National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch Collection

 

 

(Mss 28)

 

 

Inventory

 

 

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

 

April 2000

 

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

 

Historical Note

 

List of Series

 

Container List

 

Index Terms

 

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

Size:                          67 linear feet

 

Geographic

locations:                 New Orleans, La.

 

Inclusive dates:      1928-1971

 

Bulk dates:              1942-1971

 

Summary:                Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch.

 

Related

collections:              National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch, Addendum 1 (Mss 55); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch, Addendum 2 (Mss 185)

 

Source:                     Gift, April 1975

 

Access:                     No restrictions

 

Copyright:                Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

 

Citation:                    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

 

 

 

Historical Note

 

 

            The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States.  Its principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of minority group citizens in the United States.  The NAACP is committed to achieving this objective through non‑violence and relies upon the press, the petition, the ballot, and the courts.  It persists in the use of legal and moral persuasion even in the face of overt and violent racial hostility.

 

            The NAACP was formed in 1909 in New York City by a biracial group of citizens committed to social justice.  On February 12, over the signatures of sixty persons, the call was issued for a meeting on the concept of creating an organization that would be an aggressive watchdog of Negro liberties.  This event marks the founding of the NAACP.  Today the NAACP is a network of more than 2,200 branches covering all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Japan and Germany.  They are divided into seven regions and are managed and governed by a National Board of Directors.  The NAACP is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.  Total membership exceeds 500,000.  This collection pertains to the New Orleans branch of the NAACP.

 

Source:

"What You Should Know about the NAACP."  2000.  Online.  Available: <http://www.naacp.org/about/factsheet.html

 

 

 

List of Series

 

 

Asbestos Local No. 53

 

Attendance Registers/Rosters

 

Autocrat Social and Pleasure Club

 

Baltimore Branch, N.A.A.C.P. Treasurer Report

 

Bank Records

 

Beecher Memorial United Church Financial Reports

 

Boeing Company/Michoud Plant

 

Broadsides/Handbills

 

Cabaret Dance

 

Calendars

 

Cash Journals

 

Cash Vouchers

 

Clippings

 

Committees

 

Complaints

 

Coordinating Council of Greater New Orleans

 

Correspondence

 

Court Cases

 

Editorials

 

Executive Secretary/Urban Program Director Reports

 

Forms

 

Freedom Fund Drives

 

General Elections

 

Government Mobile Home Program

 

Estelle Hubbard Memorial Home

 

International Council for Business Opportunity

 

Invoices

 

Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation/Aluminum Workers International Union,

            AFL-CIO Agreement

 

League of Women Voters of New Orleans

 

Ledgers

 

Louisiana.  Department of Labor

 

Louisiana.  Secretary of State

 

Louisiana State Conference of Branches and Youth Councils

 

Louisiana Summer Project

 

Louisiana Voter Education Project

 

Mailing Lists/Logs

 

Mayor's Advisory Committee on Crime and Delinquency

 

Mayor's Advisory Committee on Human Relations

 

Membership Campaign Drives

 

Metropolitan Area Committee

 

Minutes

 

Miscellany

 

National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees

 

National Conventions

 

New Orleans.  Orleans Parish School Board

 

New Orleans Area-Wide Iron Workers and Riggers Apprenticeship Standards

 

New Orleans Community Relations Commission

 

New Orleans Improvement League

 

New Orleans Legal Assistance Program

 

New Orleans Metal Trades Council

 

Notes

 

Personnel Records

 

Petitions

 

Phonodiscs/Tapes

 

Photographs

 

Pins

 

Plaque

 

Posters/Stickers

 

Presidential Reports (New Orleans Branch)

 

Programs (N.A.A.C.P. and other activities)

 

Progressive Voters League

 

Publications

 

Questionnaires for Candidates

 

Receipt Books

 

Region VI Leadership Training Conference

 

Regional Planning Commission

 

Resolutions

 

Scripts/Spot Announcements

 

Song Sheets

 

Southwest Regional Conference

 

Speeches

 

Tax Records

 

Title VII Civil Rights Acts of 1964 Conference

 

Total Community Action, Inc.

 

Treasurer

 

United States.  General Services Administration

 

[United States].  President's National Commission on Riots

 

Urban League of Greater New Orleans

 

Urban Program Director Reports

 

Voter Education Project

 

Voter Registration Campaign Drives

 

Women's Auxiliary, N.A.A.C.P.

 

Youth Chapter/Council

 

 

 

Container List

 

 

                        Affidavits.  See Complaints . . . (28-53 to 28-64).

