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Part X: Administrative File, 1911-2019 (continued)
BOX X:81-233 General Office File, 1911-2019
The General Office File documents the broad range of activities administered by the national staff concerning energy policy, international affairs, religious affairs, health, housing, and fundraising, and is focused mostly between 1977 and 2009. The subseries features correspondence, speeches, writings, biographical information, and other files of executive director Roy Wilkins and chief executive officers Benjamin L. Hooks, Ben Chavis, Kweisi Mfume, and Ben Jealous, as well as various executive secretaries and assistants. The subseries includes documentation of events, including conferences, summits, and the NAACP Image Awards. Records featuring celebrations include various anniversaries, mostly notably the NAACP centennial in 2009. Many files relate to the annual Spingarn Medal, including event ceremonies and award committee meetings. Other administrative matters represented include the association's constitution and bylaws, organizational histories, strategic planning, staff meetings, and personnel issues. The subseries also includes a range of NAACP publications and printed matter, including annual reports, handbooks, manuals, brochures, and pamphlets.
Material types include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, spreadsheets, speeches, news clippings, awards, event programs, contracts, notes, petitions, forms, directories, photographs, proposals, reports, minutes, resolutions, manuals, handbooks, interviews, and printed matter. Some textual and visual material, as well as audio and video material are in digital formats.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, name of person, or type of material. The file structure of the digital content maintained as received.
BOX X:81 Africa
BOX X:81 Africare, 1984-1989
BOX X:81 General, 1957, 1965-1981, 1988-1992, circa 2000
BOX X:82 General, 1957, 1965-1981, 1988-1992, circa 2000
(2 folders)
BOX X:82 NAACP Task Force on Africa, 1976-1978
(3 folders)
BOX X:82 South Africa
BOX X:82 1927, 1972, 1984-1994, undated
(3 folders)
BOX X:83 1985, 1994
(4 folders)
BOX X:83 TransAfrica, 1981-1987
BOX X:83 African American research institutions, 1984-1991
BOX X:83 Agreements, 1980-1982, 1999, undated
BOX X:84 AIDS (disease), 1986-1987
BOX X:84 Airlines, 1968-1979
BOX X:84 "Alternative Policies in the Public Interest for Economic Growth" (report), 1981
BOX X:84 American Federation of Jews from Central Europe, 1984
BOX X:84 American Indians, 1970
BOX X:84 Anheuser-Busch boycott, 1982
BOX X:84 Anniversaries
BOX X:84 50th, 1959
BOX X:84 73rd and 74th, 1982-1983
BOX X:84 75th (Diamond Jubilee)
BOX X:84 1983-1984
(4 folders)
BOX X:85 1984
BOX X:85 80th, 1987-1989
(2 folders)
BOX X:85 83rd, 1992
BOX X:85 99th, 2008
BOX X:85 100th (centennial)
BOX X:OV 1 Amsterdam News, Special NAACP Centennial Supplement, 2009 See Container X:OV 1, same heading
BOX X:85 Briefing book, 2001-2004
BOX X:85 Centennial campaign, 2002-2008
(2 folders)
BOX X:86 Centennial campaign, 2002-2008
(3 folders)
BOX X:86 Centennial Task Force, 2003-2008
BOX X:86 Commemorative calendars, 2006-2008 See also Container X:OV 1, same heading
(2 folders)
BOX X:OV 7 Commemorative mug, 2009 See Container X:OV 7, same heading
BOX X:OV 1 Congressional resolution, 2000, Feb. 13 See Container X:OV 1, same heading
BOX X:86 General
BOX X:86 2003-2006
(2 folders)
BOX X:87 2003-2009
(5 folders)
BOX X:87 Meet the Composer, 2008-2009
BOX X:87 Messaging, 2006-2008
BOX X:88 NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures
BOX X:88 2006-2009
(5 folders)
BOX X:89 2008-2009
(3 folders)
DF NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures, order form, 2008
Digital ID: mss34140_194_005
BOX X:89 "NAACP's Centennial: Celebrating our Past, Strengthening our Present, Securing our Future," 2006
BOX X:90 United States Postal Service stamps, 2008-2009
(2 folders)
BOX X:90 Annual Fellowship Dinner
BOX X:90 1971-1978
(8 folders)
BOX X:91 1979-1980
(8 folders)
BOX X:92 1980
BOX X:OV 4 Annual meeting logbook, 1949-1974 See Container X:OV 4, same heading
BOX X:92 Annual meetings, 1971-1985
(9 folders)
BOX X:92 Annual membership meeting, 1974-1975
BOX X:93 Annual National Awards Dinner, 1993-1994
(2 folders)
BOX X:93 Annual reports
BOX X:93 1912-1914, 1940-1963
(5 folders)
BOX X:94 1964-1975
(6 folders)
BOX X:95 1976-1990
(6 folders)
BOX X:96 1991-2010, 2016
(6 folders)
DF 2007
Digital ID: mss34140_261_322
BOX X:96 Annual reports mailings, 1965-1975, undated
BOX X:96 Armed services and veterans, 1941-2008
(2 folders)
BOX X:97 Armed services and veterans, 1941-2008
(2 folders)
BOX X:97 Articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1911-1919, 1941, 1950, 1956, 1962-1968, 1976-1979
BOX X:97 Awards, miscellaneous, 1970-1973, 1979-1983, 2008, 2016, undated
BOX X:97 Bakke Symposium, Detroit, Mich., 1978, July 21-22
BOX X:97 Barnum, Cyrus P., 1968-1971
BOX X:97 Bates, Julia Baxter, 1992
BOX X:97 "Beyond the Rodney King Story (NAACP Report on Police Conduct and Community Relations)," 1993
BOX X:98 "Beyond the Rodney King Story (NAACP Report on Police Conduct and Community Relations)," 1993
BOX X:98 Biographical sketches, 1939-1975
BOX X:98 A-O
(4 folders)
BOX X:99 G-Z
(4 folders)
BOX X:99 Black college presidents, 1980-1991
(2 folders)
BOX X:100 Black college presidents, 1980-1991
BOX X:100 "Black Contribution," a presentation of the NAACP, 1979
BOX X:100 Black Family Summit, 1984-1985
BOX X:100 Black history, 1967-2003, undated
(3 folders)
BOX X:100 Black/Jewish relations
BOX X:100 1967-1971, 1979-1985
(2 folders)
BOX X:101 1991-1993
BOX X:101 Black Leadership Meeting, 1979, Aug. 22
BOX X:101 Blackburne, Laura, 1992-1995
BOX X:101 "Blacks at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters Exterminated by Postmaster General Marvin Runyon's Racist Policies," 1993
BOX X:101 "Blood Money" (60 Minutes television segment), 1980
BOX X:101 Bowie, Nolan A., 1979
BOX X:101 Boycotts, miscellaneous, 1970-1976
BOX X:101 Branche, Bobbie, 1959-1963, undated
BOX X:101 Brooks, Harry W., Amfac, Inc., 1981-1982
BOX X:101 Brown, Tony, 1982-1990
BOX X:101 Brown v. Board of Education, anniversaries
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