Minutes - February 27, 1948, "Committee for Establishment of National Council of Lodges in Negro Communities"
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- Title (English):
- Minutes - February 27, 1948, "Committee for Establishment of National Council of Lodges in Negro Communities"
- Collection:
- International Workers' Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Black Jewish Relations
Conferences, Conventions, Meetings
Black Labor, Organizing and Rights
Women's Work
Cold War - Creator:
- Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999
Garland, Walter, 1913-1974
- Recipient:
- General Executive Board, International Workers Order
- Organization:
- International Workers Order
- Date:
- 1948-02-27
- Location:
- 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York
- ID Number:
- 5276b05f02_01
- File Name:
- 5276b05f02_01.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York
- Work Type:
- reports
resolutions (administrative records)
organization files
minutes (administrative records)
membership literature - Subject:
- resolutions
historical figures
political ideologies and attitudes
national organization
African Americans- Civil Rights
Political
National Sections
National Groups
Civil Rights
racial prejudice
English (Language)
interracial
membership
lodges
recruitment
Black Lodges
race (Concept)
white chauvinism
Postwar Order and Social Contract
Black people
Black people - Employment
Ethnic relations
racial discrimination
race (Concept)
Cold War- Red Scare
Black people in the labor movement
Organizing
meeting - Description:
- Brief minutes from February 27, 1948 call for a standing committee to strengthen work in Black lodges as a Society of the IWO. Minutes describe what will be the start of the Douglass-Lincoln Black Section of the IWO, and introduce the role that decorated Spanish Civil War veteran Captain Walter Garland will play in organizing Black lodges. Garland is put in charge of a new Eastern District; Louise Thompson Patterson is put in charge of a new Mid-Western District. Attendees: Sam Milgrom, Louise T. Patterson, Dave Greene, Dick Crosscup, Mason Smith, Gladys Durham, Margaret Wherry, John Middleton, Walter Garland. "Louise Patterson and Walter Garland to arrange tours of all lodges in District with Educational and Recreational features." Mentions need for membership literature.
This text uses the term ‘Negro’ and/or 'Negro Labor' to refer to the concerted efforts made primarily in the 1920s-1940s to fight racial discrimination so as to ensure the fair employment of Black people, in union and other jobs including those in the private sector, civil service, as well as advocacy for the full integration of Black people into the armed services. Black unemployment and under employment were extremely high due to racial barriers. 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:
- 5
- Folder:
- 2
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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