National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions
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On behalf of "Negro Americans," and the citizenship at large, applying to file as amici curaie a brief against the case United States v. John Gates; discussing the issue's "special importance to Negro Americans seeking to escape the degradation of 'second-class citizenship' and Jim Crow oppression"; describing the case and its implications at length, and providing the legal background therefor; and urging the court to deny the prosecutions request "for judicial acquiescence in its demand that defendant act as 'finger man' against his associates."
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