A major resource documenting the funding and activities of the NAACP fighting for Black civil rights in 20th Century America. It includes materials relating to key cases including:
- Correspondence about Josephine Baker’s treatment at the Stork Club in New York City, 1951.
- Letters in 1955 between Thurgood Marshall and Simeon Booker, Washington bureau chief for Jet magazine, concerning witnesses for the Emmett Till trial.
- Correspondence between Thurgood Marshall and his staff concerning a trip to Korea to investigate charges of racism in the U.S. military and the disproportionate number of court martial proceedings brought against Black soldiers, 1951.
- A letter from Langston Hughes to Henry Lee Moon concerning his poem, “The Ballad of Harry Moore,” January 3, 1952.
- Documents about Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, and related cases.
- Cases concerning elections and voting rights in the 1940s and 1950s with one Alabama primary election case, Gray v. Main, from 1966
Also provided are historical textual records.
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