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BOX 1-11 Correspondence, 1939-1979
Letters sent and received by Wilkins with enclosures.
Divided between family and general correspondence. Family letters are arranged alphabetically by person and chronologically therein. General correspondence includes letters of both a personal and official nature and is organized chronologically by year and alphabetically therein. Daily mail sheets which register the writer and purpose of incoming letters are included for some years of the general correspondence.
BOX 1 Family
Wilkins, Aminda Badeau (wife), 1943-1973
Wilkins, Nellie G. (stepmother), 1952-1963
Wilkins, Roger (nephew), 1947-1976, undated
Wilkins, William D. and Mayfield (parents), 1944-1955
General
Daily mail sheets
1957
1974-1978
(4 folders)
BOX 2 1939, 1943-1949
(8 folders)
BOX 3 1950-1952
(5 folders)
BOX 4 1953-1956
(5 folders)
1957
A-L
(2 folders)
BOX 5 M-Z
1958-1959
(2 folders)
1960
A-G
(2 folders)
BOX 6 H-Z
(3 folders)
1961-1962
(3 folders)
BOX 7 1963-1966
(5 folders)
BOX 8 1967-1971
(5 folders)
BOX 9 1972-1974
(3 folders)
1975
A-L
BOX 10 M-Z
1976
(2 folders)
1977
A-G
BOX 11 H-Z
(4 folders)
1978-1979, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 12-35 NAACP Files, 1921-1979
Correspondence, minutes, and reports; committee, board, and administrative material; financial records, itineraries, and travel expense sheets; office notes and messages; procedural memoranda, statistical data, subject files, and other material pertaining to the NAACP and related organizations.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 12 Affiliations and honorary membership lists, undated
Alabama, 1957-1965
American Council on African Education, 1949-1960
American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, 1968-1971
Annual conventions, 1967-1977
Annual reports
1974
(2 folders)
1976
(1 folder)
BOX 13 (1 folder)
1978
Arkansas
Clippings re Little Rock, 1957
Faubus, Orval, 1958
General, 1957
Sharecroppers, 1921
Atlanta Compromise School Plan, Atlanta, Ga.
(3 folders)
BOX 14 Baxter, Julia, report on black history, 1963
Biographical data on Wilkins, 1928-1970, undated
Black Expo '71, 1971
Bluefield, W. Va., 1960
Board of Directors
Attendance reports, 1953-1971
Elections
1965-1969
(6 folders)
BOX 15 1970-1971
(2 folders)
1974
General
1944-1962
(5 folders)
BOX 16 1963-1967
(5 folders)
BOX 17 1967-1970
(6 folders)
BOX 18 1970-1977
(6 folders)
BOX 19 Membership list, 1966
Boston, Mass., branch, 1960
Budget Committee
1950-1962
(10 folders)
BOX 20 1972-1976
(5 folders)
Busing, 1972
(2 folders)
California school conditions, 1965
(1 folder)
BOX 21 (1 folder)
Christmas seals, 1960
Civil rights bills, 1957-1959, 1964
(3 folders)
Civil rights mobilization, 1950
Council of Federated Organizations, 1964
Committee on Branches and Youth Work, 1972
Committee on Campus Unrest, 1971
Committee on Pension Survey, 1973
Committee on Tenure
1970-1971
(2 folders)
BOX 22 1972
Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, Calif., 1957
Communism, 1950
Constitution of the NAACP, proposed, 1945
Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, 1963-1964
Crisis magazine and NAACP finances, 1932
Desegregation
Armed forces, 1948
Education, 1964-1966
DuBois, W. E. B., "My Relations with the NAACP," response to, 1948
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