The Southern Regional Council is a reform-oriented organization created in 1944 with its roots in the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. The organization was founded to help avoid racial violence and promote racial equality in the Southern United States. The collection includes newsletters, memos, correspondence, reports, programs, statements, and pamphlets from various organizations, such as the League of Women Voters, the National Council of Negro Women, and the National Women’s Committee for Civil Rights. 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.
Apr 13, 2020

Southern Regional Council Papers

The Southern Regional Council is a reform-oriented organization created in 1944 with its roots in the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. The organization was founded to help avoid racial violence and promote racial equality in the Southern United States. The collection includes newsletters, memos, correspondence, reports, programs, statements, and pamphlets from various organizations, such as the League of Women Voters, the National Council of Negro Women, and the National Women’s Committee for Civil Rights.

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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Georgia League of Women Voters Program for May 1946-May 1948, 1946 1946 "Program for Action" listing organizational tenants, and goals of a Democratic government for Georgia. 6 pages. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers
Correspondence From Guy B. Johnson to Anna Lord Strauss , December 12, 1945 1945-12-12 Letter in expressing interest in pamphlet from the League of Women Voters. 1 page. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers
Correspondence Between Guy B. Johnson to Mrs. Wilder Foote , December 12, 1945 1945-12-12 Correspondences about the participation of minorities in League of Women Voter's groups. 1 page. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers
Correspondence From Guy B. Johnson to Mrs. Wilder Foote , November 21, 1945 1945-11-21 Letter in thanks of interest of the League of Women Voters and sending publications for distribution. 1 page. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers
Correspondence from League of Women Voters, November 1, 1945 1945-11-01 Booklet request for copies of "Government and Our Minorities". 1 page. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers
Correspondence Between Guy B. Johnson and Mrs. Sterne, November 1945 1945-11 Letters thanking for contribution to The League of Women Voters and expressions of happiness for progress of racial justice. 4 pages. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers
"Our Minorities and the World Order", May 1945 1945-05 Booklet from the D. C. League of Women Voters. 3 pages. African American women, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Suffrage Southern Regional Council Papers