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The National Negro Congress is an organization which was put into place by the Communist Party of the United States of America in 1935 at Howard University. It was a popular front organization created with the goal of fighting for Black liberation and was the successor to the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The National Negro Congress was opposed to war, fascism, and discrimination, especially racial discrimination.
The National Negro Congress consisted mainly of Blacks, but not exclusively. The people who made up the National Negro Congress came from many various and different ranks in society.
In 1936, the first national meeting of the Congress was held in Chicago. Some common things which the members in the congress stood in favor of were full rights for all black people and bringing the black laborers together in unions such as the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
References
- http://www.freepress.org/fleming/flemng84.html
- http://eblackstudies.org/intro/chapter16.htm
- http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3214.html
- http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/national-negro-congress
- http://www.collection.johnpdaviscollection.org/
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