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NAACP photographs of branch meetings, fundraising activities, officers and members
Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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Spatial Coverage | United States |
Description | Includes group portraits of PANCAS--members honored for having secured the largest number of memberships for their branch. Portraits of membership committees, branch officers, and membership campaign workers. Some images of NAACP executive staff at branch meetings, including Roy Wilkins at a Denver, Colo., meeting; one photo of Ella Baker at the New York State Conference of branches, taken in 1945 during her service as the National Director of Branches; one photo of Daisy Lampkin, Field Secretary, speaking at a Montgomery, Ala., benefit dance in 1939; a 1917 group portrait of the Atlanta, Ga., branch showing a young Walter White as one of its members; some photos of Gloster Current serving as Detroit, Mich., branch president in the early 1940s. One handbill announcing an Evansville, Ind., program and meeting in honor of Harry T. Moore, NAACP executive secretary for Florida, who was killed in December 1951 for voter registration activities. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Language | English |
Part of Series | Groups of Images (LOTs) |
Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Wilkins, Roy,--1901-1981. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--People--United States--1910-1970. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | African Americans--Organizations--United States--1910-1970. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Baker, Ella,--1903-1986. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Current, Gloster B.--(Gloster Bryant),--1913-1997. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Meetings--United States--1910-1970. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Branches, chapters, etc.--United States--1910-1970. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | White, Walter,--1893-1955. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Lampkin, Daisy E.--(Daisy Elizabeth),--1882-1965. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Recruiting & enlistment--United States--1910-1970. |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |