Title | Description | Call No. | |
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Slave Narratives | The WPA collection of interviews with former slaves during the 1930's | Micfilm 145 | |
Selected Documents from Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice | Headquarters Records | 213 reels and index | Micfilm 1613 |
A. Philip Randolph Papers (See above) | |||
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration 1916-1929 | History of the Diaspora of southern African-Americans to Northern industrial cities during the First World War and the decade after | Micfilm 1636 | |
Freedmen's Bureau Records | Several collections on microfilm in Gov't Documents library (ask at Gov't Doc's for help) The federal agency created to assist recently freed slaves in the South after the Civil War | ||
Several larger civil rights collections have links to African-American labor history. Check guides for specific topics: Papers of the NAACP (Micfilm 1568) The Crisis (official journal of the NAACP, edited in its early years by W.E.B. Du Bois) (Micfilm S-79) Papers of CORE (Micfilm 1566-1567) Papers of SNCC (Micfilm 1562) |