Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters creator mixed material monographic eng 41,000 144 70 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. Open to research. 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 Jr King, Martin Luther 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 McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1905- Totten, Ashley, 1884-1963 mm 73048439 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000016.3 Open to research. DLC 730523 20260227111615.0 mm 73048439