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Papers of the Civil Rights Congress

Title
  1. Papers of the Civil Rights Congress [microform] / [project coordinator, Dale Reynolds].
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  1. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, 1988-
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Additional authors
  1. Reynolds, Dale.
  2. Gallagher, Eric, 1963-
  3. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
  4. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
  5. University Publications of America (Firm)
Description
  1. 125 microfilm reels in parts.
Summary
  1. 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.
Series statement
  1. Black studies research sources
  2. Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library
Uniform title
  1. Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Subject
  1. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Sources
  2. African Americans > History > 1877-1964 > Sources
  3. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) Archives
  4. United States > Race relations > Sources
  5. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Archives
  6. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Sources
Contents
  1. pt. 1. Case files (40 reels) -- pt. 2. Files of William L. Patterson and the national office (42 reels) -- pt. 3. Publications (19 reels) -- pt. 4. Communist Party USA files (16 reels) -- pt. 5. Citizens Emergency Defense Conference files (8 reels).
Call number
  1. Sc Micro R-6616
Note
  1. Accompanied by printed reel guides, compiled by Eric Gallagher.
  2. Material transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
  3. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
Access (note)
  1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Collection available on microfilm.
  2. Online version of the documents entitled, Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress, available at Archives Unbound, a Gale database.
Biography (note)
  1. 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)
  1. Gallagher, Eric. "Papers of the Civil Rights Congress: a guide to the microfilm edition." Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.
Title
  1. Papers of the Civil Rights Congress [microform] / [project coordinator, Dale Reynolds].
Imprint
  1. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, 1988-
Series
  1. Black studies research sources
  2. Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library
  3. Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Access
  1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
Additional formats
  1. Collection available on microfilm. University Publications of America.
  2. Online version of the documents entitled, Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress, available at Archives Unbound, a Gale database.
Biography
  1. 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
  1. Gallagher, Eric. "Papers of the Civil Rights Congress: a guide to the microfilm edition." Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.
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Added author
  1. Reynolds, Dale.
  2. Gallagher, Eric, 1963-
  3. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
  4. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
  5. University Publications of America (Firm)
LCCN
  1. 89024822
ISBN
  1. 1556550650 (microfilm : pt. 1) : $2,800.00
  2. 1556550669 (microfilm : pt. 2)
Research call number
  1. Sc Micro R-6616
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