NATIONAL OFFICERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS PRESIDENT ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE J. E. SPINGARN WALTER WHITE SECRETARY CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 69 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK ROY WILKINS DR. Louis T.WRIGHT ASSISTANT SECRETARY VICE-PRESIDENTS TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 4 3551 WILLIAM PICKENS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS DIRECTOR OF BRANCHES HON. ARTHUR CAPPER Official Organ: The Crisis BISHOP JOHN A. GREGG DAISY E. LAMPKIN REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES FIELD SECRETARY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON REV. A. CLAYTON POWELL CHARLES H. HOUSTON ARTHUR B. SPINGARN OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD SPECIAL COUNSEL WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING JUANITA E. JACKSON TREASURER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE MARY WHITE OVINGTON SECRETARY January 51, 1956

BOARD OF DIRECTOUS Atlanta A. T. Walden Dear Miss Flexner: Baltimore Carl Murphy Boston Joseph Prince Loud Cambridge, Mass Prof. Manley O. Hudson There are two questions on which I want Charleston, W.Va. T. G. Nutter your advice, which I hope you will be willing to Chicago Clarence Darrow Rev. Joseph W. Nicholson Hon. Harry E. Davis give: Cleveland L. Pearl Mitchell L. H. Lightner Denver Hon. Ira W. Jayne Detroit Hon. Frank Murphy I talked yesterday with Mrs. Theresa Mayer William Allen White Emporia, Kas. Grace B. Fenderson Duriach who, with her mother, made a pledge in 1919 Newark, N. J. Lillian A. Alexander Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop to contribute twenty-five dollars a year to the New York Marion Cuthbert Hubert T. Delany Association as long as lynching continued, which Rachel Davis Du Bois Lewis S. Gannett pledge they have kept- Recently I told Mrs. Duriach Rev. John Haynes Holmes Dr. William Lloyd lines of Governor Lehman*s generous offer, and she asked James Weldon Johnson Hon. Herbert H. Lehman me to come in and talk with her after she had had a Col. Arthur W. Little James Marshall talk with her mother. When went in she told me Mary White Ovington Arthur B. Spingarn that she and her mother have so many heavy commit- J. E. Spingarn Charles H. Studin ments that they do not feel that they can increase Hon. Charles E. Toney Frances Williams their contribution to as much as $1,000. a. year but Dr. Louis T. Wright that they will increase it to five hundred a. year Northampton, Dr. William Allan Neilson Mass. and maybe a little more. Oklahoma City Roscoe Dunjee Philadelphia Isadore Martin St. Louis Sidney R. Redmond Mrs. Duriach asked me if I thought Governor Springfield, Mass. Rev. William N. DeBerry Topeka, Kas. Hon. Arthur Capper Lehman would consider it a legitimate meeting of his Waco, Texas R. D. Evans Washington Sterling A. Brown offer if she got some friend to give the difference Charles Edward Russell between $1,000. and the amount which she and her NATIONAL LEGAL, COMMITTEE mother give. I told her that I questioned whether Chairman Arthur B. Spingarn Governor -i-»ehman would consider this a strict meeting Chicago Clarence Darrow Edward H. Morris of the terms of his offer but that I would find out Cambridge, Mass. Felix Frankfurter from you. What do you think? Charleston, W.Va. T. G. Nutter Columbia, S. C. N. J. Frederick New York Morris L. Ernst Arthur Garfleld Hays Ihe second question on which 1 want your Charles H. Houston Karl N. Llewellyn opinion is this: James Marshall Herbert K. Stockton Charles H. Studin Pittsburgh, Pa. Homer S. Brown A friend of mine has told me that Mr. and Toledo, Ohio Jesse S. Heslip Washington,D.C. William H. Hastio Mrs. Benjamin J. Buttenweiser are generous givers to Wilmington, Del. Louis L. Redding various causes and would be interested, my friend thought, in the work the N.A. A.C.P. is doing. But, if I am not mistaken, Mrs. Buttenweiser is Governor Lehman's niece, isn1t she? Would there be any impropriety, in your opinion, in my asking to see the Buttenweisers, inasmuch as Governor Lehman is the one who made the offer? If you do not think it unwise, could you suggest

27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, BALTIMORE, MD., JUNE 30th - JULY 5th, 1936 ENDORSED BY THE NATIONAL INFORMATION BUREAU. 215 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK How do your Senators and Congressmen stand on the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill? Miss Caroline M. Flexner - 2

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