Commission on Interracial Cooperation financial records, 1922-1943.

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Commission on Interracial Cooperation financial records, 1922-1943.

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The series consists of the financial records of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC) from 1922-1943. Includes correspondence, memoranda, audits, financial statements, and ledger sheets documenting the financial operations of the Commission. The records also reflect the Commission's financial dependence on a number of private foundations and church organizations including the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and the Laura Spelman Memorial Fund. In addition, the collection also contains files relating to CIC's state and local committees, which also provided financial assistance to their parent organization.

4.1 linear ft.3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403813

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Julius Rosenwald Fund

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Laura Spelman Memorial Fund.

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Phelps-Stokes Fund

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The Phelps and Stokes families had long been associated with a variety of philanthropic enterprises in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Phelps-Stokes Fund was created in 1911 as a non-profit foundation under the will of Caroline Phelps Stokes. Its original objectives were to improve housing for the poor in New York City, and the "education of Negroes, both in Africa and the United States, North American Indians, and needy and deserving white students." The contacts maintained by the staff and tr...

Presbyterian Church in America

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Commission on Interracial Cooperation

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The Commission on Interracial Cooperation was founded in 1918 by a group of prominent blacks and whites who wished to address the social, political, and economic problems facing African Americans. Incorporated in 1929 in Georgia, the Commission consisted of state and local committees throughout the South. Will W. Alexander, a white Methodist minister served as director for twenty-five years. The organization was dissolved in 1944 and succeeded by the Southern Regional Council. From t...

Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the U.S. in 1784. The first general conference was held in 1792 and the constitution was adopted in 1900. In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church united to form the Methodist Church (U.S.). From the description of Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455885 From the guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945, (The New ...