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National Negro Congress, Chicago, Feb. 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1936

Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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National Negro Congress, Chicago, Feb. 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1936

Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description

Death Blow to Jim Crow

Author: Erik S. Gellman
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869937
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as necessary for reinvigorating American democracy. Much more than just a precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement, this activism created the most militant interracial freedom movement since Reconstruction, one that sought to empower the American labor movement to make demands on industrialists, white supremacists, and the state as never before. By focusing on the complex alliances between unions, civic groups, and the Communist Party in five geographic regions, Gellman explains how the NNC and its allies developed and implemented creative grassroots strategies to weaken Jim Crow, if not deal it the "death blow" they sought.

Resolutions of the National Negro Congress

Author: National Negro Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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Papers of the National Negro Congress

Author: National Negro Congress
Publisher: University Publications of America
ISBN: 9781556550577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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