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The Rejection of Judge John Parker
Telegram from NAACP Acting Secretary Walter White to U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis concerning the confirmation of Judge John Parker, May 7, 1930. Carbon copy of typescript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0067p1-na0067p2]
NAACP Plan to Challenge Underfunding of Black Schools
Nathan R. Margold. Preliminary Report to the Joint Committee Supervising the Expenditure of the 1930 Appropriation by the American Fund for Public Service [1931]. Typescript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (070.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0070p1 – na0070p8
The Scottsboro Case
Dr. P. A. Stephens to Walter White concerning the Scottsboro Case, April 2, 1931. Autograph letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (071.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0071]
Youth Leader Juanita Jackson
Miss Juanita Jackson visiting the Scottsboro Boys, January 1937. Halftone photomechanical print. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (072.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c16731]
Nixon v. Condon
Fred C. Knollenberg to NAACP Secretary Walter White concerning Nixon v. Condon, October 20, 1932. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (073.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0073p1 - na0073p2
Mistreatment of Black Workers
George S. Schuyler to NAACP Secretary Walter White concerning the Mississippi River Flood Control Project investigation, December 23 [1932]. Autograph note cards and typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (074.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0074p1 – na0074p7]
Letter from NAACP Assistant Secretary Roy Wilkins to NAACP Secretary Walter White concerning the Mississippi River Flood Control Project, January 5, 1933. Typescript Manuscript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (075.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0075p1 – na0075p3]
Roy Wilkins in Workman’s Disguise
Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary of the NAACP, in workman’s disguise during his investigation of workers’ conditions on the Federal Flood Control Project, Memphis, Tennessee, 1932. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (076.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c19164]
The Second Amenia Conference
W.E.B. Du Bois to Walter White concerning the second Amenia Conference, March 14, 1933. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (077.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0077]
The Amenia Conference Attendees
Participants in the Amenia Conference, 1933. Third Row (left to right): Ralph Bunche, Edward P. Lovett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Abram Harris, Charles Houston, Grace Nail Johnson, Roy Wilkins, E. Franklin Frazier, Sterling Brown, Lillian Alexander, Emmett Dorsey, William Pickens, Mary White Ovington, Ira De A. Reid, James Weldon Johnson, and Walter White. Second Row (left to right): Hope Spingarn, Hazel Brown, Juanita Jackson, M. Moran Weston, Wenonah Logan, Joel Spingarn, Elmer A. Carter, Mabel J. Bryde, Frank Wilson, and Marion Cuthbert. Front Row (left to right): Dr. Ernest Alexander, Ruth McGee, Dr. Virginia Alexander, Howard Shaw, Anna Arnold, Sara E. Reid, Pauline Young, Frances Williams, unidentified. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (078.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c17806]
Du Bois’s Editorial Advocating Segregation
NAACP President Joel Spingarn to the Board of Directors concerning W.E. B. Du Bois’s Editorial on Segregation in The Crisis, January 10, 1934. Memorandum. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (078.01.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0078_01]
The Costigan–Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill
Walter White to Roy Wilkins concerning the Costigan–Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill, June 20, 1934. Memorandum. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (078.02.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0078_02]
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Houston, ca. 1940. Gelatin silver print. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # cph-3c31020
Plan to Fight Discrimination in Higher Education
Memorandum for the Joint Committee of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service, Inc. from Charles H. Houston, October 26, 1934. Memorandum. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (079.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0079p1 – na0079p13
William Henry Hastie
William Hastie Chairman of the National Legal Committee, NAACP, n.d. Gelatin silver print. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (069.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # ppmsca-05515
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall, between 1935 and 1940. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (086.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3b31054]
Donald Murray’s First Day of Law School
Donald Murray. No Trials & Tribulations, ca. 1935, concerning Murray v. Maryland. Autograph manuscript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (081.00.00) Courtesy of Donald G. Murray, Jr.
[Digital ID # na0081p1 – na0081p7]
Italian Aggression against Ethiopia
Walter White to Frances Williams and Charles Houston concerning the Italo-Ethiopian (Abyssinian) crisis. June 11, 1935. Carbon copy of Type letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (079.01.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0079_01, na0079_01p1]
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Dismantled 65 mm guns captured from Italians by Abyssinian troops are transported to forward positions in maneuvers of Italian Army, date unknown. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (079.02.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.24951]
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
Charles H. Houston. Agreement for Preliminary Investigation into Exclusion of Negroes from the University of Missouri, July 15, 1935. Typed document. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (080.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0080p1-na0080p5]
A Letter from Walter White to Jesse Owens
NAACP Secretary Walter White to Jesse Owens concerning the 1936 Olympic games, December 4, 1935. Typed letter. NAACP Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (082.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0082p1 – na0082p2]
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