NORTH CAROLINA COMMISSION ON INTERRACIAL COOPERATION, #3823, 1922-1949
Papers from the North Carolina branch of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, a
regional organization working to establish communication and mutual trust between blacks and
whites. Papers discuss such topics as racial attitudes, justice, education, transportation,
employment, religion, crime, economics, discrimination, health, social welfare, agriculture,
and civic involvement. Included are notes on racial conditions in New Bern, North Carolina
(1922-26); an NAACP appeal for state support in a case involving the fatal shooting of an
African-American man in Hamlet, North Carolina (1927) and a lynching in Franklin County,
North Carolina (1935); black voter registration (1936); segregated toilet facilities on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (1928-29); an African American's application
to the graduate school of the University of Virginia (1935); African- American employment,
and African-American jury duty.