National Negro Congress
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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.[1] "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.[2] Democratic President Harry S. Truman's Attorney General Thomas Clark also cited it as subversive and Communist. [3] The organization was redesignated on April 27 1953 pursuant to Executive Order No. 10450.[4][5]
It was the premier Communist front movement in the United States among African-Americans during the New Deal and World War II.[6]
See also
References
- â 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 Who Was Frank Marshall Davis?, Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, p. 13.
- â Reports of January 3, 1939, page 81; also cited in Reports of January 25, 1942; and March 29, 1944; Ibid.
- â Press releases of December 3 1947 and September 21 1948, Ibid.
- â Ibid.
- â Executive Order 10450--Security requirements for Government employment.
- â 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 Who Was Frank Marshall Davis?, Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein.