Report and letters, 1956; 1971 [manuscript].

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Report and letters, 1956; 1971 [manuscript].

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Report made by Douty as part of a study done under the auspices of the Fund for the Republic, 1955-1956, concerning the Communist influence in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in the 1930s and 1940s; and five letters written in 1971 pertaining to the report, including a detailed letter from William T. Couch, an active participant in the SCHW.

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Douty, Kenneth.

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In 1955 Kenneth Douty wrote a report for the Fund for the Republic as part of its larger project examining the activities of American Communists. The focus of Douty's study was the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW). His study was part of an examination of Communist infiltration of ideological pressure groups (the NAACP, ACLU, etc.). The study was headed by John Roche, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Douty was assisted in his study by F...

Fund for the Republic

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The Fund for the Republic originated with a 15 million-dollar grant from the Ford Foundation, and its primary mission at the outset was to award grants and fellowships to individuals and organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee and the Southern Region Conference. The Fund also sponsored projects on such topics as academic freedom, American traditions, blacklisting, censorship, civil liberties, due process, educational activities, extremist groups, foreign policy,...

Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988

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William Terry Couch was director of the University of North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of Chicago Press, 1945-1950; editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Yearbooks, 1952-1959; editor of the American Oxford Encyclopedia, 1959-1963; and co-director of the Center for American Studies in Burlingame, Calif., 1963-1964. From the description of William T. Couch papers, 1926-1988. WorldCat record id: 27190223 Publisher. From the descrip...

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formed in 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama to promote civil liberties and to combat economic problems in the South by expanding the New Deal to attack southern poverty. The organization campaigned against the poll tax, allied itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, held interracial meetings, and followed a "popular front" strategy which allowed Communists membership in SCHW. This policy led to charges of Communist influence, a factor ...