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NAACP Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Provides summaries of agenda items, including a list of attendees and reports from officers, Legal Committee and Anti-Lynching Committee. Secretary reports on the activities of the National Office regarding lynching cases, Colored representation in the Labor Program, the American Federation of Labor and Colored Workmen, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (labor union), conference with the Secretary of War, conference with the Secretary to Federal Administrator General of Railroads regarding Jim Crow Car legislation, investigations of the East St. Louis riots, the Spingarn Medal, Emmett H. Scott, an address to the Washington Branch and publicity for the association. The Field Secretary reports on a delegation to Washington, D.C. to request clemency for condemned and convicted soldiers and to address recent lynching cases with the President. Du Bois, Director of Publications and Research, reports on the Crisis magazine for February 1918 and for the year of 1917. Signed by Mary White Ovington, Acting Chair and John R. Shillady, Secretary.
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Keywords

  1. Committees
  2. Crisis (New York, N.Y.)
  3. East Saint Louis Race Riot, East Saint Louis, Ill., 1917
  4. Law And Legislation
  5. Lynching
  6. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People

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