Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971
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Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971
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Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971
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Ernest Thompson was a labor leader and one of the founders and the director of organization of the National Negro Labor Council. From 1951-1956 he was also the Fair Employment Practices Committee director for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a multi-racial trade-union expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) on charges of communist infiltration. Thompson later became involved in efforts to gain African-American political representation in Orange, New Jersey and in improving education in the state and the elimination of segregation within the school system.
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African Americans
African Americans
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Community organization
Discrimination in employment
Education, Urban
Labor unions and communism
School integration
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New Jersey--Orange
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