Item #9875 Resolution on the Question of Negro Rights and Self-Determination Adopted at the Plenary Meeting of the National Committee, C.P.U.S.A., December 3-5, 1946

Resolution on the Question of Negro Rights and Self-Determination Adopted at the Plenary Meeting of the National Committee, C.P.U.S.A., December 3-5, 1946

Southern California District Communist Party, U.S.A., 1959. A reproduction of the 1946 Resolution, which formalized the Communist Party’s commitment to black liberation and civil rights. As stated at the outset, “Defense of Negro rights has became an imperative and inescapable task of the American labor-progressive coalition in the struggle against reaction and the threat of fascism. Such a coalition must be based solidly upon alliance with the Negro people.”

Corner-stapled 11” x 8 ½” sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos only; yellow cover sheet + 4 p. Near Fine. One copy in OCLC at the Univ. of Michigan. Item #9875

Price: $150.00