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Box 1

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Contains 40 Results:

Randolph, A. Philip, 1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Civil rights and labor leader, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American-led labor union.

Dates: 1979

Schneiderman, Rose, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25

Wyatt, Addie, 1975 - 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Labor leader, civil rights activist, and one of the first African American women to hold high office in a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union.

Dates: 1975 - 1978

Industrial Workers of World (IWW), 1972 - 1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

The folder contains publications of the IWW, such as the pamphlet "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom (March 1972) and "One Big Union" (1979).

Dates: 1972 - 1979

Labor history: events, people, and commemorations, 1982 - 2001

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

The folder includes articles about the great Flint sit-down strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Number One plant in Flint, Michigan, in December 1936; the Rose Freeman and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the Tenement Museum in Manhattan; women miners; Labor History Month events, and additional material.

Dates: 1982 - 2001

Labor history: maps, 1995 - 1998

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Maps included in this folder are the N.Y.C. labor history map prepared by the AFL-CIO and the History of Labor in New York State map by the New York Labor History Association, along with its index.

Dates: 1995 - 1998

Labor history: short histories and key events, 1972 - 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents Among other files, this folder includes a list of songs sung at the Summer School for Working Women; a copy of the call to all Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (1881) for the historic meeting in Pittsburg on November 15, 1881 that resulted in the launching of the modern American labor movement; a reprint about the Pullman Strike; an article about John L. Lewis (President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960, and the founding president of the Congress...
Dates: 1972 - 1985