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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]
Olympian Jessie Owens
Jesse Owens, 1936. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (083.00.00)
[Digital ID # cph.3a28453]
A Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt
NAACP Secretary Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt concerning Marian Anderson’s Easter Sunday concert and Spingarn Medal, April 12, 1939. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (085.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0085
Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial Concert
Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1939. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (084.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # ppmsca-23838
Creation of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Thurgood Marshall to Arthur B. Spingarn and Walter White concerning the founding of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, July 27, 1939. Memorandum. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (087.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP [Digital ID # na0087p1 – na0087p2]
World War II and the Post War Years
NAACP’s 1940 Fundraising Festivities
Louise E. Jefferson. NAACP Birthday Ball at the Golden Gate Ballroom with Count Basie and his Orchestra, February 26, 1940. Poster. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (092.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.24947]
The Idea for a 1941 Mass Protest
A. Philip Randolph to NAACP Secretary Walter White, March 18, 1941. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (088.00.00) Courtesy of the A Philip Randolph Institute
Digital ID # na0088
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