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.

Papers, newspaper issues and clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks concerning the Portland, Oregon branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Thomas R. Vickers, who served as the branch president from 1967-1971.