communism the crc robeson and the civil rights movement as this is a survey and there was zero mention of the cpusa and the many battles they fought in the pre era i feel that history warrants the inclusion to call the crc a fringe group is to show a paucity of history of what led up to civil rights historians have been scared and embarrassed or ignorant regarding the huge amount of work that communists the crc robeson did vis a vis groups such as the crc this history is documented and it is civil rights history even if eyes on the prize left it out also not all the members were communist many were the same folks who went on marches and who were suffering injustices in small kkk towns in the south also the distancing from cp was key at the time i'm ready to add sources but would like to hear from malik etc thanks