The Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist,
Subversive, and Other organizations
November 16, 1950
(from
Ellen Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism, 1994)
To facilitate the
administration of the federal government’s loyalty-security program, Pres.
Truman authorized the attorney general to compile a list of those organizations
that constituted a threat to the nation’s security. . . In November 1947, the
attorney general sent the first list of 93 organizations ot the Loyalty Review
Board. Over the next few years, the Justistce Dept continued to add new names.
The list was out of date from the beginning. Many of the organization s on it
were already defunct. Most of the others soon disappeared, since the stigma
associated with the list usually made it impossible for the groups on it to
function.
[Under the heading "Totalitarian" were twenty-two defunct primarily Japanese organizations, among them such groups as the Black Dragon Society,the Hinomaru Kai (Rising Sun Flag Society, a group of Japanese war veterans), and the Japanese Protective Association. The heading "Fascist" contained twenty-two listings of mainly German, Italian, or fascist groups such as the American National Socialist Party, the German-American Bund, and the Dante Alighieri Society. The National Blue Star Mothers of America was the only group on this section of the list that was extant in 1950. - Ed.]
The organizations
marked with an * are those still in existence when the list was issued in 1950.
Others were defunct, but previous membership in these groups allowed one to be
marked as subversive
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
* Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago, Illinois Action Committee to Free
Spain Now American Association for Reconstruction in Yugoslavia, Inc. * American
Branch of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions American Committee for
European Workers' Relief
* American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
American Committee for Spanish
Freedom
American Committee for Yugoslav
Relief, Inc.
* American Council for a
Democratic Greece, formerly known as the
Greek American Council;
Greek American Committee for National Unity
* American Council on Soviet
Relations
* American Croatian
Congress .
* American Jewish Labor
Council
American League against War
and Fascism
American League for Peace
and Democracy
American Peace Mobilization
* American Polish Labor
Council
American Rescue Ship Mission
(a project of the United American Spanish Aid
Committee)
* American Russian
Institute, New York
American
Russian Institute, Philadelphia
*American Russian Institute
(of San Francisco)
* American Russian Institute
of Southern California, Los Angeles * American Slav Congress
Ameridln Youth Congress
American Youth for Democracy
"
Armenian Progressive League of Amyrica
*Bostoh School for Marxist
Studies, Boston, Massachusetts
*California Labor School,
Inc., 216 Market Street, San Francisco, California *Central Council of American
Women of Croatian Descent, aka Central Council of
American Croatian
Women, National Council of Croatian Women
Citizens Committee to Free
Earl Browder
Citizens Committee for Harry
Bridges
*Civil Rights Congress and its affiliated organizations, including: .
-Civil Rights Congress for
Texas
-Veterans against
Discrimination of Civil Rights Congress of New York
Comite Coordinador Pro
Republica Espanola *Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
Commonwealth College, Mena,
Arkansas
*Communist Party, U.S.A., its subdivisions, subsidiaries and affiliates,
including: -Citizens Committee of the Upper West Side (New York City)
-Committee to Aid the Fighting South
-Daily Workers Press Club
-Dennis Defense Committee
-Labor Research Association,
Inc.
-Southern Negro Youth
Congress
-United May Day Committee
-United Negro and Allied
Veterans of America
- Yiddisher Kultur Farband
Communist Political Association, its subdivisions, subsidiaries, and
affiliates, including:
-Florida Press and
Educational League
-Peoples Educational and
Press Association of Texas
-Virginia League for
Peoples Education
Connecticut
State Youth Conference .
Congress of American
Revolutionary Writers
*Congress of American Women
*Council on African Affairs
Council for Pan-American
Democracy
*Dennis Defense Committee
Detroit Youth Assembly
Emergency Conference to Save
Spanish Refugees (founding body of the North
American Spanish Aid
Committee)
Friends
of the Soviet Union
George Washington Carver
School, New York City *Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee
Hollywood Writers
Mobilization for Defense Hungarian-American Council for Democracy *Independent
Socialist League
International Labor Defense
*International Workers Order, its subdivisions, subsidiaries and
affiliates, including -* American-Russian Fraternal Society
-*Carpatho-Russian Peoples
Society
_*Cervantes Fraternal
Society
-*Croatian Benevolent
Fraternity
-*Finnish-American Mutual
Aid Society
-*Garibaldi American
Fraternal Society
-*Hellenic-American
Brotherhood
-*Hungarian Brotherhood
-*Jewish Peoples Fraternal
Order
-People's Radio Foundation,
Inc.
