NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mary McLeod Bethune papers
Collection — Box: 3
Identifier: 046
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of outgoing and incoming correspondence. Primary correspondents include John Hope, Frank S. Horne, Mary W. Ovington, William Pickens, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., John J. Tigert, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Plummer Bernard Young. The correspondence is chiefly invitations to speak and letters of congratulations to Bethune after being named the recipient of the 21st Joel E. Spingarn Medal. This includes a congratulatory telegram from Herbert Hoover,...
Dates:
Created: 1923-1942; Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1936; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Mary McLeod Bethune papers
M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. for the State of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 607
Scope and Contents
The records of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana are a rich source of primary documentation about the history of African American freemasonry in Louisiana and throughout the United States, the period of post-Civil War Reconstruction (1865-1877), the long civil rights movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1878-1954) and the modern civil rights movement (1955-1968). The...
Dates:
Created: 1857-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1980; Other: Date acquired: 08/13/2008