Box 3

Open letter addressed to the Governor of Delaware (J. Caleb Boggs) and the leading citizens of Delaware on the dangers of segregation. Committee reports on voting statistics,

Correspondence regarding fund raising and the appointment of an African-American to the Del. Board of Education.

Includes a letter from Jackie Robinson to Pauline A. Young turning down an invitation to be a guest speaker at the banquet.

Includes a letter from Louis Redding to Mitchell and Maurice Moyer, president of the Wilmington Branch NAACP, discussing a proposed state bill that he believed would perpetuate segregation.

Includes material related to the NAACP's push for open housing legislation in Delaware and it's relationship with Governor Charles Terry.

Transcript of a radio interview with Mitchell discussing Del. NAACP activities

Correspondence from Delaware educator and NAACP member Pauline A. Young regarding the progress of Middletown, Delaware, desegregation efforts. Young was a well-known civil rights activist, Delaware educator, and librarian. She preceded Littleton Mitchell as president of the Delaware NAACP.

Major issues discussed include the process of school desegregation in Delaware and perceived failures in these efforts, hiring discrimination at various institutions, and KKK activities in Southern Delaware.

Contains material regarding Delaware State University integration and Mitchell's push to close the historically-black institution.

Contains material relating to housing discrimination and open housing legislation in Delaware as well as information about migrant labor camps.

Contains information relating to open housing legislation and school desegregation efforts.

Clippings news clippings and correspondence regarding the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., civil disorder in Delaware and the occupation of Wilmington by the National Guard and State Police, which lasted from April 1968 until January 1969. Also included is information relating to NAACP accusations of police misconduct and discrimination at the Governor Bacon Health Center.

Contains news clippings discussing a Delaware open housing bill, discrimination at the Governor Bacon Health Center, and Mitchell's concerns with unrest in Milford, Delaware.

Contains a 1969 issue of the Wilmington, Delaware, Fraternal Order of Police publication "The Guardian Call", which discusses the Black Panthers.

Contains news clippings and correspondence relating to Mitchell's criticism of Delaware political parties and politicians, especially Governor Charles L. Terry. Also included is a letter promoting the election of Mitchell as National Board Member for NAACP Region II over the unnamed President of the Pennsylvania State Conference of Branches, who is accused of associating with extremists and ignoring the NAACP constitution.

At the NAACP 59th Annual Convention, the Delaware State Conference of Branches accused the New York and Pennsylvania delegations of attempting to eliminate Delaware delegation from participation in policy-making.

Contains a speech given by Mitchell at Central Baptist Church about his role in the NAACP and race relations in Delaware. Also included are news clippings relating to Delaware politicians and the NAACP.

Contains information relating to the passage in the State Senate of an open housing bill (S.B. 67), which was opposed by the NAACP and Mitchell because of exemptions to the law given to owners of dwellings containing four or fewer apartments.

Contains information relating to migrant labor and alleged police misconduct.