January 1930

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people." Contains reports on African Americans and the vote, residential segregation, African American federal prisoners, discrimination in athletics and church, anti-intermarriage bills, President Herbert Hoover's crime commission, and lynching, among other topics. Provides updates on the NAACP's legal defense related to particular cases, such as the Bell-…

GLC06135.05

January 1932

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all emphasize the fact which the Association was formed to promulgate- that the human family is one, and that all men are entitled to equal opportunity regardless of color or creed." Reports on African Americans saved from death or life imprisonment, school segregation, a fund for legal work, voting and the "white primary," discrimination (citing…

GLC06135.06

1939

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP 30th annual report for 1939

Lists NAACP officers for 1939. Includes chapters discussing lynching, education, economic opportunity, legal defense, and Department of Branches. The education chapter outlines several cases regarding the desegregation of university law schools and regarding teachers' salaries, among other issues. Closes with a report on finances.

GLC06135.08.01

July 5, 1881

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Julius Walker Adams

Mentions the Slater letters, noting that Slater is an excellent Republican who served in the 13th New York Volunteers, and was badly wounded in the Battle of Second Manassas. Discusses "a terrible blow to the country" at length, referring to the July 2, 1881 shooting of President James Garfield. Remarks that in his youth, the highest political offense that took place was the pulling of Jackson's nose (President Andrew Jackson), but "now it has got to murder- in two cases" (referring to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Garfield). Relates events which took place after Lincoln's murder,…

GLC00214.02.08