The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was a civil rights organization formed in 1946 by a merger of the International Labor Defense and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. In 1951, it presented a denunciation of lynching in the United States, titled We Charge Genocide, to the United Nations. William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson were prominent members of the organization.
The CRC was designated a Communist front group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations, as directed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9835.[citation needed]
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- Civil Rights Congress (1946-1956) A history of the CRC at BlackPast.org.
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