Box 10

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Materials include national convention programs, transcripts of speeches given at the national conventions, J. Arthur’s ticket to the 1963 convention, and summary minutes of the conventions.

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Clippings cover a variety of NAACP locally in Charleston and regionally throughout the Southeast as well as court decisions, desegregation efforts, demonstrations, police investigations, and white violence against the Civil Rights movement throughout the region.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Statement on Harmful Materials and Language: Users will find harmful language describing people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in this collection. This language is intentionally retained to honestly and accurately reflect prejudice found in this collection and how movements have evolved, even as we recognize that encountering harmful or offensive language can be difficult or painful. The J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown Papers are divided...

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Materials include blank voter registration forms, a booklet on conducting voter registration drives, notes taken during registration drives, an outline of the Charleston Freedom Movement’s including a the campaign’s goals, plan, and organization, a press release about the NAACP and the Freedom Movement’s coordinated work, and an Organizing Manual for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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Materials include the constitution and by-laws of the national organization, life membership roster of South Carolina members from 1962, a constitution revision committee report, and a blank NAACP merchandise ordering form.

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Materials include NAACP published pamphlets about the NAACP’s activities, the Supreme Court order on desegregation, and Roy Wilkins’s positions on a variety of topics.

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Materials include a photograph from the NAACP Golden Anniversary Convention, photographs from a Coahoma County Mississippi NAACP Emancipation Day Celebration with South Carolina NAACP attorney John Bolt Culbertson speaking, and a pictorial review of the North Carolina State Conference NAACP’s activities.

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Materials include a poster for a Charleston Branch NAACP mass meeting at which Ruby Hurley would speak, a poster listing stores and products as boycott targets for their active role in perpetuating segregation, and a poster for the Charleston Mass Movement.

Scope and Contents Folder 9 includes reports on racial violence and law enforcement, Executive Order 10925 Establishing the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, NAACP in Action report for 1961, How to File a Complaint with the President’s Equal Employment Opportunity, facts about the Community Relations Service, School Desegregation: The First Six Years, a Statistical Summary of school segregation-desegregation in the Southern and border states, and a report on boycotts and the strength of...

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Materials include the April, 1960 (vol. 6, no. 10), June, 1960 (vol. 6, no.12), December, 1960 (vol. 7, no. 6), and May, 1962 (vol. 8, no. 11) issues of Southern School News.