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*[[Mary McLeod Bethune]]
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Subsidiary Communist fronts created by American Youth for Democracy, include Sweethearts of Service Men, Friends of the Campus, and World Federation of Democratic Youth.
Subsidiary Communist fronts created by American Youth for Democracy, include Sweethearts of Service Men, Friends of the Campus, and World Federation of Democratic Youth.
In 1944 the [[Dies Committee]] cited the American Youth for Democracy as the new name under which the Young Communist League operated. It was again cited by the Committee in 1947 as a front formed for the purpose of exploiting to the advantage of a foreign power the idealism, inexperience, and craving to join which is characteristic of American college youth. It's "high sounding slogans" cover "a determined effort to disaffect our youth and to turn them against [[religion]], the American home, against the college authorities, and against the American Government itself." [[Truman]] Attorney General [[Tom Clark]] cited the American Youth for Democracy as [[subversive]] and [[Communist]]. It was redesignated on April 27 1953 pursuant to Executive Order No. 10450.<ref>Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senate William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20 1953, reproduced in ''Who Was Frank Marshall Davis?'', Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein. pp. 12-14.</ref>
==Barack Obama==
==Barack Obama==