Box 106B
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Oversize material relating to Ross' organizing experience and research, including the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, the Textile Workers Union of America, Operation Dixie and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the National Farmer's Union, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (including broadsides and material about Phelps-Dodge), the United Furniture Workers of America (particularly in Thomasville, North Carolina), and the United Mine Workers of America, 1940s-1950s
File — Box: 106B
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
Oversize material related to the National Union of Mineworkers, labor rights and litigation, strikes and strike-breaking, racism, lynching, and Jim Crowe, 1930s-1960s
File — Box: 106B
Identifier: III
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Mike H. Ross, after being injured during World War II, came back to the United States, where he was stationed in several army bases to convalesce. These included Fort Dix, New Jersey and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Ross also spent some time in New Orleans, Louisiana after the war, and was in North Carolina during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time, Ross began doing research for a history on the populist movement in the south. Much of his research consisted of news clippings,...
Dates:
1930s-1960s
Oversize material including multiple blueprints and maps of a healthcare clinic for miners, 1970s
File — Box: 106B
Identifier: VI
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
The general files consists of some files from the Fairmont Clinic and Rural Practice Program, which includes correspondence and news articles. Also in the series are teaching materials from Ross's courses at Fairmont College.
Dates:
1970s
Oversize materials related to Ross' political campaign, Henry Wallace, Marvin Griffin, racism, and the Progressive Party, 1940s-1950s
File — Box: 106B
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:
1940s-1950s
Oversize materials including mine blueprints and maps, miner art, and the United Mine Workers of America, 1940s-1960s
File — Box: 106B
Identifier: IV
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
In June 1960 Mike H. Ross delivered a presentation to the National Conference on Medicine and the Federal Coal Mine, Health, and Safety Act in Washington, D.C. His presentation was "The Lifestyle of the Coal Miner." Ross began doing more research in this area due to his involvement with the United Mine Workers of America, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, the Fairmont Clinic, the Rural Practice ProgramThis series contains files relating to lifestyle...
Dates:
1940s-1960s