The records of the Neighborhood Union Collection include correspondence, speeches, financial reports, minutes, committee reports, news clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks and additional memorabilia preserving a rich legacy and history of one of the earliest private social welfare organizations founded by African American women in Atlanta. The Union received its charter in 1911. The Neighborhood Union's plan of organization was based on a division of neighborhoods into districts with members conducting surveys in their districts and reporting conditions which needed aid and improvement. Some aid focused on improving domestic skills, handicrafts and home nursing arts of African American women. They were also taught facts about tuberculosis and other prevalent diseases and provided supervised recreation for children. 

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
Sep 17, 2020

Neighborhood Union Collection

The records of the Neighborhood Union Collection include correspondence, speeches, financial reports, minutes, committee reports, news clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks and additional memorabilia preserving a rich legacy and history of one of the earliest private social welfare organizations founded by African American women in Atlanta. The Union received its charter in 1911. The Neighborhood Union's plan of organization was based on a division of neighborhoods into districts with members conducting surveys in their districts and reporting conditions which needed aid and improvement. Some aid focused on improving domestic skills, handicrafts and home nursing arts of African American women. They were also taught facts about tuberculosis and other prevalent diseases and provided supervised recreation for children.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.

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  • Subjects = Lynching
"Mob Violence Described as 'Menace to Public Safety' At First Annual Meeting of Anti-Lynching Association" article on the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching" first meeting and organization plans. 1 page.
Resolutions adopted by Georgia Association of [Women] for the Prevention of Lynching and report of the executive secretary to annual meeting Georgia Committee on Interracial Cooperation discussing anti-lynching efforts, lynching facts, and work of different churches and organizations. 6 pages.
Neighborhood Union Collection
A Composite Picture of Lynching and Lyncher's report which include the organization's leadership, map, history or organization, and records of lynching with alleged crimes. 9 pages.
Preamble which includes the protection of Colored girls, child welfare, deplorable railroad conditions, education, lynching, suffrage, and press. 5 pages.
Neighborhood Union Collection
The Colored Woman's Statement which includes the protection of Colored girls, child welfare, deplorable railroad conditions, education, lynching, suffrage, and press. 9 pages.
Neighborhood Union Collection
Southern Negro Women and Rare Cooperation published by the Southeastern Federation of Negro Women's Clubs detailing issues of concern such as lynching, education, suffrage, and press. 4 pages.
Report on Conference Proceedings of the National Association of Colored Women at Abyssinia Baptist Church discussing suffrage, industrial, community service, rural communities, Jim Crow cars, race relationships, publicity, and finance compiled by Mary B. Talbert. 3 pages.
Neighborhood Union Response to Committee on Inter-racial Relations of the Women's Missionary Council of the M. E. Church South concerning conditions in domestic service, child welfare, conditions of travel, education, lynching, public press, and suffrage. 6 pages.
Anti-lynching speech delivered to the President, the Cabinet, The Congress of the United States, The Governors and the Legislatures of the several states of the United States of America. 2 pages.