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The Amenia Conference Pamphlet
W.E.B. Du Bois. The Amenia Conference: An Historical Negro Gathering. The Troutbeck Press, 1925. Pamphlet. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0040p1-na0040p10]
The Amenia Conference, 1916
The Amenia Conference, 1916. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3a50780]
Buchanan v. Warley
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1916 [no. 231], Charles H. Buchanan v. William Warley. Pamphlet. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (041.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0041p1 – na0041p3
The Silent Protest of 1917
Silent protest parade in New York City against the East St. Louis riots, 1917. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (042.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # cph-3a34294
John R. Shillady
John R. Shillady, between 1910 and 1920. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.23831]
1919 Pan-African Congress
W.E. B. Du Bois to NAACP Board of Directors concerning the 1919 Pan-African Congress and a book on the black soldier in World War I, December 24, 1918. Memorandum. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0043p1-na0043p4]
W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1919 Trip to France
NAACP Board of Director Minutes concerning W.E.B. Du Bois’s trip to France, February 10, 1919. Typescript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (043.01.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0043_01, na0043_01p1]
Report on Lynching in the United States
Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889–1918. New York: NAACP, April 1919. NAACP Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0045p1 – na0045p4
The “Red Summer”
Statement of James E. Scott concerning his assault by rioters in Washington, D.C. July 19, 1919. Typed document. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0044]
The New Negro Movement
1918 Anti-Lynching Bill
Congressman L.C. Dyer to John R. Shillady concerning an anti-lynching bill, April 6, 1918. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (047.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0047]
A Federal law against Lynchings
Federal law against Lynchings, Speech of Hon. L.C. Dyer of Missouri in the House of Representatives, May 7, 1918. Pamphlet. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (048.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0048p1-na0048p5]
African American Soldiers in World War I
Robert Edmund Jones. Soldiers. Cover of The Crisis, June 1918. New York: NAACP, 1918. General Collections, Library of Congress (049.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0049]
NAACP Women Aid the American Expeditionary Forces
Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson. Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1920. General Collections, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
[Digital ID # na0059]
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson, between 1900 and 1920. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (050.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3a43308]
Walter White
Photograph of Walter Francis White, between 1920 and 1940. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c07019]
Director of Branches Robert W. Bagnall
Robert W. Bagnall, between 1915 and 1925. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.23835]
Field Secretary William Pickens
William Pickens, between 1910 and 1920. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (058.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.23834]
The NAACP Flag
Lynching flag flying at NAACP headquarters, ca. 1938. Gelatin silver print. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (046.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # ppmsca-09705
U.S. Occupation in Haiti, 1915
James Weldon Johnson to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes concerning the occupation of Haiti by United States Armed Forces, March 28, 1921. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0054]
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey, August 5, 1924. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00)
[Digital ID # cph.3a03567]
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