Coolidge Papers. African-American Economic Issues.

Selections from a case file of materials bearing on various economic concerns of African Americans in the 1920s. Topics addressed are problems of African Americans in the South; the injustice of Marcus Garvey's imprisonment; the Farm Loan Act; the National Negro Industrial Commission Bill; grievances related to employment, low wages, and poor education expressed by the Law and Order Protective Association of America, Incorporated; and the plight of African American farmers.

Selections reproduced as facsimile page images: 26 pages.


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November 17, 1923Memorandum from Charles E. Hall to C. Bascom Slemp
no dateResume
no dateLetter from Randall Edwin Sullivan to Calvin Coolidge
no dateReport from Randall Edwin Sullivan to Calvin Coolidge
October 4, 1927Letter from Everett Sanders to R.E. Sullivan
September 14, 1923Letter from Lula B. West to H. L. Remmel
January 5, 1925Letter from E. A. Baker to C. Bascom Slemp
August 27, 1923Speech from Joseph H. Stewart to Calvin Coolidge