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Elgersman Lee, Maureen. ""Make This Fight a Steady One": The NAACP in Portland and Bangor, Maine, 1920-1939" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA, <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p34212_index.html>

Elgersman Lee, M. ""Make This Fight a Steady One": The NAACP in Portland and Bangor, Maine, 1920-1939" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p34212_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Paper Abstract: In June of 1948, NAACP Director of Branches Gloster B. Current wrote to Clarence Roberts, president of its Portland, Maine branch, congratulating him on the branch’s recent formation. Current noted that Maine had become the forty-fifth state to host an NAACP branch. While Portland’s 1948 chartering may have returned Maine to the list of states with at least one active branch, it was not Maine’s first NAACP branch. A prior Portland branch—probably the state’s first—organized and received its charter in 1920. The city of Bangor organized a second Maine branch later that same year, and received its charter in early 1921. One of the organizations with which both branches had to contend was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), an organization that boasted tens of thousands of Maine members in the 1920s. In an October 1922 letter to the branch, then Director of Branches Robert W. Bagnall advised Maine members to “[m]ake this fight a steady one rather than a spasmodic thing.” Despite their initial promise, both NAACP branches struggled to maintain their memberships, and were inactive by the time the New England Conference of the NAACP was organized in 1939. This article uses NAACP branch files to reconstruct the histories of the Portland and Bangor branches from 1920 to 1939. In addition, it explores the factors and conditions that may have reduced the branches’ ability to sustain themselves long term.

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