1948 Press Photo Charles Howard Supporters during convention-Philadelphia. a scene of an enormous crowd with signs. Caption under Press Photo reads: “Philadelphia, July 24–Delegates for Howard– This was the scene around the speaker’s stand as delegates put on demonstration last night when Charles P. Howard, Des Moines, Iowa, Lawyer and Publisher, appeared on the speaker’s rostrum to deliver keynote address at Progressive Party’s founding convention. Speaker’s stand is in center background. (AP Wirephoto) (see wire story) PUM70700stf) 1948”
Howard was one of the founding members of the National Bar Association, then titled the Negro Bar Association, since Black people were not allowed into the American Bar Association. He said: (from Des Moines Register): “I would rather die and go to hell than to let my children know that by my silence, by my acquiesce, I permitted to grow stronger the sentiment that they were not entitled to absolutely everything that everybody else in this country is entitled to.”– Charles P. Howard Sr.,
The Observer/Iowa Bystander, April 16, 1927. The Iowa Radical History Website says:
“In 1948, he keynoted the Progressive Party National Convention and befriended controversial entertainer Paul Robeson. After attending the Communist-sponsored World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland, in 1950, Howard returned to Iowa the target of intense criticism and was disbarred in 1951. ”
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