Verified
Assertion
Contemporary letterhead identifies Negro Digest Publishing Company, both magazine titles and 5125 S. Calumet Avenue.
Evidence and limits
Original charter, capitalization, shares and amendments remain uninspected.
- BEHI-P013-S12 — Company name, address and executive roles
NAACP Records, General Office File, Box IIA449, Negro Digest, folder 3; supplied 91-page PDF; PDF pp. 58, 64–65
Letterhead identifies Negro Digest Publishing Company as publisher of Negro Digest and Ebony at 5125 S. Calumet Avenue, Chicago 15. Beckett signs as general manager; Johnson signs as president on November 20, 1947. This corroborates operating identity and named roles, not an inspected incorporation charter, capital stock, shareholders or legal amendment.
Repository / source reference - BEHI-P013-S24 — Illinois incorporation and name-change chain
Illinois Secretary of State; historical charter and amendments pending
Earlier research identified Negro Digest Publishing Company charter and subsequent Johnson Publishing name-change questions. Original charter, amendments, share register and annual filings were not recovered. Letterhead is corroborating operating evidence, not the missing legal instrument. A reported unsuccessful repository search is not evidence that no charter exists.
Repository / source reference
This receipt belongs to John H. Johnson — Profile №13. Supplied scans are retained in the research file; this public receipt is a source description, not a redistribution of the entire archival folder.