archives.nypl.org -- National Negro Congress records (original) (raw)

This collection consists of the files of John P. Davis, Edward Strong, and Revels Cayton, as well as financial records and pubications. Also included are Davis's files from the Negro Industrial League, 1933, of which he had been executive secretary; Davis's files from the Joint Committee on National Recovery, 1933-1935, an ad-hoc lobby to protect black interests in the federal government; and his subject/reference files on different aspects of the "Negro question". Finally, the records of the Negro Labor Victory Committee, 1942-1945, contain files of Charles A. Collins, executive secretary, and M. Moran Weston, field secretary; they include correspondence, subject/organization files, and printed matter.

The National Negro Congress records are arranged in four series: