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[[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>  [[President Barack Obama]]'s early mentor, [[Frank Marshall Davis]], served on the organizations National Executive Board.<ref>[http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/HonoluluRecord1/volume%201/v1n41.pdf ''Honolulu Record'', May 12 1949, v.1 no.41. p.3.]</ref>  Patterson also headed the [[communist front]] organization, the [[Abraham Lincoln School]] in [[Chicago]], with Davis also on the faculty and Baord of Directors.<ref>''Chicago Defender'', October 20 1945, cited in FBI file Frank Marshall Davis [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_4.pdf Correlation Summary 12/28/55, v.4 p.80] pdf.</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>  [[President Barack Obama]]'s early mentor, [[Frank Marshall Davis]], served on the organizations National Executive Board.<ref>[http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/HonoluluRecord1/volume%201/v1n41.pdf ''Honolulu Record'', May 12 1949, v.1 no.41. p.3.]</ref>  Patterson also headed the [[communist front]] organization, the [[Abraham Lincoln School]] in [[Chicago]], with Davis also on the faculty and Baord of Directors.<ref>''Chicago Defender'', October 20 1945, cited in FBI file Frank Marshall Davis [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_4.pdf Correlation Summary 12/28/55, v.4 p.80] pdf.</ref>

In December, 1947, the [[Natoional Negro Congress]] was merged with the CRC.

In December, 1947, the [[National Negro Congress]] was merged with the CRC.

In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress issued its a petition to the [[United Nations]] entitled, ''We Charge Genocide, The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People.''<ref>''We Charge Genocide, The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People'', (New York, Civil Rights Congress 1951).</ref>

In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress issued its a petition to the [[United Nations]] entitled, ''We Charge Genocide, The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People.''<ref>''We Charge Genocide, The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People'', (New York, Civil Rights Congress 1951).</ref>

The introduction by William Patterson reads as follows:  

The introduction by William Patterson reads as follows:  

{{QuoteboxIt is sometimes incorrectly thought that genocide means the complete and definite destruction of a race or people. The Genocide Convention, however, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1948, defines genocide as any killings on the basis of race, or, in its specific words, as "killing members of the group." Any intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial, ethnic or religious group is genocide, according to the Convention. Thus, the Convention states, "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" is genocide as well as "killing members of the group."

We maintain, therefore, that the oppressed Negro citizens of the United States, segregated, discriminated against and long the target of violence, suffer from genocide as the result of the consistent, conscious, unified, policies of every branch of government.  

You will recall that the U.S. Supreme Court said in Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954, that segregated schools produce in the Negro child "a feeling of inferiority as to his status." This would imply not only that those Americans who want segregated schools are guilty of genocide, but that the genocide convention, can somehow intervene to forbid segregation.}}

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

*[[Subversive Activities Control Board]]

*[[Subversive Activities Control Board]]

*[[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]]

*[[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]]

==References==

==References==