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'''Communist Party Supporters''' who were sponsors of the [[Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace]] as listed in the ''Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace'' which was published by the [[Committee on Un-American Activities]], U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., on April 19, 1949.<ref name=cua>[http://keywiki.org/files/sccwp-cuaa-1949.pdf Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace] by the [[Committee on Un-American Activities]], U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949</ref>

==Supported by the Communist Party USA==
''The following sponsors of the [[SCCWP]] were supported by the [[Communist Party USA]]''
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*[[Herbert J. Biberman]]
*[[Lillian Hellman]]
*[[Lester Cole]]
*[[Robert W. Kenny]]
*[[W. E. B. DuBois]]
*[[Joshua Kunitz]]
*[[Albert Einstein]]
*[[Corliss Lamont]]
*[[Howard Fast]]
*[[Ring Lardner]]
*[[Arthur Gaeth]]
*[[John Howard Lawson]]
*[[Robert Gwathmey]]
*[[Albert Maltz]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]
*[[O. John Rogge]]
*[[Ben Shahn]]
*[[Agnes Smedley]]
*[[Dalton Trumbo]]
*[[Harry F. Ward]]
*[[Ella Winter]]
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==Supported by Individual Communists==
''The following sponsors of the [[SCCWP]] were supported by individual Communists''
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*[[Louis Adamic]]
*[[Albert Einstein]]
*[[Herbert J. Biberman]]
*[[Howard Fast]]
*[[Lester Cole]]
*[[Ring Lardner]]
*[[Norman Corwin]]
*[[Albert Maltz]]
*[[Muriel Draper]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]
*[[W. E. B. DuBois]]
*[[O. John Rogge]]
*[[Harlow Shapley]]
*[[Agnes Smedley]]
*[[Dalton Trumbo]]
*[[Ella Winter]]
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==Communist Party Members==
The following were either avowed members of the [[Communist Party USA]] or their membership cards or party affiliations have been made part of a sworn public record.
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*[[Herbert J. Biberman]]
*[[Barbara Giles]]
*[[A. B. Magil]]
*[[Richard O. Boyer]]
*[[William Gropper]]
*[[Albert Maltz]]
*[[Edwin Berry Burgum]]
*[[Langston Hughes]]
*[[Carey McWilliams]]
*[[J. Edward Bromberg]]
*[[Albert E. Kahn]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]
*[[Allan Chase]]
*[[Alfred Kreymborg]]
*[[Howard Selsam]]
*[[Lester Cole]]
*[[Ring Lardner]]
*[[Samuel Sillen]]
*[[Howard Fast]]
*[[John Howard Lawson]]
*[[Dalton Trumbo]]
*[[Will Geer]]
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The authors of the review observed:
:''"In the light of the conspiratorial nature of the Communist Party, the current practice of concealing party membership in most cases, and the numerous front affiliations of some of these sponsors, it is reasonable to assume that many more are secret party members."''<ref name=cua/>

==Supporters==

===Signer of Communist Party nominating petition===
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*[[Charles Christopher Adams]]
*[[James Dugan]]
*[[Shirley Graham]]
*[[Gregory Ain]]
*[[Robert Ellis]]
*[[Abraham B. Magil]]
*[[Henry Blumberg]]
*[[Barbara Giles]]
*[[Rose Russell]]
*[[Stanley Cobb]]
*[[Margaret Halsey]]
*[[Edward L. Young]]
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===League of Professional Groups, supporting Communist Party elections===
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*[[Kyle Crichton]]
*[[Guy Endore]]
*[[J. Edward Bromberg]]
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===Call for the support of the Communist Party national elections and its candidates===
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*[[Adolf Dehn]]
*[[Matthew Josephson]]
*[[Edwin Seaver]]
*[[Langston Hughes]]
*[[Alfred Kreymborg]]
*[[Ella Winter]]
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===Open letter to President Roosevelt===
''The following were signatories to an open letter to President Roosevelt, protesting against an attack on the right of the [[Communist Party USA]] to use ballot.''
*[[Carey McWilliams]]
*[[Clyde R. Miller]]

