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i a: _ Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO SUBJECT : Polson : Mr. Nichols/®™ Ge” oe “DavE: 5=21-56 Neto , WY D 198 | | ee — mom 1 M. KJIGs felt LATION CONTAINED a fin preceding administrations, is tied down by the present Federal Civil O Beatie wl | ee THURGOOD MARSHALL oad Lice rete re SPECIAL COUNSEL, NATIONAL i FOR THE To asciliomna ——— ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP) Oe Nin, Y TELEVISION APPEARANCE, MAY 20, 1956 Ya " / ) | : Thurgood. Marshall, Special Counsel for the NAA Bs appeared on the television program am,.¥Youth | Wants to Know, ee ig, Ae .. the National Broadcasting Network yesterday afternoon.” Steve. McCormick: was. the moderator. ae In answer to questions put to him by the panel of * “ - youngsters, Marshall stated that he felt that the NAACP did represent the feelings of the Negro people although their membership was only 400,000. He addéd that he felt that all restrictions on segregation \p . | would be removed by law by 1963. At the conclusion of the program, Marshall made reference { to the Justice Department when he first answered a question regarding — support received by the Jusiice Department in the present administration ~ in connection with Civil Rights and integration. Marshall replied that the z Attorney General in the present administration, like the Attorney General : Rights Statutes. He added that the Republican and Democratic administrations ; alike have moved as quickly as they could “under the existing statutes. " Another panel member stated that the House. Committee on . Un-American Activities (HCUA) had stated that half of the organizers of the NAACP appeared on lists held subversive by that Committee. Marshall replied that there, was hardly any liberal not listed by the "Old Dies Committee | and that the only : list which he considered authentic was the Attorney Gererg3}' list. . _ L, . Marshall advocated passive resistance as exemplified by “Th! i recent Montgomery, Alabama, bus situation as the best method of operation. . in the South because the NAAC P absolutely refuses to utilize force regardless of the force applied against the Negro by the Whites in the South. He said that the YNRECORDED COP ta . NAACP was surprised by THEE and conditions of the. NS . 12a. ly ese St rit cc - Mr. Nichols. o CC - Mr. Boardman | Tine... _ oe 44 MAY oa me CC - Mr. Bel re . STN, CC - Mr. Ro ee ut 6 1056 _ ee | Z