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BOX I:H1-H11 Part I: Addition, 1926-1940
Correspondence, reports, financial records, lists, bylaws, and minutes relating to the Scottsboro Defense Committee, the South Jamaica Property Owners Association, and the Workers Defense League.
Arranged alphabetically by topic and thereunder chronologically.
BOX I:H1 Scottsboro Defense Committee
General Correspondence
1935
1936
Jan.-Apr. 11
(10 folders)
BOX I:H2 Apr. 12-Dec.
(11 folders)
1937
Jan.-June
(4 folders)
BOX I:H3 July-Dec.
(12 folders)
1938
Jan.
BOX I:H4 Feb.-Dec.
(17 folders)
1939
Jan.
BOX I:H5 Feb.-Dec.
(5 folders)
1940, undated
(2 folders)
BOX I:H6 Scottsboro Defense Committee
Branch correspondence
Baltimore, Md., 1936-1939, undated
Boston, Mass., 1936-1938
(2 folders)
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1936-1938
Buffalo, N.Y., 1936
California, 1936-1938
(2 folders)
Chicago, Ill., 1936-1939
(3 folders)
Cleveland, Ohio, 1936-1938
Columbus, Ohio, 1936
Connecticut, 1937
Denver, Colo., 1936-1937
BOX I:H7 Detroit, Mich., 1936-1937
Erie, Pa., 1937-1938
Indiana, 1937-1938
Iowa, 1937
London, England, 1937-1939
Louisville, Ky., 1938
Milwaukee, Wis., 1937-1939
Minnesota, 1936-1938
Missouri, 1936-1938
New Jersey, 1936-1939
New York City, 1936-1938, undated
(3 folders)
New York state, 1938
Ohio, 1937-1938
BOX I:H8 Oklahoma City, Okla., 1937-1939
Oregon, 1937-1938
Philadelphia, Pa., 1936-1937
(2 folders)
Pittsburgh, Pa., 1936-1938
Rhode Island, 1937, undated
Southern, 1935-1938, undated
(3 folders)
Utah, 1937-1938
Virginia, 1937
Washington state, 1937-1938
Washington, D.C., 1936-1939, undated
(3 folders)
West Virginia, 1937-1938
BOX I:H9 Financial records
Bank statements, 1936-1939
Bills and receipts, 1936-1937
(6 folders)
BOX I:H10 Contributions
Lists, undated
(4 folders)
Receipts, 1936-1939
Financial statements and expenses, 1936-1938, undated
Miscellany, undated
Newspaper clippings, 1938-1939
BOX I:H11 South Jamaica Property Owners' Association
Correspondence, 1927-1928
Membership lists, bylaws, minutes, and clippings, 1926-1928
Workers Defense League
Correspondence
General, 1936-1939
(4 folders)
McCallister, Frank, dinner, 1939
Financial records, 1935-1939
(2 folders)
Miscellany, 1936-1939
Reports, Frank McCallister, 1938, undated
(2 folders)
BOX I:OV 1-OV 3 Part I: Oversize, 1928
Lynching flag, political advertisement, and a chart containing a survey of American history textbooks.
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and folder from which the items were removed.
BOX I:OV 1 Administrative File
Subject File
Education
Chart containing a survey of American history textbooks, undated (Container I:C291)
BOX I:OV 2 Lynching, mob violence, and race riots
Flag flown at NAACP headquarters following reports of lynchings, undated (Container I:C342)
BOX I:OV 3 Politics
Topical file
Saunders, Clarence, campaign advertisement from the Commercial Appeal, Shelby County, Tenn., 1928 (Container I:C399)
BOX II:A1-A676 Part II: General Office File, 1940-1956
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, lists, notes, drafts and galley proofs of speeches and articles, petitions, job applications, miscellaneous financial material, questionnaires, proposals, minutes, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, type of material, or subject and thereunder chronologically. Annual convention material is arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically by type of material or subject. Most organizations, except for African-American, labor, and political associations, are arranged alphabetically by name under "leagues and organizations." Church, Labor, and Public Relations department files remain in the General Office File as received.
BOX II:A1 "A" miscellaneous
1940-1949
(7 folders)
BOX II:A2 1950-1955
(4 folders)
Abolition of certain government agencies, 1941-1942
Absenteeism, E. Simms Campbell, cartoons, 1943
Adams, Josephine, 1941
Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense
1940
BOX II:A3 1941
Africa
African News, 1954-1955
Eboué, Eugenie Tell, 1944-1952
Eboué, Felix, 1941-1944
Ethiopia, 1942-1955
(2 folders)
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