Pamphlet, Black membership recruitment; "Our Family is Protected in the IWO"
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- Title (English):
- Pamphlet, Black membership recruitment; "Our Family is Protected in the IWO"
- Collection:
- International Workers' Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Paul Robeson
Culture Front
Visual
Black Labor, Organizing and Rights
Black Jewish Relations
Exhibit and Collection Highlights
IWO and JPFO Affiliated Publications and Publishing
Women's Work - Creator:
- Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999
- Organization:
- International Workers Order
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Location:
- Chicago Du Sable Lodge 751, 67 E. 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois
- ID Number:
- 5276b06f04_01
- File Name:
- 5276b06f04_01.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York
- Work Type:
- pamphlets
organization files
photographs
membership literature - Subject:
- Paul Robeson
historical figures
political ideologies and attitudes
national organization
Black Jewish Relations
African Americans- Civil Rights
Political
National Sections
National Groups
Civil Rights
white chauvinism
national prejudice
racial prejudice
English (Language)
interracial
membership
Culture Front- Music, Dance, Film, Drama, Performances,Lectures
recruitment
lodges
Black Lodges
Membership- Benefits, Insurance
race (Concept)
Black people
Black people - Employment
feminism
Organizing - Description:
- Undated (circa 1945) sepia folded recruitment pamphlet "Our Family is Protected in the IWO." Photo of black family with picture of Paul Robeson with Louise Thompson Patterson and Dr. Luther Peck (President Du Sable Lodge, Chicago). Highlighted pamphlet quote: "Paul Robeson says: In the IWO peoples of many nationalities, Negro and white, live and work together in a true fraternal spirit in the kind of genuine democracy I would like to see practiced in ALL of America. I value my membership in the Order."
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:
- 6
- Folder:
- 4
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the International Workers Order (IWO) Records Collection (Kheel Center #5276) are unknown. This material was digitized from physical holdings by Cornell University Library in 2016, with funding from an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jonathan Boyarin. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. Cornell is providing access to the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about items in the collection and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu