Aubrey Williams Papers, 1914 - 1965. Personal Files , 1945 - 1959.

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Aubrey Williams Papers, 1914 - 1965. Personal Files , 1945 - 1959.

1945-1959

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This series consists of correspondence and documentation related to Aubrey Williams work with civil rights, farmer’s rights, and civil liberties including Mary McLeod Bethune, the Alabama Farmers Union, American Family Homes, Inc., the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), and the Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the publication, The Southern Farmer. The series includes news releases, speeches and addresses, financial records, newspaper clippings, transcripts of hearings and testimony related to Williams’ nomination to head the Rural Electrification Administration in 1945 and HUAC and Senate Internal Security Subcommittee investigations of Williams and SCEF.

4 linear feet, 10 linear inches

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Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

Southern Conference Educational Fund

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formally organized in Birmingham, Alabama in the fall of 1938. It was inspired by the findings of the National Emergency Council's Report on Economic Conditions in the South and by the philosophies of the Southern Policy Conference, a group of Southern intellectuals. Its structure was based on representation from the thirteen Southern states (non-Southerners were welcomed as non-voting members) and the District of Columbia and New York (the la...