Viewing page 24 of 100

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

FREEDOMWAYS                               THIRD QUARTER 1973

Davis, communist councilman in New York, was also sealed by the red fever. The proportional representation last in operation in New York City since 1937 was changed for the 1949 city elections. The new procedure established district voting. Davis' district was so designated as to insure his defeat. Ewart Guinier, now professor at Harvard in Black Studies and a candidate for Manhattan Borough President on the American Labor Party in 1949, says one motivation for changing the law was to eliminate Davis from office. Sadly, but correctly, the positions of the CIO, the NAACP, leaders like Randolph, and the defeat of Davis represented the temper of the times. A temper that did much to promote the persecution of two of the giants in the black liberation struggle, Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. In a very real sense, their cases at this juncture in American history symbolize the absolute connection between the undermining of the black liberation struggle and the promotion and 
of a political ideology solely founded on anti-communism. ___________________
  [[/italic font]][[To be continued in next issue of]] FREEDOMWAYS.

                       REFERENCES

1 W. E. B. Du Bois, [[/italic font]][[In Battle for 
  peace,]] Masses and Mainstream, New York, 1952, p. 163.
2 Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, [[/italic font]] 
  [[Labor's Untold Story.]] Marzani and Munsell, New York, 
  1965, p. 351
3 Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager, A [[/Italic 
  font]][[Pocket History of the United States,]] Washington 
  Square Press, New York, 1956, p. 502 
4 Gabriel Kolko, [[/italic font]][[The Roots of American 
  Foreign Policy,]] Beacon Press, Boston, 1969, p. 70.
5 Boyer and Morais, [[/italic font]][[op. cit.,]] quoted 
  in, p. 343 
6 Cheryl Payer, "American Power and ITs Frustrations," 
  [[/italic font]][[Monthly Review,]] New York, MArch 1973, 
  p. 59.  
7 Richard M. Freeland, The [[/italic font]][[ The Truman 
  Doctrine and The Origins of McCarthyism,]] Alfred Knopf, 
  Inc., New York, 1970, quoted in, pp. 84-85.
8 [[/italic font]][[Ibid.,]] p. 87.
9 [[/italic font]][[Ibid.,]] p. 99-100. 
10[[/italic font]][[Ibid.,]] p. 166.
11[[/italic font]][[Ibid.,]] p. 193. 
12[[/italic font]][[Ibid.,]] p. 201.
13[[/italic font]][[Ibid.,]] p. 210.
14J.H. O'Dell, "A Rock in a Weary Lau'," [[/italic font]] 
  [[Freedomways,]] New York, Vol. 11, No.1, p. 39.
15Fred J. Cook, [[/italic font]][[ The Nightmare Decade: 
  The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy,]] Random House, New 
  York, 1971, p.62.
16Freeland, [[/italic font]][[op. cit.,]] pp. 215-216.

198