In October 1949 the NAACP’s National Emergency Rights Committee invited sixty advocacy organizations to unite in a National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization that would organize a conference and mass lobby for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) and other civil rights proposals. For three days, January 15–17, 1950, more than 4,000 delegates representing the NAACP, as well as labor, religious, and civil liberties groups descended on Congress to urge the passage of the bills. Led by Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Arnold Aronson, Program Director of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, they also agreed to form a Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a future coalition to lobby for civil rights laws and monitor their compliance.