Stanley Levison

Stanley Levison

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.

Friend of Filner

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

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.

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:

• Moe Foner, Executive Director
• Miriam Colon
• Ossie Davis
• Ruby Dee
• Madeline Gilford
• Jack Golodner
• Micki Grant
• Herbert H. Gutman
• Michael Harrington
• Patricia Hills
• Irving Howe
• Harold Leventhal
• Stanley Levison
• Harold Lewis
• Eve Merriam
• Walter Rosenblum
• John Schultz
• Brendan Sexton
• Piri Thomas
• Arthur Waldhorm

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