Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett) 1878-1971 creator mixed material monographic eng 35,000 66 2 58 30 Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, wills and estate files, reports, briefs, hearing and trial transcripts, and other papers relating chiefly to Spingarn's service with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as vice president, chairman of the legal committee, and president (1911-1965). The collection pertains primarily to civil rights issues; financial, legal, and other administrative matters of the NAACP; relations between NAACP directors and officers including W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Mary White Ovington, William Pickens, Walter Francis White, and Roy Wilkins; the origin of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the official organ of the NAACP, The Crisis; the New York Vigilance Committee (later the New York branch of the NAACP); and Spingarn's work with the American Social Hygiene Association, Circle for Negro Relief, New York State Commission Against Discrimination, and New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. Topics include the East St. Louis riot of 1917; the assault on NAACP officer, John R. Shillady, in 1919; American occupation of Haiti in the 1920s; African American troops in World War II; and writings by native Africans. Correspondents include Van Wyck Brooks, James A. Cobb, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ernest Gruening, Alfred Baker Lewis, Isadore Maximilian Martin, Lewis Mumford, Herbert J. Seligmann, Charles H. Studin, Neval Thomas, Carl Van Vechten, Walter Francis White, and Roy Wilkins. Open to research. Microfilm edition of materials received prior to 1988 available, no. 20,666. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1996. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Civil rights leader and lawyer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006 Brooks, Van Wyck 1886-1963 Correspondence Cobb, James A. (James Adlai) 1876-1958 Correspondence Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 Correspondence Gruening, Ernest 1887-1974 Correspondence Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938 Correspondence Lewis, Alfred Baker 1897 Correspondence Martin, Isadore Maximilian 1909- Correspondence Mumford, Lewis 1895-1990 Correspondence Ovington, Mary White 1865-1951 Correspondence Pickens, William 1881-1954 Correspondence Seligmann, Herbert J. (Herbert Jacob) 1891- Correspondence Shillady, John R 1875-1943 Correspondence Studin, Charles H Correspondence Thomas, Neval Correspondence Van Vechten, Carl 1880-1964 Correspondence White, Walter Francis 1893-1955 Correspondence Wilkins, Roy 1901-1981 Correspondence New York (State). State Commission Against Discrimination. American Social Hygiene Association. Circle for Negro Relief. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New York Committee of Vigilance. New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. African literature African Americans Civil rights African Americans Societies, etc Civil rights Riots Illinois East Saint Louis World War, 1939-1945 Participation, African American Haiti History American occupation, 1915-1934 Civil rights leaders Lawyers mm 79040949 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006.3 Open to research. DLC 790607 20260227111657.0 mm 79040949