Letter from Longshoremen's Aid Society to members of New York City Council

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Longshoremen's Aid Society to members of New York City Council
Description:
Signed Hattie Brisbane, President, and Lydia Bailey, Secretary; describing longstanding discriminatory hiring practiced evidenced on the piers of the city, and urging recipients "to joint with other like-minded councilmen to introduce the attached Resolution in the City Council, in order that public hearings may be held on these allegations."
Creator:
Longshoreman's Aid Society
Addressee:
New York (N.Y.). City Council
Date:
August 10, 1949
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Genre:
Circular letters
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 125 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1A. Correspondence
Subjects:
Discrimination in employment--United States
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b125-i016
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b125-i016