Progressive Citizens of America

found: NUCMC data from LC Manuscript Div. for Davidson, J. Papers, 1906-1952(Progressive Citizens of America)

found: Schapsmeier, E. Political parties and civic action groups, 1981:p. 358, etc. (Progressive Citizens of America; also PCA; founded in 1946 at a joint convention of the National Citizens Political Action Committee and the Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions for the purpose of effecting a merger of the two groups; membership represented left of center, including ex-New Dealers, radicals, and Communists; critical of Truman's domestic and foreign policies, PCA met in 1948 to form a third party; at the meeting the Progressive Party was formed, and PCA ceased to exist as separate entity)