Petition to the House of Representatives..., 1961-01-02

List of signers of a petition to eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activites as a Standing Committee. "...We are confident that only a return to constitutional procedures can protect us against subversion without at the same time subverting the very liberties we seek to protect. For two decades the Congress has allowed the Committee to function. For two decades the Committee has condemned individual Americans, has wrecked the lives of some, and has denied them the due process of law that English and American courts have toilsomely evolved over many centuries...." Signed by theologians, scientists, authors and playwrights, poets and writers, journalists, lawyers, artists, educators, labor officials, union officials, performers, community leaders, etc. representing 32 states. in the country.