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17 Dec, 8 tweets, 4 min read
#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. 🧵 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we_c…
With the Cold War raging, the U.S. gov't maneuvered to prevent the U.N. Commission on Human Rights from formally debating or even considering the charges brought in the petition.

[One of countless examples of the white supremacist goals/purpose of "Cold War" and McCarthyism.]
U.S. corporate media gave scant coverage to the petition or the crimes it documented. The few Gov't officials who commented on the petition described it as “Communist propaganda.” Elsewhere in world [& in US Black press] it was well received & extensively covered in the press.
Textbooks don't explain that "Whenever organizers challenged the status quo — racism, sexism, capitalism, militarism, and colonialism — its defenders screamed 'communism.'" McCarthyism always about a lot more than blustering senator & Hollywood 10. ⬇️zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
As Black Freedom Movement gathered strength in following years, Cold War geo-politics influenced [and justified to public] Washington's reaction to major events like the sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voting rights organizing, & so on. Read ⬇️by @LadyOfSardines zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
On return to U.S, Patterson's passport was seized, he could no longer speak to foreign audiences. Robeson was prevented from leaving U.S. They & other CRC leaders were harassed & persecuted by FBI & other federal agencies for rest of their lives.

More ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/ball…
Description in this thread of 1951 "We Charge Genocide" petition is from "Civil Rights Movement Archives," an invaluable online collection to #TeachOutsideTextbook of stories & docs created by veterans of Southern Freedom Movement (1951-1968).
Read here: crmvet.org/tim/timhis51.h… white text on red background
To learn more about the history in this thread, we recommend the biography of anthropologist and activist Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson by @BarbaraRansby. See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/esla…

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