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RH 77-7946 The Communist Party, United States of America , its subdivisions, subsidiaries and affiliates have been cited oy the Attorney General prsuant to Ervecutive Order 1345). NEWSPAPER MORGUE On September 12, 1961, the records of the library at the Richmond Newspapers, Inc., 110 North Fourth Street, were found to contain only two newspaper clippings concerning THURGOOD MARSHALL, The notation "previous envelope vanished appeared on the outside of the envelope containing these two clippings. One article, which appeared in the Richmond Times- Dispatch, a Richmond, Virginia, daily newspaper, dated Octover 25, 1955, reported on @& speech which THURGOOD MAFSHALL delivered before the closing session of the twentieth annual convention. of the Virginia NAACP at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was reported that “Marshall, who led the NAACP's successful legal battle to have the United States Supreme Court declare Tacial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, said Southern officials who are now talking about circumvention are just kicking up dust, just jawing with the umpire like a basevall player who has pveen called out. But, he said, when the dust settles, they will find the mling is #111 the same." It also reported that MARSHALL. with respect to desegregation, said “It will ve Just as difficult 2) years from today...and you might Bs well do it today and get it over with," and that there was "a distinct moral as well as legal difference between disagreement with the defiance of the Constitution... Defiance of the laws of the land is not only unlawful out breeds contempt for other phases of law. Defiance of the Constitution or of the Supreme Court in regard to school desegregation is not defiance of Negroes or the NAACP. It is defiance of our very Government. The other article, which appeared in the same newspaper, Gated January 25, 196), mentioned that THURGOOD MARSHALL, Chief Counsel for the NAACP, went to Africa as a especial advisor to the African delegation to the Kenya Constitutional Conference in London. ORGANIZATIONS None of the individuals interviewed during the course of this investigation knew of any organizations to whicn THURGOOD MARSHALL belonged withthe exception of the NAACP, Pe a aetna eee irate meen che eh age pera