Research Catalog

Title

William Pickens papers (Additions), 1909-1950

Author

Pickens, William, 1881-1954.

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Additional Authors

• Pickens, William, 1881-1954.
• Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939.
• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
• White, Walter, 1893-1955.
• Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951.
• Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971.
• Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
• Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
• Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964.
• Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967.
• Prattis, Percival L.
• Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.

Description

• 11 lin. ft.
• 25 microfilm reels.

Subjects

• Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A
• United States > Social conditions > 1945-
• Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A > National Board
• Civil rights > United States > Societies, etc
• Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
• Associated Negro Press
• News agencies > United States
• United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945
• United States > History > World War, 1939-1945
• United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
• Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
• United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
• American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
• Spingarn, Arthur B (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971
• Alabama > Social conditions
• United States > Department of the Treasury
• Socialist parties > United States
• Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967
• Socialist Party (U.S.)
• Race relations
• White, Walter, 1893-1955
• Trials (Rape) > Alabama > Scottsboro
• Young Men's Christian associations > United States
• Council for Pan American Democracy (New York, N.Y.)
• Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
• Prattis, Percival L
• Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Council of the Young Men's Christian Association
• African Americans > Political activity
• African American press
• Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Speeches
• Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939
• Pickens, William, 1881-1954
• Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951
• African Americans > Social life and customs
• United States > Race relations
• Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964
• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
• African Americans > Societies, etc
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Cuba > Description and travel
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953

Genre/Form

Speeches.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Posters transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Source (note)

• Pickens, Harriet; Holbrook, Mrs. Ruby Pickens; Pickens, William III

Biography (note)

• Author, educator, official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1920-1942; employee of the United States Treasury Department, 1941-1951.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R-4463

OCLC

NYPW89-A176

Author

Pickens, William, 1881-1954.

Title

William Pickens papers (Additions), 1909-1950

Summary

Collection primarily relates to Pickens' work as NAACP Field Secretary and Director of Branches, and contains a great deal of correspondence with NAACP officials. Of interest is material chronicling Pickens' and the NAACP's involvement in the Scottsboro Case in Alabama. Correspondents relating to the NAACP include James Weldon Johnson, Walter Francis White, Mary White Ovington, Arthur B. Spingarn, Joel E. Spingarn, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Other correspondence is between Pickens and friends, acquaintances, fellow scholars, and business associates. There is correspondence with many organizations with which Pickens was involved, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, League for Industrial Democracy, Socialist Party of America, National Council of the Young Men's and Women's Christian Association, American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, and the Council for Pan American Democracy. Correspondents include Claude A. Barnett and Percival L. Prattis of the Associated Negro Press, and other individuals in government, education, and church affairs, among them John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church of New York. Writings are primarily composed of typescripts (manuscripts and editorials), speeches, and mimeographed Associated Negro Press columns and newspaper clippings of articles and editorials written by Pickens. Subjects dealt with in these different formats cover a wide range and serve to reveal Pickens' broad interests and intellectual scope.

Subjects include race relations, World War II and the relationship of blacks to the war effort, politics and world events, culture, and social commentary, as well as individuals such as Marcus Garvey. Additional correspondence concerns his numerous speaking engagements. Other material concerns his employment as a savings bond salesman for the United States Treasury Department, 1941-1950. Also, personal papers, correspondence, and other material regarding his trip to Cuba with Mary McLeod Bethune in 1930, and the damaging effect on his career of the charges brought against him by the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, marketed by Scholarly Resources Inc., [19--]. 25 microfilm reels; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-24709)

Biography

Author, educator, official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1920-1942; employee of the United States Treasury Department, 1941-1951.

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Added Author

Pickens, William, 1881-1954.

Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939.

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.

White, Walter, 1893-1955.

Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951.

Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971.

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964.

Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967.

Prattis, Percival L.

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-4463