroppers Week will be held from Maroh 2 throug ‘aRabert E. Asher Ve bl ‘ Learn March 93 Every penny collected will do the work of dollars in or . ay Wate Allen White ‘wi Donald C, Blaisdell dinary movements, The Washington Post said editorially wpon the : AGeorge WBr ! casion of last year'a Sharecroppers Week: - Rev BR. ow. Brooks’ f "aq the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union says, that organi- + te catengill bef. Ralph J. Bunche! Rev. Fred. S. Buschmeytt [at sation is far more jmportant than a labor union. It ie a = firsabech Chitscman—~ ih rallying point for a reform movanent designed to raise the | [is more A é sooial and economic status of millions of agricultural wor- MOL Lee widow Davidson , keors, whites and Negroca, who are literally the digposscssec le Mary C. Dent i’ of the earthe" a orothy Detzer . 7 ames L. Farmer, Jr. § A union of impoverished menbers must necessarily be an impoverial ee Hea. Oh Geyer - union. That is the kind of a union that the Southern Temunt Farz 4 ra Leroy ‘A. Halbert _ ¥ Qnion ise For the moet part it depends for support on the contr Dr. Abram L. Harris ./ tdons of people like yourself who are sympathetio with its obj ot [Tp Kennet Frome Misy we urge this cause to your favorable consideration? fhe end 4 ceria Howandet | _.. envelope will make it easier for you to send whatever mm you f: Bee Nude you ean afford. Shovld you prefer to pledge an amount payable at ps éBelford V. Lawson, Je. some later date, please so indioate. Ail funds will be forwnrdec { Ruben Levin = the Union*s headquartera, May we hear from you soont =~ 2 ‘ Peederick J. Libby : an Val ® herwia “Sineerely yours, +7 Grace 3. Lowry i ae peta, Oo Marsh rij} i kote Ke bbte i: - © Herbere Marshall, Jr. > 4 Kenneth Meiklejoho y loos 59 Z7—CG WASHINGTON CAMPAIGH ; vk, : Rabbi Solomon H. Metz NATIONAL SHARECROPPERS cal Stephen Raushenbush ee eR ig re Charles Edward Russel! I encloses $1500 5 $2.00_ 5 $5:00_5 $5000_5 $10000__3 $25200 _ Misge. Joho A. Ryén oa ; Mrs. David J. Sepass we “(please eheok) | 5. J. Schaler / . - Dr. D. N. Shoemaker / gne. . ~ Roar M Stein ‘ si é CS — 7 , Ter, A, Langston Taylor JY" | Address nee inal ; NO Car Taylor: =a * Merle D. Vincent | cy. KAubrey Williams we t SS = apie F8 Benefit Southern Tenant Farmen Unien