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[[Americans for Democratic Action]] was founded in 1947 as a liberal anticommunist counterweight to [[Henry Wallace]]'s [[Progressive Citizens of America]].<ref>Sara Diamond, ''Roads To Dominion: Right-wing Movements and Political Power in the United States'', Guildford Press, 1995, p.182.</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==

Revision as of 17:18, 22 April 2013

Americans for Democratic Action was founded in 1947 as a liberal anticommunist counterweight to Henry Wallace's Progressive Citizens of America.[1]

People

National Chairs/Presidents

1947 Committee

Organizing Committee

Charles G. Bolte | Harvey M. Brown | David Dubinsky | George Edwards | Ethel S. Epstein | Hugo Ernst | John Green | Hubert H. Humphrey | Mrs Clyde Johnson | James S. Killen | Frank W. McCulloch | B.F. McLaurin | Reinhold Neibuhr | Mrs Gifford Pinchot | Edward F. Pritchard, Jr. | Walter P. Reuther | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. | Rt Reverend William Scarlett | Walter White | Samuel Wolchak | Willard S. Townsend | Wilson Wyatt[3]

Other Committee Members

Joseph Alsop | Stewart Alsop | Jack Altman | Eugenie Anderson | George Baldanzi | Robert Bendiner | Andrew Biemiller | Barry Bingham | Chester Bowles | James B. Carey | Marquis Childs | Nelson Cruikshank | Elmer Davis | Max Davis | Morris Ernst | Michael Feder | Louis Fischer | David Ginsburg | Lester Granger Allan Haywood | Hon. Chet Holifield | E.M. Kirkpatrick | James S. Killen | Irvin R. Kuenzli | Leo Lerner | Dr Eduard Lindeman | Don Montgomery | Edgar Ansel Mowrer | Arthur Naftalin | Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam | Paul A. Porter | Joseph Rauh, Jr Emil Rieve | Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr | Boris Shiskin | H. Jerry Voorhis | James Wechsler | Aubry Williams[3]

Notes

  1. Sara Diamond, Roads To Dominion: Right-wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, p.182.
  2. History, Americans for Democratic Action, accessed 22 April 2013.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Statement of Basic Principles, Americans for Democratic Action, 4 January 1947, archived at neoconservatism.vaisse.net.