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Includes: 1 page undated memorandum from James E. Jackson, Jr., Educational Director of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, reporting that the SNYC had been invited to participate in the conference and outlining the opportunities afforded by such participation. * 3 page memorandum to Robert Minor dated November 24, 1942, reporting on the results of the conference and the drafting session, unsigned by prepared by Jackson. * 1 page tentative agenda for the conference. * 1 page “suggestions for form of conference report,” unsigned. * 5 page working memorandum prepared for the conference by Charles J. Johnson, President of Fisk School of Social Sciences. * 1 page “suggested pattern for report” submitted by William J. Cooper, whose name has been excised from Jackson’s report to Minor. * 2 page proposed “Preamble” for the report submitted by F. D. Patterson, President of Tuskegee Institute. * 2 page proposed “Preamble” submitted by Jackson. * “Preamble” as adopted by the drafting committee. * 1 page list of members of the drafting committee. All documents are typescripts on onion paper.

Documents relating to the Southern Conference on Race Relations held at North Carolina College for Negroes, Durham, North Carolina, on October 20, 1942, and subsequent proceedings of a drafting committee which met November 9, 1942, in Atlanta. The conference was called for the purpose of “formulating a ‘charter’ of rights and responsibilities expressive of what Negroes of the South want and expect in the course of this war for freedom and national liberation, to project a pattern of conduct as applies to Negroes in governing the relations between the races in the South for the duration of the war and to evolve a formula for race relations which would be neither ‘status quo’ nor ‘struggle for equal rights for Negroes’.”