Americans for Democratic Action

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Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was founded in 1947 as a liberal anticommunist counterweight to Henry Wallace's Progressive Citizens of America within the pro-New Deal constituency.[1]

As a result of Arthur Schlesinger's influence, ADA took part in the CIA-financed International Study Group for Freedom and Democracy in the 1960s.[2]

Shifting alliances within the Democratic Party meant that by the late 1960s, ADA was no longer a stronghold of Cold War liberals, some of whom formed the Coalition for a Democratic Majority as a rival.[3]

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[5]

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[5]

Notes

  1. Sara Diamond, Roads To Dominion: Right-wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, p.182.
  2. R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.377.
  3. Sara Diamond, Roads To Dominion: Right-wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, p.192.
  4. History, Americans for Democratic Action, accessed 22 April 2013.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Statement of Basic Principles, Americans for Democratic Action, 4 January 1947, archived at neoconservatism.vaisse.net.