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Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs.

Title
Benjamin F. McLaurin photographs.
Author
McLaurin, Benjamin F., 1906-1989
Publication
1930s-1983.
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box 6Mixed materialSupervised use SCP 186261 box 6Offsite
box 5Mixed materialSupervised use SCP 186261 box 5Offsite
box 4Mixed materialSupervised use SCP 186261 box 4Offsite
box 3Mixed materialSupervised use SCP 186261 box 3Offsite
box 2Mixed materialSupervised use SCP 186261 box 2Offsite
box 1Mixed materialSupervised use SCP 186261 box 1Offsite

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.
Subject
  • Brandstein, Rae
  • Randolph, A. Philip 1889-1979
  • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
  • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Ladies Auxiliary
  • Pullman Car Company
  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
  • African American civic leaders
  • African American political activists
  • Civil rights movements
  • Labor unions, Black
  • United States
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
text
still 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.
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Occupation
Civic leaders.
Labor leaders.
Research Call Number
SCP 186261
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