The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) is a growing, national, non-partisan organization, founded in 1946, which has been re-established to struggle for justice, and defend civil liberties and civil rights, as outlined in our Bill of Rights.

The CRC seeks to:

– Conduct campaigns on local and national civil rights issues

– help to provide legal assistance to fight civil rights cases in the courts

– work in partnership with legal professionals who are sympathetic to the cause of social justice

– Maintain a bail fund and prisoner relief fund for victims of injustice

– Establish chapters across the country

– Guarantee fair trials by taking the facts to the people

“The Civil Rights Congress is a defender of constitutional liberties, human rights, and peace.

It is the implacable enemy of every creed, philosophy, social system, or way of life that denies democratic rights or one iota of human dignity to any human being because of race, creed, nationality, political belief, sex, or gender.” – From We Charge Genocide, by the Civil Rights Congress in 1951.

We will continue the work begun by the original founders of the Civil Rights Congress

(1946-1956) to promote the constitutional and civil rights of the people in the United States, and to oppose reactionary forces who seek to destroy the Bill of Rights & the Constitution.