Letter from Walter White to David Niles, with Related Material

NATIONAL OFFICERS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS President NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE Walter White Secretary Arthur B. Spingarn Roy Wilkins Assistant Secretary Editor, The Crisis Chairman of the Board ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Madison S. Jones, Jr. Dr. Louis T. Wright Administrative Assistant Acting Chairman of the Board Thurgood Marshall Hon. Chorles 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. Williama 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 ashington Bureau Bishop John A. Gregg WHITE W. E. B. Du Bois Rev. John Haynes Holmes Director, Special Research Dr. William Lloyd Imes Daisy E. Lampkin Field Secretary Hon. Ira W. Jayne Gloster B. Current Isadore Martin Director of Branches T. G. Nutter Donald Jones Rev. A. Clayion Powell LeRoy E. Carter A. Philip Randolph Rufus W. Smith Oswald Garrison Villard Assistant Field Secretaries N. W. Griffin Treasurer West Coast Regional Secretary Mary White Ovington Lucille Black Membership Secretary Assistant Treasurer Ruby Hurley Youth Secretary Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Jesse o. Dedmon, Jr. Secretary, Veterans' Afjairs BOARD OF DIRECTORS Atlanta Eugene M. Martin 31st Oliver W. Harrington Director, Public Relations Baltimore Carl Murphy October Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Buell G. Gallagher Lahor Secretary Birmingham, Ala. Dr. E. W. Taggart 1947 Boston Dr. John B. Hall Chicago Earl B. Dickerson Bishop W. J. Walls TRUMAN Cincinnati Theodore M. Berry Cleveland Dr. Nothan K. Chrisfopher **NATIONAL Des Moines, la. lke Smalls Detroit Dr. James J. McClendon Ft. Worth, Tex. Dr. George D. Flemmings Dear Dave: c ARCHIVES SERVICE* RECORDS AND Greenwich, Conn. Alfred Baker Lewis Hartford, Conn. Dr. Allen F. Jackson Hyde Park, N. Y. Elegnor Roosevelt Jamaica, N. Y. Dr. John A. Singleton Lawrence, N. Y. Rabbi Judah Cahn Los Angeles, Calif. Norman o. Houston After you left the office this morning, Newark, N. J. Grace B. Fenderson New York Lillian A. Alexander another idea occurred to me which ties in with Hon. Jane M. Bolin Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers both the Virgin Islands and Charles Taussig's Marion Cuthbort Russell W. Davenport problem about preventing discrimination against Hon. Hubert T. Delany Lewis S. Gannett and insult to distinguished dark-skinned persons John Hammond Rev. John Haynes Holmes passing through Miami and New Orleans. If the Hon. Fiorello H. LoGuardia Hon. Herbert H. Lehman Civil Aeronautics Board grants Pan American's Dr. o. Clay Maxwell Mary White Ovington application to make St. Croix a major junction Rev. James H. Robinson point between South and North America, the state Amy E. Spingarn Arthur B. Spingarn Department's headaches in continental United Dr. Channing H. Tobias Hon. Charles E. Toney States can be eliminated by routing not only Palmer Weber Dr. Louis T. Wright lark-skinned but all VIP's through the Virgin Northampton, Mass. S. Ralph Harlow Oklahoma City Roscos Dunjee Islands. Philadelphia Theodore Spaulding Richmond, Va. Dr. J. M. Tinsley Topeka, Kans. Hon. Arthur Capper This would have a throe-fold benefit. Washington William H. Hastie Charles H. Houston (1) It would eliminate the highly danger- Eric Johnston Philip Murray ous international incidents which are almost NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE certain to happen considering the experiences of Charles H. Houston, Washington, Chairman Atianta A. T. Walden Madame Eboue, Prosident Estime's nephew and others Birmingham, Ala. Arthur D. Shores Charleston, W. Va. T. G. Nutter recently at Miami and Jacksonville. Chattanooga, Tenn. Maurice M. Weaver Chicago W. Robert Ming, Jr. Cincinnati Theodore M. Berry (2) It would be a rebuke to the bigotry of Cleveland William T. McKnight Dallas, Texas W. J. Durham Florida and Louisiana. Erie, Pa. William F. lllig Houston, Texas Arthur J. Mendell Ithaca, N. Y. Milton R. Konvitz Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith, Jr. (3) It would make the Virgin Islands a fer- Robert W. Kenny Loren Miller tile source of vell-considered public relations Louisville Charles W. Anderson Madison, Wis. Lloyd Garrison through these important persons stopping off Nashville, Tenn. z. Alexander Looby New York Donaid Crichton there, which would not only attract more persons Morris L. Ernst Osmond K. Fraenkel with money to spend to the Islands, but even more Arthur Garfield Hays be a demonstration on American soil that we can Paul Kern Karl N. Llewellyn at least in this instance practice the democracy James Marshall Shad Polier we talk so much about but seldom practice. Hope Stevens Charles H. Studin Andrew D. Weinberger Piftsburgh 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 25 Wilmington, Del. Louis L. Redding