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National Negro Congress  

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  • The National Negro Congress (NNC) had its beginnings at the conference Economic Crisis and the Negro, which was held in Washington, D.C., in May of 1935. The conference was sponsored by the Joint Committee on National Recovery and Howard University's Department of Political Economy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; National Negro Congress]

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