The Civil Rights Collection (1913-1994; undated) contains three boxes of flyers, leaflets, broadsides, magazines, and other documents related to civil rights activism. Included are flyers regarding activist Angelo Herndon; an event aimed at Los Angeles' Latinx voters; Delegates National Assembly for Peace, Washington D.C. April 1, 1952; a reprint of the address Rev. Edward D. McGowan of the National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership delivered before the National Fraternal Council of Churches; a Filmore Club Communist Party flyer; material related to the Free Angela Davis movement; and others. Also included are pamphlets, magazine issues, brochures, and other publications generated by organizations advocating for civil rights and promoting racial equality such as: "The Southern Letter", published by the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; Bureau of Propaganda Investigation of the Non Sectarian Anti Nazi League to Champion Human Rights; "Motive" a magazine of the Methodist student movement; Southern Regional Council; International Labor Defense; National Negro Congress; League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation; Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training; Civil Rights Congress; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); "Negro History Bulletin"; United States Commission on Civil Rights; Anti-Defamation League; and others. This collection is arranged chronologically.

3 boxes

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