| Summary: | The ASCU was established by the Communist Party in 1931, and most of its members were African Americans. The letters are from L. N. Duncan, director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, and Bradford Knapp, president of Auburn University. The men report the efforts of the Extension Service to settle the tensions in Tallapoosa County: "Two or three of our best Negro County Agents, having the confidence of both white and colored people in that area, have been working diligently with the Negro farmers, looking after their regular work, but at the same time making a special effort to quiet the people down, urging them to put away their guns and calling their attention to the fact that they are badly mislead [sic] by these communistic representatives." Duncan includes includes a Communist flier distributed to the farmers, urging them to "Organize and start the fight against starvation now!"
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