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The Cammunict Dartyu seared littl ar nathina aha 200 SOTMTUIMSE Sarty Carea aie OF HCiing accut racial discrimination in the Queens hospital, about the fate of the Scottsboro boys or Julius and Ethel Rosen- berg, about the Italian war against Ethiopia, or about the unemployed; it cares much about fishing in trou- bled waters. Only so can it serve its Kremlin master. Negro College Presidents The Communist-front apparatus has gained support, in one degree or another, among 60 percent of Negro college and and university presidents, The following heads of Negro institutions ot higher learning were affiliated with the National Negro Congress: Rufus B. Atwood, Kentucky State College, Frank- fort, Ky. John M. Ellison, Virginia Union University, Rich- mond, Va. David D. Jones, Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C. R. O'Hara Lanier, Texas Southern University, Hous- ton, Texas. Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute, Tuske- gee, Ala. Jacob L. Reddix, Jackson State College, Jackson, Miss. The following were affiliated with the now defunct Southern Conference for Hurnan Welfare: Rufus B. Atwood, Kentucky Stale College, Frank- fort, Ky. Willian, LE Dall Alansn A & AA Manne Alanen Lfine VU ALTAR, RE. SPURL, SHINEE TB. OM LA. stented < bat FRISMLEI, LIENS, Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln University, Pa. Xufus BE. Clement, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. Albert W. Dent, Dillard University, New Orleans, La. Edgar H. Geold, St, Augustine’s College, Raleigh, N.C. Arthur Howe, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Charles S. Johnson, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Mordecai Johnson, Howard University, Washington, Dd. c. David D. Jones, Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C. i. K. rE. Lee, Florida A. & M. University, Tallahas- see, Fla. Benjamin FE. Mays, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute, Tuske- gee, Ala. ‘ FEF o£ Daters Paina (nilaco Avesta ta James E. Shepard, North Carolina College, Durham, N.C, H. C. Trenholm, Alabama State College for Negroes. Montgomery, Ala. John Brown Watson, Arkansas State A. & M. and Normal College, Pine Bluff, Ark. m. F. Whittaker, South Carolina State College, Or- angeburg, S. C. The following have been affiliated with the currently functioning Southern Conference Educational Fund: Kufus B. Atwood, Aentucky State College, rrank- fort, Ky. 12 | a Re eS a PS pS nace William Augustus Bell, Miles College, Birmingham, a. , Mille W. Boyd, Morristown College, Morristown, Tenn. James P. Brawley, Clark College, Atlanta, Ga. —— Rufus E, Clement, Adanta University, Allania, (a. Tandy W. Coggs, Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock, Ark. James A. Colston, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn. John W. Davis, West Virginia State College, Institute, Ur Ua Aibert W. Dent, Dillard University, New Orleans, La. John M. Ellison, Virginia Union University, Rich- mond, Wa. M. LaFayette Harris, Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. Charles S. Johnson, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Mordecai W. Johnson, Howard University, Washing- ton, D. C. Benjamin E. Mays, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. Richard I. McKinney, Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. . Frederick BD. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute, Tuske- gee, Ala. E. C. Peters, Paine College, Augusta, Ga. Hollis F. Price, LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tenn. 1 DB Davhan Maric Collece Schoni of Religion, oes fh o 3 Sumter, 8. C. Joseph J. Rhoads, Bishop College, Marshall, Texas. William R. Strassner, Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. There is no implication in the foregoing listings that any of these heads of Negro institutions are Commu- nists. They represent, however, a high degree of Com- munist penetration into the ranks of the administra- tors of Negro education. Forty-five different heads of Negro institutions of higher learning have had a total of 291 separate af- fifiations with the Communisi-ironi apparatiis. it 15 apparent that the Communists have established a size- able beachhead in Negro education. Many of these affiliations mean that Communists or pro-Communists have made personal contact with the iop administrators of Negro education. That is one of the aims of the Communist-front technique. And, of course, the Communists acquire a certain amount of prestige for their projects. If the so-called Negro masses were as susceptible to Cormmounict-front nproparanda as the eo-called Negro SET PE Pe SS eee Seem ee intellectuals, the situation would be alarming. In his condensation of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Di- ‘emma, Amold Rose makes the following observation: Still the Communists have not succeeded in get- ting any amnrearicht> fFallowine amone Meornaes tn DDE aby ApPpreciggie sOuGWwing Among wsegroes ih America, especially among the masses. During the depression and again since the war, a number of 13