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Manuscript/Mixed Material National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (Miscellany).

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Title

  • National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (Miscellany).

Created / Published

  • 1921, 1922, 1923

Headings

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

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Typed originals, carbon copies, and handwritten items largely pertain to the league's 1922 annual meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, and its 1923 annual meeting in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and to special efforts to build up the league's network of local leagues. Topics include league membership, the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, the removal of treasurer Charles H. Anderson, the promotion of good health for African Americans, and the Humane Education Society. Key players in the organization were Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute and league president; Albon L. Holsey, secretary to Dr. Moton at Tuskegee as well as league secretary; John L. Webb, the new treasurer (succeeding Charles H. Anderson); and C. C. Spaulding, with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Durham, North Carolina, who had chaired the Committee on Business Promotion, but by September 1922 was Chairman of the Executive Committee. Documents include a typed list, "Life Members at the Atlanta Meeting." An undated form letter announces the issue of a revised pamphlet on how to organize a local negro business league, followed by state-by-state lists of names, addresses, and occupations of those interested in local leagues for Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Additional lists offer the names, in some cases organizational ranks, and occupations of members of local leagues in particular cities: Charleston, West Virginia; Cleveland, Ohio; Savannah, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; and Wichita, Kansas. Selections reproduced as facsimile page images: 40 of 125 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Container 1067. Non-Tuskegee Material: National Negro Business League
  • Folder: Correspondence 1922 (Miscellany)

Source Collection

  • Booker T. Washington papers.

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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(1921) National Negro Business League Correspondence,Miscellany. , 1922, 1923. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mss44669_10/.

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National Negro Business League Correspondence,Miscellany. , 1922, 1923, 1921. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/mss44669_10/>.