Anna Arnold Hedgeman Papers 1944-1952

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Anna Arnold Hedgeman Papers 1944-1952

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African-American civil rights leader and educator. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, speeches, organizational newsletters, and newspaper clippings documenting Hedgeman's activities on behalf of civil rights for African Americans and educational reform, and especially her efforts to continue the work of the United States Fair Employment Practices Committee following World War II.

250 items; 1 container; 0.4 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356669

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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United States. Fair Employment Practices Committee.

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Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990

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Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990) spent more than six decades working in the fields of interfaith and civil rights organizing, government service, and urban affairs. The author of two memoirs, The Trumpet Sounds (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964) and The Gift of Chaos (Oxford, 1977), Hedgeman was a pioneer in opening civil service and political jobs to African-American women. Raised in Minnesota, Hedgeman was the first African-American graduate of Hamline University in St. Paul. From 1924 to 1...

United States. Fair Employment Practices Committee.

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