Box 20
Container
Contains 65 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Leslie S. Perry of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Evelyn Chavoor, Secretary to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 25
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0001
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Letter from the NAACP to proceed an enclosed copy of a speech regarding the KKK that the Attorney General of the United States, Tom C. Clark, made in Philadelphia on May 18th, 1946.
An Address by Honorable Tom C. Clark, Attorney General of the United States, Prepared for Delivery Before the National Conference on Citizenship, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1946 May 18
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0002
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The address condemns bigotry and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Letter from Leslie S. Perry of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Evelyn Chavoor, Secretary for Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas , 1946 June 6
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 3
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0003
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Letter from the NAACP encloses 2 telegrams. This letter mentions Congresswoman Douglas wrote to Leslie S. Perry regarding the activities of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Los Angeles and that they discussed this matter on the telephone.
Telegram from Leslie S. Perry of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1946 May 23
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0004
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Telegram appears to be a form telegram for members of the House of Representatives. It discusses appropriations to operate the United States Employment Service during fiscal year 1946-1947 and the NAACP's concern with the Agency's racial policies.
Telegram from Thomas L. Griffith, Jr., President of the Los Angeles Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 30
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0005
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Telegram regarding the District of Columbia Office of the United States Employment Service (USES) segregating and discriminating against African-American people seeking work.
Handwritten letter from [?] to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 18
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 6
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0006
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Letter written from Beverly Hills, California and concerns the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Beverly Hills.
Newspaper Article: "Ku Klux: City Council Asked to Probe Activity", undated
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 7
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0007
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Photocopied newspaper clipping from unknown newspaper.
Newspaper Article: "Klan Revival Feared in L.A. Cross-Burning", Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 1946 May 13
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0008
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2 photocopies of the same newspaper article. From the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express Night Edition, Vol. LXXVI, No. 41. The article features two photographs: one of the remains of a burned cross in front of an African-American home and the other of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Hickerson.
Newspaper Article: "Burning Cross Linked to L.A. Race Housing Fight", The Los Angeles Sentinel, 1946 May 16
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 9
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0009
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5 pages of the same photocopied newspaper article and its continuation onto another page of the newspaper. From the Los Angeles Sentinel, Vol. XII, No. 19. Features several photographs.
Letter from Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas to Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., Regional Director of The American Council on Race Relations, Pacific Coast Regional Office, 1945 January 7
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0001
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Carbon copy letter that appears to be forwarding a letter from Douglas to Hewes.