Box 64
Container
Contains 85 Collections and/or Records:
News Release from The National Council of Negro Women, 1949 November
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0015
Scope and Contents
News release announcing Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Washington physician, being elected President of the National Council of Negro Women at the elections during the NCNW's Fourteenth Annual Convention. Also announces other newly elected positions.
News Release From The National Council of Negro Women titled "Second President Takes Over NCNW", 1949 November
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0016
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, conference material, reports, news releases, and resolutions from the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW).
Publicity Statement on Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, 1949 November
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0017
Scope and Contents
Contains a handwritten edit.
Reports of the Resolution Committee: National Council of Negro Women, 1949 November 18
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0018
Scope and Contents
List of resolutions on the following topics: Human Rights, The Armed Forces, Education, Health, Housing, Women, The Atom Bomb, Peace, and The United Nations.
Resolution to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, 1949 November
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0019
Scope and Contents
Commends Mary McLeod Bethune, Founder-President of the National Council of Negro Women, on her service.
Handwritten letter from J.W. Garner, Delegate from Sarasota, Florida to Congresswoman Douglas, 1947 June 26
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0001
Scope and Contents
Contains a handwritten annotation in red pencil.
Information on Workshop IV- Legislative Strategy, Twelfth Annual Convention of the National Council of Negro Women, 1947 November 12
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0002
Scope and Contents
Congresswoman Douglas is listed as a consultant for this workshop as well as Benjamin C. Marsh, Executive Secretary, The People's Lobby and Boris Shishkin, Economist, American Federation of Labor. Speakers include Mrs. Jeanetta Welch Brown, Chairman, National Legislative Committee and Mrs. Venice T. Spraggs, Chief, Washington Bureau, Chicago Defender, Convener. Listed as members of the Convention Committee on Legislative Strategy are Mrs. Claire Sifton, Mrs. Mary L. Baldinger, J. Carlton...
News Release from The National Council of Negro Women, 1947 November 12
Item — Box: 64, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_10_0003
Scope and Contents
Prepared by Sidney Wilkinson. The news release does not have a title but it begins with the following: "'One cannot choose to be in politics or out of politics in our form of government where the power rests with the people,' admonished Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, Democrat of California, in addressing the Legislative Strategy Workshop of the National Council of Negro Women at the Department of Labor Auditorium today."
Migrant Farm Labor: Data
File — Box: 64, Folder: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_1_0000
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...
Migrant Farm Labor: Data
File — Box: 64, Folder: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_64_2_0000
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...