NATIONAL NEGRO LABOR COUNCIL FILE, 1951-1957 and 1970-1971.

Summary:Documentation of Ernest Thompson's activities in the National Negro Labor Council. The papers pertain to conventions, labor campaigns, the U.S. Subversive Activities Control Board, dissolution of the Council and a 1970 reunion of Council leaders. Included are yearbooks, brochures, convention reports, resolutions, minutes, press releases, notes, speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, transcripts of radio programs and miscellaneous legal documents, including a petition and proceedings before the Subversive Activities Control Board.

Among the documents in this series are Ernest Thompson's introduction of President William R. Hood at the founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council, a 1953 address before the Council by Paul Robeson and the transcript of a meeting between Thompson, Coleman A. Young and others at a 1970 reunion of the Council leadership in Newark, New Jersey.