Gertrude W. Klein Papers Bulk, 1940-1949 circa 1910-1989

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Gertrude W. Klein Papers Bulk, 1940-1949 circa 1910-1989

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Gertrude W. Klein (1893-1986) was one of the first women elected to the City Council of New York. She also served as director of community service for Sachs Quality Stores, Inc. and as educational director and as an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The collection chronicles Klein's professional life, focusing mostly on her service as city councilwoman in the 1940s, and contains newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, correspondence, and printed ephemera.

0.25 linear feet; in 1 manuscript box

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

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English. From the description of ACWA's Sidney Hillman Foundation Records. 1955-1974. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 520925303 From the description of ACTWU's National Textile Recruitment and Training Program Records. 1975-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 520924922 Sidney Hillman, labor organizer, leader, and president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Sidney Hillman was born in Russian-contr...

American Labor Party of the State of New York

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Klein, Gertrude W., 1893-1986

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Gertrude W. Klein (1893-1986) was one of the first women elected to the City Council of New York. Born in Brooklyn, Klein was the daughter of socialist writer Joseph A. Weil. She studied political science at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and the Rand School of Social Science. An American Labor Party candidate from the Bronx, Klein was one of three women elected to the Council in 1941 and was re-elected in 1943. She ran as an independent in 1945 after the party refused ...