U.E. NATIONAL FAIR PRACTICES COMMITTEE FILE, 1944, 1946, 1948 and 1950-1958.

Summary:Documentation of campaigns of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and of the activities of Ernest Thompson as Secretary of the union's National Fair Practices Committee. These papers pertain to conventions and conferences, women and African-American workers, and a Louisville campaign against International Harvester. Included are pamphlets, brochures, reports, drafts of reports, broadsides, notes, transcripts of radio programs and plays, correspondence, minutes, court briefs, press clippings, newsletters, memoranda and resolutions.

Among the documents in this series is a typed letter of appreciation from the Montgomery Improvement Association which is signed "Rosa Parks," although the signature is that of a secretary.