The records consist of the core materials of NAACP files from 1909-1970. Although these materials are only a portion of the total material arranged in the manuscript collection, they detail the Association's structure, activities, and development at the highest organizational level, and document its role in American race relations.

Major topics: Racial tensions; murder of Emmett Till; rape of African American student by a Pascagoula attorney; murders of George Love in Ruleville and Ed Lee in State Line; demand for investigation of beating, kidnapping and lynching of Mack Charles Parker in Poplarville; call for stronger civil rights legislation and anti-lynching legislation.

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, and articles regarding the NAACP's opposition to the establishment of a federal Department of Education. Includes copy of bill.

Correspondence, memoranda, and newspaper clippings regarding the policy of segregation instituted in New Jersey in 1928 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, and clippings regarding the denial of accomodations to African Americans and their segregation at hotels, including the Prince George Hotel in New York city, the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn and the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, Ill.

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, and clippings regarding the segregation and expulsion of African-American boys from troops.

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles regarding complaints from all over the nation of race discrimination. These compplaints provide vivid detail on the impact of segregation in American society and on the attitudes of African Americans toward the color bar.

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and press releases regarding the organization and publicity of an all star benefit concert at Forrest Theater, Dec. 8, 1929, and a benefit performance of Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois at the Adelhi Theatre, Nov. 16, 1939.

Correspondence, and memoranda regarding the 1939 Williamstown Institute of Humans Relations, August 27-Sept. 1, 1939, which was held under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians & Jews.

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, newspaper clippings, and copies of resolutions concerning the exclusion of African Americans from various restaurants and lunch counters, mainly on government property.