WE CHARGE GENOCIDE: THE HISTORIC PETITION TO THE UNITED NATIONS FOR RELIEF FROM A CRIME OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE NEGRO PEOPLE; (A Petition to The United Nations)

Published by Civil Rights Congress, New York, 1952

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Octavo. Trade paperback (8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.) with paper covers. Glued "Perfectbound" publication. Shelfwear and scuffing to black and white photographic cover (with red and black titling). A few small closed tears to extremities, and wrinkling to thin paper spine. 240 pp. with Appendices. Horrific photo of the double lynching of two young black men, Dooley Morton and Bert Moore, in the yard of the Zion Church at Columbus, Mississippi. The document is divided into five parts: I) The Opening Statement; II) The Law and the Indictment; III) The Evidence; IV) Summary and Prayer; V) Appendix. "It is sometimes incorrectly thought that genocide means the complete and definitive destruction of a race or people. The Genocide Convention, however, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1948, defines genocide as any killings on the basis of race, or, in its specific words, as 'killing members of the group.' Any intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial, ethnic or religious group is genocide, according to the convention." "We maintain, therefore, that the oppressed Negro citizens of the United States, segregated, discriminated against and long the target of violence, suffer from genocide as the result of consistent, conscious, unified policies of every branch of government." "We believe that in issuing this document we are discharging an historical responsibility to the American people, as well as rendering a service of inestimable valuye to progressive mankind.We speak of progressive mankind because a policy of discrimination at home must inevitably create racist commodities for export abroad - must inevitably tend toward war." (William L. Patterson, National Executivbe Secretary, Civil Rights Congress). …

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Title
WE CHARGE GENOCIDE: THE HISTORIC PETITION TO THE UNITED NATIONS FOR RELIEF FROM A CRIME OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE NEGRO PEOPLE; (A Petition to The United Nations)
Author
Patterson, William L and Richard O. Boyer, Howard Fast, Yvonne Gregory, Dr. Oakley Johnson, John Hudson Jones, Ruth A. Jones, Leon Josephson, Stetson Kennedy and Elizabeth Lawson (Editors and Staff)
Publisher
Civil Rights Congress, New York
Publication year
1952
Condition
Good Plus
Binding
Softcover
Edition
Third edition.
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