Correspondence, articles, scrapbook with photographs, and other papers of Thyra Edwards, a social worker at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, Ill. Included are Edwards' observations on workers' education and social conditions in Europe and her feelings as an African American when traveling there; material relating to her work on behalf of the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, the tour of the Negro People's Ambulance donated to the Loyalist cause (photographs in scrapbook), and the resettlement of refugees in Mexico; articles on African American life in Chicago; and materials relating to the Chicago Venereal Disease Control Program, ca. 1941-1942.
