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TitleChauncey Morehouse oral history interview
Date Created1978
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TitleMachine Associates Mill Wrights in Paterson New Jersey
Date Created1900
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleMemo about Disappearance of Barbadian Workers
Date Created1945-08-11
DescriptionDuring the war, the War Manpower Commission (WMC) coordinated the recruitment of migrant guestworkers from the British West Indies. Because guestworkers entered the United States with specific...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleMemo on German POWs
AuthorSeabrook, J. M.
Date Created1944-06-17
DescriptionSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleRenewal of Contracts Memo
Date Created1944-11-15
DescriptionWorking conditions, housing, and wages at Seabrook Farms often failed to meet the expectations of migrant guestworkers. As this memo from November 1944 details, of the 97 Barbadian workers at Seabrook...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from Cecil Roach
Date Created1945-06-27
DescriptionCecil Roach fell ill after coming to the United States as a guestworker, and (illegally) went to Boston to receive care from his sister there. In this letter addressed to President Truman, Roach...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleBarbadian Workers Deportation Order
Date Created1945-08-17
DescriptionA letter from the WMC to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization instructs officers with the agency to arrest and send the Barbadians who left their contracts to Florida for deportation.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook
Date Created1944-05-06
DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleCollege students working during summer months settle into their apartments and make use of the library facilities
Date Created1945-1946
DescriptionRecruited as part of an agreement between Local 56 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, which represented workers at Seabrook, and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), which represented cotton...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleYoung college students working on the corn line
Date Created1945-1946
DescriptionWhite officials in the South often prevented black agricultural laborers from migrating as seasonal laborers, and the agreement between Local 56, the STFU, and Seabrook Farms was described by Jack...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)