Negro Fellowship League

CTL-E-1257 · Institution · other · 1900s, 1910s, 1920s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Reading room, boarding space, employment bureau, and legal clearinghouse for Black migrant men excluded from white settlement houses and YMCAs Geography: Chicago, Illinois (3005 S. State Street, South Side)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-056; source research type(s): settlement house.

Sources

http://home.nps.gov/articles/000/places-of-ida-b-wells.htm
https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/blogs/historical-society-blog/ida-b-wells-and-sixth-grace-chicago
https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/first-of-many-ida-b-wells-part-iii
https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/67421?lang=pt

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