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Ernest Thompson collection

Title
Ernest Thompson collection, 1950-1970.
Author
Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971.

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box 1Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 371 box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors
Winston, Henry, 1911-1986.
Description
.8 lin. ft. (1 record carton)
Summary
The Ernest Thompson Collection consists of printed matter and publications of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America on blacks, women, urban renewal, and the labor movement in the 1950s. There is also printed material on the student movement of the 1960s, publications of communist youth organizations, and on segregation and discrimination in public schools in Orange, New Jersey in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as well as a speech by Henry Winston about the founding of a Marxist-Leninist youth organization.
Subject
  • Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971
  • United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
  • United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. National Fair Practices Committee
  • Young Workers Liberation League
  • African Americans > New Jersey > Orange
  • Education, Urban > New Jersey
  • School integration > New Jersey
  • Community organization > New Jersey
  • Campaign literature > New Jersey
  • Discrimination in employment > New Jersey
  • African Americans > Employment > New Jersey
  • School integration > United States
  • Women > Employment > United States
  • Student movements > United States
  • Labor unions > United States
  • Labor unions and communism > United States
Source (note)
  • Joseph Wilson
Biography (note)
  • Ernest Thompson was a labor leader and one of the founders and the director of organization of the National Negro Labor Council. From 1951-1956 he was also the Fair Employment Practices Committee director for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a multi-racial trade-union expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) on charges of communist infiltration. Thompson later became involved in efforts to gain African-American political representation in Orange, New Jersey and in improving education in the state and the elimination of segregation within the school system.
Call Number
Sc MG 371
OCLC
774720862
Author
Thompson, Ernest, 1907-1971.
Title
Ernest Thompson collection, 1950-1970.
Biography
Ernest Thompson was a labor leader and one of the founders and the director of organization of the National Negro Labor Council. From 1951-1956 he was also the Fair Employment Practices Committee director for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a multi-racial trade-union expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) on charges of communist infiltration. Thompson later became involved in efforts to gain African-American political representation in Orange, New Jersey and in improving education in the state and the elimination of segregation within the school system.
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Winston, Henry, 1911-1986.
Research Call Number
Sc MG 371
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