Southern Conference for Human Welfare
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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formed in 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama to promote civil liberties and to combat economic problems in the South by expanding the New Deal to attack southern poverty. The organization campaigned against the poll tax, allied itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, held interracial meetings, and followed a "popular front" strategy which allowed Communists membership in SCHW. This policy led to charges of Communist influence, a factor which hastened the SCHW's demise in 1948.
The National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax was established in 1941. The Committee's work was originally started by the Civil Rights Committee of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Virginia Foster Durr and Joseph Gelders directed the work of the Committee to persuade Congress to repeal the poll tax. Although the Committee collapsed in 1948, it succeeded in turning public opinion in the South against the poll tax.
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African American labor union members
African Americans
African Americans
African Americans
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Communism
Discrimination in employment
Freedom Train
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New Deal, 1933-1939
Poll tax
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Southern States
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Southern States
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Southern States
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North Carolina
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Southern States
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Washington (D.C.)
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United States
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Atlanta (Ga.)
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United States
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Georgia
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Southern States
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