Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Langston Hughes was a member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), a Communist Party USA front group.[1]
American Youth for Democracy
In the late 1940s, American Youth for Democracy was the youth wing of Communist Party USA.
In 1944 Langston Hughes was a national sponsor of American Youth for Democracy.[2]
Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace
Langston Hughes was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[3]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230911002240/https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/alba_057/ Guide to the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee Records (accessed Sept 10 2023)
- ↑ Spotlight, April, 1944
- ↑ Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949