Other people who are incorrectly called-and sometimes call themselves-?liberals? support the Bill of Rights, as long as it supports their rights and not those of their adversaries (whether real or imagined). There have been major controversies in the American Civil Liberties Union when some of its members-the people who are actually true liberals, not just those who call themselves by that name-have suggested that the Constitution applies to all people within America, as it does, and not just this or that group. The pseudo-liberals have suggested that anything which contradicts their beliefs is not to be heard.
All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men
(or, The Deceptive Name-Game)
America’s communists, socialists, and other subversives have brought about changes-changes to take away certain rights from people-that have assisted this nation in its spiral downwards. In order to take away those rights-the freedom and rights that have been created in the U.S.-the people who advocate communism or its twin brother, socialism, have had to use sheer trickery. It is by this same trickery that communist and socialist organizations have created deceptive names in order to camouflage their innermost desires. Very few communist or socialist organizations that have existed in the U.S. are as open about their beliefs to actually use the word ?socialist? or ?communist? in their names as UC’s International Socialist Organization. Oddly enough, some of the people who were socialists or communists are revered in today’s society, although most of them have become either obscure or forgotten. Let us examine these people, who have been operating in America for some time, and their deceptive measures.
In the year 1938, several people-James Dombrowski, Aubrey Williams, Carl Braden, and Anne Braden-were busy at work in the United States of America. For instance, James Dombrowski was working as the administrator of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW).84 That sounds like an honorable organization. Everyone likes the idea of helping people-that is, ?human welfare?-and some places in the South (and the North, for that matter) are in definite need of it.
Oftentimes, things are not quite as good as they sound. It turns out that the SCHW was a communist front. Paul Crouch, an admitted communist from 1925 to 1942 who was one of the founders of the SCHW, identified the purpose of the organization before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee: The SCHW, said Crouch, ?was intended to lead to class hatred and race hatred, dividing class against class and race against race.? The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee voiced similar findings: ?[The SCHW] was conceived, financed, and set up by the Communist Party in 1938 to promote communism in the southern states.?85
The communists who formed the SCHW realized their mistake. They needed to do something to get rid of the bad image that their organization had from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. They decided upon a simple solution-namely, to change the SCHW’s name.
They decided to call it the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). That sounds good. After all, everyone is for funding education, and there are schools in the South that could use a bit more money. The communists always did have a knack for disguising their evil intentions.
They changed the name of their outfit, but not much else; their address, publication, and phone number-along with most of the officers-remained the same. Dombrowski continued to work as the administrator of the ?new? organization, the SCEF. Board member Aubrey Williams and field secretaries Carl and Anne Braden-all of whom were identified as communists-continued to serve the SCHW with the its new name, the SCEF.86
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee eventually called the SCEF what it was: ?a communist transmission belt for the South.?87 It is not too surprising to discover that when, on October 5, 1963, the local and state police raided the SCEF office in New Orleans, quantities of communist literature were seized.88 The SCEF was notorious for its communist affiliation.
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s African-American friends, became the head of the SCEF. Apparently, he had the qualifications that the SCEF wanted: ?former convict.?89 Later, Shuttlesworth formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which King led during the boycott of buses in Alabama.
There was one more person involved with the SCEF who deserves particular attention-namely, Martin Luther King, Jr. King spoke for the New York Friends of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. When people wanted to see the conference, they were told to make reservations through William Howard Melish, who was identified by the government informant Louis Budenz as a communist.90 That, in itself, is hardly worth mentioning, but the story does not end there. Pay close attention now.
There were other organizations in America that were similar to the SCEF. The Highlander Folk School shares a legacy similar to that of the SCEF: Both organizations were formed from other organizations that were previously cited by the government as being communist organizations. (Those commies-they always were the clever ones at playing musical chairs, moving to different locations and changing the names of their organizations whenever someone turned over their rock.)
