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National Negro Labor Council

CTL-E-4270 · Organization · political · 1950s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Early-1950s civil-rights organization, one of the most important of its era, driven out of existence by anti-communist pressure. Forty-one volumes (over 8,000 pages) of its FBI headquarters main file were destroyed in the 2013 Alexandria archives flood.

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RELP98 identity check: no NNLC in entities.json or prior aliases; unique in graph.

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