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    The Southern Negro Youth Congress was an American organization established in 1937 at a conference in Richmond, Virginia. It was established as a left-wing...
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    Davis, was a national officer and leading organizer of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, an organization influenced by the Communist Party aimed at...
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    also served as organizational and executive secretary at the Southern Negro Youth Congress. Jackson was born on August 21, 1917, in Arlington, Virginia...
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    door, while Taylor was attempting to attend a meeting of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. He was later convicted of disorderly conduct. He appealed his...
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  • Sharecroppers' Union, Civil Rights Congress, Negro Labor Victory Committee, Southern Negro Youth Congress, and Negro Labor Councils. (NOTE: International...
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    Democratic vice president. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's racial segregation...
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  • Henry O. Mayfield (category Congress of Industrial Organizations people)
    associated due to their connections in the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Southern Negro Youth Congress. Thus, Hudson's autobiography provides...
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  • Peace Michigan School of Social Science Nanka Teikoku Gunyudan National Negro Congress Nationalist Action League Oklahoma League for Political Education Peace...
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  • The National Negro Congress (NNC) (1936–ca. 1946) was an American organization formed in 1936 at Howard University as a broadly based coalition organization...
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  • activists Nadir of American race relations Race and sports Southern Negro Youth Congress Southern Tenant Farmers Union Timeline of racial tension in Omaha...
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  • integration group), the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and the American Youth Congress. As a member of the American Youth Congress she went to the White...
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  • the Alabama Tribune and Birmingham World, and members of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, or SNYC, amongst others coordinated efforts to bring justice...
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  • Anne Braden (category Southern Conference Educational Fund)
    veterans to the Birmingham courthouse, led by Louis Burnham of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, demanding the right to vote; with Braden covering the story...
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    DC schools.: 99  She served on the National Council for the Southern Negro Youth Congress in 1945, a group claimed to be a Communist front organization...
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    1946 she was elected to the Executive Board of the Southern Negro Youth Congress at the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia, South Carolina. It had operated...
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    Mobilization, the American Youth Congress, the League of Young Southerners, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, as well as the Congress of Industrial Organizations...
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    after a six-week siege by the rebel Nationalist forces. The Southern Negro Youth Congress, a left-wing civil rights organization of African-American students...
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  • Birmingham for about ten years, as it was the headquarters of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC). In Birmingham, SNYC experienced both successes and failures...
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  • International Workers Order, the League of Young Southerners, and the Southern Negro Youth Congress. Through these organizations, the CPUSA could be seen to "touch...
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  • including: American Committee for European Workers' Relief Southern Negro Youth Congress Syracuse Women for Peace Tom Paine School of Westchester, New...
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    English-translated Soviet biography put out by Progress Publishers Southern Negro Youth Congress Forum 1 (OHAL). Archived April 17, 2021, at the Wayback Machine...
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  • segregation and discrimination and his involvement with the Southern Negro Youth Congress after the war inspired him to pursue the study of law to help...
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  • Neale Hurston writes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God Southern Negro Youth Congress founded. Joe Louis becomes first African-American heavyweight...
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  • Klux Klan, and joined the NAACP, Rosa Parks allied with the Southern Negro Youth Congress to publicize Taylor's case. Rosa Parks gathered the support...
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  • employers." Eventually, in 1937, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, a wing of the CIO's National Negro Congress, established the Tobacco Stemmers' and...
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    "Non-Violence and Non-Cooperation.") In 1939, Burnham joined the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC), becoming its organizational secretary in 1941. In the...
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  • who were active in the Young Communist League, and then the Southern Negro Youth Congress, in the 1930s and 1940s. Her father was Louis E. Burnham, an...
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    States. Louis Burnham, the former executive secretary of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC), was the Managing Editor of Freedom. Burnham was responsible...
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  • She also helped establish the Southern Committee for People's Rights, was involved with the Southern Negro Youth Congress, advocated for the rights of...
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    Newspapers.com. "Negro Congress Wants U.S. Navy to Leave Haiti". The Daily Worker. 25 August 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 22 May 2023. and "Negro Congress to Ask U.S...
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