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Luther S. Thomas papers
- Title
- Luther S. Thomas papers, 1951-1954.
- Author
- Thomas, Luther S.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 370 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- .2 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Luther S. Thomas Papers contains correspondence, including a few letters to staff of the Pullman Company, membership records and printed matter documenting Luther S. Thomas's career as president of the Asheville, North Carolina Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. Collection also contains miscellaneous correspondence and documents relating to the Triennal Convention of the Brotherhood in 1953, including a handwritten report by Thomas to the Asheville division. The bulk of the collection pertains to labor grievances filed by Thomas and several Asheville porters, particularly on issues of discrimination and adequate health safeguards in the transportation of patients with communicable diseases. Also includes Division membership lists and printed material about tourist sites published by various railroad lines.
- Subjects
- Discrimination in employment > United States
- Porters > Labor unions > United States
- Communicable diseases > Prevention
- African American labor union members
- Railroads > Employees > Labor unions > United States
- Labor unions > United States > Officials and employees
- African Americans > Employment
- Pullman porters
- Asheville (N.C.) > African Americans
- Pullman Company
- Railroads > United States > Employees
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters > Asheville Division
- Labor disputes > United States
- Thomas, Luther S
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Artifacts transferred to Art and Artifact Division.
- Biography (note)
- African American railroad porter employed by the Pullman Company in the 1940s and 1950s, and president of the Asheville North Carolina Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 370
- OCLC
- 122580045
- Author
- Thomas, Luther S.
- Title
- Luther S. Thomas papers, 1951-1954.
- Biography
- African American railroad porter employed by the Pullman Company in the 1940s and 1950s, and president of the Asheville North Carolina Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 370