Research Catalog
Benjamin F. McLaurin papers.
- Title
- Benjamin F. McLaurin papers.
- Author
- McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989
- Publication
- 1936-1989.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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| box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 146 box 1 | Offsite | |
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- Description
- 61.08 linear feet (146 boxes, 1 tube)
- 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 1936 to 1989, showcases McLaurin's lifelong labor, civic, and political work through correspondence, project reports, meeting minutes, Senate committee statements and testimonies, convention and conference reports, and newspaper clippings.
- Subjects
- African American civic leaders
- African American political activists
- Minorities
- United States
- Discrimination in employment
- Minorities > Employment
- Porters
- Programs (Publications)
- Minutes (Records)
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Contracts
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
- March on Washington Movement (Organization)
- Pullman Car Company
- United States > Committee on Fair Employment Practice
- African American civic leaders > New York (State) > New York
- African American political activists > New York (State) > New York
- Civil rights movements
- Discrimination in employment > United States
- Household employees
- Labor unions, Black
- Minorities > Employment > United States
- Porters > Labor unions
- Pullman porters
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Manuscripts for publication
- Notes (documents)
- Civic leaders
- Labor leaders
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Contracts.
- Correspondence.
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Minutes (Records)
- Notes (documents)
- Programs (Publications)
- 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
- Sc MG 146
- OCLC
- 1402271635
- Author
- McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989, creator.
- Title
- Benjamin F. McLaurin papers.
- Production
- 1936-1989.
- 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 to the Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs in Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center.Audio and moving image materials transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, 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.
- Added Author
- Brandstein, Rae, contributor.Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, contributor.Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Ladies Auxiliary, contributor.City University of New York, contributor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 146