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ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS, 1916-1969
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Freedom Fund Activities, General Fundraising
Campaigns and Programs, 1937-1965, bulk 1950-1959.
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Freedom Fund Activities, General Fundraising
Campaigns and Programs, 1937-1965, bulk 1950-1959.
(continued) |
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Call No.: LOT 13080 (F) (H) |
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NAACP staff and board members accepting donations from members,
representatives from charities and clubs, and labor organizations; one
photo of NAACP national staff meeting in 1953 to plan the "Fight for
Freedom" fundraising campaign--an effort to raise one million dollars
annually until 1963, the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Includes some branch activities to raise money for the Freedom Fund
campaign, a Freedom Fund poster, and one sheet of Freedom Fund Christmas
seals. NAACP staff depicted include Lucille Black, Charles Houston,
Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Arthur Spingarn, Roy Wilkins, and
Walter White. Other prominent people include Lena Horne and Charles
Houston. 49 photographic prints; 2 photomechanical prints; 2 prints (1
poster, 1 Christmas seal stamp sheet). Organized into two subject
categories: General fundraising; Freedom fund. |
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General fundraising, 1937-1962 |
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Call No.: LOT 13080, nos. 1-31 (F) |
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Freedom fund, 1953-1965 (no. 52B and no. 53 are in
color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13080, nos. 32-53 (F)(H) |
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Membership Activities at the National, State, and
Local Levels, 1943-1963, bulk 1953-1960.
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Call No.: LOT 13081 (F) |
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General and life membership drives and benefits; includes national staff
receiving contributions from representatives of social organizations and
local businesses. Also photos of committees in planning sessions for
membership campaigns; celebrities promoting membership; many photos of
the "New York Metropolitan Area" membership campaign; members receiving
life membership plaques from NAACP staff. NAACP staff depicted include
Morris DeLisser, Kivie Kaplan, Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Spingarn,
Channing Tobias, and Roy Wilkins. Includes some photos of Floyd
Patterson, Freedom Fund co-chairman, at NAACP membership rally. Other
entertainers and sports figures represented include Sammy Davis, Jr.,
Lena Horne, and Jackie Robinson. 114 photographic prints; 6 contact
sheets (98 images); 2 prints. Organized into two subject categories:
General membership; Life membership. |
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General membership, 1943-1963 |
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Call No.: LOT 13081, nos. 1-52 (F) |
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Life membership, 1943-1963 |
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Call No.: LOT 13081, nos. 53-121 (F) |
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Local and National Award Winners and Scholarship
Recipients, ca. 1920-1960.
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Call No.: LOT 13082 (F) |
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Includes portraits of NAACP beautiful baby contest prize winners,
recipients of the NAACP Ike Smalls Award, a portrait of the North
Carolina NAACP mother of the year for 1957. Presentations of awards by
Gloster Current, Ruby Hurley, Roy Wilkins, and Herbert Wright. Group
portrait of the NAACP Emancipation Proclamation Centennial essay contest
judges with Calvin Banks, NAACP program director. 26 photographic
prints. Organized into two subject categories: Awards--general;
Beautiful baby contest. |
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Awards--general, ca. 1946-1958 |
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Call No.: LOT 13082, nos. 1-17 (F) |
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Beautiful baby contest, ca. 1925-1947 |
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Call No.: LOT 13082, nos. 18-23 (F) |
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Administrative Meetings, Office Social Gatherings,
and Facilities, 1925-ca. 1960, bulk 1935-1942.
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Call No.: LOT 13083 (F) |
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Primarily NAACP executive officers, board members, standing committees,
and other staff at meetings, probably in New York offices. Also includes
unposed photographs of office staff at unidentified social gatherings.
Staff and board members photographed include Ella Baker, John Hammond,
Thurgood Marshall, E. Frederic Morrow, Arthur Spingarn, Walter White,
Roy Wilkins; one group photo of board member Eleanor Roosevelt meeting
with NAACP executives. Includes photos of NAACP office buildings in New
York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., and a few snapshots of property, "G.W.
Quinn's Groceries" located at Pine Bluff, Ark., that was bequeathed to
the NAACP in 1935 by a former member. 28 photographic prints. Organized
into two subject categories: Administrative meetings and gatherings;
Buildings and facilities. |
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Administrative meetings and gatherings, 1942-ca.
1960 |
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Call No.: LOT 13083, nos. 1-18 (F) |
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Buildings and facilities, ca. 1925-1949 |
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Call No.: LOT 13083, nos. 19-29 (F) |
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Promotional and Publication Materials, ca. 1943-ca.
1959.
