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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

Collection Identifier: OH-31: T-32
Overview:

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of 72 oral histories.

Cecil F. Poole papers

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-300
Content Description:

The Cecil F. Poole papers contain a wide swath of personal and professional material from Poole’s earliest career in the U.S. Army Air Corps and the Price Administration to his appointment as Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The entire collection spans from 1935 until Poole’s death in 1997 and primarily consists of correspondence, memoranda, case files, personnel files, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs, date books and personal ephemera.

Papers of Virginia Foster Durr, ca.1910-2007

Collection Identifier: MC 856: T-388: Vt-211: MP-93
Overview:

Biographical materials, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials documenting the life of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr.

Papers of Louise E. Jefferson, 1861-1991 (inclusive), 1943-1980 (bulk), undated

Collection Identifier: MC 1147
Overview:

Maps, correspondence, and artwork of African American artist, cartographer, graphic designer, author, and photographer Louise E. Jefferson.

Papers of Kathryn M. Johnson, 1948, undated

Collection Identifier: MC 1085
Overview:

Civil rights activist and educator, Kathryn M. Johnson's incomplete autobiography, "The Color Line," undated, and her pamphlet "The Dark Race in the Dawn," 1948.

Papers of Harriet Burton Laidlaw, 1851-1958

Collection Identifier: A-63
Overview:

Correspondence, diary, articles, speeches, etc., of H. B. (Harriet Burton) Laidlaw, teacher and writer.

Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 412: T-194: T-245
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Pauli Murray, lawyer, activist, and first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.

Papers of Leonora O'Reilly, 1861-1928

Collection Identifier: A-39
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, speeches, articles, pamphlets, leaflets, and clippings of Leonora O'Reilly, documenting her work in the labor, suffrage, and peace movements.

Papers of Maud Wood Park in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1870-1960

Collection Identifier: WRC Pa; M-133, reels D30-48; M-91
Overview:

Journal, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, etc., of Maud Wood Park, suffragist, civic reformer, and writer. These papers are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

Papers Winifred Lockhart Willis, 1917-1982

Collection Identifier: MC 369: M-101
Overview:

Journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, etc., of Winifred Lockhart Willis, journalist and creative writer.

Papers of Edith Spurlock Sampson, 1927-1979

Collection Identifier: MC 397
Overview:

Papers of Cook County circuit judge Edith Spurlock Sampson.

The political activities of the first generation of fully enfranchised Connecticut women, 1920-1945, oral history transcripts, 1980-1982

Collection Identifier: MC 362
Overview:

Interview transcripts and data sheets with biographical information from Political Women in Connecticut project, sponsored by the Center for Oral History and the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Connecticut.

William Hastie papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601657
Overview:

The papers of William Henry Hastie relate to his professional career, mainly starting with 1937, until his death in 1976; to his interest in and championship of civic causes; and to his efforts in behalf of anti-discrimination. There are small groups of drafts of speeches and of biographical material, the latter relating to his various appointments, and to academic and civic honors.