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Gold, W. A. Hunton, Albert EB. Kahn, Willi terson, Melba Phillips, Joseph Selly, Howard soit Mr. pnd Mrs, Alfred K. Stern (who recently fled behind é Iron Curtain to escape indic i and Gene Weltfish. a ments foF espionage), Charles G. Gomillion is a member of directors of the Southern Conference Education‘! Fea an organization whose ideological orientation toward Communism will be discussed later. Gomillion and his Tuskegee Civic Association are part of an interlocking apparatus which includes the Highlander Folk School and the Southern Conference Educational Fund. In his 1956 presidential report to the Tuske ivi Association, Dean Gomillion stated that at one ‘of “ie meetings in February, 1956, a speaker discussed “the role of the Highlander Fotk School, and the search for an effective social action program.” He also stated that one of the major roles of the Tuskegee Civic Association was cooperation “with the Highlander Folk School in the effort to develop effective persona] and group tech- niques for facilitating racial desegregation.” In view of the fact that Gomillion and his TCA had been cooperating with the Highlander Folk School for at least a year and a half, it may be presumed that his illegal boycott of the white merchants of Tuskegee was one of the group techniques werked out by the two organizations. Furthermore, it may be assumed that Gomillion’s clese association with the Communist ap- paratus, as set forth above, was some kind of prepara- tion for bis adoption of the militant boycott technique. The manager of Tuskegee’s largest department store was quoted in the New York Times, as follows: “The Negro leaders picked the wrong target, The merchants didn’t have anything to do with Senator Engelhardt's bill. I think they realize that the boycott is unfair. We've worked closely with the Negroes on charity drives and when they asked for credit we extended it without question.” It is, of course, standard Cemmunist tactics to exacerbate existing tensions and to create racial strife where none had a) Fred B. Routh The Southern Regional Council was represented at the Highlander Folk School seminar in the person of Fred B. Routh. Mr. Routh bears the title of assistant director of the Southern Regional Council. The Southern Regional Council, recipient of a grant of $245,000 from the Fund for the Republic, is one of the most influential organizations of whites and Negroes in the South. It has been penetrated by the Commnnist- frent apparatus. The fetlowing directors of the Southern Regional Council have been affiliated with Communist organiza- tions: 26 * _ Atwood, president of Kentucky State College sa sford R. Brazeal, professor at Morehouse College Rufus E. Clement, president of Adanta University 1M. Ellison, president of Virginia Union University Charles G. Gomillion, dean of Tuskegee Insutute Charles §. Johnson, late president of Fisk University R. O'Hara Lanier, president of Texas Southern Uni- i penjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College Jacob L, Reddix, president of Jackson State College H. C. Trenholm, president of Alabama State College for Negroes . All of the foregoing directors of the Southern Re- gional Council are Negroes and all are connected with Necro institutions of higher learning. INGp ese Others Present The Rev. David H. Brooks, Protestant Episcopal high church clergyman (Negro), was a speaker at the High- lander Folk School seminar. He was a leader of the Tallahassee bus boycott which occurred during the last seven months of 1956. The Daily Worker, July 1, 1952, carried a front-page story about a petition drawn up by the noted pro-Com- munist, W. E. B. DuBois, urging President Truman to adopt a policy of “withdrawal of military forces and installations by the U. S. and all other governments from all foreign territory where their presence is not authorized by agreement of all the major powers.” Such a policy would, of course, be a Communist booby trap. Of the alleged 160 Negro signers of this DuBois petition, the names of only four were given in the Daily Worker; and one of the four was the name of the Rev. David H. Brooks. Allen McSwain (Negro) was a speaker whe repre- sented the Clinton, Tennessee, school incident. Bernice Robinson, also a speaker at the Highlander Folk School seminar, discussed the Johns Island, South Carolina, integration incident. Conrad Browne (white) came to the seminar from Koinonia Farm, an interracial colony near Americus, Georgia. This interracial community bas been an in- citement te prolonged violence. ; ; Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packing House Workers of America, AFL-C]O, was also a speaker. This union has been heavily infiltrated by known Communists. A Succession of Sputniks for Negroes One of the top leaders of the Communist Interna- tional, Otte Kuusinen, said in a speech before the ex- ecutive committee of the C.I, that it was the first busi- ness of the Communists to launch satellite organizations and committees. In The Communist of May, 1931, Kuusinen was quoted on these satellites of the Com- munist Party, as follows: 27