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Manuscript/Mixed Material National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (A-B).

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Title

  • National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (A-B).

Created / Published

  • 1922

Headings

  • -  Journalists
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940
  • -  National Negro Business League (U.S.)
  • -  Afro-American businesspeople
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Typed carbon copies and original handwritten correspondence to and from the National Negro Business League pertaining to the league's 1922 and 1923 annual conventions, held respectively in Norfolk, Virginia, and Hot Springs, Arkansas. As indicated in the title, most last names of correspondents in this folder begin with the letters "A" through "B." Key players in the organization in the twenties were Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute and league president, and Albon L. Holsey, secretary to Dr. Moton at Tuskegee as well as league secretary. Documents include an advertisement by Arbuckle & Smith in Boston, a publisher and dealer in music of particular interest to African Americans, and a mimeographed constitution composed by a local league, the Negro Business League of North New Jersey. A series of letters highlights three issues important in 1922. The first is a problem recovering league funds that had been entrusted to the treasurer, Charles Anderson, of the Anderson Fish & Oyster Co. in Jacksonville, Florida. The second is a project undertaken with the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, headquartered in New York, to promote knowledge of the league's existence more widely in the business world The third is a liaison forged with the Associated Negro Press, headquartered in Chicago, to publicize the league's annual meetings, procure "foreign" advertising, and strategize about what professional groups could help advance membership. Selections reproduced as facsimile page images: 80 of 150 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Container 1066. Non-Tuskegee Material: National Negro Business League
  • Folder: Correspondence 1922 (A-B)

Source Collection

  • Booker T. Washington papers.

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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