CORRESPONDENCE - N- undated Mrs. Frank Campbell Nickels 3060 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Apt. 52 Washington 9, D. C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: Under separate cover I am mailing you my copy of Agnes Meyer's biography. You said you would enjoy reading. I hope you find it interesting as I did. Cordially, Frances [J] Nickels MRS. JENNIE B. MOTON President Caphosic, Virginia MRS. ELLA STEWART Treasurer 566 Indiana Ave. Toledo, Ohio National Association of Colored Women, Inc, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, MRS. SALLIE W. STEWART 800 Lincoln Avenue EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Mrs. A REQUEST FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN YOU ARE ASKED TO ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF GIVING YOUR ORGANIZATION ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE ORDER OF THINGS IN THESE UNITED STATES. The National Association of Colored Women, Inc., is forty-two years old this year; and for many years it tried to do many things. At Hot Springs in 1930, we narrowed the scope of its work, and hoped that we might have a financial effort following this meeting and raise money to endow the organization, to pay the pressing debt on headquarters, and have enough money to finance the departments which we kept, Depression and many other hindrances kept us from reaching this goal. So long as we do not command enough money to put the program into operation in the right way, so long are we wasting what money is at our command. Although we know that the departments are not functioning as they should, we are loath to give up the organization, for there is a place among the Negroes of America for the program of the National Association of Colored Women. And yet, we do not have the courage to get out, arouse the nation raise the money and set the organization on its feet. The only thing, and the next thing the National must do before it can go one step farther is to "RAISE MONEY". There is no other agency to do this but the members. Once we get the organization out of debt with headquarters paid for and a few thousand dollars in the treasury, we shall then be able to operate in a first class manner, using the dues that would come in from the state members of the organization. We are set to raise twenty-five thousand dollars and report it at the Boston meeting in July. The plan is to have a committee of three hundred women from the various states who will make the effort to raise one hundred ($100) dollars each. A good honest effort on the part of the members of this organization would accomplish this feat. What is the matter with the thirty thousand women members of the National that they cannot muster up courage enough to believe that they can get one hundred dollars each from the members and the good people of the Nation? No one knows how to raise money in little dribs as does the Negro woman. We do not have to get a large sum of money at once; many little efforts will get the money in less time if they can be put over. This is a request to you to accept membership on this committee of three hundred; to notify me at once; then to go to work; to think about nothing else but the raising of this money from now until we meet in Boston in July. Answer by return mail if you will become a member of this committee. A hand book with helps will be sent you at once. We need you! Yours for immediate and united action, Sallie W. Stewart Sallie W. Stewart Ex. Sec. N.A.CW. National Committee To Free The Ingram Family NATIONAL OFFICE HOTEL THERESA 125th STREET and 7th AVENUE ROOM 108 NEW YORK 27, N. Y. Provisional Officers: - Chairman MARY CHURCH TERRELL National Vice Chairman ADA B. JACKSON National Executive Secretary THERESE ROBINSON National Administrative Secretary MAUDE WHITE National Treasurer HALOIS MOOREHEAD 112 Dear Friend: In the name of justice and humanity, Mrs. Ingram and her two children deserve their freedom and must be freed. Mrs. Ingram is in jail because she defended her life, her honor, and her children from an enraged white farmer who attacked her with a rifle. This widow and mother of 12 children has been in a Georgia prison since November 4, 1947. Her case symbolizes the cruel treatment meted out to thousands of colored women in various sections of the country. It is time for the women of America to rally to her defense. "What is more natural than for a group of women to form a committee to free the Ingram family". (Mary Church Terrell.) Will you join us in this national crusade to free the Ingram family by becoming a member of the national sponsoring committee. Let us arouse our community