Correspondence pertaining to the establishment of the national Negro Industrial Commission (NIC) as well as copies of the relevant House and Senate bills. The case file includes letters recommending the appointment of Robert S. Cobb, Secretary of the Mississippi Negro Industrial Commission, to the national NIC; correspondence to and from C. Bascom Slemp, one of Coolidge's private secretaries, about the death of Giles B. Jackson, a Richmond, Virginia, lawyer who promoted the Commission and drafted the legislation for it; letters of recommendation for members and appeals to Coolidge and to his secretaries to promote the bill; and a letter from W. H. C. Brown, a black investment banker in Norfolk, Virginia. The effort to establish a Negro Industrial Commission was tied to the effort to pass a federal anti-lynching law.
Selections reproduced as fascimile page images: 63 pages.
Selected Document List | Page Images
| June 2, 1924 | Federal Publication from Mr Foster |
| February 16, 1926 | Letter from Edward A. Baker et al. to Edward T. Clark |
| February 14, 1925 | Index Card |
| March 11, 1925 | Letter from Claude A. Swanson to Calvin Coolidge |
| February 9, 1925 | Letter from Edward T. Clark to David Jenkins |
| March 12, 1925 | Letter from Everett Sanders to Claude A. Swanson |
| May 4, 1925 | Letter from W.D. Johnson to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 7, 1925 | Letter from Everett Sanders to W.D. Johnson |
| May 12, 1925 | Letter from W.D. Johnson to Everett Sanders |
| May 14, 1925 | Letter from Everett Sanders to W.D. Johnson |
| November 2, 1925 | Index Card |
| January 15, 1926 | Letter from W.H.C. Brown to Everett Sanders |
| January 15, 1926 | Letter from W.H.C. Brown to Calvin Coolidge |
| February 7, 1925 | Letter from David Jenkins to Everett Sanders |
| January 18, 1926 | Letter from Everett Sanders to W.H. C. Brown |
| February 24, 1925 | Letter from Edward T. Clark to W.D. Johnson |
| January 5, 1925 | Federal Publication from Mr Cummins |
| June 2, 1924 | Federal Publication from Mr Foster |
| April 6, 1926 | Letter from Wesley L. Jones to Calvin Coolidge |
| no date | Petition from various signatories to Calvin Coolidge |
| June 10, 1926 | Letter from Calvin Coolidge to Wesley L. Jones |
| February 4, 1925 | Letter from Edward T. Clark to H.H. Mobley |
| March 3, 1925 | Letter from H.H. Mobley to C. Bascom Slemp |
| January 26, 1925 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to Nicholas Longworth |
| January 26, 1925 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to Edward A. Baker |
| January 17, 1925 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to I.M. Foster |
| September 27, 1924 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to R.B. Henley |
| February 21, 1925 | Letter from W.D. Johnson to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 30, 1924 | Circular from Giles B. Jackson |
| September 16, 1924 | Letter from R.B. Henley to C. Bascom Slemp |
| September 13, 1924 | Letter from W.D. Johnson to C. Bascom Slemp |
| September 12, 1924 | Index Card |
| September 5, 1924 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to R.B. Henley |
| September 26, 1924 | Letter from R.B. Henley to C. Bascom Slemp |
| September 3, 1924 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to W.D. Johnson |
| August 15, 1924 | Letter from George E. Hackmann to Calvin Coolidge |
| August 25, 1924 | Letter from W.D.J. to C. Bascom Slemp |
| August 22, 1924 | Letter from Rudolph Forster to Charles E. Becker |
| August 19, 1924 | Letter from Rudolph Forster to George E. Hackmann |
| August 18, 1924 | Letter from Charles E. Becker to Calvin Coolidge |
| August 18, 1924 | Letter from Rudolph Forster to Jesse W. Barrett |
| August 15, 1924 | Letter from Jesse W. Barrett to To Whom It May Concern |
| September 3, 1924 | Letter from R. Henley to C. Bascom Slemp |