Box 8
Container
Contains 34 Results:
Discrimination - Association of Colored Railway Trainmen, 1920-1937
File — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Discrimination - African-American Employees, Train and Engine Service, Kentucky Div., Thomas D. Redd, 1919-1934
File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Discrimination - African-American Firemen, Louisville and Evansville Districts, 1923
File — Box: 8, Folder: 13a
Discrimination - African-American Switchmen, Memphis, TN, 1927-1937
File — Box: 8, Folder: 13b
Scope and Contents
1927: date of a conference, but all notes missing from file 1937: correspondence re African-American switchman Albert Pryor's attempt to organize fellow African-American switchmen
Dates:
1927-1937
Discrimination - Mistreatment of African-American Employees, Investigation by Federal Coordinator, 1934
File — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Federal investigation of transportation prompted ICRR to document the number of African-Americans they employed and what workplace discrimination they faced. Also found in this folder is a memorandum, attached to a letter dated May 9, 1934, recording a narrative of the shootings of African-American employees (see also box 8, folders 23A-29 for additional documentation of these events).
Dates:
1934
Discrimination - National Association of Colored Locomotive Firemen, 1931
File — Box: 8, Folder: 15
Discrimination - African-American Brakeman, use of, Owensboro District, 1924-1939
File — Box: 8, Folder: 16
Discrimination - Number of African-American trainmen on IC System, 1929-1930
File — Box: 8, Folder: 17
Discrimination - Fireman Maddox in re increase in Rate of Pay for African-American firemen, 1929
File — Box: 8, Folder: 18
Discrimination - African-American firemen, Vicksburg Route Division, 1931
File — Box: 8, Folder: 19