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CONFIDENTIAL Re: Jackie Robinson, Stamford, Connecticut that, in his judgment, the hiring of Jackie Robinson improved the racial attitude of hundreds of thousands of sports lovers in this country. Page 479 to 483: Swrn testimony of one Jack Roosevelt Robinson, 7/18/49. he stated he was born in Cairo, Ga.. in l9i9. He stated he had received a great nany messages urging him not to appear before the Committee and that not all of them came from communist sympathizers. He stated, As I see it there hss been a terrific lotof misunderstanding on this subject of communism among the Negroes in this country, and it's bound to hurt my people's cause unlessit is cleared up.- "And one other thing the American people ought to understand, if we are to make progress in this matter: The Iact that it is communist who denounces injustice in the courts, police brutality. and lynching when it happens doesn't change the truth of his charges. Just because communists kick up a big fuss over racial discrimination when it suits their purposes, a lot of people try to pretend that the whole issue is creation of communist imagination. "But they are not fooling anyone with this kind of pretense, and talk about communiets stirring up: Negroes to protest', only makes present misunderstanding worse than CONFIDENTIAL LOY. 1QQ4Q8850-RECoR0ED