| Title: |
Reminiscences of Benjamin F. McLaurin
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A123
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
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.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 353 leaves, Tape: 1 reel
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part I, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1960 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1905-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1905
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| Speaker occupation: |
Labor organizer
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| Age at speaking: |
55
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| Document date: |
1960
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| Interviewer: |
Ingersoll, William T.
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| Organizations discussed: |
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, New York, NY; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; National Urban League, New York, NY
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| Locations discussed: |
New York; New York, NY; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African Americans--Employment; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, New York, NY; Labor laws and legislation; Labor unions--Officials and employees; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; National Urban League, New York, NY; New York; New York, NY; North America; Oral history; Race relations--United States; Southern States--Economic conditions; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
American Labor Party of the State of New York; McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1905-
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019053-14496
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