Box R.01

Includes a 1929 letter from a D.C. committee signed by John A. Lankford, to U.S. Grant, 3rd, Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, requesting an equal golf facility for Black golfers in Washington D.C.

See also: Racial Prejudice - U.S. - Washington, D.C.

Correspondence and notes regarding incidents of racial discrimination in rail travel, including 2 cases where AFRO employees were refused service, in 1940 at Savarin restaurant in Baltimore, and in 1944 on a Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad. Note on original folder reads "See also: Railroads (by companies); Afro litigation - Civil Rights Cases, Matthews, Scott, Jernigan"

Folders with the heading of Race Relations contain mainly documentation of organizations, commissions, institutes, or publications focused on race in the United States. Most material is dated in the 1940s and 1950s.