In 1932, James Dombrowski, the same fellow who was responsible for the formation of the SCHW and SCEF, and Myles Horton-both of whom were self-admitting communists-formed the Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas. Eventually, the government discovered that the organization was communist. (The sickle-and-hammer flag, which was prominently displayed, gave the communists away.) The attorney general said the Commonwealth College was a communist front and fined it $2,500 ?for violating the sedition statute of the state of Arkansas.?91
The faculty of the Commonwealth College decided it was time to move on down the road. They packed up their bags and moved to Monteagle, Tennessee, and formed the Highlander Folk School. Besides the communists Horton and Dombrowski, there were a few other communists who worked at the Highlander. For instance, Don West, who was the district director of the Communist Party from North Carolina, and Aubrey Williams, an identified communist, participated in the school’s operation.92
Aubrey Williams has an interesting history. Much like Shuttlesworth, Williams was president of the SCEF at one time, too. In 1963, he became national chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities (NCAHCUA).93 (Our American government, at one time, had an organization called the House Committee on Un-American Activities [HCUA], which investigated, simply put, un-American activities.) The people who formed the NCAHCUA probably thought that it was amusing to form an organization to abolish the HCUA, which was investigating the subversive activities of some of the members of the NCAHCUA. The American government did not think that was too funny; the Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities was cited for what it was: ?a communist front.?94 Martin Luther King, Jr., was associated with the National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities.95
Obviously, the Highlander Folk School was one of those schools that gave its students a special kind of education. With James Dombrowski and his collaborators-Myles Horton, Don West, and Aubrey Williams-they decided to help educate the people of Tennessee. Although some people in Tennessee may have needed an education, there appeared to be an ulterior motive for the education given by the Highlander Folk School. Subjects like English and math were not even taught there, which might make you wonder what was taught at the ?school.?
There were some well-known people who attended the Highlander Folk School and either received or gave the students their special education. For example, Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who started all the controversy surrounding the busing-boycott mentioned in the chapter A Man Named Michael, just happened to go there. She attended the Highlander Folk School for a considerable period of time and received the education offered by the Highlander Folk School.96 It appears that the busing-system incident had some interesting characters working behind the scenes.
The busing incident helped pave the way for the preferential treatment that African-Americans receive today. Under the rallying banner of communism, the adherents fought for special treatment for African-Americans. That is what communism has always meant-namely, people given things that they would not normally merit by their own capabilities.97 There is no doubt that there were ulterior motives for the protests.
Of course, Rosa Parks, a former secretary for the NAACP denied any plans, which were probably discussed in intricate detail at the Highlander, about why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was formed. ?I don’t really know why I wouldn’t move,? said Rosa Parks. ?There was no plot or plan at all? (emphasis added).98 Could Rosa have been lying? Could there have been a ?plot or plan?? Let us take a look at the past history of the Highlander Folk School, which she attended.
Horton, West, Williams, Dombrowski-all known communists-were involved with the Highlander Folk School. And, of course, Rosa Parks had attended the Highlander, too. Guess who else was involved with the Highlander Folk School? Martin Luther King, Jr. (His name just keeps popping up.) King gave a speech at the Highlander Folk School in 1957.99 On March 28, 1965, when asked by Lawrence Spivak on the television show Meet the Press about the incident, King admitted that he was ?there? and ?made a 45 minute speech.?100 Of course, it would not have done him too much good to deny his association with the Highlander Folk School, since a photograph of him was taken while he was there.
Why would Martin Luther King, Jr., be at the
Footnotes
1 Louise Quayle et al., Martin Luther King, Jr.: Dreams for a Nation (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989), p. 9.
2 Congressional Record (May 16, 1968), p.E4309.
3 Quayle et al., Martin Luther King, Jr., p.12. Little Mike’s family obtained their wealth by selling stock in a Mexican mine that was reportedly ?fake, pure and simple,? said a writer for the Black newspaper Atlanta Independent in 1909. The Independent’s writer suggested that ?many thousands of poor Negroes are being defrauded throughout the state? by Daddy. Theodore Pappas, ?A Houdini of Time,? Chronicles (November 1992), p. 27.
4 Quayle et al., Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 12.
5 Quayle et al., Martin Luther King, Jr., p.14.
6 Quayle et al., Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 14.
7 Quayle et al., Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 16. Some people still continued to address Martin Luther King, Jr., as ?Mike? into the latter part of the 1950s. Keith D. Miller, Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Its Sources (New York: Free Press, 1992), p. 175.
8 Clayborne Carson, Malcolm X: The F.B.I. File (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1991), p. 22.
9 Congressional Record (May 16, 1968), p. E4309. Although King was intelligent for his age, the scores he attained on the Graduate Record Exam were-to put it mildly-not too good. King’s scores were below average in English and vocabulary. His other scores were similar: King scored in the bottom 33 percent on his advanced philosophy test; and his score in quantitative analysis was even lower, being in the lowest 10 percent. Theodore Pappas, ?A Houdini of Time,? Chronicles (November 1992), p. 28.
10 Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), p. E4783.
