National Office

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{"value"=>"<p>Included in the National Office sub-series are scattered annual reports for the 1940s, conference programs and resolutions for 1943, 1946 and 1954; minutes Board of Directors' meeting for the 1940s; reports from some of the departments to the board, primarily the Department of Branches. Baker's reports, as field secretary, to the Board of Directors document the challenges she faced when she traveled through the segregated South. The conflict between W. E. B. DuBois and the NAACP leadership in 1945 is captured in memoranda and Board minutes. Material for the legal defense fund-raising appeal for Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and her two teenage sons who were charged with the murder of a white sharecropper in Georgia are also included. There are a number of newsletters from the NAACP Youth Council and the general body and flyers for a variety of events hosted by the NAACP, 1930-1961. A report on the southern media coverage of the 1944 Supreme Court voters' rights decision can also among the files.</p>"}

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  1. Historical Information - "How the NAACP Began" by Mary White Ovington (1914)
  2. Annual Reports
  3. Board of Directors - Minutes
  4. Divisional Reports to Board of Directors
  5. Correspondence [2/1]
  6. Pickens, William
  7. Dubois, W. E. B
  8. Memoranda [2/1]
  9. Complaints to Bus Companies
  10. Memoranda [2/1]
  11. Flyers
  12. Newsletters
  13. Radio Program - 'NAACP Hour' - Script by Ella Baker
  14. Military Bases - Discrimination Cases
  15. Letters of Support for NAACP from Military Personnel based abroad
  16. Voter Rights Cases
  17. Training
  18. Employment Discrimination Cases