Ernest Thompson collection, 1950-1970.

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Ernest Thompson collection, 1950-1970.

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The Ernest Thompson Collection consists of printed matter and publications of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America on blacks, women, urban renewal, and the labor movement in the 1950s. There is also printed material on the student movement of the 1960s, publications of communist youth organizations, and on segregation and discrimination in public schools in Orange, New Jersey in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as well as a speech by Henry Winston about the founding of a Marxist-Leninist youth organization.

.8 lin. ft. (1 record carton)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8196298

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Winston, Henry, 1911-1986

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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

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District 7 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Ohio and are now part of the UE's Eastern Region. From the description of UE National Office records relating to District 7 and District 7 locals, 1936-1990s. (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat record id: 767644242 District 5 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Canada. From the description...

Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971

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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, N...

Young Workers Liberation League

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