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Box 20

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Contains 65 Results:

L General

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 10a
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_10a_0000
Scope and Contents

Tax exemption; protection of mental cases.

Dates: 1922-1980; Majority of material found in 1940-1951

L General: "Let Your Reader Know." Speech, December 4, 1945

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 10b
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_10b_0000
Scope and Contents

Correspondence: Speech by Helen Gahagan Douglas.

Dates: 1945

Letter from Leslie S. Perry of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Evelyn Chavoor, Secretary to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 25

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0001
Scope and Contents

Letter from the NAACP to proceed an enclosed copy of a speech regarding the KKK that the Attorney General of the United States, Tom C. Clark, made in Philadelphia on May 18th, 1946.

Dates: 1946 May 25

Letter from Leslie S. Perry of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Evelyn Chavoor, Secretary for Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas , 1946 June 6

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 3
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0003
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Letter from the NAACP encloses 2 telegrams. This letter mentions Congresswoman Douglas wrote to Leslie S. Perry regarding the activities of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Los Angeles and that they discussed this matter on the telephone.

Dates: 1946 June 6

Telegram from Leslie S. Perry of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1946 May 23

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0004
Scope and Contents

Telegram appears to be a form telegram for members of the House of Representatives. It discusses appropriations to operate the United States Employment Service during fiscal year 1946-1947 and the NAACP's concern with the Agency's racial policies.

Dates: 1946 May 23

Telegram from Thomas L. Griffith, Jr., President of the Los Angeles Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 30

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0005
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Telegram regarding the District of Columbia Office of the United States Employment Service (USES) segregating and discriminating against African-American people seeking work.

Dates: 1946 May 30

Handwritten letter from [?] to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 18

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 6
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0006
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Letter written from Beverly Hills, California and concerns the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Beverly Hills.

Dates: 1946 May 18

Newspaper Article: "Ku Klux: City Council Asked to Probe Activity", undated

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 7
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0007
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Photocopied newspaper clipping from unknown newspaper.

Dates: undated

Newspaper Article: "Klan Revival Feared in L.A. Cross-Burning", Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 1946 May 13

 Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0008
Scope and Contents

2 photocopies of the same newspaper article. From the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express Night Edition, Vol. LXXVI, No. 41. The article features two photographs: one of the remains of a burned cross in front of an African-American home and the other of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Hickerson.

Dates: 1946 May 13