Author: Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
FBI File on the National Negro Congress
Author: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the FBI File on the National Negro Congress
Author: The FBI's RACON
Author: Robert A. HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
"During World War II, an unprecedented wave of militant black protest and activism swept through the United States, setting the stage for the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s." "FBI director J. Edgar Hoover perceived this racial turmoil as a threat not only to wartime mobilization efforts but also to the preservation of a stable, segregated society, and ordered an extensive, nationwide investigation and surveillance of African Americans "to determine why particular Negroes or groups of Negroes or Negro organizations have evidenced sentiments for other 'dark races' (mainly Japanese) or by what forces they were influenced to adopt in certain instances un-American ideologies." The unstated objective of the inquiry, known by the secret code name RACON, was to neutralize the black challenge to the institutional grip of Jim Crow." "This landmark volume publishes for the first time the FBI's Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States, an exhaustive report that grew out of the larger internal security investigation." "Compiled from reports submitted by fifty-six field units in all areas of the country, the document chronicles in rich detail the experience of African Americans during World War II." "A comprehensive introduction by Robert A. Hill situates the FBI report within a political, cultural, and literary context to provide a fuller understanding of this sparsely documented period in African-American history and its relationship to civil rights movements in the postwar era. Hill also explores the ways in which the investigation and surveillance of blacks during World War II illuminate the FBI's wartime evolution from an investigative body to a political counterintelligence agency."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Papers of the National Negro Congress
Author: National Negro CongressPublisher: University Publications of America
ISBN: 9781556550577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Negro Conference 1909
Author: Official Proceedings, October 15, 16, 17, 1937
Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
National Negro Congress
Author: Rising Wind
Author: Brenda Gayle PlummerPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through the wave of African independence movements of the early 1960s. Plummer first examines how collective definitions of ethnic identity, race, and racism have influenced African American views on foreign affairs. She then probes specific developments in the international arena that galvanized the black community, including the rise of fascism, World War II, the emergence of human rights as a factor in international law, the Cold War, and the American civil rights movement, which had important foreign policy implications. However, she demonstrates that not all African Americans held the same views on particular issues and that a variety of considerations helped shape foreign affairs agendas within the black community just as in American society at large.
Resolutions of the National Negro Congress
Author: National Negro CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Official Proceedings of the National Negro Congress
Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description