Memorandum with Summary of Letter Protesting Committee on Civil Rights and the Committee on Higher Education

596-4 the MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILES: Ltr of 12/26/47 to the President from Isom P. "Bill" Hydrick, Jr., State Representative, P.O.Box 1173, <509 Block St., Marshall, Tex.; feels that the findings of the Committee on Civil Rights and the Committee on x 1060 Higher Education are doing much to destroy the rela- tionship of harmony now prevalent in most of the dis- tricts of the South between the whites and negroes and x93 says he has heard friends of the President defend the actions of these Committees with the statement that the leadership of the Democratic Party was S imply playing X 2 99 mail politics and had no idea of ever trying to force these findings upon the people of the South but were trying to win he negro vote; believes the people are entitled to know the President's position on these issues and suggests that he make clear his position and intentions through the press in regard to the abolishment of the segregation laws in the Southern States. Handed to Mr. Niles 12/29/47, S. elb U. NATI JORAP