Records, 1900-1988 (bulk 1943-1978).

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Records, 1900-1988 (bulk 1943-1978).

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Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, surveys, minutes of meetings, speeches and articles, financial records, printed material, photographs, and other records of the Southern Regional Office and regional affiliates. Pertains chiefly to the founding and organization of the office, relations with affiliate offices and the national office, and work of the office in relation to economic and social concerns of African Americans in the South. Topics include the League's adoption program; the Atlanta School of Social Work; boycotts of retail merchants; business and employment opportunities; civil rights; community development; crime; disaster relief; education; health; housing; manual and vocational training programs; continued migration to the northern states; relief for African Americans during the Depression; activities of segregationist organizations; minority recruitment by the U.S. Navy; voter education; the return of African American veterans following World War II; and women's issues. Officials of the Southern Regional Office represented include Harry L. Alston, William Y. Bell, Jr., Clarence D. Coleman, Nelson C. Jackson, Vernon E. Jordan, Franklin O. Nichols, Mahlon T. Puryear, Clarence Thomas, and Jesse O. Thomas. Includes personal papers of office directors, Jesse O. Thomas and Nelson C. Jackson. Correspondents include Claude Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Lester B. Granger, George Edmund Haynes, T. Arnold Hill, Albon L. Holsey, John Hope, Eugene Kinckle Jones, J.R.E. Lee, Benjamin Elijah Mays, Robert Russa Moton, Alvin J. Neely, Guichard Parris, Charles C. Spaulding, Ann Tanneyhill, Forrester B. Washington, L. Hollingsworth Wood, Monroe Nathan Work, and Whitney M. Young.

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