Descriptive Summary
Access
Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People collection
Dates: 1912-2002
Collection number: MS 87
Creator:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Collector:
East Bay Negro Historical Society.
Collection Size:
1.5 linear feet
(3 boxes + 1 oversized box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Abstract: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection includes newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, newspaper
clippings, convention programs, ephemera, scrapbooks, and records created by national, regional, and local California branches
of the NAACP. The collection is organized into five series: West Coast Regional Office records, California regional and local
branch records, NAACP publications, 2nd Annual Youth Conference scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Access Restrictions
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection must be obtained from
the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Preferred Citation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People collection, MS 87, African American Museum & Library at Oakland,
Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processing Information
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 11/21/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection includes newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, newspaper
clippings, convention programs, ephemera, scrapbooks, and records created by national, regional, and local California branches
of the NAACP. The collection is organized into five series: West Coast Regional Office records, California regional and local
branch records, NAACP publications, 2nd Annual Youth Conference scrapbook, and newspaper clippings. The West Coast Regional
Office records include assorted press releases, memoranda, training workshop manuals, publications and annual convention records.
Most of the notes and convention records were collected by Tarea Hall Pittman.
The California regional and local branch records are mostly various flyers, newsletters, invitations, and pamphlets created
by local and regional branches of the NAACP in California. Materials are organized alphabetically by branch and chronologically
thereafter. The scrapbook contains telegrams, correspondence, programs, flyers, and newspaper clippings documenting the 2nd
annual youth conference held in Oakland, California in July, 1942. Material in the collection was collected by the East Bay
Negro Historical Society.
Arrangement
Series I. West Coast Regional Office records
Series II. California regional and local branch records
Series III. NAACP publications
Series IV. 2nd Annual Youth Conference scrapbook
Series V. Newspaper clippings
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Archives.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Branches, chapters, etc.--California--Los Angeles.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Branches, chapters, etc.--California--Oakland.
Civil rights movements--California--History--20th century.
Related Material
William and Tarea Hall Pittman Papers, African American Museum & Library at Oakland.