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African American civil rights workers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Beatrice Morrow Cannady draft speech for NAACP convention

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1080
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.

Dates: 1928

Oral history interview with LeRoy Haynes, Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: SR1758
Abstract

Oral history interview with the Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr., conducted by Jan Dilg from October 8 to December 5, 2018. In the interview, Haynes discusses his civil rights activism and his work as a Methodist Episcopal pastor in Texas and in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 2018 October 8-December 5

Scrapbooks for 69th NAACP Annual Convention

 Collection
Identifier: Coll816
Abstract

Three-volume set of scrapbooks produced to commemorate the 69th Annual Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was held in Portland, Oregon, from July 3-7, 1978.

Dates: 1978 July