Oral history interview with Benjamin F. McLaurin, 1960
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Benjamin F. McLaurin, 1960
Abstract
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
Labor unions--Officials and employees; African Americans--Employment; Labor laws and legislation; United States Race relations; Southern States Economic conditions; McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; American Labor Party of the State of New York; National Urban League; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People