498

See chapter 3 above for a discussion of the "power bloc" of the Baltimore Black
community.

(22) Hunter, "Don't Buy/ 40; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1),
February 20,1987, (session 2), March 19, 1987, (session 4), August 12,1987; Oral
History interview, Clarence Mitchell MS. No. 8209, page 8, McKcldin-Jackson Oral
History collection, Maryland Historical Society; Oral History interview, Clarence
Mitchell MS. No. 8154, page 6, McKeldin-Jackson Oral History collection,
Maryland Historical Society; "Reminiscences of Clarence Mitchell" (1981),
interviewed by Ed Edwin, Oral History Collection of Columbia University, 1-3.

(23) Juan Williams, "Marshall's Law," The Washington Post Magazine, January 7,
1990, 15-17.

(24) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 4), August 12,1981; A fro-
American, November 4, 1933; CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 3,34.

(25) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20, 1987; Oral
History interview, Donald Gaines Murray MS. No. OH 8139, tape, McKeldin-
Jackson Oral History collection, Maryland Historical Society.

(26) Interview with Evelyn Burrell, October 4,1987; Oral History

interview, Evelyn T. Burrell MS. no. 8138, "Biography" sheet, McKeldin-Jackson

Oral History collection, Maryland Historical Society.

(27) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 1,3-5; City-Wide Young People's Forum, The
Fourth Annual Inter Collegiate Oratorical, Vocal and Instrumental Contest," 1935,
[hereafter CWYPF, "Contest" (1935)], 1,3-5,12, in the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil
Rights Museum; City-Wide Young People's Forum, The Eighth Annual
Intercollegiate Oratorical, Vocal and Instrumental Contest," 1939,2-3,5-8, in the
Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum; City-Wide Young People's Forum,
The Ninth Annual Intercollegiate Oratorical, Vocal and Instrumental Contest,"
1940, [hereafter CWYPF, "Contest" (1940)], 2-3,5-8, in the Lillie Carroll Jackson
Civil Rights Museum; City-Wide Young People's Forum, The Tenth Annual
Intercollegiate Oratorical, Vocal and Instrumental Contest," 1941,1, in the Lillie
Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell
(session 1), February 20,1987, (session 3), August 5,1987.

(28) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), back cover; CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), back cover;
CWYPF, "Contest" (1940), 1.

(29) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), back cover, CWYPF, "Contest" (1935), back cover;
Evelyn T. Burrell Oral History, Maryland Historical Society, 6.

(30) CWYPF, "Contest" (1934), 1,3-5; Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell
(session 1), February 20,1987, (session 2), March 19,1987, (session 3), August 5,
1987. As an example of the Friday night meetings' drawing power, when Mary
McLeod Bethune spoke at the Forum in October 1932, "An immense crowd