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Handwritten draft of a speech that Beatrice Morrow Cannady (1889-1974) delivered at the 1928 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention in Los Angeles, California. The draft is written in pencil. Cannady, a Black journalist and activist who lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1912 to 1938, edited the newspaper The Advocate, was a founding member of the Portland chapter of the NAACP, and advocated for Black Oregonians' civil rights.

Abstract Papers of Beatrice Morrow Cannady (1889-1974) and her family, primarily her son George Cannady (1914-1968) and her third husband, Reuben A. Taylor (1900-1972). Papers include correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Beatrice Morrow Cannady, a Black journalist and activist who lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1912 to 1938, edited the newspaper The Advocate, was a founding member of the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and advocated...

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Papers relating to Laura Jenkins Landers (1908-2009) and Susie Jenkins Stokes (1915-2003) and their families. The sisters were born in Sicily Island, Louisiana, and were among the Black workers who moved to the Portland, Oregon, area in the 1940s. They worked in the shipyards during World War II, and as domestic workers after the war.