Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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.

From the description of Clark Foreman files, 1934-1967. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477301

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