Joseph Poga_ny, the founder of the American Civil Righs Movement

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Recto: The founder of the American Civil Rights Movement. He was born in Hungary. The name he used publicly there was Joseph Poga_ny. In the Ungarian Communist Party he was John Schwartz. Later, in the American Communist Party, he was Joseph Lang. But he is most widely remembered today by his American pen name John Pepper. This man first came to the attention of history as a leader in the Communist terrorist group that murdered Prime Minister Istvan Tisza of Hungary in 1918. He then helped to destroy the Karolyi government. And with Tibor Szamuelly he was one of the founders and chief executioners of that short-lived but incredibly cruel Communist regime in Hungary which was headed by Bela Kun. When the Bela Kun terror was overthrown Joseph Poga_ny escaped to Moscow. In 1922, he came to the United States as Moscow's agent to take charge of the American Communists. After excaping capture at the Bridgman raid, he remained inconspicuous for some years. But by 1928 he had become a very clever master of the English language. And in that year, as John Pepper, he issued the sixteen-page pamphlet, American Negro Problems, through which he - and his boss, Stalin - established the longrange Communisty program for fomenting and using a Negro Revolutionary Movement. There is almost nothing being written, preached, or done, under the civil rights slogan today, which is not in accordance with the planning and instructions laid down by this alien Communist nearly forty years ago. If enough of the good, patriotic, and idealistic Americans, who now constitute at least ninety percent of the strength of the civil rights movement, could be brought to realize the evil forces and evil purposes behind this pretense of humanitarianism, the whole horrible fraud would fall to pieces in three months. Joseph Poga_ny, From a sketch made in about 1923; Verso: For documentation, order The Civil Rights Packet, one dollar, postpaid. This packet contains the pamphlet, American Negro Problems, by the Communist, John Pepper; the very revealing book, Color, Communism and Common Sense, by Manning Johnson; and much other carefully selected material showing the true nature of the civil rights movement and of the forces behind it. Available at any American Opinion Library, or order from American Opinion, Belmont, Massachusetts, 02178, These postcards (No. CR1) are available from the same sources at twenty cards for $1.00, postpaid. Post card, place stamp here