 

                        Asbestos Local No. 53

 

28-1                            Applications (arranged alphabetically by applicant names), n.d., 1968.  See also Asbestos Local No. 53, Correspondence . . . (28-2).

 

28-2                            Correspondence (incoming/outgoing, related to union functions; including Equal Employment Opportunity Charges of Discrimination), n.d., 1965-1970.  See also Complaints, Employment . . . (28-60 to 28-62); Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

28-3                            Court Cases (copies of court proceedings filed with the National Labor Relations Board), 1966-1970.  See also Complaints, Employment . . . (28-60 to 28-62); Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

28-4                            Lists of Referrals, n.d., 1966-1968.

 

28-5                Attendance Registers/Rosters.  n.d., 1966.

 

28-6                Autocrat Social and Pleasure Club (spiral notebook with attachments relating to club functions), 1950.

 

28-7                Baltimore Branch, N.A.A.C.P. Treasurer Report, October 8, 1935 - December 31, 1967.

 

                        Bank Records.

 

                                    Citizens Committee Account.

 

28-8                                   Checkbook (with stubs and void checks), 1 bd. vol., October 15, 1945 - December 8, 1947.

 

                                    Defense Fund Account.

 

28-9                                   Checkbook (with stubs and void checks), 1 bd. vol., October 12, 1942, March 30, 1949, July 12, 1951 - January 10, 1952, April 9, 1954, March 28, 1956, August 25, 1959.

 

28-10                                 Resolutions (authorizing officers to deposit and/or endorse checks;  with deposit slips and Defense Fund Financial Reports), n.d., 1952 - 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964.  See also Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

28-11                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks (with credit advice and deposit slips), November 1950 - February 1957, June - August 1959.

 

                                    Freedom TV Account, 0069 - 05 - 804.

 

28-12                                 Checkbook (with stubs and void checks), 1 bd. vol., April - June 1964.

 

28-13                                 Resolutions (authorizing officers to deposit and/or endorse checks), 1967.

 

28-14                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks (with deposit slips), March - July 1964, February - December 1967; March, December 1968.

 

                                           See also Bank Records, N.A.A.C.P. [Freedom] Fund Account . . . (28-27 to 28-29); Freedom Fund Drives, Financial Reports . . . (28-103).

 

                                    General Fund Account, 28 - 69 - 0 - 029 - 3.

 

                                           Checkbooks (with stubs and void checks), 2 bd. vols.

 

28-15                                      March 25, 1945 - September 3, 1958.

 

28-16                                      September 3, 1958 - March 21, 1961

 

28-17                                 Deposit Books (with credit advice slips), 12 bd. vols., n.d., April 28, 1955 - November 13, 1964.

 

28-18                                 Resolutions (authorizing officers to deposit and/or endorse checks), 1965, 1967.

 

28-18                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks (with cash tapes, credit advice and deposit slips).

 

28-19                                      January 1950, March 1955 - May 1956, April 1957 - February 1958, March - December 1960.

 

28-20                                      January 1961 - July 1963.

 

28-21                                      August - November 1963, May 1966, March 1967 - November 1968.

 

                                    Mary Jamieson Account, 2451 - 27 - 280.

 

28-22                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks, August, November 1966.

 

                                    Louisiana State Conference of Branches and Youth Councils Accounts.

 

                                           Statements and Cancelled Checks (with credit advice and deposit slips).

 

28-23                                      [9293/108719], November 1965 - January 1966.

 

28-24                                      12 - 515 - 103, January - October 1966.

 

28-25                                      07 - 23 - 003 - 6, March - June 1968, February - March 1969, April 1970.

 

                                           See also Cash Journals . . . (28-43, 28-45).

 

28-26                          Miscellany (bank receipts, notes and related cash tapes), n.d., 1955 - 1957, 1962, 1965, 1967.

 

                                    N.A.A.C.P. [Freedom] Fund Account, C 645 b.

 

28-27                                 Checkbook (with stubs and void checks), 1 bd. vol., November 30, 1954 - March 6, 1956.

 

28-28                                 Resolutions (authorizing officers to deposit and/or endorse checks), 1954.

 

28-29                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks, November 1954 - February 1956.

 

 

                                           See also Bank Records, Freedom TV Account . . . (28-12 to 28-14);  Freedom Fund Drives, Financial Reports . . . (28-103).

 

                                    Special Projects Fund Account, 2486 - 03 - 192.

 

28-30                                 Deposit Book (with credit advice slips), 1 bd. vol., February 13, 1963 - October 1, 1964.

 

28-31                                 Resolutions (authorizing officers to deposit an/or endorse checks), 1963, 1967.

 

28-32                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks, February 1963, March 1967 - October 1968.

