Research Catalog

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Description

1. 53.6 lin. ft.

Summary

1. Records represent the files of the national office of the Congress, based in New York City, including several hundred case files; publications produced and received by the Congress; files of the Literature Department; Executive Director William Patterson's correspondence files; correspondence and other materials from Civil Rights Congress chapters around the country, including case files of the New York chapter; and files of the New York headquarters of the Communist Party of the United States of America, created during the trial of twelve Communist leaders, 1948-1949, including two Black members, Benjamin J. Davis and Henry Winston, consisting of correspondence, transcripts, legal briefs, and printed material.

Subject

1. Davis, Benjamin J. 1903-1964
2. Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961
3. Winston, Henry, 1911-1986
4. Patterson, William L. 1890-1980
5. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
6. Communist Party of the United States of America
7. American Civil Liberties Union
8. Civil rights -- United States -- Societies, etc
9. Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- United States
10. Communist parties -- United States
11. Discrimination -- United States
12. African Americans -- Civil rights
13. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
14. African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
15. African Americans -- Political activity
16. Civil rights movements -- Race relations
17. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
18. Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1949
19. United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
20. United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
21. United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-1960
22. United States -- Race relations

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-6616

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
2. Material transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats (note)

1. Collection available on microfilm.

Source (note)

1. Patterson, William L.

Biography (note)

1. National organization established in 1946 to, among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against ... labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities." The organization folded in 1955 under pressure from the United States Attorney-General and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which accused the organization of being subversive.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Gallagher, Eric. "Papers of the Civil Rights Congress: a guide to the microfilm edition." Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Processed
3. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)

Title

1. Civil Rights Congress records, 1946-1955.

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats

1. Collection available on microfilm. University Publications of America.

Biography

1. National organization established in 1946 to, among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against ... labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities." The organization folded in 1955 under pressure from the United States Attorney-General and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which accused the organization of being subversive.

Indexes

1. Gallagher, Eric. "Papers of the Civil Rights Congress: a guide to the microfilm edition." Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid
2. Access to Digital Edition

Research call number

1. Sc Micro R-6616