Robert W. Winston (1860-1944) Papers, PC.1059

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Robert W. Winston (1860-1944) Papers, PC.1059

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Title
Robert W. Winston (1860-1944) Papers
Call Number
PC.1059
Creator
Unknown
Date
1842, 1907-1927
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Papers of superior court judge and Durham lawyer R. W. Winston, including his correspondence with Moorfield Storey, Boston attorney and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reflecting their opposing views on what should be done for the Negro (1919-1923); and his correspondence with U.S. Chief Justice William Howard Taft about possible removal of part of the second inaugural address inscribed in the Lincoln Memorial at Washington (1927). Also in the collection are a telegram concerning protest by American Rhodes scholars against admission of an American Negro into Christ Church, Oxford (1907); NAACP press release on its demand for congressional investigation of lynchings (1919); and copy of the will (1842) of Robert Potter, Paschal Co., Republic of Texas.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Winston, Robert W.
  2. Taft, William Howard
  3. Potter, Robert
  4. Storey, Moorfield
  5. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  6. Christ Church (Oxford, England)
  7. United States. Supreme Court
  8. North Carolina. Superior Court
  9. United States. Congress
  10. Judges
  11. Lawyers
  12. Executives
  13. African Americans
  14. Chief Justices
  15. Protest movements
  16. Monuments
  17. Lynching
  18. Criticism
  19. Race relations
  20. Race Discrimination
  21. Criminal Investigation
  22. Durham (N.C.)
  23. Boston (Mass.)
  24. Lincoln Memorial (Washington)
  25. Paschal County (Republic of Texas)