11 Congressional Record (May 16, 1968), p. E4309.
12 Congressional Record (May 16, 1968), p. E4309.
13 Chronicles of the 20th Century (Prentice Hall Trade, 1987), p. 780. At another time, King reportedly suggested that parts of plantations that were owned by whites should be given to blacks by the government. Armando B. Rendon, Chicano Manifesto: The History and Aspirations of the Second Largest Minority in America (New York: Collier Books, 1971), pp. 160-161.
14 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
15 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13007. The late Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter said, ?If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. One cannot preach nonviolence and, at the same time, advocate defiance of the law, whether it be a court order, a municipal ordinance, or a state or federal statute. For to defy the law is to invite violence, especially in a tense atmosphere involving many hundreds or thousands of people. To invite violence is to endanger one’s own life. And one cannot live dangerously always.? Congressional Record (April 18, 1968), p. E3062.
16 Congressional Record (October 12, 1965), p. A5739.
17 Congressional Record (April 11, 1967), p. A1743.
18 The Cincinnati Post (January 30, 1993), p. 2A
19 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13009, citing the Chicago Tribune (June 30, 1967).
20 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
21 Congressional Record (August 22, 1966), p. A4416.
22 Congressional Record (August 22, 1966), p. A4416.
23 Congressional Record (August 22, 1966), p. A4416.
24 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
25 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008-Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio, citing the Baltimore Sun (July 10, 1966).
26 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
27 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
28 Congressional Record (May 16, 1968), p. E4312.
29 Congressional Record (May 16, 1968), p. E4311.
30 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13009.
31 Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), p. E4786.
32 Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), p. E4786.
33 Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), p. E4786.
34 Congressional Record (November 17, 1967), p. H15539.
35 Congressional Record (November 17, 1967), p. H15539.
36 Congressional Record (November 17, 1967), p. H15539.
37 Congressional Record (November 17, 1967), p. H15539.
38 Congressional Record (November 17, 1967), p. H15539.
39 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
40 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13008.
41 Carson, Malcolm X, p. 26.
42 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13005.
43 Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), p. E4786.
44 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13015, citing Chicago Tribune (September 6, 1967).
45 Congressional Record, October 4, 1967, p. H13007.
46 Congressional Record, October 4, 1967, p. H13007.
47 Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), pp. E4786, E4788; citing Louisiana Legislative Committee Hearings, Part II (March 6-9, 1957), pp. 203-208.
48 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13006. In one of King’s works, he went to the extent of using Lenin’s rhetoric: ?We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, lawbreaking. . . .? Keith D. Miller, Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Its Sources (New York: Free Press, 1992), p. 102.
49 Congressional Record (June 15, 1967), p. S8277.
50 Congressional Record (July 12, 1967), p. H8580.
51 Congressional Record (October 4, 1967), p. H13007.
52 Congressional Record (September 13, 1965), p. [S]22708. King was always getting arrested. When King was arrested for the fourteenth time, the police charged him with trespassing, intent to breach the peace, and conspiracy. Congressional Record (May 29, 1968), p. E4785. Many other groups have used the ?police brutality? complaints after committing violence. The neo-Muslims have a book called Police Brutality. In it, there is a discussion of how police want nothing more to do than beat up innocent blacks and other statements made to anger blacks. The book quotes a speech that Elijah Muhammad once gave: ?The brutality-POLICE BRUTALITY-against the so-called American Negro throughout America, from Gulf to Border and from coast to coast, in every city and town and village in America, and on the highways of America, we meet with this same enemy. A free force, a free enemy to go about over the country wherever he may find a Negro to try to provoke him in order to pour upon him beatings and death.? Nasir Makr Hakim, ed., Police Brutality (Cleveland: Secretarius, 1992), p. 3. With anger-inciting comments like that, is it any wonder that some African-Americans have such a bitter hatred towards the police? (Hakim, the editor of the former book that is a compilation of speeches given by the late-Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, has also written some other anger-inciting books, like Is God an Anti-Semite Too?) The Communist Party, U.S.A., has used similar tactics. In a report issued by the FBI, it mentions some early activities of how the communists attempted ?to fan the flames of discontent among the American people? during the Los Angeles riots of August 11-14, 1965. The report says that ?special efforts were to be made [by the Communist Party, U.S.A.] to play up the `police brutality’ angle.? 1967 FBI Appropriation; Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, Before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations, February 10, 1966, p. 46. The New York City police commissioner said that when the ?police try to stop? riots, the rioters ?just yell `brutality.’ This is the pattern.? Edward Banfield, The Un-Heavenly City Revisited (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974), p. 220.