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In 1928 the 6th Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, under [[Stalin]]'s control, resolved that the black population of the American South was a subject nation, thus capable of engendering a '[[national movement|national revolutionary movement]],' and ordered the American party to give work on the "Negro question" high priority. The party found in the Scottsboro case an ideal vehicle for worldwide propaganda as well as a recruiting tool in the ghettos of northern cities. Many more militant blacks, some of high stature and renown, embraced the Communist party, and all the attendant consequences.  The party was found to be a conspiracy advocating the violent overthrow the United States government by force and controlled by a hostile foreign power.

In 1928 the 6th Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, under [[Stalin]]'s control, resolved that the black population of the American South was a subject nation, thus capable of engendering a '[[national movement|national revolutionary movement]],' and ordered the American party to give work on the "Negro question" high priority. The party found in the Scottsboro case an ideal vehicle for worldwide propaganda as well as a recruiting tool in the ghettos of northern cities. Many more militant blacks, some of high stature and renown, embraced the Communist party, and all the attendant consequences.  The party was found to be a conspiracy advocating the violent overthrow the United States government by force and controlled by a hostile foreign power.

The [[International Labor Defense]]--an officially non-Communist organization controlled by the Party took control of the men's defense, forcing out the [[NAACP]]. While the heavy lifting for the Scottsboro defendants was done by the ACLU and NAACP, the Communist Party tried to claim that it, virtually alone, defended them, attacking any groups that refused to accept “unity” under the Communists. NAACP leader Roy Wilkins would write in 1949:

The [[International Labor Defense]]—an officially non-Communist organization controlled by the Party took control of the men's defense, forcing out the [[NAACP]]. While the heavy lifting for the Scottsboro defendants was done by the ACLU and NAACP, the Communist Party tried to claim that it, virtually alone, defended them, attacking any groups that refused to accept “unity” under the Communists. NAACP leader Roy Wilkins would write in 1949:

{{cquote|We remember that in the Scottsboro case, the NAACP was subjected to the most unprincipled vilification. We remember the campaign of slander in the ''Daily Worker''. We remember the leaflets and the speakers and the whole unspeakable machinery that was turned loose upon all those who did not embrace the "unity" policy as announced by the communists.<ref>Gilbert Jonas, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=i8-SAgAAQBAJ Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969]'' (Routledge, 2005) ISBN 1135930880, p. 144</ref>}}

{{cquote|We remember that in the Scottsboro case, the NAACP was subjected to the most unprincipled vilification. We remember the campaign of slander in the ''Daily Worker''. We remember the leaflets and the speakers and the whole unspeakable machinery that was turned loose upon all those who did not embrace the "unity" policy as announced by the communists.<ref>Gilbert Jonas, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=i8-SAgAAQBAJ Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969]'' (Routledge, 2005) ISBN 1135930880, p. 144</ref>}}