League of Struggle for Negro Rights
- League of Struggle for Negro Rights
The League of Struggle for Negro Rights was organized by the Communist Party in 1930 as the successor to the American Negro Labor Congress. The League was particularly active in organizing support for the "Scottsboro Boys", nine black men sentenced to death in 1931 for crimes they had not committed. It also campaigned for a separate black nation in the South, one of the CPUSA's principal tenets in the early 1930s, and against police brutality, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and Jim Crow laws, while also advocating a more general policy of opposition to fascism and support for the Soviet Union.
Langston Hughes became its President in 1934. Harry Haywood was its General Secretary. The organization largely disappeared after 1935, when the Communist Party, as part of its Popular Front strategy, joined with other non-communist organizations and individuals to form the National Negro Congress.
ee also
*The Communist Party and African-Americans
External references
* [http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/leagueofstruggle.htm FBI files on the League of Struggle for Negro Rights]
* [http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/radicalism/public/all/southcomesnorth/AAK.pdf?CFID=5171542&CFTOKEN=34331723 "The South Comes North in Detroits Own Scottsboro Case"] by Harry Haywood. (PDF)
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