Letter from Provisional Secretary for Calling the Negro Conference to Executive Committee, CPSA, 23 July 1923

Dear Comrades:– The Fourth Congress of the Comintern decided to hold a Negro Congress.

The Enlarged Executive decided to call a Negro Conference at the time of the Fifth Congress.

After consulting with your representatives here,2 we have concluded that it will be impossible to arrange the conference as originally planned. We have decided as follows therefore:

1. There shall be a conference as planned in Moscow, of Negro Communists, this conference to take place at the time of the Fifth Congress. It will be the duty of your Party, therefore, to add a Negro delegate to your delegation to the Fifth Congress.