NAACP, Office of Field Director of Louisiana records

The records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Louisiana State Field Office consist of 21 linear feet of documents.  The largest portion of the collection is comprised of correspondence; the remainder of the collection consists of reports, press releases, minutes, newsletters, complaints, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The correspondence in the collection is arranged chronologically and consists primarily of letters written to and by the NAACP Field Director of Louisiana.  During the period of the collection (1964-1976), the Field Director position was held by two people: Mary Jamison (1966-1967) and Harvey Ronald H. Britton (1967-1976).

The remaining 13 linear feet of this collection is arranged according to the origin of the document and placed within series, which correspond to this origin.  This arrangement begins with documents from the Louisiana Field Director’s Office, followed by documents from the Louisiana NAACP Branches, the Louisiana State Office, the Washington Bureau, the National Office and other documents from outside the NAACP organization. Among the documents that can be found in these series are monthly reports of the Field Director, press releases and newsletters from all levels of the NAACP and other organizations, civil rights complaints made to the Louisiana Office, branch files, Executive Committee and Board of Director’s minutes of the Louisiana State Conference, documents from the State Conventions, monthly summary reports from the National Office, and documents from other organizations such as the Human Relations Committee of New Orleans, the Urban League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Amistad Research Center.