and the nation against this travesty of justice. Let us hear from you at once. Very sincerely yours, Mary Church Terrell Ada B. Jackson Therese Robinson Shirley Graham PETITION - The Honorable HARRY S. TRUMAN President of the United States Washington, D. C. No. 1197 Mr. President We call your attention to the plight of Rosa Lee Ingram, widowed colored mother of twelve; who is languishing in a Georgia prison with two of her children. It is a blot on the conscience of America that this woman should remain in prison because she dared defend her children, her honor, her dignity and her life from the attacks of an enraged white farmer. Justice and humanity cry out for her freedom. We urge you as President of the United States to use your executive power to free Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram. The American people, and particularly the mothers, implore you Mr. President, to free Rosa Lee Ingram so she can bee at home with her children. - Name | Address - Issued by the National Committee to Free the Ingram Family Hotel Theresa - 125th St. and Seventh Avenue New York 27, N. Y. National Chairman National Vice Chairman National Executive Secretary MARY CHURCH TERRELL ADA B. JOHNSON THERES ROBINSON 112 CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Telegram Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter N L If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Form 1204 CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Telegram Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter N L If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. RECEIVED AT 54 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK ALWAYS OPEN 303NYAD 10 ATLANTIC CITY NJ 155 PM OCT 27 20 MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL CR REPUBLICAN NATL HEADQUARTERS WE WILL COMBINE ALL MEETINGS IF YOU CAN COME MONDAY ISAAC H NUTTER 222 PM MOTTO "FOR GOD AND HUMANITY" Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc. Organized Boston, Mass. June 1896 President MRS. BESSIE H. PAYNE R. F. D. Box 20, Chatham, N. Y. Recording Secretary MRS. PEARL S. HENRY 562 Garden Street, Hartford, Conn. Chairman Executive Board MISS SUSIE JONES 45 Waumbeck Street, Roxbury, Mass. Financial Secretary MRS. ETHEL V. TAVERNIER 28 Olive Street, Springfield, Mass. Treasurer MISS. S. ELLA WILSON 4 Pelham Street, Worcester, Mass. Chairman Scholarship Loan MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER BROOKS 211 Park Street, New Bedford, Mass. Chairman Suppression of Lynching MRS. M. CRAVATH SIMPSON 239 W. Canton Street, Boston, Mass. Honorary Presidents *MRS. MARY H. DICKERSON Newport, R. I. *MRS JOS. ST. PIERRE RUFFIN Boston, Mass. MRS. ALICE WILEY SEAY Brooklyn, N. Y. MRS. CICELY S. GUNNER Hillburn, N. Y. MRS ELIZABETH CARTER BROOKS New Bedford, Mass. MRS. MINNIE T. WRIGHT Boston, Mass. 77 Winter St. Prov. -3- Rd Dear Mrs. Terrell We are celebrating our Golden Anniversary this year in the city of Boston, on July 17-19 We would love to have you with us, but since that is impossible, will you kindly send us a word of greeting to be read on the afternoon of July 19, at our Memory Service. In the evening we are having a Pageant of 50 years of Progress, preceeded by a Prologue of the first Conference of Colored Women, held in Boston in 1895. Wishing you good health and thanking you. I am sincerely yours, Roberta J. Dunbar. National Council of the ARTS, SCIENCES and PROFESSIONS inc. 49 West 44th St., New York 18, N. Y., MU 7-2161 DR. ROBERT MORSS LOVETT Honorary Chairman PROF. JOHN J. DE BOER Chairman STEFAN HEYM Chairman of Art DR. LINUS PAULING Chairman of Science PROF. HENRY PRATT FAIRCHILD Secretary STANLEY FAULKNER Treasurer VICE CHAIRMEN: DR. ALLAN M. BUTLER PROF. A. J. CARLSON OLIN DOWNES DR. W.E.B. DU BOIS DR. E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER LILLIAN HELLMAN ROBERT W. KENNY HOWARD KOCH JOHN HOWARD LAWSON O. JOHN ROGGE PROF. FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN DR. HARLOW SHAPLEY BOARD OF DIRECTORS: (Partial List) HOWARD BAY HERBERT J. BIBERMAN DR. IRVING BIEBER PETER BLUME DR. DOROTHY BREWSTER PROF. EDWIN BERRY BURGUM ANGUS CAMERON SERGE CHERMAYEFF JEROME CHODOROV HOWARD DA SILVA DANIEL DE KOVEN DEAN DIXON DR. BARROWS DUNHAM PROF. THOMAS I. EMERSON PHILIP EVERGOOD HOWARD FAST DR. ALLAN FREELON PROF. FRANK S. FREEMAN DAN GILLMOR MAX GOBERMAN DR. CARLTON GOODLETT HARRY GOTTLIEB SHIRLEY GRAHAM PROF. DAVID HABER MINNA HARKAVY PROF. FOWLER V. HARPER JOHN JACOBS J. J. JOSEPH PROF. I. M. KOLTHOFF MILLARD LAPELL WILLIAM LAWRENCE INABEL B. LINDSAY ALBERT MALTZ DR. THOMAS MANN DR. LEO MAYER JOHN T. MCMANUS WILLIAM R. MEEK SAMUEL D. MENIN PROF. W. PEPPERELL