 

                                    Voter Registration Funds Account, 24 - 69 - 07 - 949.

 

28-33                                 Resolutions (autorizing officers to deposit and/or endorse checks), 1967.

 

28-34                                 Statements and Cancelled Checks (with credit advice slips), June - October 1967, January 1968.

 

                                           See also Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95);  Treasurer, Financial Reports . . . (28-283).

 

                                    Youth Chapter Accounts.

 

28-35                                 Checkbook (with stubs and void checks), 2469 - 00 - 018, 1 bd. vol., December 31, 1962 - January 11, 1965.

 

                                           Statements and Cancelled Checks (with contracts, credit advice and deposit slips).

 

28-36                                      24 - 69 - 0 - 001, June 1960.

 

28-37                                      2469 - 00 - 018, 1964, 1965, February - August 1966, July, August 1967.

 

                                           See also Invoices . . . (28-117 to 28-119).

 

28-38              Beecher Memorial United Church Financial Reports, 1966, 1967.

 

                        Bi-Racial Committee on Human Relations.  See New Orleans Community Relations Commission . . . (28-195).

 

28-39              Boeing Company/Michoud Plant (correspondence and petitions relating to labor conditions in the New Orleans metropolitan area), n.d., 1962 - 1968.  See also Complaints, Employment . . .(28-60 to 28-62); Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

28-40              Broadsides/Handbills, n.d., 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1965 - 1969.

 

28-41              Cabaret Dance (financial and ticket distribution reports, and related miscellany), n.d., 1955, 1956, 1963, 1965 - 1968.  See also Committees . . . (28-50 to 28-52); Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95); Invoices . . . (28-117 to 28-119).

 

28-42              Calendars (annotated with scheduled activities), 1965, 1967, 1969.  See also Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

                        Cash Journals, 6 bd. vols.

 

28-43                          n.d. (entries for Louisiana branches).

 

28-44                          September 9, 1945, January 9 - March 25, 1946 (with cash tape attach­ments; entries for Louisiana branches).

 

28-45                          September 9, 14, 1945, January 17 - July 8, 1946, September 1949 - October 27, 1952 (entries for Louisiana branches, Christmas seals, and memberships).

 

28-46                          December 31, 1945, January 17, 1946, November 4 - December 7, 1948 (creditor lists and entries for women's division).

 

28-48                          1947 - 1950, 1952, 1954 (membership campaign expenses and reports, reservations to testimonial dinners, postal employees, receipt and disbursement entries).

 

28-47                          January 3, 1951 - August 4, 1953 (general fund donations).

 

28-49              Cash Vouchers, 1954 - 1969.  See also Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

28-308            Clippings (with photographs, 1946), n.d., 1946, 1949, 1951 - 1971.

 

                        Commission on Human Relations.  See Committees, Reports . . . (28-52); New Orleans Community Relations Commission . . . (28-195).

 

                        Committees (Cabaret Dance, Church Work, Community Coordination, Consumer Protection, Education, Freedom Fund, Housing, Labor and Industry, Legal Redress, Membership, Nominating, Political Action, Press and Publicity, Veterans, Voter Registration, and Youth Work).

 

                                    Correspondence.  See Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95).

 

                                    Forms.  See Forms, N.A.A.C.P. (28-98).

 

28-50                          Membership Lists (arranged alphabetically by committee), n.d., 1954 - 1959, 1961, 1963 - 1970.

 

28-51                          Miscellany (with material on housing), n.d., 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1963 - 1969.

 

                                    Publications.  See Publications . . . (28-234 to 28-           240).

 

28-52                          Reports (annual, monthly, weekly; attachments include Commission of Human Relations and Orleans Parish School Board reports), n.d., 1951 - 1953, 1955, 1959 - 1970.  See also New Orleans, Orleans Parish School Board, Miscellany . . . (28-190); New Orleans, Orleans Parish School Board, Reports . . . (28-192; New Orleans Community Relations Commission . . . (28-195).

 

                                    See also Cabaret Dance . . . (28-41); Correspondence . . . (28-66 to 28-95); Freedom Fund Drives, Committee Membership Lists . . . (28-101); General Elections . . .(28-110); Membership Campaign Drives, Com­mittee . . . (28-141, 28-142); Treasurer, Financial Reports . . . (28-283); Voter Registration Campaign Drives, Committee . . . (28-289, 28-290); Voter Registration Campaign Drives, Proposals . . . (28-292).

 

                        Complaints (to New Orleans Branch; with affidavits and statements).

 

                                    Brutality (of any form, not restricted to police brutality; with copies of police arrest reports, bail undertaking reports, and photographs).

 

28-53                                 n.d., 1943 - 1950.