{"value"=>"<p>The <em render=\"bold\">NEGRO AMERICAN LABOR COUNCIL series, 1960-1964, (1 linear ft.)</em>contains correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, and programs documenting Haughton's position as Assistant to the President, A. Philip Randolph, and his activities with the New York Chapter. There is substantial correspondence and organizational material concerning the Workshop and Institute on Racial Bias in Trade Unions, Industry and Government organized by Haughton in Washington, D.C. in February 1961, whose speakers included Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Thurgood Marshall, and members of the new Kennedy Administration.</p> <p>Also of significance are correspondence, articles, and statements documenting the contested 1962 election of officers for the New York Chapter between an activist rank and file slate (Campaign for a Fighting NALC) and a more conservative one supported by the national leadership. The 1962 Annual Convention folder includes several drafts of Haughton's account which criticizes Randolph's role in the dispute.</p> <p>The series also contains a folder of minutes, policy statements, and fliers, for the Emergency Committee for Unity on Social and Economic Problems, 1961-1962, chaired by A. Philip Randolph, whose members included Malcolm X, Lewis Michaux, and Percy Sutton. Other folders trace Haughton's battle against discrimination on the waterfront and include correspondence, articles, memoranda, legal documents, and fliers documenting his support for rank and file longshoremen, especially African Americans, in union elections and negotiations.</p>"}