GENERAL FILE, 1943, 1955-1956, 1958-1959 and 1964-1969.

Summary:Documentation of Ernest Thompson's activities in northeastern New Jersey organizations other than Citizens for Representative Government. The papers pertain to housing rehabilitation, anti-poverty programs, apprenticeship training and public education. Included are reports, correspondence, press clippings, brochures, campaign leaflets, lists of names and addresses, notes, proposed budgets and program proposals. Organizations represented include the Amalgamated Organizations for Good Government, the Committee for Negro Progress in '66, the Orange Higher Achievement Tutoring Program, the Newark Coordinating Council and the Tri-City Citizens Union for Progress.

Among the documents in this series are copies of Ernest Thompson's resumes, letters of commendation, and scattered resolutions and minutes of a group of New Jersey African-American trade unionists on the occasion of the merger between the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor.

Material in the folder "Rutgers Job Fight (Newark Coordinating Council), 1964-1966" relates to the Council's efforts to end discriminatory hiring practices by unions and contractors at the construction sites of the Rutgers University School of Law and at the Newark College of Engineering.