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Civil Rights Collection
SPC.2022.009
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Civil Rights Collection
source:
National Negro Congress (U.S.)
source:
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training
source:
Southern Regional Council
source:
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2022.009
Physical Description:
3 boxes
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Date (inclusive): 1913-1994; undatee
Language of Material:
English
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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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Works Progress Administration 'Macbeth' program courtesy of the Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic
Institute (MDAAPEI)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Civil rights
African Americans -- Civil rights
Race Discrimination
Social justice
Washington (D.C.)
National Negro Congress (U.S.)
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training
Southern Regional Council
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)