ILLINOIS NAACP LEADER (NAACP.) Small archive of materials relative to Simeon B. Osby's position as Secretary of the NAACP in Springfield, Illinois. Over 100 pieces, including letters from George Schuyler and other notables, Osby's retained copies of his correspondence, press releases from the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other civil rights organizations, pamphlets, two House bills, material on raising a colored militia unit, press release regarding the murder of a youth, the NAACP press release regarding the 1941 March on Washington for jobs, a photograph of Osby with Eleanor Roosevelt, and more. should be seen. Vp, 1936-42
Simeon B. Osby (1904-1993) was the editor and publisher of the Capital City News in Springfield, Illinois. Before the war, he worked with the Federal Transient Bureau that aided blacks emigrating out of the South, as well as acting as ombudsman for the Springfield black community. During the war he was a 1st lieutenant in the Pacific theater.
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