MONTAGUE SAM MOORE PROF. PHILIP MORRISON WILLARD MOTLEY CLIFFORD ODETS PROF. ERWIN PANOFSKY MARTIN POPPER ANTON REFREGIER DAVID ROBISON PROF. THEODOR ROSEBURY VICTOR SAMROCK DR. BELA SCHICK ARTHUR SCHNABEL ADRIAN SCOTT GALE SONDERGAARD MOSES SOYER RAPHAEL SOYER KENNETH SPENCER DR. BERNHARD J. STERN PAUL STRAND DR. PAUL M. SWEEZY PROF. EDA LOU WALTON SAM WANAMAKER MAX WEBER CHARLES WHITE DR. PHILIP R. WHITE HENRY WRIGHT DR. EDWARD L. YOUNG Dear Friend: Many Americans have felt that no stable peace can be achieved unless it takes account of the needs of the people in the dependencies and colonies, and their struggle for independence and higher standards of living. As Justice William O. Douglas, Dr. Stringfellow Barr and many others have pointed out, an affirmative attitude and program towards the aspirations of the people in colonial countries is indispensable for international understanding and the maintenance of a peaceful world. In light of the need for a constructive approach to these historic developments, we are unable to agree with the position taken by our representatives in the United Nations which prevented a hearing of the Tunisian question before the Security Council. Representative O. K. Armstrong, of Missouri, has introduced a resolution calling for a reversal of this vote. We firmly believe with Representative Armstrong that "failure by the United States to agree to the request of the Governments of the sovereign nations above mentioned that this issue be placed upon the agenda of the Security Council represents a retreat from historic principle; and that this request should be given reconsideration and agreement by the representatives of the people of the United States in the United Nations". We are enclosing a copy of House Resolution #211 for your examination. If it meets with your approval will you please sign and return the enclosed card signifying your support? Sincerely yours, Henry Pratt Fairchild National Secretary hpf/j NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE 419 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YOURK 16, N.Y. Chairman General Secretary Treasurer Membership Secretary EDUARD C. LINDEMAN GERTRUDE FOLKS ZIMAND ROBERT FAIG JAMES MYERS Summertime - children - fun? Dear Miss Terrill: "In the good old summertime" fun is the right employment for young children - in summer camps - in playgrounds - or in their own back yards. But there is not much fun for migrant children - the only camps they know are "Labor Camps". For many young children their "employment" is not play but hard work beyond their years. And they are handicapped for life by lack of schooling. The enclosed photos come to you direct from their field. Children of the poor and Negro and minority groups are the hardest hit. Such conditions ought not to be tolerated in free America. Our Committee is the only national organization which devotes its entire program to combatting child labor evils. We depend on voluntary contributions for our entire program of investigation, research, publicity, publication of reports and legislation. "The American Child," is mailed to all contributors, bringing you current information and legislative proposals. An analysis of your own state child labor law will be mailed to you on request. If you have given recently to the Committee, please pardon this duplicate appeal which could not be avoided. In that case, won't you send us, in the enclosed envelope, the name of some friend to whom I can write?D Thanking you for whatever contribution you can send at this time of year when migrant conditions are at their worst. Sincerely yours, James Myers James Myers Membership Secretary JM:abt enclosures (I do hope you can help) NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NEGRO YOUTH November 14-15-16 903 You Street, N.W. Adams [?] 9438 Dear Friend: In less than two weeks over one thousand Negro youth from every section of our country will converge upon Washington to attend the National Conference of Negro Youth. You have no doubt read in the press of the wide endorsement which the Conference has received from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and scores of other national leaders. Dr. Bethune described the Conference as "timely, pertinent, necessary!" Our purpose in writing to you at this time is to ask your good will and cooperation in solving the very serious problem of housing the youth delegates--one thousand of them. We appeal to you to find lodging for at least one delegate -- more if possible -- either in your own home or on that of a friend. Let us give convincing proof that the adults of Washington know how to provide hospitality to the youth of the nation! You can help us guarantee lodging for every youth delegate. Very truly yours, Marie L. Richardson Marie L. Richardson, Chairman Washington Arrangements Committee Dorothy Height Dorothy Height, Chairman Washington Adult Advisory Committee Adult Advisory Committee Members Mr. J. C. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Holmes Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune Dr. and Mrs. Mordecai Johnson Miss Julia E. Brooks Mrs. Mary Mason Jones Rev. and Mrs. Robert W. Brooks Mr. Robert Kelly Dr. Ralph Bunche Dr. Alain L. Locke Mr. Rufus Byars Dr. Herbert C. Marshall Mrs. Elizabeth Cooke Rev. Cecil Mills Atty. Earl Dickerson Dr. Wm. Stuart Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Thurman K. Gibson Fr. J.M. Saunders Mrs. Julia West Hamilton Mr. Walter Smith Dean William Hastie Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Dr. Amanda V. Hilyer Dr. and Mrs. Howard Thurman Rev., Mrs. J.LS. Holloman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Waller Dr. W.A. Hunton Rev. Robert M. Williams NOTE: Housing arrangements must be completed this week. Please fill out the enclosed post card and mail at once. The Nautilus Club wishes to thank you again, and again for your kindness in serving us. May success and prosperity follow you. Miss Julia Bush, Sec. Mrs. R.O. Robinson Pres. My Dear Mollie Your article read with great satisfaction and gratitude. It is great and will help us so much. I was passing through a park and saw Miss Thomas, reporter for the N.Y. musical Courier. She was reading the paper and was the first to tell me of it. She was delighted with the article and said Mrs. Terrell wrote it. "Isn't she lovely? She gave you all the credit I am so glad of that" Thanks so much love to Pa. Your friend Hattie [Nelson] work for some reason & so I'm using this pencil here in my room - My family sent me off for a week's vacation - I have not been away from home like this for years & years & I quite rebelled over being sent off -- But George thot I needed "a change of indoor scenery" - Our uncle is still with us - 11 yrs in bed & 97 1/2 yrs old -- Even nurses get weary & need a change - So I am enjoying every moment. It is lovely here -- this summer house they built 24 years ago & and came here for Dr. Louis Nichols '87 to rest and for Herman their only son - He graduated from Oberlin in 1915 - took a law course - married - had 1 child 2 yrs old - when a sudden attack of appendicitis took him off in a few days 6 yrs ago - a second daughter arrived two months after his death - 4 yrs ago Dr. Nichols died with same trouble & poor May is left alone - She comes here every summer with her graddaughters now 8 & 6 yrs old - She is a brave lady as other friends of mine - yourself included are also - but the lonely hours & days must be many. Thank you so much for the letter written on the run & I know hard to do - Glad you saw Oberammergau - Nettie Swift (McKelvey) has been there with a party & wrote a splendid book about it - She has been there before - This book is highly spoken of - She gives beautiful illustrated lectures on O - I shall be at home again on Sat. of this wk. Always with love - your friend - Hattie - [*Nelson*] Penn Yan N.Y. Sept 10th In the summer home of May Ellis Nichols '85 My dear Mollie I am spending this week with my dear friend and classmate May Ellis Nichols and will answer your letter from here - It came just as I was leaving home. You are certainly seeing the world with Phyllis - and I am glad you are having such an opportunity - you will be very glad to know [I know] that Prof Edward Dickinson - Conservator retired, has gotten a Presser Aid for Mr Tyler of $30. a month - Presser Foundation is one that helps musicians who are in need. Prof D - is very happy to have this much help for Mr T - Perhaps I wrote you - Mrs. Tyler is in Cin- and Helen has been with her all summer earning too - some - Mr T- is boarding in O. & Mr D. is so anxious to have Helen board this yr & not have the care of her father. He was trying to arrange for that somehow & find a chance for her to her to earn part & pay part. I hope he finds it - Her tuition is arranged for but it is help for room & board & clothes that she greatly needs - She is a very attractive girl and a fine scholar I understand - How glad she will be to get thru College & be able to help at home - but she has three years ahead of her! Thank you for your kindness in offering to speak to some friends about her - Mrs. McCormack might easily help her much - Perhaps several together could help a litte - Excuse this pencil - my fountain pen wont Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.