The Black Freedom Movement and the Politics of the Anti-Genocide Norm in the United States, 1951 - 1967

Abstract

6 For example, Charles H. Martin observes that "even before the CRC officially disbanded in 1956, the Genocide Petition had faded from public consciousness," till it "experienced a brief though less successful [than the Genocide Convention] renaissance" during the 1960s. Charles H. Martin, "Internationalizing 'The American Dilemma': The Civil Rights Congress and the 1951 Genocide Petition to the United Nations,"