Quibinar #34 - Malcolm X...What Is Struggle To You (We Charge Genocide)

Malcolm X was Planning to Bring The United States Government Before the United Nations in the Early 1960’s

However, years before, on December 17th 1951, Paul Robeson and  William Patterson delivered the “We Charge Genocide” Petition to the Secretariat of the United Nations in NY

Paul Leroy Robeson 
April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976)

• Brother Paul Robeson was an American bass baritone concert artist, stage and film actor, athlete, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.

On December 17, 1951, Paul Robeson and William Patterson submitted a petition from the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) to the United Nations. Titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,”

The petition was signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists.

Robeson led a delegation to present the document at U.N. Headquarters in New York, while CRC Secretary Patterson delivered it to a U.N. meeting in Paris.