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Additional authors

1. Brandstein, Rae
2. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, contributor
3. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Ladies Auxiliary, contributor
4. City University of New York, contributor

Description

1. 61.08 linear feet (146 boxes, 1 tube)

Summary

1. Benjamin F. McLaurin (1906-1989) was a Black labor leader and civic worker who held leadership positions within the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) during the 1920s and 1930s. He worked with A. Philip Randolph throughout the Civil Rights Movement, and later advocated for job equality and increased educational opportunities for minority communities while serving on New York City board committees. The collection, dated 1936 to 1989, showcases McLaurin's lifelong labor, civic, and political work through correspondence, project reports, meeting minutes, Senate committee statements and testimonies, convention and conference reports, and newspaper clippings.

Subject

1. Randolph, A. Philip 1889-1979
2. March on Washington Movement (Organization)
3. Pullman Car Company
4. United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice
5. African American civic leaders -- New York (State) -- New York
6. African American political activists -- New York (State) -- New York
7. Civil rights movements
8. Discrimination in employment -- United States
9. Household employees
10. Labor unions, Black
11. Minorities -- Employment -- United States
12. Porters -- Labor unions
13. Pullman porters
14. African American civic leaders
15. African American political activists
16. Discrimination in employment
17. Minorities -- Employment
18. Minorities
19. Porters
20. United States
21. New York (State) -- New York

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Contracts.
3. Correspondence.
4. Fliers (Ephemera)
5. Manuscripts for publication.
6. Minutes (Records)
7. Notes (documents)
8. Programs (Publications)

Call number

1. Sc MG 146

Source (note)

1. Donated by Benjamin F. McLaurin in 1973, 1981, and 1988. A final part was donated by Dana McLaurin and Benjamin McLaurin, Jr. in 1990.

Author

1. McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989, creator.

Title

1. Benjamin F. McLaurin papers.

Production

1. 1936-1989.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Location of other archival materials

1. Materials Separated from the Resource: Photographs transferred to the Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs in Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center.Audio and moving image materials transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center.

Source

1. Donated by Benjamin F. McLaurin in 1973, 1981, and 1988. A final part was donated by Dana McLaurin and Benjamin McLaurin, Jr. in 1990.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Civic leaders.
2. Labor leaders.

Added author

1. Brandstein, Rae, contributor.
2. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, contributor.
3. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Ladies Auxiliary, contributor.
4. City University of New York, contributor.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 146