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→Hawaii NAACP charter revoked: cite
They create a mythical racial problem here. They agitate with the same fervor that the Communist press does on the mainland. The result is discord and distrust, not unity.
They create a mythical racial problem here. They agitate with the same fervor that the Communist press does on the mainland. The result is discord and distrust, not unity.
…Already, scores of Negro members were frightened away from these meetings because of the influx of this element. Only by a reorganization with a policy that will check this infiltration, can we hope to get former members back into a local NAACP branch. We are going to have to have that authority over here―otherwise you’ll have a branch exclusively composed of yelping Stalinists and their dupes―characters who are more concerned about the speedy assassination of [[Tito]] than they are about the advancement of the colored people of these United States."<ref>House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Hearings Regarding Communist Activities in the Territory of Hawaii—Part 3, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1950, p 2067-9, quoted in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf ''Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection''], Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org pp. 16-17, 31-34.</ref>}}
…Already, scores of Negro members were frightened away from these meetings because of the influx of this element. Only by a reorganization with a policy that will check this infiltration, can we hope to get former members back into a local NAACP branch. We are going to have to have that authority over here―otherwise you’ll have a branch exclusively composed of yelping Stalinists and their dupes―characters who are more concerned about the speedy assassination of [[Tito]] than they are about the advancement of the colored people of these United States."<ref>House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, [http://www.archive.org/stream/hearingsregardinhaw03unit#page/2067/mode/1up Hearings Regarding Communist Activities in the Territory of Hawaii—Part 3], Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1950, p 2067-9.</ref>}}
The national NAACP acted by revoking the local Hawaiian chapter of the NAACP's charter to prevent Communists from taking over the organization.
The national NAACP acted by revoking the local Hawaiian chapter of the NAACP's charter to prevent Communists from taking over the organization.