Erdély védelmében. A Romániai Emberi Jogokért Bizottság működésének első három éve, 1976–1978
Defending Transylvania: The First Three Years of the Committee for Human Rights in Rumania, 1976–1978

Summary/Abstract: While the Hungarian People’s Republic was following a policy of “official silence” and was suffering in “programmed amnesia”, Hungarian diaspora communities living in Western countries were unanimously concerned over the fate of their national kin living in Romania whose community was created due to the moving borders of WWI. The Committee for Human Rights in Rumania was such an organization in the U.S. after the Hungarian American diaspora has been activated in the late sixties, early seventies. The organization counted secondgeneration Hungarian Americans among its members who were born and socialized in the American society, while preserving their own Hungarian identity. Their greatest success was their contribution to the abolition of the Most Favored Nation status of Romania, linking the original condition of free emigration to human rights. Based on sources of the Ford and Carter presidential libraries and the organization’s own document collection, the study details the advocacy activities of the organization during its first three years.

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