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{"value"=>"Henry Lee and Mollie Moon papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Henry Lee and Mollie Moon were civil rights activists and public relations executives. Henry Lee Moon also was a journalist and editor, while Mollie Moon founded the National Urban League Guild. The Henry Lee and Mollie Moon papers consist of personal and professional materials related to their activism, careers, and volunteer activities."}
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{"value"=>"Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Henry Lee and Mollie Moon were civil rights activists and public relations executives. Henry Lee Moon also was a journalist and editor, while Mollie Moon founded the National Urban League Guild.</p> <p>Henry Lee Moon was born in Pendleton, South Carolina, in 1901, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Moon attended Howard University and The Ohio State University, from which he received a master's degree in journalism in 1924. Following graduation, he directed press relations for Tuskegee Institute as an assistant to the secretary from 1926-1931. His first newspaper job was with the <span class=\"title\">New York Amsterdam News</span>. Over the years, Moon contributed articles on race relations, labor, politics, and housing to various newspapers and magazines, including <span class=\"title\">The New Republic</span>, <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Chicago Defender</span>, and the National Urban League's <span class=\"title\">Opportunity</span> magazine. His assignments also took him abroad; in 1932, he traveled to the Soviet Union for a film project on American Blacks. Although the film was canceled and led to divisions among the group of participants involved over diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States, it was here that Moon became acquainted with his wife, Mollie. Moon worked for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936-1938; he worked on a volume tentatively titled \"The Portrait of the Negro as American\"; it is unclear if the volume was published. From 1938-1944, Moon served as a regional adviser on race relations for the federal public housing authority; from 1944-1948, he was the assistant to the director of the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Moon is widely known for his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); beginning in 1948, he served as the director of public relations. During that same year, his book, <span class=\"title\">Balance of Power: The Negro Vote</span>, was published; it was considered by many to be the definitive study on the effect of Black voting patterns in American politics since Reconstruction. Moon left the NAACP in 1960 for a short stint as deputy director of public information for New York City's Housing and Redevelopment Board; he returned to the NAACP in 1961 as the director of public relations, and around 1965, he became the editor of <span class=\"title\">The Crisis</span>, a position that he held until his retirement in 1974. In 1973, his second book was published, <span class=\"title\">The Emerging Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays and editorials from</span> The Crisis, a collection of Du Bois's work edited by Moon. Moon received a grant from the Ford Foundation to write his memoirs, upon which he was working when he died in 1985. Henry Lee Moon also was an active volunteer for such organizations as the Joint Committee for the Defense of the Brazilian People, the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Committee, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, among others.</p> <p>Mollie Moon was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1907, and raised in Gary, Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Meharry Medical College with a degree in pharmacy; she was a practicing pharmacist in Indiana, Louisiana, and New York. Mollie Moon also worked as a case worker for the Department of Social Services in New York City from 1938 to the late 1960s. In 1949, she started a public relations firm with Marilyn Kaemmerle, which was dissolved in 1951; around 1952, she founded her own firm, Mollie Moon Associates, and provided the publicity for Langston Hughes's book, <span class=\"title\">A Pictorial History of the Negro in America</span> (1956). Moon, however, is mostly recognized for her volunteer work; she founded the National Urban League Guild in 1942 in order to raise funds for programs that supported racial equality. She served as the Guild's first and only president. Additionally, Moon served on the board of the Coalition of 100 Black Women and as an adviser for the Food and Drug Administration, among others. In addition, in 1988, she chaired the committee to establish the Henry Lee Moon Civil Rights Library at the NAACP's headquarters in Baltimore. Mollie Moon died in 1990.</p> <p>Both Henry Lee and Mollie Moon were the recipients of various awards and honors. Henry Lee Moon was honored by the Society of the Silurians (now, the Silurians Press Club) in 1974, and he received <span class=\"title\">The Crisis</span> 70th Aniversary Citation in 1980. Mollie Moon was named \"Woman of the Year\" by The Women in 1953; granted the Catholic Interracial Council's Hoey Award in 1981; and given the Equal Opportunity Award from the National Urban League in 1989, among others.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Henry Lee and Mollie Moon papers consist of personal and professional materials related to their activism, careers, and volunteer activities. The personal materials include resumes and CVs, information from educational institutions, financial documents, awards and honors, and memorial service programs. Correspondence, which also is personal, contains letters written by Henry Lee and Mollie Moon to each other, their daughter and other family members, and friends. Professional papers contain materials related to both Henry Lee and Mollie Moon's various careers; these materials include correspondence, printed matter, and writing. Also included in the professional papers are materials related to Henry Lee and Mollie Moon's volunteer work, such as correspondence, meeting materials, and printed matter. Writing consists mostly of writing by Henry Lee Moon, which includes both published and unpublished articles, books, speeches, and lectures; there is a small folder of speeches by Mollie Moon. Also found in this series is writing by other authors. There is a small series of printed matter on the Moons, some of which contains reviews of Henry Lee Moon's two books. The final series, Subject files, contains research material and printed matter on various topics, about which Henry Lee Moon wrote.