- Creator
- Shoemaker, Elijah
- Call number
- Sc MG 571
- Physical description
- 0.02 linear feet (2 folders)
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Elijah Shoemaker papers, Sc MG 571, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Elijah Shoemaker was the local chairman of the Sante Fe System Local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and assistant district chairman (Los Angeles). These papers contain original and mimeographed correspondence to and from the national headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters including a letter from L. B. Thompson, legislative representative, and W.T. Nickleberry, past president relating to a memorial service for A. Philip Randolph; financial statements; reports of convention proceedings; and miscellaneous handbooks on health benefits, payroll deductions, workers compensation and copies of the General Rules for the Guidance of Employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway System (1950-1966).
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift of Renee Epstein and Joe Wilson, December 1989.
Processing information
Accessioned by Cheryl P. McDaniels, June 1995.
Related Material
A. Philip Randolph collection, Sc MG 232, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, Sc MG 250, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor