The National Negro Congress organized picketing of the federal Office of War Production to demand black hiring, 1941..

ID: 4258 ~ Source: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Negro Congress, Demanding Change Through Direct Action

The National Negro Congress organized picketing of the federal Office of War Production to demand black hiring, 1941..

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Negro Congress, Demanding Change Through Direct Action

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Negro Congress, Demanding Change Through Direct Action

During a campaign to exonerate the Scottsboro Boys—a group of imprisoned Black Alabama youth in danger of being lynched—the local chapter of the National Negro Congress (NNC) held its first mass meeting in DC at Metropolitan Baptist Church (then at…