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Arkansas State Press
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
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The Civil Rights Congress charges Truman Democrats with joining Dixiecrats and Republicans in undermining the civil rights program for Negro people by accepting a weak FEPC instead of the strong Powell Bill, calling it a tri-partisan lynching. CRC's William L. Patterson urges progressive forces to mobilize in Washington.
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New York—By accepting a "tooth-less so-called FEPC rather than continuing the fight for the strong Powell Bill, Truman Democrats joined the Dixiecrats and Republicans in the tri-partisan lynching of the whole civil rights program for the Negro people". the Civil Rights Congress has charged.
"The policy of believing Truman's promises". the statement, issued by CRC Executive Secretary William L. Patterson declared, "has been proven to be not only bankrupt but downright treason to the Negro people's movement for civil rights."
He continued, "By knifing a minimum Fair Employment Practices measure, both major parties now stand revealed as enemies of the Negro people. Their action helped again to re-inforce an official Jim Crow policy enforced through terror by government everywhere in the United States, both North and South."
"Still another go-ahead signal has thus been flashed by the federal government to the Ku Klux Klan and legal lynchers in courtrooms across the land", he continued.
Mr. Patterson urged the "truly progressive forces both in Negro and white America, to prepare a new, fighting Civil Rights Mobilization in Washington before Spring has passed."
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tri-partisan lynching of the civil rights program; reinforcement of jim crow policy; urging of new civil rights mobilization in washington
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Civil Rights Congress charges Truman Democrats with joining Dixiecrats and Republicans in accepting a weak FEPC bill instead of the strong Powell Bill, described as treason to Negro civil rights movement and a signal to Ku Klux Klan and legal lynchers.