NAACP legal department files and subject files, as well as selected branch files, on all topics related to voting rights: white primary cases; the grandfather clause; literacy tests, registration abuses, intimidation, and violence; poll taxes and legislative apportionment in the South; and women's suffrage.
Covers NAACP's efforts to oppose the legal and extralegal means used in many areas to accomplish residential segregation. Part 5 makes available the complete files on cases and topics related to housing: segregation ordinances, restrictive covenants, discriminatory zoning ordinances, violence and mob actions against blacks, and discrimination in federal housing programs.
Series A: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1913-1940 and Series B: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1940-1950 focus on the legal battle to achieve unrestricted access to the best available education.
Series C: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1951-1955 contains files on the subject of education for the period between 1951 and 1955.The NAACP secured the landmark constitutional ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and moved aggressively to integrate America's public schools.
Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939.
"The largest selections are those pertaining to Thurgood Marshall and Walter White, the NAACP's special assistant counsel and executive secretary, respectively. Other officials represented are special counsel Charles Houston, special assistant to the secretary Juanita Jackson, executive secretary James Weldon Johnson, branch coordinator E. Frederick Morrow, board of directors chair Mary White Ovington, field secretary Dr. William Pickens, and assistant executive secretary Roy Wilkins." (ProQuest website).
Civil rights organization founded in 1909. Set is microfilm of meetings of the board of directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909–50. Wikipedia
Legal case argued twice before the Supreme Court. Microfilm of legal files, newspaper clippings, and correspondence among the NAACP, the International Labor Defense, and the Scottsboro Defense Committee, as well as with numerous private individuals and other organizations. Wikipedia
Includes anti-lynching investigative, legislative, and publicity files.
American philanthropic organization that fundraises college tuition money for black students and general scholarship funds for private historically black colleges and universities. This set includes documents from 1944 to 1965; about 400,000 pages of primary source material document the activities of UNCF in this period. Wikipedia
Department founded in 1942 at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. These archives consist of correspondence, speeches, publicity, programs, announcements, clippings, bibliographies, financial reports, photographs, and survey forms.
Organization founded in 1817 devoted to helping freed slaves emigrate from the United States to Africa. The Society was instrumental in establishing the colony of Liberia. The Records consist of letterbooks, account books, minutes of proceedings, reports, financial records, and letters received.