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Box LGL.04

 Container

Contains 81 Results:

Racial Prejudice - Buses - Irene Morgan vs. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1944-1946

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes a memo to AFRO editorial from Thurgood Marshall and NAACP legal brief.

Dates: 1944-1946

Robinson, Eric Stanley

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes clipping with headline that reads "Youth jailed 287 days by mistake goes free"

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1920s-1960s

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Writings About Roosevelt, 1930s, 1948

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes a manuscript called "A New Deal" by William J. Thompkins, press releases and typescript articles with reporting and research on Roosevelt, and an eyewitness testimony by Mrs. Van Lear Black of an incident involving Roosevelt.

Dates: 1930s; 1948

Robeson, Paul, circa 1919-1990s

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

The Paul Robeson files contain mainly photographs and clippings documenting Robeson's career, including performances, international travel, and family life. Legal documents, newspapers, publications, some of the clippings, and Peekskill riots material contain reporting and gathered source material dealing with Robeson's politics and reactions to his leftist affiliations.

Dates: circa 1919-1990s