Webster, Milton P. 1887-1965

Milton P. Webster collection, 1956-1964 by Milton P Webster ( )
in English and held by 1 library worldwide
The Milton P. Webster Collection includes a variety of material related to labor negotiations between the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and several national railroad companies. Items concern pay rates and increases, health and welfare benefits, and other labor issues involving porter-brakemen and chair car attendants. Material includes correspondence, memoranda of agreement, and lists.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters records, 1925-1969 by Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ( )
in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Correspondence, minutes, reports, grievances, scrapbooks, clippings, fliers, newsletters, and publications; topical, financial, and membership files; and sound recordings of speeches, interviews, and conferences that were created by or collected by the Chicago Division office of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first national African American trade union. Includes Milton P. Webster's files of agendas, minutes, correspondence, and reports of the President's committee of Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC); A. Philip Randolph correspondence; records of the BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary containing correspondence, financial and membership files, and printed materials, particularly of its president, Mrs. Halena Wilson of Chicago; a scrapbook from the St. Louis Division of the BSCP containing clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, handbills, photographs, and news releases relative to the proposed March on Washington (1940s), FEPC, and other civil rights topics.