National Negro Congress leaders John P. Davis, A. Philip Randolph, and U. Simpson Tate presided at the group's national conference, held at the Department of Labor in April 1940.

ID: 4321 ~ 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

National Negro Congress leaders John P. Davis, A. Philip Randolph, and U. Simpson Tate presided at the group's national conference, held at the Department of Labor in April 1940.

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…