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FBI file on the National Negro Congress

This collection included surveillance and case documentation from the FBI investigations conducted on the National Negro Congress and its successor organizations from 1936 to 1962. This collection includes promotional literature distributed by the Congress and official organizational documentation gathered by the Bureau from the national office of the NNC in Washington, D.C. and from field offices in such cities as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Notables figures of the time included in the FBI investigations include John P. Davis and A. Philip Randolph.

Papers of the NAACP. Part 5, The campaign against residential segregation, 1914-1955

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.

Papers of the NAACP. Part 3, The campaign for educational equality

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.

Papers of the NAACP. Part 2, Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939

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).

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FBI file on the National Negro Congress
1936-1952

This collection included surveillance and case documentation from the FBI investigations conducted on the National Negro Congress and its successor organizations from 1936 to 1962. This collection includes promotional literature distributed by the Congress and official organizational documentation gathered by the Bureau from the national office of the NNC in Washington, D.C. and from field offices in such cities as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Notables figures of the time included in the FBI investigations include John P. Davis and A. Philip Randolph.
U.S. Committee on Fair Employment Practices. Records.
Microfilming Corp. of America
1941–46

Commission created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in hiring based on race or religion. Wikipedia

Organizational Archives and Papers

Archives / American Missionary Association
Amistad Research Center
1839–82

The American Missionary Association was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. This microfilm of approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces relates to the missionary work of this abolitionist group, especially in the South during the Civil War. Wikipedia
Archives / Race Relations Department, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries.
Amistad Research Center
1943–1970

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.
Archives / United Negro College Fund, Inc
University Microfilms International
1944–65

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
Papers of the NAACP. Part 1, Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches and special reports
University Publications of America
1909–50

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
Papers of the NAACP. Part 2, Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939
University Publications of America
1919-1939

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).
Papers of the NAACP. Part 3, The campaign for educational equality
University Publications of America
1913-1965

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.

Series D: General Office Files, 1956-1965 focuses on the desegregation of public schools, a major priority for the NAACP since the 1930s.
Papers of the NAACP. Part 4, Voting rights campaign, 1916-1950
University Publications of America
1916-1950

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. 
Papers of the NAACP. Part 5, The campaign against residential segregation, 1914-1955
University Publications of America
1914-1955

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.
Papers of the NAACP. Part 6, The Scottsboro case, 1931-1950
1931–50

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
Papers of the NAACP. Part 7, The anti-lynching campaign, 1912-1955
1912–55

Includes anti-lynching investigative, legislative, and publicity files.
The records of the American Colonization Society
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service
1792–1965

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. Correspondence, financial and business papers, reports, and miscellaneous material, chiefly 1823–1912, relate to administrative and financial matters, membership, problems of slavery and the status of slaves in the pre-Civil War period, emigration, colonization, and education in Liberia.

Personal Papers

George Washington Carver papers, 1860-1975
Carver Research Foundation
1860–1975

Carver (c. 1864–1943) was an American scientist, botanist, inventor, and educator. This microfilm set of the collection of Carver papers at Tuskegee Institute and other repositories also includes memorabilia and writings about Carver. Wikipedia


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