==Statement to the President defending the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]==
''The following were signatories to the statement, dated March 5, 1941.''
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*[[Thomas Addis]]
*[[John A. Kingsbury]]
*[[Marc Blitzstein]]
*[[Philip Klein]]
*[[Antoinette Cannon]]
*[[Corliss Lamont]]
*[[Aaron Copland]]
*[[Donald G. Lothrop]]
*[[Henry Pratt Fairchild]]
*[[Albert Maltz]]
*[[Joseph Fletcher]]
*[[Elizabeth McCausland]]
*[[Georgia Harkness]]
*[[Jack R. McMichael]]
*[[Pearl Hart]]
*[[Clyde R. Miller]]
*[[Ernest R. Hilgard]]
*[[Clifford Odets]]
*[[W. A. Hunton]]
*[[John P. Peters]]
*[[Rockwell Kent]]
*[[Walter Rautenstrauch]]
*[[Bertha C. Reynolds]]
*[[Wallingford Riegger]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]
*[[Howard Selsam]]
*[[Herman Shumlin]]
*[[Bernhard J. Stern]]
*[[Dirk J. Struik]]
*[[Eda Lou Walton]]
*[[Harry F. Ward]]
*[[Colston E. Warne]]
*[[Evans A. Worthley]]
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==Statement defending [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]==
''The following were signatories to the statements.''

===April 16, 1947===
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*[[Zlatko Balokovic]]
*[[Jo Davidson]]
*[[Adolf Dehn]]
*[[Libby Holman]]
*[[Matthew Josephson]]
*[[John Howard Lawson]]
*[[Thomas Mann]]
*[[F. O. Matthiessen]]
*[[Artur Schnabel]]
*[[Frederick L. Schuman]]
*[[Agnes Smedley]]
*[[Harry F. Ward]]
*[[Max Weber]]
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===April 20, 1947===
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*[[Zlatko Balokovic]]
*[[Samuel L. M. Barlow]]
*[[Jo Davidson]]
*[[Adolf Dehn]]
*[[Henry Pratt Fairchild]]
*[[Howard Fast]]
*[[Libby Holman]]
*[[Matthew Josephson]]
*[[Garson Kanin]]
*[[John Howard Lawson]]
*[[Thomas Mann]]
*[[F. O. Matthiessen]]
*[[Artur Schnabel]]
*[[Frederick L. Schuman]]
*[[Agnes Smedley]]
*[[Harry F. Ward]]
*[[Max Weber]]
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=="We Negro Americans..." Defending the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]==
''The following were signatories of the statement.''

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*[[W. E. B. DuBois]]
*[[Edna Ruth Johnson]]
*[[Ira De A. Reid]]
*[[Elder G. Hawkins]]
*[[David D. Jones]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]
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==Miscellaneous activities in support of [[CPUSA]] or [[Young Communist League]]==
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*[[Herbert Aptheker]]
*[[Dashiell Hammett]]
*[[John O'Shaughnessy]]
*[[Mordecai Bauman]]
*[[Charles A. Hill]]
*[[Dorothy Parker]]
*[[Victor Bernstein]]
*[[Ira A. Hirschmann]]
*[[Linus Pauling]]
*[[Marc Blitzstein]]
*[[Lee Elbert Holt]]
*[[Helen Phillips]]
*[[Richard O. Boyer]]
*[[Alphaeus Hunton]]
*[[Abraham L. Pomerantz]]
*[[George D. Cannon]]
*[[David D. Jones]]
*[[Bertha C. Reynolds]]
*[[Jonah E. Caplan]]
*[[Albert E. Kahn]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]
*[[Aaron Copland]]
*[[Robert W. Kenny]]
*[[O. John Rogge]]
*[[Kyle Crichton]]
*[[Rockwell Kent]]
*[[Harold Rome]]
*[[Jerome Davis]]
*[[Alfred Kreymborg]]
*[[Norman Cazden]]
*[[Adolf Dehn]]
*[[Jacob Lawrence]]
*[[Rose Russell]]
*[[Earl B. Dickerson]]
*[[Kenneth Leslie]]
*[[Alexander Saxton]]
*[[Martha Dodd]]
*[[Jack Levine]]
*[[Howard Selsam]]
*[[W. E. B. DuBois]]
*[[Robert Morss Lovett]]
*[[Mitchell Siporin]]
*[[Jane Dudley]]
*[[Abraham B. Magil]]
*[[Kenneth Spencer]]
*[[James Dugan]]
*[[Albert Maltz]]
*[[Ernest Thurn]]
*[[Howard Fast]]
*[[Francis Otto Mathiessen]]
*[[Dalton Trumbo]]
*[[Sid Finkelstein]]
*[[Jack R. McMichael]]
*[[Mary Van Kleeck]]
*[[Clark Foreman]]
*[[Arthur Miller]]
*[[Henry A. Wallace]]
*[[Will Geer]]
*[[Clyde Miller]]
*[[Harry F. Ward]]
*[[Shirley Graham]]
*[[Clifford Odets]]
*[[Ella Winter]]
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==References==
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