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Collection Reference Number GLC06135.01
From Archive Folder Documents related to the NAACP 
Title 13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922
Date 1 January 1923
Author National Association for the Advancement of Colored People  
Document Type Pamphlet
Content Description Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the sense of racial vigilance and the conviction that their future depends upon a realization of what the race is justly entitled to and a determination to secure it." Includes reports on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, legal defense related to lynching, a lynching record for 1922, a report on race riots (citing the Ernest Thomas case), reports on discrimination pertaining to ship stewards and the Customs Service, reports on the Ku Klux Klan, and a discussion of the film The Birth of a Nation, among other topics. Closes with a report on finances.
Subjects African American Author  African American History  Civil Rights  Reform Movement  Law  Lynching  Mobs and Riots  Maritime  Ku Klux Klan  Art, Music, Theater, and Film  
People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People  Storey, Moorfield (1845-1929)  
Place written New York, New York
Theme African Americans; Government & Politics; Law; Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945