Subversive Historian

[Moorbey]

The National Negro Labor Council

Back in the day on October 27th, 1951, the National Negro Labor Council
was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. Delegates from across the country
approved a program for the newly formed organization that set out to
promote civil rights within the labor movement. Labor leader William Hood
delivered a speech at the founding convention titled, ?Uncle Tom is Dead,?
and Paul Robeson sang and spoke as well. Delegates approved a program and
agenda for the NNLC that called for the end of discrimination in the
workplace, the construction of 100,000 new jobs for African-Americans, and
making the Fair Employment Practices Committee clauses a part of union
contract negotiations. Detractors of the organization, which unfortunately
included the AFL and the CIO, tried to discredit the NNLC as a
communist-front, and its leaders were eventually called before the House
on Un-American Activities.

After five years, the NNLC folded making it one of the most short-lived
but important civil rights groups, and for that, should never be
forgotten.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa? saying it?s no mystery why they
conceal our people?s history

Listen to this segment:
http://www.archive.org/download/Dail...9_10_27_sh.mp3

[chillz]

Whats the real mystery is why nobody tried to restart this group since. Its very needed!