Stanley Levison

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Communist Party "financial angel"

Levison's role as Communist Party USA "financial angel" is believed to have begun in 1945 or '46. According to the FBI, in 1953, or early 1954 Levinson began assisting in the management of the Party's finances. When Party treasurer William Weiner died in 1954, Levinson became the interim chief administrator of the party's highly secret funds. In this capacity he created business fronts to earn and launder money for the Party.^[1]

Secret communist

One group of secret Communists in the United States was led by Arthur Kinoy, a radical lawyer who ended his long career as a distinguished professor at Rutgers Law School, and included Dr. Jeremiah Stamler, a pioneering cardiologist at Northwestern Medical School, whose lawsuit marked one of the first successful challenges to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). And Stanley Levison, a key aide and supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr..

Eugene Dennis told Morris Childs in 1958 that the Levison “group,” active in the NAACP and the American Jewish Congress, still provided money from party businesses it controlled to a New York functionary and activist, the African-American Communist leader Benjamin J. Davis.^[2]

Friend of Filner

Joseph Filner was a close friend and business associate of secret Communist Party USA member, Stanley Levison.^[3]

Meeting MLK

Ella J. Baker and her fellow African-American civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin introduced secret Communist Party USA member Stanley Levison to to Martin Luther King, Jr. A special relationship developed; from the late 1950s until King's death, in 1968, it was without a doubt King's closest friendship with a white person. In December of 1956 and January of 1957 Levison served as Rustin's primary sounding board as Rustin drew up the founding-agenda documents for what came to be called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference^[4].

Like Rustin, Levison, and Baker, King and a network of his southern African-American ministerial colleagues hoped that the SCLC could leverage the success of the Montgomery bus boycott into a South-wide attack on segregation and racial discrimination.

District 1199 Cultural Center

In 1982 Advisers to the District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc. New York were:^[5]

References

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↑ African Americans and Jews in the twentieth century: studies in convergence By Vincent P. Franklin, page 110
↑ The Weekly Standard, Childs at Play The FBI’s Cold War triumph. SEP 5, 2011, VOL. 16, NO. 47 • BY HARVEY KLEHR AND JOHN EARL HAYNES & RONALD RADOSH
↑ African Americans and Jews in the twentieth century: studies in convergence By Vincent P. Franklin, page 109
↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200207/garrow
↑ District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc. letterhead 1982

[1] African Americans and Jews in the twentieth century: studies in convergence By Vincent P. Franklin, page 110

[2] The Weekly Standard, Childs at Play The FBI’s Cold War triumph. SEP 5, 2011, VOL. 16, NO. 47 • BY HARVEY KLEHR AND JOHN EARL HAYNES & RONALD RADOSH

[3] African Americans and Jews in the twentieth century: studies in convergence By Vincent P. Franklin, page 109

[4] ttp://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200207/garrow

[5] District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc. letterhead 1982

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