Author and editor. Papers pertaining to Berry's research on the life and literary career of poet Langston Hughes and and to her work on behalf of civil rights and women. Documents her membership on the NAACP Task Force on Africa (1976-1977), service as media coordinator for the President's Advisory Committee for Women (1979-1980), media contract work for the U.S. Women's Bureau (1980), and attendance as a representative of the National Council of Negro Women at the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women in Copenhagen, Denmark (1980).

Civil rights lawyer and judge. Documents Carter's work as general counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; member of the New York (State) Special Commission on Attica investigating riots at Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, N.Y., in 1971; and partner with Poletti Freidin Prashker Feldman & Gartner, New York, N.Y. Includes material pertaining to cases rendered by Carter as U.S. district judge, Southern District of New York.

Psychologist, author, and educator. Papers relating chiefly to Clark's career as a psychologist and professor at the City College, City University of New York, and his contributions to the African American civil rights movement and equal educational opportunities.

Civil rights activist, educator, author, and NAACP labor secretary. Documents his work as labor secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and professor of industrial relations and African American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Unitarian clergyman and author. Papers documenting his involvement with civil liberties, civil rights, pacifism, and social service organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, Council Against Intolerance in America, Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, League for Industrial Democracy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and War Resisters League.

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a national association of civil rights organizations, was founded 1949-1950 by Roy Wilkins (chairman), A. Philip Randolph, and Arnold Aronson. The records include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, notes of meetings, position papers, reports, financial records, congressional testimony, clippings, printed material, and other records documenting efforts by the organization to lobby for and monitor enforcement of civil rights legislation at the national level.

Civil rights lawyer, judge, solicitor general, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Papers from Marshall's tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court (1967-1991); correspondence, administrative files, and other papers from his service (1961-1965) as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit); and correspondence and legal papers relating to his years as U.S. solicitor general (1965-1967).

Civil and human rights law firm.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, legal case files, committee files, conference agenda, administrative records, printed matter, and other records documenting the legal program of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, parent organization of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, through the mid-1960s and its coordinated attack on legal segregation and racial discrimination waged in state, federal, and supreme courts.

Civil rights organization. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, speeches, reports, surveys, statistical data, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, printed material, and other records relating to the programs and policies of the league and its affiliates.

Civil rights activist. Papers documenting Parks's civil rights activism on behalf of African Americans and her personal life. Subjects include events surrounding her arrest in 1955 for violating Montgomery, Ala., segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, as well as the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956.

Civil rights leader and labor union official. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, family papers, biographical material, and other papers pertaining to Randolph and his work as a civil rights leader and an African-American union official. Documents his strategy for securing political, social, and economic rights for African-Americans.

Civil rights leader and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, wills and estate files, reports, briefs, hearing and trial transcripts, and other papers relating chiefly to Spingarn's service with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as vice president, chairman of the legal committee, and president (1911-1965).

Author, civil rights leader, and lawyer. Correspondence, articles, lecture notes, petitions, press releases, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Storey's years as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and his interest in the Anti-Imperialist League.

Civil rights leader and journalist. Papers relating primarily to Wilkins's career with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in various positions between 1931 and 1977, especially his service as executive director (1965-1977).