{"value"=>"<p>Drake's initial 1945 proposal to the Rosenwald Fund, an interim report and summary of activities and a later proposal for additional research are to be found here. Also filed here is Drake's correspondence with T. Ras Makonnen, and a group of letters around a controversial article, \"Tiger Bay\", published in the London magazine Leader (1949). Included are letters from John Actie, a St. Lucia-born seaman and member of the League of Coloured Peoples. Diaries, field notes, interviews and early drafts of chapters for Drake's Ph. D. thesis form an important part of this group of material. Drake paid special attention to the mixed ethnic settlements of Tiger Bay (Bute Town) in Cardiff, Wales, to the so-called \"Brown Babies problem\", and to black associational activities in Cardiff, London, Manchester and Liverpool. A photocopy of his dissertation is also included. Other important components of this series are original documents culled from the files of the League of Coloured Peoples and the Pan-African Federation. Much of the League's files consists of correspondence with its first president, Harold Moody, including letters to and from Hugh Springer, Colina Kessie, A. Creech Jones, Arthur Lewis, Wallace Johnson and George Padmore. Moody, founder of the League in 1931, was a practicing physician and influential churchman, and was reputedly the most prominent figure in race relations activities in Britain in the 1930s. He was succeeded as president of the League by Learie Constantine, the famed Trinidadian cricket player. The League was still in existence in 1952. The files of the Pan-African Federation include a \"Proposed Constitution\", letters to and from Makonnen and miscellaneous documents. There is also a small body of printed matter and periodical articles about blacks in Britain.</p>"}