{"value"=>"<p>The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Office, 1960-1993, subseries (2.6 lin. ft.) consists principally of photocopies of original NAACP records dating from 1909 to 1965 (originals are housed in the Library of Congress), and Meier's research notes. The NAACP files focus on disenfranchisement in the South and inequalities in educational opportunities. The Voting Franchise files consist of individual legal cases that the NAACP fought to secure voting rights in the American South, 1911-1945. The Legal Redress cases deal with the NAACP's attempts to have the courts overturn decisions in cases following conviction, 1910-1939. The Education files are concerned with federal, state and local aid to education, 1909-1938.</p> <p> The files for the Garland Fund, funded by a gift from Charles Garland in 1922, pertain to a nationwide legal campaign designed to procure and safeguard full civil rights for all African Americans. The campaign focused on the \"Disenfranchisement of African Americans in southern states, inequalities in educational opportunities and appropriations, denial of equal service on railroads, bus systems and other forms of transportation, and other forms of discrimination based upon color and violating constitutional provisions.\" Nathan R. Margold was the legal counsel who directed this campaign in the 1930's.</p> <p> The School Desegregation files, 1919-1940, contain information on segregation in public schools and universities across the country, and the inequity in black and white teachers' salaries.</p> <p> Also included are Meier's notes on the involvement of the NAACP in student sit-ins; research correspondence for his article, \"Attorneys Black and White: a Study of Race Relations in the NAACP\" (1976); photocopies of monthly reports of various departments (1943-1946); publications of Herbert Hill, NAACP Labor Director; and papers written by Meier with various co-authors on civil rights organizations, the student non-violent movement, and race relations.</p>"}