- unitid
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{"value"=>"20886", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 426", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b15816302", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1937-1991", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1937/1991"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Jessica B. Davis Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.67 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Jessica B. Davis Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection consists of the constitution and history of the BSCP, programs, anniversary and commemorative booklets, speeches and writings by A. Philip Randolph, and news clippings by and about Randolph. There are also tributes to this union leader during his lifetime, and an address and press release for the 1942 planned March on Washington."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Davis, Jessica Bell", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Jessica Bell Davis (?-1991) was the daughter of an official of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, James H. Bell, and also the wife of the union official, Clarence E. Davis. She was a teacher in addition to a director and supervisor under A. Philip Randolph, for whom she worked for forty-five years.</p> <p>The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company, which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The BSCP was organized in 1925 in New York City. A. Philip Randolph, an editor and labor advocate, became its president in 1928. In the mid-1930's the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the New Deal's National Mediation Board recognized the BSCP.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Jessica B. Davis Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection consists of the constitution and history of the BSCP, programs, anniversary and commemorative booklets, speeches and writings by A. Philip Randolph, and news clippings by and about Randolph. There are also tributes to this union leader during his lifetime, and an address and press release for the 1942 planned March on Washington.|||Additionally, there are yearbooks and other printed material from the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School at City College in New York City (1983-1989), and representing both the St. Catherine A. M. E. Zion Church in New Rochelle, New York and the Key Women of America are programs, newsletters and other printed material. Included are a few letters and an obituary for Davis.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the estate of Jessica Bell Davis, 1991</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Jessica B. Davis Key Women of America files, Sc MG 620, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"This finding aid was updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2022 January 13"}
- date_start
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1937
- keydate
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1937
- date_end
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1991
- date_inclusive_start
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1937
- date_inclusive_end
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1991
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Jessica B. Davis Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, Sc MG 426, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}