Box 2
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Election, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
1948
North Carolina Progressive Party article, September 24, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
September 24, 1948
Election ballots and vote count, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
1948
North Carolina League for Progressive Democracy and election, 1940
File — Box: 2, Folder: 4-6
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
1940
Election flyers, sample ballots, advertisements, other campaign materials, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
1948
Election correspondence, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
1948
Election news articles, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9-12
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
1948
North Carolina politics: flyer comparing Senator Furnifold Simmons and Josiah Bailey, circa 1930
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
circa 1930
International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers: "We Will Not Forget" letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, circa 1943
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
circa 1943
Henry Wallace campaign materials, circa 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...
Dates:
circa 1948
Ross photo album - labor photos, 1940s-1950s
File — Box: 2, Folder: 16-17
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1940s-1950s
Foreign policy and politics, 1955-1956
File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1955-1956
Labor Information on organizing and strikes, 1953-1955
File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1953-1955
Letter to Ross from Arizona (Prima County) Democratic Central Committee, October 11, 1954
File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
October 11, 1954