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National Association for the
Advacement of Colored People
69 Fifth Avenue New York
Telephone Algonquin 4-3551
Official Organ The Crisis
[NAACP logo]

National Officers

President
J.E. Spingarn

Chairman of the Board
Dr. [Doctor] Louis T. Wright

Vice-Presidents
Nannie H. Burroughs
Godfrey Lowell Cabot
Hon. [Honorable] Arthur Capper
Bishop John A. Gregg
Rev. [Reverend] John Haynes Holmes
Manley O. Hudson
Hon. [Honorable] Ira W. Jayne
Rev. [Reverend] A. Clayton Powell
Arthur B. Spingarn
Oswald Garrison Villard

Treasurer
Mary White Ovington

Board of Directors
Amenia N.Y. [New York] J.E. Spingarn
Atlanta Eugene M. Martin
Baltimore Carl Murphy
Birmingham Ala. [Alabama] Dr. [Doctor] E.W. Taggart
Boston Mass. [Massachusetts] Alfred Baker Lewis
Charleston W. Va. [West Virginia] T.C. Nutter
Chicago Prof. [Professor] Paul H. Douglas
Cleveland Hon. [Honorable] Harry E. Davis
L. Pearl Mitchell
Detroit Louis C. Blount
Emporia Kans. [Kansas] William Allen White
Nashville Tenn. [Tennessee] Dr. [Doctor] N.C. McPherson
Newark N.J. [New Jersey] Grace B. Fenderson
New York Lillian A. Alexander
Dr. [Doctor] Allan Knight Chalmers
Dr. [Doctor] Walter Gray Crump
Marion Cuthbert
Hubert T. Delany
Rachel Davis Du Bois
Douglas P. Falconer
Lewis S. Gannett
Rev. [Reverend] John Haynes Holmes
Dr. [Doctor] William Lloyd Imes
Dr. [Doctor] John H. Johnson
Hon. [Honorable] Herbert H. Lehmann
Hon. [Honorable] Caroline O Day
Mary White Ovington
Hon. [Honorable] Charles Poletti
Rev. [Reverend] James H. Robinson
Col. [Colonel] Theodore Roosevelt
Arthur B. Spingarn
Charles H. Studin
Hon. [Honorable] Charles E. Toney
Frances Harriet Williams
Dr. [Doctor] Louis T. Wright
Northampton Mass. [Massachusetts] Dr. [Doctor] William Allan Neilson
Oklahoma City Roscoe Dunjee
Philadelphia Isadore Martin
Richmond Va. [Virginia] Dr. [Doctor] W.L. Ransome
St. [Saint] Louis Sidney R. Redmond
Talladega Ala. [Alabama] Rev. [Reverend] Joseph W. Nicholson
Topeka Kans. [Kansas] Hon. [Honorable] Arthur Capper
Washington Hon. [Honorable] William H. Hastle
Hon. [Honorable] Frank Murphy
Charles Edward Russell
Dr. [Doctor] Charles H. Thompson
Dr. [Doctor] Elizabeth Yates Webb

National Legal Committee
Arthur B. Spingarn New York Chairman
Atlanta A.T. Walden
Berkely Calif. [California] Walter A. Gordon
Boston Irwin T. Dorch
Cambridge Mass. [Massachusetts] Hon. [Honorable] Felix Frankfurter
Charleston W. Va. [West Virginia] T.G. Nutter
Chicago Irvin C. Mollison
Edward H. Morris
Erie Pa. [Pennsylvania] William F. Illig
Jacksonville S.D. McGill
Los Angeles Thomas L. Griffith Jr. [Junior]
Louisville Charles W. Anderson
Madision Wis. [Wisconsin] Lloyd Garrison
Muskogee Okla. [Oklahoma] Charles A. Chandler
Nashville Tenn. [Tennessee] Z. Alexander Looby
New York Hubert T. Delany
Morris L. Ernst
Arthur Garfield Hays
Benjamin Kaplan
Kari N. Llewellyn
James Marshall
Charles H. Studin
Philadelphia Francis Biddle
Pittsburgh Homer S. Brown
Toldeo Ohio Jesse S. Heslip
William T. McKnight
Washington Charles H. Houston
Edward P. Lovett
Leon A. Ransom
Wilmington Del. [Delaware] Louis L. Redding

Executive Officers

Walter White Secretary
Roy Wilkins
Assistant Secretary
Editor The Crisis
Charles H. Houston
Special Counsel
Thurgood Marshall
Assistant Special Counsel
William Pickens
Director of Branches
Daisy E. Lampkin
Field Secretary
E. Frederic Morrow
Branch Coordinator
George B. Murphy Jr. [Junior]
Publicity and Promotion

January 21 1939

Dear Marian

My warm thanks for your lovely telegram.
Certainly no person was more deserving of the Spingarn
Medal than this years medallist.

Your wire was relayed to me just as Dr. [Doctor]
Elizabeth Yates Webb of our Board and I were on our way
to the White House to talk with Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs.
Roosevelt was delighted to hear that you had been
selected. She said she is honored to present the medal
to you.

You will be sent detail later on but in
order that you may know the hour it will be at 300 [3 o clock]
P.M. Sunday July 2 at the Mosque Auditorium Richmond
Virginia. We shall arrange for an overflow meeting
which we know will be necessary with yourself and Mrs.
Roosevelt on the same program. And we shall also
attempt to have the program broadcast.

I have just returned from Washington this
morning where Mary Johson of TIME is very active in
the matter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
refusing to rent Constitution Hall for your April 9th
concert. Miss Johnson and I worked out a plan which
is already bearing results. We sent a telegram last
Thursday to the following artists

Lawrence Tibbett Kirsten Flagsted
Giovanni Martinelli Sigrid Onegin
Lily Pons Leopold Stokowski
Elizabeth Rethberg Arturi Toscanini
Nelson Eddy Walter Damrosch
Geraldine Farrar Jose Iturbi

The telegram read

[quote] Marian Anderson has been denied use of Constitution
Hall in Washington D.C. by Daughters of the American
Revolution account clause limiting Hall to white
artists only. National Association for Advacement
Colored People invites expression your opinion on this
ban by telegraph collect. [end quote]

Endorsed by the National Information Bureau 215 Fourth Avenue New York
30th Annual Conference Richmond Virginia June 27th - July 2nd 1939