members had interviewed Frank Sinatra when he was in Chicago and had asked him about “red-baiting” in the AYD. Sinatra reportedly replied that he had received a letter from one of the AYD members in the Tom Paine Club asking him if it were true that the AYD was a “Red” organization. Sinatra said he had not answered the letter. The AYD member, in explaining this to other club members, expressed confidence that Sinatra would answer the letter in the right way.
On May 16, 1946, a group of Detroit Youth Clubs, including the AYD, held an Inter-Cultural Rally at the Jewish Community Center, Woodward and Holbrook Streets, Detroit, to honor Frank Sinatra, who was then playing an engagement at a downtown theater in Detroit. Erma Henderson, AYD President, acted as Chairman of therally which was attended by about 250 people. Sinatra was presented with a scroll of appreciation for his contributions to the youth of America.
On May 5, 1946, Philip Schatz, AYD Executive Secretary, said that the rally honoring Frank Sinatra represented a good opportunity for them to set up a permanent organization of which the AYD would be a part and that through such an organization the AYD could gain a great deal of prestige.
On April 1, 1948, AYD members at Chicago, mentioned that Frank Sinatra had gone to Italy and that he would do more for Italian Communists than anybody else could do.
According to the “Daily Worker” of March 17, 1945, Frank Sinatra accepted an invitation to address the World Youth Week Rally at Carnegie Hall, New York City on March 21, 1945. This rally was sponsored by the American Youth for a Free World with the cooperation of various racial groups. A report concerning the March 21, 1945 meeting, however, does not make any reference to Frank Sinatra being present.
The program for a dinner held on May 9, 1946, at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York City, which had been sponsored by the Action Committee to Free Spain Now, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the American Committee for Spanish Freedom, listed Frank Sinatra as a speaker. Sinatra did not attend this dinner, but did send a telegram of support and expression of regret for being unable to be there.
Frank Sinatra was named as one of several artists who sponsored a Town Hall benefit concert arranged by the Greenwich VillageChapter of the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief on January 1, 1946.
The American Committee for Yugoslav Relief has been cited as a subversive and Communist organization by the Attorney General.
Another governmental agency conducting intelligence investigations reported on September 13, 1946, that Frank Sinatra was one of the sponsors of the “American Crusade to End Lynchings” for which Paul Robeson was chairman. This organization supported a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., on September 23, 1946. A parade was scheduled to be held on September 23, 1946, which was to be led by colored and white veterans who were to march to the Lincoln Memorial where a national religious ceremony would be held and persons who escaped lynching mobs were to be presented to the audience.
According to a news release, Frank Sinatra was scheduled to speak against racial intolerance as the guest of honor at the Free Italy Society’s annual ball and dinner to be held February 23, 1946, at the Kastritta Hall, 3220 North Broadway, Los Angeles, California. This news article identified said organization as an anti-Fascist group.
Sinatra was quoted as follows: “I will be happy to join with my fellow Italian-Americans in the cause of true democracy.”
It was announced that the theme of the affair would be to fight domestic Fascism as personified by Gerald L. K. Smith.
Westbrook Pegler reported in his column in November, 1947, that after Sinatra had appeared at a show held under the auspices of the ICCASP in New York City during May, 1946, his manager, George Evans, said that Sinatra had “put himself under the political guidance of two
On May 16, 1946, a group of Detroit Youth Clubs, including the AYD, held an Inter-Cultural Rally at the Jewish Community Center, Woodward and Holbrook Streets, Detroit, to honor Frank Sinatra, who was then playing an engagement at a downtown theater in Detroit. Erma Henderson, AYD President, acted as Chairman of therally which was attended by about 250 people. Sinatra was presented with a scroll of appreciation for his contributions to the youth of America.
On May 5, 1946, Philip Schatz, AYD Executive Secretary, said that the rally honoring Frank Sinatra represented a good opportunity for them to set up a permanent organization of which the AYD would be a part and that through such an organization the AYD could gain a great deal of prestige.
On April 1, 1948, AYD members at Chicago, mentioned that Frank Sinatra had gone to Italy and that he would do more for Italian Communists than anybody else could do.
According to the “Daily Worker” of March 17, 1945, Frank Sinatra accepted an invitation to address the World Youth Week Rally at Carnegie Hall, New York City on March 21, 1945. This rally was sponsored by the American Youth for a Free World with the cooperation of various racial groups. A report concerning the March 21, 1945 meeting, however, does not make any reference to Frank Sinatra being present.
The program for a dinner held on May 9, 1946, at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York City, which had been sponsored by the Action Committee to Free Spain Now, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the American Committee for Spanish Freedom, listed Frank Sinatra as a speaker. Sinatra did not attend this dinner, but did send a telegram of support and expression of regret for being unable to be there.
Frank Sinatra was named as one of several artists who sponsored a Town Hall benefit concert arranged by the Greenwich VillageChapter of the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief on January 1, 1946.
The American Committee for Yugoslav Relief has been cited as a subversive and Communist organization by the Attorney General.
Another governmental agency conducting intelligence investigations reported on September 13, 1946, that Frank Sinatra was one of the sponsors of the “American Crusade to End Lynchings” for which Paul Robeson was chairman. This organization supported a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., on September 23, 1946. A parade was scheduled to be held on September 23, 1946, which was to be led by colored and white veterans who were to march to the Lincoln Memorial where a national religious ceremony would be held and persons who escaped lynching mobs were to be presented to the audience.
According to a news release, Frank Sinatra was scheduled to speak against racial intolerance as the guest of honor at the Free Italy Society’s annual ball and dinner to be held February 23, 1946, at the Kastritta Hall, 3220 North Broadway, Los Angeles, California. This news article identified said organization as an anti-Fascist group.
Sinatra was quoted as follows: “I will be happy to join with my fellow Italian-Americans in the cause of true democracy.”
It was announced that the theme of the affair would be to fight domestic Fascism as personified by Gerald L. K. Smith.
Westbrook Pegler reported in his column in November, 1947, that after Sinatra had appeared at a show held under the auspices of the ICCASP in New York City during May, 1946, his manager, George Evans, said that Sinatra had “put himself under the political guidance of two
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