WAUNationalAssociationfortheAdvancementofColoredPeopleVancouverBranchVancouverWash1246.xml Guide to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vancouver Branch records 1914-1967 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vancouver Branch records Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 4/17/2018)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 1246 (Accession No. 1246-001) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Vancouver Branch (Vancouver, Wash.) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vancouver Branch records 1914-1967 2.10 cubic feet (5 boxes) Collection materials are in English. Administrative records of Vancouver, Washington branch of the national civil rights organization.

The Vancouver branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was established in 1945. In September of that year, NAACP officers were part of a special committee on housing (with the Vancouver Civil Unity League) which met with the Vancouver Housing Authority to discuss the partially segregated status of African American tenants in Vancouver. The discussion led to the creation of new housing policies which changed the pattern of semi-segregation, moving African American tenants into permanent public housing and demountables throughout the community. In the postwar period, the NAACP combined efforts with other regional civic organizations to improve job opportunities for African Americans. The Vancouver Branch continues to work towards its goals of securing equal job opportunities, eliminating racism, ensuring justice in the courts and ending mob violence and police brutality.

Arranged in 8 series:

Administrative records NAACP Northwest Area Conference NAACP Washington State Conference NAACP Youth Council Vancouver Civic Unity League Vancouver Community Forum Vancouver Inter-Racial Council White, Walter

The bulk of the accession consists of administrative records of the NAACP Vancouver branch and NAACP conference records including correspondence, reports, minutes and ephemera. The accession also includes records of a few affiliated civil rights organizations and papers relating to Walter White, an executive director of the national NAACP.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vancouver Branch records. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

Gift of David L. Baugh, Vancouver, Washington, October 1, 1969.

 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Vancouver Branch (Vancouver, Wash.)--Archives Civil Rights Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Civil Rights Civic Activism African Americans Washington (State) Vancouver (Wash.)

 

