Durham Fact-Finding Conference Records, 1929-1930 and 1942-1945

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Durham Fact-Finding Conference Records, 1929-1930 and 1942-1945

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The Durham Fact-Finding Conference, a congress of African American leaders in business, education, and religion, was held three times--7-9 December 1927, 17-19 April 1929, and 16-18 April 1930--at the North Carolina College for Negroes (later North Carolina Central University) in Durham, N.C. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, articles, statements, reports, brochures, and newspaper clippings related to the 1929 and 1930 meetings of the Durham Fact-Finding Conference and to two subsequent conferences that grew out of the Fact-Finding Conference: the 1942 Southern Conference on Race Relations and the 1944 Durham Race Relations Conference. Correspondents in letters addressed to the conferences' chair and college president, James E. Shepard, represent a wide array of African American colleges and universities, businesses, press, and organizations such as the NAACP, the Associated Negro Press, and the Federal Council of Churches. Notable correspondents include W.E.B. DuBois, Hugo L. Black, Frank Porter Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Walter White, William Hastie, Langston Hughes, A. Phillip Randolph, E. Franklin Frazier, Alain Locke, P.B. Young, Gordon B. Hancock, Claude A. Barnett, and George E. Haynes. The collection also contains excerpts from speeches given at the 1929 Durham Fact-Finding Conference and the 1944 Durham Race Relations Conference, meeting agendas, public statements resulting from conferences, articles, and newspaper clippings.

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North Carolina Central University, James E. Shepard Memorial Library

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North Carolina Central University, James E. Shepard Memorial Library

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The Durham Fact-Finding Conference, a congress of African American leaders in business, education, and religion, was held three times--7-9 December 1927, 17-19 April 1929, and 16-18 April 1930--at the North Carolina College for Negroes (later North Carolina Central University) in Durham, N.C. The conferences focused on the local African American community and concerns related to business, public health, religion, politics, education, the press, and race relations. James E. Shepard, ...

Gordan B. Hancock

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William Hastie

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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Federal Council of Churches.

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Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972

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Alain Locke

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P. B. Young

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Langston, Hughes

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George E. Haynes

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White, Walter F. (Walter Finch), 1911-

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A. Phillip Randolph

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Johnson, Charles S.

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Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962

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