Feb 15, 2019 by Paul A. Ransom
The National Negro Congress was established in 1936, (in memory of Bishop Richard Allen) to “secure the right of the negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching and mob violence” and to “promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people.”
It was conceived as a national coalition of churches, labor and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks.
The National Negro Congress was the culmination of the communist party’s Depression-era effort to unite black and white workers and intellectuals in the fight for racial justice and marked the apex of communist party prestige in African-American communities.
In 1815, Pennsylvania Abolition Society supported Richard Allen of the Bethel Baptist Church in their successful battle against takeover by the white Methodist leadership. Pennsylvania Abolition society was listed along with Allen in the certificate that formally transferred ownership of the property on which Bethel stood.
As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the “traffic of Men-body.” Read more here
It was conceived as a national coalition of churches, labor and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks.
The National Negro Congress was the culmination of the communist party’s Depression-era effort to unite black and white workers and intellectuals in the fight for racial justice and marked the apex of communist party prestige in African-American communities.
In 1815, Pennsylvania Abolition Society supported Richard Allen of the Bethel Baptist Church in their successful battle against takeover by the white Methodist leadership. Pennsylvania Abolition society was listed along with Allen in the certificate that formally transferred ownership of the property on which Bethel stood.
As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the “traffic of Men-body.” Read more here
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