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The Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, Inc.

Sept. 12, 1955

TRUSTEES ●

MRS. EMMA I. DICKSON, PRESIDENT
4917-A HIGHLAND AVE., ST. LOUIS 13, MO.

MRS. LUACO GLADDEN, SECRETARY
1820 BOND AVE., EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS

MRS. MAYME JOSENBERGER

MISS NANNIE BURROUGHS, HISTORIAN

MRS. ELLA P. STEWART
1008 CITY PART AVE., TOLEDO, OHIO

MRS. LUCY ROBINSON, TREASURER
409 KIRKPATRIC, PITTSBURG 19, PA.

MRS. ELIZABETH HEROD, ASSISTANT SECRETARY

MRS. LILLIAN BONDURANT, PARLIAMENTARIAN

MRS. JANE SPAULDING, CHAIRMAN, REVISION OF CONSTITUTION

MRS. MARY E. C. GREGORY
3429 CLAY ST., N.E., WASHINGTON, D.C.

January 21, 1955

The Coordinating Committee
Anacostia and Vicinity
Dr. C.E. Qualls, Gen. Chairman
2433 Nichols Avenue, S.E.
Washington 20, D.C.

Dear Mr. Qualls:

Your letter of December 28, 1954 was received also the copy of your March 19, 1953 letter. Thanks for both of these letters. Enclosed is a detailed report of the Frederick Douglass Association at the 1948 Seattle Convention. I think by this you can see for yourself that in your second paragraph of the March 19, 1953 letter, how absurd such a report as you stated was in the December 1951 story in the Afro-American paper. However, the $7,000.00 was spent for clearing underbrush, dead trees, surveying and marking of the boundary lines, etc. 

The Douglass Trustees, that is those of us who were working with the late President Sallie W. Stewart at the time that this report was made, have worked with Mrs. Ella P. Stewart, the past president preceeding Mrs. Gaines throughout her administration to promote harmony and come to peaceful agreements with understanding the National Association of Colored Women. When this first Afro-American report (1951) came out- no one seemed to know where it came from nor who it was that sent it in. Many things said in newspapers are wrong in statements. Because of this very fact is why the Trustees have not gone out on a big financial drive. I would have tried one last year but all of us belong to the N.A.C.W. and I knew that it would be useless to have both organizations in drives for money at the same time. N.A.C.W. was getting finance for our new headquarters.

The National Association of Colored Women, Inc. cooperates in the maintaining the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home.
MRS. IRENE McCOY GAINES, PRESIDENT, 3262 VERNON, AVEL, CHICAGO, ILL.