{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"emph\">ORGANIZATION</span>series contains material related to the National Negro Congress and the Council on African Affairs.</p> <p>The file of the <span class=\"emph\">National Negro Congress</span>consists mainly of press releases and printed matter related to the Labor Committee of the Washington branch of the National Negro Congress, and to the Dies Committee's allegation that Hunton was a communist.</p> <p>The <span class=\"emph\">Council on African Affairs (CAA)</span>subseries is divided into correspondence, administrative records, legal and financial documents and printed matter. Outstanding correspondents include Kwame Nkrumah and Eleanor Roosevelt (1944), Ralph Bunche (1945), Jawaharlal Nehru (1946) and Walter Sisulu, Secretary-General of the African National Congress of South Africa (1953). Located in the Administrative Record is a memorandum addressed to Paul Robeson, Chairman of the CAA, by three members of the organization charging then Executive Director Max Yergan of “malfeasance, misfeasance and non-feasance” (1948), as well as reports of the Educational Director (Hunton) and the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Board which led to the dissolution of the Council. The Financial Records, mainly reports and bank statements, relate to fundraising projects of the CAA, particularly the African Famine Relief Campaign, the Kenyatta Defense Fund and the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws in South Africa.</p>"}