Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 24 audiotape reels

Summary

1. The collection consists of 24 audio recordings and 1 moving image recording that document the activities of the Congress, including notable cases such as the defense of Willie McGee.

Subject

1. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
2. Communist Party of the United States of America
3. American Civil Liberties Union
4. Civil rights -- United States -- Societies, etc
5. Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- United States
6. Communist parties -- United States
7. Discrimination -- United States
8. African Americans -- Civil rights
9. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
10. African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
11. African Americans -- Political activity
12. Civil rights movements -- Race relations
13. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
14. Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1949
15. United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
16. United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
17. United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-1960
18. United States -- Race relations

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Civil 1977-81

Note

1. The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was a United States civil rights organization, formed in 1946 at a national conference for radicals and disbanded in 1956. Beginning about 1948, it became involved in representing African Americans sentenced to death and other highly prominent cases, in part to highlight racial injustice in the United States. The CRC took stances on many issues related to political freedom and the rights of African Americans. During the years of the Red Scare, due to its Communist Party affiliations, the CRC was classified as subversive and described as a communist front organization by US Attorney General Thomas Clark under President Harry S. Truman, as well as by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Targeted by the U.S. government, the group was weakened in 1951, and it finally disbanded in 1956.

Linking entry (note)

1. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection).

Author

1. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) creator.

Title

1. Civil Rights Congress audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [1977]

Linking entry

1. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection).

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Civil 1977-81