Reminiscences of Benjamin F. McLaurin, 1960.

Biographical Note

Labor organizer

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education, Florida; Edward Water College; labor school at University of Wisconsin, Brookwood Labor College; Pullman Company, organization of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Railway Labor Act amendment; A. Philip Randolph; salaries, tips, and pensions; Fair Employment Practices Committee, American Negro Labor Council; life in Harlem; International Ladies Auxiliary; company unions, AFL-CIO relationships; American Labor Party; Morris Hillquit; Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; organizing in the South; March on Washington, 1941

Subjects

• African Americans--Employment.
• American Labor Party of the State of New York.
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
• Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Labor laws and legislation.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989--Interviews.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• National Urban League.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Southern States--Economic conditions.
• United States--Race relations.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972