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

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BOX I:M1-M23	Part I: M. Miscellany, 1908-1961
BOX I:M1-M23		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
BOX I:M4						(3 folders)
				Disbursements
					1953-1956
						(3 folders)
BOX I:M5					1957-1960
BOX I:M5						(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
BOX I:M7				(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
BOX I:M11				(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
			Personnel and job evaluation
				(4 folders)
			Plays
				“Unwind Your Dreams,” by Marlow Dawson
				“You Are an American,” 1942
			Poetry, Opportunity, 1955
BOX I:M14			Radio scripts
				Local leagues, 1949-1951
					(2 folders)
				Miscellaneous, 1941-1954
					(3 folders)
				Scripts by Richard Durham, 1950
					(2 folders)
				Vocational Opportunity Campaign, 1941-1944
BOX I:M15			Reports
				Armstrong Association
					Study by Charles S. Johnson, 1942
					Reevaluation, 1951
					Program, 1951
						(2 folders)
				Executive Committee, American Association of Social Workers
				National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, 1949
BOX I:M16				National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, 1949-1951
BOX I:M16					(2 folders)
				National Defense Conference on Negro Affairs, transcripts, 1948
				New York State Temporary Commission
				President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, 1949
					Reports, Jan.-Feb.
BOX I:M17					Analysis of work
					Correspondence and notes
BOX I:M18					Documentation
					Drafts
					Exhibit 2, Jan. 8
					Final report
						(4 folders)
					Inquiry (hearing), June 5
					Miscellaneous and statistics
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