Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971
Biographical notes:
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.
From the description of Ernest Thompson collection, 1950-1970. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 774720862
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Subjects:
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Campaign literature
- Community organization
- Discrimination in employment
- Education, Urban
- Labor unions and communism
- School integration
- Student movements
- Women
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Places:
- New Jersey--Orange (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- New Jersey (as recorded)
