Benjamin F. McLaurin papers, 1922-1975.

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Benjamin F. McLaurin papers, 1922-1975.

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General correspondence, subject files, reports, minutes, press releases and miscellaneous printed material, news clippings, financial papers, and photographs pertaining to the various organizations with which McLaurin was associated. Organizations are National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, March on Washington Committee, National Committee on Rural Schools, Project SAVE, the New York City Board of Higher Education, Professional Household Workers Association, and Negro American Labor Council.

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Brotherhood of sleeping car porters

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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African-Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The BSCP was founded in 1925 in New York City to counteract the poor wages, long hours, and other injustices practiced by the Pullman Car Company. A. Philip Randolph became president of the Brotherhood in 1928. In the mid-1930's the American Federation of...

March on Washington Committee.

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National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission.

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New York (N.Y.). Board of Higher Education

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McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1905-

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Labor organizer. From the description of Reminiscences of Benjamin F. McLaurin : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734723 Former Eastern Zone Supervisor of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and chairman of the Administrative Committee of the National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission. From the description of Benjamin F. McLaurin papers, 1922-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

National Committee on Rural Schools.

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Negro American Labor Council

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