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Rh For the third time in 1951,, a Negro housing development in Miami, Florida, was dynamited by racist terrorists. The Miami Hebrew School and Congregation was bombed at the same time. No effort by the FBI or Florida police to apprehend and jail the terrorists has been made.

A United States Circuit Court of Appeals refused to review the cases of four North Carolina Negroes facing death in the state’s gas chamber on trumped-up charges. The Cousins were refused a review of their murder frame-up because their attorney was a day late in filing his appeal. The other two victims,, 20 and , face death for “rape.” White men in North Carolina convicted of that crime are never given the death penalty.

A federal grand jury in Beaumont, Texas, acquitted four Orange, Texas policemen who beat to death, a Negro they were holding in jail on charges of robbery.

Fifteen Negroes died in a train collision near Woodstock, Alabama, because state and railway officials compelled them to sit in a segregated car, a converted baggage car, in the forward part of the train. Two small Negro children were among the dead.

Since the second edition of this book went to press in November, 1951, the following acts of genocide by government against the Negro people, in violation of the UN Convention on Genocide, have been reported. (The following is a partial list.)

On Christmas Night, in Mims, Florida, Harry T. Moore, Florida head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was murdered by racist terrorists who bombed his home. His wife, Mrs. Harriett Moore, was also killed as a result of injuries sustained in the bombing. The attack on the Moore home followed a series of thirteen bombings of Jewish synagogues, a Negro housing project and Catholic Churches which began in June in Florida. Neither the murderers nor the dynamiters have been found or punished by government authorities.

In Paris, France, the U.S. State Department attempted to withdraw William L. Patterson’s passport. Mr. Patterson, National Executive Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress and editor of this petition, was seeking a hearing before the UN Commission on Human Rights. The State Department’s action was an open attempt to perpetuate anti-Negro genocide in the United States.

Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, former Secretary of State of the United States, called on the State Legislature to abandon the public school system because the U.S. Supreme Court may uphold the right of Negro students to so-called “equal” yet segregated school facilities.

Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia publicly urged a boycott by racists throughout the South of several national television programs because Negro and white performers had appeared together or because Negroes 2And :whites conversed with each other on these programs.

‘In New York City, eighteen families living in Stuyvesant Town, owned by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and built under an agreement with the City of New York for tax exemption, were served eviction notices. Each of the families had been active in a committee which fought for the right of xv