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Dingley, Leighton Alden

 Person

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Leighton Dingley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00434
Content Description

Four letters to Miss Helen Cowley, Dingley's girlfriend. Dingley was assistant director of the Hamtramck Tau Beta Camp in Columbiaville, Michigan. This was a camp for underprivileged youth and Dingley writes about his time at this camp. As an African American, Dingley also details his time at the NAACP wartime conference, held in Chicago in 1943.

Dates: 1943