Abstract

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...