State committees files, 1938-1967.

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State committees files, 1938-1967.

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The collection consists of records relating to the various State Committees of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare from 1938-1967. Includes correspondence, minutes, annual reports, speeches, financial records, and printed materials. The majority of the collection relates to the work of the Committee for North Carolina and the Committee for Washington (D.C.). The North Carolina records include information on race relations, voter registration, various labor strikes, employment, and industry. Major correspondees include Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Clark Foreman, Lee Sheppard, and William B. Ulmstead. Records of the Committee for Washington (D.C.) include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, programs, financial records, subject files, and committee files. The records contain information on discrimination, race relations, poll tax, anti-lynch crusade, Freedom Train, and labor relations.

.63 linear ft.

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404035

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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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'...

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961

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Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11, 1883-January 11, 1961) was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the daughter of Caroline Frances Hawkins and Edmund H. Hight. The family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the late 1880's, where CHB attended public schools. During her senior year of high school Alice Freeman Palmer, formerly president of Wellesley College, encouraged her to attend the State Normal School at Salem and provided financial support. In 1901 CHB accepted a job as teacher...

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formed in 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama to promote civil liberties and to combat economic problems in the South by expanding the New Deal to attack southern poverty. The organization campaigned against the poll tax, allied itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, held interracial meetings, and followed a "popular front" strategy which allowed Communists membership in SCHW. This policy led to charges of Communist influence, a factor ...

Sheppard, Lee.

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Ulmstead, William B.

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Foreman, Clark, 1902-1977

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President of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. From the description of Papers of Clark Foreman [manuscript], 1917-1977. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647979315 ...