National Urban League records, 1900-1988 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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BOX I:L1-L6	Part I: L. Minutes of Meetings, 1910-1960
		Printed, near-print, and typed minutes of meetings. Arranged by chronological period, then by type of meeting, and therein chronologically. The minutes for the annual meetings dated 1941-1954 contain the league's financial reports.
BOX I:L1		1910-1940
			Annual meeting, 1912-1940
				(6 folders)
			Committee for the Protection of Colored Women, 1913-1914
			Executive board
				1910-1917
					(5 folders)
BOX I:L2				1918-1940
					(7 folders)
			General Welfare Committee, 1912-1914
			Steering Committee
				1916-1925
					(4 folders)
BOX I:L3				1926-1940
					(4 folders)
			Miscellaneous meetings, 1932-1940
BOX I:L4		1941-1960
			Annual meeting, 1941-1954
				(4 folders)
			Board of trustees
				1949-1954, June
					(6 folders)
BOX I:L5				1954, July-1960
					(7 folders)
			Executive board
				1941-1945
					(3 folders)
BOX I:L6				1946-1949
					(2 folders)
			Executive Committee, 1954-1960
				(3 folders)
			Executive staff, 1959-1960
			National Urban League Guild, 1942-1943
			Steering Committee, 1941-1942, 1950
			Miscellaneous minutes, 1946-1960
BOX I:M1-M23	Part I: M. Miscellany, 1908-1961
		Correspondence, writings including books and radio, television and theater scripts, financial statements, canceled checks, receipts, bylaws, briefs, reports, bank statements, program kits, manuals, legal agreements, monographs, poetry, plays, and miscellaneous material.
		Arranged alphabetically by type of material and occasionally by name of person or subject. A separate grouping has been made for material predating 1941.
BOX I:M1		1908-1940
			Form letters, 1938-1940
				(2 folders)
			Howard Orphanage and Industrial School, Kings Park, Long Island, N.Y.
				Bank statements
				Bank books
					(2 vols.)
BOX I:M2				Cash books
				Journal
				Ledger
				Miscellaneous financial material
			Student copybook, 1908
			Photocopies of early publications (fragments)
BOX I:M3		1941-1961
			Allen, Alexander Joseph
			Correspondence
				Master's thesis
			“America's Making” exhibit, Negro contribution to American life
			Armstrong Association United Fund campaign poster
			Books
				This Happened in Pasadena (New York, Macmillan, 1951, 166 p.), by David Hulburd (near-print copy)
				This Is What We Found (New York, L. Stuart [1961, c 1960] 64 p.), by Ralph and Carl Creger (annotated galleys)
				Peaceable Lane (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1960, 345 p.), by Keith Wheeler (page proofs)
			Building fund
				Canceled checks
					1953-1956
						(3 folders)
BOX I:M4					1957-1959
						(3 folders)
				Disbursements
					1953-1956
						(3 folders)
BOX I:M5					1957-1960
						(4 folders)
				Financial statements, 1956-1957
					(2 folders)
				Receipts
					1951-1955
BOX I:M6					1953-1956
				Savings accounts, 1953
			Bylaws, 1942-1960
			Discrimination, New York State Temporary Commission, proposals
			Discrimination and segregation, reports and briefs
			Duplicates, signed
			Fact sheets
BOX I:M7			Form letters, 1941, 1954, 1956
				(2 folders)
			Howard Orphanage and Industrial School, Kings Park, Long Island, N.Y.
				Vocational and plan
				Bank statements, 1941-1944
				Journals and receipts, 1941-1945
BOX I:M8			Kits, directories, handbooks, and manuals
				Administrative and Clerical Council material
					(2 folders)
				“Adopt-a-Child” kit
BOX I:M9				Directories, 1955-1960
				Equal Opportunity Day kit (1 folder and 1 notebook)
				Grooming guide
				Handbook of operations, 1949
				Handbooks, 1948, 1958
					(3 folders)
BOX I:M10				Manet Fowler handbook
				Office manual
				Personnel manual
				Procedures manual
				Vocational Opportunity Campaign kit
					(1 folder)
			Legal agreements
			Lists
			Miscellaneous papers
				(2 folders)
BOX I:M11			Miscellaneous papers
				(3 folders)
			Monographs and studies
				“Adjustments of the Problems and a Program of Negro Americans, circa 1910-1920” undated
				“Lest We Despair,” by Roy Norris, 1950
				The Negro Potential (New York, Columbia University Press, 1956, 144 p.), by Eli Ginzberg
				“What Makes a Slum?” by M. Joan Jackson, 1954
BOX I:M12			National Budget and Consultation Committee
				Audit sheets
				General information
				Income and expense information
				Notes
				Statements
BOX I:M13			Notebooks
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