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Informant advised that he had received information that a notice of a meeting of
special importance to members of the Midtown Communist Club had been preparedc
These notices were to be mailed only to members of the club who would probablymake a contribution to the club» The Sufject was to receive one of these noticeso
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 12/19/O7 BY
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_ JAMES FER, CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY /1" HOSEA WILLIAMS, STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING; ,.~ 91 - /I COMMITTEE - . R,/ I
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- |:| Office of Congressman George W. Andrews Dflabama!,
contacted your office yesterday regarding captioned individuals and in yourgabs/encespoke to| Iinquired as to whether or not we could gi eiyhimu any guidance concerning the background of captioned individuals, particularly that ofa public source nature. 2-,. , _ "I;6'1 .
INFORMATION IN BUFILES: 4
James Farmer, National Director of Congress Of Racial Eq=a1ity
CORE!, was born in Marshall, Texas, on 1-12-20. He received his B. S. degree in
chemistry from Wiley College and later enrolled in the School of Religion of Howard
University, Washington, D. C. , to prepare for the Methodist ministry. He allegedly . '_received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1941, but declined ordination. He is antlll
advocate of nonviolent resistance in racial matters. He was one of the 13 Freedom @92, {*5
Riders aboard the Greyhound Bus which was burned in Anniston, Alabama, in May, IQQIE,
He has been arrested several times in connection with his racial activities. Iiidicati<5Ti»-.35.-,,§92are that Farmer has been anticommui1.&i%'V, dhas directed his efforts toward preventiinmJcommunist infiltration or dOm1H&t10 / 1/ Os-A .¢~ D7 L/Q Q I --
' Farmer has been critical of the FBI and the Director on certain occasi onsg~!§
in the past. Late in November, 1964, Farmer made a demand with other Negro civilg rights leaders that the Director resign his position because of his alleged vei~l[i%tta. ~92 $3
against civil rights groups. Farmer has also been irresponsible in some of/s atementsregarding FBI jurisdiction. While making a speech at Hollywood, Florida ; in July, ,. 9292 §.§
1964, he claimed that he and other civil rights leaders were on an assassination list '
and that the FBI had undertaken to protect him and some other civil rightstgrusaders in ytheir travels through some areas. This, of cours,e_,_ was no;;n;w& has been . >-
informed many times you, Mr. DeLoach, that Lthlé jFd>BI,camiot offer him protectior.and we ha,veiineMe;§;c1§§>n1§¢;this for him in the past. fl Es; ygyp 12 1955 yl. Cw CD 015$? __. | Q, . ._"'I,u>g:§> Q;hection with his tmfair criticism in NO r, ~196uW}.
5. DeLoach, hi_m on 12-1-64, here at FBI Headquarters regarding some o' .§lne AK - _ been attributed to him and Martin Luther King. At thee ii -of -
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N |has been very active in the Mississippi Project as well as other racial,' A _._1 ' a 1
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M. A, Jones to DeLoach Memo b6
re: JAMES FARMER, HOSEA WILLlAMS MC
your discussion with him, he claimed he wanted to part as friends and he hoped the
pleasant relationship he enjoys with you would continue at which time he was assured
that this could only be possible as long as his unfair criticism ceased, On 12-=-4-6%;
after the civil rights arrests in Mississippi that day, NBC special television coverage
included an interview with Farmer at which time he was very complimentary about the
FBI in comiection with its workrin civil rights cases in Mississippi, including the
Beckwith case- and the Penn case in Georgia,
Reverend Hosea Lorenzo Williams has been very active in the integration
movement in the South, particularly in the field of voter registration. Williams was
very active in such matters as President of the Chatham County Crusade for Voters in
1962 and 1963, at which time he was allegedly employed as a chemist with the Depart-
ment of Agriculture while residing in Thunderbolt, Georgia, It is understood that
Williams, in connection with his voter registration activities, has been in touch with
the" Department of Justice on several occasions regarding alleged election law violations,
_ Williams name came up today in connection with the murder of Viola
Gregg Liuzo last night in Alabama while traveling between Selma and Montgomery, It
appears that Williams was one of the first persons to be contacted by Le_Roy Moton, the
20-year=-old colored boy who was traveling with Mrs, Liuézo at the time she was
murdered. Williams told the reporters about what Moton related concerning the shooting
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matters throughout the Southo He was born| g 4 |He has been
arrested approximately two dozen times in connection with racial matters I |
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has been a critic of the FBI and has publicly come out for a Federal police force with the
power to investigate local police agencies allegedly engaged in brutality, He sent a
protest to the Attorney General in August, 1963, relative to the arrest of three civil rights
workers in Albany, Georgia, Numerous attempts to interview him proved futile and
eventually he advised he was not available for interview and we learned that his complaint
was based on hearsay, While speaking at a rally in California in December, 1963, he
stayed at the home of the welleknown communist leader, Frank Wilkinson,
Congressman George W, Andrews has been a good friend to the Bureau, for
many years and we have had frequent contacts with him in matters of mutual interest;
RECOMMENDATION; That a representative of your office contact Co essman Andrews
and inform him of the above public source data relative to Farmer,}|:|and Williams.
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JAMES RMER, CONGRESS or RACIAL E , UALI p yHOSEA WILLIAMS, STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDIN/ii}?! 3-
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captioned as above, wherein it was recommended and approved that We contact
.» the Office of Congressman George W. Andrews DAlabama! to confidentiall t
furnish him public source data included in referenced memorandum about
captioned individuals. ~
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A _ _ |;|_lthei_1 stated that while he was not at liberty to identify this t M specific commi ee e did know that Mr. Hoover had recently estified of the A
record before a Congressional Committee to the effect that King's speeches; are
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RE: James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality
has "leaked" back to Alabama and the Congressman is being pressured to obtain
same in greater detail.
s told that by Departmental order information in the
files of the FBI is confidential and can be released only by the Attorney General.
He indicated consideration would be given to possibly requesting a report on King
from the Attorney General.
RECOMMENDATION:
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