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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
A Register of Its Records in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Grover Batts and Audrey Walker
Revised by Melinda K. Friend
1997
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2000
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Table of Contents for Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms
* Names:
* Subjects:
Administrative Information
* Provenance:
* Processing History:
* Transfers:
* Copyright Status:
* Preferred Citation:
*Related Material
Biographical Notes
* Benjamin F. McLaurin
* A. Philip Randolph
* Ashley L. Totten
Scope and Content Note
Description of Series
Part I
* General Correspondence, 1940- 1968, n.d.
* Subject File, 1940- 1968, n.d.
* A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1937- 1968, n.d.
Part II
* Benjamin F. McLaurin Papers, 1944- 1957, n.d.
* A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1935- 1968, n.d.
* Ashley L. Totten Papers, 1937- 1951, n.d.
* Subject File, 1920- 1968, n.d.
* Financial Papers, 1936- 1968.
* Miscellany, 1947- 1963, n.d.
Container List
Part I
* GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1940- 1968, n.d.
* SUBJECT FILE, 1940- 1968, n.d.
* A. PHILIP RANDOLPH PAPERS, 1937- 1968, n.d.
Part II
* BENJAMIN F. MCLAURIN PAPERS, 1944- 1957, n.d.
* A. PHILIP RANDOLPH PAPERS, 1935- 1968, n.d.
* ASHLEY L. TOTTEN PAPERS, 1937- 1951, n.d.
* SUBJECT FILE, 1920- 1968, n.d.
* FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1936- 1968
* MISCELLANY, 1947- 1963, n.d.
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Collection Summary
Creator: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Title: Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1920-1968 (bulk
1950-1968)
Size: 41,000 items; 144 containers; 70 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Part I consists of general correspondence, subject files, and
personal papers of the brotherhood's founder, A. Philip Randolph,
documenting the growth and functions of the union chiefly after 1940. Part
II consists of correspondence and subject files of brotherhood officials
Benjamin F. McLaurin (international field organizer), A. Philip Randolph
(founder and president), and Ashley L. Totten (secretary-treasurer), and
other subject files, financial records, and miscellaneous records.
Selected Search Terms
Names:
Blanchette, A. R. (Arthur Robinson), 1910- --Correspondence
Bond, Julian, 1940- --Correspondence
Dellums, C. L. (Cotrell Lawrence)--Correspondence
Dubinsky, David, 1892- --Correspondence
Farmer, James, 1920- --Correspondence
Green, William, 1872-1952--Correspondence
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Correspondence
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922- --Correspondence
McNeal, T. D.--Correspondence
Mboya, Tom--Correspondence
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908- --Correspondence
Meany, George, 1894- --Correspondence
Murray, Philip, 1886-1952--Correspondence
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972--Correspondence
Quill, Mike--Correspondence
Randolph, Woodruff, 1892-1966--Correspondence
Rauh, Joseph L., 1911- --Correspondence
Reuther, Roy, 1909-1968--Correspondence
Reuther, Victor G. (Victor George), 1912- --Correspondence
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970--Correspondence
Rustin, Bayard, 1910- --Correspondence
Smith, Bennie, b. 1884--Correspondence
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971--Correspondence
Stone, Chuck--Correspondence
Webster, Milton P., 1887-1965--Correspondence
White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955--Correspondence
Wilkins, Roy, 1901- --Correspondence
Young, Whitney M.--Correspondence
American Federation of Labor
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Congress of Industrial Organizations
National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (U.S.)
National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)
New York (N.Y.). City Council
Randolph, A.Philip (Asa Philip), 1889- Papers
McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1905- Papers
Totten, Ashley, 1884-1963. Papers
Subjects:
Afro-American labor leaders
Afro-Americans--Civil rights
Afro-Americans--Societies, etc.
Civil rights
Labor movement--Africa
Labor movement--Canada
Labor movement--Kenya
Labor movement--United States
Local elections--New York (State)--New York
Railroad companies
Railroads--Employees
Pullman porters--Labor unions--Canada
Pullman porters--Labor unions--United States
Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--United States
Women in the labor movement--United States
Administrative Information
Provenance:
The records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters were given to the
Library of Congress in 1971 by A. Philip Randolph and the brotherhood and
in 1981 by the Chicago Historical Society.
