Negro Labor Committee Records on Microfilm, 1925-1969
Collection Number: 5832 mf

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Negro Labor Committee Records on Microfilm, 1925-1969
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5832 mf
Creator:
Negro Labor Committee
Quanitities:
1.89 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Biographical / Historical

The Negro Labor Committee was formed on July 20, 1935. This committee came about as a result of many years of labor movement to give workers equal consideration regardless of race, creed or color. In 1925, Frank R. Crosswaith and several more labor leaders formed the Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers, in hopes of encouraging blacks to unionize. In 1934, some of the same leaders, founded the Harlem Labor Committee to help the cause.
The First Negro Labor Conference was composed of elected delegates from both of these organizations. A committee of twenty-five members was elected at the conference and they in turn established the Negro Labor Committee. One purpose of the Negro Labor Committee was to come up with a plan of action to consider the economic plight of black workers and to aid them in securing better paying jobs. A second objective was to remove the serious threat that the unorganized black worker represented to the labor movement.
During the 1930s and 1940s the Negro Labor Committee played a key role in expanding organized black labor and in overcoming barriers within the labor movement.
At the peak of its existance the Committee represented over 250,000 black and white workers.
This collection includes Part I: Office Files of the N.L.C. - A, B, C and Part II: Personal Files of Frank R. Crosswaith.
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Conditions Governing Use

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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Preferred Citation

Negro Labor Committee Records on Microfilm #5832 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Other Finding Aids

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SUBJECTS

Names:
Negro Labor Committee.
Subjects:
African Americans--Employment--United States.
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