loc_evenhand_cph.3c11535 cph.3c11535 evenhand loc yes 20th Annual session of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 6-26-29, Cleveland, Ohio National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Conference (20th : 1929 : Cleveland, Ohio) African Americans--Civil rights--United States Meetings--Ohio--Cleveland African American civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland Banners--Ohio--Cleveland Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 Pickens, William, 1881-1954 Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971 Lampkin, Daisy E. (Daisy Elizabeth), 1882-1965 Bagnall, Robert W. (Robert Wellington), b. 1884 In 1929, the annual conference of the NAACP convened in Cleveland to mark the Association's twentieth anniversary. The NAACP had much to celebrate. It had launched a successful anti-lynching crusade; won important legal battles; and organized 325 branches. The Crisis, the Association's official organ, was the leading black periodical with a circulation of more than 100,000. Among the NAACP officials seated in the front row (left to right) are W.E.B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis; James Weldon Johnson, NAACP Executive Secretary, 1920-1930; Robert Bagnall, Director of Branches; Daisy Lampkin, Regional Field Secretary; Walter White, Assistant Secretary, 1918-1929; William Pickens, Field Secretary; and Arthur Spingarn, Chairman of the Legal Committee. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Library of Congress "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection (Library of Congress) 2004 Gelatin silver prints Black-and-white photographs http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11535 Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Exhibited: With an even hand : Brown v. Board of Education at fifty years, Library of Congress, 2004. 1929-06-06 Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) 20090526 204835