Civil Rights Congress filed 1951 UN genocide charges against the US

Evidence

In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress petitioned the UN to consider charges under the Convention against the US government for the oppression of African- Americans (see James, 1996:46-7). Barta (1987) goes so far as to attempt to reverse the Holocaust as the locus classicus of genocide, suggesting that Australia has been, “during the whole 200 years of its existence, a genocidal society” while Germany has not. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 272

Categorization

• QUESTION: The 1951 Civil Rights Congress petition (We Charge Genocide) is a striking, undercited episode worth chasing — a domestic anti-racism movement using international genocide law against its own state.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘We Charge Genocide’ — the 1951 petition as an early legal attempt to frame US racial oppression as genocide, decades before critical race theory.