Leadership Conference on Civil Rights records, 1943-2014

Collection Summary

Title	Leadership Conference on Civil Rights records, 1943-2014
Inclusive Dates	1943-2014
Bulk Dates	1960-2012
ID No.	MSS52480
Creator	Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Extent	128,000 items
Extent	364 containers plus 1 oversize and 7,620 digital files (13.61GB)
Extent	145.6 linear feet
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997011
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82052480
Summary	The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a national association of civil rights organizations, was founded in 1950 by Roy Wilkins (chairman), A. Philip Randolph, and Arnold Aronson. The records include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, notes of meetings, position papers, reports, financial records, congressional testimony, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, digital files including text, image, sound, and moving image files as well as multimedia content, and other records documenting efforts by the organization to lobby for and monitor enforcement of civil rights legislation at the national level.