Box 1
Container
Contains 33 Collections and/or Records:
Negro Documents, 1937-1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_0000
Scope and Contents
The Nichols Collection contains 0.75 cubic feet and consists primarily of correspondence, memos, telegrams, and campaign materials. There are also invitations, Congressional Record reprints, a diary (1945), speeches, scrapbooks, voting records (1939-1940), congressional reports, and clippings. Although the collection covers the period from 1934-1949, most of the material documents Nichols's congressional career. Topics covered include campaigns; aviation and air accidents, including the 1943...
Walter White, Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to J.N., March 22 and 31, 1937
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_1
Scope and Contents
Re: Appreciation for support of Gavagan Discharge Petition to bring the Anti-Lynching Bill to the floor for debate and vote.
Joseph A. Gavagan, M.C. New York, to My dear Colleague, March 30 and April 20, 1937
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_2
Scope and Contents
Re: Appreciation of support, printed signature.
Letchen A. Hill, President, Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers, to J.N., April 20, 1937
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_3
Scope and Contents
Re: Appreciation of support for Anti-Lynching Bill.
Walter White to J.N., April 22, 1937
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_4
Scope and Contents
Re: NAACP appreciation for vote on Gavagan Anti-Lynching Bill.
James W. Edwards to J.N., March 25, 1938
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_5
Scope and Contents
Re: Support during campaign and N.Y.A. project.
J.N. to James W. Edwards, March 29, 1938
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_6
Scope and Contents
Re: Appreciation of support.
Cecil E.F. Robertson to J.N., March 10, 1939
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_7
Scope and Contents
Re: Article in Pittsburgh Courier concerned radio statement by J.N. on the Negro race.
Telegram, C.G. Lowe to J.N., March 14, 1939
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_8
Scope and Contents
Re: Article in Pittsburgh Courier national Negro newspaper to be carried in Oklahoma Negro newspapers. Suggesting J.N. wire his version to newspapers.
Telegram, J.N. to Muskogee Democrat, undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_042_1_1_28_9
Scope and Contents
Re: Letter to be sent by J.N. concerning Pittsburgh Courier article.