Box U.04

Includes a note titled "Gold Star Mothers" and correspondence with Carl Murphy regarding a group of Black Gold Star Mothers and Widows taking a round trip on a steamer to France

Includes a copy of S.J. RES. 256, a joint resolution authorizing the President of the United States to undertake negotiations for the purchase of the territories in east, southwest, and west Africa, and in Oceania. Also includes a copy of H.J. RES. 245, a joint resolution to create a commission to secure plans and designs for and to erect a monument or memorial building in Washington, D.C., to the memory of Black soldiers and sailors.

Includes front page clipping of The Sun, February 23, 1919.

Includes unopened letters to "Miss Frances" due to poor condition

Includes Report to the Nation, The America Preparation for War, 1942, Chronology of Events, December 7, 1941 to April 30, 1942 Press Release. Includes clipping titled "How We Got Where We Are" a skeleton history of events leading up to our entry into World War No. 2. Includes a 1942 clipping "Race and Color Are NOW a Chief Issue in the War." Includes a 1919 copy of Gold and Blue Stars' "Dedicated to Our Heroes." Includes unopened letters due to poor condition.

Includes a clipping from The AFRO-American, December 4, 1943 with photographs of distinguished soldiers. Includes a clipping with title "What the War Means to the Negro." Includes 1943 press release from U.S. War Department titled "Negro Soldiers have earned share of honors in battle"

Includes 1930 coverage of the pilgrimage of the first group of Gold Star Mothers and Widows to Paris, France. The pilgrimage included 54 colored American war mothers who arrived in a jim crow freighter.

Includes H.R. 3777, a bill to assure persons within the United States the equal protection of the law, and to punish the crime of lynching, H.R. 1655, a bill to create a Negro Industrial Commission S. 3302, a bill to authorize the erection of a United States Veterans' Administration hospital for colored veterans, and H.R. 8821, a bill to amend the Transportation Act to prohibit segregation of interstate passengers.