Research Catalog

Title

National Negro Congress records, 1933-1947.

Author

National Negro Congress (U.S.)

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 44.5 lin. ft.
• 94 microfilm reels.

Summary

Files of John P. Davis, Edward Strong, and Revels Cayton, as well as financial records. Included with the National Negro Congress records are Davis' files from the Negro Industrial League, 1933, of which he had been executive secretary; Davis' files from the Joint Committee on National Recovery, 1933-1935, an ad-hoc lobby to protect black interests in the federal government; and his subject/reference files on different aspects of the "Negro question." Also, records of the Negro Labor Victory Committee, 1942-1945, including files of Charles A. Collins, executive secretary, and M. Moran Weston, field secretary, consisting of correspondence, subject/organization files, and printed matter.

Subjects

• Negro Labor Victory Committee
• Cayton, Revels
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• Collins, Charles A
• Davis, John P (John Preston) 1905-1973
• Weston, M. Moran, 1910-2002
• African Americans > Political activity
• Labor unions > United States > Political activity
• Race discrimination
• African Americans > Civil rights
• African Americans > Employment
• African Americans > Discrimination
• African American labor union members
• New Deal, 1933-1939
• Joint Committee on National Recovery
• National Negro Congress (U.S.)
• Strong, Edward
• United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945
• United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
• United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945
• African Americans > Segregation
• Labor movement > United States > Political activity
• Civil rights > United States
• Negro Industrial League

Note

• Sc MG 1.
• Photographs separated to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats (note)

• Collection available on microfilm;

Source (note)

• National Negro Congress

Biography (note)

• The National Negro Congress was established in 1936 to "secure the right of the Negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching, and mob violence" and "to promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people." It was conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks. Executive secretaries were John P. Davis, 1935-1942, Edward Strong, 1943, and Revels Cayton, 1945-1947.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• "Papers of the National Negro Congress," a guide compiled by Eric Gallagher, Martin Schipper and David Werning. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R-1182

OCLC

NYPW89-A161

Author

National Negro Congress (U.S.)

Title

National Negro Congress records, 1933-1947.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats

Collection available on microfilm; University Publications of America; call number Sc Micro R-1182.

Biography

The National Negro Congress was established in 1936 to "secure the right of the Negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching, and mob violence" and "to promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people." It was conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks. Executive secretaries were John P. Davis, 1935-1942, Edward Strong, 1943, and Revels Cayton, 1945-1947.

The Negro Labor Victory Committee, founded in 1942, was an organization of black and white trade union officials from the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Railroad Brotherhoods. It was organized to encourage black workers to fight for equality within organized labor, government, and the Armed Forces.

Indexes

"Papers of the National Negro Congress," a guide compiled by Eric Gallagher, Martin Schipper and David Werning. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1988.

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Finding Aid

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-1182