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Manuscript/Mixed Material National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (I-L).

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Title

  • National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (I-L).

Created / Published

  • 1922

Headings

  • -  Journalists
  • -  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, as well as newspaper clippings, 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 "I" through "L." 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. The selection contains letters from black businessmen across the country requesting information about how to start, or reinvigorate, local leagues. 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, along geographic and specific professional/trade lines. The National Association of Negro Funeral Directors is one of the League's affiliated groups. Several letters to the league are from publications interested in publicizing the activities of black businesses, including The Billboard, "the foremost weekly theatrical digest and review of the show world," and The Chicago Defender, a black newspaper. A one-page statistical report about Charleston, West Virginia, highlights black prosperity. Selections reproduced as facsimile page images: 50 of 120 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

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

Source Collection

  • Booker T. Washington papers.

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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