- *Polonia Society of the
IWO
-*Romanian-American
Fraternal Society
-*Serbian-American Fraternal
Society
-*Slovak Workers Society
-*Ukranian-American
Fraternal Union
*Jefterson School of Social
Science, New York City
*Jewish Peoples Committee
*Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee
Committee
*Joseph Weydemeyer School 6f
Social Science, S1. Louis, Missouri
*Labor Research Association,
Inc.
*Labor Youth League
League of American Writers
Macedonian-American People's
League
Michigan Civil Rights Federation
Michigan School of Social
Science
National Committee for the
Defense of Political Prisoners
National Committee to Win
the Peace
National Conference on
American Policy in China and the Far East (a Conference
called by the Committee for
a Democratic Far Eastern Policy)
National Council of
Americans of Croatian Descent *National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
National Negro Congress
Nature Friends of America
(since 1935)
Negro Labor Victory Committee
New Committee for
Publications
North American Committee to
Aid Spanish Democracy
North American Spanish Aid
Committee
Ohio School of Social
Sciences
Oklahoma Committee to Defend
Political Prisoners
*Pacific Northwest Labor
School, Seattle, Washington Partido del Pueblo of Panama (operating in the
Canal Zone)
*Peoples
Educational Association (Incorporated under name Los Angeles Educa
tional Association, Inc}aka
Peoples Educational Center, Peoples University,
People's School
*People's Institute of Applied Religion
Philadelphia School of
Social Science and Art
Photo League (New York City)
Progressive
German-Americans, aka Progressive German-Americans of Chicago Proletarian Party
of America
Revolutionary Workers League
Samuel Adams School, Boston, Massachusetts .
Schappes Defense Committee
Schneiderman-Darcy Defense
Committee
*School of Jewish Studies,
New York City
*Seattle Labor School,
Seattle, Washington
*Serbian Vidovdan Council
*Slovenian-American National
Council
Socialist Workers Party,
including American Committee for European Workers'
Relief
Socialist Youth League
Tom Paine School of Social
Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tom Paine School of
Westchester, New York
*Union of American Croatians
United American Spanish Aid Committee *United Committee of South Slavic
Americans United Harlem Tenants and Consumers Organization
*Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Walt Whitman School of
Social Science, Newark, New Jersey
Washington Bookshop
Association
Washington Committee for
Democratic Action
Washington Commonwealth
Federation
Wisconsin Conference on
Social Legislation
Workers Alliance
Workers Party, including
Socialist Youth League
Young Communist League
*Communist Party, U.S.A.,
its subdivisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates
Communist Political Association,
its subdivisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates, in
cluding:
-Florida Press and
Educational League
-Peoples Educational and
Press Association of Texas -Virginia League for Peoples Education
Gennan-A.rnerican Bund
Independent Socialist League
*Partido del Pueblo of
Panama (operating in the Canal Zone)
*Socialist Workers Party .
Workers Party
Young Communist League
Organizations which have
"adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of
force and violence to deny others their rights under the Constitution
of the United
States"
* American Christian
Nationalist Party
* Associated Klans of
America
* Association of Georgia
Klans Columbians
Knights of the White Camellia
*Ku Klux Kl_n
*Original Southern Klans,
Incorporated Protestant War Veterans of the U.S., Inc. Silver Shirt Legion of
America
Organizations which
"seek to alter the form of government
of the United States by
unconstitutional means"
*Communist Party, U.S.A.,
its subdivisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates
Communist Political Association, its subdivisions, subsidiaries, and
affiliates, including:
-Florida Press and
Educational League
-Peoples Educational and
Press Association of Texas
-Virginia League for Peoples
Education
Independent Socialist
League
*Industrial Workers of the
World
*Nationalist Party of Puerto
Rico
*Partido del Pueblo of
Panama (operating in the Canal Zone)
*Socialist Workers Party
Workers Party
Young Communist League