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Box 7

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

General NMU. Brown, et al. vs. Atlantic Coast Lines, 1942-1943

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

ICC filings including affidavits and brief. Also newspaper clipping from NY Post "ICC Upholds Jim Crow."

Dates: 1942-1943

General NMU. Brown, et al. vs. Atlantic Coast Lines, 1942-1943

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

ICC filing of complaint.

Dates: 1942-1943

General NMU. Brown, et al. vs. Atlantic Coast Lines, 1942-1943

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

ICC filing of Exceptions and supporting points.

Dates: 1942-1943

General NMU. Brown, et al. vs. Atlantic Coast Lines, 1942-1943

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence file.

Dates: 1942-1943

General NMU. Brown, et al. vs. Atlantic Coast Lines, 1942-1943

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, draft of Standard's article on discrimination for The Pilot (NMU newspaper), decision by ICC to support Jim Crow segregation, NY Post article "Big Railroads Accused of Encouraging Race Bias," and depositions of Clarence Brown and Thomas Jo

Dates: 1942-1943

General NMU. Camp Kittiwake Merchant Marine Rest Center, 1944

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Facility located in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The town passed Jim Crow segregation ordinances to prohibit African-American merchant seamen from being treated there. The NMU appealed to the War Shipping Administration to stop the ordinance; it declined

Dates: 1944

General NMU. Collateral Issues (Fly Arbitration Award) [Folder 1 of 11], 1946-1947

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper clippings, statements, financial statement, numerous exhibits and press releases

Dates: 1946-1947