Replies

Thanks> I forgot the name Myles Horton. He was the day-to-day manager of the Center while Dombrowski and Grossman provided guidance from the Party.

Don’t remember if Horton ever was identified as a Party member but the Communist Party wouldn’t have entrusted such an important recruiting and training school to someone they couldn’t trust.

Just for a history factoid. The last time I saw Carl and Anne Braden was 50 years ago this month at another CPUSA anti-intelligence front conference in DC, that of the National Committee to Abolish HUAC, which was changed at the meeting to NCAHISC.

I even carried some newspapers (The Patriot) for Carl to Union Station. Anne stayed around at the conference. She later went on to become a major Party leader in other southern operations and some black extremist fronts in North Carolina. Gotta hand it to her, she was a fireball, for the Soviets.

Donald West was a cofounder of Highlander: West was often accused of being a Communist,[3] but he denied it. In an interview with the Southern Oral History Program, he said, "I have never been a card carrying, dues paying member of the communist party... But I have worked closely with people whom I knew to be communist. And I would never red-bait."[4] He devoted himself to writing, lectures, and social causes. These included the defense of Angelo Herndon. He was also an organizational director of the Kentucky Workers Alliance. West later worked in churches in Ohio and Georgia, taught and became a public school superintendent, and eventually joined the faculty of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Forced to leave Oglethorpe during the period of Red-baiting, he continued to edit religious publications and teach creative writing. He testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in Memphis, Tennessee. He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee but never testified. In the 1940s, his collection of poetry, Clods of Southern Earth, became a literary phenomenon when it sold tens of thousands of copies. He appeared as the character "Tod North" in Clancy Sigal's novel Going Away(1961).