Southern Conference for Human Welfare

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Southern_Conference_for_Human_Welfare
GPTKB entity
Statements (31)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:organization
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved 1948
gptkbp:focus civil rights
labor rights
racial equality
anti-segregation
gptkbp:founded 1938
gptkbp:foundedIn gptkb:Birmingham,_Alabama
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Southern Conference for Human Welfare
gptkbp:notableAction supported labor unions
advocated for New Deal policies in the South
challenged Jim Crow laws
promoted interracial cooperation
gptkbp:notableEvent First conference held in 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Aubrey_Williams
gptkb:Virginia_Durr
gptkb:A._Philip_Randolph
gptkb:Eleanor_Roosevelt
gptkb:Mary_McLeod_Bethune
gptkb:Ralph_McGill
gptkb:Lillian_Smith
gptkb:James_Dombrowski
gptkb:Frank_Porter_Graham
gptkb:Lucy_Randolph_Mason
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:FBI_(under_J._Edgar_Hoover)
segregationists
gptkbp:purpose promote social, economic, and political reform in the American South
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Southern_Conference_Educational_Fund
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:investigation_of_the_Southern_Conference_for_Human_Welfare
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6