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Call No.: LOT 13084 (F) (H) |
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Includes original design drawings for NAACP membership campaign posters;
camera-ready materials for a Christmas seal ad; and posters for NAACP
anniversary dances, membership drives, "wartime" conferences, and voter
registration campaigns designed by Louise Jefferson and Elton Fax.
Photographs reproduced from a 1943 promotional film entitled On Guard show NAACP staff members Ella Baker, William Hastie, Thurgood
Marshall, E. Frederic Morrow, Mary White Ovington, and Roy Wilkins. A
series of cyanotype prints for a publication entitled "The Negro in
America" includes portraits of prominent African American authors,
entertainers, and sports figures, educators, and social leaders,
including Marian Anderson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ralphe Bunche, Alain
Locke, Joe Louis, and Jackie Robinson. 51 photographic prints; 13
prints; 10 design drawings. Organized into four subject categories:
Camera-ready mock-ups; film stills from the motion picture On Guard; Miscellaneous publications and fliers; Oversize design
drawings and posters. |
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Camera-ready mock- ups |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 1-4 (F) |
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Film stills from the motion picture On Guard (nos. 23-29 are in color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 5-29 (F) |
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Miscellaneous publications and fliers (nos. 30-32 are in
color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 30-33Z (F) |
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Oversize design drawings and posters (nos. 37-46 are in
color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13084, nos. 34-46 (H) |
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GENERAL PROGRAMS AND RELATED SUBJECTS,
1916-1966
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Primarily photographs documenting segregation and other discriminatory
practices that the organization protested in its attempt to achieve
political and social equality. Civil rights campaigns, legislative, and
legal programs. Includes branches involvement in demonstrations at the local
level. Photographs of lobbying activities, marches, assemblies, and rallies
organized by the NAACP and other organizations in support of civil rights
legislation. Also documents general living and non-military working
conditions of African Americans. |
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Farmers, Migrant Agricultural Workers, and
Sharecroppers, 1939-1958.
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Call No.: LOT 13085 (F) |
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Primarily portraits of sharecroppers, migrant agricultural workers, and
farmers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, and Haiti--some by Farm Security Administration (FSA)
photographers Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion
Post Wolcott. Includes U.S. Department of Agriculture and Agricultural
Adjustment Agency photos of extension services for farmers and photos of
food production, distribution, and conservation, during World War II.
Several photos of Southern University, La., "Victory Farm Program" show
students farming on the university campus. One photo of Mrs. Harold
Ickes giving a tour to a group of Japanese Americans on her farm near
Olney, Md. 39 photographic prints; 3 photomechanical prints. Organized
into three subject categories: Department of Agriculture war effort;
Farmers, migrant workers, and sharecroppers; Miscellaneous. |
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Department of Agriculture war effort |
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Call No.: LOT 13085, nos. 1-9 (F) |
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Farmers, migrant workers, and sharecroppers |
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Call No.: LOT 13085, nos. 10-34 (F) |
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Miscellaneous |
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Call No.: LOT 13085, nos. 35-41 (F) |
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Defendants in Criminal Cases and NAACP Attorneys,
1928-1949.
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Call No.: LOT 13086 (F) |
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Portrait of a juvenile defendant in the Bell-Swain case; group portrait
of the attorneys in the George Crawford case; defendant Jess Hollins
with NAACP attorney Cecil Robertson; one photo of Juanita Jackson
Mitchell visiting the Scottsboro defendants in jail; defendant W.D.
Lyons; eight photos of NAACP clients Lawrence Mitchell, Richard Philip
Adams, and John Walter Bordinane, soldiers convicted in a rape case,
shown in military uniform and in prison dress; one photo of the
principals involved in a slavery charge; defendants in the Columbia,
Tenn., riot case with NAACP attorneys and the Nashville, Tenn., branch
president M.G. Ferguson; one photo of the three defendants in the
Groveland, Fla., rape case: Walter Irvin, Charles Greenlee, and Samuel
Shepherd. Prominent NAACP staff and attorneys represented include
Charles Houston, Z. Alexander Looby, and Walter White. 17 photographic
prints; 3 photomechanical prints. Organized chronologically. |
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Defendants and their counsel |
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Call No.: LOT 13086, nos. 1-20 (F) |
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Public Signs Expressing Jim Crow Policies and Other
Derogatory Sentiments, 1943- ca. 1960.
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Call No.: LOT 13087 (F) |
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Includes two snapshots of a roadside advertisement in Vinita, Okla.,
reading "Eat nigger chicken" that were sent to the NAACP by J.