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Henry Lee and Mollie Moon papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21087#c1790066'>Personal</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1917-1990</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of the personal papers of Henry Lee and Mollie Moon. These papers include resumes and CVs, cover letters, family records, and memorial service programs and obituaries. Henry Lee Moon's personal papers also contain papers written for classes at Howard University, The Ohio State University, Brookwood Labor School, and American University. Also included are Ted Poston's last will and testament, which named Henry Lee Moon as executor. Mollie Moon's personal papers also consist of a graduation program from Meharry Medical College and materials related to two lawsuits in which Mollie Moon was the plaintiff. The last subseries consists of materials related to the couple, such as financial, medical, and insurance documents, and awards and honors.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21087#c1790099'>Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1921-1998</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The correspondence in the first subseries is between Mollie and Henry Lee Moon. Many of the correspondents in the Friends subseries also were colleagues of the Moons; since the Moons developed personal relationships with them or had personal friendships with them prior to their professional relationships, they are included here. Also in this subseries, more general correspondence, or correspondents with few letters, are included in the general alphabetic letter folders.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21087#c1790250'>Professional</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1904-1990</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of the professional papers of Henry Lee and Mollie Moon. Both subseries are arranged in a similar fashion, chronologically by job, followed by committee work. The Henry Lee Moon subseries also includes professional correspondence, mostly with editors and publishers for his published articles and books, and institutions for speaking engagements. The bulk of this subseries consists of materials related to Moon's work with the NAACP as public relations director and editor of <span class=\"title\">The Crisis</span>. The bulk of the Mollie Moon subseries contains materials related to her work in the public relations field and her volunteer work, especially with the National Urban League Guild (NULG) and the National Advisory Drug Committee (NADC) of the Food and Drug Administration. The materials in both subseries consist of correspondence and memos; research material and writing (in the case of H. L. Moon), especially for the CIO Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC) and the NAACP; handwritten notes; printed matter (publications of the NAACP, clippings, and NULG programs, among others); reports; meeting minutes; and budget information.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21087#c1790327'>Writing</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1897-1989</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series primarily consists of writing by Henry Lee Moon, both published and unpublished. Most of the published material contains handwritten notes, drafts (typescripts with edits), final published versions, and reprints of articles for newspapers, magazines, and book chapters, including <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">New York Amsterdam News</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Phylon</span>, among others; and two books, <span class=\"title\">Balance of Power: The Negro Vote</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Emerging Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays and Editorials from</span> The Crisis. Also included is one poem, published in <span class=\"title\">The Crisis</span> in 1928. The Unpublished subseries includes various unpublished articles, mostly as typescripts; books, including one on the Black market, another entitled \"What Democracy?\" (initially cowritten with Frank Horne and later reworked by Moon, possibly as a different publication), and Moon's memoirs; speeches and lectures; works written on behalf of others; fiction; and handwritten notes. Additionally, there is one folder of Mollie Moon's writing, which mainly consists of drafts and final versions of various speeches. The final subseries encompasses work (mostly writing, but in one case, a drawing) by other authors, both published and unpublished, either used by Moon as research for his own writing or works of colleagues.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21087#c1790528'>Printed matter</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1926-1990</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains printed matter (mostly newspaper clippings and articles) on Henry Lee and Mollie Moon. The Reviews subseries consists of reviews and publicity (book announcements in catalogs and ads) for Henry Lee Moon's two published books, while the General subseries includes printed matter on or about the Moons.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21087#c1790533'>Subject files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1912-1984</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes mostly printed matter (clippings, articles, reports, brochures, and flyers) on various individuals, organizations, and topics. Most of the geographic topical files focus on politics and voting; Henry Lee Moon likely used these files as research for his first book. Most of the folder titles are updated versions of Moon's; titles in quotes are his.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into six series: I. Personal; II. Correspondence; III. Professional; IV. Writing; V. Printed matter; and VI. Subject files.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Mollie Moon, 1983 and 1988. Purchase from Savoy Books, 1992.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: artwork.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Lauren Stark, September-October 2022.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Materials with personal identifying information have been redacted.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Henry Lee Moon Family papers, Western Reserve Historical Society</p> <p>Also found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:</p> <p>Ted Poston research collection, Sc MG 557</p> <p>Ted Poston scrapbooks, Sc MG 530</p> <p>Ted Poston tribute album, Sc MG 771</p>"}
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1897
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1897
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1998
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1998
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1930
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1990
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{"value"=>"[Item], Henry Lee and Mollie Moon papers, Sc MG 342, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}