Processing History:
The records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters were first arranged
and described in 1972. Additional material received was incorporated into
the collection in 1985 and this register subsequently revised in 1997.
Transfers:
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial
divisions of the Library. Photographs have been transferred to the Prints &
Photographs Division . Sheet music has been transferred to the Music
Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Records.
Copyright Status:
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States
(Title 17, U.S.C.).
Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: container number, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Records,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Related Material
In 1983, the Library received a separate collection of the papers of A.
Philip Randolph. Other records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
can be found in the Bancroft Library of the University of California at
Berkeley and at the Chicago Historical Society.
Biographical Notes
Benjamin F. McLaurin
Date Event
1906 , May
26 Born, Jacksonville, Fla.
1925 Moved to Chicago, Ill.
Employed by the Pullman Co.
1931 Attended Brookwood Labor College, Katona, N.Y.
Local organizer, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1935 International field organizer, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters
1938 Married Margaret L. Frye
1945 Labor candidate, city council, New York, N.Y.
ca. 1959 Eastern zone supervisor, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters
A. Philip Randolph
Date Event
1889 , Apr.
15 Born, Crescent City, Fla.
1914 Married Lucille E. Campbell
1917 Organized small union of elevator operators, New York, N.Y.
1921 Socialist candidate, secretary of state for New York
1925 Organized Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1935 Member, Fiorello H. La Guardia's Commission on Race
1941 Organized March on Washington Movement
Honorary LL.D., Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Member, New York City Housing Authority
1957 - 1968 Vice president, American Federation of Labor and Congress
of Industrial Organizations
1963 Participated in organization of March on Washington
1964 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
1979 , May
16 Died, New York, N.Y.
Ashley L. Totten
Date Event
1884 , Oct.
11 Born, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
1905 Immigrated to United States
1911 Naturalized as United States citizen
1927 Married Nellie V. Victoria
1932 International secretary-treasurer, Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters
President, American Virgin Islands Civic Association
1937 National reporting officer, Railroad Retirement Board
1963 Died, New York, N.Y.
Scope and Content Note
The records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters span the years
1920-1968, with the bulk of the items dated 1950-1968. The collection is
arranged into two parts and includes series related to the brotherhood and
its officers.
Part I of the records spans the years 1937-1968, with the bulk of the
material concentrated in the period 1950-1968. The records are organized
into three series: General Correspondence, Subject File, and A. Philip
Randolph Papers.
Although the main focus of Part I is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, the records are dominated by the personality and activities of the
organization's founder, A. Philip Randolph. The Subject File contains a
large quantity of material on the growth and functions of the union from
1940 to 1968 and includes agreements reached between the brotherhood and
the nation's major railroad lines. Included also is material exchanged
between the local unions and the brotherhood's headquarters, as well as
files relating to biennial conventions, financial matters, and the ladies
auxiliary. There are no records relating to Randolph's creation of the
union in 1925 or to the brotherhood's subsequent struggles for existence
while organizing various union locals.
The General Correspondence series contains exchanges between Randolph and
his principal aides, A. R. Blanchette, C. L. Dellums, Benjamin F. McLaurin,
T. D. McNeal, Bennie Smith, and Milton P. Webster, as well as extensive
correspondence with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations and a lesser amount with labor organizations
representing dining car employees, locomotive firemen, and railway clerks.
Among the major labor leaders represented in the correspondence are Dave
Beck, David Dubinsky, William Green, George Meany, Philip Murray, Michael
J. Quill, Woodruff Randolph, and Roy, Victor, and Walter Reuther. There is
also correspondence of political figures and an abundance of letters
exchanged with civil rights organizations and leaders including Julian
Bond, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd B. McKissick, Thurgood
Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Bayard Rustin,
Arthur B. Spingarn, C. Sumner (Chuck) Stone, Jr., Walter Francis White, Roy
Wilkins, and Whitney Young, Jr. Of particular interest is a group of
letters from the African labor organizer, Tom Mboya, concerning his
activities among the workers of Kenya.
Also received with Part I were papers of A. Philip Randolph which are not
directly related to the brotherhood. These papers, organized by subject and
type of material, constitute the last series of this original portion.
