TY  - GEN
AU  - Spingarn,Arthur B.
TI  - Arthur B. Spingarn papers,
KW  - Brooks, Van Wyck,
KW  - Cobb, James A.
KW  - Du Bois, W. E. B.
KW  - Gruening, Ernest,
KW  - Johnson, James Weldon,
KW  - Lewis, Alfred Baker,
KW  - Martin, Isadore Maximilian,
KW  - Mumford, Lewis,
KW  - Ovington, Mary White,
KW  - Pickens, William,
KW  - Seligmann, Herbert J.
KW  - Shillady, John R.,
KW  - Studin, Charles H.
KW  - Thomas, Neval
KW  - Van Vechten, Carl,
KW  - White, Walter Francis,
KW  - Wilkins, Roy,
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - State Commission Against Discrimination
KW  - American Social Hygiene Association
KW  - Circle for Negro Relief
KW  - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
KW  - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
KW  - New York Committee of Vigilance
KW  - New York Tuberculosis and Health Association
KW  - Crisis
KW  - African literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - Riots
KW  - Illinois
KW  - East Saint Louis
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Haiti
KW  - History
KW  - American occupation, 1915-1934
KW  - Civil rights leaders
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Lawyers
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997006.3
ER  -