Resolutions: Special Efforts to Build English Lodges, from Semi-Annual Plenary Session of the General Executive Board (G.E.B) of the IWO, March 4-6th, 1939
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- Title (English):
- Resolutions: Special Efforts to Build English Lodges, from Semi-Annual Plenary Session of the General Executive Board (G.E.B) of the IWO, March 4-6th, 1939
- Collection:
- International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Black Jewish Relations
Black Labor, Organizing and Rights
Conferences, Conventions, Meetings
IWO and JPFO Affiliated Publications and Publishing
Women's Work - Creator:
- General Executive Board of the IWO
- Organization:
- International Workers Order
- Date:
- 14308
- Location:
- Manhattan Center, 311 W 34th Street, NYC, New York
- ID Number:
- 5276b01f06_02
- File Name:
- 5276b01f06_02.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
- Work Type:
- resolutions (administrative records)
minutes (administrative records) - Subject:
- historical figures
political ideologies and attitudes
national organization
Political
National Sections
National Groups
Civil Rights
national prejudice
racial prejudice
racial discrimination
race (Concept)
African Americans- Civil Rights
Antisemitism
anti-immigrant prejudice
English (Language)
IWO JPFO- Reports, Meetings, and Conferences
interracial
white chauvinism
Black people
Ethnic relations
Recruitment
Black Jewish Relations - Description:
- Special Efforts to Build English Lodges, from Semi-Annual Plenary Session of the General Executive Board (G.E.B) of the IWO, March 4-6th, 1939, Manhattan Center, NYC. Resolutions from Thompson, Lezner, Levin, Middleton, Richynsky, G. Sandler: "Special efforts to Build English Lodges, Neighborhood Work, and Establishment of Negro Work Commission." English is stressed as a priority for building the Order and integrating it. Resolutions include "Work Among and With National Groups" the "GEB instructs all leaders and functionaries to organize the cooperation of our Order with all progressive forces in their communities for struggle against white chauvinism, anti-Semitism and all other theories of national and racial prejudices." Resolutions address desired recruitment, referred to as "Negro Work," and a "Home for the Aged."
This text uses the term ‘Negro’ to refer to Black people in the context of the concerted efforts made primarily in the 1920s-1940s to fight racial discrimination. While the term ‘Negro’ might be read as pejorative today, the term was then used in a positive regard, including by Black leftists. - Cite As:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records, 1915-2002 (KCL05276)
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 6
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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