Atlanta Civil Rights Organizing at the NAACP 10th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner, 1966

Civil Rights

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Atlanta NAACP. 10th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner, 1966, documents Black civic fundraising and civil rights community organization in Atlanta during the post-Voting Rights Act era. The program records the branch’s public gathering at the Atlanta Cabana Hotel, with remarks by Rev. Dr. Samuel Williams, chairman of the Atlanta NAACP, and a Miss NAACP contest featuring eleven young Black women and their sponsors. The material documents branch-level civil rights infrastructure through banquet programming, donor visibility, youth participation, and public leadership, providing evidence for the study of African American civic networks in 1960s Atlanta.

Atlanta NAACP. 10th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner. Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta NAACP, November 30, 1966. 42 pages. Original wrappers. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. The program includes photographs of contestants with their sponsors and identifies prominent members of Atlanta’s African American community connected to the event. Accompanied by a September 22, 1956 telegram to Mrs. Julia Brook of Tampa, Florida, from President E. B. Cooper, expressing condolences on the death of Brook’s daughter.

The Freedom Fund dinner format shows how NAACP branches combined fundraising, public recognition, youth presentation, and civil rights messaging into a recurring institutional event. The accompanying telegram is a secondary but related document of mid-century Black organizational correspondence and condolence practice. Light handling wear; very good. A substantive Atlanta NAACP program preserving the social and financial machinery of local civil rights work in 1966.

Item #17735

Price: $450.00