Summary Information

Title: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Milwaukee Branch, Records
Inclusive Dates: 1917-1989

Creator:

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Milwaukee Branch (Wis.)

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss EP; PH 4981

Quantity: 7.4 cubic feet (18 archives boxes and 1 half-archives box) and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs and ephemera (1 folder and 1 oversize folder)
Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries' Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center and the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reflecting particularly the work of Wilbur and Ardie A. Clark Halyard, prominent black community and business leaders. Founded in 1915, the Milwaukee branch was inactive between 1930 and 1949, but revived during the 1950s and 1960s. Much of the branch activity was directed towards fund raising and annual membership campaigns. Although the collection includes national, regional, state, and local records of the NAACP, the most extensive records are those documenting the Milwaukee branch's administrative committees and subject files.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil000ep