The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has been advised by Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, that he has asked Education Commissioner Dr. Sidney B. Marland Jr. to investigate thoroughly the ADL’s charges against the African-American Teachers’ Association. ADL officials told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Richardson asked Marland to report his findings to the Jewish group in detail.
In a Feb. 29 letter to Richardson, ADL national chairman Seymour Graubard charged the ATA with using federal funds geared to dropout aid “to subsidize racial or religious hatred,” especially anti-Semitism. ATA president Albert Vann has denied the charges, but acknowledged to the JTA last month that he believed Jews have disproportionate power in the New York school system.
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