The Negro Heritage Library was a multi-volume encyclopedia recording the achievements and history of African-Americans in a family friendly format. Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed the project writing, “I can think of no venture in the world of ideas that is going to be more critical to the Negro community.” The page on view shows Charles H. Mahoney, a Detroit lawyer, who became “the first permanent Negro delegate” to the United Nations in 1954. In 1947, W.E.B. DuBois and Walter White spoke on behalf of the NAACP to the UN’s Department of Social Affairs about the lack of “democracy for American Negros” as they were not represented in the US delegation to the UN.