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Box 8

 Container

Contains 34 Results:

Discrimination - Association of Colored Railway Trainmen, 1920-1937

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1920-1937

Discrimination - African-American Employees, Train and Engine Service, Kentucky Div., Thomas D. Redd, 1919-1934

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1919-1934

Discrimination - African-American Firemen, Louisville and Evansville Districts, 1923

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 13a
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1923

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
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1931

Discrimination - African-American Brakeman, use of, Owensboro District, 1924-1939

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1924-1939

Discrimination - Number of African-American trainmen on IC System, 1929-1930

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1929-1930

Discrimination - Fireman Maddox in re increase in Rate of Pay for African-American firemen, 1929

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1929

Discrimination - African-American firemen, Vicksburg Route Division, 1931

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by subject (see folder list for all topics included). The records in this series consist of correspondence; transcripts of proceeding before arbitration and mediation boards; minutes of meetings; death records; documentation of disciplinary matters; employee claims forms; financial records, including extensive documentation of rates of pay, wage schedules, timekeeping, and vacation pay; newspaper and magazine clippings; government publications such as...
Dates: 1931