Category Archives: New Deal and World War II: People and Organizations

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1931 and 1934-1939, including articles of incorporation and by-laws, meetings, and convention proceedings, 1931-1939

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1940, including memberships drives, elections, convention proceedings, and factionalism and internal politics, 1940

National Archives Folder: March on Washington Movement, 1941, 1941

Law Text: An Act To amend the Railway Labor Act, 1936

Law Text: An Act To amend the Railway Labor Act approved May 20, 1926 and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, 1934

Law Text: An Act To provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, and for other purposes, 1926

National Archives Folder: National Youth Administration Division of Negro Affairs conferences to discuss student aid, vocational training, health and recreation, education administration for black youth., 1936-1941

National Archives Folder: Black employment with the National Youth Administration., 1934-1941

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, August 1926, 1926

National Archive Records: Casefile on Chandler Owen regarding Federal Surveillance of Black Americans, 1925

National Archive Records: Casefile on the Friends of Negro Freedom regarding Federal Surveillance of Black Americans, 1917-1925

National Archive Records: Casefile on Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph regarding Federal Surveillance of Black Americans, 1919

National Archives Folder: Peonage casefile involving turpentine workers, including NAACP, Workers Defense League, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and American Federation of Labor interest in case, 1936-1939, 1936-1939

National Archive Records: Casefile on Chandler Owen regarding Federal Surveillance of Black Americans, 1918

National Archives Folder: Reports and essays on conference findings on social issues facing black workers and students., 1938-1941

National Archives Folder: January 12-14, 1939 conference to discuss federal policies and the status of black workers and students., 1938-1939

From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: Speeches delivered at White House Conference on Civil Rights by Lyndon B. Johnson, A. Philip Randolph, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins, 1966

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Report on the national convention of the March on Washington Movement in Chicago, Illinois, 1943

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Memorandum on remaining sessions at the national convention of the March on Washington Movement in Chicago, 1943

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Follow-up report on the March on Washington Movement’s national convention indicating the outcome of the executive committee meeting held on July 5, 1943

National Archive Records: Military service record of African American soldiers, 1945-1946, 1945-1946

Article by Carter G. Woodson, 1922

Article by Carter G. Woodson, 1921

Article by Carter G. Woodson, 1916

National Archives Folder: National Youth Administration of Georgia reports on work projects, activities, employment of black youth., 1938-1939

John E. Jacob speech to National Urban League, Blacks in Government (organization), Civil Rights Act of 1991, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., Wards Power Co. v. Atonio, sex discrimination by U.S. Navy, John C. Danforth, Arthur Flemming, and Li Lu hunger strike in Washington, D.C., 1989-1993

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, January-April 1926, including Assigned working numbers for porters, effort to eradicate Communist influence in trade unions, voting plan in Omaha District, applications and dues, embezzlement scandal and revision of schedule of rules and rates of pay for Canadian railroads, 1962

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, January-June 1943, including March on Washington Movement, 1942-1943

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, July-December 1943, including support for the war effort and the March on Washington Movement, 1943

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, July-September 1946, including national convention speeches and reports, 1946

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, including Porter grievances, Pullman employee representation plan, National Mediation Board proceedings in Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters case, New York Citizens Committee of One Hundred, funds advanced to discharged members, Randolph’s speech to the National Urban League Conference, resignation of Ella Jones, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary, activities of Pullman Company spies and aims of the Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers, March-April 1927, 1927

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, May-July 1926, including meetings, dispensation for new members and NAACP endorsement of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1926

Committee meeting minutes on civil rights and legislation, with transcripts of testimony from Justice Department, National Urban League, and NAACP officials., 1946

National Archive Records: Unemployment relief for Black Americans in Missouri., 1937

Records from the Jimmy Carter Library: National Urban League, 1980, 1980

National Archives Folder: Conference to discuss issues effecting black workers and students, January 12-14, 1939., 1938-1939

National Archives Folder: January 12-14, 1939 conference to discuss various issues effecting black students and workers., 1938-1939

National Archives Folder: January 12-14, 1939 conference to discuss problems facing black students and workers., 1941

National Archives Folder: Conference held on February 9-11, 1937 to discuss problems affecting black workers and students., 1938-1939

Article by Carter G. Woodson, 1919

National Archives Folder: March on Washington Movement and plans to deploy federal troops, 1941-1943

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, October-December 1942, including cooperation with the National Council of Negro Women and Women’s Trade Union League, 1942

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation reports, including labor March on Washington Movement — starting on page 60, 1941

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation survey of U.S. racial conditions, 1939-1945

Federal Bureau of Investigation survey of U.S. racial conditions, 1939-1945

National Archives Folder: Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth., 1939

National Archives Folder: A. Philip Randolph oral history interview, 1968

From the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library: White House public correspondence file on Committee, including comments and requests for reports., 1947-1948

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, September-October 1926, including Pullman employee representation plan, dues collection, porter grievances, suggestions on wage scale and working conditions, reduction in membership, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen assistance to the Brotherhood of Sleeping car Porters and case before National Mediation Board, 1926

National Archives Folder: Student aid administration, including fund allocation charts, aid recipients, profiles of black students, descriptions of job and projects aided by education fund., 1939

From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: A. Philip Randolph’s opening address at the White House Conference on Civil Rights planning session, 1965

From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: A. Philip Randolph statement elaborating on his opening address at the White House Conference on Civil Rights planning session, 1965

Article by Carter G. Woodson, 1918

Book on the history of education for African Americans by Carter G. Woodson, 1919

Book on the history of African Americans in the U.S., 1922

Article on the history of African Americans in Cincinnati, 1916

Article by Carter G. Woodson, 1920

National archive records: Special research memorandum submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by the National Urban League regarding the social adjustment of Black Americans., 1933

National archive records: Special research memorandum submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by the National Urban League regarding the social adjustment of Black Americans., 1933

Essay on lynching by A. Philip Randolph, 1917

Congressional Hearings: Considers legislation to revise the railway labor legislation and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees., 1934

National Archives Folder: January 12-14, 1939 conference to discuss problems facing black students and workers., 1937-1941

From the Harry S. Truman Library: Committee member Channing H. Tobias travel expenses and internal, administrative communications, including a letter from the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters urging the Committee to oppose segregated education., 1947

National Archive Folders: Urban League, correspondence of Karl F. Phillips, records of Bureau of Employment Security, 1924-1931, 1931

National Archives Folder: Wages, Pullman Porters, correspondence of Karl F. Phillips, records of Bureau of Employment Security, 1926-1933, 1926-1933