Acquired at a later date, Part II of the records of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters spans the years 1920-1968, with the bulk of the
material concentrated in the period 1950-1968. This portion of the records
is organized into the Benjamin F. McLaurin Papers, the A. Philip Randolph
Papers, the Ashley L. Totten Papers, Subject File, Financial Papers, and
Miscellany.
The records in Part II generally cover the same time period and supplement
the correspondence and files of Part I. Although A. Philip Randolph remains
the dominant individual in the collection, files of other brotherhood
officers are included in most of the series. Randolph's correspondence
contains letters from members of the brotherhood, officials of other labor
unions, members of the United States Congress, educators, individuals
involved in civil rights efforts, persons seeking relief from economic
distress, and admirers. The most voluminous correspondence is with A. R.
Blanchette, the brotherhood's international field representative in Canada,
and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. The letters of Benjamin F. McLaurin, which
span the years 1944-1957, are primarily confined to his services as
international field organizer, while those of Ashley L. Totten, dating
1937-1951, relate to his duties as secretary-treasurer of the brotherhood.
The Subject File in Part II contains additional agreements between the
brotherhood and the railroad companies, but most of the files concern the
participation of the union in railway and labor organizations. The most
informative material relating to the organizing activities of the union can
be found in the files pertaining to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen. These activities were carried out under the auspices of the
Provisional Committee To Organize Colored Locomotive Firemen. The records
document the struggles of African-American firemen to retain their jobs and
seniority rights with the railroad companies while seeking to be
represented by a labor union. Briefs of legal cases brought by the
brotherhood on behalf of the African-American firemen are also included in
the files. Some of the material in the files relating to Canada also
touches on the organizing activities of the brotherhood.
The papers of A. Philip Randolph, Benjamin F. McLaurin, and Ashley L.
Totten also contain material not directly related to the activities of the
union, although some may be the result of their prominence as officers in
the brotherhood. Randolph's files include material on the organization of
agricultural workers, the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, and
the National Sharecroppers' Fund, which shows his concern for farm laborers
and his support of organizations seeking to better their working
conditions. A significant file in McLaurin's papers relates to his campaign
for a seat on the New York city council in 1945. Correspondence and a file
of speaking engagements constitute the papers of Ashley L. Totten. A letter
written while he was president of the American Virgin Islands Civic
Association is also among his papers.
Description of Series
.
Part I
Box Series
BOX General Correspondence, 1940 - 1968 , n.d.
1-34
Incoming and outgoing correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization.
BOX Subject File, 1940 - 1968 , n.d.
35-96
Bulletins, correspondence, financial papers, agreements, legal
papers, memoranda, newspaper clippings, speeches, and printed
matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, organization, or
topic.
BOX A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1937 - 1968 , n.d.
97-105
Subject File consisting of correspondence, memoranda, newspaper
clippings, speeches, and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically
by name of person, organization, or topic.
Miscellany consisting of articles, biographical information,
family correspondence, financial papers, and speeches. Arranged
alphabetically by type of material.
.
Part II
Box Series
BOX 106 Benjamin F. McLaurin Papers, 1944 - 1957 , n.d.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by
name of person or organization.
Subject File consisting of writings, biographical information,
and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically by name of person,
organization, or topic.
BOX A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1935 - 1968 , n.d.
106-119
Incoming and outgoing correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by
name of person or organization.
Speeches and writings. Arranged chronologically.
Subject File consisting of correspondence, memoranda, newspaper
clippings, speeches, and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically
by name of person, organization, or topic.
BOX Ashley L. Totten Papers, 1937 - 1951 , n.d.
119-120
Incoming and outgoing correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by
name of correspondent.
Miscellaneous material and speaking engagements. Arranged
chronologically.
BOX Subject File, 1920 - 1968 , n.d.
121-141
Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, speeches, and
printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, organization, or
topic.
BOX Financial Papers, 1936 - 1968 .
141-143
Financial material consisting of correspondence, statements, and
reports.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX Miscellany, 1947 - 1963 , n.d.
143-144
Press releases, newspapers, and statements from various labor
unions, printed matter, and reports.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Container List
.
Part I
Box Contents
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1940 - 1968 , n.d.
BOX 1 Africa
Alexander, Clifford L.
Alexander, Clifford L., Jr.
