National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Portsmouth Branch (Portsmouth, N.H.) Records
The first New Hampshire branch of the NAACP was formed in Portsmouth in 1958, meeting initially in the home of its first president, the local businessman Thomas Cobbs. Growing steadily during the 1960s, the Portsmouth membership were engaged in addressing local concerns over discrimination in housing and employment and were stalwart supporters of the national civil rights struggle.
This small collection of records from a local New England branch of the NAACP consists of minutes of meetings between 1963 and 1966 and a relatively miscellaneous assortment of fliers and other materials from the national organization. Although the collection is slight, it includes records NAACP actions in Portsmouth and, notably, the minutes were kept by Betty Hill and her husband Barney, who became well known for their claim to having an encounter with a UFO.
Background on NAACP Portsmouth Branch
The first New Hampshire branch of the NAACP was formed in Portsmouth in 1958, meeting initially in the home of its first president, the local businessman Thomas Cobbs. Growing steadily during the 1960s, the Portsmouth membership were engaged in addressing local concerns over discrimination in housing and employment and were stalwart supporters of the national civil rights struggle.
Contents of Collection
This small collection of records from a local New England branch of the NAACP consists of minutes of meetings during the critical years of the civil rights struggle between 1963 and 1966 and a relatively miscellaneous assortment of fliers and other materials from the national organization. Although the collection is slight, it includes records NAACP actions in Portsmouth and, notably, the minutes were kept by Betty Hill and her husband Barney, who became well known for their claim to having an encounter with a UFO.
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
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Provenance
Gift of Ben Forbes, Dec. 2017.
Related Material
African American
Civil rights
New Hampshire
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, Aug. 2017.
Copyright and Use (More information)
Cite as: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Portsmouth Branch (Portsmouth, N.H.) Records (MS 1006). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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