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a - WOLA Gratis Dy Bors | IN ara a President, Black Academy of Arts and Letters (BAAL), 475 res are Riverside. Drive, New York City, to the Attorney General, | : United States Department of Justice, described BAAL as bee “= “ nonprofit, Bonpolitical prganizati on founded to provide * - > recoenition.and encouragement and ineoentive for those who oe, ecognition.and enc . .- “fave made a notable contribution to the interpretation and i “projection of the "Black experience in America". Further, * the letter stated that the First Annual Meeting of BAAL a _& / would be held September 18-20, 1970, at which one of the ‘activities was to be the establishment of a Hall 6£ Fame - . honoring certain deceased Americans whose contributions - . _ and interpretation of the "Black experience" are universally . recognized, It was stated that among those who had been elected to the Hall of Fame was Doctor W.E.B. Du Bois, described as a historian and sociologist. It was also stated. ' that Shirley Graham. Du Bois had been invited to be present and to receive the citation honoring her late husband. The letter requested that reconsideration be given to the appli~ cation for a visa of Mrs. Du Bois to the end that she would be able to receive the citation at the First Annual Meeting of BA AL. Ue Sows 1 fila sobicining ‘Dy Béte-désclosed tint” sixteen members of the Unit, a§ States _ONgTess had. had an terest in the visa - se ° tee __ $Me Ina Flie also revealed that the following . arties had. had an interest in the — aa me eration | OF. we OAS wise | Caset ee ve i Mtkine, Executive Director, National, Asaoetetion vantem ment of Colored ored People GHAACP), New r York Te