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has been organized in the South for the past 20 years, L. C. Bates, husband of Daisy Bates, Dr, Albert Howar i arter, and Dr. M. Lafayette Harris, all of_Arkansas, are directors of this organization. In a policy statement issued by the organization on June 12, 1954, the directors stated: "The Fund has devoted its efforts to the elimination of racial segregation and discrimination," | INDIVIDUALS Daisy Bates has been president of _ the a cede ale sine | 4 ipa Coane , Foret ( y Arkansas Conference of Branches of the NARCD for a number of 7 Comers ph sy NSS «fe W/ years, She is also a national director of the NAACP, is a director of the Southern Regional Council and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations. In 1948, Daisy aL and Ladislav Pushkarsky were three ofthe 74 people who signed a petition to place Henry Wallace on the ballot in Arkansas as a presidential candidate for the Progressive Party. In 1954, Daisy Bates attended a meeting in Little Rock, at which Dr. Vernon McDaniel of Tuskegee, Alabama, was on the panel. McDaniel was sent into Arkansas by the National NAACP to make a survey of cities which that organization thought might be targets for its activities, Gloster BeCirrent, Stephen Gill \ A a CO et nates tae t Y XSpottswood, Daryeyrd, and other individuals \from the national wv office of the NAACP were also present at th meeting. Accord- ing to the press, plans were made at this meeting for the 4 solicitation of plaintiffs and subsequent filing of lawsuits which precipitated the racial unrest as evidenced by the Central High School incident. Daisy Bates has also worked in close association with Clarence Laws of New Orleans\ Louisiana, in furtherance of the NAACP in Arkansas. \ \ \ 2. L. C.*BATES. L. C. Bates is the publisher of the Arkansas State Press, a Negro weekly newspaper pubetsne in | / AA. Mp S