Letter from Viola Ford Turner, president of the Metropolitan Council for Negro Women in Charleston, to Margaret Carter, chief of division of public liaison with the Department of State. The letter discusses the event the group held in Charleston for the United Nations' anniversary on October 23, and thanks Carter for sending Mr. Strong to the event.
Letter from the co-chairpersons of the Charleston section of the National Council of Negro Women to Mamie Fields. It invites Fields to attend a program honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.
Letter from Mamie Fields to Marion Wilkinson, discussing potential speakers for a youth meeting. It mentions that a Miss Johnson may be in a legal tangle for something she said while employed by the government.
Letter from Bertie L. Derrick, national field director for the National Council of Negro Women, confirming she will be in Sumter to help organize the Charleston Metropolitan branch of the Council. A handwritten note indicates it was organized April 9, 1949 with Mrs. V.F. Turner as president and Fields as secretary.
Letter from an unknown person to Mamie Fields, detailing the progress and needs of updating and cleaning the Wilkinson Home for Girls. It also mentions Miss Bellinger left suddenly and how Mrs. Middleton is doing well.
Letter from Robert Lee Sigmon to Mamie Fields about visiting on behalf of the Voluntary International Service Assignment program of the American Friends Service Committee. At the bottom of the letter, Fields write back to Sigmon.
Letter from Clifford Sanford, of The Group Child Care Project at the University of North Carolina, to Mamie Fields, about who to ask about finding a new director for the Wilkinson Home for Girls.
Letter from Mamie Fields to someone named Lynn about the community work she was trying to do and how it overlapped with the Home's mission. Fields also discusses claims Lynn made about Fields's inability to run the home.
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