American Committee on Africa
(2 folders)
American Federation of Labor
(2 folders)
BOX 2 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations
Civil Rights Committee
(2 folders)
Executive Council
(3 folders)
General
(1 folder)
BOX 3
(4 folders)
International Affairs Committee
(1 folder)
BOX 4
(1 folder)
Association of General Chairmen, Standard Railroad Labor
Organizations
"Ab-Am" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
BOX 5 "An-Ay" miscellaneous
Bethune, Mary McLeod
The Black Worker
(2 folders)
Blanchette, A. R.
(4 folders)
BOX 6
(4 folders)
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
(2 folders)
BOX 7 Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Brown, Theodore E.
(4 folders)
Burns, James A.
"Ba-Be" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
BOX 8 "Bi-By" miscellaneous
(5 folders)
China
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty
Commission on Civil Rights
Committee on Discrimination in Employment
BOX 9 Congress of Racial Equality
(4 folders)
Council Against Intolerance in America
"Ca" miscellaneous
BOX 10 "Ce-Cu" miscellaneous
(6 folders)
Defense Department
Dellums, C. L.
BOX 11 Delson, Levin and Gordon, law firm
(5 folders)
BOX 12 District of Columbia
Douglas, Paul H.
"D" miscellaneous
(4 folders)
Edwards, Don
Eichelberger, Clark M.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Epstein, Henry
Ethridge, Mark
Evers, Myrlie B.
"Ea-En" miscellaneous
BOX 13 "Ep-Ez" miscellaneous
Farbstein, Leonard
Farmer, James
Farrell, James T.
Fauntroy, Walter E.
Federal Housing Administration
Ferguson, Homer
Finkelstein, Louis
Fraser, Donald M.
Freeman, Orville L.
Fries, Frank W.
Fulton, James G.
Furness, Betty
"F" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Gallagher, Cornelius E.
Gates, Thomas S.
Gavagan, James A.
Geyer, Lee E.
Goldberg, Arthur J.
Golden, Harry
Gore, Albert (1907- )
Government Printing Office
Graham, Frank Porter
Green, Edith
BOX 14 Green, William
(3 folders)
Griffiths, Martha W.
Gruening, Ernest
"G" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Hall, Leonard W.
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Harriman, W. Averell
Harrington, Michael
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of
Henderson, Leon
Hennings, Thomas G.
Hertzberg, Sidney
Hill, Lister
Hodges, Luther H.
Hoffman, Paul
Holland, Elmer J.
Holmes, John Haynes
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International
Union, Joint Council Dining Car Employees Union
(1 folder)
BOX 15
(3 folders)
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Hutchins, Robert M.
"H" miscellaneous
(4 folders)
BOX 16 Impellitteri, Vincent R.
Ingersoll, Ralph
Interior Department
International Cooperation Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ives, Irving M.
"I" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Javits, Jacob K.
John F. Kennedy Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Johnson, Alvin
Johnson, Charles S.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Mordecai
Johnson, Robert E.
Justice Department
"J" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Kaiser, Edgar F.
Katzenbach, Nicholas DeB.
Keating, Kenneth B.
Kefauver, Estes
Kennedy, Edward M.
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy, Stephen
Kerr, Robert S.
Keyserling, Leon H.
BOX 17 King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kingsley, Sidney
Kirchwey, Freda
Kitt, Eartha
Knight, Goodwin J.
Knowland, William F.
Knox, Frank
"K" miscellaneous
Labor Bureau of Middle West
(5 folders)
BOX 18 Labor Department
(3 folders)
La Farge, John
La Guardia, Fiorello H.
Langer, William
Lawson, Howard
Lehman, Edith
Lehman, Herbert H.
Levin, Ruben
Levitas, S. M.
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, John L.
Library of Congress
Lindsay, John
Lucas, Scott W.
Ludlow, Louis
"L" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
BOX 19 Macy, John W., Jr.
Marshall, Thurgood
Martin, Thomas E.
Martin Luther King Convalescent Fund
Mathias, Charles McC., Jr.
Mboya, Tom
McCarthy, Joseph R.
McCormack, John W.
McDonald, David J.
McFarland, Ernest W.
McGrath, J. Howard
McKinney, Frank E.
McKissick, Floyd B.
McLaurin, Benjamin F.
McNeal, T. D.
(2 folders)
McNutt, Paul V.
