Show TACT To Present Lola Belle Holmes I r a i I Ii r rr r rr t t Miss Lola Belle Holmes a negro unde undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1957 to 1963 will address a public audience in Centerville Centerville Centerville Center- Center ville on Saturday Mar 11 at 8 pm p.m. at J. J A. A Taylor Elementary School in Centerville HER SUBJECT will be Why I Became A Communist For The FBI She was assigned by the FBI to report on Communist ac activities activities activities ac- ac within the civil rights groups in which she was active and on plans that were made bythe bythe by bythe the Party to operate in others Born in Waterproof Louisiana Louisi Louisi- ana Miss Holmes has lived in Chicago for the last 25 years She was graduated from high school in Chicago and had two years of college in labor law lawand lawand lawand and political economy WHILE Ai AN undercover agent she had seven years of Marxist- Marxist Leninist training at the Chicago School of Social Science a school run by the Communist Party of Illinois During these seven years she worked Into the upper echelons of the Communist Communist Communist Party She has always been vitally interested in improving the lot lotof lotof lotof of her fellow negroes Prior to her work for the FBI she had explored ex explored explored ex- ex all politically active civil rights groups including the Communist Party AFTER CAREFUL study she rejected the Communist Party stating that it was not concerned concerned concerned con con- con con- with the success of the civil rights movement but only in continuing oppression and depression of the negro so that they the Communist Party could have something to drive on to work on Miss Holmes tells of the various various various var var- ious Party caucuses which are a nucleus of Communists working to control agitate and pro propagandize p a g and i z e with within I n the NAACP CORE Negro American American Ameri Ameri- can Labor Council Women Strike For Peace and the Women's Women's Women's Wom Wom- ens en's Peace and Unity Club SHE EMERGED from the Party in 1963 to testify against Claude LIghtfoot a I leading e a din g spokesman on the negro problem problem problem lem for the American Communist Communist Communist Party at hearings held in Chicago by the Subversive Ac Activities Activities Ac- Ac Activities Control Board Miss Holmes Holmes' story from her family background in Louisiana her seven years as an FBI undercover un undercover undercover un- un agent her helping to plan the now famous March on Washington In 1963 all go to I explain many of the deeper and more significant foundations foundations' that the civil chil turmoil that is taking place in the name of so-called so civil rights and peace movements THIS PROGRAM is one in a continuing series sponsored by TACT a of local group concerned concerned concerned con con- citizens dedicated to bring out the Truth About Civil Turmoil |