Lillian Lyttle collection

Lillian Lyttle was the cousin of Carmel Carrington Marr, who was married to Warren Marr II, editor of The Crisis from 1974-1980. Ms. Lyttle was the circulation manager for The Crisis for many years. Her collection represents her association with the NAACP through various collected publications and ephemera on the organization, as well as correspondence with and photographs of Roy Wilkins.

Additional collected materials deal with a variety of topics from a course taught at SUNY-Stony Brook by Dr. Ernest Dube that included the issue of whether Zionism was a form of racism, collected news clippings, material on the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and material on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Additional photographs are of Dick Gregory, Duke Ellington, and NAACP employees, including Janie Butts, Lillian Lyttle, Roy Wilkins, Maybelle Ward, and Watson Duncanson.