Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search
no edit summary
Line 46: Line 46:  
{{Cquote|I had also talked with [[Paul Robeson]] who the previous year had appeared there in a series of concerts sponsored by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), the most powerful labor organization in the territory.... I also wrote to [[Harry Bridges]], head of the ILWU, whom I had met at Lincoln School.  He suggested I get in touch with [[Koji Ariyoshi]], editor of the ''Honolulu Record'', a newspaper that was generally similar to the ''[[Chicago Star]]''."<ref>Frank Marshall Davis, ''Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet'', University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311.</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|I had also talked with [[Paul Robeson]] who the previous year had appeared there in a series of concerts sponsored by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), the most powerful labor organization in the territory.... I also wrote to [[Harry Bridges]], head of the ILWU, whom I had met at Lincoln School.  He suggested I get in touch with [[Koji Ariyoshi]], editor of the ''Honolulu Record'', a newspaper that was generally similar to the ''[[Chicago Star]]''."<ref>Frank Marshall Davis, ''Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet'', University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311.</ref>}}
   −
Robeson, Bridges<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=44cLamYUpWYC&pg=PA295&dq=harry+bridges%2Bhaynes#v=onepage&q=harry%20bridges%2Bhaynes&f=false The Cold War: Cold War espionage and spying], By Lori Lyn Bogle.</ref> and Ariyoshi were all Communist party operatives.  Davis was given a regular weekly column in the ''Honolulu Record'' entitled "Frankly Speaking."  When Davis' column first appeared in May 1949, the ''Record'' boasted he was a member of the national executive board of the [[Civil Rights Congress]], cited as a Communist subversive organization by [[Truman]] Attorney General [[Tom Clark]].  Under the sponsorship of the Civil Rights Congress, Davis signed a statement in defense of [[Gerhart Eisler]], the notorious [[Comintern]] agent who escaped jail by fleeing to [[East Germany]].
+
Robeson, Bridges<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=44cLamYUpWYC&pg=PA295&dq=harry+bridges%2Bhaynes#v=onepage&q=harry%20bridges%2Bhaynes&f=false The Cold War: Cold War espionage and spying], By Lori Lyn Bogle.</ref> and Ariyoshi were all Communist party operatives.  Davis was given a regular weekly column in the ''Honolulu Record'' entitled "Frankly Speaking."  When Davis' column first appeared in May 1949, the ''Record'' boasted he was a member of the national executive board of the [[Civil Rights Congress]], cited as a Communist subversive organization by [[Truman]] Attorney General [[Tom Clark]].  Under the sponsorship of the Civil Rights Congress, Davis signed a statement in defense of [[Gerhart Eisler]], the notorious [[Comintern]] agent who escaped jail for passport fraud by fleeing to [[East Germany]].
    
Edward Berman of the local chapter of the NAACP sent a letter in 1949 to the acting National Secretary of the [[NAACP]], [[Roy Wilkins]], stating
 
Edward Berman of the local chapter of the NAACP sent a letter in 1949 to the acting National Secretary of the [[NAACP]], [[Roy Wilkins]], stating
Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, move, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, protect, rollback, Administrators, template
293,665

edits

Navigation menu