Research Catalog
Civil Rights Congress records
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress records, 1946-1955.
- Author
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
Details
- Description
- 53.6 lin. ft.
- 125 microfilm reels.
- Summary
- 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
- Davis, Benjamin J. 1903-1964
- Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961
- Winston, Henry, 1911-1986
- Patterson, William L. 1890-1980
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Communist Party of the United States of America
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Civil rights > United States > Societies, etc
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States
- Communist parties > United States
- Discrimination > United States
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- African Americans > History > 1877-1964
- African Americans > Political activity
- Civil rights movements > Race relations
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
- Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1949
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953
- United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-1960
- United States > Race relations
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Material transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Access (note)
- Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Collection available on microfilm.
- Source (note)
- Patterson, William L.
- Biography (note)
- 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)
- Gallagher, Eric. "Papers of the Civil Rights Congress: a guide to the microfilm edition." Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Processed
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- Sc Micro R-6616
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A62
- Author
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress records, 1946-1955.
- Access
- Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
- Additional Formats
- Collection available on microfilm. University Publications of America.
- Biography
- 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
- Gallagher, Eric. "Papers of the Civil Rights Congress: a guide to the microfilm edition." Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc Micro R-6616