McWilliams, Carey
Mead, James M.
Meany, George
(2 folders)
BOX 20
(5 folders)
Meyer, Agnes
Meyer, Eugene
Miller, Dale
Miller, William E.
Minow, Newton N.
Minton, Sherman
BOX 21 Mitchell, Clarence M.
Mitchell, James P.
Morgan, Edward P.
Morris, Newbold
Morse, Wayne
Multer, Abraham J.
Murray, James E.
Murray, Philip
Murrow, Edward R.
"M" miscellaneous
(6 folders)
BOX 22 Nabrit, James M., Jr.
Nash, Philleo
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
NAACP
(5 folders)
National Mediation Board
National Urban League
(1 folder)
BOX 23
(3 folders)
Navy Department
Neely, Matthew M.
Negro American Labor Council
Negro Labor Committee
Nevins, Allan
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niles, David K.
Nipson, Herbert
Nixon, Richard M.
Norton, Mary T.
"Na" miscellaneous
BOX 24 "Ne-Nu" miscellaneous
(4 folders)
O'Connor, Basil
O'Dwyer, William
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Office of Economic Opportunity
O'Hara, James G.
"O" miscellaneous
Palmer, Joseph, II
Patterson, Robert P.
Peale, Norman Vincent
Pearson, Drew
Pecora, Ferdinard
Percy, Charles H.
Peterson, Esther
Petrillo, James C.
Pike, James A.
Powell, Adam Clayton
President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
BOX 25 "P" miscellaneous
(4 folders)
Quill, Michael J.
"Q" miscellaneous
Rabb, Maxwell M.
Railroad Retirement Board
(4 folders)
BOX 26 Randolph, Jennings
Randolph, Woodruff
Raskin, Abraham H.
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr.
Reed, Clyde M.
Reid, Ogden
Reuther, Roy L.
Reuther, Victor G.
Reuther, Walter P.
Ribicoff, Abraham
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Jackie
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rockefeller, Nelson A.
Rogers, William P.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.
Roosevelt, James
Root, Oren
Rosenberg, Anna M.
Rusk, Dean
Rustin, Bayard
"R" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
BOX 27 Schiff, Dorothy
Schwellenbach, Lewis B.
Shanker, Albert
Shipler, Guy Emery
Shriver, Sargent
Smith, Bennie
(5 folders)
Smith, H. Alexander
Socialist party
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Spalding, Asa T.
Speight, Lillian
Spellman, Francis
Spingarn, Arthur B.
Spock, Benjamin
Springer, Maida
BOX 28 Stanton, Frank
Stassen, Harold E.
State Department
Stevens, Harold
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Stimson, Henry L.
Stokes, Anson Phelps
Stone, C. Sumner, Jr. ("Chuck")
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sweet, William E.
Swing, Raymond Gram
"Sa-So" miscellaneous
(7 folders)
BOX 29 "Sp-Sy" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Taft, Robert A. (1889-1953)
Telegrafnoe agentstvo SSSR (TASS)
Thomas, Elbert D.
Thomas, Norman
Thye, Edward J.
Tobias, Channing H.
Tobin, Maurice J.
Trade Union Committee for Racial Justice
(2 folders)
BOX 30 Transportation Department
Treasury Department
Truman, Harry S.
"T" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Ulio, James A.
United States Information Agency
United Transport Service Employees
"U-V" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Wadsworth, James J.
Wagner, Robert F.
Walsh, David I.
War Department
War Manpower Commission
Warren, Earl
Watson, Thomas J., Jr.
Watson, W. Marvin
BOX 31 Weaver, Robert C.
Webster, Milton P.
(8 folders)
BOX 32 Wechsler, James A.
Wheeler, Burton K.
White, Paul Dudley
White, Walter Francis
(4 folders)
Widnall, William B.
Wilkins, Roy
(3 folders)
Williams, G. Mennen
Willkie, Edith
Wilson, Bob
Wilson, Charles E.
BOX 33 Wirtz, W. Willard
Workers Defense League
(3 folders)
Works Progress Administration
"W" miscellaneous
(7 folders)
X, Malcolm
BOX 34 Yoshida, Shigeru
Young, Robert R.
Young, Whitney M., Jr.
"Y" miscellaneous
Zeckendorf, William, Jr.
