Biographical Dictionary of the Left, Francis X. Gannon, Vol. I
JOHN CONYERS JR. was born on May 16, 1922 in Detroit son of Lucille Simpson and John Conyers. He is an alumnus of Wayne State University (B.A., 1957; LL.B., 1958). In 1959, he was admitted to the Michigan bar and began practicing law in Detroit.
From 1958 until 1961, Conyers was a legislative assistant to Representative John Dingell (D.-Mich.). From 1961 until 1965, he was a referee in Michigan’s Workmen’s Compensation Department.
Since 1965, Conyers has been in the House of Representatives as a Democrat, representing Michigan’s First District. In and out of Congress, Conyers is a black racist militant and a leftwing extremist. He has been a vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, the radical center of American politics. He has been on the national executive board of the National Lawyers Guild, the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations, and controlled unions.
In 1966, Conyers spoke at the founding convention of Trade Unionists for Peace which was established by leftwing labor leaders as a lobby against United States forces remaining in Vietnam. (TUP was run by Charles Walters, a shop steward for the United Automobile Workers. Former Communist Bereniece Baldwin testified under oath, in 1954, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, that Walters was in the Communist Party. In 1966, Walters was editor of Labor Today which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described as an organ of Communist propaganda. Conyers has written for Labor Today.)
Conyers has adopted the position that the Vietnam War is a racist conflict and he was one of only four members of the House of Representatives to vote against military support for U.S. troops in Vietnam. But consistent with his racism, he proposed that Congress spend an additional thirty billion dollars a year in Negro areas around the United States. (Other than his opposition to the Vietnam War, Conyer’s interest in foreign affairs seems to have been confined to his adulatory support of the Communist Kwame Nkrumah, former head of Ghana.)
On the House Judiciary Committee, Conyers was the only member to oppose legislation designed to make desecration of the American flag a crime.
In 1967, Conyers led the fight against, and voted against the "riot bill" which made it a federal crime to cross state lines for the purpose of inciting violence.
In 1968, Conyers told The Worker (Communist) that he was organizing a committee of blacks to evaluate candidates for the 1968 election. It was part of his overall program to organize American Negroes into one voting bloc. For his evaluating committee, he had chosen, among others, the revolutionaries Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Abernathy and Floyd McKissick.
Additionally, Conyers has been an active promoter of the Institute for Policy Studies and its programs on Capital Hill. The IPS has been considered "the perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities....."
Highly recommend Covert Cadre, Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, by S. Steven Powell.
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JOHN CONYERS JR. was born on May 16, 1922 in Detroit son of Lucille Simpson and John Conyers. He is an alumnus of Wayne State University (B.A., 1957; LL.B., 1958). In 1959, he was admitted to the Michigan bar and began practicing law in Detroit.
From 1958 until 1961, Conyers was a legislative assistant to Representative John Dingell (D.-Mich.). From 1961 until 1965, he was a referee in Michigan’s Workmen’s Compensation Department.
Since 1965, Conyers has been in the House of Representatives as a Democrat, representing Michigan’s First District. In and out of Congress, Conyers is a black racist militant and a leftwing extremist. He has been a vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, the radical center of American politics. He has been on the national executive board of the National Lawyers Guild, the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations, and controlled unions.
In 1966, Conyers spoke at the founding convention of Trade Unionists for Peace which was established by leftwing labor leaders as a lobby against United States forces remaining in Vietnam. (TUP was run by Charles Walters, a shop steward for the United Automobile Workers. Former Communist Bereniece Baldwin testified under oath, in 1954, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, that Walters was in the Communist Party. In 1966, Walters was editor of Labor Today which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described as an organ of Communist propaganda. Conyers has written for Labor Today.)
Conyers has adopted the position that the Vietnam War is a racist conflict and he was one of only four members of the House of Representatives to vote against military support for U.S. troops in Vietnam. But consistent with his racism, he proposed that Congress spend an additional thirty billion dollars a year in Negro areas around the United States. (Other than his opposition to the Vietnam War, Conyer’s interest in foreign affairs seems to have been confined to his adulatory support of the Communist Kwame Nkrumah, former head of Ghana.)
On the House Judiciary Committee, Conyers was the only member to oppose legislation designed to make desecration of the American flag a crime.
In 1967, Conyers led the fight against, and voted against the "riot bill" which made it a federal crime to cross state lines for the purpose of inciting violence.
In 1968, Conyers told The Worker (Communist) that he was organizing a committee of blacks to evaluate candidates for the 1968 election. It was part of his overall program to organize American Negroes into one voting bloc. For his evaluating committee, he had chosen, among others, the revolutionaries Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Abernathy and Floyd McKissick.
Additionally, Conyers has been an active promoter of the Institute for Policy Studies and its programs on Capital Hill. The IPS has been considered "the perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities....."
Highly recommend Covert Cadre, Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, by S. Steven Powell.
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