Jones, Brownie Lee. Letters, 1948-1949.

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Jones, Brownie Lee. Letters, 1948-1949.

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Other matters discussed include helping workers become qualified to vote; aiding union committees to work on political and legislative action; political orientation of Brownie Lee Jones; position of blacks in southern labor movement; stronger support of SSW from black workers than white; declining support by national unions for SSW activities; Highlander School removed from "approved" list by CIO; cutting staff; possibility of closing SSW and allowing unions to take up entire burden of labor education; support for Labor Extension Bill; various educational activities of Jones and her assistant, Polly Jones; assistance to United Labor Committee in Durham; poll tax campaign in Virginia; refusal of SSW to discriminate against unions branded as communist, resulting in CIO unions refusing to contribute to school; closing of school in 1950; and plans of Jones to work as volunteer for NAACP. Collection consists of photocopies of correspondence between Brownie Lee Jones and Mary C. Barker, advisor to the Southern School for Workers. Include discussion of financial stability of the Southern School for Workers (SSW); ability of school to attract donations; placement of labor educators in North and South Carolina; "reaction" engulfing the South; work of school in promoting interracial cooperation, such as Civil Rights Committee in Richmond; schools support for anti-segregation legislation and growing animosity of political right to the school; CIO labor education school in Maryland; recruiting of blacks in Virginia; reluctance of white workers to work with black workers; SSW school on government in Washington, D.C.; contributions from various unions; and loss of foundation support. Other matters discussed include helping workers become qualified to vote; aiding union committees to work on political and legislative action; political orientation of Brownie Lee Jones; position of blacks in southern labor movement; stronger support of SSW from black workers than white; declining support by national unions for SSW activites; Highlander School removed from "approved" list by CIO; cutting staff; possibility of closing SSW and allowing unions to take up entire burden of labor education; support for Labor Extension Bill; various educational activities of Jones and her assistant, Polly Jones; assistance to United Labor Committee in Durham; poll tax campaign in Virginia; refusal of SSW to discriminate against unions branded as communist, resulting in CIO unions refusing to contribute to school; closing of school in 1950; and plans of Jones to work as volunteer for NAACP.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Labor Education School.

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Highlander School.

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Jones, Polly.

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Southern School for Workers.

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Barker, Mary Cornelia, 1879-1963

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Mary Cornelia Barker, educator and labor activist (1879-1963), was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Thomas Nathaniel and Dora (Lovejoy) Barker. She taught school in Stockbridge, McDonough, and Decatur, Georgia (1900-1904), before becoming a teacher and principal in Atlanta Public School System (1921-1944). While with Atlanta Public Schools, Barker was president of Local #89 (1921-1923), and president of the National American Federation of Teachers (1925-1931); a founder of the Southern ...

Jones, Brownie Lee.

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Civil rights activist and director, Southern School for Workers, 1944-1950. Brownie Lee Jones served as director of the Southern School for Workers (originally named the Southern Summer School for Women Workers) from 1944 until the school's dissolution in 1950. Although originally established exclusively for the labor education of women workers, the school began admitting male workers in 1938. By the end of the Second World War, however, many of the functions performed b...