- unitid
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{"value"=>"20648", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc Micro R-1182", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11613582", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1933-1947", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1933/1947"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"National Negro Congress records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"94 reels", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5.88 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The National Negro Congress was established, in 1936, to \"secure the right of the Negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching, and mob violence\" and \"to promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people.\" This collection includes the files of executive secretaries John P. Davis, Edward Strong, and Revels Cayton, as well as financial records."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"National Negro Congress (U.S.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The National Negro Congress was established, in 1936, to \"secure the right of the Negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching, and mob violence\" and \"to promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people.\" It was conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for Blacks. Executive secretaries were John P. Davis, 1935-1942; Edward Strong, 1943; and Revels Cayton, 1945-1947.</p> <p>The Negro Labor Victory Committee, founded in 1942, was an organization of Black and white trade union officials from the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Railroad Brotherhoods. It was organized to encourage Black workers to fight for equality within organized labor, government, and the Armed Forces.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of the files of John P. Davis, Edward Strong, and Revels Cayton, as well as financial records and pubications. Also included are Davis's files from the Negro Industrial League, 1933, of which he had been executive secretary; Davis's files from the Joint Committee on National Recovery, 1933-1935, an ad-hoc lobby to protect black interests in the federal government; and his subject/reference files on different aspects of the \"Negro question\". Finally, the records of the Negro Labor Victory Committee, 1942-1945, contain files of Charles A. Collins, executive secretary, and M. Moran Weston, field secretary; they include correspondence, subject/organization files, and printed matter.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The National Negro Congress records are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20648#c1599933'>Pre-Congress records and report files of John P. Davis</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1933-1937</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20648#c1599951'>Correspondence of the Executive Secretaries</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1935-1947</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20648#c1600820'>Financial records and publications</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20648#c1600996'>Negro Labor Victory Committee</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1942-1945</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes records of Charles A. Collins, Executive Secretary, and M. Moran Weston, Field Secretary.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Organized into four series: (1) Records; (2) Correspondence; (3) Financial records and publications; and (4) Negro Labor Victory Committee.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the National Negro Congress, ca. 1948.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed in July 1968; surveyed in 1987 by Janice Quinter; updated in 1992 by Andre Elizee. \"Papers of the National Negro Congress\" compiled by Eric Gallagher, Martin Schipper, and David Werning, Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>National Negro Congress records (additions), Sc MG 654, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p> <p>Lawrence Reddick papers, Sc MG 974, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Reels were originally numbered according to parts as in part 1, r. 1, etc. The parts somewhat correspond to the series. Here they are numbered as 1.1, 1.2-4.1, etc., although parts 1 and 2 overlap and do not correspond exactly to their corresponding series."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2020 October 30"}
- date_start
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1933
- keydate
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1933
- date_end
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1947
- date_inclusive_start
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1933
- date_inclusive_end
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1947
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], National Negro Congress records, Sc Micro R-1182, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}