Reminiscences of Benjamin F. McLaurin : oral history, 1960.

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Reminiscences of Benjamin F. McLaurin : oral history, 1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309734723

Childhood and education, Florida; Edward Water College; labor school at University of Wisconsin, Brookwood Labor College; Pullman Company, organization of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Railway Labor Act amendment; A. Philip Randolph; salaries, tips, and pensions; Fair Employment Practices Committee, American Negro Labor Council; life in Harlem; International Ladies Auxiliary; company unions, AFL-CIO relationships; American Labor Party; Morris Hillquit; Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; organizing in the South; March on Washington, 1941.

Transcript: 353 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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