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“ ha co uA are ae r most active Communist organizations in the United States at the present time. John Wesley Dobbs, a national vice-president of the NAACP, is a member of the board of directors of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, the most influ- ential Communist organization currently operating in the South. Mr. Dobbs was a guest of honor at a 1057 meeting of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. He was also a signer of the brief amici curiae submitted to the UJ. 5. Supreme Court on behalf of the Communist Party in the fall of 1955. It may be enlightening to give some totals which indi- cate the extent to which the top leadership of the NAACP has given aid and comfort to the Communist- front apparatus. Listed om the current letterheads of the NAACP are the names of 236 different national officers. One bundred forty-five (or more than 61 per- cent) of these individuals have been involved, in one way or another, with Communist enterprises, for a grand total of 2,200 affiliations of public record. Forty- mia aa uiitse NAACP national officers have had one or two Communist affiliations; 99 have had 3 or more such affuiations, 52 have had 10 or more; and 46 have had 15 or more. At this point, I present a tabulation of the names of the NAACP national officers whose Communist affilia- tions number 15 or more, together with the number of such affiliations for each individual. Edward L. Parsons (Protestant Episcola bishop} ____108 Robert W. Kenny (California attorney)... 101 “o Faiety Stupler (Protestant Episcopal clergy- B00: cr 76 Parl B Dickerson (Chicago attorney}... 6S Roger N. Baldwin (American Civil Liberties Union} 64 Jona Howland Lathrop (Unitarian clergyman) ........ 62 Algernon DB. Black (Society for Ethical Culture Waderh 60 Ven Wyck Brooks (author}.000 0. 59 Freda Kirctiwey (editor of The Nation)... 59 Eaeaner Roosevelt oo eee eee 56 Bartley Crum (San Francisco attorney)... 56 George L. Paine (Protestant Episcopal clergyman). 50 Henry Hitt Crane (Methodist clergyman)... 46 Max Lerner (newspaper columnist and professor)... 43 Channing H. Tobias (Methodist clergyman)... 43 Tames H. Wolfe (chief justice of Utah Supreme Court) ae _... 43 Osmond k. Fraenkel (New York attorney)... 41 Archenalc McLeish (poet and university professor) 38 A prt R-»dotph Uabor union president)... 38 Frank P Grcham (university president, ex-U. S. SUMALOEJ oF G. Bromiley Oxnam (Methodist bishop) - ___— 36 John Haynes Holmes (Unitarian clerevinac} 25 - PEN A ANPAAAER AUREL AE BY ARIS J Pd Wo. Wails (Methodist bishop) 34 42 a SS SSS SSS SSS SSS Si i SSE Pirs s sureesrS S rt i Reinbold Niebuhr (clergyman and theological nee fasanet 2A PIOLESSOT yn rn a i Roscoe Dunjee (Oklahoma newspaper editor) 33 Benjamin E. Mays (college president and clergyman) 31 Edwin McNeill Poteat (Baptist clergyman)_..__._. 30 George 5. Counts (university professor)._.__...__. 29 William Lloyd Imes (Presbyterian clergyman)... 29 Rufus E. Clement (university president and clergyman) — 27 Lewis S. Gannett (newspaper columnist} —..._..... 26 Oscar Hammerstein Hi (theatrical lyrics writer)... 25 John Hammond (businessman) -____.________._. 23 S. Ralph Harlow (college professor and clergyman) 23 Henry W. Hobson (Protestant Episcopal bishop). 23 Albert Sprague Coolidge (university professor)_____ 22 Edward L. Young (physician) __ ee 22 Hubert T. Delany (New York attorney)._._____ 20 Horace M. Kallen (educator)... 20 Albert C. Dieffenbach (Unitarian clergyman)__.__.. 19 Frank Kingdon (Methodist clergyman)... 19 Loren Miller (Los Angeles attorney)......_____-_s«19 Norman Thomas (socialist leader) ___ _19 Albert E. Barneit (theological professor, clergyman) 16 H. Claude Hudson (Los Angeles educator}... 15 Henry Smith Leiper (Presbyterian clergyman)... 15 Below are given the names of a number of Communist organizations (selected at random) and under each Oreanization the names of the NAACP national officers OPSSni2a ir Lilt eines Va seh aN Sas Becmes Sissi; who have been affiliated with it: African Aid Committee Eart B. Dickerson George L. Paine Stephen Gill Spottswood Benjamin E. Mays Harry T. Penn W. J. Walls American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Roger N. Baldwin Viola W. Bernard Algernon Biack Jane M. Bolin Van Wyck Brooks Rufus E. Clement George 5, Counts Henry Hitt Crane Earl B. Dickerson Osmond K, Fraenkel Frank P. Graham §. Raiph Harlow Henry W. Hobson John Haynes Holmes William Lloyd Imes Robert W. Kenny John Howland Lathrop W. Appleton Lawrence Max Lerner Archibald MacLeish Arthur J. Mandell Benjamin E. Mays Reinhold Niebuhr George L. Paine Edward L. Parsons Eleancr Roosevelt Guy Emery Shipler Channing i. Tobias W, J. Waiis James H. Wolfe American Crusade to End Lynching W. J. Walls Lloyd Garrison Robert W. Aenny G. Bromley Oxnam Bartley Crum Oscar Hammerstein, II Benjamin E. Mays 43