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Memorandum for the Attorney General . b7C- + action would be taken where justified, Mr. Marshall has neve é: answered ny letter of May 14th or furntehked any tnforaction ~ ot would perntt me to investtoate the charges made. ZI belteve that Mr. Marshall's obvious hostility to ; Bureau dontnates the thinking of his assoctatee tn the lega: operations of the Nattonal dasoctation for the Advancenent | Colored People. I night potnt out that when the Bureau was \deavortng to conduct an tnvestigation case tnvolvt ‘essault upo b at, South Carolina, the victin, @ negro, en tntervt ew Bureau agents, declined to furnish any tnformatton to us on grounds that Counsel of the Nattonal Assoctation for the ent of Co le, hod tnetr Atm not to talk to the FBI except tn resence and the permission of QR According to stated, tn referring to the FBI, that "They are not on your they are on the side of the government". It might be noted situation tha was the victim of an assault and the witness in the Sureau’s efforts to conduct an tnvestigatton determine whether there had been a violation of Federal Civt Bights Statutes. The restrictions placed upoagy™ by th Heh. 4.CoPe representative resulted tn constderable needless | tn the tnvestigation of this case. _ Marshall cites the Roger Wolcoln lynching case near . Georgta, as an example of the one-sided tnvestigations condu tn this type ef case. I belteve that tt should be pointed o Marshall tn connection with that case that a thorough and ez investtgation haa been conducted, tn the course of whitch nea: 2,600 people have deen interviewed, and that the testimony o, approzinately 206 witnesses was heard by a Federal Grand Jur Athens, Georgia, whitch Grand Jury did not return any tnadicts Marshall refers alsc to the Columbia, Tennessee, rac on February 25 and 26, 1946, an tnvestigation of which was o by thts Bureou and reports eubmitted to the Criminal Divisto the captton "Ractal Violence Columbia, Tennessee; Civil Righ: Domestic Violence". You wtll recall that at the conclusion | tnvestigation th that case all of the facta were presented %: Federal Grand Jury and that at the concluston of the testiano) jury expressed the opinton that there had been no violation ¢ Federal statute and further comnended the Iaw enforcenent of) for thetr manner tn handling the situation. -3- fo