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Series 1. NAACP, 1914-1971, inclusive

Extent

0.33 Linear Feet

Scope and Contents

This series generally consists of materials concerning the NAACP and Richetta Randolph Wallace's connection to the organization. The series includes correspondence, principally from the 1940s concerning office management and Randolph's responsibilities. Correspondents include Arthur Spingarn, Walter White and Roy Wilkins. The series also includes a limited number of a variety of other documents, including Board minutes, press releases, clippings, publications by and about the NAACP, and Honorary Dinner programs. Among these documents is a 1932 report to the Board by W.E.B. Du Bois concerning the financial condition of The Crisis and the 1943 study and recommendations of William H. Hastie concerning the NAACP's organization.

Arrangement

The series is arranged in alphabetical order by document type or subject.

Clippings, 1940s-1970s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Text)

Correspondence, 1931-1948, 1963-1971, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Text)

Fundraising Materials, 1967-1971, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Text)

Histories of NAACP and Objectives, 1914-circa 1946, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"History of the Des Moines Branch," by S. J. Brown (1939)

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"How the NAACP began," by Mary White Ovington (1914)

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"A memorandum to the Board of Directors of the NAACP: On the objects and methods of the organization," by W.E.B. Du Bois (circa 1914)

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"The first line of defense: A summary of 20 years of civil rights struggle for American Negroes" (circa 1931)

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"No larger ambition: The story of the Committee of 100" (circa 1946)

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Story of a gifted Negro," review of James Weldon Johnson's Along This Way (Baltimore Evening Sun, October 28, 1933)

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

Honorary Dinners and Events, 1929-1944, 1963-1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Text)

"March on Milwaukee" Brochure, 1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Text)

Minutes and Reports, 1932-1944, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Text)

Miscellaneous Materials and Ephemera, 1928, 1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Text)

National Urban League 25th Anniversary Dinner, 1935, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Text)

Press Releases, 1941-1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Text)

Pamphlets and Publications (2 folders), circa 1914-1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 11, 12 (Material Type: Text)
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