Civil Rights in the United States

Nearly 2 million digitized pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP's work and covers issues including: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, and housing, among others. It provides a comprehensive view of the NAACP's evolution, policies, and achievements from 1909-1970. The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files (Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files; The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces; The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses).

This papers collection spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Documents include: bills, briefs, correspondence, court documents, legal case files, memorandums, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, telegrams. Also includes Part II: Southern Regional Office collection, comprised of documents from ACLU's Southern Regional Office and it's battle to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act in thirteen Southern states.