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Civil Rights Congress audio and moving image collection : 25 items.
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress audio and moving image collection : 25 items.
- Author
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) creator.
- Publication
- [1977]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Civil 1977-81 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Description
- 24 audiotape reels
- 1 film reel
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- United States > Race relations
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-1960
- United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953
- Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1949
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
- Civil rights movements > Race relations
- African Americans > Political activity
- African Americans > History > 1877-1964
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- Discrimination > United States
- Communist parties > United States
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States
- Civil rights > United States > Societies, etc
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Communist Party of the United States of America
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Note
- 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)
- Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection).
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Civil 1977-81
- OCLC
- 1191232670
- Author
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) creator.
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress audio and moving image collection : 25 items.
- Publisher
- [1977]
- Linking Entry
- Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Civil 1977-81