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Calvin Coolidge Papers. National Negro Industrial Commission.

SUMMARY
Correspondence pertaining to the establishment of the national Negro Industrial Commission (NIC) as well as copies of the relevant House and Senate bills. The case file includes letters recommending the appointment of Robert S. Cobb, Secretary of the Mississippi Negro Industrial Commission, to the national NIC; correspondence to and from C. Bascom Slemp, one of Coolidge's private secretaries, about the death of Giles B. Jackson, a Richmond, Virginia, lawyer who promoted the Commission and drafted the legislation for it; letters of recommendation for members and appeals to Coolidge and to his secretaries to promote the bill; and a letter from W. H. C. Brown, a black investment banker in Norfolk, Virginia. The effort to establish a Negro Industrial Commission was tied to the effort to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Selections reproduced as fascimile page images: 63 pages.

SUBJECTS
Afro-Americans.
Lynching.

MEDIUM
0065

CALL NUMBER
Series 1, Case File 2159 Microfilm Accession #12,731 (Reel 163)

PART OF
Calvin Coolidge Papers

DIGITAL ID
amrlm mc14 urn:hdl:loc.mss/amrlm.mc14 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/amrlm.mc14

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