The Beinecke has recently acquired an archive of publications, ephemera,
and other materials related to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. The forty-two items total nearly 700
pages, spanning more than sixty years, beginning in 1915, with much
documentation of the NAACP's early efforts to end lynching in the United
States, including "The Waco Horror" by Elizabeth Freeman, "Brief in
Support of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill" by Moorefield Storey, a 1930's
"Stop Lynching NAACP Legal Defense Fund" pin-back button, etc. Also
included are two ephemeral items, representing Anti-NAACP racist
publications in the United States. The large majority of publications in
the collection are unrecorded by OCLC (or otherwise known in only a few
institutional holdings). A detailed list of the collection contents is
available here. (NOTE: this document includes images and language that
some my find disturbing).
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Yale Law's New NAACP Collection
[Our friends at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, send us the following announcement.]
The Beinecke has recently acquired an archive of publications, ephemera,
and other materials related to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. The forty-two items total nearly 700
pages, spanning more than sixty years, beginning in 1915, with much
documentation of the NAACP's early efforts to end lynching in the United
States, including "The Waco Horror" by Elizabeth Freeman, "Brief in
Support of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill" by Moorefield Storey, a 1930's
"Stop Lynching NAACP Legal Defense Fund" pin-back button, etc. Also
included are two ephemeral items, representing Anti-NAACP racist
publications in the United States. The large majority of publications in
the collection are unrecorded by OCLC (or otherwise known in only a few
institutional holdings). A detailed list of the collection contents is
available here. (NOTE: this document includes images and language that
some my find disturbing).
The Beinecke has recently acquired an archive of publications, ephemera,
and other materials related to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. The forty-two items total nearly 700
pages, spanning more than sixty years, beginning in 1915, with much
documentation of the NAACP's early efforts to end lynching in the United
States, including "The Waco Horror" by Elizabeth Freeman, "Brief in
Support of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill" by Moorefield Storey, a 1930's
"Stop Lynching NAACP Legal Defense Fund" pin-back button, etc. Also
included are two ephemeral items, representing Anti-NAACP racist
publications in the United States. The large majority of publications in
the collection are unrecorded by OCLC (or otherwise known in only a few
institutional holdings). A detailed list of the collection contents is
available here. (NOTE: this document includes images and language that
some my find disturbing).
