06725cpcaa2200985 a 4500 mm 73048439 DLC 20260227111615.0 cr ||||||||||| 730523|||||||||||| eng mm 73048439 ms 72001704 DLC dacs DLC DLC B lcmd Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters records, 1920-1968 (bulk 1950-1968). 41,000 items. 144 containers. 70 linear feet. Part I arranged in 3 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1940-1968; Series 2: Subject File, 1940-1968; and Series 3: A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1937-1968. Part II arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Benjamin F. McLaurin Papers, 1944-1957; Series 2: A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1935-1968; Series 3: Ashley L. Totten Papers, 1937-1951; Series 4: Subject File, 1920-1968; Series 5: Financial Papers, 1936-1968; and Series 6: Miscellany, 1947-1963. Open to research. Part I (1937-1968, bulk 1950-1968) consists of general correspondence, subject files, and personal papers of the brotherhood's founder, A. Philip Randolph, documenting the growth and functions of the union chiefly after 1940. Includes agreements with railroad lines; exchanges with the American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, local unions, and labor organizations representing dining car employees, locomotive firemen, and railway clerks; and files relating to conventions, financial matters, and the organization's women's auxiliary. Correspondents include Randolph's principal aides A.R. Blanchette, C.L. Dellums, Benjamin F. McLaurin, T.D. McNeal, Bennie Smith, and Milton P. Webster; labor leaders Dave Beck, David Dubinsky, William Green, George Meany, Philip Murray, Mike Quill, Woodruff Randolph, and Roy, Victor, and Walter Reuther; and political and civil rights leaders Julian Bond, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd B. McKissick, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Joseph L. Rauh, Bayard Rustin, Arthur B. Spingarn, Chuck Stone, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Also includes letters from African labor organizer Tom Mboya concerning his activities in Kenya. Part II (1920-1968, bulk 1950-1968) consists of correspondence and subject files of brotherhood officials Benjamin F. McLaurin (international field organizer), A. Philip Randolph (founder and president), and Ashley L. Totten (secretary-treasurer); and other subject files, financial records, and miscellaneous records. Includes material relating to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, and National Sharecroppers' Fund; organizing activity of the brotherhood in Canada; and McLaurin's campaign for New York City Council in 1945. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Sheet music transferred to Library of Congress Music Division. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016 Blanchette, A. R. (Arthur Robinson), 1910- Correspondence. Bond, Julian, 1940- Correspondence. Dellums, C. L. (Cotrell Lawrence) Correspondence. Dubinsky, David, 1892-1982 Correspondence. Farmer, James, 1920-1999 Correspondence. Green, William, 1870-1952 Correspondence. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 Correspondence. McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991 Correspondence. McNeal, T. D. Correspondence. Mboya, Tom Correspondence. Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 Correspondence. Meany, George, 1894-1980 Correspondence. Murray, Philip, 1886-1952 Correspondence. Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972 Correspondence. Quill, Mike Correspondence. Randolph, Woodruff, 1892-1966 Correspondence. Rauh, Joseph L., 1911- Correspondence. Reuther, Roy, 1909-1968 Correspondence. Reuther, Victor G. (Victor George), 1912- Correspondence. Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970 Correspondence. Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 Correspondence. Smith, Bennie, 1884- Correspondence. Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971 Correspondence. Stone, Chuck Correspondence. Webster, Milton P., 1887-1965 Correspondence. White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 Correspondence. Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 Correspondence. Young, Whitney M. Correspondence. American Federation of Labor. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Congress of Industrial Organizations. National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (U.S.) National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.) New York (N.Y.). City Council. African American labor leaders. African Americans Civil rights. African Americans Societies, etc. Civil rights. Labor movement Africa. Labor movement Canada. Labor movement Kenya. Labor movement United States. Local elections New York (State) New York. Railroad companies. Railroads Employees. Pullman porters Labor unions Canada. Pullman porters Labor unions United States. Railroads Employees Labor unions United States. Women in the labor movement United States. Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979. A. Philip Randolph papers. McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1905- Benjamin F. McLaurin papers. Totten, Ashley, 1884-1963. Ashley Totten papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016.3 39284 39284