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499 jammed the auditorium of Bethel Church," according to the Afro-American, "and hundreds were reported turned away"; Afro-American ( Washington, D.C. edition), October 22, 1932. (31) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 2-3; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 2-3; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell, (session 1), February 20, 1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987, (session 3), August 5, 1987. (32) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 2-3; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 2-3; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 29, 1987. (33) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 2-3; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 2-3; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20, 1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987, (session 3), August 5, 19SV. (34) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 2-3; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 2-3: Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20, 1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987, (session 3), August 5, 1987. When speaking of the Forum youth, Juanita Jackson Mitchell once remarked that "the Quakers were also fighting for our support and minds"; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20, 1987. Additional discussion of the relationship of Quakers to Mitchell and to the Forum appears in session 1 and session 3 of the interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell. (35) Afro-American, January 21, October 14. 1933; CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 2-3; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 2-3; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell, (session 1), February 20, 1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987, (session 3), August 5, 1987. The best known controversy at the Forum occurred in 1936, triggering an exchange of views on the relations of Blacks and Jews in the national arena; see Crisis, February 1936, 39ff; March 1936, 80-1; April 1936, 122; and chapter 12 below, for an analysis of this controversy. (36) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 1-5; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 1-5,12; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20, 1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987, (session 3), August 5, 1987. (37) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell, March 19, 1987 (session 2), tape 1; CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 5; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), 5; Afro-American, October 14, 1933. (38) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 29, 1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987. (39) Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Virginia Jackson Kiah Oral History , MS. no. 8094, page 42-3, Maryland Historical Society; CWYPF, "Contest" (1934); Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 29, 1987; Interview with Evelyn Burrell, October 4, 1987; Clarence Mitchell Oral History, MS No. 8154, Maryland Historical Society, 21-2; Afro-American, January 4, 1986.