Research Catalog
Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs.
- Title
- Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs.
- Author
- McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989
- Publication
- 1930s-1983.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
Items in the Library & Off-site
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6 Items
| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | SCP 186261 box 1 | Offsite | |
| box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | SCP 186261 box 2 | Offsite | |
| box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | SCP 186261 box 3 | Offsite | |
| box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | SCP 186261 box 4 | Offsite | |
| box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | SCP 186261 box 5 | Offsite | |
| box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | SCP 186261 box 6 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 2.79 linear feet (6 boxes)
- Summary
- Benjamin F. McLaurin (1906-1989) was a Black labor leader and civic worker who held leadership positions within the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) during the 1920s and 1930s. He worked with A. Philip Randolph throughout the Civil Rights Movement, and later advocated for job equality and increased educational opportunities for minority communities while serving on New York City board committees. The collection, dated from the 1930s to 1983, showcases McLaurin's lifelong labor, civic, and political work through prints, slides, and negatives.
- Subjects
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Photographs
- Negatives (Photographs)
- United States
- Labor unions, Black
- Civil rights movements
- African American political activists
- African American civic leaders
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Pullman Car Company
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters > Ladies Auxiliary
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
- Labor leaders
- Civic leaders
- Slides (photographs)
- Photographic prints
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
- Brandstein, Rae
- Genre/Form
- Negatives (Photographs)
- Photographic prints.
- Photographs.
- Slides (photographs)
- Source (note)
- Donated by Benjamin F. McLaurin in 1973, 1981, and 1988. A final part was donated by Dana McLaurin and Benjamin McLaurin, Jr. in 1990.
- Call Number
- SCP 186261
- OCLC
- 1391149829
- Author
- McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989, creator.
- Title
- Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs.
- Production
- 1930s-1983.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Materials Separated from the Resource: Photographs transferred from the Benjamin F. McLaurin papers in Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center.
- Source
- Donated by Benjamin F. McLaurin in 1973, 1981, and 1988. A final part was donated by Dana McLaurin and Benjamin McLaurin, Jr. in 1990.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Civic leaders.Labor leaders.
- Research Call Number
- SCP 186261