"Z" miscellaneous
Unidentified
(3 folders)
SUBJECT FILE, 1940 - 1968 , n.d.
BOX 35 Agreements with railroad companies
Alton Railroad
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
(3 folders)
Atlantic Coast Line
(1 folder)
BOX 36
(3 folders)
BOX 37 Baltimore and Ohio
(2 folders)
BOX 38 Burlington Lines
(3 folders)
BOX 39 Canadian Pacific
(5 folders)
BOX 40
(1 folder)
Central of Georgia
(2 folders)
Chesapeake and Ohio
(2 folders)
BOX 41
(2 folders)
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
(2 folders)
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific
(1 folder)
BOX 42
(2 folders)
Chicago and North Western
(2 folders)
BOX 43 Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific
(2 folders)
Colorado and Southern
(2 folders)
Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western
(1 folder)
BOX 44
(1 folder)
Denver and Rio Grande
(2 folders)
Erie
Erie, Lackawanna
(2 folders)
BOX 45 Florida East Coast
Fort Worth and Denver
(2 folders)
Grand Trunk Western
(2 folders)
BOX 46 Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
(2 folders)
Illinois Central
(1 folder)
BOX 47
(2 folders)
International Great Northern
(2 folders)
Kansas City Southern
(1 folder)
BOX 48
(1 folder)
Lehigh Valley
(2 folders)
Long Island
Louisville and Nashville
BOX 49 Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Ste. Marie
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Missouri Pacific
(2 folders)
BOX 50 New Haven
New York Central
(2 folders)
BOX 51
(1 folder)
New York, New Haven, and Hartford
(2 folders)
BOX 52
(5 folders)
Norfolk and Western
(2 folders)
BOX 53
(2 folders)
Northern Alberta
(2 folders)
Penn Central
Pennsylvania
(2 folders)
BOX 54
(2 folders)
The Pullman Co.
(1 folder)
BOX 55
(3 folders)
BOX 56
(4 folders)
BOX 57
(7 folders)
BOX 58 Pullman Co. and Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters
Vol. 1
BOX 59 Vol. 6
BOX 60 Vols. 11, 13
BOX 61 Vol. 17
St. Louis Southwestern
(2 folders)
Seaboard Air Line
(1 folder)
BOX 62
(3 folders)
Seaboard Coast Line
(2 folders)
Soo Line
(1 folder)
BOX 63
(1 folder)
Southern Pacific
(3 folders)
BOX 64
(1 folder)
Southern Railway System
Texas and Pacific
(2 folders)
Union Pacific
(2 folders)
BOX 65 Western Pacific
Atlantic Coast Line Division
The Black Worker
BOX 66 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
(3 folders)
Bulletins
(2 folders)
BOX 67
(4 folders)
BOX 68
(1 folder)
Canadian porters
Conferences
(4 folders)
BOX 69 Constitutions
Contributions
(3 folders)
Conventions
(4 folders)
BOX 70
(6 folders)
BOX 71
(2 folders)
Financial papers
(2 folders)
BOX 72 Bound volume
BOX 73 International Executive Board
(5 folders)
BOX 74
(6 folders)
BOX 75 Ladies Auxiliary
By state
(25 folders)
BOX 76 Various states
(7 folders)
BOX 77
(7 folders)
BOX 78
(1 folder)
League for Mutual Aid
(6 folders)
BOX 79 Legal papers
(9 folders)
BOX 80
(8 folders)
BOX 81
(6 folders)
BOX 82 Legislation
Local affiliates of the brotherhood
Alabama-Canada
(11 folders)
BOX 83 Colorado-District of Columbia
(5 folders)
Florida
Jacksonville
(3 folders)
BOX 84 Miami-Tampa
(4 folders)
Georgia
Albany-Savannah
(6 folders)
BOX 85 Macon-Waycross
(3 folders)
Illinois-Louisiana
(6 folders)
BOX 86 Maryland-Missouri
(10 folders)
BOX 87 Nebraska-North Carolina
(3 folders)
New York
Albany-Buffalo
(2 folders)
New York
(4 folders)
BOX 88
(1 folder)
North Carolina
(3 folders)
Ohio
Cincinnati
(3 folders)
BOX 89 Cleveland-Columbus
(3 folders)
Oklahoma-South Carolina
(8 folders)
BOX 90 Tennessee-Texas
(11 folders)
BOX 91 Utah-Washington
(6 folders)
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co.
