[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Resolutions of the National Negro Congress Held in Chicago, Ill. February 14, 15, 16, 1936. [Washington, DC]: February 1936.

8vo. (Chipping at edges and toning to margins, pages fully separated from wrappers.) Original wrappers (detached, brittleness and loss to edges and corners).

The pamphlet summarizes the results of the first National Negro Congress, including the address of National Negro Congress President A. Philip Randolph and the varied resolutions passed at the Congress.

Formed at Howard University in 1935, the National Negro Congress (NNC) was a broadly based organization with the goal of fighting for Black liberation. Like its successor, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the NNC was affiliated with the Communist Party.

The inauguration of the NNC brought together over 800 delegates, 43 percent of them from Chicago and the rest from across the nation, representing 500 different organizations at the Eighth Regiment Armory on the south side of Chicago from 14-16 February 1936. The sessions covered a wide range of topics, including business, women and labor, sharecroppers, interracial organizing, and the war in Ethiopia. (Information obtained from the Encyclopedia of Chicago website.)

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American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Resolutions of the National Negro Congress Held in Chicago, Ill. February 14, 15, 16, 1936. [Washington, DC]: February 1936.

American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Resolutions of the National Negro Congress Held in Chicago, Ill. February 14, 15, 16, 1936. [Washington, DC]: February 1936.

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