[8] Throughout the 1950s, the committee continued to solicit archival materials and hosted an exhibit featuring historic dolls made by sculptor, Meta Warrick Fuller, and a quilt depicting Harriet Tubman.
[10] In 1958, the committee solicited recipes from black women to publish a different kind of history—one that celebrated the collective works that characterized their community.
[13] In the 1960s through the mid-1970s, work on the archive waned as the emphasis shifted to the Civil Rights Movement,[10] but 1976 as part of the United States Bicentennial celebrations, Senator John Warner, assisted in getting an appropriation from Congress to renovate the property where Bethune had last lived,[14] located at 1318 Vermont Avenue, Washington, D.C.[15] The following year, Bettye Collier-Thomas, director of Temple University's Center for African American History and Culture, established the Bethune Museum in the property[16] and began converting the carriage house into a facility to house the National Archives for Black Women's History.
[20] In 2014, the Park Service made a controversial decision to move the archive from the Bethune property citing concerns about the preservation of records at the facility.
[21] They were relocated to the National Park Service Museum Resource Center located at 3300 Hubbard Road in Landover, Maryland.
[22] A major portion of the archival records is the collection of corporate documents relating to the National Council of Negro Women, its various branches, the museum and the house.
Other collections include the papers of Mayme G. Abernathy, Helen Elsie Austin, Frances Mary Beal, Jeanetta Welch Brown, Birdia Bush, Gurthalee Clark, Polly Spiegel Cowan, Jeanne Donaldson Dago, Edmonia White Davidson, Gloria Dickinson, Madeline Mabray Kountze Dugger-Kelley, Jennie Austin Fletcher, Susie Green, Mary E. C. Gregory, Martha Sinton Harper, Euphemia Lofton Haynes, Anna Margaret Austin Haywood, Dorothy Height, Mame Mason Higgins, Eloise B. Johnson, Mildred Bell Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Dorothy Parker Koger, Josephine Humbles Kyles, Daisy Lampkin, Annie Malone, Maurine Gordon Perkinson, Ophelia T. Pinkard, Lucia Rapley, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Ethel Heywood Smith, Mabel Keaton Staupers, Ruth Sykes, Mary B. Talbert, Carolyn McClester Thomas, Miriam Higgins Thomas, and Madam C. J. Walker, among others.