Mayor's Board of Survey on Transfer of Relief
Administration
Membership lists
BOX 92 The Messenger
Miscellany
(5 folders)
Press releases
(2 folders)
BOX 93 Printed matter
(3 folders)
Programs
(3 folders)
BOX 94
(2 folders)
Provisional Committee to Organize Colored Locomotive
Firemen
Publicity
Seaboard Airline Railroad Co.
Shorter Work Month Movement
(4 folders)
BOX 95
(2 folders)
Sleeping car conductors bill
Teachers' unions
Union shop
BOX 96 Zone conferences
(4 folders)
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH PAPERS, 1937 - 1968 , n.d.
BOX 97 Subject file
Africa
(6 folders)
BOX 98
(1 folder)
Articles, requests for
(3 folders)
India
Interviews, requests for
(3 folders)
BOX 99 Invitations
(6 folders)
BOX 100
(4 folders)
Japan
BOX 101 March on Washington, 1963
Memberships in various organizations
(2 folders)
Negro education
Negro history
Negro leaders
(2 folders)
Negro press
(1 folder)
BOX 102
(2 folders)
Political parties
(3 folders)
Post War World Council
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
(4 folders)
BOX 103
(3 folders)
Press releases
Race Conference, Washington, D.C., 1956
Speaking engagements
(6 folders)
BOX 104
(3 folders)
White Citizens Councils
White press
(4 folders)
BOX 105 Miscellany
Articles
(2 folders)
Biographical information
Family correspondence
Blount, Carrie
Graham, Willie Mae
Randolph, Lucille E.
Financial papers
(3 folders)
Notes
Speeches
Statements
Unidentified
.
Part II
Box Contents
BENJAMIN F. MCLAURIN PAPERS, 1944 - 1957 , n.d.
BOX 106 Correspondence
"A-W" miscellaneous
Circular letters
Subject file
Campaign for New York city council
Miscellaneous biographical material
Writings
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH PAPERS, 1935 - 1968 , n.d.
BOX 106 Correspondence
"A-B" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Blanchette, A. R.
(1 folder)
BOX 107
(4 folders)
"C" miscellaneous
BOX 108 Davis, Jerome
Dawson, William L.
"D-F" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Goldberg, Arthur
"G" miscellaneous
Hunton, George K.
"H" miscellaneous
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
International Union of Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers
"I" miscellaneous
Jewish Labor Committee
BOX 109 "J" miscellaneous
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
"K-L" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Merson, Edna A.
"M-P" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
BOX 110 Reuther, Walter P.
"R-S" miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Transport Workers Union of America
"T-V" miscellaneous
(2 folders)
United Negro College Fund
"W-Z" miscellaneous
BOX 111 Speeches and writings
(2 folders)
Subject file
Agricultural workers
Organizing of
(2 folders)
Trade Union Committee for Relief
BOX 112 American Association for the United Nations
(2 folders)
American Civil Liberties Union
Awards, honors, etc.
Biographical data
Citizens Committee for $1.50 Minimum Wage
Invitations to speak
1963
1964
Jan.-Feb.
BOX 113 Mar.-Dec.
1965-1968
(2 folders)
Letters of thanks
Miscellany
BOX 114 NAACP
(4 folders)
BOX 115 National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
(4 folders)
National Sharecroppers Fund
(1 folder)
BOX 116
(3 folders)
New York, N.Y., hospital strike
Press releases and newspaper clippings
BOX 117 Protestant Council of the City of New York
(3 folders)
Publications file
(1 folder)
BOX 118
(2 folders)
Recommendations and résumés
(2 folders)
Religion and Labor Council of America
BOX 119 Requests to serve on boards
(2 folders)
Subscriptions
(2 folders)
ASHLEY L. TOTTEN PAPERS, 1937 - 1951 , n.d.
BOX 119 Correspondence
"A-W" miscellaneous
Elvia Sullinger Defense Committee
National Urban League
Odell Waller Defense Committee
BOX 120 Royal Bank of Canada
State federations of labor
Wilson Line, Inc.
Workers Defense League
Young Men's Christian Association
Zack, Samuel R.
