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).