Series 2. Personal Papers, 1906-1971, inclusive

Extent

1.35 Linear Feet

Scope and Contents

The series represents Richetta Randolph Wallace's longstanding engagement with the NAACP, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem, and matters of race relations and racial justice. The series includes correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, programs, and ephemera. The correspondence includes exchanges with authors Charles Flint Kellogg and Robert L. Zangrando, and Mary White Ovington, William Pickens, A. Phillip Randolph, and Oswald Garrison Villard. Among the personal correspondence are suicide notes from Randolph's husband, Frank Wallace. The photographs principally include images of Randolph and several prominent NAACP figures. There is an oversize group photograph from the NAACP convention in Kansas City (1923).

A sizable part of the series is comprised of pamphlets, journals, and other print matter. Much of this material concerns matters of race in the United States, including discrimination, lynching, justice (or injustice), and civil rights. Other print matter includes programs, sermons, church newsletters, and other materials, principally concerning Mt. Olivet Baptist Church of New York City. Some print materials concern African-American literature or other cultural matters. One notable item of ephemera is a retirement card to Randolph signed by W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and other NAACP staff.

Several of Randolph's activities on behalf of Mt. Olivet are represented in the series, among them her work as Chair of Women's Day (1942) and her authorship of a historical play, "Mt. Olivet: Yesterday and Today" (1953).

Arrangement

The series is organized in the following sections. Within sections, the material is organized alphabetically by subject or document form.

A. Photographs

B. General Correspondence

C. Individuals: Correspondence, Clippings and Publications

D. Personal Papers

E. Pamphlets

F. Church-Related Papers

Section A. Photographs

Photographs, circa 1920s-1930s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Text)

Oversize Photographs, 1922-1923, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 1,2 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes a group photograph from the NAACP convention in Kansas City (1923). This image (though not this copy) was used in the NAACP's publication NAACP: celebrating a century: 100 years in pictures (page 63). There is also a set of six images of NAACP principals (1922).

Section B. General Correspondence

A-L, 1912-1970, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Text)

M-Z, 1913-1970, inclusive

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

Section C. Individuals: Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications

Carter, Norman, 1930s, inclusive

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

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1964, 1968, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Text)

Lindsay, John, 1965, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

Ovington, Mary White, 1931-1951, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Text)

Powell, Sr., Adam Clayton, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and John Haynes Holmes, 1910-1932, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Text)

Randolph, A. Phillip, 1940-1959, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Text)

Waldren, Nathan, 1963-1965, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Text)

White, Walter and Roy Wilkins, 1943-1955, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Text)

Section D. Personal Papers

Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration, 1969, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Text)

Clippings, 1910-1970s, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Text)

DeSoto Car, 1936-1940, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Text)

Ephemera, 1907-1955, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes a farewell card (1945) to Randolph signed by W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and others.

Manuscripts, 1906, 1911

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes a Christmas Greeting to the guests of the Hotel Maceo (1906) and a program for a "race drama," The Struggle, performed at the Berkeley Theatre, NYC.

Personal Records, Memberships and Paycheck Stubs, 1948-1949, 1970, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Text)

Scrapbook, 1914-1949, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Text)

The Secret Place Subscriptions, 1964-1971, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Text)

Section E. Pamphlets

Black Education in America, circa 1936-1939, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Text)

"Racial inequalities in education," NAACP (1938)

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Text)

"Anti-Negro propaganda in school textbooks" (1939)

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Text)

"The color line in our public school," by Harlan E. Glazier (circa 1936)

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Text)

Black University Publications, 1924-1958, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Text)

Fisk Herald, vol. 33, no. 1 (1924)

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Text)

Lincoln University, School of Journalism Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 3 (1942)

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Text)

Spellman Messenger, vol. 74, no. 4 (1958)

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Text)

Miscellaneous Pamphlets, 1921-1946, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Calendars for 200 years, 1776-1976" (1941)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Independence Hall," Bulletins Nos. 3, 4, 5 (1923)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Program of the first meeting of the Negro Sanhedrin All Race Conference" (1924)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"A statement from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia" (1921)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Story of Woodrow Wilson," by David Loth (1944)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"William Penn's advice to his children," Friends Council on Education (1944)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"The world at the crossroads," World Citizens Association (1946)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Negro Playwrights Co. Inc." (1940)

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

"Argument of Clarence Darrow in the case of Matthew Sweet," NAACP, 1927

Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Text)

Discrimination in World Wars, circa 1936-1945, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Text)

"It's our country, too: The Negro demands the right to be allowed to fight for It," by Walter White (1940)

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Text)

"Mutiny? The real story of how the Navy branded. . .," NAACP (1945)

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Text)

"On clipped wings: The story of Jim Crow in the Army Air Corps," by William H. Hastie (1943)

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Text)

"Preserve the Olympic ideal: A statement of the case against participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin," Committee on Fair Play in Sports, (circa 1936)

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Text)

"The war's greatest scandal! The story of Jim Crow in uniform," by Dwight and Nancy Macdonald (circa 1943)

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Text)

DuBois, W.E.B., 1924-1966, inclusive

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

Debate: "Shall the Negro be encouraged to seek cultural equality?" by Du Bois and Lothrop Stoddard (1929)

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

Program from dinner in honor of Du Bois (1924)

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

Johnson, James Weldon, 1918-1926, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Text)

"American Negro spirituals" (1926)

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Text)

"Changing status of Negro labor" (1918)

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Text)

"Conquest of Haiti," reprints from The Nation (1920)

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Text)

"Self-Determining Haiti" (1920)

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Text)

Lynching in the United States, 1919, 1940, inclusive

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

"Can the states stop lynching?" NAACP (circa 1937)

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

"A federal law to curb lynching," NAACP (circa 1934)

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

"Fight against lynching," NAACP (1919)

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

"Lynchings and what they mean," Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (circa 1931)

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

"Lynching goes underground" (1940)

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

"Memorandum brief for the Attorney General of the United States in re: prosecution of R.L. Shamblin, Sheriff of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama...," NAACP (1933)

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

"Plight of Tuscaloosa," Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (1933)

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

"Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918," NAACP (1919)

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

Reply Brief for Plaintiff-in-Error in re: L.A. Nixon v. C.C. Herndon and Charles Porras, 1926, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Text)

Outlines for Literature Courses, 1928-1931, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Text)

"Creative reading: A course in current literature," edited by Robert E. Rogers (1928)

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Text)