Records related to the Negro People's Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, a group affiliated with the Medical Bureau and North American Committee, the aim of which was to raise funds and support for Republican Spain in Black communities in the United States. The impetus for the Negro People's Committee's founding appears to have been Paul Robeson's donation of an ambulance to the Medical Bureau. Robeson was subsequently appointed International Chairman, with Lester Granger as National Chairman. Executive committee members and sponsors included many prominent African American activists, artists, educators, and writers of the day, including Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Reverend A. Clayton Powell, and Richard Wright.