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.
The bulk of the records in Series VII were created or maintained by Thyra Edwards, the committee's Field Representative. Edwards coordinated and traveled alongside an ambulance tour through Black communities in the United States, and organized other fundraising events, primarily in New York City.
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Ambulance tour, 1938, 3 folders
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Anderson, Marian concert, 1938-1939
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Barcelona Emergency, 1939 January-February
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Carter, Council Gibson, 1938 December
Ambulance driver in Spain.
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Chapters: Alabama - Mississippi, 1938-1939
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Chapters: New York - Virginia, 1938-1939
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Conference on the Relation of the Present Struggle in Spain to Democracy and its meaning to the Negro People, 1938 November-1939 January
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Contributors, 1938-1939
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Donawa, Dr. Arnold, 1939
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Douglas, Aaron exhibit, 1939 January-April
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Edwards, Thyra, 1938-1939
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Embargo, 1938-1939
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Granger, Lester B., 1939
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Handy, W. C. concert, 1938-1939, 3 folders
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Itineraries for Thyra Edwards, field representative, 1938-1939
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Leaflets and pamphlets, 1938-1939
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Lists: contacts and supporters, circa 1938-1939, 2 folders
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Miscellaneous correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports, 1938-1939
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National Program, 1939
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New York Committee, 1938-1939
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New York Committee minutes, 1938 October-1939 March
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Organization, 1937-1939
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Photographs, circa 1938-1939
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Pickens, William, 1938 December-1939 February
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Press Releases, 1938-1939
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Robeson, Paul, 1939 June
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Robinson, Rev. John W., 1939 May-June
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Sponsors and Statements, 1938 July-December
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Students, 1938 December-1939 March
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Village Fair, 1939
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Wright, Richard, 1939 May-July