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Italian Aggression against Ethiopia
The NAACP sent correspondence to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Russian diplomat Maxim Litvinov of the League of Nations to protest Italian aggression against Ethiopia in 1935. The NAACP also protested the Franco-British peace proposals that gave Italy half of Ethiopia and the mass slaughter of Ethiopians in 1937. To rally public support, The Crisis ran a series of articles on the Ethiopian situation, and Charles Houston joined the executive council of American Aid for Ethiopia, an organization that collected donations for war relief.
The NAACP sent correspondence to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Russian diplomat Maxim Litvinov of the League of Nations to protest Italian aggression against Ethiopia in 1935. The NAACP also protested the Franco-British peace proposals that gave Italy half of Ethiopia and the mass slaughter of Ethiopians in 1937. To rally public support, The Crisis ran a series of articles on the Ethiopian situation, and Charles Houston joined the executive council of American Aid for Ethiopia, an organization that collected donations for war relief.