Research Catalog

Title

Negro Labor Committee records, 1925-1969.

Author

Negro Labor Committee.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 14.6 lin ft.
• 17 microfilm reels.

Summary

Records of the Negro Labor Committee encompassing historical and activity records, general subject and activity files, records of affiliated unions and locals, and personal files of Frank R. Crosswaith. Historical and activity files include records of predecessor organizations of the Committee, the Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers, 1925, and the Harlem Labor Committee, 1934, and items summarizing the Committee's general interests and activities from its founding in 1935 to 1969. Records contain general correspondence, minutes, committee reports, financial records, form letters, and related materials. General subject and activity files of the Committee include material on conferences and conventions in which the Committee participated, documents relating to activities and special projects of the Committee such as the Harlem Labor Center, Scholarship Benefit Fund, Negro Labor Committee-U.S.A., anniversary journals, and the proposed March on Washington in 1943. Also, minutes of the Negro Labor Assembly, of which the Committee was an integral part, and press releases of the Negro Labor News Service, 1935-1951. In addition, the collection contains files from the individual unions which were affiliated with the Committee and which joined in many of its projects, programs, and activities. Files present a cross section of the progressive labor movement in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s.

Subjects

• Scrapbooks
• Labor unions > United States > Organizing
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
• Socialist Party (U.S.)
• Socialists > United States
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Harlem Labor Center (New York, N.Y.)
• African Americans > Scholarships, fellowships, etc
• New York City Housing Authority
• Discrimination in employment > United States
• Photographic prints
• Negro Labor News Service
• African Americans > Housing > New York (State) > New York
• Negro Labor Assembly
• News agencies
• Harlem Labor Committee (New York, N.Y.)
• Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers
• Crosswaith, Frank Rudolph, 1892-1965
• Labor unions > United States > Political activity
• Negro Labor Committee
• Labor > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Employment
• African American labor union members

Genre/Form

• Photographic prints.
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Additional papers pertaining to the Negro Labor Committee and Frank Crosswaith are in the Frank Crosswaith Papers.
• Sc MG 17

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats (note)

• Collection available on microfilm;

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Source (note)

• Negro Labor Committee

Biography (note)

• Founded in 1935 by Frank R. Crosswaith. It sought to end discriminatory practices against blacks in labor and management.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• "Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition." Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1995.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R 1165

OCLC

NYPW89-A164

Author

Negro Labor Committee.

Title

Negro Labor Committee records, 1925-1969.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats

Collection available on microfilm; Scholarly Resources, Inc..

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, marketed by Scholarly Resources Inc,. 19--. 17 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZAN-8246)

Biography

Founded in 1935 by Frank R. Crosswaith. It sought to end discriminatory practices against blacks in labor and management.

Indexes

"Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition." Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1995.

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Finding Aid

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R 1165