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Dr. DuBois was a member of the Citizens Committee * * * in 1942. as shown on their letterhead dated February 11. 1942. he sponsored a dinner of the group. according to the Daily Worker of February 5. 1942. and signed the call to the National Free Browder Congress. as shown in the Daily Worker of February 25. 1942. pages 1 and 4. A 1950 letterhead of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born carries the name of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois In a list of sponsors of that organization. thesame information appears on an undated letterhead of the group. distributing a speech of Abner Green at the conference of December 23. 1950. a letterhead of the Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign Born dated April 30. 1951. names him as a national sponsor of the organization. He signed the groups statement opposing the Hobbs bill (Daily Worker. July 25. 1950. p. 4). he signed their statement opposing denaturalization (Daily Worker of August 10. 1950. p. 5). and signed a telegram prepared and dispatched by the organization to the Attorney General of the United States. protesting holding nine noncitizens without bail under the McCarran Act. (Daily Worker of November 24. 1952. p. 3.) He was also listed in the Daily Worker of October 21. 1954 (p. 2) as one of 95 sponsors of the National Conference to Defend the Rights of Foreign Born Americans. to be held December 11 through 12 in New York City by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. The special committee cited the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born as "one of the oldest auxiliaries of the Communist Party in the United States" (report of March 29. 1944: also cited in report of June 25. 1942). the Attorney General cited the organization as subversive and Communist (press releases of June 1 and September 21. 1948. also redesignated pursuant to executive order 10450. see consolidated list of "For years. the Communists have put forth the greatest efforts to capture the entire American Labor Party throughout New York State. They succeeded in capturing the Manhattan and Brooklyn sections of the American Labor Party but outside of New York City. they have been unable to win control" (Special Committees Report 1311 of March 29. 1944). Dr.