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    "title": "Letter, J. Edgar Hoover to Dillon Anderson",
    "description": "This letter describes a campaign by the Communist Party of the United States to take place in protest of the murder of Emmett Till. The Communist Party of the Illinois-Indiana District, and its chairman, Claude Lightfoot, are especially mentioned. Attorney General Herbert Brownell is mentioned as being a particular target of the campaign.",
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        "Brownell, Herbert, 1904-1996",
        "Lightfoot, Claude M., 1910-1991",
        "Black people",
        "Civil rights",
        "Communist parties"
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    "ocrText": "Letter to Honorable Dillon Anderson\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nThe informant also advised that this campaign is\ndesigned by the Communist Party for the purpose of rabble\nrousing. Indications are that the Negro people on the south\nside of Chicago are already aroused to a fever pitch over\nthis incident.\nThis confidential informant advised that all\nleading members of the Communist Party in the llinois-Indiana\narea are actively engaged in a campaign regarding this slaying\nand that 10,000 copies of a leaflet were to have been published\nand circulated on September 2, 1955, with 6,000 copies to have\nbeen distributed on the south side of Chicago.\nClaude Lightfoot, according to this informant, was\nto have issued a statement to the press on September 2, 1955,\ncondemning President Eisenhower, Attorney General Herbert\nBrounell and Federal and local police officials. The Communist\nParty will start propagandizing the Till slaying under\nslogans \"Brownellism Must Go\" and \"Brownellism is Only\nMcCarthyism in Disguise or with Legal Trimming.\"\nThe Communist Party is working and mobilizing for a\nhuge mass meeting on the Till case and has planned to hold\nthis meeting on the south side of Chicago, probably under the\nauspices of the Washington Park Forum. The informant advised\nthat the Communist Party and its sympathizers were also in\nthe process of contacting many Chicago ministers to ask them\nto make the Till slaying and the Mississippi civil rights\nsituation the main topic of their sermons on September 4,\n1955.\nThis informant also advised that the Civil Rights\nCongress issued a pamphlet on September 2, 1955, in which\ninformation was set forth that John T. Bernard, Chairman of\nKeanue\nthe Civil Rights Congress of Illinois, had written\nPresident Eisenhower and Senator Thomas C. Hennings, JT.,\nChairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights,\nrelative to this matter.\n2Eb 0\nSECEIAED\nUNCLASSIELED\nCONDDNA"
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