Research Catalog

Title

Alphonso H. Johnson papers, 1932-1942.

Author

Johnson, Alphonso Henry, 1892-

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Description

2 folders

Summary

The Alphonso H. Johnson Papers contain personal letters primarily from female friends who lived in Montreal and along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., and correspondence relating to his employment with the Pullman Company. There is also some documentation for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Subjects

• Man-woman relationships > Correspondence
• Pullman Company
• Johnson, Alphonso Henry, 1892- > Correspondence
• African American labor union members
• Pullman porters > United States > Correspondence
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• African American train attendants
• Correspondence
• Porters > United States > Correspondence
• Train attendants > United States > Correspondence
• Black author

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

• 409 Edgecombe Association

Biography (note)

• Alphonso H. Johnson, a Harlem resident, was a sleeping car porter with the Pullman Company and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Call Number

Sc MG 550

OCLC

• 802881628
• 802881628

Author

Johnson, Alphonso Henry, 1892-

Title

Alphonso H. Johnson papers, 1932-1942.

Biography

Alphonso H. Johnson, a Harlem resident, was a sleeping car porter with the Pullman Company and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 550