Statement of the National Negro Congress to the Platform Committee of the 1940 Republican Convention. Remarks presented by Dr. Charles A. Lewis, National Vice President, 1940
Scope and Contents
The Civil Rights Collection (1913-1994; undated) contains three boxes of flyers, leaflets, broadsides, magazines, and other documents related to civil rights activism. Included are flyers regarding activist Angelo Herndon; an event aimed at Los Angeles' Latinx voters; Delegates National Assembly for Peace, Washington D.C. April 1, 1952; a reprint of the address Rev. Edward D. McGowan of the National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership delivered before the National Fraternal Council of Churches; a Filmore Club Communist Party flyer; material related to the Free Angela Davis movement; and others. Also included are pamphlets, magazine issues, brochures, and other publications generated by organizations advocating for civil rights and promoting racial equality such as: "The Southern Letter", published by the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; Bureau of Propaganda Investigation of the Non Sectarian Anti Nazi League to Champion Human Rights; "Motive" a magazine of the Methodist student movement; Southern Regional Council; International Labor Defense; National Negro Congress; League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation; Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training; Civil Rights Congress; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); "Negro History Bulletin"; United States Commission on Civil Rights; Anti-Defamation League; and others. This collection is arranged chronologically.
Dates
- Other: 1940
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Extent
From the Collection: 3 boxes
From the Collection: 1 linear foot
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections Repository
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson CA 90747
310-243-3895
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