Constitution of the NAACP describing the organization’s governance, as of October, 1945
View Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesFormally describing the structure of the Association's membership, board of directors, officers and corresponding duties, committees, departments, branches and bureaus, meetings and conventions, and l…
Handwritten note by W. E. B. Du Bois about his role in the NAACP, possibly written in 1948 before his resignation
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963View Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesNotes on Du Bois's role in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Possibly written as he was about to resign in 1948.
NAACP resolution proposing a series of steps to prevent future wars, including recognition of racial equality worldwide, 1945
National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleView Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesProposing a series of steps "to make war at once unlikely and unprofitable" in future, featuring the assertion of racial equality worldwide, international recognition of colonies and political autonom…
Documents related to the NAACP’s response to the acquittal and subsequent confessions of Emmett Till’s murderers
View Full Item in Florida State University LibrariesTill Materials from the NAACP.
Flyer for an NAACP rally protesting discrimination in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1952
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Salt Lake City Branch, sponsorView Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibraryAnnouncement of an NAACP civil rights rally and petition campaign in support of the sit-in movement, 1960
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. West Coast Region, 1944-, sponsorView Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibraryTimeline documenting NAACP activism against school segregation in Boston, 1963
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Education CommitteeView Full Item in Northeastern University LibraryDonated by Phyllis M. Ryan This project was partially funded by the Boston Library Consortium. Timeline for activities of the NAACP Education Committee.
Telegram from the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) protesting the jailing of Ralph David Abernathy and others
View Full Item in Memphis Public LibraryTelegram from the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference proesting the jailing of Ralph David Abernathy and others.
Folder of press releases about the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the fall of 1963
King, Mary E., 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThese SNCC press releases from 1963 discuss the bombing of the Birmingham, Alabama, church in which four little girls were killed and call for a boycott of Birmingham's industries which, they point ou…
Documents related to Ella Baker’s work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), 1960-1966
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyElla Baker was an executive with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with close ties to the MDFP and several other civil rights groups. This folder consists of an assortment of SNCC and COFO…
Folder of documents from the November 1964 SNCC retreat at Waveland, Mississippi
King, Mary E., 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe November 1964 SNCC retreat at Waveland, Mississippi, produced a lot of introspection and soul-searching. Documents from the meeting in this folder include a list of topics to discuss; a study outl…
A series of daily telephone reports collected by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) Atlanta office primarily about events on the ground in Selma and Montgomery in March,1965
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during March to April of 1965. March reports primarily detail t…
Folder with documents related to Freedom Summer of 1964, including orientation materials for volunteers who would be teaching and registering voters in Mississippi
Council of Federated OrganizationsView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder is comprised of documents describing all aspects of Freedom Summer. Included are the orientation materials given to volunteers at the Freedom Schools; information on the Mississippi Freedo…
Folder with curriculum materials for teaching in Freedom Schools during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer, organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)
Mays, James N., 1928View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder includes a syllabus for teaching Negro history; an ad for two plays, one from the Free Southern Theater and one about Medgar Evers; an appeal to Freedom School teachers to collect students…
Photographs of a Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) sit-in at the US Attorney’s office, San Francisco, California
View Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibrarySeveral protesters (including African Americans) sitting on the floor of the US Attorney's office. Various views of Cecil Poole standing and surrounded by reporters. Men carrying or dragging protester…
Issues of NOW! The Voice of Freedom, a newsletter of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), 1964
Council of Federated OrganizationsView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyNow! The Voice of Freedom is a weekly newsletter distributed by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) during May and June 1964. The newsletter includes updates and announcements pertaining to…
Legal brief for the 1964 case filed against local Mississippi law enforcement and white supremacist groups by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) for conspiracy to deny African Americans constitutional rights
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial EqualityView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe legal case brought by COFO, relatives of two murdered civil rights workers, and others against the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi--where the men were killed--and other M…
Campaign posters for Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) candidates, Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCampaign posters for two Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party(MFDP) candidates, Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Letter to President Lyndon Johnson asking him to seat the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and other related news clippings
Mississippi Freedom Democratic PartyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe folder contains a letter from a parent of a volunteer, asking Lyndon Johnson to seat the MFDP delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Many newspaper clippings from 1964-1967 address…
Summary of the history of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party along with documents related to the party’s 1965 Congressional challenge
Mississippi Freedom Democratic PartyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyA description of the overall contents of the MFDP files in the Wisconsin Historical Society, including a short history of the MFDP, opens this folder. This particular MFDP folder deals largely with th…
Folder of planning documents related to Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) activities during the 1960s
Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional DistrictView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains many undated, unattributed planning documents and policy ideas by famous people and grassroots individuals in several places. Some of the undated planning documents for a CORE mee…
Newsletter from the Greater Boston Committee of Racial Equality about education discrimination in Boston
Greater Boston Committee of Racial EqualityView Full Item in Northeastern University LibraryDonated by Muriel S. And Otto P. Snowden. This newsletter from the Greater Boston Committee of Racial Equality has an article on education in Boston and CORE's efforts in that realm. As well, they jux…
Interview with Reverend Joseph Carter about voter registration work conducted by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and obstacles encountered, 1963
Hollander, EdwardView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyInterview conducted by Edward Hollander with Reverend Joseph Carter, the first African American man who registered to vote in the West Feliciana Parish in Louisiana. This audio contains a discussion o…
Folder containing affidavits and other legal documents about Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) attemps to register voters
Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional DistrictView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAffidavits and other legal documents in this folder reveal Madison County registrar L. Foote Campbell's many tactics to avoid registering African Americans to vote between 1963 and 1965.
Folder containing forms and legal documents related to the arrest of civil rights workers on apparently trumped up charges, such as leafletting and driving violations
Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional DistrictView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder consists primarily of forms and legal documents related to the arrest of civil rights workers on apparently trumped up charges, from picketing to leafletting to driving violations to attem…
