Ad for New Negro Alliance meeting to be held at Lincoln Temple, 1939

ID: 3875 ~ Source: Historical Society of Washington, DC (Henry Whitehead Collection)

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Lincoln Temple Congregational Church

Ad for New Negro Alliance meeting to be held at Lincoln Temple, 1939

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Lincoln Temple Congregational Church

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Lincoln Temple Congregational Church

In 1939, Lincoln Temple Congregational Church was the site of a mass meeting to "Abolish Modern Slavery," hosted by the National Negro Congress (NNC). With a goal of focusing attention on police enforcement of racial terrorism, the meeting's…