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...Joseph Rauh quietly took over. Vice-Chairman of ADA and leader of the Democratic Party in Washington, Rauh spent most of July preparing the FDP's legal case for the Credentials Committee. With the approach of August, he also assumed responsibility for gathering Northern delegate strength. It was a difficult task, since the President was actively working for the "traditional" delegation...
...Rauh began his campaign for support by sprucing up the FDP's image. Seeking to eradicate the popular conception of the Party as a SNCC-CORE enterprise, he requested active support from the NAACP and the National Council of Churches. Clarence Mitchell, NAACP Washington representative, is a close friend of Rauh, and by early August Mitchell had pressed the Association into action: Roy Wilkins pledged to endorse the Freedom delegation before the Platform and Credentials Committees. Bishop Spike, of the National Council of Churches Commission on Race and Religion, also agreed to lend a hand behind the scenes...
...within and from outside Mississippi formed a last-minute party, called the Freedom Democrats, selected a mostly Negro delegation, sent it to Atlantic City demanding that it be seated in place of the regular delegation. The Freedom Democratic argument was based on morality, not legality. Cried Washington Lawyer Joseph Rauh Jr., in arguing the group's case before the convention Credentials Committee: "Last year Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson went up and down the state saying that the N.A.A.C.P. stood for 'niggers, alligators, apes, coons and possums.' Are you going to seat a delegation sent...
Photographs and an illustrated catalogue can be obtained from Miss Emily Rauh at the Fogg, university extension...
...guard of eggheads who were true to Stevenson in 1952 and 1956 drafted a letter endorsing Kennedy in hopes of starting a liberal stampede to the Kennedy banner. Signers: Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John K. Galbraith, Amherst's Henry Steele Commager and Washington Lawyer Joseph Rauh, onetime chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. In Manhattan, a regiment of eggheads closed the gap in their ranks with a Draft Stevenson Committee, signed a loyalty pledge supporting their favorite candidate. Among the signers: Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish. Authors John Steinbeck and John Hersey, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...