Administrative Records 1/1 Branch history undated 1/2 Constitutions 1945-1960 Incoming letters 1/3 Aluminum Company of America 1950 1 item 1/3 American Cancer Society, Inc. 1950 1 item 1/3 American Jewish Committee 1954-1955 2 items 1/3 American Red Cross 1950-1952 3 items 1/3 Andrews, Etta 1946 1 item 1/3 Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith 1953 1 item 1/3 Barnett, Arthur G. 1951 1 item 1/3 Bengston, Carl undated 1 item 1/3 Building Laborers Union, Local 410 1946 1 item 1/3 Burton, Philip 1953 1 item 1/3 Burton Homes Bulletin 1945 1 item 1/3 Cain, Harry P. 1951 1 item 1/3 Camp Fire Girls (Vancouver, Washington) 1949 2 items 1/3 Civic Unity Committee 1949-1953 4 items 1/3 Chamber of Commerce (Vancouver, Washington) 1954 1 item 1/3 Clark College 1951-1953 2 items 1/3 Clark County Civil Defense Council 1950 1 item 1/3 Clark County Tuberculosis Association 1949 2 items 1/3 Columbia River Youth Presbytery 1953 1 item 1/3 Committee on Public Accommodations 1952 1 item 1/3 Cornell University, Sociology and Anthropology Department 1951 1 item 1/3 Council of Community Agencies 1949-1950 2 items 1/3 Cushing, Eugene G. 1946 1 item 1/4 Davis, C. B. 1946 1 item 1/4 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1950 1 item 1/4 Democratic Party, McLaughlin Heights Democratic Club 1952 1 item 1/4 Fellowship of Reconciliation 1945 1 item 1/4 First Christian Church (Vancouver, Washington) 1954 1 item 1/4 First Congregational Church (Vancouver, Washington) 1946 1 item 1/4 Fort Vancouver Regional Library 1950 2 items 1/4 Fries, Emil B. 1947 1 item 1/4 Grimmett, J. G. 1949 1 item 1/4 Halle, Illeana Jean 1946 1 item 1/4 Henry, Al 1950 1 item 1/4 Hill, E. Shelton 1946, undated 2 items 1/4 Hogg, John A. 1946 1 item 1/4 Iota Phi Lambda Sorority 1948 1 item 1/4 Jones, Lawson 1949 1 item 1/4 Jones, William H. 1945 1 item 1/4 Koriath, Traute 1953 1 item 1/4 League of Women Voters 1947-1950 4 items 1/4 Magnuson, Warren G. 1946-1951 6 items 1/4 Mallin, Clinton F. 1952 1 item 1/4 Miller, Irene B. 1951 1 item 1/4 Mitchell, Clarence 1953 1 item 1/4 Mitchell, Hugh B. 1946 1 item 1/4 Mitchell (Hugh B.) for Governor Club 1952 1 item 1/4 Myers, Harry M. undated 1 item 1/4 NAACP, Arizona 1951 1 item 1/4 NAACP, Bremerton 1950-1951 19 items 1/4 NAACP, The Crisis 1945 1 item 1/4 NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Committee of 100 1966, undated 3 items 1/5-6 NAACP National Offices 1945-1966 circa 100 items 1/7 NAACP, New York 1958 1 item 1/7 NAACP, Pasco 1961 1 item 1/7 NAACP, Portland 1949-1951 2 items 1/7 NAACP, Seattle 1947-1965 7 items 1/7 NAACP, Tacoma 1964 1 item 1/7 NAACP, Walker (Clifford) Legal Redress Committee 1946, undated 2 items 1/7 NAACP Washington Bureau 1948-1951 6 items 1/8-9 NAACP West Coast Regional Office 1945-1965 circa 100 items 1/10 National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee 1946 1 item 1/10 National Education Association, Classroom Teachers Department 1954 1 item 1/10 National Emergency Civil-Rights Mobilization 1950 1 item 1/10 National Surveys 1946 1 item 1/10 Nelson, Leslie 1946 1 item 1/10 New American Library 1948 1 item 1/10 New York Public Library 1954 1 item 1/10 Oregon, Financial Responsibility Department 1948 1 item 1/10 Oregon Committee for Fair Employment Practices 1951 1 item 1/10 Oregon United Nations Association 1954 1 item 1/10 Parent-Teacher Association, Vancouver Council 1949 2 items 1/10 Patterson, Robert P. 1951 1 item 1/10 Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company 1954 1 item 1/10 Portland Mayor 1950 1 item 1/10 Progressive Party of Washington 1949 1 item 1/10 Robinson, David 1945 1 item 1/10 Roosevelt, Eleanor undated 1 item 1/10 Savage, Charles R. 1946 1 item 1/10 Schroeter, Leonard 1953 1 item 1/10 Smith, Addison M. 1953 1 item 1/10 Soloos, (Reverend) Harry A. 1953 1 item 1/10 Soroptimist Club of Vancouver 1951-1953 2 items 1/10 Stevenson, William 1946 1 item 1/10 Stokes, Charles M. 1951 1 item 1/10 Southwest Washington Mass Chest X-Ray Survey, Inc. 1951 1 item 1/10 Sutton, (Mrs.) W. L. 1951 1 item 1/11 Technocracy 1946 1 item 1/11 Toner, (Reverend) Jerome L. 1951 1 item 1/11 Truox, Lyle H. 1946 1 item 1/11 United Committee for Civil Rights 1950 1 item 1/11 United States Army undated 1 item 1/11 United States Attorney General 1947 1 item 1/11 United States Federal Security Agency 1949 1 item 1/11 United States Post Office 1949 2 items 1/11 United States, President's Committee on Civil Rights 1947 1 item 1/11 United States, Veterans' Administration 1953 1 item 1/11 United States Committee for United Nations Day 1953-1960 2 items 1/11 Urban League of Portland 1946-1949, undated 4 items 1/11 Vancouver, Washington Mayor 1953-1956 2 items 1/11 Vancouver, Washington Public Schools 1950-1952 2 items 1/11 Vancouver Business and Professional Women's Club 1949-1954 2 items 1/11 Vancouver Classroom Teachers' Association 1950 1 item 1/11 Vancouver Congregational Church 1949 1 item 1/11 Vancouver Council of Church Women 1946 1 item 