Miscellaneous
Speaking engagements
SUBJECT FILE, 1920 - 1968 , n.d.
BOX 121 Agreements with railroad companies
General
Alton Railroad
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore and Ohio
Canadian Pacific
Central of Georgia
Chesapeake and Ohio
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Erie Railroad
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Lehigh Valley
Louisville and Nashville
Missouri Pacific
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
New York, New Haven and Hartford
BOX 122 The Pullman Co.
(2 folders)
Seaboard Air Line
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations
Committee on Political Education
(2 folders)
BOX 123 Community Services Committee
(2 folders)
General
Industrial Union Department
Bakery and Confectionary Workers' International Union
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.
Biennial Convention dinner
BOX 124 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Agreements
Grievances
Legal action
(2 folders)
Local divisions
Alabama, Birmingham
BOX 125 Florida
High Springs
Jacksonville
Lakeland
Tampa
Georgia
Albany
Atlanta
Augusta
Cedartown
Columbus
BOX 126 Macon
Savannah
(2 folders)
Thomasville
Waycross
Miscellaneous localities
Mississippi
Columbus
Meridian
BOX 127 North Carolina
Rocky Mount
Wilmington
South Carolina
Charleston
Sumter
Virginia, Portsmouth
Miscellany
Provisional Committee To Organize Colored
Locomotive Firemen
Annual conferences
Local conferences
Brown, Theodore, case of
Canada
Associated International Non-operating Railway
Unions, Negotiating Committee
(1 folder)
BOX 128
(3 folders)
Department of Labour
(1 folder)
BOX 129
(2 folders)
Immigration from British West Indies
Labour law
Canadian Labour Congress
(2 folders)
BOX 130 Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
General
General Chairman's Association
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Co.
Citizens Union of the City of New York
Committee on Organization and Education, New York division
Conference of National Organizations
(2 folders)
BOX 131 Cooperating railway labor organizations
(2 folders)
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Co.
Election results, local divisions
(3 folders)
Erie Railroad Co.
Georgia Railroad Co.
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co.
Harvard University Trade Union Fellowship Program
BOX 132 Immigration
Insurance plans
(2 folders)
International Executive Board
International Workers Order, Inc.
Labor Committee to Release Imprisoned Trade Unionists and
Democratic Socialists
BOX 133 Legal cases
Cook v. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co.
Members' claims against railroad companies
Miscellaneous
National Railway Adjustment Board
(2 folders)
New York, N.Y.
(2 folders)
BOX 134 Nomination meetings, New York division
Office administrative affairs
Correspondence
Itineraries of brotherhood officers
Lists--personnel, Christmas, vacations, and
holidays
Telephone messages
Transportation arrangements
Vouchers and requisitions
Operation of railroads by Department of the Army
Pension plans
Porters' beds
BOX 135 Publicity
The Pullman Co.
General
Transfer of parlor cars
(2 folders)
Railroad Notes
Railroad Retirement Board
General
(2 folders)
BOX 136
(3 folders)
Provisional occupational disability rating
schedule
Railroad storeroom employees
Railroads, miscellaneous
Railway Labor Act
BOX 137 Railway Labor Executives' Association
1958 rules movement
Assessments
General
Railway Labor's Political League
(3 folders)
BOX 138 Railway Unions' Educational Council
Rates of pay
Red Caps
Resolutions
(3 folders)
BOX 139
(2 folders)
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co.
Social Security Board
Social Security claims
Songs
Southern organizations and movements
Sykes, Lawyer
Tanner, Minnie
The Thrifteers (savings club)
Unemployment insurance claims
United States Congress
BOX 140 United States labor laws
(2 folders)
University labor programs
Various committees and organizations
(2 folders)
Victory tax
Workers Defense League
(3 folders)
BOX 141 Workers to be organized
World's Fair, New York, N.Y.
Young Adult Council
FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1936 - 1968
BOX 141 1936-1937
1949-1954
(5 folders)
BOX 142 1955-1962
(6 folders)
BOX 143 1963-1968
(5 folders)
MISCELLANY, 1947 - 1963 , n.d.
BOX 143 Material from various labor unions
(1 folder)
BOX 144
(1 folder)
Printed matter
Blacks and discrimination
Labor disputes
Reports
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