Frente Negra Brasileira

The Frente Negra Brasileira organizes a mass Black political movement

📅 16 September 1931

Founded in São Paulo on 16 September 1931, the Frente Negra Brasileira built a wide network of Black social and political organizing, with branches in several states. It offered education, community...

The Estado Novo dissolves political parties, closing the FNB’s party phase

📅 2 December 1937

Decree-Law 37 of 2 December 1937 dissolved Brazil’s political parties under the Estado Novo dictatorship. The Frente Negra Brasileira had converted itself into a political party in 1936; it could no...