NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PERSONS (NEW ORLEANS BRANCH) COLLECTION, ADDENDUM 2

 

 

(Mss 185)

 

 

Inventory

 

 

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

 

April 1986

 

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

 

Historical Note

 

Container List

 

Index Terms

 

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

Size:                          57 linear feet

 

Geographic

locations:                 New Orleans, La.

 

Inclusive dates:      n.d., April 15, 1964 - July 7, 1979

 

Summary:                Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (New Orleans Branch).  Includes committee chairmen files, complaints, conference records, correspondence, educational mat­ter, executive committee records, files, financial records, Freedom Fund Banquet records, Dr. Guy G. Gipson records, job descriptions, membership records, miscellany, oddments, office procedures, pamphlets, publications, stencils, and Youth Council records.

 

Related

collections:              National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Col­lection (New Orleans Branch) Collection (Mss. 28); National Associ­ation for the Advancement of Colored People Collection (New Orleans Branch), Addendum 1 (Mss 55)

 

Source:                     Gift, January 1986

 

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, Addendum 2, 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.

 

 

 

Container List

 

 

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Index Terms

 

 

African Americans—Louisiana—New Orleans

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