League of Struggle for Negro Rights
Organization
The League of Struggle for Negro Rights was organized by the Communist Party in 1930 as the successor to the American Negro Labor Congress.[1][2][3] The League was particularly active in organizing support for the "Scottsboro Boys", nine black men sentenced to death in 1931 for crimes they had not committed.[4] It also campaigned for a separate black nation in the South, one of the CPUSA's principal tenets in the early 1930s, and against police brutality, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and Jim Crow laws, while also advocating a more general policy of opposition to fascism and support for the Soviet Union.
Langston Hughes became its President in 1934. Harry Haywood was its General Secretary. Another prominent leader of the organization was Bonita Williams, a migrant from the British Caribbean living in Harlem, who joined the group after abandoning Garveyism. During her time with the league, Williams organized "'Flying Squads,' which mobilized working-class housewives to agitate against high food prices."[5]
The organization largely disappeared after 1935, when the Communist Party, as part of its Popular Front strategy, joined with other non-communist organizations and individuals to form the National Negro Congress.
See also
Pamphlets
- The South Comes North in Detroit's Own Scottsboro Case by Harry Haywood New York : Published for League of Struggle for Negro Rights, by Workers' Library Publishers, 1932
- They Shall Not Die! The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures; Stop the Legal Lynching! by Elizabeth Lawson, Anton Refregier and B. D. Amis New York: Published for League of Struggle for Negro Rights, by Workers' Library Publishers, 1932
- Equality, land and freedom: a program for Negro liberation New York City : League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1933
- The Borden case : the struggle for Negro rights in Boston, under the leadership of the L.S.N.R. Boston : The League, 1934.
- "You cannot kill the working class," New York: International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights 1937.
References
- ^ Page, Jeffrey E. (2009). "American Negro Labor Congress". In Finkelman, Paul (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: from the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-19-516779-5. OCLC 312624445.
- ^ Page, Jeffrey E. (February 9, 2009). American Negro Labor Congress (Report). Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.45977.
- ^ "Revels Cayton: African American Communist and Labor Activist - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ Amis, Barry D. (2004-11-19). "B.D. Amis, Black Communist and labor leader". People's World. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ Berry, Daina Ramey (2020). A Black women's history of the United States. Kali N. Gross. Boston: Beacon Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8070-3355-5. OCLC 1096284843.
External links
- FBI files on the League of Struggle for Negro Rights
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