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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.
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