| − | The '''National Negro Congress''' was originally one of eleven organizations cited by [[President Franklin Roosevelt]]'s Attorney General [[Francis Biddle]] in 1941 as a [[subversive]] [[communist]] front organization.<ref>Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, pages 7687 and 7688, cited in report prepared from the public 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, p. 13.</ref> "The officers of the National Negro Congress were outspoken Communist sympathizers, and a majority of those on the executive board were outright Communists," the [[Dies Committee]] reported.<ref>Reports of January 3, 1939, page 81; also cited in Reports of January 25, 1942; and March 29, 1944; Ibid.</ref> It was the premier Communist front movement in the United States among [[African-American]]s during the [[New Deal]] and [[World War II]].<ref>Ibid.</ref> | + | The '''National Negro Congress''' was originally one of eleven organizations cited by [[President Franklin Roosevelt]]'s Attorney General [[Francis Biddle]] in 1941 as a [[subversive]] [[communist]] front organization.<ref>Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, pages 7687 and 7688, cited in report prepared from the public 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, p. 13.</ref> "The officers of the National Negro Congress are outspoken Communist sympathizers, and a majority of those on the executive board are outright Communists," the [[Dies Committee]] reported.<ref>Reports of January 3, 1939, page 81; also cited in Reports of January 25, 1942; and March 29, 1944; Ibid.</ref> It was the premier Communist front movement in the United States among [[African-American]]s during the [[New Deal]] and [[World War II]].<ref>Ibid.</ref> |