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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

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