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The '''Civil Rights Congress''' was cited as [[subversive]] and [[Communist]] by President [[Harry S. Truman]]'s Attorney General [[Thomas Clark]] on the [[Attorney General's list]] furnished to the Loyalty Review Board and released to the press by the U.S. Civil Service Commission on December 4 1947 and September 21 1948.  In the [[House UnAmerican Activities]] Report on the CivilRights Congress, it was cited as an organization formed in April 1946 as a merger of two other [[Communist-front]] organizations, the [[International Labor Defense]] (ILD) and the National [[Federation for Constitutional Liberties]] (NFCL); "dedicated no to the broader issues of civil liberties, but specicially to the defense of individual Communists and the Communist Party" and "controlled by individuals who are either members of the Communist Party or openly loyal to it."  The organization was redesignated on April 27 1953 the the U.S. Attorney General pursuant to Executive Order N. 10450.<ref>Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senate William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20 1953, reproduced in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/who.frank.marshall.davis.pdf ''Who Was Frank Marshall Davis?''], Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein. pp. 12-14.</ref>

The '''Civil Rights Congress''' was cited as [[subversive]] and [[Communist]] by President [[Harry S. Truman]]'s Attorney General [[Thomas Clark]] on the [[Attorney General's list]] furnished to the Loyalty Review Board and released to the press by the U.S. Civil Service Commission on December 4 1947 and September 21 1948.  In the [[House UnAmerican Activities]] Report on the CivilRights Congress, it was cited as an organization formed in April 1946 as a merger of two other [[Communist-front]] organizations, the [[International Labor Defense]] (ILD) and the National [[Federation for Constitutional Liberties]] (NFCL); "dedicated no to the broader issues of civil liberties, but specicially to the defense of individual Communists and the Communist Party" and "controlled by individuals who are either members of the Communist Party or openly loyal to it."  The organization was redesignated on April 27 1953 the the U.S. Attorney General pursuant to Executive Order N. 10450.<ref>Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senate William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20 1953, reproduced in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/who.frank.marshall.davis.pdf ''Who Was Frank Marshall Davis?''], Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein. pp. 12-14.</ref>

[[International Labor Defense]] (ILD) secretary [[William Patterson]] led the group throughout its existence.<ref>Gerald Horne, [http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/civil-rights-congress-1946-1956 ''Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956''] (Rutherford:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987); Horne, ''Civil Rights Congress,'' in Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds., ''Encyclopedia of the American Left'' (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990), 134-135, BlackPast.org</ref>  

[[International Labor Defense]] (ILD) national secretary [[William Patterson]] led the group throughout its existence.<ref>Gerald Horne, [http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/civil-rights-congress-1946-1956 ''Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956''] (Rutherford:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987); Horne, ''Civil Rights Congress,'' in Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds., ''Encyclopedia of the American Left'' (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990), 134-135, BlackPast.org</ref>  

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

*[http://www.archive.org/details/reportoncivilrig1947unit Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization.] Investigation of un-American activities in the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2, 1947.

*[http://www.archive.org/details/reportoncivilrig1947unit Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization.] Investigation of un-American activities in the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2, 1947.