Richardson Jones along with a letter explaining why the photos were
taken; two photos of various discriminatory signs in a trash can, one
photo with a letter 'X' painted across the image. One photo of a soft
drink dispenser for white customers only. 4 photographic prints; 2
prints. |
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Discriminatory signs, interior and exterior |
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Call No.: LOT 13087, nos. 1-6 (F) |
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Schools and Activities to Eliminate Segregation in
Public Education at the College and Secondary Levels, 1921-1961, bulk
1942-1957.
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Call No.: LOT 13088 (F) (H) |
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Emphasis is on buildings, facilities, and students at African American
schools, colleges, and universities. Lincoln University, Wayne State,
and Wilberforce are represented. Includes photos comparing schools for
African Americans with those for whites and group portraits of
graduating classes; some photos of defendants in school and college
desegregation cases, including Donald Gaines Murray (University of
Maryland), Autherine Lucy (University of Alabama), Henry Doyle and Heman
Sweatt (University of Texas), Ada Lois Sipuel and G.W. McLaurin
(University of Oklahoma); some photos show civil disturbances at schools
attempting integration in the late 1950s, including some of Central High
School, Little Rock, Ark.; one photo shows Daisy Bates with the "Little
Rock Nine." Includes NAACP youth protesting segregation at Texas State
University, and college students marching in support of the
Austin-Mahoney Bill. One photo of Billie Holiday with school children
from Merriam, Kans. NAACP staff depicted include Daisy Bates, Oliver
Hill, Ruby Hurley, and Thurgood Marshall. Includes several photos of
Carl Van Vechten and Georgia O'Keeffe on the campus of Fisk University.
222 photographic prints; 23 photomechanical prints. Organized into eight
subject categories: Desegregation cases; Integrated schools and
colleges; Protest, secondary and college; African American schools;
White schools and students; Unidentified school buildings; Universities
and colleges; Miscellaneous. Arranged chronologically or alphabetically
within each category. |
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Desegregation cases |
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College, 1938-1948 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 1-10 (F) |
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Autherine Lucy, 1956 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 11-16 (F) |
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Secondary, 1943-ca. 1960 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 17-40 (F) |
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Integrated schools and colleges, 1948-1957 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 41-52 (F) |
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Protest, secondary and college, 1939-1961 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 53-74 (F) |
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African American schools, 1921-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 75-117 (F) |
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White schools and students, ca. 1940-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 118-121 (F) |
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Unidentified school buildings |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 122-128 (F) |
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Universities and colleges |
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American University, Washington, D.C. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 129-131 (F) |
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Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, no. 132 (F) |
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Baylor University, Waco, Tex. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 133-134 (F) |
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Bowie State College, Bowie, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 135-136 (F) |
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Clark College, Atlanta, Ga. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 137-138 (F) |
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Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 139-147 (F) |
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Florida A & M University, Tallahassee,
Fla. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, no. 148 (F) |
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Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 149-150 (F) |
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Lane College, Jackson, Tenn. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 151 (F) |
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Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Pa. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 152-161 (F) |
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Maryland State College, Princes Anne, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 162-164 (F) |
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Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, no. 165 (F) |
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University of Maryland, College Park, Md. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 166-168 (F) |
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Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. (no. 169,
no. 171, and no. 172 are in color) |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 169-176 (F) |
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Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 177-178 (F) |
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Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 179-187 (F) |
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West Virginia State College, Institute, W.Va. |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 188-189 (F) |
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Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 190-211 (F) |
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Miscellaneous |
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Call No.: LOT 13088, nos. 212-229 (F) |
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African Americans in Business, Government, Public
Service, and Labor, 1938-1964, bulk 1940-1948.
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Call No.: LOT 13089 (F) |
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Photos show African American workers posed for group portraits, receiving
awards, and in work related activities. Occupations represented include
nurses, doctors, laborers, clerks, and retail management trainees.
Includes Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) photos documenting
integration of African Americans into the work force; National Youth
Administration photos show youth learning various trades; many publicity
photos of scientists and administrators employed by the Department of
Agriculture; some photos of tobacco workers striking; a few photos of
workers in San Francisco, Calif., and Pontiac, Mich., protesting
employment discrimination. NAACP staff represented in a few photos:
Clarence Mitchell, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins. 95 photographic
prints; 1 print. Organized into eight subject categories: African
Americans employed at the Department of Agriculture; African Americans
in professional occupations; Discrimination; Fair Employment Practices
Commission (FEPC); Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) in New
York, N.Y.; National Youth Administration, vocational training program;
Protests; Strikes. |
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African Americans employed at the Department of Agriculture,
ca. 1940-ca. 1950 |
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Call No.: LOT 13089, nos. 1-18 (F) |
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African Americans in professional occupations |
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ca. 1943-1950 |
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