Manuscript/Mixed Material Booker T.Washington Papers. National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (C-D).

Title

• Booker T.Washington Papers. National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (C-D).

Created / Published

• 1922

Headings

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

Genre

• Manuscripts

Notes

• -  Typed originals, carbon copies, and handwritten correspondence to and from the National Negro Business League pertain to the league's 1922 and 1923 annual conventions, in Norfolk, Virginia, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, respectively. As indicated in the title, most last names of correspondents in this folder begin with the letters "C" through "D." Key players in the organization 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. Matters of business covered include wiping out the League's deficit and securing convention speakers on such subjects as blacks in the automobile business and black shoe repairmen. An exchange between Holsey and the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce asks for the Chamber's help in comfortably situating Carl Hunt, general manager of the prestigious Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, in Norfolk during his participation in the convention. Correspondence dated June 1, 1922, from the editor of The Atlanta Independent,"The Leading Negro Newspaper in America," speaks of the loss of National Negro Business League funds due to the banking practices of its treasurer, Charles H. Anderson. An October 12, 1922, letter from Holsey to the secretary of the so-called "Colored Y.M.C.A." in Indianapolis requests information about a possible donor, a Mrs. Fields, who is said to be "the owner of the colored baseball team in Indianapolis." Many of the documents offer insight into the internal operations of the league at both the national and local levels, and also into the strategies used to strengthen networks among existing members and attract new members. Selections reproduced as facsimile page images: 40 of 125 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

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

Source Collection

• Booker T. Washington papers.

Repository

• Manuscript Division

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/amrlm.mss44669_03

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