Scope and Content Note The collection consists of twelve boxes of correspondence and other documents, photographs, audio cassettes, and film. The files include correspondence resulting from her work and that of her husband, L.C. Bates, with the NAACP between 1957 and 1974. Significant correspondents include Harry Ashmore, Dale Bumpers, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Orval Faubus, and Roy Wilkins. An index of correspondents is located at the end of this finding aid. Other materials in the collection include honors and...

Scope and Contents "An American lynching. Being the burning at the stake of Henry Lowry at Nodena, Arkansas, January 26, 1921, as told in Arkansas newspapers." Pamphlet published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) including reprints of articles appearing Jan. 26, 27, 28, 1921 in The Memphis (Tenn.) Press, the News Scimitar (Memphis, Tenn.), the Daily Press...