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Box 1

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

War Work, 1943-1946

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents note

Includes certificates, identification and hostess cards, correspondence, and other materials related to Rose L. Graves' work for the United Service Organizations (USO) and the Charleston Area Civilian Defense Council.

Dates: 1911-1946

War Department: Classification, 1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

The series includes materials related to James R.B. Graves' career as a porter with the Pullman Company as well as his association with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters labor union.

Dates: 1918

Company Correspondence and Materials Related to James R.B. Graves, 1919-1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note

Includes official company correspondence as well as materials related to James R.B. Graves' employment with the Pullman Company and eventual retirement in 1953. Also includes newspaper clipping on James R.B. Graves' retirement.

Dates: 1919-1958

Pamphlets, 1924-1958

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents note

Includes Plan of Employee Representation for District Employees, 1924; Stock Purchase Plan for Employees, 1926; Sanitary Regulations, 1930; Group Insurance Plan for Agreement Employees, 1958.

Dates: 1919-1958

Porter Brush of James R.B. Graves

 File — Box: 1, museumitem: 1081-MUS/1
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

The series includes materials related to James R.B. Graves' career as a porter with the Pullman Company as well as his association with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters labor union.

Dates: 1919-1958

Pullman Porters Benefit Association of America: Membership Documents, Constitution and By-Laws, 1921-1932

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

The series includes materials related to James R.B. Graves' career as a porter with the Pullman Company as well as his association with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters labor union.

Dates: 1919-1958

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Convention Proceedings, 1940-1950

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

The series includes materials related to James R.B. Graves' career as a porter with the Pullman Company as well as his association with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters labor union.

Dates: 1940-1950

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Correspondence, 1941-1947

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6-10
Scope and Contents note

Includes letters from A. Phillip Randolph as international president of the labor union; materials regarding the local Charleston Chapter of the Brotherhood, of which James R.B. Graves served as president; and other materials. Topics include organizational issues, release time, collective bargaining power, and efforts of the Workers Defense League to save sharecropper Odell Waller.

Dates: 1940-1950