Letter from Walter White to David Niles

ERcommittee NATIONAL OFFICERS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS President Arthur B. Spingarn NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE Walter White Secretary Roy Wilkins Assistant Secretary Chairman of the Board Editor, The Crisis Dr. Lou' T. Wright ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Madison S. Jones, Jr. Administrative Assistant Acting Chairman of the Board Thurgood Marshall Hon. Charles E. Toney 20 WEST 4OTH STREET, NEW YORK 18, N. Y. Special Counsel Vice-Presidents Robert L. Carter Mary McLeod Bethune Marian Wynn Perry Nannie H. Burroughs LONGACRE 3-6890 Franklin H. Williams Godfrey Lowell Cabot Edward R. Dudley (on leave) Hon. Arthur Capper Assistant Special Counsel Hon. Harry E. Davis Official Organ: The Crisis Leslie s. Perry Administrative Assistant Douglas P. Falconer Washington Bureau Bishop John A. Gregg W. E. B. Du Bois Rev. John Haynes Holmes Director, Special Research Dr. William Lloyd Imes WHITE Daisy E. Lampkin Field Secretary Hon. Ira W. Jayne Gloster B. Current Isadore Martin Director of Branches T. G. Nutter Donald Jones Rev. A. Clayton Powell LeRoy E. Carter A. Philip Randolph Rufus W. Smith Oswald Garrison Villard Assistant Field Secretaries Treasurer N. W. Griffin Mary White Ovington West Coast Regional Secretary Lucille Black Membership Secretary Assistant Treasurer Ruby Hurley Youth Secretary Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Jesse o. Dedmon, Jr. 5th Secretary, Veterans' Affairs BOARD OF DIRECTORS Oliver W. Harrington Atlanta Eugene M. Martin November Director, Public Relations Baltimore Carl Murphy 1947 Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Buell G. Gallagher Labor Secretary Birmingham, Ala. Dr. E. W. Taggart Boston Dr. John B. Hall Chicago Earl B. Dickerson Bishop W. J. Walls Cincinnati Theodore M. Berry Cleveland Dr. Nathan K. Christopher Des Moines, la. lke Smalls Dear Dave: Detroit Dr. James J. McClendon Ft. Worth, Tex. Dr. George D. Flemmings Greenwich, Conn. Alfred Baker Lewis Hartford, Conn. Dr. Allen F. Jackson Hyde Park, N. Y. Eleanor Roosevelt Jamaica, N. Y. Dr. John A. Singleton Madison Jones of our staff has just returned Lawrence, N. Y. Rabbi Judah Cahn Los Angeles, Calif. Norman o. Houston from a meeting called by Roger Baldwin at which Newark, N. J. Grace B. Fenderson New York Lillian A. Alexander were present representatives of five or six organi- Hon. Jane M. Bolin Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers zations to discuss means of implementation of the Marion Cuthbert Russe!l W. Davenport Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights. Hon. Hubert T. Delany This is the second or third such meeting which has Lewis S. Gannett John Hammond been called. And there may be other organizations Rev. John Haynes Holmes Hon. Fiorello H. LaGuardia which have done the same thing. Hon. Herbert H. Lehman Dr. o. Clay Maxwell Mary White Ovington Rev. James H. Robinson We have called no such meeting as yet because Amy E. Spingarn Arthur B. Spingarn we don't want to muddy the waters or to do anything Dr. Channing H. Tobias Hon. Charles E. Toney which will prevent the most effective coordination. Palmer Weber It is no criticism of the American Civil Liberties Dr. Louis T. Wright Northampton, Mass. S. Ralph Harlow Union or any other organization to say that too Oklahoma City Roscoe Dunjee Philadelphia Theodore Spaulding often attempts are made to capitalize on enthusiasm Richmond, Va. Dr. J. M. Tinsley Topeka, Kans. Hon. Arthur Capper without effective means of following through. Washington William H. Hastie Charles H. Houston Eric Johnston Philip Murray I sent the enclosed telegram last Saturday NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE to Charles E. Wilson about a luncheon or dinner Charles H. Houston, Washington, Chairman at the Waldorf-Astoria or a similar place, but Atianta A. T. Walden Birmingham, Ala. Arthur D. Shores have not as yet yeard from him. Upon hearing Charleston, W. Va. T. G. Nutter Chattanooga, Tenn. Maurice M. Weaver from him, it is our plan to invite a small but Chicago W. Robert Ming, Jr. Cincinnati Theodore M. Berry responsible group of organizations to join in Cleveland William T. McKnight Dallas, Texas W. J. Durham sponsoring the luncheon and to work out a plan Erie, Pa. William F. Illig Houston, Texas Arthur J. Mendell for a sustained campaign to implement the Commit- Ithaca, N. Y. Milton R. Konvitz tee's recommendations. Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr. Robert W. Kenny Loren Miller Lovisville Charles W. Anderson Madison, Wis. Lloyd Garrison Nashville, Tenn. z. Alexander Looby KROMAN New York Donald Crichton Morris L. Ernst AND a Osmond K. Fraenkei Arthur Garfield Hays Paul Kern SERVICE" Karl N. Llewellyn Ess. James Marshall Shad Polier Hope Stevens Charles H. Studin Andrew D. Weinberger Pittsburgh Homer S. Brown Richmond, Va. Spottswood W. Robinson, III. San Francisco Bartley C. Crum Tulsa, Okla. Amos T. Hall Washington William H. Hastie Edward P. Lovett Leon A. Ransom Ruth Weyand Wilmington, Del. Louis L. Redding 21