1/11 Vancouver Tenants' League undated 1 item 1/11 Venture Club of Vancouver 1953 1 item 1/11 Washington, Insurance Commissioner 1948 1 item 1/11 Washington, Personnel Board 1950 1 item 1/11 Washington, State Board Against Discrimination in Employment 1951 1 item 1/11 Watts, Lewis G. 1955 1 item 1/11 Young Women's Christian Association 1945-1951 2 items 1/11 Unknown (Melvina) 1950 1 item 1/12-17 Outgoing letters 1944-1967, undated circa 200 items 2/1 Correspondence - Complaints of discrimination and segregation 1945-1952 18 items 2/2-3 Lists undated 2/4-5 Minutes 1945-1959 2/6 Minutes - Agenda 1949-1955 2/7-8 Reports undated 48 items 2/9 News releases 1948-1964 23 items 2/10-12 Notes undated 3/1-4 Clippings undated 3/5 Photographs undated 3/6 Bulletins 1946-1963 12 items Ephemera 3/7 Allport, Gordon W. "The Bigot in Our Midst" undated 3/7 Clark County Child Care Committee, A Directory of Community Services in the Vancouver Area February 1946 NAACP publications Annual Conventions 3/7 40th Annual Convention 1949 3/7 41th Annual Convention 1950 3/7 43rd Annual Convention 1952 3/7 43rd Annual Convention- Resolutions 1952 3/7 44th Annual Convention 1953 3/7 44th Annual Convention- Resolutions 1953 3/7 47th Annual Convention 1956 Annual Reports 3/7 "The Fortieth Year in the Crusade for Civil Rights" 1948 3/7 "American Rights for American Citizens" 1949 3/7 "Civil Rights at Mid-Century" 1950 3/7 "The Year of the Hate Bomb" 1951 3/7 "The Fight For Freedom in a Transition Year" 1952 3/8 "An Appeal to the Word" 1947 3/8 "Civil Rights Committee Statement of Policy and Objectives" 1949 3/8 "Civil Rights Handbook" 1953 3/8 Current, Closter B. "Martyr for a Cause" 1952 3/8 "Defending Your Civil Rights" undated 3/8 1954 "The Fight for Freedom" 3/8 Freedom Journal 1964 3/9 "The Ingram Case - Georgia 'Justice'" undated 3/9 "Made in Mississippi" undated 3/9 Marshall, Thurgood, "Summary of Annual Report" 1954 3/9 NAACP 1950 3/9 "National Health Program of the NAACP" undated 3/9 New AEC Project in Kentucky undated 3/9 Northern California Area 2nd Annual Conference 1952 3/10 Organization and Conference Manual 1963 3/10 Ovington, Mary White, "How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began" 1914 3/10 Southern California Area Council Annual Conference 1952 3/10 Title VII - Equal Employment Section Civil Rights Act of 1964 - "The War Against Poverty" 1965 3/11 Velde Committee Hearings 1954 3/11 West Coast Conference 1948 3/11 Wilkins, Roy, "Stalin's Greatest Defeat" 1951 Publications of other organizations 3/11 Portland City Club Bulletin 1945 July 20 3/11 United States Veterans' Administration, Higley, Harvey V., "The End of Segregation in V.A. Hospitals and Domiciliaries" undated 3/11 Vancouver Housing Authority, "Living Room for a Greater Vancouver" 1956 3/11 Vancouver, Superintendent of Schools, " Education for all Vancouver Youth" 4/1-3 Miscellaneous ephemera undated 4/4 Miscellany undated NAACP Northwest Area Conference Incoming letters 4/5 Baxter, J 1952 1 item 4/5 Burton, Philip L. 1952 1 item 4/5 Evergreen Hotel 1952 1 item 4/5 First Methodist Church (Vancouver) 1952 1 item 4/5 Hudgins, William R. 1951 2 items 4/5 NAACP, Klamath Falls 1952 1 item 4/5 NAACP, Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 1951 1 item 4/5 NAACP, National Office 1951 1 item 4/6 NAACP, Northwest Area Conference 1951-1965 29 items 4/7 NAACP, Portland 1952 1 item 4/7 NAACP, Seattle 1951 4 items 4/7 NAACP, Spokane 1964 1 item 4/7 NAACP, West Coast Regional Office 1950-1952 12 items 4/7 NAACP, Yakima 1952 2 items 4/7 Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council 1952 1 item 4/7 Robinson, Walter H. 1952 1 item 4/7 Roe, Willard J. 1952 2 items 4/7 Vancouver Mayor 1952 1 item 4/7 Washington State Board Against Discrimination in Employment 1952 1 item 4/7 Watson, Dolores 1951 2 items 4/8 Outgoing letters 1950-1952 18 items 4/9-10 Minutes 1948-1955 24 items 4/11 News releases 1965 2 items 4/12 Notes undated 4/13 Newsletters 1950-1952 9 items 4/14 Clippings undated 4/15 Ephemera undated NAACP Washington State Conference Incoming letters 4/16 First Christian Church (Portland) 1949 1 item 4/16 NAACP National Office 1949-1950 5 items 4/16 NAACP, Spokane 1949 2 items 4/16 NAACP, Tacoma 1950 3 items 4/16 NAACP, Walla Walla 1949 1 item 4/17 NAACP, Washington State Conference 1947-1951 36 items 4/18 NAACP, West Coast Regional Office 1949-1950 4 items 4/18 NAACP, Yakima 1949, undated 2 items 4/18 Salem, Frank 1949 1 item 4/18 Stokes, Charles M. 1949 1 item 4/18 Wyman 1949 1 item 4/18 Unidentified (Melvina) 1949 3 items 4/19 Outgoing letters 1948-1950 8 items 4/20 Minutes 1947-1949 4 items 4/21 Reports undated 7 items 4/22 Speeches and writings undated 2 items 4/23 News releases undated 1 item 4/24 Notes undated 4/25 Clippings undated 4/26 Ephemera undated 5/1 NAACP Youth Council undated 5/2 Vancouver Civic Unity League undated 5/3 Vancouver Community Forum undated 5/4 Vancouver Inter-Racial Council undated 5/5-6 White, Walter undated